Talking Points:
00:00 Playing for dinner
01:00 Practice ahead of Hong Kong
02:00 How much can you earn on the tour?
03:00 Would Rory McIlroy join LIV Golf?
04:00 Attempts a 10 foot putt
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That is red hot a bit like like the Chilean jok and Neeman who this BL tipped as him bran to keep an eye on him he’s a mate of his we’re talking about the great Mark lean good day Mark hey Lads how you going hey we’ve got you in
Your work uniform you’re out there in about on the golf course now yeah in Hong Kong at the moment uh it’s got a practice around with the boys so on the 12th trying to uh we got a match going so trying to tail up Jon uh Cam and cam Herby
Hey uh leash what are you plan for here um have you got a little a couple of side bets plan for dinner oh yeah depends who wins as to how good the dinner will be and tell me this I’ve always wondered out of when when you’re not playing
Competition what does a what does a week look like for a golfer I.E training and stuff how how many hours if there’s 40 hours in the week it looks 50 I mean the Le how many how many hours a week are you actually out there practicing not in
The gym cuz I know you guys now go to the gym but how many hours are out there either putting or chipping or driving yeah it depends on on the week um like if we’ve got two or three weeks off the first week will generally be
Really light like a proper week off um the week leading into it is is a lot um a lot more practice uh I mean short game a couple hours couple hours a day obviously putting um add the gym in there you you know Play Holes um so I
Mean it’s a it’s a regular I’d say 30 hours um sometimes more but and then tournament weeks obviously it’s it’s a lot more than that but um yeah it’s uh you know it’s at the end of the day it is a it is a job so um and we get paid
On on performance so the the better we play the the more work we put in generally the the more chance you are at playing well so you certainly want to put the work in and um you know try and try and make the money where you can hey
Leash is there a break even number so for most people I know it varies with uh the extravagance of how people go about their tours but is there a break even number that is commonly known by golfers on the world stage where you’ve got to earn this in prize money to just start
Getting ahead yeah well it depends what tour you’re on um the like the PGA Tour generally you know your endorsements and that sort of thing cover your cost for the year um depending on the you know the how good your agent is I guess um but yeah I mean normally you’re looking at
You know on the tour you’re looking at probably about 10,000 a week y um you’re going to spend by the time you pay your caddy and your flights and you know accommodation you know if you got a trainer there Phio uh it’s probably more than that actually so and then if you
You know depend how where you’re flying and how you’re flying so it can be um it can be quite expensive but where so the really one of the really good things about live one of the many good things about the live tour is um they cover everything so they’re covering flights
Accommodation and then where’re um we’re also got guaranteed money so it’s uh very nice to be playing where we are at the moment hey um leash what about Rambo Big Johnny R last time we spoke to he hadn’t signed how’s how’s he been received by all the
Boys oh great yeah he’s uh he’s loving it um obviously he’s playing pretty well at the moment um hard to beat beat wo at the moment but um yeah he’s he’s loving it he’s fitting right in um you know he was never one of the guys who sort of
Criticized at all or you know too much um at at the beginning and I think we certainly respect him for that now there’s been rumors uh speaking about uh players criticizing and not criticizing uh there’s been a few rumors about Rory maroy may be going to live have you
Heard about that and if he does come are you going to let him in the gang oh yeah no definitely um um you know it’s one of those things isn’t it like Everyone’s entitled to their opinion and um there’s nothing saying that your opinion can’t change so um you
Know I get along with Rory Rory very well and I know if he did come um he would be certainly uh he’d fit in pretty well but um yeah I haven’t heard anything to be honest so yeah there’s been rumors about him and hii but um there’s been nothing from this side that
Would suggest that that’s going to happen not to say that it’s not going to happen the great duel International maty Rogers has just walked past the studio now he commentates so we did last year at the Liv golf in Adelaide if you need to do a shot right now Mark feel free to
Get somebody to film it we can watch you and he would love to commentate it if there’s a shot in you in can you have a shot for us I’ve got about a 10 foot birdie putt I’m hoping the boys read it for me okay um all right where is it
Where is it lad who’s gonna hold it and M come in you can comment now who do you have Cades when you’re playing practice rounds leash mat’s right here there he is go through it go through for us talk us talk us through it is there that dot
That’s about two feet short like just on the inside of that okay it’s gonna break about a cup and a half cup and a half all right listen up this is not good radio but the leash is on this he’s going for a birdie PT cup and a half cup Bo
Just sunk yes oh great part great part a good had some bu EXC Smith’s got to pay for the parmesana tonight by your report no you’re on Smithy side and Leash leash me and Jones let’s go to the videotape here’s what’s happened in the other Studio as you make
That putt looks like K has done that and this is coming in nicely might be a little long oh no this is right next to the pit oh this could go in it’s running it’s cracking only one chance k the be are absolutely blowing under the cour
He’s never going to be doing that again that was it Adelaide um is that something you look forward to the the Adelaide tournament leash yeah it’s a uh I mean last year was probably one of the well certainly the highlight of of the year if not um
You know one of the best tournaments we’ve ever played um probably outside the majors and and a couple of Select ones it was um it was pretty special so yeah to to be able to head back there and and know that we’re you know the home team
And the crowds all all all for us so um hopefully we can put on a little better little better show this year and make a few more birdies and hopefully one of us can can win it and um but no it’s a it’s an awesome week and the people of of you
Know South Australia and and all around Australia uh really supported it unbelievably well Le thank you very much mate we’ve taken up your time and good to see Smithy as well I hope you’s got to watch the Vegas games together not his start but get Reese on a bigger
Field and he’ll be happy don’t forget tickets still available at livg golf.com events that is andn has all the coverage as well through Liv golf including Liv Adelaide April 26 to 28 get your tickets once again Liv golf.com SL events Mark lman thanks for joining the run home with jol and
Fletch beautiful now wor thanks for having me great part precious summer to get Su didn’t by it he loved that the leash good on him and we loved having him a breaking back with more
