A Round with Radar – Episode 22: Dan Brown

In this episode of A Round With Radar, Wayne ‘Radar’ Riley tees it up with PING Pro and two-time DP World Tour winner Dan Brown at Blackwell Golf Club. The pair discuss Dan’s journey from a standout amateur to his breakthrough DP World Tour victory at the 2023 ISPS HANDA World Invitational. Along the way, they talk about his roots in Yorkshire, his mindset on tour, and what it means to represent PING on golf’s biggest stages.

00:00 – Intro
2:52 – Dan’s introduction to golf
8:35 – Turning professional
12:35 – Current PLD and putter changes
16:53 – Winning on tour
23:28 – Augusta National dreams
25:37 – G440 hybrid versatility
29:10 – Experience at Royal Troon the other majors
36:20 – Being a part of the PING family
38:01 – Dan’s superstitions
39:06 – Grip tip for flighting a driver down
43:06 – Goal setting
47:45 – Maxing driver speed and distance

[Music] Welcome to another round with Radar. Today I’m in the West Midlands at Blackwill Golf Club. It’s an oldie but a goodie. And today I’m playing against another goodie, Dan Brown. A two-time winner on the DP World Tour. And the latest of those two wins was in Munich a couple of weeks ago at the BMW International Open. This boy can play. Bring him on. Hey Dan. Hello. Welcome to Around with Radar, man. Nice to see you. We’ve been sort of talking about this for quite some time, but I’m looking forward to playing here. Black Wall Golf Club. Yeah. They reckon back in the day uh Bobby Jones played here. The day after he won the open championship at Royal Liverpool at Hoy Lake. Any idea on the year? No idea. No idea what year. Well, I wasn’t around and you weren’t around. Certainly weren’t around. But look, this looks really good. I’ll give you the honor, my friend. Tears off, shall I? Seem to be a lot of bunkers down there, which is a worry for me, but you guys hit it so far that you don’t have to worry about the bunkers. Might be a few holes until I’ve uh I’ll get you until I’ve got the full the full speed there after the three-hour drive this morning. Dan, what do you reckon? Just left that tree. Do you know what? I think you’re right. I think you’ve got a gap down there, the left that you can belt, but me a little worried. Play well. Good luck, mate. nailed. We’ll take that. Don’t need a breakfast ball. I don’t know, mate. Where did it finish? Um, it was kind of online with the tree, I think, but it should be okay. You’ve impressed me there. Fly. I don’t know. It’s not in the bunker. It’s not. No. I nailed it. Put a bit of wind in, too. That was quite impressive. Don’t worry. It was. It was. The thing is with my drives with these drivers absolutely fantastic but they you when you guys hit it it looks like it’s going to go 320 yards and they do. When I hit it looks like it’s going to go 300 but they don’t. So Dan, how did you get into our great game? Um family. Uh both granddads played. Um my dad my dad play used to play a lot. Um he was a good golfer. Um he was off kind of three, four, five handicap for a long time. So uh so yeah, I think I started when I was about six years old. I can remember watching the TV with the golf on and turning to my dad and being like I like that. Can I give it a go? Yeah. So that was how it all that was how it all started. So the English amateur that was the first uh it was your biggest amateur achievement. Uh yes. Yeah, it would have been. Yeah, certainly biggest individual. And what year was that? I think it was either 15 or 16. I should probably know, shouldn’t I? It was at Ganton Golf Club. So, not far from home. One place, not far from home that I really want to play. I only hear good things. Yeah. It’s brilliant. Yeah. So, you have to play well around there. Yeah. And tell us someone else in your family that’s won the same tournament. Yeah. My my brother Ben. Yeah. He uh he won in 2023 the English as well. How weird’s that? I mean, two brothers and I asked you and you said you said that that it’s happened before. I mean, yeah, it had it had happened before, but I can’t remember exactly who it was, but we we were thinking when my brother won that um that that’s it. That’s it. That got to be the only brothers that have won it before, but apparently not. But still a cool thing to share. Oh, absolutely. Doesn’t matter how many people have done it. That’s that’s so very you for the rest of your lives, you That’s uh Did he turn pro? He’s he just turned pro a few weeks ago. Yeah. Youngster. Yeah. 20 years old. Yeah. 10 year age gap between us. Fantastic. Yeah. So he was only 18 when he won the uh when he won the English hammer. So it’s quite an achievement. Yes, it is. Yeah. Yes, it is. Okay, I’ve pulled it big style. Oh well, let’s go look at it. Look for it. I did not see that down. I will find it. Right. 80 yards. Back into a bit of breeze. Yep. Nice little smooth an 85. Yeah. Smooth 58, I think. Or are you trying to take the spin out of it and land it adjacent? No, I’m going to just pretty much near enough hit a full one here. So, it’ll be like a high 80s. High80s shot. Get up. Lovely, mate. Very good. chunked it a bit. But yeah, it’s a good chunk. She’s on. Nice there. Okay. Do we do gimmies? Yeah. You definitely do jimmies. I don’t know about me. There you go. I haven’t seen you put, but I’ll uh Oh, no. It’s not bad. It’s been pretty good. You want this in or out? Uh, I’m going to have it out. Good luck. I’ll give you a nice gimme to start with so that you’re nicer to me on the way around. Look at this. Right. See if we can pop one in. Doesn’t seem to matter who I play with, does it? I mean, I’ve got all these cameras here and drones everywhere. It doesn’t seem to matter who I play with that you all just hold everything you look at. And PS for me took a while don’t look to be any good. Took a while to get that was took a long time and and sat there and went in which is cool. Nice birdie. Good hold. Big one. Slicer’s nightmare I would suggest with these bushes on the on the left. But yeah, but I’ll tell you once they’ve got they’ve got it. There’s a lot. How many bunkers we got there? We got We got seven bunkers right there. Five around the front. Looks a great old This is an impressive golf course. It really is. I mean, it’s uh it’s a fantastic place. I only heard good things about it. So, it’s a big green wide. So, you got 181. 181. It’s playing close to 200, I would say. It’s five for you. Yeah. Just a little fevery cuty five, I think. Yeah. Six is asking a little too much, I think. Fly. It’s good, isn’t it? I think it’ll just be front. Didn’t quite get all of it. You didn’t flush it, but it’s still a good not flush. I hope these guys over there on the right hand side know I usually shank a lot. Shankopotamus fafed it. Ah, both a bit heavy. Yeah, mine was heavier than yours. So Dan, you win the um English amateur. Yeah, like your brother. And then when did you turn pro and where where did you play? So it was the year after um 2017, end of 2017 I think it was. I did another year as an amateur after that. Um and then end of 2017 turned pro, went to Q school, got a challenge tour card and struggled like hell for on the challenge tour. On the challenge tour um and then did another three I think it was three seasons on Euro Pro after that. And how old were you then? I would have been I think I turned pro when I was 21 22 right. Um and were you thinking now how are the thoughts going? Are they negative or are you thinking am I good enough? Well I cuz cuz I had a decent amateur career and played for England and obviously you achieved quite a lot as an amateur really. I was probably a bit naive in thinking I’m gonna turn pro and do really well here. Yeah. And then uh yeah, bit of a bit of a shock to the system when you turn pro and the standard’s much better. Even like even on challenge tour, the standards night and day really compared to the amateur stuff I was playing in. Um much better. Yeah. Yeah. Much better. And how’s the challenge tour compared to the the to the DP World Tour? Um I would say DP is I mean obviously the standard’s better. Um are we going Championship Premier League? Yeah. Um, and the golf courses as well, you go in from fairly tough to very tough, I would say. Not as much rough and Yeah, you generally not as much rough. The pins aren’t quite as tucked. The courses in general aren’t aren’t as long. Um, there’s a lot more lowscoring weeks on on challenge tour. So, how did you turn it around? I don’t know. Knuckle down more. Um, yeah, I did. It was it was COVID, so I was basically um debating whether to um fight or flight I suppose really. Um so I didn’t touch a golf club for like 6 months, five, six months, but then I’d kind of just had one day where I looked in the mirror and thought, “What you playing at? You’ve wanted to be a golfer since you’re a kid.” Yeah. And then the next the next three years, worked really hard and then went from Euro Pro to Challenge Tour and then to obviously DP consecutively. Th those co years or that time must have been very hard financially. Yes. Did that help? The whole the I mean the whole thing was financially difficult for me when when I turned pro for everyone cuz I struggled before that even before that. And then yeah I mean CO was probably the best thing that ever happened to me really was just being almost feels like you’re in a dark corner. You can’t um you got to punch your way out of it. Yeah. you’re in your own thoughts and then uh and then you have a little epiphany and came out the other side worked hard and um yeah it’s been relatively smooth sailing. Yeah, since nice story co was so horrible for so many families but for golfers but what about people that have driving vans and I mean you know for professional sports people it was uh was so very difficult. Yeah. I thought the 40 yard bunk shot was supposed to be the hardest hardest shot in golf radar. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Back in the day, I was a really good bunker player. Yeah, I can see that. I loved it cuz I grew up on a beach and I used to go down the beach a lot and play bunker shots. I used to clip a lot. I used to practice on the beach in Sydney most days off the really hard sand. Yeah. Yeah. So I never I never had an issue with bunkers. Yeah. Playing the tour ever. Dan, I notice you’ve got the patina finish, the PLLD. Yes. Matching. Yeah. I like the way they go a little darker. Yeah. I’ve um I’ve not had it I’ve not had it long, so I’ve not really seen much of a color change. How long you had it? Um, probably a couple of months, but I’ve only used it I’ve not used it much, only for a few rounds of golf. So, what you didn’t use that in We’ll get into that tournament wins Munich. You didn’t use that? No, I had a silver blade with a proper You don’t find that difficult that you go out and win a championship and just change? I didn’t want to change, but Abedine sort of forced my hand a little bit. For whatever reason, I my eyes were just seeing different things and just didn’t. And then I kind of got this one back out the back out the bag at home. When we pack great, why can’t we always pack great? I know. I’d love to be I’d love to use the same putter all the time. I’ve always wanted to be that person. Yeah. But you do just wake up sometimes and you like the look of something else. Yeah. I don’t know. And that’s nothing wrong with that. You want that in or out? Um I might have it left in. Okay. So why did you change then? Why did you have it out in the first within the similar range? Why uphill? Try and different. Yeah. Like I feel like the uphill ones you can almost like see more of the hole when you lift the flag. So, I like I like having the flag in for that. Yeah. Cool. Um, but yeah, as you can see, I left myself a nice uphiller after the fatted t-shot. That was not done on purpose, but You want to get one one of those patina putters. I don’t know. I don’t know what to say. You got to get one of these. But I got this for par. I guess this is a gimme. Um two under after two. Yeah, you’ve gone 25footer, 30footer. Bin bin. We got a championship coming up very soon. It could um could be making a case this one couldn’t it could be in this week mate I think all right we got a par five here Dan 540 odd yards bunker down the left hand side we’ve got about 260 to cover it you haven’t got an issue there I have wind off the left so I’m going to try and just not necessarily hit a draw but just try and uh just sort of hold it against it a bit. Hold it a bit. Yeah. Okay. I have hit a draw. You’ve hit a draw, but gee, that couldn’t be on a better line. Could not be on a better line. That I’m usually uh not very good at hitting that uh right to left shot. I usually like seeing it the left to right one, but Well, you guys are so strong now. You don’t really have to hit it, do you? Yeah. I’ve always liked seeing a face. You can hit especially the ping three when everyone seems to be using it. Yeah. Um I mean so many players are using it that aren’t even on contract. I mean it’s quite amazing. You can hit that. How far you can you hit your 3-wood? 3-wood curry is usually 260 265. There you go. So I mean so with a drop with a 3-wood you can turn that over easier. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I drew it. All right. But too much chunky, but it should run. Dan, so tell us about winning on tour rookie season. That must have been pretty very unexpected. Yeah, it took a while to sink in that. Um, one in Ireland in uh at Galor, Northern Ireland. Yes. Um, played great the first two days, probably as good a two days I’ve as I’ve had on a golf course, which gave me, I think, fiveish, six shot lead going into the weekend. And then Well, that’s hard. Yeah, that’s hard. Yeah, I’ve been there. Yeah. I mean that have a six shot lead. If I don’t win this, people start Did you have any of that? Yeah. Thoughts run away with you, don’t they? Yeah, definitely. Um but yeah, I don’t know if I I genuinely um history would tell you that I’m probably a better front runner than I am from coming behind coming from behind. So, I think it just I think what it is is I just carry on kind of playing my own game. Whereas if I’m behind, I feel like going into a weekend or a Sunday, I feel like I have to push, which is maybe not the right thing to do. Um I think you’ve just got to carry on playing your own game and then if you get across the line, you get across the line, but yeah. Um but yeah, generally being better from from leading. So then you um well, a month ago in in Munich. Yeah. Great golf tournament. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah. Yeah. A really big event. Yeah. Probably an underestimated tournament in the world of golf, I think. So, yeah. Yeah. But always a great field around a really good venue. A lot of people. Middle of summer. Tell us about that one because you’re um you’re in front for a while there as well. Yeah. It was um I think I only shot a couple under on the on the first day, but then had a really good Friday, Saturday, and then obviously you’re you’re out in front going into Sunday. I don’t know if I was one or two shots in front on Sunday and then played really well again. Um it was just one of them from Friday to Sunday. It was it was pretty much one of those where you it’s quite flawless golf really. It’s um doesn’t come around very often. You generally chuck in the odd uh odd mistake. But um them three days were well yeah good. Three good three good days of golf. No, I I was there. I watched it on on the Sunday, that last group. Um, but then you get to the 18th. I thought you might lay that up. You had 286. I remember the shot. But yeah, I’ve never seen someone I I just turned my mic on and you’d already hit it and you flushed it straight. It was almost like you didn’t want to give yourself time to think about anything. Yeah. Do you know? Well, do you know what? So, basically my coach um from back home, Brian Ridley, he he told me something a few years ago that’s just stuck with me ever since. And he said, “Play every round as though it’s a Thursday.” Yeah. Threewood into a par five. What am I going to do on a Thursday? You’re having a crack. You’re having a crack. You’re not lying that. So, I didn’t want to I didn’t want to come away from the kind of thing that I’ve always told myself for the for the last few years. You’re not laying it out. Saturday. You’re not laying it up. No, you’re not. No, I went for it on Saturday with a I think I had a hybrid in on Saturday and then and then 16 as well, the drivable par four. I hit threewood on there as well, which you did? Yeah. Was obviously a similar scenario to the 18th, I would say. Um but yeah, and I was I was hitting 3-wood great as well. So, it was like it was one of them where you’re really comfortable. Hitting it great. Yeah, I was really comfortable with the way I was hitting it. So yeah, have a go and go. I think if there was another nine holes in that 72 hole championship, I think you would have still won. You were in total control. Yeah, I got one I got 165 in the middle of the green. Yeah, 162 on the uh on the laser. Little bit of help out the left. So it should be a good solid nine, I think. Yep. Wind definitely got it. Front edge. Front edge. I always use less less loft there. Yeah. Quick quick down there. Yeah. I just turned it over a little. I tried to spin it and couldn’t spin it. All right, mate. For an eagle, you want that flag in? Yeah, I probably going to leave it in. Yeah, I think might need it as a little back stop once it gets over that over the brow of that hill. Not quite. Bit too cautious. Great roll. There we go. There we have it. Go. Knock it in there for birdie birdie birdie start. You want that in or out? I’ll have this one out. Decent bit of swing on this four and a half. Yeah, four and a half footer. Boom. There we go. He’s on fire. Here’s the boy. Well, this one here, Dan, this is when he played here. Bobby Jones. This was the inspiration for the 12th. It’s a little longer. And in the middle there, the camera can pick that. There’s three bunkers. If you took two away, I can see it. I can see the shape of the green. I can definitely see it. But this was here before the 12th. This was the inspiration for Bobby Jones at Augusta. Yeah. For the famous 12th where the wind just swirls all over the place. Let’s hope it’s not swirling too much here, eh? How much would you like to play there at Augusta? A lot. Yeah. I’ve said to myself, I don’t want to go there. I don’t want to experience it until I’m there as a player. So, bit of motivation hopefully. I’m not sure it’s so chippy that little eight iron of yours now, Dan. Yeah, I think I mean cuz because I’m going to be aiming left, you’re going into it a bit more as well. So, I think just a pretty uh pretty stock one I think. Yeah, probably 90%. Short. Is that short? I think I fatted it again. Yeah, it’s in that trap. I’m not sure you fatted it, but I think it’s that wind is sort of doing all sorts. Make a swing of this. There you go. That looks like a good uh good strong flight. Yeah. Nice shot. [Music] Should be a straightforward bunk shot. Yes, he says tried duffing running it out. Release it. Bit of swing around some of these holes, eh? Hey, bit of swing around some of these holes. Yeah. Wow. Give it that one. I’ve handed I’ve handed over the baton, I think. All right, I’m going to hit drive straight over that bunker, Dan. Help in the air. It doesn’t look a long hole. What do you got the little I’ve got the I’ve got the little hybrid. Yeah. Yeah, that’s in uh that’s in rotation with a two iron depending on conditions, weather, um how firm it is. And so this is going to be in the bag for this week. Hopefully it’s not too windy. And uh and yeah, that’s my that’s my weapon of choice for the week. Good club that as well. Only off the tea, but not only off the tea, but second shots to par fives. Second shots to par fives. Yeah. Yeah. There’s a couple of long par threes at at the belfry as well, which uh yeah, if you get those in to win, then uh yeah, it’ll come in handy, I hope. Good hit. Pushed it. Don’t know. I actually don’t tee this club up. You don’t? Nope. Laura Davies. Did you ever watch Laura back in the day? She used to just get that thing even with a drive. You smack it into the ground. Yeah. Yeah. So So, but yeah, I’ve never I’ve never teed the h Well, I’ve tried teeing the hybrid up, but um I’ve always got on with it a little bit better just off the deck. Good oldfashioned off the deck. Yeah, why not? Should be perfect. There we go. Little kick left. Perfect t-shirt. Well described. Got to get one of those baffies. You got to get a set of them. That’s beautiful air radar. You still got it, eh? Oh, it’s just, you know, I just birdies me. I just just don’t get enough time to play as much as I’d like. I still love playing. Right. 89 down the puff. Yeah. Should be a a green light to get one in tight, I think. That’s fantastic. There’s a bit shot, mate. Bit of unwanted back spin, but I think it’s stiff. A lovely roll again. Yeah, he’s pushed it. You can give you can move that much, mate. Just a slightly out of the right. You can take that one away. Yes. Flag. Flag out. See if we can get another one to to drop. Nice little read off yours. Yeah. Hit it. Yeah, just good for jumped to start. Okay, Dan, we’ve spoken about your wins and uh positive stuff and let’s go really positive. Yeah. How important and how inspired were you at Trun 2 years back? Well, it’s not two years back. It’s it’s 13 months ago. Yeah. Um yeah, I mean that was an unbelievable week. Um I don’t know if I’ve really taken too much from it. Um I kind of came away a little bit disappointed that I didn’t do better on uh on the Sunday. Um, but I was I mean I went there just trying to trying to do as well as I could and and treat it like a normal event. Obviously, it’s not a normal event. It’s it’s a whole lot bigger. Um, but the experience was unbelievable. It’s great to look back on. Um, and just playing in front of those crowds on the Saturday and Sunday, I’ve never never experienced anything like it. But a top 10 in a major, mate. I mean, that’s uh very very good. Next time you are in that position. Yeah. What will you do differently? What about your phone? How was that going? Were you answering everything? Your mates, your friends? No. Yeah. I mean, it was it was it was blowing up definitely during the week. Um but yeah, I didn’t touch it too much until until afterwards. Um but I mean even even still two weeks after it was still going crazy. It was like you almost don’t realize how big the open is until you get up there in it and you and it just just I mean I didn’t even win the thing and it’s uh Yeah, it was massive and it was it was big. So different. Would you do anything different or just the same? Um I I think I would just do I would do the I mean I there was a lot of crosswinds on the at Trune over the weekend. Yeah. Um it was generally straight off the right, straight off the left. And basically what I’ve learned from that is I’m far better at holding it up into the wind whichever the direction. So instead of riding it instead of riding it because the ball topping in there, looping in there, get it to come down vertically. Yeah, that was the issue on kind of the front n generally over the over the weekend on the Saturday and the Sunday. You just didn’t feel as though you wanted to hold the ball up because that’s what you must Amazing conversation. You have to be able to to win on a link course which I have. Yeah, you have to be able to hold the ball up because it’s a thick wind. Yeah, but I think I got I got drawn into kind of riding it on the wind and trying to get that extra 10 20 yards out of the out of it when it once it hits the floor. Yeah. Which going back now, I would do differently. I would have a bit more control on it. I would hold it up and uh and yeah, and just sacrifice sacrificing 20 yards off the tea, but having control of your golf ball still. Yeah, cuz there was a lot of guys taking advantage of the front nine, which was the easier nine. Um, I played the back n really well all week. Um, which is hard. Which was very, very difficult. Yeah. But I actually played the back nine better than I did the front. It was the front that kind of let me down a little bit. Really? Yeah. Yeah. True. Played a couple of opens there myself and I always found Brilliant. Brilliant golf course. Oh, yeah. But that back nine as you as you bring it at home over the left shoulder wind and it’s it’s it’s it’s hard. Yeah. And even the practice range there is not an ideal wind to practice in. Well, do you know what it is? You play, so the range is the wind’s off the right. The whole week, the wind’s off the right. And then you play the first seven holes, the wind’s off the right. You get to the postage stamp, it’s the first hole you get where it’s backing out the left. So you don’t hit a single golf shot all day, which is off the left. And I think that’s what makes that hole so tricky. Yeah. Is it’s the first shot you’ve hit all day. You’ve hit 50 balls to warm up one on the range, whatever it might be. You played the first seven holes and then you get to the eighth and you’re like I remember your ball playing uh the hole before the hole before the posting stamp. You hit it way right over the on the Saturday. Yeah, I nearly uh killed a couple of the players, I think. But I tell you what, it was I walked down there. I went I just looked at you. You probably don’t remember. I just went You’re kidding. Good. Yeah. Yeah, I remember it. Good spot, wasn’t it? Yeah, it was a good spot. Yeah, it’s a great spot. Unintentional, but don’t tell anyone that. There she is. You’re warm now, aren’t you? Yeah, I’ll warm up. So, what’s your shape going to be here? I quite like hitting to the shape of the hole. You do? But you see that tall Christmas tree? Yeah. I mean, you could pound one on there. Yeah. I’m probably going to But you got to play like you would a tall I’m going to work it. Yeah. Left or right? Yeah. Try and tee it down a little bit and we’ll get one uh get one squeezed out there. Yeah. Beautiful t-shirt. Absolutely perfect. You’re swinging it well, Dan. pulled it a bit right between clubs there. I think that’s back bunker. All right, a little feelely wedge from 100 yards radar. Take a bit of the spin out. Very good, mate. Pin high, I reckon. Should be pin high. Yeah, very good. I’ve seen you hit a fantastic 40 y. Yeah. Well, this is And this one’s a little cutesy one. This is This is Yes. Too far right. I didn’t aim that too far enough left. These green got some movement about them. Wow. Still a good shot though. It’s like bit of injustice there. That was a better shot than I just didn’t aim enough. Better shot than Back in the day. I would have really opened myself up there. Little bit of left to right in my one there, Dan. Yes. And quite slow. There’s a lot of slope here. I’m going to be aiming this well outside the hole, I think. Probably a good foot and a half outside the hole there, I think. Try and match the speed up. Can’t be bad. Four under after six. There we go. Good job, matey. Look at that. So, Dan, what’s it like being part of the Ping family? Yeah, it’s unbelievable. Um, I’ve loved every minute of uh of being associated with Ping and playing with Ping clubs. Um, yeah, I’ve got all all 14 of my clubs are Ping and I wouldn’t I wouldn’t change any of them. No. No. And the boys in the truck. Yeah, they’re brilliant. I wish everyone at home, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, well, you got the chance to go in the truck. Well, you can. You go up to Gainesboro, you can do all sorts, but um the boys on tour, these guys have got a serious bit of kit there. They’re Yeah, they’re so helpful. And um and that I mean they’re great at what they’re doing. They’re uh they’ve got so much knowledge and you can go to them about anything. It’s um yeah I’m never if I ever have an issue I’m never nervous to go on and speak to them and pick their brains and see what they think about about certain things. And uh Are you a tinkerer? No, I wouldn’t say so. Stickler. Yeah, I like I like using the same stubborn fairly. It takes a lot to to change change a club back. Yeah. Um but yeah, I do like but I mean they bring out such good products every year, every other year that it’s hard not to it’s hard to stick a lot of the time. Um the new stuff that they bring out’s always a a huge improvement on the year before and it’s uh and it’s and it’s pretty easy to just kind of swap in the new stuff. It is. Yeah. But you want to take time and and get it in there. You know, everyone’s, you know, different. I used to just like even now we get a new thing I use it and I absolutely love everything as long as they’ve got our specs. Yeah. Are you superstitious? Um, no. What do you do? What do you mark your ball with? I’m going to find out for you if he superstition. I’ve got a Roman B golf marker, which is And how long you been using that? My home club. I’ve been using it for probably three, four years. Okay. And what side do you mark the ball with it? So, the logo is always facing towards the hole. And he’s not superstitious. I’m not superstitious. Yeah, no, he’s not superstitious. What I do do is if you know if you if your playing partner wants you to move the ball. Yeah. I’ll turn it backwards so I know that it’s so I know that I need to move it back just in case I forget. What about in the locker room? Which shoe first? Right. There you go. All right, Dan. You got some hurt right in there right now, but it’s into out of the right. So, you going to hold that off or ride it this time? Yeah. I’m going to hit I’m going to hit a little Lynxy one here. So, I’m going to peg it down. Go down the grip a good inch or two. Yeah. Tommy style. Yeah. And then try and just get one coming out a bit flatter. I get it chasing up there. That’s a good secret. Why is that a good secret for everyone at home? You go down the grip a little bit. Go down on the grip cuz it it shortens the club, which then takes the speed out of the golf club. Obviously, the further up your grip, the more stiffens the shaft a little. It stiffens the shaft a little bit. And uh and yeah, you just can’t generate the speed to get it in the air as much. Basically, not enough whip down there. Yeah, it’s amazing. As professional golfers, you know, like when I was young, you you you’d practice it all, but shots like this, the amateur at home, it’s probably one of the hardest shots to be able to hit it low. Yeah. Cuz we’re getting so much more of the ball on a flattish strike, not more of an upish strike. Yeah. You know what I mean? I mean, everyone nowadays is taught to hit up on it and get it sending sending it miles, aren’t they? Yeah. But I still feel like this shot on a lot of weeks. Oh, absolutely. Comes in handy when windy conditions when the wind’s up, when it gets anywhere. Absolutely. So, we’ll try and get it on the floor and uh and chasing down there. Let it run like a thief with a handbag, my friend. Yeah. Absolutely a rip snort. That is as good as it gets. That was quite good, wasn’t it? That was really good. Yeah. Did you widen your stance a little then? No. No. Narrowed it a touch. You narrowed it a smidge. Yeah. Right. Okay. Uncle Radar is going to attempt the same sort of shot. And back in the day, I could play this show. I love playing in the wind. Sydney, a very windy city where I grew up. But these days, I don’t get to play these as much. But we’ll attempt it. That’s pretty damn good. Yeah, I’m happy with that. Get past him. Go on. [Laughter] Bit chunky. A bit of good though. Bit chunky line though down. That wind’s down, Dan. You got wedge. I’ve got a little nine. I’m going to try and Okay. I like it. Hold it against it a little bit. Okay. Little holdy nine. Really good. Sit there. held it too much. Yeah, but didn’t knock it back. Right. No, you No, you played it the right way, but the wind just lulled on you a little. [Music] Dead straight, I reckon. A slow one up the hill. Yeah. Get that. Ah, I thought that was in. Not quite. Just lacking a tiny bit of speed there. I thought tricky hole that today. It’s a long hole today. There she goes. Okay. Greens are mint, Dan. So, goals for the rest of the season. I think I’m going to surprise you here. Yeah. Um, I don’t set goals. Okay. Um, I used to and then I found that I just got frustrated by not achieving them and pushing too hard to achieve them to achieve them. Um, and yeah, and it just took the the enjoyment of the game away from for me. So, I just kind of go week to week and try to do the best I can. Um, obviously know the things I need to work on from like week to week. There will be uh I mean it’s a it’s a crazy game. One week you’re putting great, one week it’s the next week it’s not. Um, so yeah, it’s just generally managing myself and managing my game and and that’s it really and give it 100% over every shot and I feel like for me that’s all I can do. So then whatever comes of that um if I put you in the position to win a major can you do it like to think so. Yeah. Like to think so. And what about Okay. If it’s not a goal, how much do you want to be on a Ryder Cup team? I mean massively. Yeah. But I never think about it. No. Okay. Just wanted to let it happen. Obviously after after Munich I probably got quite high up on the on the RDER Cup standings but it was never after that I’d never thought about oh if I have a good result this week if I have a good result next week then I’ll be in the Ryder Cup. I’ve never thought that can be damaging as you say. Yeah. So yeah for me it’s just each shot each round each tournament just Yeah. Hopefully make sure you win every year. That would be great if it happened. But I never I I never thought that I would I never thought I would win on tour really coming out. Yeah. I never I always I don’t know. I always felt like I was good enough, but I’m a lad from Yorkshire and I never thought that it would ever happen. So it took the first the first win took a long time to sink in. It wasn’t until after the race to Dubai when I finished Sama’s scorecard on the Sunday. you look back at the season you’ve had like my first year on tour and yeah welled up and had a little cry and uh yeah and I was proud of what I achieved and then and yeah and still I never thought I’d win twice. Yeah. Well, I think you’re going to win more and trust me there’s been some there’s been some good golfers come out of your um been some good players come out of Yorkshire. Yeah, really good players. There’s been a lot. Yeah, really good players. Loving this three. I’m gonna send I’m gonna send this through them trees and hope for the best, I think. Yeah. Straight over the top. It’s a Monday, isn’t it? Yeah. I don’t know, mate. I think that could be all right. Didn’t hear anything. Nope. It’s where you wanted hit it. We’ll see. We’re both newcomers to Blackwell. It’s been a nice visit, though. Nice course, huh? Very good there. Oh, it dug its toes in. It did, didn’t it? I tried playing that played that with the 50 as well. That That checked up as well. I know. I played that well. Where is it? Right edge. It’s way more than Is it? Yeah. Oh, very, very good. Five birdies in eight holes. Hard to beat someone who’s made five birdies in eight holes, isn’t it? But I’m just here. I’m just the host. I’m just I’m just here for the caught me on a bad day, Radar. I played with a good mate of yours, Dan Bradbury. Yeah. In a round with Radar. Yeah. At the Centurion. And you know what he did, which was very impressive. He got on the T says, “You know, Radar, I have got one that goes 25 yards further.” But he didn’t. Did he? Yeah, he did. Have you got one that goes 25? You don’t bother. You get on a par five, you try to hit it further. Maybe not. Maybe not 25. I mean, we’ve got 358 here, so I’m gonna give it some. Yeah, you’re gonna give it to it. Yeah. Um, I’ve maybe got an extra 105 in the locker because you hit a fair way for a little just a little chap, don’t you? Yeah. Yeah. I’m not I’m not I’m not I’m not tall and I’m 6’2. Yeah. Yeah. Um, basically opposite to what we did on the other hole. I’m going to almost take my hand off the grip to get the speed. So, what he’s saying there is when he hit the low one a couple of holes back, he gripped right down there and showed the butt of the club, we call it. On this occasion, he’s going to do very much that my hands I mean, I don’t know if you can see, but my hands nearly to give it more length and give it more whip so you can hit it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Got it. Yeah. So, it almost gives it an extra half inch, an inch in the shaft, really. Yes, that’s exactly what it does. That’s your best, isn’t it? Like that. That’s hammered. That is hammered. Beautiful drive. Hopefully that’s down there. That’s a beautiful drive. Oh, that’s down there. It’s down there. All right. It’s pretty good. Yeah. Technique everyone. Technique. Was that an extra 25 yards or extra 25 there? No. Hey, extra 25 yards. That one. I don’t think so, but I’ll find it. [Music] Lovely shot. How far short is it? Just soft. They’re just soft, aren’t they? Release it. Not bad. It’s a little soft on you. Do you think it’s right lip? I think it’s a little bit more. Do you? Yeah, cuz you’re going up the hill, so it’s going to keep as it dies. It’s maybe half a ball out. Okay. Oh, no. Great roll. Yeah, I drove it well. Didn’t hold too many putts. Well, I hold a few. I knocked that in. Six under for nine holes. That’s what we want. Pretty slow up there, eh? Yeah. Boom. There she is. Dan, it’s been great, mate. It really has been fantastic. And uh thanks very much and for coming on our show, our ping show around with Raider. You’re welcome. and uh letting us dive into your deepest private thoughts about your golf and everything. And uh look, thanks for watching around with Radar and always play your best. You know it makes sense. Yeah. [Music]