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Hello and welcome back to another episode of the cookie jar golf podcast brought to you in partnership with Fjoy. On today’s episode, we’re lucky enough to get Bob McIntyre on the pod. What only days after winning the RBC Canadian Open. So Bob had the opportunity to go across to Memorial, but he chose to go home back to open and uh we were lucky enough to be able to catch him on the Wednesday of being back before he finishes up his celebrations, jumps back on a plane, heads back for the US Open. So, we’re of course in partnership with Fjoy and Fjoy is part of the Akusha family and we’re also partner with Titus and huge thank you to Titus for sorting this out for us. So, Bob is such a downto-earth guy. He he talks through life on tour and you know the close calls he’s had leading up to the to the RBC Canadian Open and the RDER Cup last year. So, sit back and enjoy. Watch this. [Music] No way. [Music] [Applause] So, Bob, uh, welcome to the Cookie Jar podcast. It’s uh, can’t tell you how thrilled we are to have you on and to have you on in such a busy week. Uh, a huge congratulations. How are you feeling? No, thank you. Um, no, I’m feeling good. um managed to get a good night’s sleep last night. So, uh now I just doing all the media stuff obviously and um no, it’s just been a it’s been a hell of a hell of a few weeks. Um and capped off by obviously the win and it’s just been it’s just special. The whole the whole thing’s been I couldn’t have written a better script to be honest with my dad in the bag and and whatnot. It was just it was just special. No, it was incredible, wasn’t it? I think uh you know I think those scenes on 18 you know just holding back the tears really or maybe not holding back the tears you know it’s kind of hard to just not let it out right it must be almost impossible it’s too much no it was difficult I mean I was actually crying and laughing at the same time just crying cuz we done it and laughing because I don’t know how we done it um having my dad there obviously it made it extra special and that’s the only reason the the proper emotion came out is because I was you just couldn’t You couldn’t have scripted it any better with um obviously changing a car getting my dad to fly out and yeah it was just it was a fairy tale end to be honest. Yeah. Not off. Now I’ve read somewhere Bob that there was some sort of last minute shenanigans just trying to get your dad the bib and being able to kind of because there’s like permitting and all sorts of stuff you go through. So just run me through how the whole week’s panned out. So my my understanding is you finished the end of a fivew week like hectic playing schedule which was then going to roll into US Open qualifying. Nice perk from Sunday as that’s now not required. But it must have been you must have been feeling like going through the mill before you’ve even got to the tea on Thursday. How did the whole week pan out? To be honest actually missed I miscounted um when I was doing my presser on Sunday night. I miscounted the events. I missed out another event in Dallas. So it was actually that was my sixth week in a row and then I was meant to be doing US Open qualifier the Monday after Canada and then whether I qualified for US Open was determining whether I was going to have three weeks off or one week off and then yeah I just I partied ways with Scotty Maddi after Colonial and I’m trying to get a few boys to do a one week for me and it it we just couldn’t work it and they couldn’t they were maybe just on a stretch of events and were taking that week off or whatnot. And I was like, “No, I carry this week. I’m gonna have to phone phone my dad and I phoned him and he’s they had a big am on um back home last Sunday I think it or Sunday when the final round and he was like I don’t know if I can leave because I’ve got to prepare the course.” I mean, he had the course the course has been in good condition and um it was just needing a final touchup, but he was like, I was like, I need you to car for me. And so, he was on he jumped in a flight at 8:00 the next morning. This was probably about 8:00 on Saturday night. I phoned him and he’s like, “Right, get the flight all booked. No, I’ll be there.” Um, so I booked all the flights and he came out and yeah, that the visa stuff wasn’t for him. The visa stuff was more for me. I had to I had to go to arrived there Sunday into Canada practice Monday morning in the porn and rain. The weather wasn’t good Monday and of course end up getting closed and then flew to Ottawa to the US embassy cuz I couldn’t get back in the US until I had my my visa all sorted and my visa Tuesday flew back to uh Toronto Tuesday night proam on Wednesday. Thankfully the RBC and that put me into the um proam for nine holes on Wednesday then the proam wasn’t playing great. Prep wasn’t good and the ending was the end and it was just it was a hell of a week and I’m just couldn’t believe that it all worked out. That’s insane. It almost feels like a really high tariff version of you know when you go out and have a skinful and you’ve got a medal the next day and you just end up shooting 74 and you don’t know how you’ve done it. It just feels like a really high tariff event like that. You know what I mean? Um like is there a little bit in there where you kind of get on the tea on Thursday morning and you think cuz I mean you’ve been playing good golf anyway for for like a a good year. Like I don’t think I didn’t feel like this was a surprise. I felt like you know looking at the last 12 months it’s really kind of the game’s been really good. But was there a bit that week where you were like I’m just not expecting that much. I’m just been through the mill just trying to get through the last four days. Yeah. But that that’s a lot of the time when I play play my best stuff when there’s zero expectation on me. Only expectations from people outside of my team that knows what’s going on. I literally had no I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know what was coming. I didn’t know how I was going to play. I felt like I was wasn’t striking it great, but it wasn’t going that far offline, if you know what I mean. It was like one of them ones where you’re you’re not quite striking it, but it’s kind of it’s going where you’re really what you’re in the area of where you kind of want it to go. And there was no there was no problems. It was um then we started and I was I felt like I was driving it well. I was iron playing it well. I was shipping and ping like a demon. Um I just my biggest thing is just we always talk about just try to get a position but first two days are just get in position. Saturday stay in position and then Sunday see where the cards fall. And that’s just that’s kind of what we’ve done. Obviously when I went into Sunday with the lead them I know my job in hand if I go up there and do my job well they probably going to catch you and thankfully thankfully they didn’t catch me. Yeah, you put the burners on pretty hard around the middle stretch, didn’t you? Because I I might butcher this here. I’ve got a feeling you were something like four or five shots clear through 11. Yeah. And then you’re going up 15 and all of a sudden that’s back to one. I mean, I think some of the stuff that’s written since is a bit like, oh, it was a bit of a jumpy start or whatever. Maybe that’s more how you I don’t know if this that’s perhaps more of like an internal thing perhaps of how you’re feeling cuz you’re in contention, but I mean I mean, how do you sort of like hold it all together through that final round? Cuz it kind of playing through ahead at the moment at that kind of time. This is like a really big deal now. I’ve really got a good opportunity. Yeah. So, I’ve been really working on trying to stay stay level, stay I mean, it’s cliche, but stay in the moment. Stay just keep doing what you’re doing and control what you can control. And I think I didn’t really have a great start on the front n ever. The front n I think everyone was shooting lights out and I was probably the only one that wasn’t shooting lights out at all. I think my best scores were coming in the back which a lot of people or I think the majority of guys were the opposite. back wasn’t there n the front line and I don’t know it’s just the way whether it’s the wind direction whether it’s the shape of the holes the shape of the greens I don’t know I boed the first a fair few times maybe twice I might have burned the first twice I definitely burned it once um and obviously I keep an eye on the scoreboards because I want to know where I’m at I want to know what I need to do you don’t really worry about it until it comes to crunch time when four or five holes to go when it might be a 1 v one. It might be I’m behind. I need to push again. And it wasn’t like that. I was in full control and then I missed. I missed two good opportunities. Still 10 ft or maybe more on 10, but I didn’t see myself missing the part on 9 on Sunday or 10 on Sunday. I mean, but I knocked them two and I was seven ahead, but I didn’t I missed them and I 11. I then hit a terrible forehand off a off of 12. But I just kept saying to myself and speaking to my dad and just stay in the fight like we’re still leading. We’ve got shots up up our sleeve. It’s fine. Bogeies are fine. Double bogeies are were not good. Bogeies are fine. And then yeah, we got into the the nitty-gritty of all of it. And my dad just said to me on I think it was 14. He goes, “Look, if we play these holes, I think I was maybe two ahead at this point or no one had quite got to within one.” He was like, “If you play these holes, one under par, the next five, four, five holes, one under par, we got to catch you.” And he was right. And I go to the next bird 15. And then it’s like, right, I’ve looked away the board and I’ve got two shot weed over Victor who’s finished. So he’s ran out of holes. So I’m like, it’s all right. We’ve got we’ve got time. We’ve got space here. And then obviously Ben Ben started to rolled in a long P on he birded 15, rolled in a long part on 16. He’s obviously not had a good T- shot up 17. I’ve not had a good T-shot up 17, but he’s his ball spun shot on the fairways. Had it shot at the green. I’ve laid it up into the right rough. Only shot I had. And then it was just like make them catch you. Don’t you come back to them. And obviously it was a it was a nice two putt in 17 and then it was two great shots up 18 and once he hadn’t once Ben had birded 18 it was like you put two putts with this got to take to kind of thing. He gave the first one a good wrap as well. That might have been a we bit of nerves in the hands. I was just kind of I didn’t expect it to go past the hole. Put it that way. I was just trying to cozy that thing up double an inch as close as I could to the hole. Um it ran on a wee bit but it gets fold probably millions of two footers over our time and um it was just another two foot pack with almost an extraordinary ending. Yeah. Yeah. But what what I mean you’ve we touched on it sort of you know a couple of minutes ago but you know your game is there a little bit in here where the game’s not changed so much it’s more adjusting to the routine and everything that goes around playing in the US cuz I think for a period of time it felt like you sort of burst into the US carrying a load of form with you and then it didn’t quite translate to results for a period of time and that feels like you’ve turned a corner. Is that just like a a sort of a a little lull that you almost have to push yourself through? Was it the game? Was it, you know, without dwelling too much on the negative, it felt like you’ve had to come through something there, right? Oh, no. You’re totally fine. I change obviously my career’s kind of been on the like this. It’s been went up and then I think I had a plateau maybe. Not a plateau like I kind of leveled out maybe in end of 21, middle of 22. Um, obviously CO was happening at the time. again I was playing at that point I was playing quite a lot in America you weren’t spending time with many people and then when I came back to Europe I then was staying in hotels I was having room service I wasn’t spending time I wasn’t being myself and I think I I started to do that again in the US when obviously I rented a place in Orlando and it’s great like facilities are great weather’s great but it’s not me it’s not who I am me and my girlfriend um out there in Orlando We’re trying to work out how to live life again almost out there. But we couldn’t escape golf. Like if I’d have a week off, we’d spend maybe 4 days, 3 4 days doing stuff in Orlando. But then it was like it’s just the two of us. We’ve not got any friends or family there to do anything different. It’s just the two of us together. And it was just hard because it’s just different from what we do back home. like I’ll go and spend time with family and friends. She’ll go and spend time with family and friends. And it was just we couldn’t we couldn’t work out the balance. And then I obviously came home. Well, I’ve been in out in the States from January the I was out there from like January the 3rd until 3 weeks before Zurich. We came home for 3 weeks and didn’t play much golf. Seen family, friends, played a couple of games of Shinty. Um then I’ve come back out to Zurich and I’m want to play golf. I’m back in my right mind frame. I want to play golf when I practice and the mindset just changed and the golf game changed but nothing in my golf game did change. It was just the mindset. It’s almost like a bit of time at home and just puts a bit of gas in the tank, right? You know, it does because you and people will have different ways of adjusting to that stuff, won’t they? In terms of their own family lives. Yeah. The biggest thing for me is just get away from the world of golf. I mean, it’s what I’ve done all my life and it’s I think it’s a decent formula for me and it’s it’s worked to this point and it’s just obviously things will need to change as life goes on and the older I get and the formula might change but the the kind of main path of it won’t just keep coming back to back to your roots and yeah it’s been a it’s been successful to to a 27 year old. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. And and does that is that kind of why I suppose you know a bit written about Memorial this week you know big thing is obviously those signature events as well as you know all the exemptions and the status that goes with it. I mean you world ranking 39th like that’s it’s huge isn’t it? Is there a little bit of of that in your mind where it’s like look I said I was going to go home. I want to go home. It’s you know I’m I’m kind of missing it. Is that is that basically sort of it really with Memorial? It’s like I just need just need to kind of refuel a bit back home. I I mean that was six weeks in the six weeks in the spin. Um I missed the two cuts in Dallas and not back to back weeks but like spaced out. I missed the two cuts which I’m going to miss cuts the way I play golf. Um I’ve had big results in there. I think two top 10s. Um and I had a chance to win at Myrtle Beach which I finished like 13th or something 15th. Um obviously the PG had a chance to let the PG things would have had to went my way but there was big weeks in there. It was six weeks in the spin. I was meant to do US Open qualifier. Memorial wasn’t on the radar until I won. I was going to have to play if I played Memorial it was going to be nine weeks in a row. Eighth week being the US Open. Not great preparation playing eight weeks in a row leading into a major. I wasn’t expecting to be in the major. So, I just had to I just had to balance it out. Like, you just can’t keep going and going and going and going. You’ll burn out and you don’t want to you just need a little reset. And I thought it was a a great idea to I mean, it’s it’s not the greatest thing to miss the memorial. But, I mean, you got to miss something. And I thought after a win and everything that it it kind of took out me, I thought it was it was really the only option was to to come home, reset, and prepare prepare to go again for the US Open. Yeah. I mean, it’s amazing. It’s like like you say, when you put it that way, particularly with the with the US Open, it’s you can see it’s the right decision, but it’s really hard to make the right decision, you know, like it’s it’s really tough who I mean, you’re like really grounded, aren’t you? Like super super grounded. It’s like, you know, I I dread to think what I would be like if I was the 39th best girlfriend in the world. I absolutely dread to think I’d be impossible, but you’re just most like chilled out, grounded guy going. Like, do you get that from someone? Is that like your parents that keep you really grounded? Like, how how do you sort of just stay just so kind of chilled with it? You take, you know, even the, you know, just the way you talk, you know, big day Sunday, it’s like, I want to come home. We’re going to have tea at my mom’s. It’s all good and I’m going to go back out and play golf in a couple of weeks time. you know, how do you how do you stay like that? I think it’s I mean, if you spent a week in back home in open as as me, it would be he’d realize that my mates are my mates from from growing up. Um, I don’t really message the I message the boys obviously that I’ve grown up playing golf with in the Scottish Scottish stuff. um like Sagant Forest and but I’ve not really I’ve not really got close close mates that I play golf with on tour. We’re not okay. We’re friends as in almost at work colleagues, but my friends are the ones that are back home in Albin and at work 9 to5. They’re tradesmen. They’re they do all sorts of jobs and like I speak to them every day on the phone. um messaging and I think they just treat me as Bob the one of their mates rather than or McIntyre the professional golfer. It doesn’t and that’s one of the reasons I come home is because it’s that I get treated as a as a normal a normal guy rather than something that I’m not. I get I’m a golfer. I’m decent on my job but I’m I prefer just being Bob one of the boys. Yeah. Yeah. No, I can get it. And it’s just a nice I mean we had our first first time I ever went to well first and only time I went to open. We were actually coming up last summer from Caradel on the way up to try. We’re doing a whole like course leg and someone said you got to stop off and we had fish and chips and you just kind of feel it’s just a world away isn’t it? It’s a complete other world away from everything else and um yeah you kind of get that feeling of I can imagine it’s just you know there’s nothing quite like home for anyone but that you that place in particular special. Were you surprised at all? Like are you are you sort of like a little bit surprised to have picked up the win or did you feel like going into the last few months it’s like this has been coming? I think I’ve had I’ve had some really good form the Zurich with Tom Dree we had a chance to win there. Obviously if things didn’t fall our way cut in Dallas and then we went to I think it was Myrtle Beach. Had a really good chance at Myrtle Beach. Sunday didn’t go to plan but I recognized that. I recognized why it didn’t go to plan. then went to the PGA. I think I I’d done the right thing at the PGA on the Sunday. I stayed in the fight. I got my award meeting with the Eagle, finished top 10. I was inside the top 10 for a long part of the week. I just kind of made me recognize and then I went to Colonial, Miss Cut in Colonial. So that’s week five. And then I didn’t really expect that in Canada going on, but I was back in the right mind frame. I wasn’t getting down to myself. I wasn’t getting annoyed in the golf course. in the right I was in right mental state for playing that week and we just kept hitting up shots and been end of it we’ve built a bit of a lead on the Saturday and hip was like right you got a job to do here on Sunday and managed to get across the line I didn’t from the start of the week I didn’t expect to obviously expect to play well but I didn’t expect to to win a golf tournament I’d never I didn’t plan to win a golf tournament I just hit the shots and see where the cards fall and they fell they fell for me there’s there a little bit as well it’s nice to sort of do it a a little bit, you know, not just for Scotland, but also I think you know, wider sort of European golf, I kind of get the feeling that over in obviously it’s Canadian Open, but you know, a lot of the broadcasters American and US and there’s always that, you know, that European tour, you know, the Matt Fitzpatrick comment, the Asinger thing. There’s there’s that little edge of dismiss dismissiveness, isn’t there really towards towards European tour players? Do you feel like a bit of an outsider when you’re out there still or is it is that just more of some of the theater of how it’s presented on the broadcast, do you think? No, it’s different. We are we are outsiders. We’re I mean, yes, we are we’re kind of coming into their territory. Um but we’re there to do a job. We’re there to play golf and there’s so many good European golfers in the world and it’s another golf tournament. Again, it’s not it’s not rocket science. We’re all we all know our capabilities. We know what we can and can’t do. And yeah, it’s just it’s a PJ tour compared to European DP World Tour. It’s it’s different. But the game of golf doesn’t change. And the lowest score wins at the end of the day. I don’t for me I don’t worry about what commentators or people say from the outside because end of the day I’m the boss of me and I do my stuff and their opinions and their opinions but it honestly couldn’t couldn’t care less about a lot of a lot of people’s opinions rather than my family really family and close friends. Yeah, it’s cool. Well, it’s interesting because we had um we did a really good podcast a while ago with a um a goal psychologist and he talked about this thing about sort of ego versus mastery and how you attach yourself to your goals and and within that he said look it’s really difficult because if you get really attached to what other people are saying and put stock in things on the way up you inevitably put stock in it on the way down and it becomes things that are outside of your control. Whereas the best thing you can do is like just, you know, only put stock in in the opinions of people that you care about. And I think that’s that’s easier said than done for sure, but it definitely helps. It does put a little bubble around you, doesn’t it? Yeah. Look, I’m I I’m someone that’s I’ve got social media. I’ve got um whatnot. But I I see a lot of comments. I see some good things. I see some bad things. I laugh at a lot of stuff. I never really I don’t cry about the negative stuff because people have got opinions. I’ve got opinions, but it doesn’t what what other people think, does it? Unless it’s close family and friends, I honestly couldn’t care. And it it might sound bad at times, but what other people think of me is unless you know me well enough, then it doesn’t really doesn’t really matter. and um I just want to have the people close to me healthy and and happy and that’s it. I play golf for a living and yes, it’s all over TV and social medias and some things I’ll say, I’ll swear I’ll shout or I’ll I’ll moan about things and I’m doing what I think’s right. And if you don’t like it, see you later. Yeah, for sure. If you do if you do like it, then they’ll follow you. It’s no, it’s just the way it is. And in terms of the goals now for the rest of the season, how are those all looking? I mean, is there now a big exercise of do you have to hit a big reset because you have to build a schedule now around signature events and you know obviously does that now force you into a position where you’ve got to change plans or and within that does that also change how you look at the goals and what you want to achieve? I don’t I mean honestly I don’t set I don’t set like long-term goals. Um, I’m not really a goal setter, but the the schedule changes. Schedule changes quite remarkably. Um, but the goals, I mean, I’ve got week to week goals, just to be honest. It’s more like mental goals to try and stay in the stay in the moment, stay in the fight. Um, I don’t I never set a goal like to win the Canadian Open or to win Zurich or to win the Scottish Open. I don’t set goals like that. I just I set little goals for myself throughout that week that if I do everything right and I do everything as well as I can know if all the car again if the cards fall in the right direction to me then I’ll I’ll win the Canadian Open. Do you know what I mean? It’s not the goal isn’t to win the Canadian Open. The goal is to do all these little things that will reach the reach the top. Um, and the only thing that’s really changing is the schedule. And that’s fine. I’ve I’ve done that my whole kind of five, six years as being a professional golfer. I’ve never really had a set schedule. Everything’s been kind of reactive to to how I play. And this year’s been been no different. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So, it’s like it’s just a case of changing the logistics around, but the inputs and stuff, they all stay the same, right? You know, it’s still a case of working on the game. the outputs work kind of like the you just you know focus on the inputs right am I um I mean look where does this go from here now in terms of who’s on the bag I mean like is Glen Kitchen in the market for a new course manager and what’s happening there you know like what’s going to happen this is like such an insane week what what what does your dad doggy have to say about it um my old man he’s not he’s back he’s back working at Glenin he’s back working at Glen Cutrin today. Um I got one of the boys, one of my mates sent a photo of old man working. I think he was actually soil and seed and teas this morning. Nice. And the okay that I think so. I think so. I mean I’m not up there for dinner tonight but um the caddy said we’re still kind of trying to finish that off and get it across the line and we’ll know in the next day or two obviously for the US Open we get across the line of that. So, we’re just in the process of finishing that off and making sure it’s all right. Yeah. My dad I mean my dad’s one and done. His mic dropped it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it’s like got a great record there. And you know what? What’s what’s you know we push the relationship too far when things aren’t going well anyway, but um that’s insane. And in terms of what what obviously we don’t know who’s going to be on the back, right, at the moment, you know, a week ago it was tough to get someone. I suspect the offers are starting to, you know, that might change a little bit now. You know, there’s obviously I mean, is that a difficult process? Do you know a lot of the other caddies? I mean, how do you actually run that? I’m really curious. I’m not asking you to give anything away, but No, no. Um, you obviously you’re I’ve had a guy in my mind for a we while that I want to carry for me. Um, it’s been difficult cuz he’s Yeah, it’s just difficult. And, um, I thought I might get him. didn’t it didn’t look like we’re getting them. Um, but you then look at guys that are on other bags at the end of the day. You’re almost trying to you’re almost trying to pick the guy that you might not work with before, you might have worked with them before, you try to kind of if you’ve played with them, what they do for their player, what you know, there’s there’s a lot going on. But for me, it’s more personality and how the personality matches up with you. if you get on with them while they’re cing for someone else and you had good chats in the way I’m the course you can have a lot and yeah they got to be good at cing they got to be good when am good at course management and I think I would I had good caddies throughout throughout being a professional and yeah you just you kind of kind of work out who you want and reach out to them and see what they’re saying and then really it’s that simple then it’s not like kind of yeah it’s just someone you gel with at the end of the day exactly and what What’s in the bag? Give us a peek behind the, you know, what’s in the bag. Is there a TSR3 you’re wielding out in the tea? Is that Is that No, a TSR. We’ve got a TSR2 just now. We We had the TSR3. Um, but my spin was my spin was dropping off and I went to went to sling when we got the corner with a draw spin drop. So, yeah, we went TSR2. I’ve been playing the tightest driver for a few years now. went to TSR2 just to give me an extra bit of spin for for when I do go for the the toe the toe draw. Um I’ve then got the CB irons from 4 to 9 iron. Mhm. And then I’ve got the Vocis all my wedges pitching wedge 50° 56 and 60. Um yeah, they’ve been brilliant. I think my my short games. It’s always been pretty good, but um and then I’ve got the I’ve got the just now got the Pro1 ball. I changed from the Pro1X at Myrtle Beach. So, four weeks ago, I changed from the Pro1X to the Pro1. Does that change for you? Like, is that like a I mean, the average punter like me would be really hard to decipher the the difference of feeling. Like, how much feel have you got with what’s happening with that golf ball? And does it does it feel like oh yeah I’m glad we’ve done this you know. Yeah. So I obviously I changed the P1X after the RDER Cup um from playing it from playing the Rder Cup. I seen that a lot of the guys ball was stopping faster than mine or would land and stop next to the holes and I’m like mine’s just running on. We sat with my team and worked out we need to change the ball. I wasn’t under any contract. So I then went to to Liam McDougall at tight list and I was like right Liam I need to change golf ball here. We looked at the track man numbers. We done a lot of detail on my like went through everything. Um the ball I was using to prov 1x dash dots you name it. There’s so many golf balls tight and we worked out that the prov 1x was probably the best for me at that time. I was then struggling. I wasn’t getting enough spin. It was the highest spinning golf ball and I went to hit the draw again with irons. Wasn’t spinning enough. I then took three weeks off. Hardly touched the clubs. came back out with a slight niggle on my shoulder and then I started hitting balls again at Mortal Beach and on a Wednesday afternoon I’m te off at 3:30 in the pro 3:00 I’m like this ball’s spinning way too much the prox I phone Simon my coach I phone Liam I’m like boys this is what’s happening this ball’s spinning way too much it’s a windy week and Liam was like in my head I’m going I’m going to try the prob but how do I get balls if this works out I’ve not got the pro one in my locker it’s Alex’s So I started hitting the P1 on the range within 15 minutes. I was like, “Right, the spin is right. I need to use that.” And luckily one of the reserves for the week was using the Prov V1. And I just he wasn’t going to get in. So I just took his balls from his locker and away we went. Had a good week at Myrtle Beach, the PG, and then obviously the Canadian Open. Unbelievable. Incredible stuff. Well, it caps off a hell of a week and um yeah, I guess I mean any other sort of like nugget really from that week with your dad on the back. I mean I mean how’s that going to rank against you know Rome last year? Like it’s you know which I don’t know like how do you there’s so many big highlights in there, aren’t there? I mean how do how do you put that against Rome? You know it’s different. It’s a different I don’t know if a win will be more any more special than that. the level of golf tournament. I’m hoping to maybe win a major in my career. So the golf tournament might feel different like I mean winning a an open or a a master or a US opener PGA would I mean any of them you’re not fussy I’m not fussy when it comes to that but for a level of just I for for the emotional side of things and the pride and everything I don’t think there’ll be nothing nothing about that. I mean, it was literally like a fairy tale for me. If you could have written a script for that week. That was it. It was perfect. Yeah. Just doesn’t get any better than that, does it? And then you’re going up the golf club tonight for a bit of tea. I’m well up to my mom’s go up to my mom’s for a bit of tea tonight and see the the whole family will be there and many. And yeah, we’ll just chat about life and it’ll just be another to be honest, it’ll just be another tea. Um, I’m sure my my dad will throw in a couple of digs at me saying only reason you won was cuz of me and and stuff. But it’s all it’s all a good laugh and then um we’ll see some of my mates. And then you back out next next weekend to back out to the US again. I back out on Sunday to US Open. So all systems go. I just needed a little reset coming back home and see the loved ones and and then just get back on the horse and go again. Well, I hope you have a great great great time in the rest of your trip in Scotland. I hope you don’t get dragged on to any more ropey podcasts, Bob. You got to just watch out for them. That’s that’s all I’ll say. Um, but look, you know, obviously it goes without saying we’re going to be pulling hard for you the rest of the season and and beyond. It’s um and look, just a huge congratulations. You know, it’s a a you know, epic performance and um and one that felt like it was overdue. So, um huge congratulations and thank you again for joining the podcast. No, thank you very much. Watch this. [Music] No [Music] [Applause] way. You think he doesn’t want to end?
