Peter Finch vs Viktor Hovland (14 Club Challenge!)

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[Music] Nowhere close. I’ll see you in court. I’m coming after your whole production. Just go. Stick. Nice shot. This hole is basically a perfect drive for you. So Oh, how about that one? Wow. Hey everyone, welcome down to the sunny United States of America where I’m joined by one of the very best golfers in the world who thought signing up for this shoot day was a good idea. Victor, how are we doing? I’m absolutely wonderful, mate. How are you? Pleasure to see you. Uh yeah, it’s it’s you know, it’s a pleasure to see you. You bring a little bit of sunshine to what is otherwise the worst day in the history of filming a YouTube video. Uh we are going to be doing a 14 club challenge. Now, if you are not familiar with the 14 club challenge, in fact, Victor, do you want to do you want to kind of carry on this intro? Can you remember the rules? Uh I think so. It’s like uh you pick one and then we both lose the club, right? Yeah. And then we’ll see how many ends up with the most amount of balls on the green. Oh my god. That’s horrendous. Oh no. Hold on to it. Huge. That’s annoying. Right. Who wants to go first? I’ll let you flip a tea. Let me flip a tea. Okay. You’re the You’re the host here. Okay. That is How dare you hit my All right. So, I’ll go first. Literally managed to hit literally everything on the golf course. Uh yeah. 165 away. yards, right? Yards. How many meters? That’s 150 meters. That is true. That’s the thing Britain. The wind. It’s not a whole lot of wind. I’m going to go with an eight iron. An eight iron to begin with. Okay. So, I will I will do this as we go. I’m not sure. What’s the top of your bag? You got driver, 3-wood, three iron. Yep. All right. I got driver, mini driver, hybrid. So, Okay. So, so how does that work then? Uh uh Victor, I’m not going to lie, it doesn’t. Um most of the time it doesn’t matter. No, it doesn’t really work. I’ve I’ve tried a lot of combinations and it all it all kind of ends up the same. Okay. Yeah. At least uh on this hole, we can kind of run it up here cuz some of those like uh 14 hole uh 14 club challenges, it’s almost impossible with the longer clubs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Please tell me I didn’t miss the green. Uh-oh. Hold there. Go. Hold there. Spin. Very good, man. Huge. Very good. I mean, that’s just one point. That’s just not It’s not really the start I wanted to see, but I’m happy for you. We’re going to go one more. I will go seven iron. Okay. Can you still get there? All right. So, you need to tee that ball up a little bit higher or All right. Listen. All right. I’m nervous. All right. I don’t mind admitting it. I’m a little bit nervous. It’s fine. Yeah. All right. Show me something. Oh, you you’re going to see you’re going to see something, right? 165. I’ve held on to it. Cover it. Kick right somehow. Oh, we’re behind from the get- go here. Yeah, that’s a that’s a sucky one. I did feel the wind like shift pretty easy. It’s It’s a little off the right. I’ll give you that. Yeah, that that kind of substantially changed. Just blew storm off the right. All right, I’m going to go with a nine iron strike. Go. Go on then. Go on then. Go on then. Great shot. Don’t spin. All right. Two and0. Stayed on. That’s a great shot, man. Right. I will keep going up the bag. I’ll go six. By the way, I have got like a putter out the lost and found. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz I’m not smacking this bad boy. Yeah. I mean I mean just before a signature event highlands. I’ll say yes. You’ll be absolutely fine with that. Yeah. I’ll just I’ll send you the invoice after. Nice shot. Just go in. Sit. Oh no. Come back. I think you’re fine. Why is it still moving? Stop moving. Oh no. Please tell me that’s not gone off the back. No. S. No. Hate to see it. Wow. Gotten so lucky there. I think you’ll find I control that ball flight really well. looked I there was never any doubt in my mind. That was that was six. Yeah. Uh yes, that was a six. Okay. So, this is where it gets interesting. I have to go with a five here. Starts to get a bit fire. If you’ve not seen one of these challenges before, as soon as it starts gets the driver and the putter, that’s when it gets a little bit fruity. Do you want me to give you a wipe there? I’m going to start to tee these up as well. Now, I see this method in my madness. Yeah. There you go. Is that okay? There you go. Oh my god. That’s horrendous. Oh no. Oh no. Did not cut it off. Was that the five, mate? That was a five. Right. Okay. Oh my god. I to I really don’t want to be swinging any harder. I’m going to go four. Right. Teed up four. All right. So T200 is wet. So this will go about 6 million yards. So just landing it touch short. Oh, smart play. Go. Oh, what a kick. What a kick. No. Yes. No. I think that’s wrong. Oh, that took such a promising kick. Yeah, it had no right to hit the green. I can’t I can’t complain too much. Smart play though. I was trying to kind of slice that five iron, but you can hit a straight ball. Yeah. I I’m going with a pitching wedge. Okay, going to have to try to muscle this one up. Scores remain at 2-1. Yeah. Um, it has to be said as well, this green is actually quite big. This is not Yeah, it’s pretty generous to be fair. Yeah, this is uh the conditions conditions aren’t ideal. It’s great. Go hard. Come on. Come on. And don’t spin, please. Keep coming. Sit. No. He’s ripped off. That’s annoying. Oh, that is Oh, that’s really annoying. Oh. Oh, I’m so frustrated for you. Right. I’m going to go gap wedge. Right. I don’t know. It’s not quite time to start thinning stuff. Careful with your uh fingers there. Yeah. I’m going to hook it. Hook it. Come on. striped it. Oh, got to go. Just no chance. Got to go. Oh, man. Nice layup. Thank you. Right, that was 50 or a gap? Uh, a gap. Yeah. Yeah, 50. Some strategy involved here. Um, I’m thinking maybe a 56 here. 56. Yeah, let’s do that. I’m going to have to blade this one. It now becomes apparent. Now the difficulty really shows. I think this is the point where you can really tell the pure the pure class of a golfer and the the control Oh, don’t say that. that they have of the golf ball, right? Not what I practice. Yeah, this is falling into my wheelhouse of stupid shots now. So, I’d say you have the edge here. The first time this hole is basically a perfect drive for you. So, yeah, it’s well a little 3/4 one. Hold up into the wind. Okay. Right on the equator here. Come on. Go. Oh, you shook it too well. Shook it way too well. Damn. Oh, look at the zip back as well. I mean, that was pretty good blade right there, man. It’s just got no chance. That was just It’s just good. Just a good shot. I don’t fancy in that blade. I’m going to go hybrid. Sorry. Hybrid. So, that’s my three iron. Your three iron. Right. Just chip and run. Come on. You got one on the green at the moment. That was just Come on, stop being the chopper. Nice shot. Is this the equalizer? Oh, close. Oh, man. Just squeezed out. So, we remain at 2-1, right? We’ve 3-wood. I think we got to go with the 3-wood. Yeah, we’ve only got three clubs left here. 3-wood, driver, and a putter. strategically changing glove need all the help I can get here. This this just shows, you know, the seriousness of uh the challenges that we complete on this on this channel. It’s really preparing Victor very well for this week of Oh, yeah. competitive golf he’s got coming up. Lots of sliced threewoods from 150 or 60. What’s the plan of action here? Chippy. Yeah. But also like can hit one pretty straight. You don’t have to slice it too much because you can roll it up, but there’s not that much margin there. Go. Oh, that might be it. That’s way too short. No, go. That might be the clincher. Oh, no. Short. It’s just like It’s unbelievable. Oh my god. What are you going with? You going with driver or driver? Yeah. Yeah. This This has to be on the green here. God, it does, doesn’t it? This is it. All my life has just led to this point. Oh, he’s done it. Hit the pitch. He’s done it. Sit. Sit. Just over the back. Man, that was a nice shot. Thank you. I thought that was it. Thought we’d done it. All right. I mean, I’m going to have to blade this 60° so hard. Oh, this still means I’ve got a chance. I’ve got a chance to tie it. We’re hitting the putter last. Oh, I forgot about the putter. Never thought. Yeah. Oh, and boy, have we got a cracking putter for you today. Have you Are you familiar with the uh Spalding 19? Spalding. That’s That’s a great brand. Yeah. Yeah. The TPM Tour Series. So, this is the Tour series. So, you must have seen Yeah. loads of these, of course, out on tour. They’re uh very prevalent. Yeah. I got practically swimming in the tour series from Spalding out there. Oh my god. Nowhere close. Yeah. Just think you’ve trained all your life not to thin it and now it’s it’s coming about to haunt you. I could just see a full lob wedge I’m going to hit next week. Just go flying over the green because of you. I’ll see you in court. I’m coming after your whole production. Well, when when you do that, let us know cuz that’s when we’ll release the video. Okay. Yeah, we were like, this is what he’s talking about. I’m not going to lie. It’s not It doesn’t seem to have a lot of loft. This got a little bit of offset though. Like what do you the huzzle like do basically got to just try and slice it, do you think? Yeah. I don’t know. You’re the pro here. Here we go. The This is a big shot right here. It’s it’s it’s the biggest of my career at this challenge here today. Oh, I’ve actually ripped it. That came off so fast. I actually struck it. Have a go with that. I got I got to hit that one. That was literally my best strike of the whole challenge. Oh. Oh, how about that one? Sit. Sit. Spin. [Laughter] Spalding. Play. Spalding. Pleasure. Well, there you go, ladies and gents. Uh, that was an absolute pounding. Uh, as well as a exhibition in how to hit a putter off the tea. Uh, Victor, thanks for playing. Yeah, thanks. Thanks for being here. I mean, on the lexicon of achievements, you can hang this up on the wall next to sits pretty high. Some of your greatest ride on that top shot. Two, two, one. Barely edged you out. I feel very, very happy. Very relieved. Yeah. Yeah. one. God, that sucks, doesn’t it? Anyway, it stopped raining now, so we’ll see you next time.