2025 Syracuse Open | MPO Round 2 Front 9 | Queen, Miranda, Sides, Sisson | Lead Card

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Welcome back to coverage of the 2025 Syracuse Open sponsored by The Pies Guys. Got round two MPO coverage from Clay East in Liverpool, New York. I'm Steven Bailey, the tournament director, joined again by Luke Sackman. Thanks, Steven. Looking forward to some woods golf after our more open park style round one on the west side of Clay Park. If you haven't checked it out yet, be sure to go watch round one. Nathan Queen laying down a very hot first round, but there's a lot of great players behind him. As you see here, Andrew Miranda, Braden Sides, and Zach Sisson all at 12 down. And there's a number of players at 11 down in this three-round tournament. Zach Sisson, I believe, the highest-rated player in New York, coming in at a 1013, I believe. And he made the lead card for round two last year on Clay East. Uh, if you like lefty forehands, you're going to see some absolute rockets from him. And starting off here on hole one, about 350 ft, just a straight tunnel shot, lefty or righty. He's looking at throwing something low, uh, a little bit higher than Nathan's doing here, but a low punching drive, get down to this basket. Again, it's a hallway, so you don't really want to kick left or right. And Andrew leaving this drive a little bit right. And you can have some tricky lines from over there. I know for us local players, a four is a common number on this hole, especially being the first hole of the day. Yeah, you'll see a lot of players not at the highest level, but play this hole for par, um, just to try and avoid that. And there's that lefty forehand from Zach, such a smooth, powerful throw. He's a tall kid, a lot of power, and a really solid golfer. Yeah, really compact movement. He generates a ton of power, and as you can see, Andrew having to kind of finagle his way in there. That's a That's a pretty good shot from there. >> That's a great shot, the way he was straddling that, uh, sawed-off tree log there. Yep, if you've been over there, you know that's not a comfortable stance at all. Um, Nathan cleaning up his low drive, putting his approach just under the basket, and oh, Andrew maybe feeling a...