Welcome to My Crib come on in meets Alie plant one of the challenge tour’s great characters a proven multiple winner plants always appear destined for Success especially after finishing his the low Amer at the 146th Open championship at Royal perg toown but those memories are long forgotten just like the whereabouts of
His silver Medal so you don’t you don’t have your tropies on the yes no no just um yeah no I actually don’t think I’ve got them really I think they might Mom and Dad’s or n my sh there got some medals here I run the marathan London marathan yeah back in the day
Decent time 4 hours 13 which was good but the last six miles wow there’s people dressed up as W balles running past me like G in a 22 R I’m like struggling I can’t even walk but I hav really got any uh SE a couple got this one
Here see don’t up in the sh no no I think my uh the silver medal I think it’s in the tool box I think in here yeah yeah somewhere I think yeah we go there’s the uh there’s a silver medal can’t seen that for what 5 years is that now yeah [Applause] Nice was walking up the and my other son Albert was his caddy so I had two boys walking up up the 18th for bird out which was special and you know we had all that family there sadly my dad’s not here or my father-in-law is not here no
More and they was both in the stand cheering which was wonderful if I could live one week of my life for the rest of my life like Grand though it would be that week it was just and we always go back to that I know it’s like the open’s
Gone there and all that but it was just so special it so fantastic a week he’ll never forget the silver Medal winner is the leading amater in the 2017 open Alfie plant of England remember the name special days indeed but Alie has been creating more memories off the
Course of late he married Daisy in 2022 and they welcomed a baby girl Florence into the world a year later she can ride a bike speak Mandarin she’s you know she’s she’s on track she’s on [Laughter] cheack to huh she said it once she kind of said it once [Laughter] yeah yeah 6’4 Brond any of the golfers out there you know with um with a wife or girlfriend back home supporting him is uh he’s very lucky it’s uh it’s a very unique job you know sometimes it’s probably hard to see you know dais is here all night with a
Teing baby and um I’m sitting at a beach bar or as you said going on a safari cuz I got a day off and that so um you know I can kind of you know kind of out it can be tough at times especially now we’ve got Florence um I remember like
Lot struggling at first it’s always quite you know hard to see him go kiss to Grandad in life you don’t you know can’t have everything you know so keep saying I finding that balance finding out what works I’ve got a completely different schedule this year before i’ play a lot of tournaments in a row try and get home Sundays fly again
Tuesdays um this year I’m trying to you know going to stay away for 3 weeks then actually have a full week at home to try and spend some quality time with Florance and you know get some good work in regard your wife so yeah so the schedu that to
Change things are adapting and you know we got to just try new things see if it works it does not we see but um yeah there’s been a few changes already every week is an opportunity for a new winner and that mindset does change a lot when you do get dependent that’s
Kids you got a wife at home you got a family to support it’s hard to make the decision sometimes whether you stick around and play for that possible win or you go home spend time with them because it’s a long season you got 30 events and
You don’t want to be away for all of them so you need to pick and choose pretty wisely don’t how much money you got in the bank or what tour card you got you can’t buy back yesterday so you know that side of it surpris to being our home and spending some with
Us um I’m really proud of it really proud um every day makes me proud being a dad is making me like he makes me proud being a golfer he makes me proud being a husband he makes me proud so yeah he um he does have his faults
But but no he does he makes me really proud I’m a multi-millionaire in Pride you know me what he’s achieved and what he’s done so far and been wonderful you know it’s not over and you know if it was over it don’t matter you know like I
Said there a major wind sitting there there’s our open Win there’s our claric J you know family is everything you know gol is secondary Really Having traveled well over 5,000 miles from his base in London plant has arrived at our host venue this week the Classic Golf and Country Club for the Delhi challenge the first of back-to-back tournament weeks in India though as we’ve already seen despite being so far from home his family is
Never far from his Thoughts how you feeding was she all right did you see through that’s yeah she work about: oh yeah I love you bye on the de from England Al however it wasn’t the best of starts for plant a bogy at the first and he was on the back foot early on plant didn’t let the drop shot derail his round though as he turned in one under thanks to bures at 8 and n despite another bogey at 10 plant
Bounced back with this at the PA 3 11th having hit it to a couple of feet he then subsequently rolled in the birdie putt to get back into red numbers for the day up for the last way Plant might have been struggling to find another gear but playing partner Martin KRA was having no such issues the
Frenchman grabbed a share of the lead thanks to this Birdie on 13 cra’s efforts seem to inspire plant as he rolled in a birdie putt of his own here on the 15 15th PL part his way way in from there while CRA finished with a flourish a birdy at the last his eighth
Of the day saw him end day one as the joint leader on 7 underp planted five shots off the pace and tied 54s yeah I’m really having to work hard for any kind of result at the minute um shot two under today I don’t feel like
There’d be much difference if all of a sudden my scores were five under you know just not really getting the rubber the greens just a couple of silly mistakes yeah it’s kind of a grind out there just to shoot 200 at a minute but
I feel like um if the tide turns and I can get some good results going indeed plant would need to dig deep and find something special to ensure he’d be around for the weekend however he was under pressure early on starting his second round on
The 10th hole a solid PT was needed at 13 to avoid dropping a shot That was just what the doctor ordered as the putts began to find the bottom of the cup birdies followed at 14 15 and 16 and a very different golfer began to emerge while plant was enjoying a much better day his playing partner Martin C remained very much in the groove picking
Up where he left off on day one he continued to rack up the birdies Plant would upstage the young Frenchman though with the shot of the day here at the par 4 sth hole a whole out Eagle 2 thrust bant right into the mix with another birdie at the eth bant eventually signed for 6 under pass 66 the second best round of the
Day in F him 43 places up the leader board now just outside the top 10 he was poised to make a charge for the title number one goal on anyone’s list for the week is make the cup you know you can’t win the tournament if you’re
Not playing the weekend so um you know once you kind of get that done and dusted you can probably start looking a little bit more at the leaderboard maybe start taking a few more risks on the golf course but yeah also you know expenses wise you know if you come all
This way you know now it looks like we going be getting a paycheck you know regardless how big or small it is you know it all just goes it all just goes back in the pot so um I think making cuts when you’re when you’re a long way from home is Good
