July 20, 2024 • 9 mins
Rory McIlroy has missed the cut at the final Major of 2024 at Royal Troon in Scotland.
Scott Taylor out of Talksport UK has been there and joined Jason Pine to discuss all the action on cut day
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Here we go offer is Ryan Fox and Daniel Hillier
have sneaked inside the cut line to book their place
in the final two rounds at the Open Championship at
Royal Troon, with the cut ending up at six over par.
Ryan Fox's two over second round left him at four over,
while a late eagle helped Daniel Hillier finish at five over.
Kazumi Kobori finished in agonizing one shot outside the cut mark.
(00:35):
Michael Hendry was three shots further adrift. Just before we
move to the leaders. That eagle by Daniel Hillyer on
sixteen today was one of only two eagles all day.
On the sixteenth Dustin Johnson was the other one. I've
even got the stats here. Dustin Johnson a two hundred
and ninety eight yard drive, a two hundred and sixty
(00:57):
three yard approach and a twenty four foot put. Daniel
Hillier get this, a four hundred and nine yard drive.
Goodness me, a one hundred and fifty one yard approach
and an eleven foot part. So the two eagle makers
on sixteen today at Royal Troon, Dustin Johnson and Daniel
Hilliar it is not bad company. Meantime, a long berdie
(01:19):
put to finish has given Irishman Shane Lowry a two
shot lead after two rounds. The twenty nineteen champions two
under round has taken him to seven under. He is
too clear of the English pair of veteran Justin Rose
and round one leader Dan Brown. Let's bring in Scott
Taylor from talkSPORT, who's covering the Open Championship at Royal Troon.
(01:41):
Scott great to get the chance to check. Do you
tell us first of all about Shane Lowry second round?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, Shane Lowry excellent golf and the conditions at Royal
Trouned today were unlike yesterday. Yesterday was wet and cold,
but today was all about the wind. The mile an
hour of the winds were up to thirty mile an
hour come two or three o'clock in the afternoon. So
on day one we saw people having irons off the
tee on the first for example, today they were using wood,
(02:07):
so just shows you the impact of the wind. And
for Shane Larry to shoot a bogie three sixty nine
was sensational and he's asked every time in these conditions,
do you like playing in them? And don't you prefer
playing in them? But because he's played a lot in Island,
he actually says, well, I live in Florida now, so
these aren't actually my home conditions anymore. But for him
(02:29):
to provide that sort of spectacle in that level of
golf today with sensational given how the rest of the
field and some huge names, no doubt we'll talk about
in a minute, struggled massively and for Shane Larry two
shots off the lead, great position to win a second
Open in five years.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Just ten guys and read numbers after two rounds, which
I actually really like. I don't know about you, Scott,
but this is the kind of golf I love. None
of this, you know, twenty six understuff from the pgaight two.
You see sometimes this is a real taste for the
world's top golfers, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Oh? Absolutely, And that's why I loved even the US
Open Pinehurst. That those conditions were brutal as well. And
it just the motto Truon is about as much as
skill and power as his precision, and that's exactly what
it is. And in linked golfers as well. You need
to be able to hit the ball far, but in
these winds you need to be able to manage the
(03:24):
wind conditions and find the fair ways regularly, and also
read the greens. The greens have been quite difficult to
read for a lot of golfers, having spoke to them
after their rounds. But I think one man who's putted
superbly this week has been Justin Rose. And I'm sure
we've touched on him in a sec but his tee
to green has been fantastic. But on the greens it
saw his putts to bury the eighteenth failure on today
(03:47):
that was sensational. But his putting game all week has
been up there with the very best.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah. So he was three under today, joint bast round
of the day. A few guys shot three. And to
tell us about Justin Rose, is he the one most
likely you think to challenge Shane Lowry over days three
and four?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, Justin Rose. It's a really good, feel good story.
I'm slightly biased because he's actually from the same sort
of area of England as I am, really, so he's
quite a local boy. We both support the same football
team back in the UK, so he's always had a
soft spot for me. But this was a guy who
had to go through the Open qualifying to even reach
Royal Troon last week. So he went to one of
(04:29):
the qualifying events shot eight under part ended up coming
through that to even get to here. And it's quite
admirable that a guy aged forty three is still willing
to put himself through the hard yards to even compete
to Open championships. He's won one major, as you say,
at the US Opening in twenty thirteen, so you're always
seeing Ryder Cuch example Justin Rose as a clutch player.
(04:51):
The big moment Justin Rose turns up and I'd be
delighted to see him win a Cleric jug. There's been
a lot of talk over the past couple of years
in golf about live and perhaps Justin Rose could easily
have been on these players that in his forties now
could have gone to live set up his family for life.
But I think the fact that he still finds it
such an honor to play at major championships is just
(05:14):
a testament to the character of Justin Rose. So I mean,
Shane Larry's a fantastic person off the field as well,
but I'd love to see Justin Rose win a Claric
jug I.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Want to come back to the top of the leader
board in a moment. But you talked about some big
names who won't be there on days three and four.
Rory McElroy, can you what's he living over afterwards? Two
rounds so you know, well outside the cat line, what
happened to Rory.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, it's a very good question. It's the thing with Rory.
He started to turn it on right at the end
of his round. But it's been a theme of Rory McElroy.
When the pressure is not on, he plays really good golf,
but it's too little, too late, and he just his
body language after hitting a few bad shots. It just
didn't look like his week in the build up. But
I spoke to your colleagues as well and he looked
(06:04):
really relaxed in the build up. His press confor says
he was very relapsed. He was having a laugh. He
looked in a really good place. But one of the
things he and many other golfers will have pointed to
that his practice rounds were in very generous weather for
Scotland in July, whereas as soon as championship days come around,
there's swirling wins, there's conditions he's not practiced in before.
(06:27):
So to come up with a strategy sort of ad
hoc really and not go into the Open Championship on
what you plan to play because of the weather conditions
must be hard. But it's not just Rory, and I
think he's going to be given a spotlight given the
profile of player. But we've seen Ludvid Obert, We've seen
Bryson Deschambeau, we've seen Victor Hobland, So it's not just
(06:48):
Rory McRoy who's missed the cut. I think it's just
one of those bad weeks. And unfortunately for him, there's
not a major till the Masters now next year, so
that wait for am Agor will become eleven years.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Let's go back up to the top. We've talked about
Shane Lowry and Justin Rose. Who else is lurking Scott
and could potentially make a run in the third or
fourth round.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, the story for a lot of the people looking
at the leaderboard would look at Dan Brown. You know,
he's Open debut shot sixty five yesterday, not bad for
your first round of Open golf, and he's sort of
an unknown really, But in terms of potentially winning the
Cleric Juggle, Shane Lowry's in a fantastic position, so to
Justin Rose. But for me, Scotty Scheffler yesterday Pray played brilliantly,
(07:34):
shot a seventy one underpass shot of seventy today as well,
but his putting. If you ask someone to lip out
every hole deliberately, Scotty Scheffler didn't really have to look.
It felt like he left a few shots out on
the course, whereas a Shane Lowry or Justin Rose probably
played to their max to get their registered total, whereas
(07:55):
Scheffler you feel left a few puts out there on
round one and still only being five off the lead
with two rounds to play. I know it's very predictable
to say the world number one is doing with a
good shout of winning a major, but Scotty Shepherd's playing
some good golf. Yeah, well they.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
World number one of these players for a reason. What score?
When's this? Scott seven under through two rounds? If Shane
Larry went par par, would seven underwin it? Or would
they need to need to go a bit lower than that?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I think you would go a little bit lower the
conditions tomorrow. It all depends on the conditions. The conditions
tomorrow look a little bit worse than today in terms
of there's a lot of rain about. There's going to
be more swirling wins, so to shoot even parr might
be a good score. We were actually having a chat
with some of the some of the golfers today and
one of the common themes was what would a scratch
(08:44):
golfer get on today's conditions, and a lot of the
pros were saying they probably would just about reach one hundred,
if not very high nineties, which shows you just how
tough it is out there. So I'd like to see
a sort of ten eleven twelve under part win this championship.
As you mentioned earlier, low scoring major is always the
best ones, so tomorrow will be tough and some looks
(09:06):
to be a little bit easier, so I'm looking at
around the sort of eleven twelve ten under part Mark.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Wonderful, Scott, thanks for joining us across New Zealand. Great analysis.
We look forward to seeing how rounds three and four
play out at Royal True thanks for your.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Time anytime, guys. Take care now you.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Take care too, Scott, Thanks indeed, Scott Taylor there from
talkSPORT in the UK. So yes, so Daniel Hillier and
Ryan Fox will play the weekend. Daniel Hillier is five
under the card. He will tee off at nine to
twenty tonight New Zealand time, and Ryan Fox is underweires
I just scroll up at around eleven twenty five he
(09:44):
is four under the card. So the two key wees
involved in the weekend Daniel Hillier and Ryan Fox. Unfortunately
Michael Henry and Kazuma Kabori have missed the cut.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk sed B weekends from midday or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Here we go offer is Ryan Fox and Daniel Hillier
have sneaked inside the cut line to book their place
in the final two rounds at the Open Championship at
Royal Troon, with the cut ending up at six over par.
Ryan Fox's two over second round left him at four over,
while a late eagle helped Daniel Hillier finish at five over.
Kazumi Kobori finished in agonizing one shot outside the cut mark.
(00:35):
Michael Hendry was three shots further adrift. Just before we
move to the leaders. That eagle by Daniel Hillyer on
sixteen today was one of only two eagles all day.
On the sixteenth Dustin Johnson was the other one. I've
even got the stats here. Dustin Johnson a two hundred
and ninety eight yard drive, a two hundred and sixty
(00:57):
three yard approach and a twenty four foot put. Daniel
Hillier get this, a four hundred and nine yard drive.
Goodness me, a one hundred and fifty one yard approach
and an eleven foot part. So the two eagle makers
on sixteen today at Royal Troon, Dustin Johnson and Daniel
Hilliar it is not bad company. Meantime, a long berdie
(01:19):
put to finish has given Irishman Shane Lowry a two
shot lead after two rounds. The twenty nineteen champions two
under round has taken him to seven under. He is
too clear of the English pair of veteran Justin Rose
and round one leader Dan Brown. Let's bring in Scott
Taylor from talkSPORT, who's covering the Open Championship at Royal Troon.
(01:41):
Scott great to get the chance to check. Do you
tell us first of all about Shane Lowry second round?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, Shane Lowry excellent golf and the conditions at Royal
Trouned today were unlike yesterday. Yesterday was wet and cold,
but today was all about the wind. The mile an
hour of the winds were up to thirty mile an
hour come two or three o'clock in the afternoon. So
on day one we saw people having irons off the
tee on the first for example, today they were using wood,
(02:07):
so just shows you the impact of the wind. And
for Shane Larry to shoot a bogie three sixty nine
was sensational and he's asked every time in these conditions,
do you like playing in them? And don't you prefer
playing in them? But because he's played a lot in Island,
he actually says, well, I live in Florida now, so
these aren't actually my home conditions anymore. But for him
(02:29):
to provide that sort of spectacle in that level of
golf today with sensational given how the rest of the
field and some huge names, no doubt we'll talk about
in a minute, struggled massively and for Shane Larry two
shots off the lead, great position to win a second
Open in five years.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Just ten guys and read numbers after two rounds, which
I actually really like. I don't know about you, Scott,
but this is the kind of golf I love. None
of this, you know, twenty six understuff from the pgaight two.
You see sometimes this is a real taste for the
world's top golfers, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Oh? Absolutely, And that's why I loved even the US
Open Pinehurst. That those conditions were brutal as well. And
it just the motto Truon is about as much as
skill and power as his precision, and that's exactly what
it is. And in linked golfers as well. You need
to be able to hit the ball far, but in
these winds you need to be able to manage the
(03:24):
wind conditions and find the fair ways regularly, and also
read the greens. The greens have been quite difficult to
read for a lot of golfers, having spoke to them
after their rounds. But I think one man who's putted
superbly this week has been Justin Rose. And I'm sure
we've touched on him in a sec but his tee
to green has been fantastic. But on the greens it
saw his putts to bury the eighteenth failure on today
(03:47):
that was sensational. But his putting game all week has
been up there with the very best.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah. So he was three under today, joint bast round
of the day. A few guys shot three. And to
tell us about Justin Rose, is he the one most
likely you think to challenge Shane Lowry over days three
and four?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, Justin Rose. It's a really good, feel good story.
I'm slightly biased because he's actually from the same sort
of area of England as I am, really, so he's
quite a local boy. We both support the same football
team back in the UK, so he's always had a
soft spot for me. But this was a guy who
had to go through the Open qualifying to even reach
Royal Troon last week. So he went to one of
(04:29):
the qualifying events shot eight under part ended up coming
through that to even get to here. And it's quite
admirable that a guy aged forty three is still willing
to put himself through the hard yards to even compete
to Open championships. He's won one major, as you say,
at the US Opening in twenty thirteen, so you're always
seeing Ryder Cuch example Justin Rose as a clutch player.
(04:51):
The big moment Justin Rose turns up and I'd be
delighted to see him win a Cleric jug. There's been
a lot of talk over the past couple of years
in golf about live and perhaps Justin Rose could easily
have been on these players that in his forties now
could have gone to live set up his family for life.
But I think the fact that he still finds it
such an honor to play at major championships is just
(05:14):
a testament to the character of Justin Rose. So I mean,
Shane Larry's a fantastic person off the field as well,
but I'd love to see Justin Rose win a Claric
jug I.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Want to come back to the top of the leader
board in a moment. But you talked about some big
names who won't be there on days three and four.
Rory McElroy, can you what's he living over afterwards? Two
rounds so you know, well outside the cat line, what
happened to Rory.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, it's a very good question. It's the thing with Rory.
He started to turn it on right at the end
of his round. But it's been a theme of Rory McElroy.
When the pressure is not on, he plays really good golf,
but it's too little, too late, and he just his
body language after hitting a few bad shots. It just
didn't look like his week in the build up. But
I spoke to your colleagues as well and he looked
(06:04):
really relaxed in the build up. His press confor says
he was very relapsed. He was having a laugh. He
looked in a really good place. But one of the
things he and many other golfers will have pointed to
that his practice rounds were in very generous weather for
Scotland in July, whereas as soon as championship days come around,
there's swirling wins, there's conditions he's not practiced in before.
(06:27):
So to come up with a strategy sort of ad
hoc really and not go into the Open Championship on
what you plan to play because of the weather conditions
must be hard. But it's not just Rory, and I
think he's going to be given a spotlight given the
profile of player. But we've seen Ludvid Obert, We've seen
Bryson Deschambeau, we've seen Victor Hobland, So it's not just
(06:48):
Rory McRoy who's missed the cut. I think it's just
one of those bad weeks. And unfortunately for him, there's
not a major till the Masters now next year, so
that wait for am Agor will become eleven years.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Let's go back up to the top. We've talked about
Shane Lowry and Justin Rose. Who else is lurking Scott
and could potentially make a run in the third or
fourth round.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, the story for a lot of the people looking
at the leaderboard would look at Dan Brown. You know,
he's Open debut shot sixty five yesterday, not bad for
your first round of Open golf, and he's sort of
an unknown really, But in terms of potentially winning the
Cleric Juggle, Shane Lowry's in a fantastic position, so to
Justin Rose. But for me, Scotty Scheffler yesterday Pray played brilliantly,
(07:34):
shot a seventy one underpass shot of seventy today as well,
but his putting. If you ask someone to lip out
every hole deliberately, Scotty Scheffler didn't really have to look.
It felt like he left a few shots out on
the course, whereas a Shane Lowry or Justin Rose probably
played to their max to get their registered total, whereas
(07:55):
Scheffler you feel left a few puts out there on
round one and still only being five off the lead
with two rounds to play. I know it's very predictable
to say the world number one is doing with a
good shout of winning a major, but Scotty Shepherd's playing
some good golf. Yeah, well they.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
World number one of these players for a reason. What score?
When's this? Scott seven under through two rounds? If Shane
Larry went par par, would seven underwin it? Or would
they need to need to go a bit lower than that?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I think you would go a little bit lower the
conditions tomorrow. It all depends on the conditions. The conditions
tomorrow look a little bit worse than today in terms
of there's a lot of rain about. There's going to
be more swirling wins, so to shoot even parr might
be a good score. We were actually having a chat
with some of the some of the golfers today and
one of the common themes was what would a scratch
(08:44):
golfer get on today's conditions, and a lot of the
pros were saying they probably would just about reach one hundred,
if not very high nineties, which shows you just how
tough it is out there. So I'd like to see
a sort of ten eleven twelve under part win this championship.
As you mentioned earlier, low scoring major is always the
best ones, so tomorrow will be tough and some looks
(09:06):
to be a little bit easier, so I'm looking at
around the sort of eleven twelve ten under part Mark.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Wonderful, Scott, thanks for joining us across New Zealand. Great analysis.
We look forward to seeing how rounds three and four
play out at Royal True thanks for your.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Time anytime, guys. Take care now you.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Take care too, Scott, Thanks indeed, Scott Taylor there from
talkSPORT in the UK. So yes, so Daniel Hillier and
Ryan Fox will play the weekend. Daniel Hillier is five
under the card. He will tee off at nine to
twenty tonight New Zealand time, and Ryan Fox is underweires
I just scroll up at around eleven twenty five he
(09:44):
is four under the card. So the two key wees
involved in the weekend Daniel Hillier and Ryan Fox. Unfortunately
Michael Henry and Kazuma Kabori have missed the cut.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk sed B weekends from midday or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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