1 00:00:06,667 --> 00:00:10,387 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine 2 00:00:10,707 --> 00:00:12,827 Speaker 1: from News talk edb U. 3 00:00:12,867 --> 00:00:14,947 Speaker 2: Jillingng Golf for Lydia co and a tie for fourth 4 00:00:15,027 --> 00:00:18,027 Speaker 2: after three rounds at the Women's Open Championship at the 5 00:00:18,067 --> 00:00:19,547 Speaker 2: Old Course at Saint Andrews. 6 00:00:19,827 --> 00:00:21,987 Speaker 3: Who's Lydia to own the hawk down the hill and 7 00:00:22,067 --> 00:00:23,907 Speaker 3: eat in going to be swinging a little bit from 8 00:00:23,987 --> 00:00:24,627 Speaker 3: left to eight. 9 00:00:25,307 --> 00:00:29,067 Speaker 1: She got enough spit to keep the lane great. 10 00:00:29,187 --> 00:00:29,707 Speaker 4: Try there. 11 00:00:32,227 --> 00:00:34,747 Speaker 3: That was a beautiful effort. It's going to be a 12 00:00:34,827 --> 00:00:39,747 Speaker 3: round of seventy one for Lydia Coe who's been basking 13 00:00:39,787 --> 00:00:42,867 Speaker 3: in the European summer. She'll have another chance to do 14 00:00:42,987 --> 00:00:45,067 Speaker 3: so tomorrow. It will be right in the thick of 15 00:00:45,107 --> 00:00:47,587 Speaker 3: it come Sunday in the final round here of the 16 00:00:47,587 --> 00:00:48,627 Speaker 3: AIG Women's Open. 17 00:00:48,787 --> 00:00:50,587 Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted to past seventy one and a third 18 00:00:50,667 --> 00:00:53,067 Speaker 2: round four under for the tournament, just three shots behind 19 00:00:53,067 --> 00:00:55,267 Speaker 2: the leader. Let's bring and form a pro golfer and 20 00:00:55,347 --> 00:00:58,907 Speaker 2: astute analyst of the game, filled tart Angie Phil. Any 21 00:00:58,947 --> 00:01:01,867 Speaker 2: player would take three back from the leader heading into 22 00:01:01,867 --> 00:01:03,427 Speaker 2: the final round of a major, wouldn't they? 23 00:01:04,027 --> 00:01:06,827 Speaker 4: And at the Old Course to boot after the season 24 00:01:06,827 --> 00:01:10,307 Speaker 4: that she's had Piney. It's shaping up to be quite 25 00:01:10,307 --> 00:01:12,787 Speaker 4: a Sunday for her over there on Monday morning for 26 00:01:13,507 --> 00:01:15,307 Speaker 4: golf fans back here any. 27 00:01:15,587 --> 00:01:17,547 Speaker 2: I mean, you look at the what she's done, seventy one, 28 00:01:17,627 --> 00:01:20,747 Speaker 2: seventy seventy one. Is it likely she'll have to shoot 29 00:01:20,747 --> 00:01:21,827 Speaker 2: in the sixties to win it? 30 00:01:22,747 --> 00:01:25,427 Speaker 4: I'm thinking so, Although just had a quick sneak peek 31 00:01:25,547 --> 00:01:28,627 Speaker 4: at the wonderful cast of Saint Andrew's and they're expecting 32 00:01:28,667 --> 00:01:32,027 Speaker 4: some more breezy conditions tomorrow when it's gusting up to 33 00:01:32,147 --> 00:01:36,427 Speaker 4: thirty kilometers an hour. So you know, it's a storied 34 00:01:36,427 --> 00:01:40,227 Speaker 4: old course and it's been just wonderful watching the woman 35 00:01:40,307 --> 00:01:42,867 Speaker 4: play at the last couple of days because they're playing 36 00:01:43,027 --> 00:01:45,427 Speaker 4: the game of which the golf course was designed to 37 00:01:45,427 --> 00:01:48,267 Speaker 4: be played on. The men, of course, you know, annihilated 38 00:01:48,307 --> 00:01:50,507 Speaker 4: a little bit and it takes the conditions and a 39 00:01:50,547 --> 00:01:55,227 Speaker 4: little bit of trickery with pin placements to I guess 40 00:01:55,267 --> 00:01:57,787 Speaker 4: equal a challenge against the best of the men's game. 41 00:01:57,787 --> 00:02:00,907 Speaker 4: But the woman seem to play the ground game really well. 42 00:02:00,907 --> 00:02:03,067 Speaker 4: They get the bouncers, they're playing the proper shots, they're 43 00:02:03,067 --> 00:02:06,107 Speaker 4: playing the right distances into the green. So it's not 44 00:02:06,107 --> 00:02:08,507 Speaker 4: good having up a lot of birdies. I've noticed that 45 00:02:08,547 --> 00:02:10,427 Speaker 4: she hasn't made the whole heaven mistakes. I've made five 46 00:02:10,467 --> 00:02:13,507 Speaker 4: bogues over the first three days. And I guess the 47 00:02:13,547 --> 00:02:15,627 Speaker 4: hole that she needs to get through Piney when looking 48 00:02:15,667 --> 00:02:18,027 Speaker 4: at a schoolcard, is the eleventh hole that you eat 49 00:02:18,067 --> 00:02:21,507 Speaker 4: in the par three. If she can get through there 50 00:02:21,667 --> 00:02:24,347 Speaker 4: with par, which she hasn't done the last few days, 51 00:02:24,707 --> 00:02:27,387 Speaker 4: she'll be making some ground on the field. So hey, look, 52 00:02:28,067 --> 00:02:31,867 Speaker 4: it may well just being steady as you go might 53 00:02:31,947 --> 00:02:35,107 Speaker 4: well be enough. But my suspicion is that at the 54 00:02:35,147 --> 00:02:38,747 Speaker 4: moment she's three backs, seven unders leading, seven under, eighth 55 00:02:38,827 --> 00:02:40,907 Speaker 4: under might well be good enough to win. So that 56 00:02:41,027 --> 00:02:42,867 Speaker 4: takes three or four under for her tomorrow. 57 00:02:43,027 --> 00:02:45,267 Speaker 2: What's the best strategy to making par on eleven? 58 00:02:46,627 --> 00:02:48,107 Speaker 4: Yeah, look, find in the middle of the green. Really, 59 00:02:48,627 --> 00:02:53,507 Speaker 4: it's surrounded by Bunker's elevated green, really breezy conditions, and 60 00:02:54,747 --> 00:02:57,027 Speaker 4: you know it's all about sub selection too. The green's 61 00:02:57,027 --> 00:03:01,267 Speaker 4: pretty shallow there, and so hey, look, it's a quirky 62 00:03:01,267 --> 00:03:04,907 Speaker 4: golf course, the old course. It's basically the Mona Lisa 63 00:03:05,187 --> 00:03:08,987 Speaker 4: in golf course architecture terms, and it's probably the course 64 00:03:09,027 --> 00:03:12,107 Speaker 4: that most people are familiar with whether their golf fans 65 00:03:12,107 --> 00:03:14,347 Speaker 4: are non golf fans. The old course at Saint Andrews 66 00:03:14,427 --> 00:03:17,627 Speaker 4: is kind of where championship golf all got started way 67 00:03:17,627 --> 00:03:21,947 Speaker 4: back in the day, and so hey, look at there's 68 00:03:21,947 --> 00:03:24,507 Speaker 4: only two par fives out there, there's only two par threes, 69 00:03:25,027 --> 00:03:27,787 Speaker 4: and so there's a lot of a lot of iron 70 00:03:27,827 --> 00:03:30,867 Speaker 4: shots where you've got to be precise with at your distance. 71 00:03:30,907 --> 00:03:33,307 Speaker 4: She's had a lot of greens in regulation in the 72 00:03:33,387 --> 00:03:35,187 Speaker 4: last couple of days, which is what she can do 73 00:03:35,267 --> 00:03:39,107 Speaker 4: with those oversized double greens out there. But she's just 74 00:03:39,107 --> 00:03:40,867 Speaker 4: got to knock down a couple more parts, that's all. 75 00:03:40,867 --> 00:03:44,707 Speaker 4: It probably takes tomorrow to find the South with the 76 00:03:44,787 --> 00:03:47,667 Speaker 4: woman's version of the cleric joke in her hands at 77 00:03:47,667 --> 00:03:48,307 Speaker 4: the end of the day. 78 00:03:48,707 --> 00:03:50,827 Speaker 2: I guess I wouldn't ready apply to Lydia Coch she's 79 00:03:50,867 --> 00:03:53,507 Speaker 2: been around for a long time, but would slightly less 80 00:03:53,547 --> 00:03:57,547 Speaker 2: experienced golfers find playing the old courses and Andrews in 81 00:03:57,587 --> 00:03:58,547 Speaker 2: any way daunting? 82 00:04:00,467 --> 00:04:03,747 Speaker 4: Maybe? So, I mean, there's so much history there. And 83 00:04:04,107 --> 00:04:07,627 Speaker 4: what's been great about the LPG and the women's game 84 00:04:07,707 --> 00:04:09,507 Speaker 4: in the last few years, Pinte is that they've been 85 00:04:09,547 --> 00:04:12,707 Speaker 4: going to some of these venues that have typically been 86 00:04:12,787 --> 00:04:15,587 Speaker 4: kind of locked away just for the men's game, but 87 00:04:15,667 --> 00:04:18,227 Speaker 4: the women have been now playing there and it's great 88 00:04:18,267 --> 00:04:22,067 Speaker 4: to see the contrast between the two styles of game. 89 00:04:22,387 --> 00:04:25,147 Speaker 4: But more than anything, it's about putting the woman's game 90 00:04:25,187 --> 00:04:29,387 Speaker 4: on the pedestal. And so although some of the lesser 91 00:04:29,427 --> 00:04:33,027 Speaker 4: experienced players may not have played the Old Course as 92 00:04:33,067 --> 00:04:37,027 Speaker 4: often as the old hands, it's about skill execution when 93 00:04:37,067 --> 00:04:39,787 Speaker 4: it comes down down to the end of the day 94 00:04:39,867 --> 00:04:43,387 Speaker 4: and when it comes down the back nine and watching 95 00:04:43,427 --> 00:04:46,427 Speaker 4: the last couple of days have been inexperienced and experienced 96 00:04:46,427 --> 00:04:48,987 Speaker 4: players that have had the courage to play shots that 97 00:04:49,067 --> 00:04:52,027 Speaker 4: they not used to playing week in week out on 98 00:04:52,067 --> 00:04:54,267 Speaker 4: the LPGA two and being able to put off. So 99 00:04:55,307 --> 00:04:57,587 Speaker 4: it's going to take creativity, it's going to take courage. 100 00:04:57,627 --> 00:05:01,187 Speaker 4: It's going to take a little bit of thinking out 101 00:05:01,227 --> 00:05:04,187 Speaker 4: of the box, especially if the winds get up, and 102 00:05:04,387 --> 00:05:07,867 Speaker 4: with the road hole an the penultimate hole of the 103 00:05:07,947 --> 00:05:12,587 Speaker 4: Championship being one of those mightily difficult power fours, playing 104 00:05:12,627 --> 00:05:15,147 Speaker 4: over the corner of the Old Course Hotel with the 105 00:05:15,187 --> 00:05:17,827 Speaker 4: T shirt, it's going to take her and the full 106 00:05:17,907 --> 00:05:19,627 Speaker 4: mixed bag, all of the tracks really to get the 107 00:05:19,707 --> 00:05:20,227 Speaker 4: job done. 108 00:05:20,467 --> 00:05:23,347 Speaker 2: Nellie Carter was the pre tournament favorite and justified that 109 00:05:23,387 --> 00:05:25,267 Speaker 2: back to back sixty eight in her first two rounds, 110 00:05:25,307 --> 00:05:28,467 Speaker 2: but then a seventy five in her third round. Five bogies, 111 00:05:28,507 --> 00:05:31,507 Speaker 2: a double bogie and four birdies. What do we take 112 00:05:31,547 --> 00:05:33,187 Speaker 2: from an up and down round like that. 113 00:05:34,427 --> 00:05:36,267 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think she's the one that's got the firepower, 114 00:05:36,307 --> 00:05:40,467 Speaker 4: I think in the woman's game. And so from what 115 00:05:40,507 --> 00:05:42,267 Speaker 4: I saw, I didn't watch stay up and watch it 116 00:05:42,307 --> 00:05:44,107 Speaker 4: all last night, but I watched a few of the 117 00:05:44,147 --> 00:05:47,507 Speaker 4: highlights this morning, and she looked like she had a 118 00:05:47,507 --> 00:05:50,307 Speaker 4: cold putter as well. Yesterday hit one out of bounds 119 00:05:50,347 --> 00:05:53,987 Speaker 4: on sixteen, and so you know, the old course possibly 120 00:05:54,987 --> 00:05:56,947 Speaker 4: just got a couple of back on her. She hung 121 00:05:56,987 --> 00:05:59,827 Speaker 4: in there to give us Ouf a shot tomorrow. And 122 00:05:59,867 --> 00:06:02,707 Speaker 4: she's in the second last group, Lidia in the third 123 00:06:02,787 --> 00:06:06,227 Speaker 4: to last group, so by no means shot us South 124 00:06:06,387 --> 00:06:08,987 Speaker 4: out of it. But look, the old Course giveth and 125 00:06:09,027 --> 00:06:13,467 Speaker 4: it taketh away, and so you know, it's about respect, 126 00:06:13,747 --> 00:06:17,867 Speaker 4: and at times it seems like she got a little 127 00:06:17,867 --> 00:06:21,187 Speaker 4: tripped up and managed to salvage around where it could 128 00:06:21,227 --> 00:06:23,787 Speaker 4: have got away with her and completely she's going for 129 00:06:23,867 --> 00:06:26,347 Speaker 4: a little bit of history herself tomorrow. I think it's 130 00:06:26,387 --> 00:06:29,947 Speaker 4: been over fifty years since someone's won seven times in 131 00:06:30,027 --> 00:06:34,547 Speaker 4: the season on the old PGA Tour, and so accord, 132 00:06:34,707 --> 00:06:37,907 Speaker 4: she's been the player of this season thus far. Can 133 00:06:37,947 --> 00:06:40,547 Speaker 4: she cap it off with a last major of the season. 134 00:06:40,867 --> 00:06:43,787 Speaker 2: Incredible form she's in. And just on Lydia, how much 135 00:06:43,827 --> 00:06:46,507 Speaker 2: did you enjoy watching her win gold in Paris? 136 00:06:47,107 --> 00:06:48,787 Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, look at there were a lot of late nights. 137 00:06:48,787 --> 00:06:50,987 Speaker 4: Way of listening to you, there are a lot of 138 00:06:51,027 --> 00:06:53,187 Speaker 4: late nights, and that one was a particularly late light 139 00:06:53,627 --> 00:06:58,467 Speaker 4: for me. He was so much on the line, you know, 140 00:06:58,547 --> 00:07:00,387 Speaker 4: not not just a gold medal. And for a lot 141 00:07:00,387 --> 00:07:03,987 Speaker 4: of the other athletes at the at the Olympics, it 142 00:07:04,107 --> 00:07:06,667 Speaker 4: was all about the gold medal. For Lydia, there was 143 00:07:06,747 --> 00:07:09,787 Speaker 4: other things on the line, personal achievements and keeping it 144 00:07:09,827 --> 00:07:15,267 Speaker 4: off with being inducted into the Woman's LPGA, all the 145 00:07:15,267 --> 00:07:17,987 Speaker 4: fame she would always already be in the World Golf 146 00:07:17,987 --> 00:07:21,107 Speaker 4: Hall of Fame. It's just a matter of time for 147 00:07:21,147 --> 00:07:24,347 Speaker 4: that to be should be awarded that on her and 148 00:07:24,427 --> 00:07:29,747 Speaker 4: joining Sabob Charles in that prodigious, prodigious group of people 149 00:07:29,787 --> 00:07:33,747 Speaker 4: that have been awarded that on her. But it's capping 150 00:07:33,827 --> 00:07:39,267 Speaker 4: the career and watching her coming down the stretch was 151 00:07:39,507 --> 00:07:42,027 Speaker 4: just like any other athlete, rounding the last corner and 152 00:07:42,067 --> 00:07:45,027 Speaker 4: coming down the final straight. You can see the mental 153 00:07:45,227 --> 00:07:49,187 Speaker 4: anguish that was going on inside of her. It would 154 00:07:49,187 --> 00:07:51,387 Speaker 4: be great to get her quietly, just sitting around the 155 00:07:51,427 --> 00:07:55,267 Speaker 4: table and talking her through but avoiding mistakes, knowing that 156 00:07:55,307 --> 00:07:59,227 Speaker 4: it was hers to lose. And she managed to hold 157 00:07:59,267 --> 00:08:03,627 Speaker 4: on and you know, put a full stop, an exclamation point, 158 00:08:04,667 --> 00:08:09,067 Speaker 4: you know, a big underline on her career, all at Parentsville, 159 00:08:09,067 --> 00:08:11,947 Speaker 4: and that one achievement was something really special to watch. 160 00:08:12,027 --> 00:08:14,507 Speaker 2: Certainly was love chatting golf with you, Phil, Thanks for 161 00:08:14,547 --> 00:08:17,187 Speaker 2: your time, mate, Thanks planning, Thanks very much, No, thank you, Phil, 162 00:08:17,227 --> 00:08:20,547 Speaker 2: Phil Todd only there ahead of the fourth and final 163 00:08:20,627 --> 00:08:23,347 Speaker 2: round of the Women's Open Championship. Lidi, your co is 164 00:08:23,947 --> 00:08:26,987 Speaker 2: just three shots back from the lead in a tie 165 00:08:27,027 --> 00:08:29,067 Speaker 2: for fourth, So looking forward to seeing how she goes 166 00:08:29,307 --> 00:08:32,307 Speaker 2: overnight tonight, maybe she wins that major for the first time. 167 00:08:32,987 --> 00:08:36,147 Speaker 1: For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live 168 00:08:36,267 --> 00:08:39,547 Speaker 1: to news Talk zed B weekends from midday, or follow 169 00:08:39,587 --> 00:08:41,147 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.