PGA Championship Recap

It took its sweet, sweet time, but when we got to Sunday afternoon it would appear the second major of the year had started to heat up a little bit… maybe! Can Jon Rahm make the dream come true (no), can Matt Fitzpatrick go on a career defining charge (no), will Scottie grind out a fireworks free win (yes). Let’s all admit it… it wasn’t quite The Masters, but did we enjoy it while it was there (maybe)
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The second major of the year is done and dusted. We take a good look at the USPGA even though we went to bed at about 10:30. Not together. Yeah. Can we can make that very clear actually. Anyone know what happened to John Rom? As we got a couple of tepid takes for you on today’s episode and the versus series is here. Well, it’s happened. We are now halfway through the majors of 2025. What have we learned? What do we know? Not a lot. If you’ve watched or listened to this podcast before, you’ll know that we know absolutely nothing. But nonetheless, welcome along. It’s Golfers Ruining My Life. And Tom Green, take me through your single favorite moment of the USPGA 2025. There must be so many. Yeah. God, the list is really endless, guys. Um I there was a moment last night where I thought, have we been overly harsh here? Have we been the poo pooers of what was a great tournament? And have loads of people been really enjoying it, and we’ve just been the naysayers. But then there was a flurry of messages, Tom. I don’t know whether you got this, but I had a flurry of WhatsApp messages that all landed basically as the back nine got going. And everyone in my in my golf group said the same thing, which was took its time, didn’t it? But here we go. Finally, the tournaments got going and that gave me a bit of reassurance that we weren’t the only ones struggling with uh the second major of the year. But we got there in the end, right? Have you become the central nexus, if that is the word, for all golf WhatsAppappery? Because I have. There are a lot of friends of mine who feel like they need to text me when things happen in the majors. And as a result, and I don’t mind that. I don’t I don’t hate that at all. Uh but as a result, I got a bucketload of messages to which I had to reply to all individually going, “Yeah, well, finally. I I’m not sure Rahm can do it. Yeah, man. Finally. I’m not sure Rom can do it. Yeah, but I don’t think Rahm’s going to do it.” And I was almost literally cutting and pasting um the admin. the admin. Here’s a niche thing. The admin of WhatsApp on a golf major weekend when you’ve got to be firing out the messages going, “Don’t know. Here’s my takes. Here’s my test takes, guys.” I think the thing is with golf, and maybe this um is why people love this podcast so much. We love doing it so much is with football, you could have a pretty in-depth conversation about football with pretty much anyone. I think if they have a bit of knowledge about football, there’s enough to get by. But you just can’t do that with golf. You can’t sidle up to someone at the pub and go, can you believe the domination of Scottish Sheffield at the moment in the majors? Can you believe John Rom’s capitulation? They would just go, “What are you talking about?” So that’s why you have to message golf friends cuz they’re the only ones that get it. I feel like I find myself in conversations trying to think of different ways to bring golf into the conversation to see if other people in that conversation like golf. So I’ll be at some sort of party and I’ll think of a way, you know, like, “Oh, a bit tired today cuz I was up last night. I got I played 36 holes yesterday.” just to see if anyone and often everyone else in the conversation will shrug at me in a slightly aggressive way and go, “Please stop talking about golf.” But all it takes is that one person and then we’re basically married within seconds. Yeah, that’s the rest of the event sorted. I like finding I like sidling up someone at an event that likes golf and go, “Well, there we go. This is brilliant.” I don’t really know the people getting married. I’m sort of a plus one. However, what I do care about is your back swing. So, let’s spend the whole whole even talking about that. Tom, what time did you go to bed last night is my question. I went to bed listening to the coverage on the radio here in the UK at about 11:00. So it was not long after um Johnny Jr. Ram had muffed it all up. Not around then. I think one of as I drifted off to sleep I heard the um commentary of um a man failing which is a lovely really sets you up for a night’s sleep. Um I and I you know I one of the things I really enjoyed about the USPGA was the rough. I thought the rough looked looked deep and thick and and dangerous. And the the problem was that a lot of the times the only time they found the rough was when they were trying to drive a short par four. So you’d go, “Oh my god, they’re they’re in the rough near a green. This is exciting. Can they get up and down?” Well, if they can get up and down, it’s a birdie. And if they can’t, it’s a par anyway. So there was nearly jeopardy there for me. But in the end, it it it was nothing much really. I I’ve got to be very clear. I didn’t hate the drivable par4 as much as you did. I don’t think you should do it in a major. I don’t think you can have a drivable par 44 in a major. There’s my typ take for today. It doesn’t bother me at all. I think it’s I think it’s a little bit exciting. I think it’s a little bit fun. It just it’s it’s a little bit of will they go for it? There’s water up there. But that’s the point. There is no will they go for it. They all go for it. It’s like a par three to them. No one I didn’t see a single player get on the drivable par four and go five iron for this guy. They all went for it. No, but they didn’t all make it though, did they? It did. They didn’t all land on the green which um made it a little bit more exciting. I having watched it sporadically on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, I found myself on Sunday watching actually quite a lot of it and I felt bad about some of our takes because I did come to love the green m a little bit. I did think it was a really good stretch of golf. I thought it was really interesting. I thought it was really hard. um 17 looks beautiful on the on cameras and I thought maybe why have I struggled so much with it and I think if the golf had been really good if we hadn’t had a pretty dire leaderboard on Thursday and Friday poor Johnny Vegas that’s no about Johnny Vegas I need my superstars I need the poster boys playing um I think maybe we would have found it better I don’t think I don’t think it’s Quail Hollow’s fault no that’s what I feel that’s what I feel after watching the golf yesterday. I think we’ve disc, you know, we’ve discussed this over the weekend. If you’ve been listening to our extra episodes over the weekend, God help you, frankly. Um, but if you’re just jumping in for your regular Monday golf is ruining my life, the thing we’ve said is basically it’s just another it’s just the same old same old. It’s another weekend of um big green uh beautiful looking, but the same format and and we desperately need to change up the format for that second major. Don’t forget, Tom, the USPGA used to be in August. So, it was only a couple of years ago that they moved it, which made sense, I suppose. Although, I do think it’s a shame because then, apart from the Rider Cup, the golf season really kind of is quite a short sharp season really. It’s only really April to July really when it comes to it. Yeah. Which is which is sad. And we’ve had a few emails of people saying that as well, saying that they wish the the majors have extended a little bit more. And I agree with that. I I’d happily have them go into August and September. Um, but this is where you’ve got to find those um big events that you like talking about later in the season. Whether it’s the BMW that always comes in September, that’s always quite exciting. Obviously, this is a Ryder Cup year at Beth Page Black this year, which is going to be mega. So, there is loads to look forward to. Tom, I think John Ram is really going to struggle to recover from what happened over those final three holes. I I’ve got I put my hands up. I went to bed. Oh, yeah. I don’t know what happened over the last three hours. I went to bed. Um I I just just We’re always on open and honest on this show. I ran a half marathon yesterday. It made me feel very weird and quite tired obviously as you’d expect. Um can I just say I saw a picture of you after the half marathon having an incredibly um it it the Lucas Aid you had was in a pint glass and it wasn’t quite the same color as a normal Lucasade. Yeah, it’s big pint of Lucasade. I had a few pints of Lucas a yesterday and then got stuck in the West Ham traffic trying to get out of Westfield for 2 and a half hours which was good and fine and I’m glad we did that. Um yeah, it was bad. It was really bad. Uh so I went to bed with very tired legs at 9:00 p.m. and really had a lovely time in the in bed watching golf on my phone, which I actually really like on the Little Sky Go app. And then at about half 10 when it was still quite exciting to be honest, I just said I can’t do this. I need to sleep. Um, and checking out some of the videos this morning. What happened to John during the green mile? That I think his scars cuz what was it? Double double bogey. Yeah, he disappeared. That’s the thing I couldn’t understand when I woke up this morning and I knew that he was starting to stuff up when I went to sleep and I thought I’d find him second or third, but he the green mile absolutely absolutely destroyed him. Um, and that is cuz he wasn’t even in the mix that much anyway to be honest. He was only he was still one or two shots off anyway going into the green mile as I understand it. Yeah, but he was second though going he was second for a lot of the stuff. Yeah, but he wasn’t it didn’t Scotty would have to majorly drop a ball and he would have to go after it to win which is still which again because of the Green Mile was totally possible even though Scotty shot one under or two under over the Green Mile on Saturday. Um, the the the thing that strikes me again, I’m gonna have to say it is, and this is I don’t think there’s much counter to this argument. I’d be amazed if people have a different take on this, and if you do have a different take, let me know. John Ram got himself in the mix at the USPGA. He is not golf fit enough to stay there or thereabouts right the way to the end because he is playing on a tour that only plays three days a week and does not have a cut. There is no denying that. If you are wanting to play to the highest highest highest possible level, you need to be playing week in week out with a cut four days a week with the best players in the world. And he’s not doing that. And you cannot deny for me Tom that his move to live would have been part of him not having the golf fitness to take him over the finishing line much closer than he should have been. So the qu the questions that instant come to my mind at that point then are do we think let’s take that argument and look at Bryson. If Bryson hadn’t gone to live do you think he would be the best golfer in the world? Oh that’s a great question. I think I think he is in the top for me he’s in the top three. For me at the moment it’s Rory Scotty and Bryson. And I think he would be pushing Rory and Scotty. Yes, I do. And and again, let’s look at Bryson at the Masters. He totally fell apart on the last day. Obviously, last day fall aparts happen. They always happen. But you can see a pattern. If you look, these live golfers, these incredible golfers come along and they they’re not used to playing four days. It would be the same in athletics if you know on a tour they went and did 18 mile marathons and then for the Olympics they turned up to do a 26 mile marathon. It is for me it’s the same thing. Yeah, I know. I I understand that. I do understand that. And it was difficult to watch John yesterday because he’s a golfer I really like. And the sevi comparisons are there. He’s European. I mean the semi comparisons are there cuz he’s Spanish of course. Yeah. But but then also he’s won the Masters and that was Seby’s favorite major. And I like the Sevi comparisons. I think they’re I think they’re quite nice and I know he certainly likes the comparisons. Um, yeah, I I thought it was quite sad to watch him struggle yesterday at times. I really wanted him to I really wanted him to take Sheffler to a playoff or something. Um, my question is, do we think that we’re just suffering from a mast’s hangover? Do we think it was a bad major or do we just think it was impossible to follow what happened with Rory? It wasn’t a bad major. It wasn’t a great major. It wasn’t a great major for me and I, you know, I look forward to the US Open and I really hope they make it as hard as possible and I always look forward to the open. That for me the open is the open is up there with the Masters. I I I know you’re much more of a Masters guy, but for me, especially someone like Port Rush and a proper Lynx Challenge, the Open can be amazing. Um, I think that uh it was a it was a great tournament. I think watching John Rom fall apart was was sad. mainly because John Rom’s got such a sort of lovely, you know, he’s got lovely eyes. Lovely short back swing. You can have a short back swing. Thank you. Um short but powerful back swing. Doesn’t need to go all the way back, mate. That’s all I’m saying. Doesn’t need to. As Rory said, he’s 6’5. Why would he? But he did look he looked very sad. And you’re right. There is something in that. But you know, it it sums it up perfectly. John Ram was only only appeared towards the end of the tournament. he was sort of there or thereabouts and suddenly he and a tournament with a really strong narrative thread you’d have had like we had at the Masters Rahm makes a big start, Scotty makes a big start and they’re both there tustling and we’re looking for them and they end up playing together because that’s always a sign of a great tournament. You know, you want a good you want good pairings on the last day like Bryson and Rory at the Masters. We didn’t really get that and that that story just wasn’t there. And is that the fault of the course? Nah, probably not. It’s just it’s just the way the the cookie way goes, right? I think I think I think it’s just the way it goes because I do regret slagging off Quail Hollow so much on Wednesday on Thursday and Friday cuz I watched I think you were just tired mate. I I think you were hangry at the time. I think I was hungry. I was I was hungry and I was also I was yearning for a better leaderboard I think is and I was and I took it out on Quail Hollow and that’s not fair. Um but watching seeing the Green Mau yesterday um it was really spectacular. It was really really really great. And I do you know what Tom and I know he’s a friend of the show so I’m obviously gonna say this. I just want to give a little minute to say how great Nick Doy is on Sky Sports. Very very good. He’s so good. I get a little bit sad when he switches out for someone someone else. I’m like oh Nick don’t leave. It’s like prime time when you’re on. I love all the team at Sky Sports but I think for me Henny and Nick are Henny’s is a brilliant commentator. Henny often does the bit in the studio where she’s got all the green screen stuff around her. She’s a fantastic commentator. I think she’s really really she gets it spot on. She’s got just the right tone. She’s got great knowledge. Nick is is really got that thing at the moment where great commentators take a long time to to percolate and become themselves. It can take them a decade of just commentating constantly and being a pundit. But Nick on the mic now is just he sounds so he sounds so at ease when he’s doing it and and loads of personality I think comes across as well which is really needed especially during a tournament like we just had. need someone to be having a little bit of fun with it and that does come across. Yeah, definitely having fun but also making sure that the story of the tournament sort of is unfolding for you. Yeah. No, I think it’s brilliant. I think I think you know the Sky Sports coverage is is second to none. It really is absolutely fantastic. Do we think that’s what if we were to sum up why we struggled with this major and I think you’ve just said it there is we just had a lack of story. There just wasn’t a great story. There wasn’t a great battle. There wasn’t a there wasn’t a block party. There wasn’t a Sheffler domination. There wasn’t two people going headtohead. Fitzpatrick’s having a Oh no, he’s gone. Oh my god, Holland’s there or there. Oh no, he’s gone. That kept happening. Oh, it was like it was like a series of fireworks that didn’t quite ignite. Yeah. And then there’s this one solid furnace that just got hotter and hotter. And that’s Scotty Sheffller. And fair play to him. He’s incredible. There was a moment though, wasn’t there, when we were texting where it looked like he was struggling. There was a moment. There was about three holes where we thought, “Oh, he’s not on fire here. This is where he’s going to let someone in.” And then he I think he sunk a semilong parut, which felt a bit clutch. And then from that point, it was bang, he’s back. Yeah. But again, that that sto there’s there was a series of misfired stories that Scotty might might have a big wobble and Rahm might have a big surge. Oh, and no, it’s gone. That that just happened the whole time. But listen, we got to spend the weekend watching Nice Golf and talking to you lot, so it wasn’t all bad. Tom, I’d like some products. Can we sort of bathe in some products? Should we have a stop? Should we do it? I’ve been waiting 15 minutes for this. Let’s get them on now, please. Finally. Hello. Welcome back. It’s golfers ruining my life. It is Monday’s episode. Um Tom Green, uh the USPGA is done, but let let’s try and just sort of just finally a final word on this. We should try and draw on some of the the stories that we did like or some of the people that we enjoyed seeing. For me, seeing old Sketchers boy Fitzy um playing well. Yeah. Hey, Sketchers. Um was really nice. I liked seeing him playing well. Um I wish he’d he swing is almost as quick as yours at the moment. Yeah, I am going to work. Okay, fact. Side note, little sidebar here on my swing and on our swings. The Scottish adventure video is now online. So, if you want to go and watch that, that is now the first episode, which is the front nine at St. Andrews, the Jubilee course. We put so much time into trying to make this quite special and we’ve tried to keep it fast and pacey, so you could watch it almost in your lunch break or whatever today. Um, please go and watch it. Let us know any feedback that we we are like a team here, you know? We want to know what you think of it and what you think we could improve on, what we could change or whatever. Yeah, Tom, I’m going to work so hard on slowing my swing down. for the for next time we film. It was so fast. I’ve started I was watching a video of Nick Doy yesterday watching his swing. I sat stood in the kitchen going, “Okay, this is how it’ feel to be at that pace.” Yes. Okay, that feels slow. Let’s try that. Oh my god, that’s such a good idea. But that’s the big that was the big takeaway when we watched a tournament a couple of years ago. Both you and I were noticing how no matter how different pro swings are and look, the rhythm is almost always the same. Bum bum bum bum bum. Like it’s one, two, three, four. Hit. Uh, but for me and you, it’s one, one. Yeah. Over. Get this thing over. It is, the less chance I have to muff it up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I saw some of the comments already being like, could these guys hold their poses, hold their finishes a bit more? It’s cuz I’m so nervous about where the ball’s going to go. Yeah. Well, we were nervous. We were nervous for that first day as well. So, yeah, forgive us that a little bit. There is quite a lot of quick sort of marching on with it because we were quite um fired up. I think it’s fair to say. I think we might have had a bit of a Red Bull. Um but it’s um it was a it’s a good nine for for both of us. Uh and the series gets better and better definitely. So if you haven’t checked it out, go and have a look. Um and my and equally it’s the same old same old, isn’t it? You you think your swing is quick and I just look at my swing and think it would be a great swing if I could finish it like oh my god. But I know why I know now what I’ve been doing. So, of course, I’ve now, you know, I feel like I’ve fixed that, but I’ve just got to watch the video of it, and that’s quite painful. There’s so much more to come from this over this versus series, and it will grow and grow over the summer because we’ve got Hold on, Tom. He’s going to sneeze. I think Tom Green’s going to see. Yeah. What’s happened there is he’s allergic to um back swing. Yeah. Yeah. He’s he’s allergic. He’s allergic to watching videos of his own swing. That’s the problem. That actually that sneezes and horrible sneezes how quick Tom Green’s swing is. If that helps. Um there really are many different stories across the Scottish stuff cuz there’s the St. Andrews which is just getting used to it. We were all quite nervous. We’d never filmed a big course like that. The microphones didn’t work. The really expensive microphones that we spent a lot of money on. We basically spent all of our Tik Tok cash on some microphones and it didn’t work. Okay, let’s peel the curtain back slightly on that. So that’s why it’s quite fast this first edit is because we’ve had to cut out so much stuff because the microphones were and it was it was like a signal issue. We won’t I mean we don’t need to go into those details but by the time we get to Cray which is the next video those issues have gone. We’ve got Boogie Cam. We’re getting used to it a bit more. So that’s the whole Crayle thing which is really interesting and that course just looks spectacular. And then we’ve got Renaissance with the Caddies and that’s a whole other thing. So, there really is a story we’re going to go on over these videos and yeah, the first one’s out right now if you want to go and check it out. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Um, so anyway, very quick like final words on the USPG and then I want to talk to you about my range session yesterday. Is that okay? Sure. Sure. Sure. Sure. Sure. Um, so people people it was good to see not necessarily in the mix but playing well. So for a bit Havland was there or thereabouts and that was that was nice. I liked seeing Hoffland back again. Um, also as we said, uh, Fitzpatrick, but worrying for me how bad Rory did in the end, uh, how bad Justin Thomas did in the end, Max Homer completely disappeared. Like, I wonder, is there some lowkey changing of the guard that’s going to happen? Are we going to see some new names bubble through? Is it time for people like Pench to come on through and start to become regular names? Like, is are we at that Morawa completely disappeared? Like, a lot of people really disappeared in this tournament. It’s weird, isn’t it? Because we’ve said on this show quite a lot that we’ve not had a domination of this sport. We’ve not had a tiger domination for such a long time. And he was in a very special part of golf where he got really fit. He did things that made golf. He bended golf to his will, right? In a way that I don’t think he really can so much anymore. Yeah. Uh, what did I say? He’s bended. Thank you. Next time. He’s far more intelligent than I am. But we all know that. Um that’s not true. The the the the thing is that we’ve not had a domination, right? Yeah. And you can see that it’s not going to happen with Rory if we’re honest. The only person that might do it is Scotty. And yeah, he’s not on that sort of tiger level of winning everything, but you can’t discount him in any tournament. And I’d say he’s the only golfer now that you can actually say that because you can’t say that to Rory because look what’s just happened. Yeah, I think you’re absolutely right. It’s an incredible thing to like and obviously and that’s not really a slight on Rory or any of the names I’ve just mentioned. That’s not me saying they’re not that good. That’s obviously a stupid dumb thing to say. That’s more saying my god, Scotty is is really up there. He’s really up there. The way that he’s always there, the way that he and it has been there for a couple of years. Um here’s an interesting fact about Scotty which I was surprised about. In fact, I Googled it. First thing I did when I woke up this morning was I googled how old is Scotty Sheffller because he’s much older than I thought he was. Oh, this is a great question. Uh, how old is Scotty Sheffller? How old is Scotty Sheffller? Come on. Don’t Don’t you than me. I know he’s younger than me. He’s young. He’s also younger than me. Weirdly. Yeah. Go on. But I would say not as not much younger than me, but I still would say he’s in his 20ies. 28. 28. Oh my god. On the nose. Tom Green. Congratulations. That’s a birdie for you. um because I felt like he was much younger. I felt like he appeared out of college only a couple of years ago and in my head he was about 24 even though he looks like he’s about 35 because he’s so big. Um but yeah, he’s he’s he’s getting into the golden age now. You know, you will get an explosively good player who comes out the blocks who’s 23 24. Uh but Scotty getting to 28 is is another reason for the rest of the field to worry because that age you’ve then got experience. Not only have you still got youthful vigor, but you’ve got experience. So Scotty for the next four or five or even more years is going to dominate and and he now actually Tom could be on for a career grand slam this year. He’s only got to win two more majors this year and that’s a career grand slam. So look, it’s right there. Yeah, there it is. There it is. Uh speed obviously not doing it this time round. Shock horror. Uh Mickelson not doing it this time around. Shock horror didn’t happen. Neither of them are going to do it. Neither of them are going to get a career grand slam. No. Um, yeah, Scotty is Scotty fact. Scotty is absolutely gonna get it. Scotty is going to, isn’t he? In the next in the next two or three years, he’s going to get it. I can’t think of another golfer who dominates like he does in my time of watching golf. It’s just the way that he appears every week. You stick it on, you’re like, “Yep, Scotty’s there or thereabouts.” You know, Cha had an incredible run last year, but nowhere near what what Sheffller does. Um, and yeah, he’s like a little spider, isn’t he? Creeping. If he’s not in the lead, he’s always there. He’s always top 20 and then he just crawls his way up over the tournament and then, okay, he’s got you. He’s got it. And and and that is um in a way that’s what Rory was on his way to doing. Rory suddenly there was a moment Rory had was something like three over his for his round, I believe, on day two maybe, or maybe day three, no, day two, and it looked like, oh, he’s on he’s on one under now. And the leaders by that point were on six or seven under, but it was a frail Friday six or seven under. It was Johnny Vegas six or seven under. That’s a different six or seven under to a Scotty Sheffller who was nowhere near at that stage. So Rory, you know, was one under within a couple shots of Scotty who went on to win. And Rory was doing that thing that the great dol slowly slowly slowly here he comes. Here he comes. and then doink gone and you know messed up bogeies ends up one over just makes the cut and then fails to do anything for the rest of the weekend. Um and that is just it show that’s so hard. I mean, God, to be that good that you get to one under and you can then think, right, I’m back in this tournament now and and stay there like that is that is a psychological uh uh herculean effort for me that they’re all amazing physically. They’re all amazing. It’s psychological. So, there we go. The second major of the year is done. We’ve got the US Open to look forward to, the open championship to look forward to. It’s not over yet. We’ve got the BMW. We’ve got the RDER Cup. We’ve got and we’ll be really into this this year cuz we played it and there is so many great things to shout about now. We’ve been there. We will be into the Genesis Scottish Open at the Renaissance course this year because we’ve played it and it’s amazing and there’s so many great things to talk about with Bob McIntyre sort of holding can he go and do what he did last year there. Um so that’s going on. The Versus series is online so go and check that out. And Tom you’ve been to the range. I went to the range yesterday. Yeah. All the good things. It really is. So, my sons had a golf lesson yesterday and um it was a two-hour session with a bunch of juniors and they loved it and it was at a club where they also happened to have a driving range and I happened to have you wouldn’t believe this Tom my clubs in the car and so I realized I had a 2hour window where I could hit balls. I got 150 balls and I just Okay. And I levels of commitment and at the beginning of this session I’ve I feel like my swing is in such good shape um because I’ve been hitting this baby draw all of a sudden because I’m just cranking the wrists up at the top of my back swing and really getting parallel with the ground. And um so I started doing that fade. Okay, no worries. I’ll do it again. Fade. Okay, that’s fine. I’ll do it again. Fade. No, that’s weird. That’s outright slice. Okay, weird. Block banana slice. Fine. Okay. Fade, fade, slice, slice, slice, slice. And I was insensed. Just everything I My short irons are fine. My short irons, I control it. And I I’m I love hitting my short irons, but as soon as I get to my six, my five. Yeah. The five iron especially. I spent most of my time on the five iron hitting this fade. And I can’t I and I tried everything and I ended up falling into a web of thoughts and ball placement and hand movements and it was a mess. And I just wonder and by the end it was good though. I felt like I I felt like I really cracked something and I I really slowed it down and I slowed the arms down because I think my arms were getting there too soon. Hence why I’m cutting across the path. Yeah, but I I I’m interested in that discussion about going to the range and how going to the range can be detrimental sometimes because you can just have a bit of a nervy be. Yeah. I I think also with that, it’s also when you try and fix your own problems with absolutely no knowledge of how to fix those problems, that’s the disaster. Yeah, cuz I’ve done that. I remember try I used to hit I still hit a bit of a slice with driver and I got I got in my head like a weird hack to try and get around it and now I know what I’m doing wrong. That hack was in no way helping. In some ways, it was actually making it worse. I think if you’ve got something going wrong, whether it’s a slice and it’s consistent, you don’t know what’s going on, just book a lesson. Book a lesson. They’ll have a look at have a look at what’s going on and they’ll go, “Okay, just change that.” And it’s I’ve never been able to hit since I started playing golf in sort of TG 2.0 5 years ago. Never been able to hit a draw with driver. And then I had a lesson and he said, “Keep that trail foot on the ground and drop your hands a bit and then I’m hitting draws.” And it was so simple. That’s really nice, isn’t it? When that happens. Yeah, that is so nice. Thing is, as well, I should say that that the fade was a baby fade. Like it was just a bit of shape. So that’s fine. Like like Oh, fine. Yeah. No, no, no. It wasn’t I wasn’t slicing everything. I was thinking the old slice, but it was all it was all Yeah. But and yet I still picked at it, which is annoying. You know what I mean? It’s that thing of sometimes you could you should accept your shape. And for some reason, I find it hard to accept my fade cuz I was saying it beautifully, but I’ve just it’s that weird thing of being annoyed with what you do on the course. And you shouldn’t. You should just be like, “No, that’s that’s your shot. So, play that shot and off you go. Have a lovely day.” And I would say we’re all here at the level of golf where that shot shape’s going to change daytoday. I would say with definitely with irons. I It doesn’t for me with driver. I I never go, “Okay, all of a sudden I’m hitting high draws.” No, that doesn’t happen. Like I I’ve always hit fades or a slice and I’ve changed something in my golf that’s now trying to hit it straighter with maybe maybe a little bit of draw or at least trying to draw. I would never go to the golf course and go, “Oh, I’m hitting a hitting a draw today out of nowhere.” Does that make sense? Whereas I think you can do that with irons a little bit. You can go, “Okay, it appears to be I’m just losing it left a little bit today. I don’t know why, but let’s just play it.” Yeah, it’s true. It’s true. It’s true. But I would say the takeaway was I’m still I’m hitting these pings so beautifully. The G440 um 4 hybrid is unbelievable. I hit it one 90 to 200 and it’s probably one I it that and the sevenwood are basically having an ongoing argument in my bag as to as to which is my favorite club. But I I I think yeah, they’re just amazing clubs. They’re so nice. I totally agree with that logic. And if there is one thing to take from us um having pings in the bag at the moment um you if you don’t want to do the full Gainesburgh experience which I understand because it’s probably very expensive to get a full bag you know irons woods putters all that sort of stuff if you are struggling with length go and do the woods fitting the G440 woods fitting because it has changed my golf well I played in the um the Thursday Eclectic last week basically didn’t get the driver out hit forward off every single tea And it is so nice to stand on tea and go, “Well, this is going to be in the middle of the fairway.” Yeah, cuz then you’re in the game, man. You’re in the game. Um, you’re in the game. Uh, all right. Listen, we got to finish here. Uh, thank you so much for, uh, listening and, uh, watching if you’re with us on YouTube. Uh, so don’t forget, head over to YouTube. There’s a link in the episode description for our first versus episode up at St. Andrews. 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