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Post Round Podcast
Episode 4 - USPGA + Catch up
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Welcome back to the Post Round Podcast, in this episode Barry and Tom catch up and chat about Tom's travels and rounds on the clutch tour, Barry's frustrating but improving game and Aaron Rai's great win at the USPGA. As always, enjoy, share and support us on all our social media channels.
Hello, welcome back to Post Round Podcast, episode four with myself Barry Doyle and the wonderful Mr. Tom Double. Tom, how's it going? Good, Barry. Yeah, good to be back. How are you? I'm good. It's been uh it's been a minute since we've been on. We apologise for that. Um both very busy. Uh season hadn't really kicked off, and then it all seemed seemed to come together at once. So uh we're back just to chat about where we are, our game, a little bit on the big, big professional tours, a little bit on wearing two gloves, using iron covers and not hitting the ball very far, which apart from the iron covers, I'm probably well used to the rest of them. Not far off. Um in this lovely country when it rains, sometimes the two gloves go on. But Tom, where in the world do we find you? Where have you been and what's next? It's a load of load of questions.
SPEAKER_00A load of questions. Yeah, so I'm home now for a bit. It's actually I've I have about well, I'd say seven days off, seven days at home, which seems to be like feels about a month off, which is kind of mad. Um I had two well three events really in close succession. Um unfortunately all with the same result, shall we say. Um as as we were talking talking the last time. So I I'd hate through coming up on clutch over in the UK. And like, look, I played played well. I I literally had I think three, I think three or four holds over the first two rounds. Um uh three doubles and one triple. Um that just knocked me. I made made enough birdies to to compete, but and even I made very little bogeys to compete as well. I think I need two bogeys in the in the in the first two rounds, and I think let me try to remember. I think it was like maybe ten birdies and an eagle or something, something outrageous in terms of my birdie count compared to my bogey count, but a couple of high numbers that just took me below the cut line, um, which was which was frustrating, but like a nice start of the year in terms of where my game was at, so I was looking forward to the next one. Um, so we headed off to Seacroft next, which was um a lovely links course, very uh very interesting layout, it's lovely. Um where we're based, Gagnest, the east coast of England. Um yeah, fun area, all staying in uh in kind of camper vans that was usually the the go-to. Um but yeah, playing playing well. I was I think a couple under through nine and my driver cracked. Oh so something that's never actually happened to me before. I've been quite lucky. Um and I've had a couple of couple of driver shafts crack um in while I was travelling for events, so I always travel with the spare, but no spare driver head. Um not very easy to have a spare 600 euro driver head. Absolutely, yeah. Yeah, that's that wouldn't be uh certainly certainly playing on the clutch tour, that's not something I'd be I'd be travelling with um spare. So yeah, look, it was frustrating. It was links, it was windy, it was and it was very much an old old school links where you know you go out all the way out and then you come back. So the front nine for us was downwind, which was nice, but meant going playing into wind with the three would basically for the back nine. And and unfortunately, yeah, I couldn't couldn't source a uh a driver head driver head for round two. So yeah, starting on 10 round two again, straight back into the wind. So it was it was always going to be a tough grind. Again, I was I've been playing well going into the week. I'd played well on the front nine. The rest of my game was hollow, but it was always gonna be a tough, a tough grind to miss to make the cut there, which was which was frustrating. Um and then yeah, I got home for a couple of days and then back out again. I brought my old stealth 2 head with me, which like yeah, it it works, it does the job. Um it's not the quite the head that I had been working with. Obviously, I had the the Taylor Made QI 4D and it was the standard head.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So gone back to the low spin head. I went back to the low spin in the stealth, so it took a bit of adjusting. Um now I didn't necessarily need it that much uh in Crondin Park where I was last week, which by the way was the what would I say, the skinniest, craziest golf course I think I've ever played. I swear every hole had a boundary on like a course boundary on the right and the water hazard on the left. It was it was it was an interesting course. It was a nice course, um a bit burnt out. I think if it was if it was softer, it would have made it more playable. Um but yeah, an interesting golf course, a nice challenge. Um but yeah, unfortunately, like it was the first, I think the first event I've actually kind of I wasn't happy with how I played. Um I didn't play as well as I should have. Um the way I've kind of been like you know, trending going into the season, and obviously the first two events, two minutes cuts, but you know, first event playing quite well, and second event, um, you know, like a dog running on three legs. So it was kind of um it was uh it was frustrating to kind of get back out there and not perform the way I wanted to. So at least I've got a week off now to to just kind of get back to basics and kind of give myself a kick of the art and and get back out to uh St. Melian next week, which which uh as as people may know, it's uh that's my home home college course that I was there for three years, but it's a big Jack Nicholas design, very, very tough golf course. Um so yeah, look look looking looking forward to to getting out there. It's it's people say, oh, you know, it's at least you know the course, but yeah, I I know how crazy tough it is. So that's uh it's fun. Sometimes you're better off going into a course blind. But no, I'm looking forward to getting out and and hopefully getting back to the game I know I can play.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and uh yeah, big shout out to John O'Murf from Cork to his win on the clutch.
SPEAKER_00Absolutely, yeah, that was a big result for him. Um it was a bit of a mad week as well, in fairness. We like we got called in for Thunder um on round two uh twice. So it was a bit hectic. So for him to kind of keep pushing through, and then some lads didn't even finish round round two. We we just about finished, um, luckily enough, so I didn't have to have a really early start in the morning to play in a few more holes. Um, but yeah, so it was a bit hectic round two, and then for him to go out and kind of have a later start, shotgun start, and you know, get the job done, and especially in a playoff as well. Uh absolutely fair play done.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, excellent. And uh how is the rest of the season looking for you? So obviously just as many clutch events as you as you can.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, pretty much. So I'm gonna play Melian next, then they're off to Turkey, which I'm not gonna do. A lot of us aren't gonna do. Um it's like this sort of pro am event. Um, it's not many in the field, and it's like I'm sure it'll probably be an amazing course, like a lot of great golf courses out in Turkey. But um, yeah, I'm just I can't I can't have the what I say, I can't justify the price for going out and playing. So a lot of people are missing that one. And then there's I think another event, Bishop Storford after that, and then it it's kind of time to focus on open qualifying, then um that's kind of that's kind of the go-to. Uh as I don't know if you know the US Open qualifying final qualifying's on today over in Walton Heath. So it's kind of all all that kind of the qualifying rounds are kicking off now for the last couple of majors.
SPEAKER_01And the uh open qualifying it's not the island this year, is it?
SPEAKER_00It is the island, still the island. Still, still the island, yeah. I don't know. I don't know if they're going to go back to Baltray or what the story is. Um I again myself and and quite a few others loved open qualifying at Baltray. The island's a great golf course, but it's it's very tricky and it's very weather oriented. Remember, last year we were out afternoon and a lot of shall I say that a lot most of the boys who qualified are out in the morning wave and it was it was a bit of a grind in the afternoon. So look, hopefully it's hopefully it's calm for everyone or or crazy for everyone, whatever whatever way you want to put it. But yeah, like it's when is it? It's June, I think 23rd-ish, 22nd, 23rd. It's always it's always on or before or after my birthday. Yeah. Um, so yeah, look, it's it's kind of like I already played Seacroft this year, which was a Lynx, so a bit of a taste of for it, but yeah, I'll play um probably a couple more events before then, and then it's you know turning your your golf game into into Lynx golf.
SPEAKER_01And working on anything specific at the minute to to help with that, or is it just last time we were talking, you'd just been over for a great putting lesson, and you were working at you've been working a bit on your your swing, your your swing path to sort of play that lovely little draw.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so yeah, so that's kind of uh everything is I think that's why it's frustrating as well, because everything's everything technically is in a great place. Um my putting's really improved, my swing path is is really good, my swing in general is very good. So it's just kind of putting all that stuff together. Um so I'm not really working on anything specific at the moment. Now, you know, that might change when when we get into the the kind of link stog golf, and it's as I'm sure people are aware, like you know, you have to hit the ball lower, you have to trap the ball a little bit more, play a few more stingers off the off the tee. But we'll we'll work on that when when we come to it. Um so at the moment it's just yeah, it's just getting used to shooting a couple of low numbers again out in practice and and bringing that onto the onto the golf course with the with the scorecard in our back pocket.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, brilliant. As a thing for anyone listening, it might not be a pro or even like some pros listening that like what you work on over the winter and all that, it's still a constant grind, like um a couple of elite amateurs I work with, like you see like they'll have a good event, they'll have a bad event, and they'll put up a picture of them working with a coach or working with a putting coach or working with a short game coach or something. So it's it is constantly trying to get better. So say if you're an amateur out there, if you're a weekend golfer or whatever, and you're playing well, that's a good time to go and see someone to go and see a PGA pro or whatever to they can tell you what you're doing well, and you know, you might even play that a little bit better. So um, yeah, keep striving for not quite perfection, but for excellence.
SPEAKER_00Um greatness, always for greatness.
SPEAKER_01How is the training going with Rice down the leary?
SPEAKER_00Still it's good records and uh yeah, no, I haven't I haven't improved on my well record personal best at the moment. So I'm kind of peeking up towards it, um, but nothing crazy. He freaking kicked my ass this morning um with lower body stuff. So it again, like I've been I've been away, you know, I've been home for what maybe two, three days in the last sort of two and a half weeks. So it's and you know, you're not you're not travelling with a with a gym or DP World Tour gym truck um at every venue. So that takes a bit of a backseat. Obviously, you can do kind of basic stuff in your room or whatever, but nothing nothing like heavy weight lift or anything that you'd be used to. So for this week as well, it's kind of kicking the body back into shape as well. Obviously not going crazy and not not feeling like you can't go and practice afterwards or the next day, but it's just getting the body back to where you sort of peak performance kind of kind of stuff. So um yeah, I'll be going there most days this week and obviously working on any any part of my swing or looking at numbers and just checking in basically. So but like bait this time of year it it's not you know, we're not necessarily pushing for getting it faster or bigger or whatever. It's it's literally kind of maintaining at the moment. And yeah, you could probably say in the last two weeks my my maintenance has has decreased just because of all the travel or the the lack of um gym work or whatever. So it's just kind of getting it back up to close enough to peak peak performance for for next week.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, anyway, let's listen. That's pseudo 22 under Leary, absolutely flying. Um Dr. Melania keeps saying I must get over and have a look and say hello. So I'll definitely have to have the next couple of weeks spin over when you're there. Coaching wise, have you been over to the UK over to your mental coach or anything obviously?
SPEAKER_00Um chatting to them uh here and there. Um I'm gonna get back in touch with them. We've got something scheduled for this week. So again, like I wouldn't necessarily be someone who would um use them like every week or like you know, or have a bad round and go, Jesus, I need to go see them. Um, but definitely checking in. Like I definitely I I've learned that I do need to speak to well, a psychologist. Like I I definitely needed it before I went to speak to him first. So it was definitely um I'm saying definitely quite a lot here. I do apologize if I can edit that out. Um yeah, look, I at the beginning, probably my last year's amateur, I I figured I was alright mental side. Um and then as my kind of my first year and then into my second year was going with the in the pro side, things weren't clicking or they weren't going the way that I felt they should have. And a lot of people around me were saying that it was it's definitely something I should look um into in terms of getting a psychologist or whatever. So I would and he and he's changed changed my way of thinking, he's changed my perspective on on a lot, and he's been incredible to to work with. And the big thing for me as well is that I um I'm making sure I don't have to use him as or like as a crutch. Like I was saying, it's not like if I have a bad round, I go, Jesus, I the world's ending. So it's it's definitely a mixture for me. Like we've worked on a few things and even uh even just writing stuff down after every round, so a little bit of a little bit of a journal uh or a dream diary, uh, you know, have your kind of goals laid out or like you know, your three or four checklists, and then you know, w also what did you do good today? And you kind of you feed off that and you're nearly rating yourself out of ten. And yeah, again, for for people at home, like you know, if you're if you're practicing or if you've got a match coming up and you feel like you're not playing well, even if you feel like you are, if you're kind of writing down a bit of a checklist, you can it's funny what five minutes does in the evening when you kind of step back after say playing a practice match or a practice round and you realize I actually wasn't too bad here, I was a bit harsh myself here, but that's what I need to work on then heading into the next day or the next round.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so kind of you feel you feel a little bit more enlightened, you know. Pick out a handful of shots. I think seven iron was great today. My short game was eight out of ten, you know, or I put it well. Like you maybe you go out and get 30 points because your driver lets you down, or you drive well, but your putter or your approach lets you down. Concentrate on those good things, I just say write a little note I do it. If I come home myself, I might be fucking depressed and hate golf. I'm gonna throw my gloves in the bin, but I will I will grab the diary out and I'll apply you know 27 putts today. Great stuff, and up and down four times out of five. Brilliant. Like I played uh played Beaverstown on Tuesday. The most frustrating few holes of golf I think I've had in years, because I I think I'm close to being a lot better. I'm so fucking close. The closer you get, the more fucking frustrating it is. And I'm not even gonna apologize for those courses because that's how I feel. I had on my front nine, I hit nine greens in regulation. Uh just missed one. Two but bogey in that one. So with the other eight holes, have a guess what score I was hitting nine greens in regulation. Or eight greens in regulation. Well, I I like I'd love to say under par or at worst level, but I had in eight holes, I had eighteen puts. I had two three puts and six. But that means you're playing really well to the green, isn't it? My driver was bad, like the green, and and that's what that's who you have to come out of it. Like I T the Green, I was quite good, although I made one board the all day and that was holding out from 41 yards.
SPEAKER_00So fair play, to you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so that that I mean that was good. I um yeah, I uh not on purpose layup on a bar four. I made a mess of my second shot and it was over water, I was just drawing the water 41 yards and just straight into the hole. So we're not straight in them onto the green and roll into the hole. So I actually took me. Yeah, exactly. It took me a few holes. If you can't put just hold it in, yeah, just leave the butter in the bag and try and hold everything. But um, yeah, that was the year when I played Ross Lair the week before that, and I had six for Birdie on the first missed that, six over birdie on the second missed that. I think the lads of flame were thought, holy fuck Mario McAwai turned up this morning. And then the third holiday scene, that was not quite accurate. Close to but yeah, again my back nine down in Ross Lair. I had two bogies on par threes. Definitely three putted one of them. I missed a short point, the other one. Two birdies on power fives, so level for those four. And then just I just had a seven I wanted to hold. Oh, three over for the back nine. Yeah, you know, so it's frustratingly close.
SPEAKER_00It seems like you're like 80% there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think if it again our weekend friends might this might come into them if it's you know that one medal a month or something. I think earlier on this year, I was and it's still a little bit in Beavers in today, I was a little bit defensive. I was fat party greens, which is good 75-80% of the time. But if you're not putting well enough, it's putting pressure on you straight away. Um Beaver Sarah and the greens are famously difficult down there, so you're on the wrong side of greens. We'll go on to it as you've seen in the PGA championship over the weekend. Doing the wrong side of slopey, fast greens. You're not guaranteed to put every time. So and then once you you know, once you miss one, then the pressure ramps up for the rest of it. So um, yeah, no, playing playing better, let's let's stay positive. Um, maybe I need lead promoting my life to remind me of the positiveness chat we had with him on a previous podcast, what was really good. I didn't try and get him onto this one for a quick half-hour chat game with us, and just you can literally just talk to the two of us about where we are, what we need to work on, and if any people might pick up something from that and get it get a free therapy session. Yeah. I mean it it if it works, I'll pay him, but can we pay him after the fact now?
SPEAKER_00Not before, yeah. Yeah, I have to make sure it works first. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so so what's next for you anyway?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so I have a competition in Trim at the start of June. Uh then I'm off to spaying with the fam for two weeks, and then I come back with a couple more pro ans. I'm contemplating the the Irish PJ Championships, it's in Limerick though, it's quite far away. Um so I'll have to see the Irish assistance is in Castle Darren, which is in Claire, I think.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01Another another faraway place. Another faraway place. That's 3636, so at least probably one night or whatever, but we'll have this. Let's see. Uh yeah, play a few more events this year and just get out and play. We must get out and play ourselves over the next few weeks. Yeah. And potentially playing current on Wednesday. What's going on out there? Nice. We'll talk off. That'll be nice. Cool.
SPEAKER_00Uh yeah, that'd be nice though. At least you at least you can have a bit of a schedule that you can work towards, or at least, you know, have an idea that you you're choosing whether or not to play it or not. It's not a must-play, or yeah. If anything, you you have a schedule that you can plan towards.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like the pressure is not I'm not anyway under pressure like you are. Like you're you're gonna trying to trying to make your living on in in the golf world, which it you know it brings on an insurmountable amount of pressure. You miss a cut it's cost me that that that um that week it's cost me money. I rock down to Ross Lair, play shit, I get back in the car and come home, you know, I go to work the next day. It's it it costs me diesel. That's it. Like so, um yeah. I I I'm in no way given out, I'm just frustrated with my game where my game is at the minute. Um I understand a lot of people might kill to play golf the way I do. I have to mind I said that as well. That I'm I keep coming home to Emish. Like as you answer that, I was like, Yeah, I'm just shit at golf. But you definitely have that mindset. Um episodes ago, you hold that finish until the ball is coming to a rest, it could be in the trees, but it could also be in It did a fair way. Oh, absolutely. You think you hit too hard could in the bottom of the cup, it doesn't matter. Like that birdie. Especially, oh my god, yeah, that birdie. Well, even the birdie did it in B was saying, all anyone knows is oh birdie got a three on the 15. They don't need to know that I made unless my second shot by birdie the 15. Which is difficult enough, though.
SPEAKER_00I it it is actually sorry. I was thinking of the birdie you made uh when we were recording. Um that's another one. Do you remember the birdie you made? Where were we playing? Um you uh myself and there was another fella. And we we were we were recording it, we were we posted it on YouTube. Um I don't think you'd held anything all day. Um you you made a wonderful two from about 30 feet away. Yeah, yeah. So there that was it. You just you hit the putt, and then you started walking straight away, and like, oh that's that's gone nowhere, and it slams the back of the hole up in the air. And then you do. Yeah, no, and that's and like we've like we've we've got a couple of photographers, um Andy and Clive, they're they're lovely lads, and they they go around uh during the week on on clutch and taking photos, and you know, yeah, like just hold the finish, even if you've tried to just hold the finish and see if you get a good photo or not. But um that's true, like you'd be surprised, like like anyone listening, you'd be surprised if you just work on holding your finish for a second or two, even in the net, um, like you'll you should start getting a bit more consistency with the strike and even just holding your balance. And it's it's little things like that that uh you'd again you'd you'd be if you look to video yourself and you see how much you actually fall off the golf ball by the end of it, and then you're wondering why you're very inconsistent missing it left and right. But if you can manage to hold your hold your finish for a second or two afterwards, you know, it mightn't work straight away, but give it a couple of weeks and you'll start to see you might end up having one miss, or your miss isn't as bad as it usually is because your body's used to being steady and and balanced throughout the swing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. Uh it was gonna took the words out and out balance, it's massive. Like the golfers at play and they they think are they've seen Scotty on the TV, so they think that moving or stuffing your feet after your swing is a good thing. Only if you're swinging at 120 miles an hour, is that a good thing? If you're swinging your driver at 80 miles an hour, your feet should not move, or you will not that ball will not start on online in any way. So, yeah, I always say to people literally wrap that club around your neck. You can look at John Ram, you can have a short backswing, look at John Daly, you can have a massively long backswing. But if you don't finish with that club around your top back of your shoulders around your neck, and you're finished. And like you, but for a right-handed golfer, when you're finished your golf swing, you should be able to lift your right foot off the ground for a couple of seconds. Easy way to save your unbalance. Swing your club and try and lift that right foot off the ground. If you're if you fall back, it means you've too much still too much pressure on your back foot, or just fall side to side. So very simple thing to do. If you want to test it out, literally take a swing, doesn't have to be be any club, be a little chip, whatever. If you can hold that finish and lift that back foot up, you as you said, you will you will get more consistent strike, more consistent start directions, more consistent distances. So yeah, try it out. And if it works, let me know. Let us know on on Instagram and I'll send on an invoice afterwards.
SPEAKER_00Again, just a portion of your winnings. Hopefully, hopefully, Scotty. Hopefully, Scotty's listening to this. If he rocks up next time he's playing and he keeps his feet still, then you know he's listening to the podcast.
SPEAKER_01I mean, famously, I I told him to to switch to the Nala putter. Not really bored at done it, but I think I was the first to say if Scottie learns to put absolutely changes, we're all in trouble. And I mean he couldn't really put this week in, but yeah, let's move on to the just impression.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, did you see do you see he changed his putter for this week? Yeah. And I heard the commentator saying, you know, why like it hasn't really changed it for the better. I don't know why he changed it in the first place. Maybe that was just something maybe he was just missing putts and thought a change would be nice.
SPEAKER_01Um the rest of his game obviously is amazing, but his putting has slipped back a bit. Um yeah, I think the the those greens just wrecked everyone's head. Like you see the one he shoved left from two and a half feet.
SPEAKER_00No, to be honest, I I didn't I didn't follow much of it. I kept tabs on it, and then I just kind of saw the leaderboard. I don't know if it was the same for for others. I saw the leaderboard and I watched it, I watched a bit of the early golf, and you know, Rose birdied the first and McRoy was I think he birdied early, and Scotty held one on the second. I thought, okay, here we go. The the big boys are coming in, and then they all just seem to fall away. Now, incredible golf from Aaron Roy, don't get me wrong. Really well. And like what was he four or five under on the back nine? Um from from nine eagles nine, from nine four or three, four, three more words, five under for the last ten holds. Yeah, which is like insane golf. And and like we were saying, like that ironamink seems like a great golf course. I I know there were there were a few complaints in in terms of the trees, you know, should they be there, should they not? And I kind of agree with the point of I think they should be there, you know. It makes it makes it a bit more of a test, but where they put the pin positions and the days they put those positions on, I think they I think what where whatever committee was doing it, I think they they knew they messed up a little bit. Like a lot of the players saying the the round three pins should have been the round two, they were much easier on on the Saturday. And you know, they were just forcing every single player to hit to the same spot on the green, and then you know, it it just too put for par or you know try hole a 30-footer for birdie, and that seemed to be the only way of of making ground, and that's why it was so bunched, obviously, up until the last day. But yeah, it was it was yeah, it was an interesting one.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it was frustrating that there was no there was no big spores out there, there was no doubles out there because there wasn't a lot of even though the rough was heavy and tough, there wasn't a lot of trouble, and then it was hard for people to birdie. So did it make the best viewing? It's not a US Open, it's not an open championship, and it's definitely not Augusta like, but you know it I think the USPA has sort of lost its place in recent years. Uh two years ago when they had it in Valhalla was disastrous. Last year it was a bit better. Um yeah, I don't know. They yeah, it it uh again, delight of Aaron Rye, um hard work, build his own swing, you know. We joke two globes because that's what he likes, buying head covers on his irons because that's what he'd like, he just hasn't changed anything. He hasn't trying to, he's 160 at 166 players in driving distance, so he doesn't smash the ball. Um yeah, he put it really well. That put on 70 and 45 feet or something was ridiculous.
SPEAKER_00Incredible.
SPEAKER_01A bit disappointed with with the likes of Rory and you know, not taking advantage of it. It's only two power fives on the course, and Rory just didn't take advantage of them. Um the only ones the Ram Rambo John Ram buried the second, I think, and then his only other two worlies were the two power fives, the ninth and sixteenth, fifteenth. Um, but good to see Ram in a tight second a big year for him with the majors. He's had a disaster since he went to that throw over there.
SPEAKER_00Um absolutely. I I think he's he's learned his lesson, obviously, and he's taken his punishment and he's finally shown up. I think now he just knows that he's safe for the Ryder Cup. Who knows whether he was struggling or wondering if he was gonna qualify for the Rider Cup team or if he was gonna get picked. But I think now there might be some closure and a freedom up because he really hasn't performed well in the majors. Obviously, on live he's been playing new enough lights out, but that's a different story. So it was it was kind of good to see him back. And even like Justin Thomas as well, like he obviously is not live or anything like that, but he's been he's been nowhere recently and to go out and shoot shoot a low number early and yeah, near nearly be close enough to a playoff after finishing like a couple hours before, you know, it it's good, it's kind of good to see him back as well and and competing. And it isn't just Rory or or Scotty for for the majors. Obviously, it's exciting when those two boards are in the mix, but when there's I don't know, five plus lads go on fighting out on a Sunday for a major as opposed to just two or three, it makes it makes her better watching.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, a couple of interesting stats with Aaron Roy, just quickly. Uh first English man to win it since the first two versions of the USPA were won by an English fan. And Aaron Roy's first man, he's the first person to ever win the USPGA shooting a better score each day. His score just got better Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. He score got better each day. So he was the first person ever in the PGA said that, and something like going to fourth or fifth in the history of major championships to do that, which is quite good. Sometimes they always have like a maybe a bad Friday or you know, good Thursday, Friday, dodgy Saturday, come back on a Sunday, a la ala Rory Augusta when he was 27 shots clear and then thought, ah, for the crap, that's uh that's that's good.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but sure, usually usually for a major they make the course more difficult as the week goes on. The condition just gets more difficult. So yeah, and like you maybe you could say they the committee made it a little bit easier for them over the weekend, but again, to still go ahead and do that and and still put in like we're saying that that run from from nine onwards. Of course, you're gonna win a major when when that's the situation that that's given to you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I mean that winner for him, he's he won by four, three, nine hundred to six hundred, one by three, and three words on the back line. Like that's that's the difference. Um yeah, some great things like five-year exemption to the Masters, to the US Open, to the British Open or the Open Championship, sorry. Can't call it the British Open, I'm not in America. Uh lifetime to the PGA. Speaking of lifetime PGA, it was great to see Parenton's 3-3-3 finishes this year. I I didn't see it, no, but I did he come does he just outside the top 20? But he held out for Eagle from a bunker on 16. He had a par three and the par 37 he powered that, and then he held out from off the green for uh a burly three on 18. Hit an L an L deli wedge on 18 just off the edge, and hit halfway up above the wedge to roll it across the green straight into the hole.
SPEAKER_00So he still has it. Yes, definitely. Harrington for the US Open. I wonder if the stats are the odds are on that. Yeah, um, so what what are we thinking then for the US Open? Like does Iron Rai go back to back?
SPEAKER_01Does Yeah, does Rory go and does Scotty do the the career grand slam for Scotty if he does it? Well that'll be the story going in, like I was at speed this year, great start. But yeah, I don't know if if Scotty's still fighting with his putter, you can't see you see a US Open sort of kicking his ass. Does JA Spawn repeat the Sam Burns get a bit of justice after he was robbed last year? Well we I know we say this, but we would actually sit down maybe the Monday or Tuesday the US Open week and have a proper chat just about the US Open runners and riders, course, set up. We'll know a bit more about the weather then. But we just uh as viewers we just want carnage, don't we?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, and I think maybe that's what uh uh the the US PGA was looking at doing this week, but yeah, it PGA is not the US Open. US Open is you know they wanted teetering on unfairness, you know, like pins in crazy spots or just burning out the entire golf course. Like you just want you want a tough, tough grind because you know, like we said, Augusta is well Augusta is Augusta. USPGA you could call you could call it an an elevated event and maybe a a bit long a bit more longer of a golf course. I think Aaronc was a lovely golf course and it certainly looked like a USPGA venue. I think they just messed up with with the likes of pin positions, but yeah, no, and then obviously the the open is yeah, links, weather condition, you know, history of the game. But yeah, yeah, US US US Open is the one venue where you're you'd be quite happy seeing lads you know make a 10 on a hole and uh and walk off crying. It is one of those idea they they free reign for the weekend. Let's just see how tough they can make it.
SPEAKER_01A very low level power one over winning events, that's just deadly. Yeah, hopefully that's again we will have a proper US Open chat. We will get some guests on. Um we will call it a day on this one, Tomas. Um tell me if any of our lovely listeners want to send us a message, have a chat, suggest someone for us to try and get on. How can they contact us?
SPEAKER_00Uh so on Instagram, we're just at post round pod. Um, you'll see our lovely logo. It says post round pod on it. Um, and then if not, if we're on email, then just the postround podcast at gmail.com. And yeah, shout it, shout us about anything. Guests, tweaks, whatever, whatever you want. If you even want a game of golf with us, we're not that expensive for the day. So um, yeah, hit it hit us up and and yeah, we'll have a bit of crack. So yeah, it's nice to chat to you again, Barry. It's nice to kind of catch up and and vent and all that kind of stuff. We'll get more.
SPEAKER_01Only four weeks from the US Open. So within within three weeks' time, we'll be having another chat about the US Open. Um so yeah, looking forward to that. And yeah, really that's us. Thank you, Tom.
SPEAKER_00Cheers, thank you, Barry.