August 24, 2024 • 8 mins
Over in Europe, Kiwi golfer Lydia Ko is in a tie for 4th heading into the final round of the Women's Open at St Andrews.
Ko's just finished a one-under round to be four under for the tournament, just three shots behind the leader.
Former pro golfer Phil Tataurangi joins Piney to discuss Lydia Ko's performance.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from News talk edb U.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Jillingng Golf for Lydia co and a tie for fourth
after three rounds at the Women's Open Championship at the
Old Course at Saint Andrews.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Who's Lydia to own the hawk down the hill and
eat in going to be swinging a little bit from
left to eight.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
She got enough spit to keep the lane great.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Try there.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
That was a beautiful effort. It's going to be a
round of seventy one for Lydia Coe who's been basking
in the European summer. She'll have another chance to do
so tomorrow. It will be right in the thick of
it come Sunday in the final round here of the
AIG Women's Open.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, I wanted to past seventy one and a third
round four under for the tournament, just three shots behind
the leader. Let's bring and form a pro golfer and
astute analyst of the game, filled tart Angie Phil. Any
player would take three back from the leader heading into
the final round of a major, wouldn't they?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
And at the Old Course to boot after the season
that she's had Piney. It's shaping up to be quite
a Sunday for her over there on Monday morning for
golf fans back here any.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I mean, you look at the what she's done, seventy one,
seventy seventy one. Is it likely she'll have to shoot
in the sixties to win it?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I'm thinking so, Although just had a quick sneak peek
at the wonderful cast of Saint Andrew's and they're expecting
some more breezy conditions tomorrow when it's gusting up to
thirty kilometers an hour. So you know, it's a storied
old course and it's been just wonderful watching the woman
play at the last couple of days because they're playing
(01:43):
the game of which the golf course was designed to
be played on. The men, of course, you know, annihilated
a little bit and it takes the conditions and a
little bit of trickery with pin placements to I guess
equal a challenge against the best of the men's game.
But the woman seem to play the ground game really well.
They get the bouncers, they're playing the proper shots, they're
(02:03):
playing the right distances into the green. So it's not
good having up a lot of birdies. I've noticed that
she hasn't made the whole heaven mistakes. I've made five
bogues over the first three days. And I guess the
hole that she needs to get through Piney when looking
at a schoolcard, is the eleventh hole that you eat
in the par three. If she can get through there
with par, which she hasn't done the last few days,
(02:24):
she'll be making some ground on the field. So hey, look,
it may well just being steady as you go might
well be enough. But my suspicion is that at the
moment she's three backs, seven unders leading, seven under, eighth
under might well be good enough to win. So that
takes three or four under for her tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
What's the best strategy to making par on eleven?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, look, find in the middle of the green. Really,
it's surrounded by Bunker's elevated green, really breezy conditions, and
you know it's all about sub selection too. The green's
pretty shallow there, and so hey, look, it's a quirky
golf course, the old course. It's basically the Mona Lisa
in golf course architecture terms, and it's probably the course
(03:09):
that most people are familiar with whether their golf fans
are non golf fans. The old course at Saint Andrews
is kind of where championship golf all got started way
back in the day, and so hey, look at there's
only two par fives out there, there's only two par threes,
and so there's a lot of a lot of iron
shots where you've got to be precise with at your distance.
(03:30):
She's had a lot of greens in regulation in the
last couple of days, which is what she can do
with those oversized double greens out there. But she's just
got to knock down a couple more parts, that's all.
It probably takes tomorrow to find the South with the
woman's version of the cleric joke in her hands at
the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I guess I wouldn't ready apply to Lydia Coch she's
been around for a long time, but would slightly less
experienced golfers find playing the old courses and Andrews in
any way daunting?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Maybe? So, I mean, there's so much history there. And
what's been great about the LPG and the women's game
in the last few years, Pinte is that they've been
going to some of these venues that have typically been
kind of locked away just for the men's game, but
the women have been now playing there and it's great
to see the contrast between the two styles of game.
(04:22):
But more than anything, it's about putting the woman's game
on the pedestal. And so although some of the lesser
experienced players may not have played the Old Course as
often as the old hands, it's about skill execution when
it comes down down to the end of the day
and when it comes down the back nine and watching
(04:43):
the last couple of days have been inexperienced and experienced
players that have had the courage to play shots that
they not used to playing week in week out on
the LPGA two and being able to put off. So
it's going to take creativity, it's going to take courage.
It's going to take a little bit of thinking out
of the box, especially if the winds get up, and
(05:04):
with the road hole an the penultimate hole of the
Championship being one of those mightily difficult power fours, playing
over the corner of the Old Course Hotel with the
T shirt, it's going to take her and the full
mixed bag, all of the tracks really to get the
job done.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Nellie Carter was the pre tournament favorite and justified that
back to back sixty eight in her first two rounds,
but then a seventy five in her third round. Five bogies,
a double bogie and four birdies. What do we take
from an up and down round like that.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Yeah, I think she's the one that's got the firepower,
I think in the woman's game. And so from what
I saw, I didn't watch stay up and watch it
all last night, but I watched a few of the
highlights this morning, and she looked like she had a
cold putter as well. Yesterday hit one out of bounds
on sixteen, and so you know, the old course possibly
(05:54):
just got a couple of back on her. She hung
in there to give us Ouf a shot tomorrow. And
she's in the second last group, Lidia in the third
to last group, so by no means shot us South
out of it. But look, the old Course giveth and
it taketh away, and so you know, it's about respect,
and at times it seems like she got a little
(06:17):
tripped up and managed to salvage around where it could
have got away with her and completely she's going for
a little bit of history herself tomorrow. I think it's
been over fifty years since someone's won seven times in
the season on the old PGA Tour, and so accord,
she's been the player of this season thus far. Can
(06:37):
she cap it off with a last major of the season.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Incredible form she's in. And just on Lydia, how much
did you enjoy watching her win gold in Paris?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, hey, look at there were a lot of late nights.
Way of listening to you, there are a lot of
late nights, and that one was a particularly late light
for me. He was so much on the line, you know,
not not just a gold medal. And for a lot
of the other athletes at the at the Olympics, it
was all about the gold medal. For Lydia, there was
other things on the line, personal achievements and keeping it
(07:09):
off with being inducted into the Woman's LPGA, all the
fame she would always already be in the World Golf
Hall of Fame. It's just a matter of time for
that to be should be awarded that on her and
joining Sabob Charles in that prodigious, prodigious group of people
that have been awarded that on her. But it's capping
(07:33):
the career and watching her coming down the stretch was
just like any other athlete, rounding the last corner and
coming down the final straight. You can see the mental
anguish that was going on inside of her. It would
be great to get her quietly, just sitting around the
table and talking her through but avoiding mistakes, knowing that
(07:55):
it was hers to lose. And she managed to hold
on and you know, put a full stop, an exclamation point,
you know, a big underline on her career, all at Parentsville,
and that one achievement was something really special to watch.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Certainly was love chatting golf with you, Phil, Thanks for
your time, mate, Thanks planning, Thanks very much, No, thank you, Phil,
Phil Todd only there ahead of the fourth and final
round of the Women's Open Championship. Lidi, your co is
just three shots back from the lead in a tie
for fourth, So looking forward to seeing how she goes
overnight tonight, maybe she wins that major for the first time.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to news Talk zed B weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from News talk edb U.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Jillingng Golf for Lydia co and a tie for fourth
after three rounds at the Women's Open Championship at the
Old Course at Saint Andrews.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Who's Lydia to own the hawk down the hill and
eat in going to be swinging a little bit from
left to eight.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
She got enough spit to keep the lane great.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Try there.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
That was a beautiful effort. It's going to be a
round of seventy one for Lydia Coe who's been basking
in the European summer. She'll have another chance to do
so tomorrow. It will be right in the thick of
it come Sunday in the final round here of the
AIG Women's Open.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, I wanted to past seventy one and a third
round four under for the tournament, just three shots behind
the leader. Let's bring and form a pro golfer and
astute analyst of the game, filled tart Angie Phil. Any
player would take three back from the leader heading into
the final round of a major, wouldn't they?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
And at the Old Course to boot after the season
that she's had Piney. It's shaping up to be quite
a Sunday for her over there on Monday morning for
golf fans back here any.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I mean, you look at the what she's done, seventy one,
seventy seventy one. Is it likely she'll have to shoot
in the sixties to win it?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I'm thinking so, Although just had a quick sneak peek
at the wonderful cast of Saint Andrew's and they're expecting
some more breezy conditions tomorrow when it's gusting up to
thirty kilometers an hour. So you know, it's a storied
old course and it's been just wonderful watching the woman
play at the last couple of days because they're playing
(01:43):
the game of which the golf course was designed to
be played on. The men, of course, you know, annihilated
a little bit and it takes the conditions and a
little bit of trickery with pin placements to I guess
equal a challenge against the best of the men's game.
But the woman seem to play the ground game really well.
They get the bouncers, they're playing the proper shots, they're
(02:03):
playing the right distances into the green. So it's not
good having up a lot of birdies. I've noticed that
she hasn't made the whole heaven mistakes. I've made five
bogues over the first three days. And I guess the
hole that she needs to get through Piney when looking
at a schoolcard, is the eleventh hole that you eat
in the par three. If she can get through there
with par, which she hasn't done the last few days,
(02:24):
she'll be making some ground on the field. So hey, look,
it may well just being steady as you go might
well be enough. But my suspicion is that at the
moment she's three backs, seven unders leading, seven under, eighth
under might well be good enough to win. So that
takes three or four under for her tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
What's the best strategy to making par on eleven?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, look, find in the middle of the green. Really,
it's surrounded by Bunker's elevated green, really breezy conditions, and
you know it's all about sub selection too. The green's
pretty shallow there, and so hey, look, it's a quirky
golf course, the old course. It's basically the Mona Lisa
in golf course architecture terms, and it's probably the course
(03:09):
that most people are familiar with whether their golf fans
are non golf fans. The old course at Saint Andrews
is kind of where championship golf all got started way
back in the day, and so hey, look at there's
only two par fives out there, there's only two par threes,
and so there's a lot of a lot of iron
shots where you've got to be precise with at your distance.
(03:30):
She's had a lot of greens in regulation in the
last couple of days, which is what she can do
with those oversized double greens out there. But she's just
got to knock down a couple more parts, that's all.
It probably takes tomorrow to find the South with the
woman's version of the cleric joke in her hands at
the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I guess I wouldn't ready apply to Lydia Coch she's
been around for a long time, but would slightly less
experienced golfers find playing the old courses and Andrews in
any way daunting?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Maybe? So, I mean, there's so much history there. And
what's been great about the LPG and the women's game
in the last few years, Pinte is that they've been
going to some of these venues that have typically been
kind of locked away just for the men's game, but
the women have been now playing there and it's great
to see the contrast between the two styles of game.
(04:22):
But more than anything, it's about putting the woman's game
on the pedestal. And so although some of the lesser
experienced players may not have played the Old Course as
often as the old hands, it's about skill execution when
it comes down down to the end of the day
and when it comes down the back nine and watching
(04:43):
the last couple of days have been inexperienced and experienced
players that have had the courage to play shots that
they not used to playing week in week out on
the LPGA two and being able to put off. So
it's going to take creativity, it's going to take courage.
It's going to take a little bit of thinking out
of the box, especially if the winds get up, and
(05:04):
with the road hole an the penultimate hole of the
Championship being one of those mightily difficult power fours, playing
over the corner of the Old Course Hotel with the
T shirt, it's going to take her and the full
mixed bag, all of the tracks really to get the
job done.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Nellie Carter was the pre tournament favorite and justified that
back to back sixty eight in her first two rounds,
but then a seventy five in her third round. Five bogies,
a double bogie and four birdies. What do we take
from an up and down round like that.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Yeah, I think she's the one that's got the firepower,
I think in the woman's game. And so from what
I saw, I didn't watch stay up and watch it
all last night, but I watched a few of the
highlights this morning, and she looked like she had a
cold putter as well. Yesterday hit one out of bounds
on sixteen, and so you know, the old course possibly
(05:54):
just got a couple of back on her. She hung
in there to give us Ouf a shot tomorrow. And
she's in the second last group, Lidia in the third
to last group, so by no means shot us South
out of it. But look, the old Course giveth and
it taketh away, and so you know, it's about respect,
and at times it seems like she got a little
(06:17):
tripped up and managed to salvage around where it could
have got away with her and completely she's going for
a little bit of history herself tomorrow. I think it's
been over fifty years since someone's won seven times in
the season on the old PGA Tour, and so accord,
she's been the player of this season thus far. Can
(06:37):
she cap it off with a last major of the season.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Incredible form she's in. And just on Lydia, how much
did you enjoy watching her win gold in Paris?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, hey, look at there were a lot of late nights.
Way of listening to you, there are a lot of
late nights, and that one was a particularly late light
for me. He was so much on the line, you know,
not not just a gold medal. And for a lot
of the other athletes at the at the Olympics, it
was all about the gold medal. For Lydia, there was
other things on the line, personal achievements and keeping it
(07:09):
off with being inducted into the Woman's LPGA, all the
fame she would always already be in the World Golf
Hall of Fame. It's just a matter of time for
that to be should be awarded that on her and
joining Sabob Charles in that prodigious, prodigious group of people
that have been awarded that on her. But it's capping
(07:33):
the career and watching her coming down the stretch was
just like any other athlete, rounding the last corner and
coming down the final straight. You can see the mental
anguish that was going on inside of her. It would
be great to get her quietly, just sitting around the
table and talking her through but avoiding mistakes, knowing that
(07:55):
it was hers to lose. And she managed to hold
on and you know, put a full stop, an exclamation point,
you know, a big underline on her career, all at Parentsville,
and that one achievement was something really special to watch.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Certainly was love chatting golf with you, Phil, Thanks for
your time, mate, Thanks planning, Thanks very much, No, thank you, Phil,
Phil Todd only there ahead of the fourth and final
round of the Women's Open Championship. Lidi, your co is
just three shots back from the lead in a tie
for fourth, So looking forward to seeing how she goes
overnight tonight, maybe she wins that major for the first time.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to news Talk zed B weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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