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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mister golf Ray Hustik is joining me. Now, hey brother,
how are you welcome in?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm doing great, Thank you, what a great start along
the banks to the shores of the North Atlantic. Royal
Port Rush. We have a jam pack wader board.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Whit whit white. Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.
I didn't want I didn't want to wait wait, I
gotta I have a story for you before we get
into this. I was I've been dying to.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Tell you this story because it has to do obviously
with golf, but not for you know, the one hundred
and fifty What we're one hundred and fifty third playing
of the Open Championship and we're going to get to
that here in a second with royal Port Rush. But
let me back up. So there was I was in
an outing at Mierfield, as you know, the media outing
they do every year. Well, we got rained out this year,
(00:46):
so they were kind enough to offer us two different
make good dates this year. One one was on July seventh,
and so it's the workday outing, you know, the people
who volunteer for the memorial and all that, and so
we were kind of interwoven into that whole outing or whatever.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
So I went out. It was shotguns start.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
They started us on sixteen Ray and so it's the
sixteen is the par three. It was playing one hundred
and sixty three yards. The day we were there, I
was with Dave Holmes, who is the sports guy for
Channel six Fox twenty eight, and then a couple of
other guys from Toledo with us.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Those two guys hit first.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
They both were on right, so I'm like, wow, I'm
playing with a couple of ringers here, and so I
was the third guy to go, and I hit a
seven iron, two bounces, hits, the.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Stick, bounced off the stick.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Ray, my first swing of the day and sits down
right by the hole.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
It didn't go in.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
But I never had a hole in one. So I
was so excited that that happened. But I'm looking back,
I was like, why couldn't that have just went in?
So I could tell people when they go, hey, you
ever hold a hole in one? I go yes on
sixteen at Deerfield.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
But that was not the case. And then the wheels
fell off. After that.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
You played golf with me, you know, I went double
after that on seventeen.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I went quad on eighteen. I didn't even lose a
ball on eighteen.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Still, yeah, my eighteen t shot was right of the bunkers,
because I know that you get anything turning over there
on eighteen and it's gone, it'll go into the creek
or whatever on the left. But man, what a special
place that is. And I've been dying to tell you
that story. I was like, I'm gonna tell him while
we're on the air when we talked today. But anyway,
(02:30):
sorry I interrupted you because I know you were like
getting ready to launch into your you know, the opening
here with regard to.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Royal Port Rush.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
But man, what a special place that is, So continue
with your story.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Sorry that I interrupted you.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
No, it's a great story in you. You hit a
perfect golf shot. It was just didn't go in, but
it's still a perfect golf shot. Let's just say.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
They didn't let me put it. They were like, get
this out of here, you're not putting that. But it
was sitting right on the edge. So anyway, yeah, it
was awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, so we got five within five shots of the
lead after round one. Seventy one players now listen, if
it stays this packed after tomorrow, every player that makes
the cut has a chance to win, it's not. I mean,
it is so jam packed and really for me, Round
(03:18):
one is about the old guys, four unders leading but
at two under forty four year old Justin Rose, forty
five year old Sergio Garcia, a fifty two year old
Lee West, and another shot back at one under forty
nine year old Jack Johnson, fifty three year old Justin
Leonard and fifty five year old Phil Nicholson. What a
(03:39):
great start and a super leader board in terms of
interesting storylines going into round two.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So I started watching it this morning and I rolled
tape on it. I didn't get up at four am,
but I did watch it. I started watching it from
the beginning. Once I got up and got my coffee
and all that, I started and I'll just fast forward
kind of casually through. And I started watch Phil and
I go, you gotta be kidding me. And I was like,
come on, Phil, do what you normally do, right, especially
(04:07):
as of late. I mean, you're a live guy. The competition.
We've talked about this a million times. I don't know
if they these guys, you know, da da da da da.
And then I saw him miss his first part. But
I think it was, and it was kind of a
longer one. It might have been ten or eleven even before.
He's still like two under at that point, and he's
right there, and I'm going, come on, this is crazy,
(04:27):
like and I hadn't looked at any leaderboards or anything
because I'm watching it, and clearly they were probably already
done by the time I started watching it, because they're
five hours ahead of us there.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
So but I I see the sun out, I go.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well, where are we? What's going on here? Why is
the sun out? Then they're like, I know exactly. Then
I go, oh, here, and then they started talking about
here comes to the rain.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I go, ah, here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Now we're talking about this is open golf, you know
or whatever.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I'm watching that.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
But uh but man, I again, I watched a couple
of hours of it, but I didn't even see Rory
t Off, So I you know, it was like one
of those things that I had to come to work
and I had it on in the bullpen there when
I was getting ready and tried to like kind of
watch it, but I was trying to get ready for
the show and so on. So I'm sure you it
sounds like you were you kind of had like your
(05:20):
you know, the opening here, the beginning of this, the
way that you were thinking about it, which is really
cool with regard to the old guys. And then you
got Scotty Scheffler, who's you know, mister steady.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
You know here he is one back or whatever out
of the people.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And you kind of answered my one question, which is
what's kind of grabbing you the most as far as
an interesting storyline? And clearly the old guys within a
few shots of the lead, a lot of them right there.
What do you attribute that to? I mean, the golf course,
was it not showing his teeth? It felt like it
wasn't crazy, But then four under is the lead right now?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, it was tough enough. Sort Rush is a great
golf course, and it's got plenty of difficulties just being
a links course with all the pot bunkers and the
crazy rough and the gorse and a little bit of
wind not much, and it doesn't look like we're going
to get a bunch of really good win for the
rest of the way, which is sort of a bummer,
you know, because we all want to see it get
a little crazy. In terms of the wind, it looks
(06:21):
like the forecast is for you know, moderate winds, which
is pretty light over there actually. But round one the
golf course stood up to the test of these great players.
It's a long golf course and there wasn't enough wind
to keep your attention. For sure. There was rain in
the middle of the day sometimes got pretty heavy, and
that always changes how the ball reacts when it hits
(06:41):
the greens because this is such firm turf, I mean,
playing links golf. The golf course is not like we
used to here where it's really soft. Especially when it's
raining there. It doesn't matter. It just goes right down
into the sand and the turf stays nice and firm.
So there's first bounces on the greens were getting a
little squarely for guys, and of course the short game
you got to be really good.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Michelson left a ball in a bunker late in the
round and then hold it from the same bunker on
his second try trying to get out, you know. So
you see all kinds of weird things. But I think
the leaderboard is packed because the golf course is so good.
It's fair, it's super tough, and there are places where
you can make some birdies. But it can jump up
(07:24):
and hit you with a double or a triple pretty quickly.
You know, you mentioned the live guys, you know, Phil,
and you know the guys that we root against every time.
Terrell Hatton's leading that group of three under Sergio two under.
He played well. Obviously, rom is there. He's tired of
people asking him if his game has fallen off because
he's playing live.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Kopka really disappointed day four over Bryson's experiment not so good.
Seven over Patrick Reid trying to make a statement to
Kegan Bradley about wanting to get picked for the Ryder
Cup team. He went for six over, So you know,
kind of a combination of good and bad there with
those guys. But the but the guys in the league,
we got five guys leading at four under.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Parr.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Matthew fitzpatrick's a you know, an Englishman, so he's got
a lot of home people cheering for him. Obviously. Harris English,
who's an American, played great at the Masters and the
Memorial twelfth at both of those, second at the PGA Championship,
and he won back at Tory Pines earlier in the year,
so he's he's a you know he's a veteran, he
(08:26):
could he could win this thing for sure. And Ricky
Fowler and Justin Rose and guys like that who are
in contention, that have all you know, played really well
in good tournaments. They are smart, they're patient. It's just
gonna be a lot of fun the rest of the way.
But but I think you mentioned Scottie. We just all
expecting him to do this and just kind of roll on.
(08:47):
He did not have his best game today and yet
he's only one off the league, which is scary for everybody.
The other the other guy that we all watched, you know,
the reason we're all here in Northern Ireland. You know,
Rory McElroy twenty nineteen coming home to Northern Ireland and
make an eight on the first hole, missed the cut.
He did better on that this year, bogie the first
(09:09):
hole instead of making a quad. But he finished at
one under. So he's right there. And of course he's
the one getting all of the fans and getting all
the cheering. I mean, it's a home game, let's face
it for Rory.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Sure, sure, and you know, talk about a testy first
hole as far as tight goes. And you choose your
weapon there and we saw all kinds you know, you see,
from an iron to a three wood to the driver
and I guess it depends on what kind of what
kind of contact you were making on the driving range, right.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I think that's what you kind of bring to that
first hole.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And clearly there's game plans for these guys, just like
everybody else, and it doesn't necessarily work out, you know,
depending on how you type of a game plan that
you but man with the out of bounds on the
right and left, it's just a it's a tight driving
hole and so it's not crazy long obviously, but that
can create drama right out of the gate, which I
(10:04):
love about this golf course and I love that it
gets your attention from the get go. You got to
really pay attention and you could have, you know, something
really silly happen if you just have a moment of
a lapse of concentration there on one, which I think
is great.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah. And the British Open, the Open Championship, sorry, is
the thing that we all watch for the unpredictability. The
tour guys hate unpredictability. They like things to be standard
and stock, and they love things that they know what's
going to happen once the ball kind of comes down. Well,
the British Open or the Open, you never know what's
going to happen after the ball hits the ground, and
(10:42):
that's as big a part of trying to figure out
what to do. That's why so many different club choices
off the first te and that's why I think this
is so much fun to watch. You know, like you said,
some guys hitting driving irons, other guys hitting drivers. You
watch people putt from forty yards off the green. You
watch guys hitting their sixty degree lob wedges from right
off the fringe, depending on you know where the flag
is and what the slopes look like. And I think
(11:04):
the camera angles are really good this year. You get
a good sense of how undulating things are, how deep
some of the bunkers are, and how scary some of
those pins are. You look at them from the air,
those big cranes that look like something from Star Wars,
those cameras out there. You look down and why is
that guy thirty feet left of the flag and they're clapping. Well,
because when you get down to the ground level and
you go four feet right of the flag, you're in Deadville, right,
(11:27):
So it's so much fun, but it is the unpredictability,
the tests, And that's why I think veteran players, some
of the older guys, but some who've been out there
for a while, and guys like Scottie who are really patient,
they can survive the unpredictability.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And the guys who are patient are the ones I
think who are in their minds and their body. They're
in most They've got the most control of their game
right now.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I think is kind of what it comes down to.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
The patients is something that is easier to come by
when you know that you have the goods to you know,
and you maybe have a little less of that if
your game is off or your ball strikings off or whatever.
And these guys are so exact that they know they've
got good, pretty good control of that. As far as
the way that they process it, I don't know, you know,
(12:18):
going into it. I'm sure you saw the presser where
Scotty said, you know, yeah, it's fun for about two minutes.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
As far as like after.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Winning and people are like he's like talking about, how
you know what am I doing this kind of thing?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Is it really fulfilling?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
And is it is it weird that he's having that
kind of he's processing his career at this point already
that way, because that took it did take me a
little bit by surprise seeing him saying those things.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Scotty's a strong Christian. He knows that his identity is
not in a golf score or whether he wins or
loses a golf tournament. He wants to beat you badly.
He is a super competitive guy, but he knows that
whether he wins, comes in second, comes in twentieth, does
not affect what happens after the golf tournament. And like
he said, after you win ten or fifteen minutes later,
you're like, okay, where's dinner. It's awesome. You've got that elation,
(13:12):
you got that sense of accomplishment and whatever the emotions
are that drain out of you at that time. But
he's also got a fresh perspective on you know, I'd
rather be a great dad than a great golfer. If
the game gets in the way of my family, my
marriage or whatever, I'm out of here. And that's that's
just a good perspective to have a as a human
right and for him as a Christian, So that's where
(13:34):
Scotty gets his you know, his his strength and his
patience and his perspective, which as such a young guys,
it's amazing I think to see and I don't think
he's downplaying. I know he's not downplaying you know, the
success or the goals or the desire to win every
week because he wants to. But he also knows that
like we saw with Rory after the Masters, like we've
(13:56):
seen in Tiger Woods through his entire career. Would you
think Tiger Woods would say if we pump full of
truth to him today, would we say Tiger is a
happy guy. I'm not sure he's achieved all the goals
he wanted for the most part, except for Jack's eighteen majors.
So it is it is fun to watch him, and
it's a guy that people go, oh, he's really boring. Yeah,
I'd love to be that boring on the golf course.
(14:16):
Wouldn't you just be patient let everybody else make the mistakes? Yeah,
but he's a guy that's just so precise and he's
you know, he enjoys it. He's already said I love
playing lakes golf. Shane Lowry, He's got the perfect personality
for this. He doesn't fight the win and fight the
crazy bounces. He's out there having fun with it. You know,
he's enjoying it. The whimsy of playing Lake's golf is
(14:39):
something that he loves. And those guys are the ones
that end up at the top of the leaderboard Sunday.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, really really, really cool and uh yeah, we've got
a lot of golf before we get to Sunday, no
question about that. Getting up at four am to watch
it live, that's something you should do if you're listening
right now, in case you're going, well, how do I
watch his live? Or you can do it the way
I was doing. And I don't know were you up
at Were you up at four am?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Ray? I don't know if you Yeah, I was up
on watching it.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Oh were you, oh even earlier than four am?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I'm okay, all right, Well, absolutely wonderful Ray Hustik, mister
golf and uh yeah, as you Yeah, Round two tomorrow
and the one hundred and fifty third playing of the
Open Championship. And it's always I think a lot of
just average golfers watch this and go look at him
putting forty feet off.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
The That's something I would do you know or whatever
that might.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Be where it's relatable that that common denominated there or whatever.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
So Ray, thank you very much for jumping on, and
we'll talk to you again soon
Mister golf Ray Hustik is joining me. Now, hey brother,
how are you welcome in?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm doing great, Thank you, what a great start along
the banks to the shores of the North Atlantic. Royal
Port Rush. We have a jam pack wader board.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Whit whit white. Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.
I didn't want I didn't want to wait wait, I
gotta I have a story for you before we get
into this. I was I've been dying to.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Tell you this story because it has to do obviously
with golf, but not for you know, the one hundred
and fifty What we're one hundred and fifty third playing
of the Open Championship and we're going to get to
that here in a second with royal Port Rush. But
let me back up. So there was I was in
an outing at Mierfield, as you know, the media outing
they do every year. Well, we got rained out this year,
(00:46):
so they were kind enough to offer us two different
make good dates this year. One one was on July seventh,
and so it's the workday outing, you know, the people
who volunteer for the memorial and all that, and so
we were kind of interwoven into that whole outing or whatever.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
So I went out. It was shotguns start.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
They started us on sixteen Ray and so it's the
sixteen is the par three. It was playing one hundred
and sixty three yards. The day we were there, I
was with Dave Holmes, who is the sports guy for
Channel six Fox twenty eight, and then a couple of
other guys from Toledo with us.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Those two guys hit first.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
They both were on right, so I'm like, wow, I'm
playing with a couple of ringers here, and so I
was the third guy to go, and I hit a
seven iron, two bounces, hits, the.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Stick, bounced off the stick.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Ray, my first swing of the day and sits down
right by the hole.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
It didn't go in.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
But I never had a hole in one. So I
was so excited that that happened. But I'm looking back,
I was like, why couldn't that have just went in?
So I could tell people when they go, hey, you
ever hold a hole in one? I go yes on
sixteen at Deerfield.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
But that was not the case. And then the wheels
fell off. After that.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
You played golf with me, you know, I went double
after that on seventeen.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I went quad on eighteen. I didn't even lose a
ball on eighteen.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Still, yeah, my eighteen t shot was right of the bunkers,
because I know that you get anything turning over there
on eighteen and it's gone, it'll go into the creek
or whatever on the left. But man, what a special
place that is. And I've been dying to tell you
that story. I was like, I'm gonna tell him while
we're on the air when we talked today. But anyway,
(02:30):
sorry I interrupted you because I know you were like
getting ready to launch into your you know, the opening
here with regard to.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Royal Port Rush.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
But man, what a special place that is, So continue
with your story.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Sorry that I interrupted you.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
No, it's a great story in you. You hit a
perfect golf shot. It was just didn't go in, but
it's still a perfect golf shot. Let's just say.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
They didn't let me put it. They were like, get
this out of here, you're not putting that. But it
was sitting right on the edge. So anyway, yeah, it
was awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, so we got five within five shots of the
lead after round one. Seventy one players now listen, if
it stays this packed after tomorrow, every player that makes
the cut has a chance to win, it's not. I mean,
it is so jam packed and really for me, Round
(03:18):
one is about the old guys, four unders leading but
at two under forty four year old Justin Rose, forty
five year old Sergio Garcia, a fifty two year old
Lee West, and another shot back at one under forty
nine year old Jack Johnson, fifty three year old Justin
Leonard and fifty five year old Phil Nicholson. What a
(03:39):
great start and a super leader board in terms of
interesting storylines going into round two.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So I started watching it this morning and I rolled
tape on it. I didn't get up at four am,
but I did watch it. I started watching it from
the beginning. Once I got up and got my coffee
and all that, I started and I'll just fast forward
kind of casually through. And I started watch Phil and
I go, you gotta be kidding me. And I was like,
come on, Phil, do what you normally do, right, especially
(04:07):
as of late. I mean, you're a live guy. The competition.
We've talked about this a million times. I don't know
if they these guys, you know, da da da da da.
And then I saw him miss his first part. But
I think it was, and it was kind of a
longer one. It might have been ten or eleven even before.
He's still like two under at that point, and he's
right there, and I'm going, come on, this is crazy,
(04:27):
like and I hadn't looked at any leaderboards or anything
because I'm watching it, and clearly they were probably already
done by the time I started watching it, because they're
five hours ahead of us there.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
So but I I see the sun out, I go.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well, where are we? What's going on here? Why is
the sun out? Then they're like, I know exactly. Then
I go, oh, here, and then they started talking about
here comes to the rain.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I go, ah, here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Now we're talking about this is open golf, you know
or whatever.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I'm watching that.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
But uh but man, I again, I watched a couple
of hours of it, but I didn't even see Rory
t Off, So I you know, it was like one
of those things that I had to come to work
and I had it on in the bullpen there when
I was getting ready and tried to like kind of
watch it, but I was trying to get ready for
the show and so on. So I'm sure you it
sounds like you were you kind of had like your
(05:20):
you know, the opening here, the beginning of this, the
way that you were thinking about it, which is really
cool with regard to the old guys. And then you
got Scotty Scheffler, who's you know, mister steady.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
You know here he is one back or whatever out
of the people.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And you kind of answered my one question, which is
what's kind of grabbing you the most as far as
an interesting storyline? And clearly the old guys within a
few shots of the lead, a lot of them right there.
What do you attribute that to? I mean, the golf course,
was it not showing his teeth? It felt like it
wasn't crazy, But then four under is the lead right now?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, it was tough enough. Sort Rush is a great
golf course, and it's got plenty of difficulties just being
a links course with all the pot bunkers and the
crazy rough and the gorse and a little bit of
wind not much, and it doesn't look like we're going
to get a bunch of really good win for the
rest of the way, which is sort of a bummer,
you know, because we all want to see it get
a little crazy. In terms of the wind, it looks
(06:21):
like the forecast is for you know, moderate winds, which
is pretty light over there actually. But round one the
golf course stood up to the test of these great players.
It's a long golf course and there wasn't enough wind
to keep your attention. For sure. There was rain in
the middle of the day sometimes got pretty heavy, and
that always changes how the ball reacts when it hits
(06:41):
the greens because this is such firm turf, I mean,
playing links golf. The golf course is not like we
used to here where it's really soft. Especially when it's
raining there. It doesn't matter. It just goes right down
into the sand and the turf stays nice and firm.
So there's first bounces on the greens were getting a
little squarely for guys, and of course the short game
you got to be really good.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Michelson left a ball in a bunker late in the
round and then hold it from the same bunker on
his second try trying to get out, you know. So
you see all kinds of weird things. But I think
the leaderboard is packed because the golf course is so good.
It's fair, it's super tough, and there are places where
you can make some birdies. But it can jump up
(07:24):
and hit you with a double or a triple pretty quickly.
You know, you mentioned the live guys, you know, Phil,
and you know the guys that we root against every time.
Terrell Hatton's leading that group of three under Sergio two under.
He played well. Obviously, rom is there. He's tired of
people asking him if his game has fallen off because
he's playing live.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Kopka really disappointed day four over Bryson's experiment not so good.
Seven over Patrick Reid trying to make a statement to
Kegan Bradley about wanting to get picked for the Ryder
Cup team. He went for six over, So you know,
kind of a combination of good and bad there with
those guys. But the but the guys in the league,
we got five guys leading at four under.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Parr.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Matthew fitzpatrick's a you know, an Englishman, so he's got
a lot of home people cheering for him. Obviously. Harris English,
who's an American, played great at the Masters and the
Memorial twelfth at both of those, second at the PGA Championship,
and he won back at Tory Pines earlier in the year,
so he's he's a you know he's a veteran, he
(08:26):
could he could win this thing for sure. And Ricky
Fowler and Justin Rose and guys like that who are
in contention, that have all you know, played really well
in good tournaments. They are smart, they're patient. It's just
gonna be a lot of fun the rest of the way.
But but I think you mentioned Scottie. We just all
expecting him to do this and just kind of roll on.
(08:47):
He did not have his best game today and yet
he's only one off the league, which is scary for everybody.
The other the other guy that we all watched, you know,
the reason we're all here in Northern Ireland. You know,
Rory McElroy twenty nineteen coming home to Northern Ireland and
make an eight on the first hole, missed the cut.
He did better on that this year, bogie the first
(09:09):
hole instead of making a quad. But he finished at
one under. So he's right there. And of course he's
the one getting all of the fans and getting all
the cheering. I mean, it's a home game, let's face
it for Rory.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Sure, sure, and you know, talk about a testy first
hole as far as tight goes. And you choose your
weapon there and we saw all kinds you know, you see,
from an iron to a three wood to the driver
and I guess it depends on what kind of what
kind of contact you were making on the driving range, right.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I think that's what you kind of bring to that
first hole.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And clearly there's game plans for these guys, just like
everybody else, and it doesn't necessarily work out, you know,
depending on how you type of a game plan that
you but man with the out of bounds on the
right and left, it's just a it's a tight driving
hole and so it's not crazy long obviously, but that
can create drama right out of the gate, which I
(10:04):
love about this golf course and I love that it
gets your attention from the get go. You got to
really pay attention and you could have, you know, something
really silly happen if you just have a moment of
a lapse of concentration there on one, which I think
is great.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah. And the British Open, the Open Championship, sorry, is
the thing that we all watch for the unpredictability. The
tour guys hate unpredictability. They like things to be standard
and stock, and they love things that they know what's
going to happen once the ball kind of comes down. Well,
the British Open or the Open, you never know what's
going to happen after the ball hits the ground, and
(10:42):
that's as big a part of trying to figure out
what to do. That's why so many different club choices
off the first te and that's why I think this
is so much fun to watch. You know, like you said,
some guys hitting driving irons, other guys hitting drivers. You
watch people putt from forty yards off the green. You
watch guys hitting their sixty degree lob wedges from right
off the fringe, depending on you know where the flag
is and what the slopes look like. And I think
(11:04):
the camera angles are really good this year. You get
a good sense of how undulating things are, how deep
some of the bunkers are, and how scary some of
those pins are. You look at them from the air,
those big cranes that look like something from Star Wars,
those cameras out there. You look down and why is
that guy thirty feet left of the flag and they're clapping. Well,
because when you get down to the ground level and
you go four feet right of the flag, you're in Deadville, right,
(11:27):
So it's so much fun, but it is the unpredictability,
the tests, And that's why I think veteran players, some
of the older guys, but some who've been out there
for a while, and guys like Scottie who are really patient,
they can survive the unpredictability.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And the guys who are patient are the ones I
think who are in their minds and their body. They're
in most They've got the most control of their game
right now.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I think is kind of what it comes down to.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
The patients is something that is easier to come by
when you know that you have the goods to you know,
and you maybe have a little less of that if
your game is off or your ball strikings off or whatever.
And these guys are so exact that they know they've
got good, pretty good control of that. As far as
the way that they process it, I don't know, you know,
(12:18):
going into it. I'm sure you saw the presser where
Scotty said, you know, yeah, it's fun for about two minutes.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
As far as like after.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Winning and people are like he's like talking about, how
you know what am I doing this kind of thing?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Is it really fulfilling?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
And is it is it weird that he's having that
kind of he's processing his career at this point already
that way, because that took it did take me a
little bit by surprise seeing him saying those things.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Scotty's a strong Christian. He knows that his identity is
not in a golf score or whether he wins or
loses a golf tournament. He wants to beat you badly.
He is a super competitive guy, but he knows that
whether he wins, comes in second, comes in twentieth, does
not affect what happens after the golf tournament. And like
he said, after you win ten or fifteen minutes later,
you're like, okay, where's dinner. It's awesome. You've got that elation,
(13:12):
you got that sense of accomplishment and whatever the emotions
are that drain out of you at that time. But
he's also got a fresh perspective on you know, I'd
rather be a great dad than a great golfer. If
the game gets in the way of my family, my
marriage or whatever, I'm out of here. And that's that's
just a good perspective to have a as a human
right and for him as a Christian, So that's where
(13:34):
Scotty gets his you know, his his strength and his
patience and his perspective, which as such a young guys,
it's amazing I think to see and I don't think
he's downplaying. I know he's not downplaying you know, the
success or the goals or the desire to win every
week because he wants to. But he also knows that
like we saw with Rory after the Masters, like we've
(13:56):
seen in Tiger Woods through his entire career. Would you
think Tiger Woods would say if we pump full of
truth to him today, would we say Tiger is a
happy guy. I'm not sure he's achieved all the goals
he wanted for the most part, except for Jack's eighteen majors.
So it is it is fun to watch him, and
it's a guy that people go, oh, he's really boring. Yeah,
I'd love to be that boring on the golf course.
(14:16):
Wouldn't you just be patient let everybody else make the mistakes? Yeah,
but he's a guy that's just so precise and he's
you know, he enjoys it. He's already said I love
playing lakes golf. Shane Lowry, He's got the perfect personality
for this. He doesn't fight the win and fight the
crazy bounces. He's out there having fun with it. You know,
he's enjoying it. The whimsy of playing Lake's golf is
(14:39):
something that he loves. And those guys are the ones
that end up at the top of the leaderboard Sunday.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, really really, really cool and uh yeah, we've got
a lot of golf before we get to Sunday, no
question about that. Getting up at four am to watch
it live, that's something you should do if you're listening
right now, in case you're going, well, how do I
watch his live? Or you can do it the way
I was doing. And I don't know were you up
at Were you up at four am?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Ray? I don't know if you Yeah, I was up
on watching it.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Oh were you, oh even earlier than four am?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I'm okay, all right, Well, absolutely wonderful Ray Hustik, mister
golf and uh yeah, as you Yeah, Round two tomorrow
and the one hundred and fifty third playing of the
Open Championship. And it's always I think a lot of
just average golfers watch this and go look at him
putting forty feet off.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
The That's something I would do you know or whatever
that might.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Be where it's relatable that that common denominated there or whatever.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
So Ray, thank you very much for jumping on, and
we'll talk to you again soon
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