Tiger's Crash, Fitzpatrick’s First & Woodland’s Return - Full Program Golf Podcast #29

Episode 29 - Full Program Golf Podcast

A quick check-in episode this week as we run through the biggest stories in golf.

We start with the latest Tiger Woods car crash - his fourth major incident - and share our thoughts on what happened, why we’re grateful no one was hurt, and how this latest episode impacts his legacy and public image.

Then it’s on to a brilliant week on both sides of the pond, with two standout winners and familiar faces from Full Swing. Alex Fitzpatrick claims his maiden DP World Tour title on a devilishly tough track in India, stepping out of the shadow of his brother Matt in a huge breakthrough moment.

Over on the PGA Tour, Gary Woodland completes an incredible comeback story, securing his first win since his well-documented brain injury struggles. A dominant performance and already one of the most popular victories of the year.

Plenty to unpack!

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Welcome back, episode 29 of the Full Programme Golf Podcast with me, Josh Conlin, and as ever, Stevie McAvoy. Today is a bit of a bonus episode, a bit of a shorter episode, and we're going to talk about the week in golf, lots going on. Let's get right into it. Stevie, how are we? Joshua, very good to see you again. How are you over on the west coast of Ireland? You know what? The weather has been behaving so far. We've had a couple of spots around. I mean, we'll get into the golf um later in the in the episode, but I had a a very um vivid recollection of the Turnbury morning when I was waking up to go and play Khan with the rain just beating against the windows and the side of the house. But no, it all I won't want to make too many spoilers, but it stops. And yeah, you know what? Loving it. What a great part of the world. Yeah, do you know what? You're you're the you're the bravest man I might may have ever met. You've you've clocked a double header, a Scotland march trip and an West Coast of Ireland march trip. I mean you must love your golf, dear boy. Yeah, I'm an absolute golfing pervert, aren't I, with that? But um yeah. Northern, hardy northerners. We the weather didn't put me off in Scotland. I don't think it ever can. So we go again. Proper Sheffield still. So I tell you what, I I still feel like I'm in recovery mode from Scotland. Now, I spoke on the last part about the move to the slightly thinner duvet. I'll be honest. Two nights in, chopped it in. I'm back. I'm back, I'm back in the winter, and and am gonna be for the foreseeable, to be honest. Because yeah, I just feel like the the core body temperature may have just just just just nudged it down a little bit from from those uh four or five days up in Scotland. And I was out, I was out at RMS on Sunday. First time I've seen it in a couple of weeks. I know you think you played it last week. It's actually looking pretty damn good at the moment. It was uh first first round I've played with the back nine bunkers in play. Thought they were looking really, really smart. I mean, walking down 17, kind of from the top of the hill there, bunkering looked absolutely superb. So I was really impressed with the golf course. However, it just started raining and blowing around the turn. And I looked at my friend Al and I said to him, like, we weren't playing for anything. It was me and him. We'd been out the night before. I was getting cold, I was getting wet, and I wasn't prepared for it at all. All of my rain gear didn't go back in the bag from drying out after Scotland. I just looked at him and I was just like, What are we doing? Like, I don't I don't need to go play these eight further holes. Played a bit of a game. He was like, if we hit the fairway, can we carry on? I went fine. First fairway hit all day, basically. Uh so off we marched down 11 or 12, whatever it is. And as we're doing it, I'm I am going for the Broly because in Scotland it was so windy, the Broly didn't even make an appearance. And I was just battling against it, battling against it, and then one of my things snapped on the Broly, and I literally said to him, I was just like, We're going up 13, we're going across the 17, and we're going in. I was just like, I've had enough. So I've had two walk-ins now in the last two, one at Hillside, one at RMS, both of which the course is looking good in both cases. But yeah, I just I need I need some decent weather this afternoon at Noll Park, I tell you that much free. Yeah, you're gaining a bit of a reputation, aren't you? That's uh and not not unwarranted, you know, just walking in off golf courses, you know. People go to tea courses, you go to find out what's the best walking, what's got the best service from the walking perspective. But I just want to dive into the the duvet piece for a second, if I if I may, please. Um what I'm what I'm learning from you is that you're a bit of a Christian Horner with the duvet. You know, you chop, you change, you change your drivers sooner than than needed, sooner than expected. And maybe you're stuck with the bit of a Yuki Sonoda situation where you know what, you're just gonna have to sit with the the warmer cover even into the warmer molds and just accept that you've made an you've made an error and it's time to deal with it. Yeah, yeah. Well, I yeah. Disappointed myself. I think we're just gonna leave it, leave it at that all round. Uh and you know, we've branded you early as as hardened Sheffield still. I'm not. Not not even pretending to be, never have, never will. So uh, so yeah, but excited about RMS. It's looking good. It is looking good, it's starting to take shape. And and talking about people who um maybe need to have a word with themselves, maybe that's a nice segue to move into some of the biggest golfing news of the last week. The man who can't stop crashing cars, Tiger Woods. If he could if he could drive as well as he puttered, wow, he'd have had a much easier life. I can't believe it. That is just like, what are we talking about? The news filtered through on the boys' WhatsApp Golf WhatsApp group first, and I was just like, surely not. Surely, surely not. How much filtered through that quickly? The news filtered through that quickly that I was sure one of the boys was in the back. I couldn't believe how quick it came through. He was taking the picture on the side of the road. How what if if look let me let me give you a scenario? You're on the side of a road in Florida, and you turn a corner, and there is an upturned Range Rover sport, and on the side is a sheepish-looking Eldrick Woods on the blower to who's his agent? Agent Steinberg, isn't it? Steinberg Steinberg. That's the fellow that's just dealt with it all over the years. He's on the phone going, mate, we've got a problem here. Are you clipping the photo and sending it to TMZ? Or are you just gonna like absorb the situation? Are you gonna go in, check if he was alright, ask for an autograph? What's your play there if that's what you see when you turn the corner? It's it's a great um, it's a great question. And you know, obviously, I can't condone blackmail on the podcast. But what I would do is I'd certainly say take some pictures, I'd certainly get some some ammo that you know what, maybe I could use. Maybe I could use to get a game of golf with Tiger, maybe I could use to get on Augusta with Tiger. I don't know. You know, don't condone blackmail, but hey, this is all a theoretical question, right? You know, I'm answering it theoretically. No one come after me for this. But I think that's the play. I think that's the play. And if you're not doing that, and obviously you get an inter you get a little autograph off him, you just enjoy it, don't you? You just get in there, get right in his grill, and just just don't give him the piece that he needs. Get into it. But obviously, like every road crash in Florida, it's it's more than 50-50 that Tiger's gonna be involved. So you know, you you've kind of got a pretty good chance that he's gonna be there. You could be like, Do you ever watch Bounty Hunters back in the day where they just get tips and they just like head to a location, you're just all roaming around Florida? Yes, that's it. You just roam around Florida, just be like, there's an accident on the Southside. There he is. Um, but it just it just does bring into question I suppose we have questioned before over over time in history, but like Tiger must just be under it all an absolute lunatic because four four serious crashes, you're just like, what are you doing, mate? What are you doing? And it certainly puts the masters in in in doubt if if it wasn't already. Yeah, you'd have thought when he nearly lost his leg that he'd have maybe been a bit more careful and he can afford a driver, but clearly he loves he he loves the game, yeah. You just gotta drive to survive. They've got they coined the wrong documentary, it should have just been on Tiger Woods. Um he really, yeah, you'd like you'd like to think that he'd have got a driver post nearly losing his leg. That didn't quite work. You'd like to think he'd now get a driver. Um, because he's he's clearly battling something, right? You know, and he's had that many operations, he's probably in crazy amounts of pain and so has to have pain meds and whatever else. That it's just clearly not working with his system, and it's clearly not good for his driving. Or let's just say, maybe it's nothing, maybe he's just a crazy driver and he just likes flipping cars. Either way, it's not it's it's time to just pack in the driving. But actually, I think more to the question is going to be I don't think he'll be at the Masters now as a result of this, but will that impact his Ryder Cup captaincy? That we've we know he's not been announced yet, but he was he's pretty much odds on if he wants it, he's going to be leading the team, uh the US team at a dare. With all the publicity that's currently surrounded him, now don't get me wrong, he's not hit anyone, no one has got injured other than probably himself a little bit. It doesn't sound like it's too bad. Is it is it news that the PJ of America could do without? Yes, of course. Is that gonna be maybe something that they then maybe then pivot to someone else and try when the when it's subsided a bit in a couple of years, assuming he doesn't flip another car in that time, and give him the captaincy at that point? Who knows? That's gonna be quite an interesting thing to see because Donald's already been announced, so they've got to announce a captain soon. Will that impact it? Here's a question to you if you were a historically successful, historically competitive sportsman golfer in this case, like Tiger, would you be accepting an away rider cup captaincy? I'd want the home captaincy for sure, but knowing Tiger, maybe he wants to do it differently. Well, I don't know Tiger, but knowing like you know what we know about Tiger, like maybe he wants to do it different. Maybe he and he's got a really good repu um relationship with JP McManus, hasn't he? Who knows? No, he has so maybe that's a play. And you you know McManus is desperate for him to take it because of what the the circus that will come with it. Yeah, I I I actually really like the I'm I'm kind of a tiny bit surprised Donald took the third one because I actually really like the formula and it makes a lot of sense to me that you start a captain at home, build build ethos, build way of workings, get the win as history would you know normally show, and then you take that momentum on into a second captaincy to kind of try and summit Everest, if you will, which is wind the away rider cup. Like that to me makes a huge amount more sense than new captains each year uh each time. I suppose it's probably down to the captains because like Donald essentially has just shelved his playing career to do this for the last half decade. Yeah, I agree. I couldn't agree more. I think that's a really good shout. I think that that would be you know, you're signing up for like a presidency, aren't you? Four-year term. I think I think it I think that'd be really good. I think it'd be really interesting to see, and maybe you do it so that you battle two different captains, so it's not like US and Europe. You know, for example, if Keegan Bradley started now and did another one, Donald would have only played Bradley and Bradley. Whereas if Donald had done his two and someone fresh was coming to a dare, then everyone starts at home. So you get like you battle, so Donald would play Bradley once and then he would have played um Zach Johnson as well. You know, that sort of vibe, so you get a bit of bit of everything. I think that'd be quite cool. Um I think it's another thing, even more so since live golf, you know, especially in Europe, a lot of those prospective captains, whilst ever it's a little bit up in the air, which of course it's still is are now not going to be captains. So we've got a smaller pool to pick from, you know, your Stensons, who obviously had it and lost it, your Westwoods, Poulters, McDowell, Kymer, you know, all of these guys who Garcia, of course, all these guys who would have been the next 10, 12 years worth of captains have gone for now. So I think that idea of giving someone four years, and I I agree with you, I was very surprised to see Donald go again, and I think that obviously I hope we win, of course we do, but he's done it, he's won, like he's won at home, he's won away. Is that burning appetite gonna be there again? Like the the white hot need to win. I don't know. I don't know. Um but I think the four-year term's a really good thing, you know. You and you look back at someone like someone who immediately springs to mind. I'd imagine that Podrag was probably quite a good captain, you know, man about details, um, all the rest of it, and he ultimately went away and got pasted, but like it was kind of stacked against him. So um, you know, I'd love to see him. He had a crap team as well. Yeah, you know, I it's a shame. I think you know, he goes down in history as a one and done losing Wilder Cup captain, which I think I I think is a little bit unfair. Um, just to conclude on the Tiger stuff, I did see someone post, and they were like, How amazing would it be in 20 years' time if Tiger signed off on like an exposure documentary series? And someone laid it out, and he was just like, This should be the episodes. It was like you'd do an episode on the three consecutive uh junior USMs, an episode on the three consecutive USMs, an episode on Turning Pro, 97 Masters, 99 Rider Cup, and then you do Tiger Slam, and then you do like 2002 to 2005, where he won a boatload, then you do the next thing, then you do the crash and the scandal, then you do like the recovery and the 19 Masters, and I was like, we're almost in for a 10-part documentary series here. I mean, that would just be electric. It would be electric, and Michael Jordan essentially got one, didn't he? With The Last Dance, Tan Parter. You're not telling me Tiger Woods is any smaller superstar than Michael Jordan is. And and yeah, I agree. I think that would be watched far and wide. It would be incredibly interesting. Um final thing to say, I'm just so glad he's not hurt anyone or himself, because like it would be an absolute travesty if he, you know, if he ended up hitting someone and killing someone. Yeah, maybe he's going to prison, you know, and that really does ruin a legacy that no one wants to see. It's Tiger Woods, it's all of our like childhood heroes, like the golf the guy who's brought golf to what it is. And so I'm glad that we can sit here and tongue in cheek have a bit of a laugh about it, and everyone can kind of have a laugh about it and talk about oh, will he get the rider cup cap to see? Well, I'm glad that that's the extent of the worry, and not has he lost another leg? Has he killed someone else? Is he dead? Is so that's sort of where I think that I'm really glad that's where we're at. Amen to that. Yeah, I like that, and I think that's a good way to put a bow in it. Um, all right, let's segue into some golf this week. A couple of really interesting winners, either side of the pond. Yeah, we're gonna have to start with with the Sheffield Steel, the talent that's coming out of there. Um, Alex Alex Fitz. What a what a win. First win, I think 82 starts, 86 starts, something around that sort of mark. Um, sort of like first first brothers to win back to back with Matt obviously winning the Val spa that we covered on the last pod. Um what I mean we talked we talked briefly about the golf course. That is a absolutely ridiculously hard golf course by the looks of it. Um, did you see the um worst score per hole and what that would have been? It would have been like 128 that the guys would have scored on on day one. Uh yeah. That was was so interesting. Um and you could see that when Chikara started just sort of blowing up a bit, I guess. Yeah, I mean I I I kind of had a look down the final leaderboard, and the drop-off from his winning score to like 15th place, who I think was back at level plus one or something like that, was alarming. Like that that golf course clearly beat everyone up for a couple of days. And for him to shoot a couple of under, uh, to take it to to win what looked like quite comfortably, and like I said, really was so far ahead about the rest of the pack. Um, I thought was was great. I really enjoyed his interview afterwards, like you know, it clearly meant something, and he was super happy. And so uh yeah, definitely one for the good guys and one that's kind of quite close to home for us, which which is nice. And saw a lot of the Sheffield boys kind of posting stuff on on the Instagram stories and kind of supporting their uh their friend, the the um uh their lad that they've grown up with, which I thought was really nice. Um a question for you. You mentioned just there it's it's back to back wins um by brothers on major tours. Um is that the best two-week stretch ever by a set of brothers? I suppose it probably is by by that stat alone. It's a tough question, isn't it? Because you know, instantly my head goes to the Molinares and you go, what have they done back to back? Because you know, at this stage, they've obviously you know, you've got two major winners in Matt and Francesco, and then as things stand, Eduardo obviously a rider cup player has won multiple times on tour, is ahead of Alex, of course. Of course, I mean we're talking much, much older. Um, there has to be you know, you'd argue back to back a better week for brothers would be Eduardo Molinari winning in in Scotland to get the spot in the Ryder Cup and then the Ryder Cup that we won at Celtic Manor. You know, that's in 2012, that for me is right up there. I mean, it's it's not really on an individual level because obviously they they went on and and won as a team and didn't particularly have the best individual rider cups. You know, Eduardo Molinari famously four up four to play against Ricky Fowler, halved in the singles, and Francesco lost couldn't carve. No, I think he halved actually, I think, against Tiger Woods, didn't he? Because he then played Tiger again uh in the miracle at Medina and um got a half with him again, so like okay-ish. They played together, didn't really do too much. But I would I would say that off the top of my head if I was a set of brothers, I'd want the Ryder Cup in in the Ryder Cup than two individual wins. But it's nevertheless, sensational performance. And I was looking at his stats, Alex, and last year I think he was about 193rd in driving accuracy, and at the moment this season he's sixth. That says it all. We're talking about how difficult and and that boy hits the ball absolutely, Miles, like cannon, absolute cannon, completely different game to Matt, which is it's always really interesting to see two brothers with completely different styles and different games. But I wouldn't have thought that that was a golf course that would have suited him, given how tight it is and how far he hits the ball. But clearly that stat, you know, from 193rd to sixth, doing something right, and uh if that continues, he's gonna have a really, really solid good season. Uh, and you can't back get back against him winning again, which would be fantastic. Yeah, absolutely. And and it is that they we got a real good insight, didn't we, in that was it first season of Full Swing, where you've got Matt, the older brother, calculated, a bit more nerdy, I suppose. Or as Alex seems a bit more of a free spirit, and you know, his game also suits his personality as well. And yeah, Alex was always the you know, he was the lad caddying for his brother uh when he won the USM, he was the the young lad on the side at the uh US Open, he was the brother in the full swing documentary, and so to come out with this really big win, I I think this is a real, this is a good one to get on the DP World Tour. I thought it was fantastic. And I don't know if you saw it, basically, Alex tweeted when Matt won the US Open, something along the lines of like, you know, Matt's Matt US Open champion, like, how cool's that kind of thing. And uh Matt flipped that exact statement round uh and tweeted out uh, you know, Alex DP World Tour winner, how cool is that? And I I really, really like that. I I think it's it's great to see brothers that get on so well, and clearly they do. And you know, I I think it's fair to say that a lot a lot of people will be really happy to see Alex forging his own sort of career in golf and and creating headlines himself because he has been so gracious. As a younger brother, he could have been a really jealous younger brother about what Matt's success is, and don't get me wrong, Matt's given him opportunities, but he genuinely is excited for his brother. He genuinely is proud of Matt, and he's genuinely there to be excited and support him and celebrate with him. And yeah, for Matt to flip that back, sorry, voice is going a little bit. For Matt to flip that back and to genuinely have that excitement back, it just shows a lovely family unit, and I think that's really great. And another great story in golf, which at the moment we're we're pretty rife of really, really good stories. Talking about good stories, the other winner, Gary Woodland. That's just brilliant. Yeah, it was, and and do you know what? It's um the full swing series has aged really well because we obviously had the Fitzpatrick dynamic, and so I think um Alex probably had a bit more global notoriety than he would have otherwise because of that feature. And I think it was in the same series that they did uh did an episode on Gary Woodland, and so again, his battles with um brain surgery and the recovery from that have been pretty well documented. And you know that he came back after his medical exemption and struggled and struggled with NG levels and all the rest of it, and so. To see him back in the winner's circles on the PJ tour. Now, you know, normally it's a bit of a kind of lull two weeks, isn't it? Between um what's gone and now the masters are on the horizon. But a really good feel-good story. Someone who had a big lead on Sunday. And I did I did look at it and think, I wonder if we're going to have another one of those chats about someone kind of whistling it away. Uh, but it didn't happen. One really quite comprehensibly in the end. And um, yeah, another just incredibly big feel-good story. Yeah, and what a golfer, you know, US soaking champion. Yeah, I think he could have been a professional baseball player. I think he was he's just a talented sportsman across the board. It was something I read. Uh, I might got it wrong with baseball, could have been basketball. He was certainly another big basketball, he's a good basketball player. Yeah, another big US sport. So um, really talented bloke. Came across again as a really nice guy. Now, I know that it's a series and we see that, and yeah, you see the best of them, but you don't always get a feel for people. And what he's gone through, what his family have gone through, to keep plugging away, to scrap it back, and to again win on the PGA tour is is magic, it's absolutely sensational. I think it's fair to say that no one was rooting against him, even probably the Huygard family were like, you know what, if it's not gonna be Nikolai, then sound like Gary Woodlands just comes across like a great bloke. Um two very good winners, and and talking about Nikolai Huygard, great to see him uh continuing on his upward trajectory following a couple of poor years after that, after the Ryder Cup at Marco Simone. Um keeps his spot in the Masters, and you know what? I think he's gonna do well in the Masters, and I we we had a little bit of a um stab-packed tip tip session last time out. I think Nikolai Huygard is going to finish inside the top 15. You heard it here first. Nice, like that. We're we're just fountains of Masters information at the moment, um, which I love to see. Just just to conclude on Woodland, um, as you said, I I think his talent is somewhat undermined sometimes, but you look back, like he's won some big events. Obviously, that US Open, which I believe was a pebble, like an iconic obviously venue to win it. Um, and he has been one of my favourite players to watch actually hit the ball uh in the last kind of decade or so. His ability to just hit just like laser two irons out there, control his ball flight. Um, he is he's a seriously talented golfer. Um, and so so yeah, as I said, really happy to see see him win that. And obviously he'll be at the Masters as well, which will be great to see. Um obviously, just gonna say one spot to go, Valero, Texas, always interesting. I remember when Poulter won it a good few years ago, he beat um Bo Hossler, didn't he, in the playoff. And um, yeah, one spot to go. Who's gonna get it? I was gonna ask you, do you remember who he beat in the playoff? And there you go, you just had it straight away. Bo Hossler's actually been an interesting one because he um made, I believe, several major appearances as an amateur. Like I remember quite clearly Bo Hossler, uh, the amateur. Not a player that's kind of really kicked on in any major regard since turning pro. He's kind of just knobbled around, kind of bottom end of the PGA tour. I don't think you know, he hasn't won yet. And so that playoff was you know his biggest career moment probably thus far. Yeah, but when you wear an oversized visor, you don't deserve to be anywhere near the winning circle. So that's that's how it is, really. You know, wear a cap, grow up. We're not gonna get you in a visor. At one point you might have done when I was younger, a big Ian Polter fan, but yeah, not anymore. Not an oversized one, one that actually fits as well. You know, like you've got those like the fat oversized ones that just almost opened a sunroof. I think the oversized ones are are better than the other ones. I think the Ian Polter one is the biggest crime going. They're all heinous, you've opened the sunroof just like you've lost your hair. Just just leave it, leave it there. Um, so obviously, uh, we one of our main sections of the last episodes we did uh just dive into some master stuff. You obviously read that stat out and we ran through the players. Now that's got a lot of back and forth online, which has been great to see. Um it's been interesting to see what the kind of the feeling, the thoughts and the feelings of the general public has been. And kind of a bit on review. Now I know someone like Gotterup was in that list. Now, Gotterup's making his debut at the Masters. Like, again, I I'm not I'm not sure I can see him actually taking the jacket, but I think he'd probably play well. I've I've been seeing Marco Penge being thrown around in quite a lot of comments again. Like, not really sure. Like, he's one got the experience or two got the form. Bryson obviously is a big one. Now, um, obviously, the stat that you read must have included Live players because Ron was in it, I remember. But obviously, there's some people fancy bryson. Was DeShambeau in it? I don't think he was, was he? I'm sure he was. Let me let me bring up my Bible. But um, lots of love for DeChambo. But yeah, it's it's gonna be really interesting. We're not far away at the moment. One more spot to go. Valero this week. Have you got any any any picks for the Valero? Who do you think that last spot's gonna go to? It's a good it's a good question. Um, you're right. Sorry as well, Bryson wasn't in that group, which is very interesting because he's been playing well. So, yeah, those that have said Bryson, of course, but it's like saying, Oh, I think Man City or Arsenal are gonna win this weekend. Like, you know, it's like, alright, well, you've not really gone off the beaten track. Who do I think is going to win at the Valero? Now that's a really good question because I actually don't know who isn't already in the Masters. Um, who do I quite like? That's a really good question. Well, I'm I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go with either our boy Dan Brown. He's gonna turn it round if he's playing, um, or Jordan Smith. I'm gonna keep it, I'm gonna keep it now or Marco Penjiba. I think he's already in the Masters anyway. But I'm gonna go, I'm gonna keep it at home. I think it's gonna be a homegrown, ball-striking talent that's gonna take home the Valero. And and maybe, you know, if you've already got a spot in the Masters, we'll just slot that down to number two. Let's go with that. Love it. All right, let's leave it with this. Um, bit of golf going on this week. Where are you? Where have you been? Where are you heading to? I know we're gonna do a proper, uh proper chop up episode uh either next week or the week after. But uh, like I said, you are an island, so just give us a flavour of what tracks you see. Yeah, absolutely. So I am based in Westport at the moment, beautiful town, really good crack, really good vibe around here, um, which I would say is in the county Mayo, and you've flown into Knock Airport, and almost you've then gone north. So we're almost on that wild Atlantic Way north perspective. So we've gone north, um, and I've played played Carn on Sunday, which is the ninth ranked course in Ireland. And spoiler alert, it's bloody brilliant, but we'll get into that uh next time. And then I've got Enniscrone lined up, and then we are I'm going south to Trump Doombeg to check that place out. Um, probably where I am now would be nearer to going north and going to sort of narinand Port New, Rosapena, Ballyliff in that sort of way. But just for the purposes of this trip and um bit of a bonus golfing uh golfing trip, we're going south, nipping into Doombeg and then popping back. So three courses to review when we get back. How about yourself? I know you've got some golf lined up. Well, sorry, just before we jump onto me, I mean it just it just begs the question. Um any any further communication with the Donald's, just letting him know, you know, heading to Doombeg this week, like I am gonna get there, okay, that's not a problem, but a free upgrade or anything like that would be really good. I I mean, you know, I I imagine you're on first name terms at this point after um after after the the Scotland episode. Yeah, we've moved off Instagram now, you know, we're on WhatsApp, so just keeping it clean, keeping it honest. Um just yeah, just letting him know, you know, just getting a few back and forth picks on the Valero as well, you know. We don't even need to talk about accommodation, we're just just boys in it now. So uh and I assume you're just like, you know, Donald, grass coverage on the 14th T-Box needs a bit of work. Just let you know let the team know. And he's like, hey Josh, love the exact one. Thanks very much. Exactly that, you know, loving what you're doing with the course, loving what you're doing uh overall, you know, because just keep keeping that sort of similar vibe moving forward from the the original metal that we had. Uh but yeah, looking forward to it. It's gonna be another uh another another Trump's day and an ocean view restaurant on top. Beautiful, very nice. Um, well, I'm off I'm off golfing this afternoon. I am playing Knoll Park, which is a English-ranked golf course, not somewhere I necessarily had on my radar particularly, but it looks very nice. And um, so yeah, can jump in the car shortly, get out there, and um we will see what what that's got to offer. Well, fingers crossed on the weather for you. Um always a bit of experience. I'm not gonna be allowed to walk off on this one, so uh yeah. We we will play 18 hours, I promise. Pack you're waterproof. Yes, and I will do that. All right, Joshy, good to catch up. And uh yeah, we'll look forward to a good chop up of the island trip uh in the next episode. Uh, we are full program golf, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and we will see you in the next one.