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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So the one hundred and fifty third playing of the
Opening Championship, the second round is in the books. Northern
Ireland at royal Port, Rush and Scottie Scheffler takes a
one stroke lead going into Saturday third round and him
fire in a sixty four seven under sixty four. Today
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has been uh oh wait.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Is that right? Yeah? You got it right? Yeah, yeah, just.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
The fact that you know there are low scores out
there to be had. But I had him clearly hanging
around like he always does. I did not have him
having the day that he had today. But this was
this was actually pretty fun to kind of watch this
whole thing, you know, play out today. And then if
you play the game and you've swung a club and
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you've made contact with a golf ball and you see
the stuff that was happening today and in Northern Ireland,
you say to yourself, you realize how superhuman these guys are.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It's crazy watching them.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But boy, what a what a fun round it was
to kind of watch today and mister golf, Ray Hustik
is joining me now, and Ray, I don't know where
you come down on this, but I didn't have Scheffler
doing this today, I mean, obviously we have him playing good,
but not like this.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I was like, wow, this is crazy. He like he
turned it up today.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Hey, Mark k Troy, Yeah, I was thirty eight players
in the sixties today only fifteen yesterday managed to break
seventy on this par seventy one. I don't know why
you're surprised. I mean, the number one player in the world,
he's dominating. What of the last eighty events, the last
eighty events, he's won thirteen of them or whatever it is,
in three majors, and I mean he's he's the best
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player in the game by far, and he demonstrated it today.
It was just an easy walk in the park. He
didn't have a you know, a super great ball striking
day yesterday. Well I shouldn't say that he always strikes
the ball. Well, he didn't have his a game in
terms of some of the strategy yesterday. But you know,
to get to ten under party left it, you know,
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an inch short on the last toll right in the
heart for what it could have been sixty three. And
it's fun to watch Matt Fitzpatrick. Let's not take anything
away from him. He's a US Open champion. Shot sixty six,
he's just a shot back. And of course Brian Harmon
who won the British two years ago, sixty five today
as well. How about Bryson seventy eight yesterday, sixty five today,
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thirteen shots better? I mean, who said golf's not the
crazy but.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
He's gonna miss the weekend? Right, I mean he's.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
He made it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh he did the number?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Oh what was the cut? By the way, help me
out because one plus one? Okay, so is that is that?
So that's eleven shots and ties? Correct?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Seventy in times?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh, seventy times?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, Okay, I didn't know exactly how that was gonna
I'm I'm never really crystal clear on that. And to
kind of answer your question with regard to Scotty Scheffler, sir,
I'm not discounting. I mean I just watched him in
person at the Memorial and I watched him win it
again back to back years, you know, kind of a
thing and and and then on. In addition to everything
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else he does. We kind of talked about, you know that,
which it works for him, but I'm gonna call it
it's goofy footwork on him. It looks like he's slipping
when he but listen, I wish that I could look
like I was slipping and do that too. Again, not
taking anything away from him. He's a guy that's always around.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And then it's almost like he strikes or he moves.
You see him kind of hit the accelerator right when
he needs to, and that usually is on moving day
or laden moving day or even on Sunday kind of
a thing. I mean, he's always kind of applauding exactly
how but this just kind of it almost it looks
so pedestrial, it looks so easy, it was like, and
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it's not that course is not that easy. I mean
we saw, you know, Rory kind of struggled today a
little bit, if you could call it struggling. I mean,
you know, struggling for me is one hundred and twelve,
you know, or what. But but it's all relative when
you talk about these guys. I'm sure it felt like
one twelve to him or whatever was with some of
these other guys too.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And uh, I'm just happy Ricky.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Fowler is, you know, doing what he's doing because he's
such a good guy and these are just people that
kind of pop up into into my mind. But with
the Scotty Scheffler thing again, he's always kind of hanging
around and doing his thing, and he's right there. And
but going from three under today, clearly the low scores
were out there to be had today, so really cool
to watch.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, and it's it's maybe he's just mixing it up
for you. He'll go next week, he'll go low round one,
you know, and then just kind of hang on and
win from the from the wired to wired deal. Yeah,
I mean, Rory's Rory's got to be If you said
to him you'd be three under after two days at
Port Rush, you'd be okay with that. But he's seven behind.
Oh Scotty, you don't spot him seven shots going into
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the weekend, but there are thirty six holes left to play.
You know. He's he seems super human, but he is human.
So you never know. If the weather stays relatively calm,
which was today, you could see some other low scores
tomorrow or Sunday. And you know, Shane Lowry and some
of these other guys, I mean, Bob McIntyre, John Rum,
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this guy's are going to be firing it at the
flags tomorrow. They are going to be all out foot
on the accelerator and see if we can how many
birdies can I make, because that's the only hope to
get to Scotti's. You can get somebody to get close
to him, because if he puts together a little quiet
sixty eight or sixty nine tomorrow and ends up at
twelve or thirteen going into Sunday, it's over.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, He's going to eliminate a lot of people who
are more than what four or five shots back to
even have a chance, which becomes demoralizing maybe to mirror mortals,
but half these guys are not more mere mortals.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Did you have Phil Mickelson making the cut?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I mean, I know we watched him yesterday and he
held it together and didn't do any dumb dumb stuff yesterday.
If you will, you know, some crazy quad bogie or
you know, anything like that.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I did not have him make it. He make it.
I thought he was either oh no, he made well.
He made the cut?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, absolutely, And then Bryson at started today when I
saw you know, he's starting plus seven and kind of
to your point, it is crazy to watch that. But
I didn't have him make it either. I go, man,
it just doesn't suit his game. This place is a
guy who's like, I'm going to overpow it. Well, that's
not how you play links golf, you know that. But
he's got it's just stupid the amount of talent that
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that guy has too.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So yeah, I mean the mad scientist. I thought the
experiment wouldn't go well. It didn't yesterday, but obviously today
he either made adjustments or he just said, aren't. Let's
just go play golf and not worry about all this
stuff and get out of my head and smash as
far as I can and just see what happens. And
what sixty five is what happened. You know, Tommy Fleetwood
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had a good day. So some of the other favorites,
Justin Leonard, the Justin Thomas right up there, Ricky Mark
Leishman and the Australian and you know, he's fun to watch.
But they're eight, nine to ten back of the guy.
And so there's only four guys within five shots. Yesterday
there were seventy one players within five shots of the lead.
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It's if, again, if Scotty shoots anything in the sixties tomorrow,
it's going to be really hard unless somebody can go
you know, sixty three, sixty three or something on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, Scotty is not a guy who's going to give
a bunch back. Even a bad day for him is
probably going to be even or maybe seventy, maybe at
seventy two or three, like plus two or something. That's
going to be a bad day for somebody of his caliber.
And he might even consider a bad day, especially being Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Moving day, even even would be considered.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And I guess it also depends on the It depends
on the conditions tomorrow. I don't know what the forecast is.
I know what it is. There'll be some sun, then
there'll be some rain, and they'll be wind, and then
they'll be rain and.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
There'll be more sun.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Right, that's the forecast every day in Northern Island, like
right there where it's at on the whatever. But he's
just not a guy who comes back to the field.
At least we haven't witnessed that yet. Are we going
to witness that this weekend? Because I feel like we're
not going to based on the performance we watch today.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, I mean it would be a shock to see
him shoot over par for sure, And essentially now though
the weather doesn't become as much a factor because now
that we've had the cut, everybody that's in contention is
going to be essentially playing in the same conditions. It's
not like we got the crappy wave Thursday and Friday,
where we played late Thursday and early Friday and got
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the bad weather late Thursday and early Friday, which is
kind of one of the things that we see every
year in the Open. Now that we're past the cut,
the guys that are all in the lead are all
playing late. They're all playing the same conditions. So it
would be somebody playing early going really low, but he's
so far behind, you know, can they get there? And
you'd have to say that it looks like, you know,
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it's going to be another championship, major championship for Scotti
and getting before.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I just wondered too, not to keep I guess beating
this horse with regard to Scotty, but I just wonder,
when do these guys when they shoot some dynamic round
like this and by day look seven unders dynamic. I
don't care if it isn't a major, that's a that's
a really good round of golf At most golf courses
on the PGA tour.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
But when they do.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Something like that and there's still two rounds left, do
they have that hangover? For lack of a better way
to put it, even for a Matt pit Fitzpatrick too.
I mean the they do something like shoot these, you know,
really pretty amazing rounds given the conditions and the type
of golf course, and that's a really tough golf course
and it's not short, and then you've got the conditions
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coming into play. But when you have something like that,
it's like, did he do that too early? And then
somebody has their seven under or six unders still in
them that could do that fire that not just maybe tomorrow,
but even on Sunday to kind of surge or challenge or.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
What have you.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And so I don't know how much he put into
achieving that seven under today to get to ten under
for the tournament and then he you know, how much
you know gas is in that tank or you know
what I'm trying to ask or say.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
There history suggests you're dead on. Guys typically don't follow
a great round with another great round because it is
tough mentally. They know how hard it is, They know
how rare it is to shoot mid low sixties on
a golf course like this, and especially in a major.
So you make a great point. The thing they have
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to do is say to themselves, I did it yesterday,
I can do it again today. Now. The problem with
links course is you get a couple of bad breaks
early and maybe maybe you get a double on your
card in the first three or four holes, and it
just can you survive that mentally, because that's more Typically
what happens is you get derailed by a bad break
or augusta wind or something, and you end up with
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an other on your scorecard and now you're you know,
and now you're looking at the thing going okay, now
I'm eight backs still and I only got you know,
thirty holes to catch him or whatever it is right right.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
The other thing too, I wonder if the if some
weather does blow in and it's substantial and it's there
and it's something that the whole field has to deal with.
You got the guys at the top who if they
can just you know, scrap around and hold on and
not let it get.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Crazy out of control.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That kind of plays into I feel like, especially on
moving day, I feel like that could play in to
them because then you're gonna have guys trying to push
or move that might be trying to do it and
kind of implement type weather and we know.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
How it can go sideways there in Ireland.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
And then they start pushing and all of a sudden
they shoot some blow up around and then you have
the rest of the field really moving away from the
top and falling away.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
You know, here's where Rory and the other guys that
are six or seven or eight back have to look.
They got to go. Okay, Scott, he's at ten. I
can't do anything about that, but I can try to
get to ten, and if Scotty helps me, great, And
that's the target, because ten under on this course, a
lot of guys would have taken that and just said
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I won't even play. Just put me up there at
ten and I'll see how that does until Sunday. Now
Scotty may end up at thirteen or fourteen or some
you know crazy thing. What did Seane Lowery shot sixteen under?
I think when he won in twenty nineteen. Now the
course is a little tougher because they did add some
life and change a couple of holes, so you wouldn't
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expect that, but of course it is Scotty and the
way he's playing right now and the control he has
in his game and in his mind, looks like he's
going to just continue to march on. But we've got
a lot of great players sitting there. There are guys,
I mean, there are guys who have won major championships
that are right on his heels. He's going to be playing.
He and Fitzpatrick going to play together tomorrow. Fitzpatrick is
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playing really well. I think he was second last week
at the Scottish and he's you know, he's rounding out
his form this year, has played well. Like I said,
he's won he won the US Open, so you know,
it's not like he's you know, a dog, and so
I think I think it'll be fun to watch. But
it's really hard to say I'd put any money on
somebody other than Scotty that one.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, do you think Fitzpatrick is looking at that?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That also?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
And I and kind of wrapping up here because we
got to go, But do you think Fitzpatrick is looking
at the last Englishman to win was an Open?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Was?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I believe Faldo? And it's been a long time. What
was like in the.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Nineties maybe or I off the top of my head.
I don't have that number in front of me. But
do you think he thinks about that going?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Man?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I because I really feel like, you know, that's like
more of a media kind of driven thing. But you
can't help but think that maybe if you're Fitzpatrick going
and I want to represent you know, England, you know
I want to I want to be that. But but
Faldo being the last guy to do it. I just
wonder if that kind of stuff comes into his mind,
because boy it shouldn't because that could out him or
mess him up.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I think maybe I don't know, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I don't think. So I think what Matt Fitzpatrick is thinking.
And if I'm his coach or his caddy, I'm saying, listen,
you got nothing to lose. Nobody expects you to win
this thing. Everybody's expecting Scotty the pressure. Put the pressure
on him. Let's go play our game. Let's keep doing
what we've been doing. We had a strategy, it's worked,
we're one shot back. Let's just keep playing. Anything can
happen and you've got nothing to lose. There's no pressure run.
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Nobody's going, Oh yeah, Fitzpatrick is going to catch Scotty, right.
I mean that's not what that's not the narrative, right,
So just keep pounding it, keep hitting it, keep playing,
keep making your putts and just keep your keep the
blinders on and play golf.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Good stuff man.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We'll be watching in the early morning hours live Open
Championship golf from Royal Port, Rush, Northern Ireland tomorrow as
a American.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Scottie Shuffler has a one stroke lead right now as
we go into moving day tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
But mister Golf Ray Hustik as always man, so fun
to talk golf with you, and we could we could
keep going for two hours.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Man. That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It's always hard to stop, you know, when I have
mister Golf on, but it's always such a fun conversation. Fantastic.
Thank you so much for jumping on with me. I
appreciate you so much.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Thanks guys. We'll talk soon, all right, We'll see you
So the one hundred and fifty third playing of the
Opening Championship, the second round is in the books. Northern
Ireland at royal Port, Rush and Scottie Scheffler takes a
one stroke lead going into Saturday third round and him
fire in a sixty four seven under sixty four. Today
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has been uh oh wait.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Is that right? Yeah? You got it right? Yeah, yeah, just.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
The fact that you know there are low scores out
there to be had. But I had him clearly hanging
around like he always does. I did not have him
having the day that he had today. But this was
this was actually pretty fun to kind of watch this
whole thing, you know, play out today. And then if
you play the game and you've swung a club and
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you've made contact with a golf ball and you see
the stuff that was happening today and in Northern Ireland,
you say to yourself, you realize how superhuman these guys are.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It's crazy watching them.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But boy, what a what a fun round it was
to kind of watch today and mister golf, Ray Hustik
is joining me now, and Ray, I don't know where
you come down on this, but I didn't have Scheffler
doing this today, I mean, obviously we have him playing good,
but not like this.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I was like, wow, this is crazy. He like he
turned it up today.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Hey, Mark k Troy, Yeah, I was thirty eight players
in the sixties today only fifteen yesterday managed to break
seventy on this par seventy one. I don't know why
you're surprised. I mean, the number one player in the world,
he's dominating. What of the last eighty events, the last
eighty events, he's won thirteen of them or whatever it is,
in three majors, and I mean he's he's the best
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player in the game by far, and he demonstrated it today.
It was just an easy walk in the park. He
didn't have a you know, a super great ball striking
day yesterday. Well I shouldn't say that he always strikes
the ball. Well, he didn't have his a game in
terms of some of the strategy yesterday. But you know,
to get to ten under party left it, you know,
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an inch short on the last toll right in the
heart for what it could have been sixty three. And
it's fun to watch Matt Fitzpatrick. Let's not take anything
away from him. He's a US Open champion. Shot sixty six,
he's just a shot back. And of course Brian Harmon
who won the British two years ago, sixty five today
as well. How about Bryson seventy eight yesterday, sixty five today,
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thirteen shots better? I mean, who said golf's not the
crazy but.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
He's gonna miss the weekend? Right, I mean he's.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
He made it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh he did the number?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Oh what was the cut? By the way, help me
out because one plus one? Okay, so is that is that?
So that's eleven shots and ties? Correct?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Seventy in times?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh, seventy times?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, Okay, I didn't know exactly how that was gonna
I'm I'm never really crystal clear on that. And to
kind of answer your question with regard to Scotty Scheffler, sir,
I'm not discounting. I mean I just watched him in
person at the Memorial and I watched him win it
again back to back years, you know, kind of a
thing and and and then on. In addition to everything
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else he does. We kind of talked about, you know that,
which it works for him, but I'm gonna call it
it's goofy footwork on him. It looks like he's slipping
when he but listen, I wish that I could look
like I was slipping and do that too. Again, not
taking anything away from him. He's a guy that's always around.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And then it's almost like he strikes or he moves.
You see him kind of hit the accelerator right when
he needs to, and that usually is on moving day
or laden moving day or even on Sunday kind of
a thing. I mean, he's always kind of applauding exactly
how but this just kind of it almost it looks
so pedestrial, it looks so easy, it was like, and
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it's not that course is not that easy. I mean
we saw, you know, Rory kind of struggled today a
little bit, if you could call it struggling. I mean,
you know, struggling for me is one hundred and twelve,
you know, or what. But but it's all relative when
you talk about these guys. I'm sure it felt like
one twelve to him or whatever was with some of
these other guys too.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And uh, I'm just happy Ricky.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Fowler is, you know, doing what he's doing because he's
such a good guy and these are just people that
kind of pop up into into my mind. But with
the Scotty Scheffler thing again, he's always kind of hanging
around and doing his thing, and he's right there. And
but going from three under today, clearly the low scores
were out there to be had today, so really cool
to watch.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, and it's it's maybe he's just mixing it up
for you. He'll go next week, he'll go low round one,
you know, and then just kind of hang on and
win from the from the wired to wired deal. Yeah,
I mean, Rory's Rory's got to be If you said
to him you'd be three under after two days at
Port Rush, you'd be okay with that. But he's seven behind.
Oh Scotty, you don't spot him seven shots going into
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the weekend, but there are thirty six holes left to play.
You know. He's he seems super human, but he is human.
So you never know. If the weather stays relatively calm,
which was today, you could see some other low scores
tomorrow or Sunday. And you know, Shane Lowry and some
of these other guys, I mean, Bob McIntyre, John Rum,
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this guy's are going to be firing it at the
flags tomorrow. They are going to be all out foot
on the accelerator and see if we can how many
birdies can I make, because that's the only hope to
get to Scotti's. You can get somebody to get close
to him, because if he puts together a little quiet
sixty eight or sixty nine tomorrow and ends up at
twelve or thirteen going into Sunday, it's over.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, He's going to eliminate a lot of people who
are more than what four or five shots back to
even have a chance, which becomes demoralizing maybe to mirror mortals,
but half these guys are not more mere mortals.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Did you have Phil Mickelson making the cut?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I mean, I know we watched him yesterday and he
held it together and didn't do any dumb dumb stuff yesterday.
If you will, you know, some crazy quad bogie or
you know, anything like that.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I did not have him make it. He make it.
I thought he was either oh no, he made well.
He made the cut?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, absolutely, And then Bryson at started today when I
saw you know, he's starting plus seven and kind of
to your point, it is crazy to watch that. But
I didn't have him make it either. I go, man,
it just doesn't suit his game. This place is a
guy who's like, I'm going to overpow it. Well, that's
not how you play links golf, you know that. But
he's got it's just stupid the amount of talent that
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that guy has too.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So yeah, I mean the mad scientist. I thought the
experiment wouldn't go well. It didn't yesterday, but obviously today
he either made adjustments or he just said, aren't. Let's
just go play golf and not worry about all this
stuff and get out of my head and smash as
far as I can and just see what happens. And
what sixty five is what happened. You know, Tommy Fleetwood
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had a good day. So some of the other favorites,
Justin Leonard, the Justin Thomas right up there, Ricky Mark
Leishman and the Australian and you know, he's fun to watch.
But they're eight, nine to ten back of the guy.
And so there's only four guys within five shots. Yesterday
there were seventy one players within five shots of the lead.
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It's if, again, if Scotty shoots anything in the sixties tomorrow,
it's going to be really hard unless somebody can go
you know, sixty three, sixty three or something on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, Scotty is not a guy who's going to give
a bunch back. Even a bad day for him is
probably going to be even or maybe seventy, maybe at
seventy two or three, like plus two or something. That's
going to be a bad day for somebody of his caliber.
And he might even consider a bad day, especially being Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Moving day, even even would be considered.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And I guess it also depends on the It depends
on the conditions tomorrow. I don't know what the forecast is.
I know what it is. There'll be some sun, then
there'll be some rain, and they'll be wind, and then
they'll be rain and.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
There'll be more sun.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Right, that's the forecast every day in Northern Island, like
right there where it's at on the whatever. But he's
just not a guy who comes back to the field.
At least we haven't witnessed that yet. Are we going
to witness that this weekend? Because I feel like we're
not going to based on the performance we watch today.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, I mean it would be a shock to see
him shoot over par for sure, And essentially now though
the weather doesn't become as much a factor because now
that we've had the cut, everybody that's in contention is
going to be essentially playing in the same conditions. It's
not like we got the crappy wave Thursday and Friday,
where we played late Thursday and early Friday and got
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the bad weather late Thursday and early Friday, which is
kind of one of the things that we see every
year in the Open. Now that we're past the cut,
the guys that are all in the lead are all
playing late. They're all playing the same conditions. So it
would be somebody playing early going really low, but he's
so far behind, you know, can they get there? And
you'd have to say that it looks like, you know,
(08:56):
it's going to be another championship, major championship for Scotti
and getting before.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I just wondered too, not to keep I guess beating
this horse with regard to Scotty, but I just wonder,
when do these guys when they shoot some dynamic round
like this and by day look seven unders dynamic. I
don't care if it isn't a major, that's a that's
a really good round of golf At most golf courses
on the PGA tour.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
But when they do.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Something like that and there's still two rounds left, do
they have that hangover? For lack of a better way
to put it, even for a Matt pit Fitzpatrick too.
I mean the they do something like shoot these, you know,
really pretty amazing rounds given the conditions and the type
of golf course, and that's a really tough golf course
and it's not short, and then you've got the conditions
(09:45):
coming into play. But when you have something like that,
it's like, did he do that too early? And then
somebody has their seven under or six unders still in
them that could do that fire that not just maybe tomorrow,
but even on Sunday to kind of surge or challenge or.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
What have you.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And so I don't know how much he put into
achieving that seven under today to get to ten under
for the tournament and then he you know, how much
you know gas is in that tank or you know
what I'm trying to ask or say.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
There history suggests you're dead on. Guys typically don't follow
a great round with another great round because it is
tough mentally. They know how hard it is, They know
how rare it is to shoot mid low sixties on
a golf course like this, and especially in a major.
So you make a great point. The thing they have
(10:35):
to do is say to themselves, I did it yesterday,
I can do it again today. Now. The problem with
links course is you get a couple of bad breaks
early and maybe maybe you get a double on your
card in the first three or four holes, and it
just can you survive that mentally, because that's more Typically
what happens is you get derailed by a bad break
or augusta wind or something, and you end up with
(10:57):
an other on your scorecard and now you're you know,
and now you're looking at the thing going okay, now
I'm eight backs still and I only got you know,
thirty holes to catch him or whatever it is right right.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
The other thing too, I wonder if the if some
weather does blow in and it's substantial and it's there
and it's something that the whole field has to deal with.
You got the guys at the top who if they
can just you know, scrap around and hold on and
not let it get.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Crazy out of control.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That kind of plays into I feel like, especially on
moving day, I feel like that could play in to
them because then you're gonna have guys trying to push
or move that might be trying to do it and
kind of implement type weather and we know.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
How it can go sideways there in Ireland.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
And then they start pushing and all of a sudden
they shoot some blow up around and then you have
the rest of the field really moving away from the
top and falling away.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
You know, here's where Rory and the other guys that
are six or seven or eight back have to look.
They got to go. Okay, Scott, he's at ten. I
can't do anything about that, but I can try to
get to ten, and if Scotty helps me, great, And
that's the target, because ten under on this course, a
lot of guys would have taken that and just said
(12:12):
I won't even play. Just put me up there at
ten and I'll see how that does until Sunday. Now
Scotty may end up at thirteen or fourteen or some
you know crazy thing. What did Seane Lowery shot sixteen under?
I think when he won in twenty nineteen. Now the
course is a little tougher because they did add some
life and change a couple of holes, so you wouldn't
(12:33):
expect that, but of course it is Scotty and the
way he's playing right now and the control he has
in his game and in his mind, looks like he's
going to just continue to march on. But we've got
a lot of great players sitting there. There are guys,
I mean, there are guys who have won major championships
that are right on his heels. He's going to be playing.
He and Fitzpatrick going to play together tomorrow. Fitzpatrick is
(12:56):
playing really well. I think he was second last week
at the Scottish and he's you know, he's rounding out
his form this year, has played well. Like I said,
he's won he won the US Open, so you know,
it's not like he's you know, a dog, and so
I think I think it'll be fun to watch. But
it's really hard to say I'd put any money on
somebody other than Scotty that one.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, do you think Fitzpatrick is looking at that?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That also?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
And I and kind of wrapping up here because we
got to go, But do you think Fitzpatrick is looking
at the last Englishman to win was an Open?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Was?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I believe Faldo? And it's been a long time. What
was like in the.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Nineties maybe or I off the top of my head.
I don't have that number in front of me. But
do you think he thinks about that going?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Man?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I because I really feel like, you know, that's like
more of a media kind of driven thing. But you
can't help but think that maybe if you're Fitzpatrick going
and I want to represent you know, England, you know
I want to I want to be that. But but
Faldo being the last guy to do it. I just
wonder if that kind of stuff comes into his mind,
because boy it shouldn't because that could out him or
mess him up.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I think maybe I don't know, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I don't think. So I think what Matt Fitzpatrick is thinking.
And if I'm his coach or his caddy, I'm saying, listen,
you got nothing to lose. Nobody expects you to win
this thing. Everybody's expecting Scotty the pressure. Put the pressure
on him. Let's go play our game. Let's keep doing
what we've been doing. We had a strategy, it's worked,
we're one shot back. Let's just keep playing. Anything can
happen and you've got nothing to lose. There's no pressure run.
(14:26):
Nobody's going, Oh yeah, Fitzpatrick is going to catch Scotty, right.
I mean that's not what that's not the narrative, right,
So just keep pounding it, keep hitting it, keep playing,
keep making your putts and just keep your keep the
blinders on and play golf.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Good stuff man.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We'll be watching in the early morning hours live Open
Championship golf from Royal Port, Rush, Northern Ireland tomorrow as
a American.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Scottie Shuffler has a one stroke lead right now as
we go into moving day tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
But mister Golf Ray Hustik as always man, so fun
to talk golf with you, and we could we could
keep going for two hours.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Man. That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It's always hard to stop, you know, when I have
mister Golf on, but it's always such a fun conversation. Fantastic.
Thank you so much for jumping on with me. I
appreciate you so much.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Thanks guys. We'll talk soon, all right, We'll see you
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