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Round Four 2019 Memorial Championship - Back Nine | Salonen, Weese, Pierce, Cox
The 2019 Memorial Championship is on the line as Evelina Salonen and Paige Pierce take to the back nine in a thrilling battle for the title. Join Sarah Holcomb and Paige Pearce as they break down the strategy and technique required to navigate this challenging course. With its notorious obstacles, including OB on the left side and pine trees lining the right, the front nine has already brought plenty of birdies and action. Now it's up to Salonen and Pierce to outmaneuver each other and claim the crown. Watch as they discuss their approaches to holes like the hard par-4, 651 feet long and infamous for its tricky tee shot, requiring precision and power to set themselves up for a potential second shot at birdie.
Watch top pros Salonen, Weese, Pierce, and Cox compete on the back nine of the 2019 Memorial Championship in a thrilling disc golf showdown!
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welcome everyone to the 2019 Memorial Championships presented by disk craft we are here on the back nine with the lead card of the FBO division on this card is Evelina Solon on page Pierce who's also here in the studio with me and Jessica Wiese and Rebecca Cox the front nine brought us a lot of birdies and a lot of action leaving Evelina with a one stroke lead over Paige you're gonna get to watch this final nine play out and see who gets to crown the 2019 Memorial champion I'm Sarah Holcomb and paid Pearce is here with me how are you feeling about now you know I feel good I just came off of a couple birdies and you know I closed the gap to one so you know there's nine holes left and there's some moves to be made for sure so I just got to see if I can execute and stay calm under the pressure holton par-4 651 feet it's a pretty long hole with OB all over the left side and a line of pine trees on the right side as a natural blocker got a slight slope right to left through the entire fairway and scattered trees through the middle a lot of players are gonna throw a low power shot up the up the right side trying to get out into the open to give themselves a look at a long second shot for birdie absolutely this is a hard hole to get so you absolutely have to set yourself up well with this tee shot I'm throwing my lucid conduct just trying to get as far down as I can and and in the center without loyalty but I'll still have a tough shot to try to execute Jess goes with her bulk in here and doesn't turn it quite enough she's kind of left up in those trees that Sarah was talking about emilina looks like a destroyer maybe a fair way actually maybe her thunderbird got up there a pretty good way she's gonna leave herself in a good position to get up him down Rebecca though throws it a tiny bit too high it still penetrates but those branches took quite a bit of speed off it so hydrate out this will be close to 400 feet to get to the pin from here he's gonna...
