2021 Helsinki Open | FPO RD2, B9 | Salonen, Blomroos, Laine, Eskelinen | ENGLISH COMMENTARY
The 2021 Helsinki Open | FPO RD2, B9 | Salonen, Blomroos, Laine, Eskelinen | ENGLISH COMMENTARY video provides coverage of the Prodigy Disc Pro Tour's Round 2 back 9 at the challenging Tally Course in Helsinki. The commentary team of Mitch Phillips and Hayden Ricard discuss the course's difficulties, highlighting specific holes such as hole 10, a par-4 with an open design that requires a full max driver to reach the gap straight up to the green. They analyze player strategies, including corrections made by Hannah Rip on her approach shot, and explain how players are using different techniques to navigate the gap. The team also touches on the course's hazards, such as trees directly behind the green, and the importance of a well-placed backhand shot. The video offers insight into the tactics employed by top players in the Pro Tour, including Salonen, Blomroos, Laine, and Eskelinen.
Watch Salonen, Blomroos, Laine, and Eskelinen compete in FPO RD2 of the 2021 Helsinki Open. Thrilling action ensues on B9.
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what's up everyone and welcome to the round two back 9 fpo coverage of the prodigy disc pro tour here in helsinki we're on the difficult course of tally this coverage is brought to you by natural born disc golfer we appreciate you guys sharing your coverage with us in this commentary is brought to you by a parked podcast again my name is mitch phillips joining me is my co-host hayden ricard how are you doing man doing good ready to see what they can do on the back nine and see if they can keep the bleeding to a minimum yeah this course the front nine definitely beating up a lot of the scores here yeah but the back nine doesn't get any easier no it definitely does not there's a couple holes that you could probably score some birdies on but it still doesn't let you catch up on to knocking that score down yeah it opens up a little bit starting here with hole 10 if you want to walk us through that yeah hole 10 par 4 584 feet this is probably one of the first open ones where you'll see a full max driver be needed to reach just before these trees and then you want to go through this gap straight up to the green it's one of the first ones you'll see that has not a blocked green by a bunch of trees yeah and it's probably the flattest green on the course yeah we have some of these marines that we've seen that have hazards on the green ob directly behind trees on there and we're getting a really cool top-down view here as we see hannah rip on what i believe is a destroyer yeah trying to get that max distance and left we saw some of our players in round one not get far enough left and really not having a gap at all as henna makes a great correction there that is perfect it should be a run line i think with that big open gap there yeah opening up that backhand is definitely where you want to be you'll see flex forehands if you're a little bit pinched off but at the same time you can see people just laying up to that gap to try to make it through i believe that was a defender from...
