Marco Penge’s 186MPH drive 😳💥 | The Open Zone

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Watch as Marco Penge talks through his monster drive and how he plans to tackle the Royal Portrush course for the 153rd Open.

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A man very much in form at the moment uh is joining us in the open zone right now. Marco Penge, welcome along. Cheers, mate. Lovely to see you. You didn’t even have to pay him that much. No, no, it was just natural. It is natural. Yeah. We’re just over here by your bag. I just wanted a a little reference here. And also Fuzzy on there. Talks about Fuzzy. Yes, Fuzzy was a a good friend of mine that um passed away at the end of last year. He I used to play a lot of golf with him. Bit of um you know, he’s a great senior golfer. So, yeah. Uh just a little memory there for him. Like he’s kind of with me when I’m out there. Got my dog Otus and and my name. Yeah. Yeah. Dogs are just the best, aren’t they? Yeah. He’s uh bless him. I’ve not seen him for about 3 weeks, so Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. I’ll have some good times with him when I get home. I did say you’re playing well. You’re third on the race Dubai. You’re just top 20s, top tens everywhere, including last week. How pleased were you at the Scottish last week with you? Yeah, I mean at the start of the year I wasn’t in the Scottish Open. So, you know, I uh qualified to, you know, to play the event and to finish second and kind of be in contention and going neck and neck with the best players in the world was pretty cool. So yeah, it’s kind of my first experience of being in contention against um the best players in the world and I was pretty pleased with how I dealt with the situation. Your game has gone up a few levels this season. I’ve got to say everyone’s always spoken about you with all this potential. This season it seems that’s bearing fruit. Why do you think so much this year you’re playing so well? Yeah, you know, I had a had a a four a little break at the end of last year um couple of months and uh really sat down with my team and really made like made a really good plan to make sure that I came back um kind of all guns blazing really and uh you know my team um play a massive part in my career and I wouldn’t be with them I wouldn’t be here without them so just a all round team effort um made a lot of good technical changes um kind of identified the areas of my game that were weaknesses and you know some of them weaknesses I feel have been strengths this year. So yeah, we’re uh doing a pretty good job. Now a strength of yours that I’ve known for a while and people might not know about this. You send this club a driver. You are so long it’s scary. Marco, um for me mostly this is I’d love you to hit a couple of drives in the open zone. Um, I want you to hit just a stock driver for we’ve got all of a sudden the wind’s pumping into our face a little bit. What’s just to impress everyone here, Marco, what’s your standard carry with driver? Carry probably 320. 320 315. That’s I mean that’s two drivers in a 3wood for me. But um tell us your swing thoughts at the moment with driver. Just working on my takeaway to be honest. Tendencies to get it a bit shut on the way back and then I kind of have to reroute. So, trying to keep the loft on in the back swing. Okay. And just hitting it pretty hard. Go for it. You talk a great game. As uh long as I can talk one there was just a an absolute gasp from the That’s his stock driver, everyone, by the way. That’s just his normal driver. I mean, you kind don’t want that back, do you? That was decent to be fair. Decent. Yeah, decent is the word. I could just say it was going exactly where I was aiming. Exactly. Yeah. Whether it did or not, I would love you to send I tell you what, can you send one for us? Is that all right, you 183 ball speed there, right? Is that What’s that for you? Is that It’s a little I’ve got the Pro Vxis just touch spinner. Oh, okay. A good excuse. Well, what an excuse. Okay. Okay. So, if you send one, Marco. Yeah. What’s your usual carry if you’re sending one? I’d say ball speed would be like 190 carrying it around 325. Okay. 186 ball speed. I I mean that is scary long. That is scary. Yeah. that that shot there. Would you use that at all around here this week to really send one? Last week I used it a lot, but this week um you know the the rough’s pretty thick. So, uh the priority is keeping the ball in play. So, you know, maybe down 17 a driveable par four if we get the right wind and maybe off to second try and take the left trap out of play, but maybe three or four times maximum. But a lot of the time it would be bringing the apex down, the flight down, just trying to keep it on the short stuff. That always helps. Right, we’re going to go from driver to something shorter to something that’s 175. We’re going to get you to do the Shane Larry. Oh, careful. Don’t to break your ankle withdraw. That’ll be a good start to the week. Um, so is it take on the Shane Larry challenge? This is the shot you’re going to try and recreate here in the screen, Marco behind us. So, it’s Shane second shot into 18 in 2019, right? 175. You got a one and a half% slope here as well. Any club, you can hit whatever you like. You can hit driver if you want, but it’s nearest the pin. Okay, so we’re going to see the leaderboard as well. This is what you’re trying to beat. We’ve had quite a number of players already here. Uh Andrew Novak in the way. Dan Brown came in earlier this week. You can see the little asterisk by their names. They have mulligans. How dare they have mulligans in the open, is it? So, it’s where the ball finishes. So, yeah, you want to aim for the base of the U. That’s the um giant causeway out there. I mean, it looks exactly like it, doesn’t it? Exactly. What? All right. What are you going with? I’m just going to chip a seven. Chip a seven. Yeah, I’m just going to say Henrik Stenson just hit a full-blown five iron a minute ago, but just going to grip down one. Okay, let the wind knock it over hopefully. Okay, pressures on. This is This is the one. Forget the open championship. That’s it. Oh, keep coming round. I think that’s the right club marker, isn’t it? It’s good length. Oh, I tell you what, should we have a going to take a little look how close that is? What’s that? 14 yards down there. It bounces in from front right. So, that would have been good. That was almost like Shane’s That was almost like Shane’s shot in 2019. Uh 45 ft we’re hearing there. Should we take take a look here at the ball flight? That shot there you’re going to use a lot this week. That kind of knock down shot. Definitely. Definitely. I think we’re going to have windy conditions tomorrow. And I mean that literally bounced where Shane did. So, you’ve almost rec perfectly recreated the shot. Forget the Giants way. That was exactly the shot. Here’s your Here’s your swing here. Now, I’ve been asking most players this and I really like hearing and I know the crowd here as well. You and your coach, Alex Buckner, work a lot. Do you watch your own swing back a lot on video? Are you that kind of player? It’s about 50. When I film it like off a camera myself, I don’t I mean, I watch it. I’m not a massive fan. And when I I find when I watch it on TV, like a replay some like, you know, some shots from last week I was kind of like that was pretty good. But rewind, play rewind. It kind of depends on the angle. Some angles make it look good and some angles make it for me look shocking. I tell you what, those drives weren’t shocking. That shot was pretty good, too. Enjoy this. It’s your third open, I believe. Yeah. Fingers crossed the weather holds. Thanks, Marco. Thank you so much. Thanks for your time. Thank you. Thank you.