Welcome back to the rick shields golf show podcast everybody i'm your host rick shields i'm back with co-host guy how are you pal very good how are you i'm good i feel like we've got too much to talk about. And not enough time got a load of time look at it you go away for a week and the golf world explodes i was on holiday i was in new york had a great time. But i was absolutely glued to my phone on twitter hashtag livegolf hashtag pga tour look at the rumors. And it was mental well we're going to come on to that without question we're going to have a proper chat about live golf um the positives the negatives feedback um you sneakily undercover actually went a mustache on um. But first off did you have a nice holiday i did thank you i went to new york as you know. And did all the tourist stuff at like an absolute pig. But weirdly didn't put a pound on no way the walking dead loads i did 30 000 one day. And every day was like 20k what yeah it was mad. So i was getting up having huge breakfasts is that right breakfast breakfast if you had if you had multiple breakfast i kind of did because you had omelette potatoes toast. So there you go and i'd get like a massive pack of m m's just eat them i didn't even want them just eat them come on holiday why not big lunches burgers all that kind of stuff and um what's annoying is the dr pepper i'm a big dr pepper fan it's loads more sugar than i was like triple the sugar. So i was drinking that like there's no tomorrow over the top. But i've not put a single pound on yet it's about hitting me like two weeks time no wobbling. But so far so good it was great we'll talk about walking i'm gonna express something i'm doing this week which is just even though you you're doing 30 000 steps a day i might just hit i think you will. But we'll come on to that what's the best thing you did in new york um oh that's a good question a boat trip around manhattan island was nice seeing um went to the top of the rockefeller center looking over the city that was good watched harry potter on broadway nice that was good um it was three. And a half hours long though did get a little bit bored yeah. And it was long. But it was good um central park no it's just pure water um. And they also have different flavors of monster that you can't get over here so just reminiscing shocking going to the 7-eleven all the time buying cans of monster you can get the red one you can't get the red one anymore. But you can get the orange one which means old favorite interesting interesting. But it was good. But as i said i was absolutely glued to my phone i'll be honest we could do this little thing where we'd go out. For the day come back to the hotel like an hour's like little sleep rest and then.
Go out for like the kind of evening and that hour slash half an hour slash two hours maybe sometimes three hours of um relaxing was actually scrolling. And it was looking at liv golf on twitter well these i just want to get a clean take on this this is my thoughts on live golf oh wow um first off i genuinely believe the golf world has never seen. So much publicity outside of the world of golf this week like it's been on bbc news sky sports news constantly massive articles written about it like i said it's all over twitter all over instagram you literally wouldn't have needed to be living under a rock if you've not seen this week that live golf had its first ever invitational event at centurion club just outside london this week um first of its kind 54 holes shotgun start 48 players who were then.
Made up into a from a draft party into 12 teams including the fire balls the crushers the majestics which was my favorite team actually it was english um numbers of differences we have never seen in the world of golf ever huge prize funds record-breaking checks being written this week no cut every player in the field made lots of money new signings were announced even while the event was going on yeah like literally live breaking news. So it started off this week we saw dustin johnson's being the headline player followed by phil mickelson yes. And then.
There was a selection of a lot of very well known players lee westwood ian poulter sam horsfield charles schwartz. Or brandon grace the list goes on louis oosthazen major winners former world number ones ryder cup legends have all taken a gamble to play in this event because they didn't know the ramifications of playing in this event until they literally teed up on that thursday morning or thursday afternoon it was here in the uk. And the flyover of the planes and the and the the beefeaters were doing they're in the trumpets on the first tee. And then.
When they put their ball in the ground and teed off it got announced from the pga tour that they would all be suspended yes wow lots lots lots to take on i yeah i tried to think on my drive in today.
How best to almost like articulate my thoughts on it. And i'm really struggling and i don't want to kind of sit on the fence but i think to some degree my overriding kind of point is probably going to be quite on the fence because there was parts of it that i really enjoyed. And um there was parts of it that i didn't enjoy. And i almost hate so it was it was really weird like you said at the start i actually went on friday. So i was still off work last week obviously as you know. And on thursday night i was thinking should i go. And watch it and i thought no it's three hours there it's three hours back i'm not that bothered. And then.
I thought well it's not gonna be in england again for until next.
Year yeah until next.
Year at best potentially it's the first one. And although everybody can rightly. So have an opinion on this because of where the money's coming from and lots of different reasons you can't really have an opinion on the actual event itself unless you've been really because what you can see on social media can sometimes be not quite true. So for example the things that live were putting on made like it was like a rock concert the best thing since sliced bread. And some people on twitter make it like it was absolutely dead. And it was just absolutely a ghost town. And in reality it was somewhere kind of in the middle um. But it was from from a fan's point of view if you went to that event. And you didn't know where the money was coming from let's just put that. And it was a massive huge issue just one minute let's just put that to one side if you walked in it was very good it was very well organized you got like you went in you showed your ticket you got kind of scanned. And searched felt kind of very safe you went into kind of the tented village area and it was nowhere near as big as the open would be obviously. But it was very good there was loads of places you could buy food from drinks from the toilets are really clean which might again sound silly. But it's things that you want on site at the golf event the from a spectator you could see a lot you could see yeah i went to go. And watch dustin johnson phil nicholson and sam horsfield now obviously that was the marquee group. So it was quite busy it was about six people deep it was it was felt that felt more like actually an open maybe not like obviously i'm watching tiger. Or somebody but it felt like watching you know a middle of the road to high level name at the open that kind of level of business if that makes sense it'd probably be like seeing that group yeah it probably would be to be fair because although these guys here are huge names at the open you might also have rory on the next.
T justin thomas. So kind of that business would have got more spread if that makes sense um but yeah you could see the golf really well you could certainly watch some other people in almost like one to one because the guys that aren't as big a name obviously had less of a following you could get even closer to those guys as i said the tentative village was great they were selling merch which looked good quality. But i'm not sure many people would want to be wearing a stinger's cap just yeah people were buying it yeah i actually saw believe it. Or not with my own eyes a number of people a considerable number of people buying stuff walking around with the caps on uh the live golf caps that the franchise team caps genuinely people buying it because that's something i didn't pick up on from the youtube feed yeah like i didn't from from visual i didn't watch every single minute. But i i didn't see anybody with an actual team hat on yeah don't be wrong it wasn't people fighting over in the last few it wasn't rammed. But there were there was notable people buying them. And um the demographic was really quite interesting as well it was kind of fairly young in the most part. But it wasn't just young kids and there was older people. But the big thing to remember here is i think 90 of people have got free tickets. And you know if they'd have kept that original price of 70 quid i think it would have been it would have been a ghost town well we covered the price of the tickets quite a few weeks ago this would be stupid all the names would have even been announced at all not a single name had been announced. And it was way too expensive. And obviously they had a big youtube u-turn on that because they mustn't have sold any tickets yeah a lot of the players were giving free tickets out. And i must admit i didn't know how many people are going to turn up until i turned on youtube with 15 minutes to go before the shotgun start. And i was like wow it's busy i didn't get a gate number was it it was it would have been in the thousands was it about fifteen thousand a day yeah i'm not fully sure i know sunday was at capacity sorry saturday he wanted to call it sunday saturday was at capacity it felt busy on the day i was actually the friday i don't know the exact number um. But from that point of view you couldn't really fault it and something for the first one that would be the one weird thing if there's any teething problems this will be the one. And for my eyes when i was there as a spectator you couldn't really fault it what was watching the golf like in the shotgun start capacity yeah well that's that was live yeah that was weird because we went again straight to go. And watch dustin so it was naturally very busy um. But what's weird is the kind of i don't think this is good. Or bad really it's weird the tented village was rammed then.
It goes 15 minutes till t off whatever like an announcement. And then.
It kind of opens up everyone moves away so we then.
Went to the golf course and followed those guys a little bit and then.
We kind of ended up almost weirdly making our way back to the tented village because of where we located and it was still it was it's a lot more empty because obviously most people are on the golf course watching the golf there's still a bit of a of a vibe there there are still people mulling around. And buying drinks and getting food but it felt a lot more quiet than like it would do at the open because at the open again there's people always at the scented village having a drink having some coffee. Or whatever because typically if you go to the open you would want to get there very very early and you'd want to be there until very late yeah because the first typically before 7 a.m. And then.
It continues till way past 7 p.m where the event there that wasn't the case like you leaving manchester uh you know for a two o'clock shotgun start you had loads of time to get there yeah you didn't feel like you were probably missing out on anything did you no that was the thing. But we only stayed for a problem we stayed for probably three hours we were there. For less time than each side of the journey took us to honest with you but i didn't really want to go and see the gulf bizarrely because i've seen that thankfully so many times at the open and stuff and i'm sure i'll luckily get to see it again it was more to see the actual event um. But what was interesting though you think like people are um naturally online having lots of negative things to say which we will come on to. For for several reasons i wonder how many people uh were also kind of in that camp. But just wanted to go and see it for themselves and if that if it will keep that level of interest going forward from my angle i didn't go to the event um just. For this one i wanted to kind of watch from a distance to some degree and i watched a lot of it online as a lot of people know it was free on youtube which anyway. For any sporting event is a massive plus yes. For it to be free zero adverts and anybody in the world can watch it. And again i've seen a lot of really good points online a lot of younger people youtube is their tv that's what they watch everything on thankfully thank you everybody from a production standpoint i thought the production was very very good i thought the golf coverage was very good. For again a first event there was loads of cameras out on the golf course there was things like shot tracer was out there on the on the actual tees that's actually the shot tracer we use. But it wasn't all the time though that was the only thing that was a shame yeah i think that could definitely be improved um from a watching as a spectator again on youtube it looked busy it looked like there was an atmosphere the players looked relaxed definitely. And there was kind of a really nice five that was coming through the screen the commentators were obviously very experienced they've been doing this. For for years i felt like it maybe lacked a little bit in indifference like the commentary wasn't different to maybe what it could have been you know that suited behind the desk is what we've seen all the time on pj tour. And dp world tour that could have maybe been a little bit different a little bit more interactive and a bit more innovative we talked about innova invitation invitation about making things different i don't feel like the commentary was as different as it could have been leaderboard was bizarre down the left-hand side i didn't mind it being a left-hand side i get that i wasn't a fan of these abbreviated names i just didn't think it was necessary because it's doing the f1. But it kind of it's what you know in the f1 but i was looking at some of the names even the names that you know of. And you had to kind of take a double check as to who is that. And because the the logo at the side was the current like team logo that again didn't help you if you had like a logo of the flag the from like it would make it easy to call that sam horsefields is english. But it was a bit that was a bit weird um i loved. And genuinely watching it what i did like it was it was 215 tee off shotgun start yeah the coverage started at quarter to two. Or pretty much i think it was. Or was it bang on two actually anyway there wasn't a lot of time in the build-up it was kind of like quick arlo white was explaining the rules because it was a new concept a new idea. And all of that energy before was seeping through the screen yeah i had like butterflies i was like nervous. For him i was like oh my god this is the first event the first tee shots we're gonna see dustin johnson here this is big it feels like it feels like there's something happening here in the world of golf from that point i reckon i watched 15 minutes. And i was like oh i'm kind of done now i've kind of i've got my fix yeah i've kind of seen what it was because from that point it was actually quite hard to follow i found it quite challenging to understand who was actually doing well you know that you had the leaderboard. But people starting on different holes and have they gone through an easy stretch where there's a couple of easier path fives and these guys gone through a couple so i found that quite confusing i found that quite hard to to follow when it says at the top like 16 holes to play and then.
It goes to like 17 and then.
Sometimes 15 it's on that person isn't it so some obviously if there's a shotgun start some will play quicker. Or have shorter holes to start they'll have less holes to play yeah. And that was a little bit confusing um. But yeah it was one thing on that though the youtube factor one thing that i. And this isn't a revolutionary thing one thing i like is the fact that again with youtube you can pause it. So i was um i think i said to you before. But i was out. And about watching in the counter stopped and then.
Right had to start driving again paused it got back home just press play well you can't do that on any well i can't like my now tv where i would watch the european tour i can watch it on my phone. But i can't like pause and stuff that was a big selling point. For me there was um the other positive from the live stream is the fact that you can actually now right now i'm which on the youtube channel you could watch all the coverage from every day weirdly day one the live stream which was a shame because it would have shown the numbers of how many people were watching i think they had to delete that. And upload almost a recording of it because what happened was it started at two did you see this yeah they had all the bits before all like the post production pre-production was already kind of on there. So i think they have to delete it. And go again but day two for example this is a live stream on youtube five. And a half hours at 590 000 views and the final day live streams six hours seven minutes 775 000 000 views and they won't be unique viewers a lot of those might have jumped off and come back on but announced a lot of eyeballs on a golfer it is. And as i said those parts that i enjoyed i quite like how it's shorter 54 holes it really feels like it's a lot shorter doesn't it even just one round it feels a lot shorter it was quite easy to digest the fact that it's shot one start it's in a five-hour package i wasn't sold on teams just. Yet i think that felt like an afterthought i think the idea of teams when we had the interview with the andy gardner from the premier golf league which was a very similar proposed golf league that was a couple years ago the concept of teams. For those guys was going to be very much that you could have actual like franchises that in the offseason people people might get sold like he would in football. And and it was that excited me. And that may be what this becomes in a couple of years i think i think that is the idea i think that's what yeah yeah these will these are placeholder team names yeah. So let's just say you have team taylormade for example and you've got four guys who all you know use taylormade equipment to wear similar clothing whatever uniform one of them has a bad season that was a great season next.
Thing team callaway come with an offer. And it turns the head a bit like the f1 you can imagine that being really. For me anyway i would like that and that'll give you that kind of off season excitement i thought these random teams made no sense really there was obviously a south african team an english team. But they were thrown together i thought the names in on the whole were appalling having said that if you said to me you think of 12 golf team names i don't know where to start. But some of them just i mean four races was horrendous that was just something like a primary school would make fireballs just felt ridiculous iron heads i mean some of them were all right majestics potentially all right. But it was like punch golf clubs yeah golf club some of them were horrendous. But in a weird way already it sounds ridiculous first week i've i've not got that list in front of me we we reeled off probably six or seven of the names there out twelve that's true but then.
Will they stay because obviously some of these guys now are going to have to be kicked off because we know that bryson's coming pat perez is coming it was a secret read patrick reed's coming. So that means that three guys gonna go so and these those guys certainly bryson feels like he's a captain material and patrick reed probably as well so it feels that the team feel a bit kind of phony at the moment an afterthought and even when i was watching it i was never once thinking about the team element really. And that kind of comes on to my next.
Point really is i was very intrigued to watch it that's a big big word i was intrigued like you were i couldn't wait to see it actually in real life. And see what it was like was it going to fail was it going to be okay was it going to be good. And overall i would say probably was more on the good spectrum well considering a lot of the golfing world certainly the the golfing world from pj talk wanted this thing to fail yeah oh yeah ridiculously definitely. So considering how much things were stacked against it they did very well yeah. But like obviously last night which we'll probably come on to robert rory won his 21st pga tour title she's very clear she's one more than greg norman which is like yeah he made very clear um. But for me when you think of a golfer winning a major. Or a pj tour event or a dp world tour event or led whichever you know a serious event whether it's the first one or it's one that add into their collection it makes you look at them in a different way in it in a positive way so you know when danny willett won the masters he's not just danny will anymore he's a green jacket he's a master's champion exactly you know when somebody i remember when years ago now when phil nicholson won his first major i remember him not being him he was always the best player to have never won. And he finally won one what i don't know what year it was early 2000's i remember it though. And it was like he's now a major champion. And you could even look a little bit lower down the scale but when richard bland finally on the dp world tour it's like you have now won on the dp world tour with this charles schwartzel won the the first ever event you know he's already a major champion he's a big name he won i think was it four million dollars. And it's the the single thing i couldn't overlook this whole event the the number one thing i did not care. For one second how much money these guys were playing. For now it didn't for me for one second make it more interesting the only thing that i thought about it that made it arguably more interesting but was it the negative. So andy ogletree and he's obviously he has been he's only a young guy but he won the us amateur he won the low amateur at the masters when tiger wants to 2019 he can play golf as of late he's had very bad form. But he's naturally getting invites to things because he was the us open um u.s amateur champion sorry he shot 24 over par in three rounds of golf which could happen. But you know terrible level of golf let's be honest and 120 000 now that doesn't really sit right does it no there's definitely um yeah. But i don't i don't feel like last place should should you almost there should be a point i don't mind the no cut because again from a viewer standpoint if you'd bought tickets. And you're taking your dad and your brother on let's say the final day and you'd promise them you're going to see dustin johnson you're going to see phil mickelson. And they wouldn't have made the cut you wouldn't have seen them the fact you can guarantee they are going to be there is a huge benefit. For for the tv guys who are on youtube whoever going to stream it. And the spectators are going live yeah i almost think there should be some level of if you're not within 20 shots of the leader that's when you don't make money yeah. So you can still be there yeah you're still going to see your favorite golfers. But if you're not within 20 shots or whatever it may be 25 shots of the winner yeah you shouldn't be able to make money from that event well i'm just trying i'm not being rude i'm trying to pull up here. So sam horsefield you know friend of the channel been on the uh podcast being on obviously the main thing i have to get him back on again and ask what he thought about it well he came fifth and he very nearly came second actually but he came fifth and won in dollars obviously nine seven five nearly a million dollars so i think this exchange right now is not that great. For us so it's probably not far off let's say ninja grand sterling in he won on the uh dp world tour and he won 300 000 euros wow so he's essentially tripled it yeah you pulled it well yeah trip more like tripled it i think i don't know the exchange rates. But roughly let's just say tripled it you can see why these guys are tempted can't it's certainly the guys like assam who are early in their career who want to kind of set themselves a foundation a guy richard bland who you know is getting to although it was a peak of his career in some ways he'd argue more like the end of his career because of his age the ones that i think. And naturally a lot of people have an anger towards if you like is you dustin johnson's i believe his fee. For signing on was more than tiger's ever won on the golf course 125 million believe. So i think tiger's 120 on course obviously he's got loads more of course this weekend he was also announced as a billionaire yeah sports billionaire what a time to get that title by the way well that's the thing. But but you also think with you know when you look at the names now you actually have got a handful who are still super competitive. And competitive in majors you know you've got dustin you're going to have bro well bryce has not been brilliant. But really you've got bryson you've got patrick reed you know sam horse is on the up you've got i think there's any more names on there that really expect to see it you know well louise hayson does well in a lot of the majors you have got now roughly let's say six. Or seven guys on there who are genuine elite elite world-class golfers how many does it need before it almost you know look at the strength of the pj tour it's ridiculous. But how does liv need before is a real threat this event london one will be the weakest field live golf ever have you think. So yeah you can almost you know it's not going to get weaker from this point because you're adding more talent i think there's going to be a lot of talk this week at the u.s open there's going to be a lot of talk between players who played in the live. And players who didn't there might be some persuading going on there might be some encouragement going one way. Or the other it also might be quite frosty yeah it might be quite a hostile environment this week. For some of the guys who played and live certainly if they're going over to the us open. And you know they're walking past someone who is vocally against it like rory mcilroy they're not gonna be best friends this week allen let's be honest i can't imagine um. So there might be a lot of locker room talk there might be a lot of meetings with agents and management and it wouldn't surprise me the next.
Event which is in a couple weeks time um there'd be a lot more players signed up yeah it's a funny one because obviously the early guys let's be honest have gone. For the money they've they've used other excuses as well and said they love the shorter format they love the team. But ultimately they've gone for money and there's not really been anyone massively apart of maybe richard bland who's come out and said that. But somebody like rory has come out and said he wants to play on the pga tour because that's where the best players play. And i believe that but ultimately if more and more do start to go. And i mean i can't see it. But if it happens we'll live is literally the strongest players are playing would rory almost be forced to move i remember him saying that a few months ago now he doesn't want to go he's made that very clear. But he does want to play against the best players in the world. And if that's where the best players in the world are playing i could imagine him being forced to move over there potentially the next.
Event is in two weeks in portland uh that pumpkin ridge one was that the one after that that's punk ridge yeah. So in this time i think in this two week period where players have seen the event 100 a lot of players on the pga tour have been watching that live stream these last three days. And going out how much is i can beat charles warsaw i think i can beat him do you know what i mean why am i not making four. And a half million you're also going to get potentially partners wives girlfriends family going you can beat charles swartzel management going you can beat charles watson suddenly you're going yeah probably you know what i could why am i not earning four million you know what i mean. For three days work um but genuinely from from a from a fan from somebody who loves golf and love loves kind of i'm not a die-hard i don't watch every single event and i actually think it would have been impossible to watch every event this week yeah we couldn't. But i like watching mages like watching exciting golf hand on heart the money that they were playing. For didn't make it any more interesting for me one bit in fact i almost feel like the money has completely overshadowed the whole event i feel like they i don't want to be here without the money that's the thing but like in the crazy crazy sums of money these players are signing up. For the crazy money they're playing for and obviously where the money is coming from well yes is a huge sticking point. For a lot of people do you think. And rightly so it should be and i don't pretend to be educated enough or politically aware enough to really have a proper proper understanding of this but do you think. And and rightly so that's been such a big point here now will that almost dilute in time if this event gets better. And the players get better and in six months in a year in three years will people still feel that strongly about it no people will people will over overlook it i believe it is my opinion i believe that people will be very vocal on this first event that we saw. And rightly so like you say the human rights issues um you know the way that the the saudis have have treated people it's obviously very well publicized the fact that they're pumping so much money into it the talks of sports washing that gets branded out a lot um you know what are their intentions in it is it from the growing the game is it to build this amazing tour is it to pump money through sports you know it's very very interesting um. But i genuinely believe every single event i'd be surprised if it didn't i think people's opinion if it's a really really really good product if it gets better than what it was in london every single time i genuinely believe people will kind of overlook it rightly. Or wrongly but i believe that's what will happen you know what's interesting though again i'm not getting this debate massively in the people in the comments who will be much more articulate i guess. And knowledgeable than that than i could ever be but with the whole sports watching thing i understand the concept is that you put money into something to take the conversation away from your terrible human rights. And look at this glossy golf league we have when that concept makes sense but on the contrary to that if anything i feel and again i'd far from educated but i know a little bit more about the terrible things happening in saudi off the back of this league so in a way it kind of works oppositely it's like oh can it do both can you say you know what i'm now a little bit more aware. Or in some cases a lot more aware of how terrible things are in saudi that's atrocious i don't believe in it it's not how the world should be that's one thing. But you could also enjoy the golf as well like do you get what i mean like i definitely know a little bit more about it now. And i probably should learn more and more about it if this golf league hadn't come back in the last year or two i wouldn't have probably known any about that stuff to some degree almost publicized it a little bit that's what i mean yeah what was also very interesting talking about the money. And i don't believe it'll ever happen but it was quite an interesting headline at the presentation um yazir announced that any player that would shoot 54 which is like the perfect score. So 1800 pounds on a power 72 would be awarded 54 million dollars it's cool there's never going to answer things it's like we could say that we could say we're going to donate a billion quid some that shoots 18 over 18 holes it's not going to happen. But it's interesting right now yeah i think what's interesting can it keep this excitement the next.
Event i think you'll have the excitement because bryson's gonna be playing you know that attracts it that attracts me i must admit i'm not a massive perez fan. Or follower or patrick reed i don't massively like but um i'll be watching it for bryson but then.
Like the third event if there's nobody new signed by then.
It's just kind of the current field that we know about will i still be as excited as i was. For the first one i don't feel like i will. But only time will tell. So they have they will have to keep innovating. And keep you know really strengthen this team side of it to actually make it fresh and make people keep tuning in week out well no it's not week after week. But events after an event it's i think because it's it's eight this year. And ten next.
Year i think it's enough it's small enough to potentially build that momentum yeah if it was every week i think it would lose it would fizzle out yeah. But it's a bit again but like f1 f1 isn't every week there's only a certain amount of events and you can kind of get excited. For those certain events um i asked a question on what did people think on about live golf invitational um on twitter. And instagram very different responses i think twitter will be more against it it was polarized without question you know quite literally i'd read one comment that's saying this is the best thing ever you know amazing. For golf and there's actually the literal next.
Comment saying this is horrendous i can't ever watch it this is terrible it's it's literally as split as that i also did a poll on twitter. And this is quite different this is twitter poll um nearly 8 000 people voted 34 was four live 38 was against live. And 28 was neutral. So as a whole majority was against it. But a lot of those neutrals could probably go either way um and you'd probably say on twitter slightly older audience than instagram because on my instagram very very interesting i did a poll as again 29 loved it only 20 hated it 50 was not decided. So a much more kind of open-minded aspect on instagram and again slightly younger audience where do you sit it's a great question i was undecided when it kicked off i was unsure. And not quite seeing which way it was going to go i went into it incredibly open-minded from up from a product forget anything else forget what goes on behind the scenes. But from an actual product and i thought it was good not brilliant could be better you know i was interested. But as you mentioned would i be interested every single event we'll have to see so i think at parts i tipped to loving it. And parts are dipped back into undecided i don't believe there was ever a time where i hated it i was kind of somewhere between undecided love it undecided love it that's kind of where i sat what about yourself yeah similar really like i said there's parts of it that i really like um certainly they're streaming it. For free on youtube i think that's great i think um the shorter format was was good i think the only thing right now that i'm not feeling which i don't think you ever would after the first event is almost a glory of winning one it doesn't feel like i don't look at jal schwarzenegger differently now i don't think it's any more prestige. And even if somebody that was a small name had won it i wouldn't have felt any i don't know i don't feel any more you know what i mean i said yesterday um rory won his 21st event on the pga tour. And it's like that's some doing that just to win any event on the pga tour is ridiculous you know you're beating the best players it's a pj tour event this doesn't feel like that. But having said that i suppose sometimes on the european tours in some mad place do i look at that. And really you know i don't know so it's difficult who who won and what was the feeling when the first ever canadian open was wood yeah exactly there probably wasn't that prestige then..
And there but give it five ten years potentially i don't know he's like oh my god you've won you've lived london yeah that's amazing i don't i don't know i don't know how it's gonna go who knows um we will wait. And see yes what was interesting though as we saw before. And pj tour have suspended the players that um majors at the moment have not kind of pinned the tail to the to the mask as far as so to speak the us opens letting them in isn't it letting them in i can't i can imagine they open let them in the masters might be a different one. And that's the one that probably a lot of the players will be gutted about playing in not playing in sorry um live golf at the moment is not you can't win um you can't win can't be awarded world ranking points as. Yet but there might be some collaboration with the asian tour that could elect that where does the dp world toss it in all of this that's a very sticky one because as you know it's been announced that was it a year. Or so ago whatever it was the dp world tour x european tour. And the pj tour this new like strategic alliance so they're kind of in some level of partnership and obviously pj tour of banned everybody but equally suspended suspended everybody sorry well the dp world tour as in the name is sponsored by dp world which is obviously over in the middle east in dubai. And from what i believe and what i've been told which may be incorrect i don't know but dubai and saudi arabia are very close allies. And get on very well so if if they if if they blam people dp world people weren't very happy and also you know at the end of the day dp world are paying a fortune to sponsor the european tour to have good players on there. And if you know sam horsfield is now banned. And if dj can't go and play over there if he wanted to and it's going to start being a weaker field. And less advertising less eyeballs potentially so i won't be surprised if the dp world tour do allow them. But who knows it would surprise me if they stood really strong because they need players the match if they could have an event where dj turns up to get some world ranking points they're gonna love it love it like say you look at the british masters we went to a few weeks back imagine i think that was the only thing it was missing those really really headline players like the the probably the biggest headline player playing that week was danny willitt i can't even think now who hosted it yeah yeah i know obviously headline player won the masters if you could sprinkle in some nicholson bryce in the middle of the stage you know what i mean that could that could really work. For him so that'll be very very very the only thing that is bad. And this is a problem. For just life in general and it irrelevant of the money coming from saudi or not it's terrible really how money can just buy stuff isn't it like it sounds obvious. But like you can just if you've got enough money you can start a golf tour you can get the best players. And you go look what i've done just for money and you can make it as good as what it was yeah all the camera because that wouldn't have been cheap yeah i mean it's crazy i know it's not really about being sustainable. But there must be a point where they only keep losing money they've paid out was it two billion they had to start with. Or whatever i think that's where the franchise is that's probably what they're banking on the future people yeah if they can build these franchises out. And let's say a taylormade or a red bull or somebody you know come in and build it out properly i think that's where they make the money back. Or recruit recoup some costs yeah anyways it's um it's it's a strange one. And we'll be sat here in a couple of years either and it'll be the the big thing over like you remember that but a bit like i mean these are the same guys who have bought newcastle football club recently right are they doing it are they trying to make money from it really like is it just a bit of a something to do i think we can't comprehend the wealth can we. So towards naturally to everybody in the world to two billion dollars is an absolute fortune obviously to those guys it's probably not really aren't they worth like outrageous i don't even know see if i can find it yeah try. And find that what what's also crazy crazy crazy crazy this week and it really is history was made on the dp world tour this week yeah. And it's not really getting talked about at all so i definitely want to give it some air time in the scandinavian mix this week which is the um henrikh stenson. And annika sorenson event in sweden there was the first ever official lady winner. So lin grant who had an incredible final round of eight on the power so finished the tournament 24 under par winning by nine shots over henrik stenson won the first ever european or dp world tour event yes first woman record breaking um same prize fund same event the only difference was. And it's definitely a talking point of different teas so the gents played a golf course that was 7 000 yards the women played the golf course that was 6400 yards i wasn't sure how that kind of was was perceived in the general golfing world actually felt sophie walker we had on the podcast last week she mentioned that a lot of the women actually don't fare very well in this event normally. And there was only actually two women in the top 20. wow lynn grant being one of them. And obviously she absolutely walked away with it but it wasn't as if the golf course was. So uneven yeah that all the women did incredibly well. And they they dominated the top 20. yeah it was only two in the top 20.. But this ling grant gone out and absolutely killed it i didn't watch it live there was too much golf to watch this weekend um. But her final round highlights were incredible she played phenomenal the other interesting thing this was also live streamed. For free on youtube this week yeah as was the pga tour as well in parts as was the curtis yeah i saw that as well i was almost i think you know that's welcome to youtube everybody yeah well that's the thing isn't it that ultimately you know i suppose live golf could have some huge negative effects. For for the viewer for the fan and whatever but equally in a lot of ways competition can be good. And if it can drive more you know free golf on to youtube as i said before. For me it's not about the fact it's free because i'm fortunate enough i've already got skye on my phone anyway it's pause and i know it sounds ridiculous but for me that's a massive a lot of people have scanned the tv they can pause i i don't have that it's more the fact that yeah. For you from a personal standpoint but there is a lot of people who got into golf by watching on the bbc yeah when it was free yeah to watch no adverts it's free are we getting back to that a little bit more like as i mentioned before the new up-and-coming wave of young people young golfers young hopefully future golfers consume content on tick tock youtube instagram. And if it's free and they know how to use it it's all there it's like their world i think that's definitely um a starting point. But i still think we've got a job to do. Or the the the tournament to make the goal make it a good viewing experience because you can't just go it's on youtube people stop playing golf now because i watched some of the pj tour last night on sky and there was. So many like cutaways where it's it cuts to like trees and then.
It'll be like honestly 30 seconds and then.
It'll like shove a leaderboard on top of it like it's like almost b-roll this is boring. And then.
It finally cut and just doesn't start again justin rose was on track. For a 59 and it did show his shots. But it very like slow didn't cut back it was dead slow. And it was just like oh you know talk about that more he's about to hopefully going to shoot 59 he didn't do. But it wasn't the group the best pj toy don't do the best coverage at all i've definitely seen glimpses of the pga tour this week doing things slightly different. And it without questions come from live golf because if you look did you see the clip of the locker room of tony fenow rory mcilroy. And justin thomas getting ready no it was like it was like in the locker that's quite cool. And you were seeing them put the shoes on you seen them chat to each other you were seeing tony fenow getting kind of um all those guns there gunned on his back you were here. And you were seeing him kind of get dressed to some degree. And having a bit of a chat and talking about the weather and it was like oh this is different different it kind of felt a little bit forced yeah it was almost like guys we've got to do something different here we've got a camera there okay did you see the crane at the canadian open as well like there was this massive crane where you can actually book a book a seat on this crane. And you could watch the goal from an aerial view again something a little bit different again the live the pga tour this week the canadian open was live streamed on youtube. For free um they were definitely doing things different. For the pga tour they couldn't have dreamt for a better retaliation than what rory mcelroy tony fenow and justin thomas and justin rose gave him last night no 100. And i ended up putting it on to watch as well um but will that continue can they have that can they have those names every week i don't know. But that was definitely the week to do it on yeah they could they couldn't have written it i don't know not got a clue how much money you won nope don't care i need to know that doesn't bother me it's the one thing i don't honestly don't care the open the masters you never might hear about. But you don't ever think do you when they're going down 18. oh danny will's gonna win one million dollars whatever it was at the time the only time i ever think about it is when it's like let's say some horse film go good. For him yeah like i feel like i feel like i'm friends with him good. For him well done but for these guys how much royal macro worth like millions and millions i don't i don't actually care how much he wins they they could have paid him 10 million wouldn't bother me but what could liv get to that though they're playing all this money into it now to get the guys over once we get used to winning four million dollars a time but you might have let's say bryson potentially a rory a filmmaker dustin etc and there's three of them battling out at the end and one of them wins would it be more about oh my god he won yeah well that's it could be that. But it's going to be a lot of the fedex at the end of the year yeah it's like 25 million honestly don't care i know the players will of course they will they're they're thinking about it. But as a viewer i couldn't count the only thing i did think about the money this time actually to be fair was a little bit i said earlier on about how the guys that were playing. So bad still got so much and he also thought about a little bit more like when it was the last few putts that if he missed it that was going to lose him like 300 grand. And it was a little bit of like that part is worth 300 000 pounds like that was the only time i really thought about it. But yeah other than that it's not a big thing there was a little bit of beef going on interviews social media rory again mentioning in his winning speech that he's now won 21 pga tour events he made it very clear that that's one more than somebody else he was referring to greg norman with that statement obviously greg norman being the ceo of live golf the front manner. So to speak um jay monaghan did an interview. For on it was on sky sports. But jim nance interviewed him asked him some really tough questions like he's not seen that it's really good um asked him some really tough questions because as much as jay monahan who is the commissioner. For the pga tour he has retaliated with a letter as soon as the guys teed up on that on that thursday at centurion he's not been out and publicly said anything in his interview with jim. And nance he i don't know he he he didn't really make it super clear why banned these golfers or suspended these golfers it was almost like i'm protecting the pga tour members who are loyal. But but he didn't really say abandoned because of this it or it was almost to some degree i think he made a statement as along the lines of why did they need to play in the pj tour if live golf is. So lucrative and it was almost him saying well they can't have the cake. And eat it they literally can't do it they can't go. And get in bed over there and come back and get in our bed as well we're not having it so basically that's what he's kind of come out and said. But quite literally there's no reason. For these golfers not to be able to play everywhere they want there is no actual there's no no law being broken as such um. But the interview is very good it kind of it looks a bit on edge. And like i say it's definitely worth checking out i'm trying to think what other takeaways there was from it he mentioned about how the product pj tour can get better. And he said it's going to get better the next.
10 years is going to be the best 10 years that easy to say how's that going to work out a lot of people have said online competition is good yeah like when competition is good like we've seen it in youtube yeah like we we don't make a disguise when we watch good good golf we're going. But that's quite good that's quite well shot okay we need to up our game 100. And you know and that's what we want to do in youtube world if we see if we see something that we believe better we'll continue to evolve. And get better with it is that what's going to happen in professional golf quick question this might be a random point. But obviously at the moment the best players still live on the pga tour for now and that may continue to be the case it may not be but there's been a lot of comments people saying oh i don't want to watch live golf because the older guys are not as good. And that does make sense. But we also know and this isn't a silly comment what it might be but it's not supposed to be a lot of people want to watch you play golf or peter finch play golf or good good play golf and you guys aren't the best players in the world which you obviously would admit but you can get a million views in a video live golfer trying to get the best players even if they don't get the very best players is there an opportunity where their product becomes. So good yeah no you're not playing. For me to go and share no is there an opportunity where the product come become. So good and so exciting and so almost bingeable that you actually don't need the very very best players i think you need the best personalities there yeah well is that what they're kind of going. For if you look at it you've got phil nicholson's controversial people want to watch him you've got patch it read again very kind of controversial and perez exactly you know dustin's a bit of a is it a bomber he bombs it a mile people want to watch him there was a clip in the in the promo clip did you see that where um dust bubba watson. And matt wolfe were in the promo clip i really live accidentally. Or on purpose i'm not sure like are those characters that they would be seen as you look at you look at a golf golfer who would be um entertaining right fictional character happy gilmore yeah you go watch happy gilmore regardless of what you shot. And a bit of what you see at these events like you're bryson bit happy gilmore you're patrick reeds your pat perez your matt wolf funky golf swings and like yeah maybe maybe these characters there was microphones on the caddies again i know we're coming back to live golf here now microphones on the caddies i don't feel like that came across as well as it could have been i'd love to have properly properly have these players microphoned. And like get get in the faces while they're playing go and ask them questions well but that's the thing if you again back onto live golf i think this episode of the podcast we're going to be on it a lot. But if you look at some of the names they've got you know you westwood you poulters you send you bryson's coming now these personalities that have been around for a long time and kind of almost household names okay they might not be the most competitive now. But if you look at the top like 20 gulps in the world there's obviously actually amazing golfers but if you look at scotty sheffler patrick cantley uh sam burns billy horschel xander chocolate matsuyama will zalatorius amazing golfers. But are they as at the moment anyway are people as excited to watch those guys i don't know if you want just best the best golf then.
Yes they are obviously the best players in the world. But if you want that a little bit more well like you said we've seen on my youtube channel yeah i can play terrible golf. But get ridiculous about the views because it's the story hopefully it's the personality people want to tune in they engage with it to relate to it when they see me play well the great video we had last week at st andrews that we released and i think people really the comments on that video have been outrageously positive like the production the quality the way with you the way you play the front nine the way can i play at the end obviously dramatic finish with the eagle on the last like people loved that. So got thing is what i think i'm getting better at is understanding golf is is consumed differently in all different ways. And maybe we can have every single way maybe every way is possible. And none of it's bad potentially i don't know you could you could end up having the the pj tour is where the the best players are. And it's more almost serious and it could be that liv is still elite players who've done great things. Or up-and-coming players but it's more it's more of that team element it's more kind of fast-paced and it's a bit more short form potentially i'd like to see all of them work i don't i don't want to see the pga tour or the dp world tour get weaker i don't i want the best rider cup i do i want the best players in the world being the best players in the world in world rankings i want the best players in the world turn up to every single major. And i also want to see live fast-paced exciting event to happen so so maybe it can all i don't know who knows who knows um well last week as well while you're off i played in a group on a completely different note of a hundred golfers i saw this on paper sounds like hell it was absolutely crazy. So we went down to the shire which is an absolutely amazing golf course we played in the trevor nelson golf day incredible venue severe designed only seven designed golf course in the uk um. And it was eric anders lang who you you would have seen on the channel before a few years ago um in the island man he does a series called invention in golf with scratch tv um. And he also has his own youtube channel but he's kind of created this kind of random golf club community meetup kind of idea and basically you come down you meet up and we played as a group as one group the golf course was closed. For people wondering we shook the golf course down we played as one group all together as a collective like bloody party out on the golf course music was playing drinks were flowing loads of pictures loads of like fun chatting you partner up with someone you don't know which i thought was a really good idea if you partner up with someone you literally do not you don't partner up with anybody you actually know. And you play golf you played golf in pairs we played about four or five holes the golf didn't really matter it was really really really fun yeah. And so different the people i got to meet on that day was again. So different to what we'd see as a traditional golfer yeah. And loads of them were asking me about live. And whether they were going. And what and they were like yeah i'm interested i'm interested there it goes. But yeah it was quite cool it did it looked um some of the pictures that you share dangerous it looked dangerous it looked obviously it's obviously more about the the meeting up with people. And actually playing golf like you said you can't play golf even remotely seriously with 100 people. But it's a very cool and innovative thing and eric's obviously a very kind of outlet guy very forward-thinking guy but like you said from i know you can't judge people off the clothing they were. But when you look at the people and the outfits they were very kind of funky. And cool and like you said a younger demographic which i don't feel like i see very often in in the real world. But it's cool that people like that are playing golf they feel more like almost a subculture escape skater world almost like it's almost a bit like urban golf yeah it almost feels like it's like you say it's almost like street golf yes. But but it's still golf like some of the guys were really really good yeah. And there was also quite a lot of newer golfers. And there was quite a lot of beginners. And a few ladies and there was one guy who'd been playing golf. For 60 years and there was one guy been playing golf. For seven months i was really hoping you're going to put some mad outfit on the try. And fit in with your really baggy pants and like some cool shoes and your hat on backwards and stuff what's up call myself like ricky yeah that would have been good ricky s um the shield's a hater yeah i think um it was it was really good. And we talked about dress code earlier i honestly don't believe though it's dress code i want dress code to be relaxed i absolutely believe it should be personally if it did i don't think i'd change much what i'd wear we throw quite a bit yeah i like wearing golf gear yeah makes me feel like i'm playing golf it's just kind of it's just that thing that if you had your clubs in the car. And you've been out in other clubs you have to go home to get changed can be. But i'm the same i think golf the golf pants i wear now golf trousers whatever i like a really like soft material a dead comfy three-quarter little quarter zips are fine like it doesn't feel like it it's that uncool. Or uncomfortable so i'm the same i'd probably just wear this anyway if i'd have gone to wreck if i wasn't on holiday i'd have gone with you i'd have pulled out a rascal outfit though no you wouldn't yeah i would have gone with a bucket into my socks. And one like crocs or something i don't believe wearing golf shoes don't give me that yeah um i've also signed up to do the london marathon next.
Year oh my gosh do you always do weird stuff i'm not here runs out of 10k yeah i've got to talk about the weirdest thing i'm about. But so um when i was at the shire there was the guy who owns it is called kerry lovely lovely lovely man honestly lovely he um really unfortunately i mean devastatingly he's he lost his son last year his six-year-old son to cancer. And it's horrible and he's so open about it he's so lovely about it he's obviously been through really really hard times and in the post that you'll see on um instagram i was wearing a hat that i'd like oh i saw that a butterfly on it. And that's his charities his charities set up because when he when his son did pass away he felt like he got no support it was it was quite lonely. And he set up a charity called it's never you and on the back of it his little boy was called hugh. And um when he his last birthday's dad's last birthday he had written him a birthday card like saying like love daddy and he drew a picture of an owl and he put hue and carrie's actually had that tattooed on his arm it's lovely lovely lovely but on the back of the hat it also that said hugh written by hugh himself um. And we we got chatting and i talked about what i'm doing this week which we'll come on to in a minute i said i've always loved to do london marathon he went well i've got a charity spot do you want it. And i was like oh okay yeah okay why not wow. So i'm gonna be running for charity for um it's never you but you have to keep training up then.
I'll keep training up so if you if you see if you ever go to the shire on in the pro shop there's like hats there's head covers there's towels with this logo the butterfly logo and uh picks them up donate it's love lovely lovely cause he's done really well um however. talking about charity and talking about a bit of a mad challenge and it doesn't feel real yet yeah it's happening tomorrow straight after this podcast we are heading north again we're going back to scotland. And we're going film in a break 75 at prestwick today.
You me. And the head pro yes press wick if you didn't know is the first ever open venue is back in 1860 it hosted the first 12 opens no i think it was 20 yards oh wow oh no sorry maybe the first of it has had 20 odds sorry my bad yeah um in about was it about 1920s it stopped 1925 i think was the last one. And because even back then.
There was. So much so many people going to watch that couldn't it couldn't fit the infrastructure of having. So many people and also it was the place where young tom morris won his third open. So if we win this third opening in a row i should add you got to keep the championship belt i can't even official name it but it was like the red belt. And that is then.
Why the claret jug he got to keep it. So the next.
Year there was no tournament because there's no prize. So after that uh apparently i think it was presswick muirfield st andrews. And somebody else all chucked in 10 quid and that then.
Bought the cleric jugger believe that's crazy isn't it that is unbelievable. So doing a break 75 there this afternoon but then.
From said location from press wick the first ever open venue i'm about to embark on a bit of a crazy mission. So from if you you don't know where presswook is it's on the west coast of scotland it's exactly 150 miles if you were to walk to saint andrews which you wouldn't do she's not stupid who would walk from freshwich to saint andrews this man this one right here. So on tuesday tuesday morning i am going to set off i'm going to announce it properly on social media today.
And this clip might be used as well for that i'm going to set off from press work in the morning i'm inviting people to come. And join me for the first walk of the golf course around the golf course at eight o'clock i'll do that one with you thank you from that point then.
I'm gonna be walking continuously with my golf clubs on my back i didn't know you're doing that bit with my golf clubs on my back. For 26 miles a day for six days solid so six marathons in six days walking 150 miles to raise as much money as possible for prostate cancer you can't class it's um a very very good thing you're doing but it's going to be absolutely solid it's going to be a hell of a deal i think i've i've done it well not since i've done a similar thing i haven't done a similar thing at all the only thing i've done that's close is i've walked a marathon i've done it twice um once was a mcmillan mighty hike which was really good raising money. For macmillan cancer and that was like it says a hike that's 26 miles that was difficult. But about six months prior to that i was going to do it another time. And i was end up being ill couldn't do on the day. And i felt really guilty because people had sponsored me including your fine self so i did my own version of a 26 kind of mile walk a few days later when i felt better just around the local streets. And it was long to do that. For six days in a row with a golf bag that's the bit that's controversial a golf bag because you have to stop and put it down and clubs that's what means you have to stop after like i think normally when you play a par five you get a good drive by the time you get to your ball you're like i have to put the bag down that's like 300 yards. So i'm reusing my ping bag the really light one yeah i'm going to literally strip it of everything i'm going to take the legs off it because the legs broke the other day oh yeah i'm going to proper take the legs off it we're going to we're going to even this afternoon i'm going to come up with a way where i can get a strap to go around my waist to help with it um i'm gonna i think i'm gonna carry all my clubs. Or at least a selection of clubs they should have one ball in there as well just like take pictures on the road and stuff nice um and yeah. So there's gonna be four stop-off points um presswick where you can come. And join me to walk that's tuesday morning so this that might have already passed there's a golf club near glasgow which i'll announce again on social media make sure you follow me there there's another golf club near sterling we're stopping at a really really really really nice golf course we'll talk about that as well and then.
The final stop on sunday the 19th of june probably around about three to four p.m i will be arriving in the town of saint andrews. And finishing the leg by walking the old course and the finish line is the swilken bridge. So i would love genuinely love for as many people as physically possible to at least join me on that last round of golf so 19th of june sunday an experience to walk the old course anyway the old course is short. So you walk in the o yeah of course because when it's shot on a sunday yeah um it's not stopping me before playing no. And then.
Also it's actually short on friday for the open all right so from friday this week the old course is shut i didn't know until till the actual open um championship in july. So if you do want to join me like say follow me on social media i'm trying to raise as much money as prostate cancer uk the link will put in the podcast link. But it's just giving forward slash rick shields walk 150 so it's walk 150 we've called the actual um challenge so it's walking 150 miles obviously from open venue zero to open venue 150 that's madness a couple of quick stats one in eight men will get prostate cancer. And if you're over 50 or you're black or your dad or brother has had it you're at even a higher risk so yeah it's a it's a hot it's one of the biggest killers in men if not the biggest killer. And obviously the demographic of the audience is very male dominant um. And i just want to raise awareness as much as possible raise as much money and uh completely battered my feet in the process yeah best of luck yeah it's gonna be i think what's good about that though is anything you do. For charity is obviously amazing. And you know it's great certainly the last time you did the walk 18. And what was it called 18 raised loads of money like that one. For me that last one was amazing because it took 30 days. And it was like a lot of money that you raised. But this one it's more the actual feat that you're doing yeah like it's ridiculous that's the map i've actually thought about it much yeah i feel like i'm not training. For the best i'm not trained i've not practiced i'm not really thought about you know what though i think it's tough one with training because you almost can't because obviously you're fit enough to do it because you can run 10k in a good time. And you'll be able to walk that far the things that will be an issue is things like blisters which you almost can't train. For so hold him i've had a few yeah boredom will be a tough one. So like i said there'll be spots that hopefully people can join me there'll be certain times where i can't have anybody joining me because the the either the road. Or the track gets too literally on your own there's no was anyone from prostate cancer. So i've got like a support team they're with you every step yeah right um show me which way to go. So don't get lost i'll have a live tracker all right all the time so i'll put the link out to that as well so people can live track me. So if i'm going past your house. Or your school or where you work make sure you you throw now again there's rick shields and then.
Yes i have a live tracker um i'll be stopping off like. So at certain points um your phone has ever done that before no i've got a new setting on it i don't like that at all think about it someone's just literally sent me a text rick's got that thing where your camera light flashes you need a text. But he's always on his phone so just constantly remember from a number i literally don't know i'm not even saying call me ring don't do it now the elevation is 3290 meters oh wow obviously i'll come back down again yeah. So my mission also is to try. And touch i'm going to touch the sea on the um west coast which is what see uh atlantic is it yeah. And then.
Touch the such the sea in saint andrews which is the north sea nice just as little something watch mountains anyway hopefully i'll be with you tomorrow morning. And i'll walk around press wick and then.
I'll be back in the car on the way home i think i don't blame you um yes it should be good. So make sure you follow me on social media to get an update of where i'm going what i'm doing how you can meet up with me um. And it should be great don't forget your eggs eggs oh yes the top tip i've been told to put a ridiculous amount of vaseline all over my body yeah nice little slip getting on the toilet um i've got these special socks um i asked what shoes to wear. And echo told me my golf shoes are best not sure on that shout out from echo you've been told to get training that told me. So well yeah um. And yeah that's it. So wish me luck everybody should be good fun let's try and raise shed loads of money um a bit good in the world hey yeah after all the controversy. And all the all the craziness that's been happening i'm just going to go out there. And i might even turn my phone off there's all these rumors of like how did rick's golf ball on 18 at saint andrews actually got on the green did he cheat was it dodge he's like i gotta do some good pr now to change the subject i'll just go walk a lot of miles yeah that sounds good to me um right thanks everybody. For watching listening we are now going to head on the road as quick as we can up to st andrews go. And play some golf do some walking. And we'll see you soon so quick one housekeeping next.
Week's podcast will be a day late yes. So i won't get back until the tuesday so we'll release it on the wednesday and i'll tell you all about it yeah if as i as i hobble in the studio that was a random podcast. But there's a lot of golf talk a lot of live golf talk which is good i think it was what was needed i hadn't planned anything really because i've been off all week. So i never do plan. So thanks everybody for listening hopefully enjoyed and we'll see you next.
Week let's say wednesday next.
Week peace.
