EP89 - Rick Shiels custom fitting, we met a HUGE tour pro, Guy’s BIG WIN!

The first hole in one and to actually have it at a tournament rather than just on a saturday afternoon playing with my mate or something welcome back to rickshaws cultural podcast everybody i'm your host rick shields i'm here with producing guy episode number 89. uh we're back here at the studio we've got lots to cover today.

Olympics our trip to one of the best places that i've ever been certainly in the uk um we've got to talk about a trophy you seem to have on the desk yeah we've got lots of questions coming in dear rick's nightmare golf stories you know what it's all about welcome back to richard's golf show everybody how are you guys i'm good i feel like sometimes i'd like to think that most of podcasts are decent. But sometimes we sit down with not much to talk about but ends up being a good show yeah. But like you just said then.

Today.

We have got a lot to talk about only probably three. Or four big things but they are big things um i'm good i had a good week last week which we're gonna talk about we had a little trip that ended up being much much much more fun. For many reasons than i probably thought it was going to be yeah i'd agree should we start with that i think we should. So you might have seen in the last couple of days titleist have released some images um and started to i think you can pre-order. Or whatever the latest iron lineup from titleist which is the new t-hunt t-100s t100s 200s. And 300s there are some reviews online already if you want to check those out i've not done mine. Yet will be coming soon the reason why i've not done mine. Yet is because titleist are quite um precious yes about me being fitted make making sure i'm in the right specs as most brands are a lot of brands will either come. And see me give me a fitting we don't really show that on video because there's no point because it sometimes looks a bit too brand heavy. And that's something i'm never really keen on doing so i've been fitted by every single major manufacturer from taylormade ping titleist the list goes on well that's something actually that just maybe just to set the scene you've kind of covered there but we've seen this question before on the facebook group and on twitter people asking do you get fitted yeah. And it yes. And no it kind of depends on the product doesn't it. So if for example some new obviously putters coming out then.

You just get sent them by callaway and they'll be in the right length for you like 34-inch yeah most brands have my spec on record. So they know what i like exactly but as the channels obviously evolved and got bigger and bigger the brands obviously want to send you product that's fitted correctly because obviously they don't want you to have a product that's too long too upright too flat that when you're then.

Testing it you're not gonna get the best results now certainly with drivers we're a little bit more kind of we might get like a a shaft that we know you like that feels good for you and then.

Because obviously eyes to fit in my old job and obviously you know what you're talking about um we'll kind of hit balls before filming we'll get the right loft right face angle maybe move the weights a bit so we always can do that ourselves anyway. But tightlist with the new ions they were going to come up. And give you a fitting uh probably the marriott or something but they invited us somewhere to go and and see explain it to me rick you're good at doing this so i remember the first time i heard about it was when titles were bringing out their latest drivers the tsi two. And three and um one of the guys from titleist mentioned that they're building something in the uk that there's nothing like it anywhere in europe okay. And over in america i've been fortunate to see facilities over in america i've weirdly bar ping i've never been to one of the other hq so i've never been to callaway i've never been to taylormade but i have been to the ping hq in arizona and i must admit when you're at their world global hq they do things a little bit differently like they've been there. For many many years so the practice facilities are typically amazing i mean. For example ping this is amazing in their um hq they actually have a indoor hitting area with all the cameras. And launch monitors and everything else but on the floor they have like a pallet which they can lift via forklift truck. And on that pallet is turf real grass. So it's in in you're indoor you're inside a teaching bay effectively like my old one at quest but you're hitting off grass and hitting out that outsole well outside so for the best players in the world like your bubba watsons and your tony females who were fitted by. And their pink players that's the service they get and when that turf is is done with they'll pick up the palette wheel it out. And put in the next.

Palette the me immortal and they can go back on a matte line they put yeah an old map that's been there 20 years okay now typically i've i have seen images of taylormade. And callaway over in san diego typically where a lot of them are based. And again their fitting facilities is the best of the best five star the turf is phenomenal like it's all flat it's all lied out you've got every shaft option there every head option there you're hitting the real golf balls from said manufacturer out onto a driving range where there's real greens. And it's just it's real it's this is remember that time obviously remember we had the podcast about how i thought fitting was overrated yes. And a lot of the reasons i thought that was a bit tongue-in-cheek it was to get people thinking. But a lot of the reasons i said. And still stand by is that it's not always relevant to how you play golf on the golf course. So for example hitting off a map don't do it on the golf course you know hitting with the range ball putting that on the golf course etc etc these kind of things that you mentioned to me sound. So premium because they are as close to being on the golf course as you can get without being on the golf course there are levels that normally are only reserved. For tour players typically when you're when you're a new tour playing we've seen i was a weirdo a weird message then.

It sounds like you've got a virus. Or a hacker on your laptop how weird was that anyway let me just shut that down that was whatsapp that's weird um what am i saying with this normally that sort of level is reserved. For your best players in the world so you've seen the little promos that tone uh that taylormade did with the new hq. And they have the best players in the world tiger dj rory and whatever doing all these challenges anyway i'm kind of making a very short story quite long here but this service has never ever ever been available in the uk like more recently the american golf at trafford center has been through this massive revamp and their new fitting bays are fancy they've got all the cameras they've got the gc quads it's very very nice yeah. But it's far removed from what we experienced last week yes. So again this is not an advert this is not a paid promotion i'm sure people know me well enough now to know that i will give many brands praise. And negativity but we got invited to go down to wolburn yeah which woburn in its own right is a facility that is out of this world there's three golf courses there i've actually played all three of them in some in some way shape. Or form they've got the marquis course which is the the flagship golf course championship golf course the british masters was played there i actually played in the prom with tyrrell hatton there many many years ago there's a video on my channel i've also played the duke's course which is the famous one where i beat pete in the in two club challenge two second hand club challenges ago uh phenomenal golf course like sort of lexus here played there with tyrol beat peter finch on that course. But then.

The duchess course is one of the hardest golf courses i've ever played in my life. And even though it's shorter on the other two it's outrageously narrow i mean it's it's ridiculous. But these golf courses have been basically carved out of this forest it's phenomenal place well i've never been to woburn before i've been i'm lucky enough to have been to a lot of good resorts in the uk but i hadn't been to wolburn and i didn't see the actual golf courses we didn't really go on to the courses as such but from what i did see the chipping agreement which will come onto in a bit the putting green the actual clubhouse layout the kind of general vibe i really enjoyed it yeah. But probably about half a mile from the clubhouse would you say a short buggy trip away there was quite a quite what's the word inconspicuous i think is probably the right word like black grey kind of wooden fence with a really small probably the size of a scorecard sign. So i think titleist fits it in center performance performance center little code that you put in the door opens slides across the gate you drive in what do you see you see a facility that i've never seen in the uk before i tell you what i know. So if people are listening if you watch this on youtube we'll put a clip on now if you're listening come over to youtube channel. And look and we'll show you the clip i almost or just google tyler's performance center this i'm sure there are images i think tyler's promoted it this facility is like i've never seen before it's not open to the public like i said you need to be invited i think they do fit in there. And it's it's super expensive so it's not going to be unfortunately a facility a lot of people are going to be able to use. And that's a downside for a facility like this but you get in there and there's there's a building that's that's only one level high pretty high but kind of one level it's not two-story um very well put together like a wooden like a dark wooden um exterior but very modern like the driveway up there is is like a stone. But not loose stone i don't really call that like a it's stone that's that's fitted into the floor on the driveway so it's super smooth and as you look to the right there's a 350 yard driving range and every single hitting space is perfect turf. And i mean perfect it's basically a golf hole in it really yeah it's like it's a golf ball in a facility. And then.

Inside there was a big screen on. And we didn't film any of this again because i don't want it to look too brand heavy sometimes i'd like to film some of this stuff but but that you can nail in the head though because. For a video although it would be a great insight to people are never gonna go. For whatever reason might be living abroad and might never just never go but it would look like an advert like you said at the start the beauty with the podcast is longer form they listen to this podcast who listen week in week out no it's not an advert we will balance some negatives as well. And if if callaway did the same next.

Week. And we went to that one i'm sure it'll be as good but it's just good to it feels a shame because i was quite quite keen to talk about this this trip on the podcast because it's the kind of thing before you wouldn't have shared with people. And it's a shame because we had a really good experience for different reasons which game will come on to. And i think it's a good story. So walking in and on the big screen there it's like titleist welcomes to performance center there was two names there was thompson. And rick shields so diego thompson played in the open famously the only person that got a hole in one at the open it's a sickle in one side and he's the tallest golfer to ever play in the open championship is that true yeah is he something like six foot seven he's a big lad as well yeah. So thompson um what's that your name is it joe i think it might be james. But let me john thompson john thank you jonathan thompson so he he we're gonna he was gonna be present i don't think he was there when we arrived. Or was it no we came in a buggy half an hour after. So we got in we got shown around there's these two massive indoor fitting centers there isn't grafts grass turf on the fitting center that's a negative that's a penguin in america but on the in these rooms is everything you could ever want every shaft option every head option again it's all the tireless drivers irons wedges whatever right. And in the back office there's like a proper tour van style um workshop yep like this room alone probably not this similar to our podcast size room maybe a little bit bigger but had every mod con in there that was that was tailored to adjusting clubs you could build golf clubs in that room basically to a really high spec um conference rooms nice kitchen nice toilet shower facilities everything right. And then.

We got shown around it was lovely it was just me. And guy there for the trip um and everyone there was very pleasant very nice very chatty. And then.

We went out and out on the driving range and set up like a little station where they had a marquee up um loads of different golf bags that took our golf clubs over there they had like almost like a a small burger van style um how do you explain what this is yeah what was it it was like like a fitting cart. But it was the most modern fitting car ever with tvs with trap man with all like a bending bar on the side everything um like it like a i can't even what kind of size was it like a small van almost like a little golf buggy. But not a golf buggy yeah bigger than a golf buggy would it be good do you reckon i think. So anyway it's about roughly that size so there there was two buckets of balls one with pro v1s one with pro v1xes um. And on the num on the golf ball something i spotted very quickly there was massive numbers on the golf ball not like not the number that you get on the golf ball that represents under the under the word tightly like a logo. But it's a number so at the side if you ever find a golf ball it's like a pro v1 and it's like from the porsche golf day whatever it might be find the trees like that kind of size but number eight i think we're on your ones. So ask the question i said why why is that why these golf balls why have they got such big numbers. And apparently because this facility is going to be very much geared towards pros tour pros especially there's a lot of tour pros weirdly enough don't always play with the brand new pro v1 sometimes they'll play with the pro v1 from like 2015. Or 2013 or even further back so they have all these buckets of balls and that that particular bucket of balls might be the pro v1 x from 2013 therefore. all the golf balls in that bucket have a massive number five on them so just when they collect the image so much quicker and look at the side and going right that's a problem with a little thing there what year was that got eight seven sixes gone. And then.

All the new ones have whatever number on them anyway so i went for a wedge fitting something i really want to look at maybe some new wedges it's not been any any disguise i've not been particularly great my wedges over the last six months a year two years five years so i want some new wedges um got a really nice fitting probably one of the best fittings i've had yeah because typically what i don't like about fittings certainly when it's from a brand. And they know who i am and they know they want to try and influence me in some way they're almost like hype men yeah. And i don't like that that's the best shot you've seen hit old david look at the spin on that look at the speed it's the best shot i've ever seen hit or wow i've never seen anyone hit a driver that long and you're like shut up like don't give a nice stand up twelve years longer but they were very very nice they were very pleasant they were very professional gave me a great fitting i got looked into getting four new wedges which might be coming soon whether i put them in the bag who knows when you've had them in the bag well perhaps with them. For a couple of weeks do a bit on that um then.

Got fitted through the whole new iron lineup from the new t-100s t100s 200 to 300.. And really all it was was an exercise of them working out the right shafts. For me working out the right line goals whatever it may be typically i'm not far from stuff though yeah like i i pretty much say this to every brand i'm pretty much standard lie standard length extra stiff shaft i'm pretty easy that's kind of what we got out of it anyway. So that was that was where we went. And um like it was a good chance to take the new irons. And as good as the whole facility was. And it is top-notch personally i mean not the review not reviewed the indie app from the few i hit in the field i saw you here this model of t100s. And stuff aren't much different to last year or the last iteration again full review to come on that yeah i mean that's how you look at that though because what i kind of to prefer i like this new lineup is that if they were called something totally different sorry a hippie microphone if they'll call someone they're different it's almost like you expect them to perform different. Or they have massive claims it's just essentially a new version they've slightly tweaked them um which we've seen a lot more browns do well taylormade got some new p790s coming out which probably can can't talk about too much just. Yet but again called p790 so you know they're not gonna be massively different it's very much down the route like a car manufacturer starting to go down where there might be a new bmw 3 series next.

Two years there'll be another a newer version of the bmw 3 series and that's kind of what clubs are starting to do which i like because people are starting to understand all right i don't have to maybe change every year every two years this set that i've got okay it might not be the latest. And greatest but it's not that different to the new one the new one just looks a bit different or they've tweaked a few things which i can you know that's okay i'll tell you what though speaking of balance positives. And negatives i tried the new ions out i had currently actually used s200 so the new ones were really nice felt very similar if not the same. But looked probably look a little bit clean a bit nicer um but he said i haven't said that i said it look clean. And look nicer when you see the new stuff of most brands the old stuff straight away doesn't look as good i think it's just almost subconscious however. i had a quick go with a driver i am not a fan of the tsr honestly i feel like the tsi 3 is super like per shape which i used to like when i was growing up. But now it just looks too unforgiving that tsi2 the top like leading edge looks too sharp and i just couldn't do you like them they just don't feel like that powerful i don't mind the look of them i understand what you're talking about almost like the toes quite flared open the toes pointing to the right massively makes you feel like you're going to hit it right. And left 100 um which you did yes. But um yeah overall fitting was good new lineup's good facility was out of this world even the greens that you hit into are maintained like the greens at woburn. So they take a ball you can put on them you can chip on them. And because there's i mean there was we're going to come on this there was three people hitting golf balls there yeah you being fourth there was four got four golfers hitting golf balls at that facility yes we've mentioned three of them we'll come on to number four in a minute yeah. But because there was only four people hitting golf balls. And there was. So much space you could walk out onto the driving range effectively it's actually it's given a disservice calling that it's a whole range it's a hole with a massive green halfway up with a little different flags you can go up. And i was testing these wedges. And i was hitting bunker shots i was hitting little chips hitting 50 yard pitches whatev whatever shot i wanted to hit i could replicate it on a golf course with these wedges that i've been fitted. For it was very very good service. So thompson was there bombing driver um rick shields was chipping wedges like nobody's business rick shields was hitting the green with his channel was losing golf balls losing probably once titus weren't too happy with the driver yes yeah there's less there's less titles dates now yeah there is a few lessons. And then.

There was a nice little surprise there was. So we saw a buggy we've been there maybe 40 minutes and a buggy drove in they must have put the secret code in they were driving in there's buggy of i think four people quite an entourage. And entourage of people and one of them looked very very familiar and it was somebody that i'm going to hold my hands up now i've been a big fan of in terms of him being a serious serious serious golfer. For pretty much all the time i've been playing golf but somebody that i wasn't sure of if i would like if i ever met them properly and i'm going to hold my hands up he was unbelievably sound. And much much sounder than i thought it was going to be i don't know why i had this negative preconception i think a lot of people listening would probably have this preconception to the gulf we were talking about. And he turned up with his his two sons and his son's golf coach it was the pulter family. So ian poulter luke and josh and i didn't get i didn't get the the coach's name actually oh i can't remember and um there's attack that all the time this guy's got a bit flustered didn't they yeah oh god ian's here best behind blight they throw the pulse out there they're very much pulses here they were very like i don't know they seemed a bit more on edge. And i was quite like chilled with it i've actually met ian before um i know well i think the lads watch the channel i know luke does who's the oldest kid well they do because they walked out. And went oh dad is that youtuber. But he knew you were let's be honest is that youtuber that can't chip who can't break 75. um anyway they wandered over after about 10 minutes of being there. And they were bloody lovely i didn't have a bad preconception i i can understand why maybe people he ruffles people up the wrong way um i've loved the social media. For a long long time he was one of the earliest adopters to twitter i remember went like really really early that's his biggest platform. And we had a very lovely very grown-up very professional very respectful of each other conversation about social media well i think the first thing to say he's got two sons luke is about 16. And was it josh i don't know how unbelievably well-mannered well-mannered i shouldn't think i would say well behave it wasn't the right term because it wasn't. Yet well-mannered and well brought up and let's be like considering that the dad well they are multi-multi-multi-millionaires they came across like every other kid i know that sounds about him saying that. But you know what i mean you think these lads live in america they've got house in england the dad's got humpty. And ferraris you would almost sometime and if they've met their little net tiger i'm sure they'll know every they'll know rory really well they were speaking to you. So well and inquisitive they obviously watched a channel really well brought up kids i think my only reason i felt about polter possibly he would be somehow maybe stuck up. Or something it's just because obviously he's well known for all his fancy cars he dresses quite elaborately he i don't know but in real life he was a really really nice bloke. And he gave you so much time and he asked you so many questions he was truly interested wasn't he i always you know obviously you can only judge a book by it's cover that's the wrong way of saying it you can't judge a book by its cover um. And for somebody who he's been in the game for so long and he's done so much for the game and multiple ryder cup victories and multiple european tour wins and we actually did some stats after dinner he's won. So many times unreal i'd like to say he's a he's a multi-millionaire lives at lake nona all these ferraris um but he was like say he really gave me time looked at me in the eye when he spoke to me you know i was very interested in what i was saying didn't come across as i know better loved it also we got even got chatting about like uh being junior something like backspin comes. And we're like reeling off balls and he was coming out with some balls obviously older than well quite a bit older how old is he now he was older than those like a different generation. But he was really enough balls that we didn't know about well i don't know why you don't know this ball. And he was like really chatting. And it was it wasn't even remotely like you wanted to just chat you then.

Get off he was almost hanging around yeah. But just sound yeah. And then.

His son his little son came back after and asked me loads of questions about what my favorite youtube video is that i've made. And he was watching me hit shots into the green. And was asking me to hole it. But again i said i'm not your dad i'm not i'm not that good um. But yeah lovely really nice meeting the pulter family we even hinted at maybe a collaboration we seemed up. For it um yeah i think i think again as well we've mentioned it a couple of times on this on the podcast this new incentive that's been handed out. For the pga tour this new pip player something something to do with followers essentially on something yeah the influence program is it um they're gonna make money if they've got more followers. So i think any opportunity i mean paul tara's got a channel a youtube channel he doesn't say he doesn't have enough time to do enough on there. But i think his instagram stories the way he posts things um yeah class. But another thing that you mentioned at the time which was. So true was he got there probably 40 minutes after we got there. And he was still when we went home. And obviously he was with his son who's 16 is a very good place he's going to college in america he's young when he was nine. Or ten he was actually. For the amount of time was there looked like he was actually practicing a lot. And was kind of really again well behaved. And just chilling and then.

His son's coach they were grinding. For what eight hours maybe well we were there from 11 till five. So you got there at 12 then.

Latest and they were still going at six yeah. So a solid six hours of practice on a random wednesday and they weren't like just messing about where they were actually i mean they're having fun. But hitting ball and you think he's currently i think he's just got in the top 50 again like top 50 in the world that's just he's been i looked the other day i think he's got 2 000 he got under tour yeah he joined the european tour in 2000. And he's been pretty much up there all that time that's 21 years of being a serious golfer and he's still putting that in now it just shows what it takes and what you don't see he does show a lot on social media. And i think he actually put a little video on afterwards of his son that bought at the bottom yeah. But you don't see the other side of all those shots he hit and it just goes to show that you have to be doing that don't get that level it made me appreciate my hands were hurting quite a lot that day in fact my blisters only just healed right i know. For me and i was hitting i probably hit a fraction of golf balls that he hit because i was chatting i was going fittings we had a bit of lunch whatever. And that felt like i was aching that day yeah like i know granted we drove down from manchester. And whatever but he he's doing that on a random wednesday i mean i i wanted a medal after doing that practice. And that's what he's doing who knows every day he might be doing that every day he might be doing that today.

Probably is like it's crazy. And it makes me realize like and he might not be known as a great practicer like someone like alex noren yeah who is renowned. For practicing is he doing 10 hours a day i mean i just find it crazy it's what you don't see what you don't see. But what's also mad is like as we've just picked up the facility there that's where polter's going hitting balls with his family he obviously had an unbelievably nice car in the car park he's doing very well. For himself so he's absolutely grinding but he's kind of made it as near let's be honest think about the guys who were putting that amount of work in who are battling the euro pro tour on the challenge tour who are putting in 10 hours a day on a crappy driving range exactly it's raining they've got sandwich in the golf bag. For lunch you know from old style bread whatever i know it sounds silly but these guys were trying to literally earn the cross literally who don't know how they're going to finish next.

Week like polter obviously wants to make the cut every week he's got his own personal goals i'm sure he doesn't make another cut flash his life he's sorted these guys were doing that not knowing when the next.

Gonna win. Or make a cut or break even anything you have to have a certain mindset to be able to do that like how hard is that on your own on the range it's a real it's we've said this before. But being a tour pro is obviously lovely if you are a poulter you're a rory if you're on these guys it's up. And coming it must be hard hard work yeah watch negativities about the place um the negatives are the place was first one which you lived to before was the indoor systems are awesome in the outdoor we hitting off map yeah. So for a driver i don't know that matters because you're on a flat surface but if you're going there. For a fitting and you want it to be indoors it's raining because i think it's 500 pounds. For a punter to go and have a fit in so it's a lot of money that doesn't come off the clubs that go and that goes just towards going now in a way that's almost like reassuring the expensive you know. For that money getting a bus service but if you go and on the day you go you've traveled from scotland let's just say it's really bad rain and you're indoor hitting balls off a mat with a wedge or a seven iron so you can't go outdoors that's not real is it they could have built something where it was somehow grass was still inside exactly what grass was covered. So that's something that i think because it's a big thing if you're spending that much money on golf clubs on the fitting you want to hit. And obviously if you went like when we did it sunny go outside it's job sorted. So that was one thing that could be a little bit better um i'm i'm clutching at strollers i just think it's a shame that not enough people are gonna be able to ever use that facility yeah. And i understand tyler's haven't built it for everybody titles uh fitting center is at the center ives that's their that's their normal fitting center. And they have probably 20 fittings a day i don't know this place is gonna have five fittings a week yeah that five people a week are going to be able to go to that facility. So what's that 250 people a year i think that's if that's if the full are gonna have the opportunity to use one of the best facilities in europe. But is it one of the best facilities in europe because only 250 people possibly is it the only thing i thought would have really really elevated it again was there was obviously the green you mentioned which is phenomenal which is probably was it 70 yards away would you say just a short walk from the from the start of the range. Or whatever but obviously titleists are known. For several categories one of the most popular scottie cameron putters there was nowhere to really put you could walk up that putting green. And roll a few but it would have been great as another indoor bay with sam put lab with an indoor facility to try the putters that would have been really or should get into something a bit more like that which may come in the future i don't know although i'm i am clutch and straw so i think listen it was pretty much perfect i'd love that facility. For myself the rickshaws golf school that's the goal in two years yeah the rickshaws golf performance. And it will be two pound fifty to come wow um don't quote me on this anybody kids come. For free well like um a vending machine inside it's free as well oh i like that it was good it was really good i think what made it was the whole polter thing as well just seeing him in the flesh. And and interacting with him and seeing how sound he was i'm a fan of being pulter now there you go uh that was good not sponsored by titles last week we swagged off the ball it wasn't i don't want a mages. For ages that proves that it's just and the drive wasn't that good other than that it was good um speaking of golf clubs though we just released a video that kind of proves that you don't have to necessarily spend a fortune on titleist. Or on ping or mizuno whatever and get fitted there are other options out there. And we went to clark's golf center which is near me. And we bought the cobra package set which is available at number of retailers we called called the secret package set because it's not secret you can see it in stores it's on their website. But you don't see it on their instagram they don't necessarily spend advertising money behind it you have to search for it to find it and it was a package set that was 649 pound had a driver five wood hybrid six signs of sanding a putter. And a bag we bought it reviewed it and it was very good very good yeah listen it it did everything it needed to do like you could play golf with that set of clubs. And i said in the video that's really aimed at three different types of golfers someone who's almost a beginner who doesn't know what they're buying somebody who just wants an easy purchase because they might not if they have that budget sorry excuse me if they had that budget they might not be able to know what to buy secondhand. And then.

Number three somebody might just play in corporate days six times a year and they just want a set that look good for business yeah. And that's a big thing i've said this before on the podcast. And it's something that i'm happy to see more major brands are doing is that people listen to this podcast are pretty hardcore golf fans. So if you got given 700 quid and someone said right go online. Or go on to facebook marketplace and build a set for a friend of secondhand clubs you could do it you might get a couple of old cleveland wedges. For under quite an old an old odyssey putter set up in gaians throw in an old taylormade r7 driver ping rapture freewood yeah throw in a cheap bag from sports direct even if you want to get a new one. Or whatever and for that money you could do it. But so many people that start the game and i've had people ask me like my wife's husbands my friends husbands and stuff like that have come to me and said i want to start golf watch to get. And they might have 500 quid a bit more maybe 600 quid it's a lot of money to spend on golf equipment if you don't know what you're looking for yeah. And if you don't know what you're looking for and also like i said this before. But so for example i've i'm a member of a gym where like racket sports some water um i'll carry on i've been a member of a gym where racket sports are um quite a big thing. And i have i this is where rick's just actually woke up set. But i've got into i've got into um racket sports and wanted to go and buy a new racket and go to a sports direct store or spent money on something that's brand new but not the best quality but it's nice to have something that's brand new but you don't always want to have a golf club that's second hand if you are new to the sport you want to have something that's brand new never been touched it's yours that you unbox that you take the rappers off that you own that's your baby um rick's back now how much were you padding. For it's a little bit padding i'm just trying to say about how like when you start a new sport you might be willing to mix now splits water everywhere um but you want stuff that's new that you own that's never been touched and that's why these package sets i think have got a place in the market you can't get them fitted that's a that's a down to potentially if you're six foot five you bought that package set it'll be garbage. For you but it gives you a good starter base you can over time replace the driver replace the putter. And and one of the big things that why these brands do which you touch on in the video is because cobra think if we build a set. For that new golfer or that guy that's not sure what to get and he likes it or they like it whatever then.

In six months in a year when we release the new driver that bryson's bombing 400 yards they might go and buy that they like cobra so cobra do one. For sure now obviously callaway have done one with the within a couple but they do one at costco which we've reviewed titles don't do it don't if you ever will surprise taylormade don't do it mate they might be doing america in like a walmart. Or something but it's something that i think more bright. And they are decent. And those irons in particular i can guarantee if you took the iron out a single seven iron. And showed it to loads of golf at the marriott so this is the new cobra irons the 700 quid you get four two wides to yeah yeah because it had genuine grip genuine shaft like they looked i feel like everything's very positive in advertorial today.

It's not she's not unpaid okay they're not throwing the negatives the putter felt bit weak bit light really weak um again to the to the average golfer they might not have realized. But someone certainly for me who's tested loads and loads of putters felt very unstable wasn't very forgiving wasn't very easy to line up um but the reason why they've done that is unoffensive. But if you're a new golfer or something you'd probably want to a bit bigger so that was a downside the bag was very good. But it looked like it didn't look like it would be like 100 quid in the shop it was like a takedown version which looks wise is good might rip over time head covers were garbage yeah. And it was a trolley bag really bag headquarters was garbage. But at least had keg covers but that's the thing though it's it does sound positive. But it's you have to be some product positive because they are good aren't they like there's negative to some stuff. But that was a good set you can probably get better we can definitely get better quality clubs if you want to go secondhand. But we're going to be a bit dirty. And battered and if you want to win them check out the video like comment subscribe and we're going to give them away at the end of august um olympics should we get onto this yes did you watch much. So no i didn't watch it at all i had to check it in the day to see what the results were i put it on on sunday morning literally about halfway down the 18th hole of who even xander won yeah is he the last group out yeah what was his second chance to eighteen then.

Was he in that bunk. And he hit it out or no account uh yes. And okay he hit it into the no um put it in the tree on the right yeah chipped it out to about 80 yards made up. And down i'm with you and it was casey. And matsuyama in the bunker yes yes. So i watched from there yeah. And then.

I watched the play off yeah that was it the coverage. So there's a couple of reasons first off as i mentioned last week i love the olympic golf been in the olympics i think it really does a lot of things positively. For the sport i don't think it's a massive game changer certainly not this year. And i'll explain the reasons why but for me i i like seeing the golf in the olympics and from the sound of things a lot of the now olympians these golfers who played knit loved it really like rory macquarie completely changed his mind like he's gutted that he missed out in rio he probably can't wait again to play in the next.

Three years in paris i think it was because it was bigger than what he thought it was going to be like representing your country representing something bigger than just you right. And it even came out and said i've never tried as hard to get into third place yeah. And and like all of these things like to walk away from the medal of representing your country i suppose for these guys apart from the rider corp you never ever get this kind of team spirit dealer and even the golf but it's not that big is it. And even the ryder cup and i think again what a lot of these players have realized when they're at the olympics in the olympic village like they're bumping into other athletes that they really respect yeah that's true like when they're walking at a golf event. Or they ride a court they're better than everyone else yeah in their head i'm better than you bryson i'm better than you tiger i'm better than you brooks. Or whatever it may be in their head where they're walking around this olympic village and they're bumping into tom daley and going i can't do what you do yeah how do you do what you do. And they're saying to you how do you do what you do. And they're bumping into matt whitlock or or the bmx's or the or cyclists or the swimmers or the rowers like they're in this kind of bubble that is filled with olympians like the best in their areas in different sports question. For you then.

Do you think. And not only should but do you think there wouldn't be any kind of level of like imposter syndrome. So for example there's two reasons why i say this one of them's not really granted but i'm going to throw out there anyway let's say paul case is walking through the olympic village he's a great britain athlete essentially he's playing. For great britain and he walks past like adam peaty who's obviously how many goals do you win swimming like two. Or three goals who's a proper athlete do you reckon they almost feel like no they should. But jack and they feel like i'm just a golfer you're a proper proper athlete you're the best in your sport and i think that's that's where it probably comes to like you are whatever your sport may be because again let's say you are a uh a shooter yeah they do like the shotgun like some of them are much much older than a 20 year old olympia you know gymnast. And it's just different different strokes for different folks like i think it's i think they probably feel different because again when they go to a tour event they are the number one names like rory mcelroy is walking around any tour event he is the biggest name in golf when he's at an event right everyone wants his signature everyone wants his picture everyone's media wants time with him he's going to olympics. And not only maybe is he he's not even the biggest name in his country potentially. But for the sport so i'm not sure who else represents ireland but let's say let's say okay yeah tommy fleetwood let's say gb um they're not even the biggest athletes in their team never mind they're not even close to the most famous athletes in the olympics are they really question another other point then.

Again just kind of thinking different angles do you think that kind of again that kind of semi-imposter syndrome may. Or may not kick in but when like we said how it it's obviously amazing if a golfer wins gold silver bronze whatever. But it's nowhere near the pinnacle of the sport whereas like a swimmer it is yeah. So do you almost feel like tommy. And that might obviously they're probably made up to be then.

They wanted to be the hence why they've gone but jack and they feel weird that like it's not as big for them as it is. For other sports i i think it's different. For a number of reasons and i'm not sure if i touched it touched on it last time in the podcast i think i did about like the financial like these guys certainly tommy rory poor casey they're doing pretty well. For themselves against some of these other athletes like the woman who charlotte uh worthington who won the gold in bmx freestyle right she's from manchester she's she just won gold but she's not earn the money that rory's won in case he's won not none of the golfers like but she's walking away with gold and i think i think that side of things i think that would be very different. For the golfers because they're going in multi-millionaires this isn't going to break their their world whatever it may be. But i think that's where again a lot of the players when they were there almost subtracted their own personal achievements this is an achievement i'm trying to get. For the team but for the country for that for for i want to go back to slovakia which we're going to come on to in a minute with rory sabatini i i want to represent the country i i'm it's not me. So much yeah i get to keep the medal i get all the praise. But i'm also helping with the medal tally i'm helping with the team you know because often you see this thing where in and i've seen other athletes say it like the swimmers have done really well this year because they took massive inspiration from like the cyclist from previous years and i think it's that whole like if the whole team is producing really well. And if and if tommy or paul casey could have got gold for gb who knows that might have inspired somebody else in the gb team to also push on and get a medal you don't know coming to the golf so that's one thing i've seen from the players a lot of the players felt very very positive of it the golf course looked outrageously amazing i knew nothing about the golf course and don't even ask me how to pronounce the name of it because i don't know it looked like augusta but just not as good yep not as pristine very very augustus it's been around for 20 odd years it looks amazing i think the format isn't the format that should be played right now always be honest now hand on heart by the sunday no. And that's for me though sorry i jumped the question there yeah how much did i watch before that yeah no yeah. And there's two reasons one a little bit because of the time delay so with it being in tokyo the it was very much played overnight here. Or super super early in the morning that's one thing um but you have me the time to watch the other sports though but they seem to be on because you should watch them on red button catch up with because it's all like it's condensed that's see that's what i'm getting to then.

It's not the time it's that be honest golf is boring over four days yeah. For most of them so it's much more condensed and i think um unless you had apparently discovery plus which i was going to sign up. For that during time you could watch it all so i'd love a sky sports to jump in and air it all or or bbc three or something to air it all but they're not when they look at the list of olympic sports golf isn't the most exciting to watch you know what they should do simple i know we had last week all these different formats. And some were a bit silly tongue. And cheeks some were genuine what about 36 holes 18 in the morning caught 18 in the afternoon. So much easier so much easier because then.

You could do things like match play you could do your mixed doubles you could do your best of all your foursomes. For me i think there should be. So many more disciplines in golf like you have swimming you have all these different medals available under the category of swimming golf you've got two medals two gold medals available one for men one for women done well i think there's. So much more that could be done like you've got the athletes there and maybe more athletes would go if there's more chance of winning more medals i think yeah i think. For me obviously now we've had essentially two olympics of in modern times so next.

Olympics it might be more of a thing and so forth if it i'm kind of fairly happy as the tournament is it's four days it's not the most exciting. But fine whatever but if the next.

Olympics all the big big names were desperate to be in it had always had to be in it. And they were like i want to win this as much as i want to in a major. Or more than and i actually really believed that i think i would get a lot more behind it it's just trying to change that perception that it's almost on the level of a major which at the minute it's not let's be honest. But if it could get to that i think golf's had a really bad start because you remember in 2016 in rio. And i forgot this it was mentioned on the comment tree the other day remember that was it called ziki virus. Or something oh not really no there was a virus that affected rio olympics don't remember that just google it quick my laptop's gone dead i almost spelling it just put this virus um olympics rio there was definitely a virus that was going around that stopped a lot of athletes going ezekie. Or something oh yeah ziki virus remember it not really now i i forgot about it until one of the commentators said i remember. So many athletes not going because of that virus. And obviously this year again we've got coronavirus and i think there's been gold. For starting in 2016 in rio which again there was lots of controversy about the the olympics there in rio the safety bloody barbara this virus that i forgot about you've then.

Got tokyo again similar situation it was it was the coronavirus i think next.

Time in three years that's all we've got to wait. For the next.

One it's in paris yeah. And hopefully there's no virus. And and i think because of where its location is i don't know what golf course they're playing it on i have no idea potentially i think that years the third year we'll be doing it the olympics golf in the olympics i think that time is a real time to say right let's get let's really try. And get the best players in the world because rory went this year because he was gutted when watching rio. And justin rose doing really well like he was gutted that he wasn't there. And again this year is i mean a lot of big names tried to go ram bryson yeah brooks i don't think brooks tried to go a lot of big names tried to go. But they couldn't they got restricted or whatever or time restrictions or whatever it may be i think paris i would love to see different formats i'd love to see different ways of of playing the game 100 i joked on twitter. And it kind of got slated a bit i would see a long drive tournament in in golf we see shot port that's effectively a long drive with a ball over your shoulder let's make it olympic sports shot put like i think if you if you really made a week of sport. And gave it a platform to be aired on sky on rickshaw's golf youtube channel i'm happy to take the riots for it and air it and show people how amazing sport is in golfers. And olympics and make it exciting i think you've got really a really good product yeah going back to the winners i'm i'm really glad to have the shuffly one i said it last i want a big name to win it. And he deserves his name it's a massive name whether it changes his life probably not but he's an olympic medalist he's a gold medalist there's only two of them in modern era him and justine rose that's gotta be add something i'm very confused about rory sabatini yeah. So he's obviously south african and his wife is from slovakia. And his stepson and i believe in 2019 he switched to be a slovakian citizen and people thought that was just to basically get an olympic team. So i'm not sure on that so i'll read well it worked and he won silver medalist after no you stuff to shoot the lowest one of the lowest scores he went out. And shot 61 final round fair dues is on that platform. For a silver medal ct pan from chinese taipei which is taiwan effectively right. And is it it's just taiwan republic of china. Or something or not is it separate it's just taiwan. So gathered online um he took silver medalist actually held off kalimarakawa in in the final seven-man play-off that's what made it really exciting there could have been three playoffs i'm adds that yeah it could have been play-off. For gold i know that wouldn't work then.

Would it no because then.

Second would have got yeah. But then.

What would have happened if would have been it probably would have been if there was a 10 tied. For gold you've had a gold winner then.

It probably would have been a playoff for silver and then.

For bronze i imagine i get it i'm just reading about this chinese taipei um it's just taiwan isn't it yeah there was something about i saw it on wikipedia who knows what to believe on there. But it's something that organized some of the representative pub republic of china known as taiwan yeah it's just i don't understand it is it's taiwan it's fascinating fair use to him had his wife on the back um i did rory sabatini weirdly enough um a conversation that did get put out there should the caddies win a medal no caddy doesn't win an open-class job does he no. But the only defense is you know the the cock's at the front of a boat yeah they win a medal i know. But that is that's kind of i think that's the same. For every one of those events they would win something but you don't like so you don't win a green jacket for your caddy at the masters do you know i would like to have seen if you had to have the same caddy as your country. So if you're american you have to have an american caddy if you're english or great britain you have to have a gb caddy i i would be happy if the caddies took a medal personally or they don't have a caddy how does the caddy make money they're not going. For that either they're going. For the most the caddies are obviously millionaires. Or not but very well off yeah because think about to be a to be in the olympics most of the guys are the elites you tommy's your casey's they've got the normal caddy with him who's getting 10 every week. Or whatever though so they're going to be well off i think the coaches got medal. Or they don't have caddies really yeah 100 um then.

Women's this week same golf course same format um it'll be interesting now how much air time that gets because again just the men just got no air time. So i can't imagine women getting any more can you can you blame it though i don't think you can boring nick you just need a platform where it's that just shows though you've watched every olympic sport going. And you only watched an hour well three hours i got up early on sunday i must admit it was done. For like 10 o'clock yeah much you've watched few hours i've watched four hours. And you're a golfer and i am as well it just needs to be whether i don't know it needs to be too late let's just end this now because there's a lot of olympics chat but it needs to be it's a bigger event in which case i want to watch it's so big or it's a different format yeah. So many people were asking me though where'd you watch it like. So many people didn't know where to watch it which is mad. And i didn't really i didn't know it was going to be on bbc because certainly on the bbc when you go on to olympics it just says bbc olympics it doesn't massively say what it's going to cover it doesn't say we're going to cover three hours of golf because i i 100 thought when it got to the seven man playoff they're just going to cut this then.

We're not even going to watch the playoff because something else is going on. And they're over schedule or whatever that could have quite easily happened luckily they stayed live and it was good i enjoyed it. For it i enjoyed it it's good i'd like to see more of it and i'd like to see different formats definitely cool we'll have the same chat in three years but speaking of the olympics let me run it it got me thinking about achievements in golf so regardless of whether the olympics is as big achievement as a major. Or not it's still some achievements winning the olympic meddling golf but unfortunately rick there's only probably 0.001 percent of the golfing population who go on to be tour pros and have the potential to play the olympics or whatever it might be so i wanted to hear from our listeners and from you and a little bit from me as well i know what i'm going to say. But about our best golf and achievements okay. So obviously with golf what's unique is there can be. So many different abilities obviously you can have scratch handicappers 28 handicaps coming playing together their perception of an achievement. And of good and of good golf and being happy of how they've played is. So different so i asked the question on our facebook page which again quick plug if you're not on it it's the rickshaws golf show podcast on facebook and i put we want to hear your biggest and best golfing achievement it could be breaking 100 winning the club championship etc etc so i'm going to tell you about mine. So people are watching the podcast will see i have got on the desk a trophy it looks quite good as well doesn't it you commented on before that it had a closed club face. But clubface can twist. So if let's play draw can open it it'll fade close it etc. But this is the hoffwood golf club 2004. So i was 13 years old order of merit junior section winners. So that's going to go on the back over there i got it from mum's house of a day. But the reason i brought it it's a bit of a joke but i was 13 turning 14 in 2004. And the order of merit was um a tournament were well yeah you had golf comps probably every week certainly the summer maybe one. Or two a week and it was a fur format. But also difficult because if you won a comp you got four points right second place you got three third you got two and then.

Just for playing you got a point so if you won a comp but then.

You had your holiday summer holiday missed two your four points was not worth as much as other people just played in three. Or three points anyway and also at the time we had some really quite decent juniors so that was the era where like golf was my absolute life got dropped off in the morning the golf club practiced all day had a chip butty pint up the pint of orange squash playing. For a pro v1 backspin comps you know it and that kind of laughing a little bit now tongue-in-cheek but at the time that club champs was my absolute goal to win that. And i managed to win it hence i got this lovely trophy um but i've probably done another thing since that never been a great level of golf but still to me that is something i was. So proud of the time and still kind of am but i want to hear from you and from our listeners as kind of mere mortals as normal everyday golfers what was their biggest golfing achievement. So i don't know if you've got one lined up we're going to run through a few firsts. So we've got loads of good ones and what i like is the variety. So this one is from scotty haswell you got a bit of a coffee all right yeah sure have to do a quick test after this i've done one oh is it all bad yeah it's fine great uh some scotty haswell says i've been playing golf um. For eight months now and i broke 100 for the first time the course i played my first 18 at um to top it off it was the last time i'll play that as i've just moved up to get a new job i know sorry i've just stopped yeah. So i've moved in my other county so basically or do you even say country country. So long story short he's playing golf eight months not very long broke hundreds that's a great achievement at the course he first played he's only playing that course again probably ever so that was a nice one um this is just again shows the levels chris deesborough he's got a little picture. And he said um i shot 115 um which is a big achievement. So far and he also beat his mate so on the scorecard he's got his mates shot 120 and 137 so he won by a decent amount so again i'm guessing he's a fairly new golfer and tom ashworth has said my first birdie after starting back to golf this year after a 26 year break it was on a path four um it was a straight drive then.

A four hybrid. And a ten foot pot nice couple more um hugo loch love played in a team match play event right it was eight single match plays. But all the players of 11 handicapped or high so it must have been like the mid whatever it's called and but we played off scratch i played my best 11 holes of my life and beat my opponents eight and seven i was two under gross. For the 11 holes oh my goodness so he's basically played unbelievable golf couple more and i want to hear yours uh aaron bainbridge started golf in april broke 90th the first time ever so he was made up um thomas astle about six months ago i got my first eagle it was a par five 500 yards it was good drive good five. And six foot and then.

Knocked in the putt so what i'm trying to get here is obviously quite a lot of good ones i've got even more. But this is quite good actually to end on connor um plu i got seven pounds in a row on my birthday oh nice well well that is what i like about golf that sort of any sport. But something with golf there's so many different ideas of success and of achievements and and what makes us happy so that guy that walked off the course that shot 115 was absolutely buzzing yeah there might be a guy trying to make 100. For the first time who thinks he can do it he shoots 115. And he's devastated that guy actually might shoot 95 be over the moon he's playing partner wants to break 70 or break 80 or whatever and doesn't like there's all these different like definitions of success and achievements i think that is why people enjoy golf. For so long because you can you you you can move the goal post again when you get older you can try. And shoot your age or you can you know whatever it may be you can always reassess your goals you asked me this question last night i did. And i'm struggling like i never won anything when i was growing up i won bits. And bobs unions and stuff but like i never feel like there was anything that i really really set out to win. And won it i never went i i always wanted to win the club champs at the golf club i grew up didn't annoyingly like close even when i turned yeah they came second i think i came second a few times. And like even when i turned pro i wanted to win like a pro event and didn't um so i don't know it's probably a tough one probably the one i'd fall back on if you you forced me for an answer but is it a bit of luck as well probably the holy one i got at uh um west lance in open qualifying um it would have been nice if that was to get a hole in one. And pad last to qualify let's say it was a it was almost a token holy one because it didn't really change the result that much. But that was pretty impressive because it was in front of loads of people. And my first hole in one and to actually have it at a tournament rather than just on a saturday afternoon playing with my mate or something so that was quite that was quite impressive. And i got a nice nice tie from the open and i kept the flag and the ball and all those things so probably that's my one but i almost kind of put that down to a little bit of luck as well which is annoying because obviously i tried to hit the shot. And tried to get as close as i could but i couldn't control that like it wasn't going around 18 holes. And putting up putting a proper class round together so i think there's a lot of achievements that i'd like to look into in the future um. But whether it's going to change my life i'm not sure i don't know if i'm that bothered like i think it's very much about how much you play golf as well because a lot of these people are commenting i probably might be new to golf. Or matt played for ages but probably quite hardcore golfers yeah where those kind of scores mean a lot to them you're at your point now where your golf is your job well i'm i'm in between if if i wanted to achieve more goals i'd have to play a lot more i'd have to do a lot more i'd have to practice a lot more i'd have to enter tournaments. And things like that which is not really what i want to do. So bah i don't know i don't know what then.

What would be my goal what would be something i'm trying to achieve let's say i don't know i'd love to break 665 but let's say just you and me went out and did it i wouldn't i wouldn't count it as a goal like if it was just you. And me playing on random thursday i'd be like i've shot i've managed to 600 today.

Maybe 2022 we can set you a goal on the podcast that you've got to do. And we'll all class as a success cheer one anyway if anyone else has got any ideas of maybe we'll cover it a little bit next.

Week maybe you can have some time to think if you want to send us an email with your biggest golf achievement if you're not a member of the facebook group you can email us podcast rickshields.com i'm constantly holding my mic a lot again people have been commenting about that. But i like it it feels comfy matt how far have we done all right so i've done my 50 minutes just double issue with apple which you mentioned every week where they can't go much over an hour so we'll wrap it up in a minute but that tastes quite a serious one do you we talked a lot about golf yeah is that good i think. So okay it's a golf podcast after all see what we could actually do before we go to the last section we've not had many people rate the podcast on apple as much recently okay. And as i've said before people are in the clubhouse you're friends. And people that rate the podcast five stars are also your favorite i have a few people coming up to me asking me. For 50 pound notes which is a little bit well i remember that time we're in the trafford center. And some guy come up to you and said hi rick i'm from the podcast i've read it five stars. And you weirdly went to uh curry's and bought him a 50-inch plasma telly it was a bit excessive that was weird. So i'm not saying it every time but if you do rate the podcast see we can real life tell him you might buy your treat up to a value of 489 pounds anyway um. So yeah rate it five stars if you can i really don't rate it one star. And call me a ferret face because that did upset me i actually like the ferret face. But please don't call me face to get a reaction because it was actually quite good looking at getting a ferret head cover possibly speaking of head covers speaking of merch okay it's coming yes it is hopefully hopefully soon i keep telling i keep being told i've got samples on the way. But no samples have arrived just. Yet the good news is though what we have seen isn't just rubbish nonsense it is good stuff nice stuff. And i think possibly in putting words in your mouth here. But podcast listeners might be the first to know about it certainly some of the stuff yeah definitely. So if you're interested in that it's coming soon and it's going to be good it's not just going to be nonsense because what we didn't want to do we didn't want to get you some merch just got like a rubbish t-shirt. Or the logo on that you just get on the internet for like 20 quid it's garbage you know that's because this stuff is premium i want to come on to the final topic have you got anything else to do i had a dear rick okay which is can i just do this quick because it's something i need help with. So it's a dear rick um i don't think he needs to be anonymous i'm going to call him his name is danny he is from british columbia in canada. And he says due to covert and lack of hobbies take part in i've recently taken to golf i go to driving range three or four times a week and usually hit my local course about twice a week but the issue i'm having is when i'm at the driving range it seems like i can hit every shot straight as narrow. And thanks largely to your videos online i figured out how to swing my driver and i've been driving an average of 250 yards carry but it seems as soon as i'm on the golf course it's like i forgot to hit the golf ball all of a sudden i'm slicing the balls i'm topping the ball my irons and it's all downhill from here mind you i've only played golfbot three or four months so i understand it takes time uh but is this common. And how can i overcome it i think less practice on the range. And more perhaps on the course if you can i it's not it's as we mentioned earlier on in the podcast like perhaps on the range is. So unrealistic to being on the golf course so if you can go out quiet night. And and use more time to you know drop balls on the golf course obviously i know some golf course a bit funny with this sort of stuff aren't they sneaky drop golf like go and hit multiple tee shots and and put what you're putting on the practice range into play on on a practice round without competition and then.

As you get more comfortable and you feel more more um you know happy to be able to pull off those shots that you've seen on the driving range out in the golf course in practice those shots will also then.

Creep into your actual tournament play as well. So if you can practice as much you can on the golf course i think when you. And you're here and you speak to a lot of better players certainly tour players they spent a lot more time on the golf course and maybe we've realized and like even like pulter where we said before practicing at this wonderful facility it's like perhaps on the golf course he's got the best of both worlds yeah. But not a lot of people get a chance to do that quick one when you were coaching a lot of times did you because i fight think that i'm out on the range. But i don't think that's necessarily because it's like flat lies i think it's because i'm more confident because i can hit it hard if i do it a weird one it doesn't match the range. But the ball was on the course i almost then.

Try. And steer it and get scared do you see that a lot coaching. So like people hit it hard or trying it too hard on the range they get it well of course you don't yeah. So obviously on a driving range there's no hazards like there's no trees there's no um even even in your peripheral vision it's open yeah you don't see anything to the left-hand side if you're around the gulf you don't see trees you're not looking up going oh i can't go left out of bounds left i can't go right it's a pond like there's nothing there to stop you from you know hitting just just whacking it like a lot of time enough this is one thing you could take from the driving range on the golf course a lot of time when you're a range you'll pick a target in the distance a tree a 250 banner. Or whatever it is look at that. And hit it at that you don't look at the net you don't look at on the right side of another green you look at your target and you hit at that target it's harder on the golf course because one your target isn't a big sign in the background yeah of the gulf hole it's just not it's normally you have to pick a point of a tree. Or you've got to pick out the edge of a bunker or whatever it may be and then.

Just imagine like the third hole at the marriott which is a really tree-lined exit out of the hole like you're looking at. And going oh my god like this is quite slim i've got to feed it through this gap i can't go right i can't go left i remember that time when i hit it right. And lost the ball right so all those things all those exterior factors come into play um driving range you've got bucket balls you've got no hazards you've got a target to aim. For bish bash brush off you go you know what else we do. And i think i'm i i'm a culprit of this because i've just said to you about on the range. And i probably would say i do. And i'm sure daniel does. But if we went to the range now right and i know i wouldn't go in straight with driver but sometimes i might even be in silly or even if i don't fit some wedges first then.

Get to driver if i go block miles right snap up left i just go wait a minute i'll go in a minute maybe another bad one then.

Hit maybe three good ones in a row i'm going to look at them smoked ones. And you kind of just put the other ones down so it wasn't quite loose but if you watch the golf course on our first hole outbound right next.

Toe left third hole lost again and then.

Finally hit one good one you're thinking i've had three double bogeys yeah. So it's more i think we do it bad shots on the range. But we're just so onto the next.

Shot in a good way we forget about it those bad shots in the golf course are what costs us yeah what i mean. And even like this new technology like the top trace and things like that you can just delete that shot exactly if you go. For a fitting you hit a bad chart you just delete it that's it where you know also taking into that factor let's say you have it out of bounds right on the first hit in the water on the left and whatever on the third you've lost it by time you get to the fourth you're actually not swinging full and freely yeah you're thinking oh crap i'm just racking up a big score here i best hit my five wood. Or our best hit smoothly very true i need to change my swing because whatever it may be so yeah if you can if you can be realistic on the driving range you don't hit every shot perfect try. And test yourself on the driving range your last 10 shots like pick out an imaginary fairway and monitor how many shots you hit through that imaginary fairway and write it down you might get six out of ten okay that's fine next.

Time you go try. And beat it because when you get on the golf course you put yourself under a bit more pressure good answer last bit you have something yes i want to congratulate dan gavins oh yes. So this weekend was the world um well it was ispa sorry isps handle world invitation in ireland it's hosted by modest management which is nile horan's management company um very unique event they had a tournament. For disabled golfers a tournament for women golfers and also for men the prize fund certainly for the women women and the men with equal the european tour isn't it an led yeah led european tour um lots of big names in both sides of the women. And and the men um first off shout out to um brendan lawler who um won the disabled i think he now becomes the number one disabled golfer in the world wow nice um he won it in prolific style he seems like a really really nice guy i've never met brandon um i would love to at some point. But i think he's now the number one disabled golfer in the world he's doing amazing things amazing awareness. For disability in golf and he did a great speech after. And you know basically said it's not just. For him he's doing it for disabled golfers he's almost flying the flag but i don't really know that many names of that many disabled golfers but by him really so he's making it aware he's doing a great job of that uh so well done to him i think he's also managed by modest as well. So they're probably pushing him and supporting him but he's done a great job then.

I'll try and pronounce the lady winner uh para para ree i'm making a mess of this already anna rook on won the women's okay don't know much about her i really apologize. But she won the women's i wanted to cover that and then.

Dan gavins yeah. So this is crazy a crazy crazy crazy story. So i knew dan threw a couple of mutual friends one called gaz another one called liam and liam is um liam harrison from golf mates uk who used to come to see me. For golf lessons and i actually kind of initially helped him set up his youtube channel many many years ago he's doing great things now he's really set up a really cool community of all these golf mates and they go and play different places i have golf days etc etc and on his channel he's had dan gavin's on this channel quite a few times like as a tour pro player now in that weird time frame we went out to lumina and shot a video of final qualifying and we picked six players and one of them being dan gavin yeah because i kind of loosely knew him through liam through gaza kind of loosely knew him. So made a connection there and he actually qualified we went out with him for a drink that night he went out for a few drinks because he he became the monkeys he became a european tour player yeah. And was that 2017 18 i think that was. So in 2018 he's now got what we what we've now learned from james robinson and a few others almost like a third division pass to the european tour yeah. So it doesn't get you in everything but it was it was okay it was a starting block over the last three years he's had okay success well i've been monitoring his success. So so forth and so he's had a couple of uh he's gone from ping to callaway whatever whatever in the last three or four months i've noticed i've got i've got him his favorite on my european tour page he's been trending very very nicely making cuts getting into contention doing very nicely now this event in ireland i don't know how it happened i've not spoke i've spoke to dan i've not spoke to liam yet liam ended up caddying for dan which is not the first time he's actually done it in the past at a match play event where they actually came eighth i believe. So liam from golf mates uk who's like say kind of an old client of mine who i've had lots of connections with over the past few years is caddying. For dan gavin's liam is not a professional caddy he's just a mate of dance right um comes to the final round. And dan's miles back he's five or six shots behind i think dave horsey was the leader after day three. And it's really interesting because after day three there is actually cut. So there's only a limited amount of 40 odd people in the final day dan gavins goes out and gets to 13 under par for the tournament i think he shoots 500. For the final day nice but even when he posts that 13 under par i'm sure there's players still with plenty of holes to play who are who've got a bet scored in him. But with dan has the clubhouse lead as it progresses through through the afternoon players drop off dave halsey who was leading who had to make power on the last hole to win ends up making double bogey ouch dan gavins is left at 13 under. And the lowest player and wins dan gavins wins with the european tour event on the back golf mates uk on the bag or golf logs uk whatever it's called now called golf mates it used to be golf logs uk i think i came up with golf clubs uk name. But now you're partly successful well to be honest we're filming with dan yeah. So i feel like my lucky child delayed lucky charm yeah we actually i actually told dean pulter that was a lucky charm. So no pressure there if i do film with him he has to go. And win but big shout out to dan i'm sure it's not been easy it's it's like say he's in that weird frame where he's putting in the work might not be making shed loads of money this has given him a massive boost that's 200 000 euros nice 200 000 euros whatever you know amazing victory um to have a victory hopefully it means he has confidence builds on wins more uh and who knows he becomes a flagship name on the european tour where at the moment he's kind of on the cut mark of a bit of challenge to a bit european tour but big should give him some stuff though now if he's won big time and it's a good event to win you know with the presence of nile horon uh who was from one direction he's kind of it got a lot of press this event more than maybe just a normal event would get because his name was behind it. So big shout out to dan well done dan well done liam um i don't know what you do to him. But you definitely make him play better golf which is six months in between shots. And jokes gets him plenty of guinness after each round um is that it yeah um you're on holiday next.

Week. So i'm not sure if we do a podcast end of this week that'll just go out people won't know you're even away. Or might have a week off who knows i'll get dan gavin's on i'd be good what do you think we're gonna put do one yeah we will do one definitely um. So that's it people people won't know you're off then.

Basically so forget i said that rick's down all day lounging around i don't get holidays guys thanks. For listening thanks for watching stay tuned lots more to come and that was episode 89 sorry if people want to watch it seeing a trophy make sure you watch on youtube [Music].