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Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, we're about to tee off

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Speaker 1: It's a Saturday afternoon in mid June. It's the finals

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Speaker 1: two underdogs who have both overcome adversity and physical issues

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Speaker 1: who made six birdies in the morning, is seven up

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Speaker 1: In Part one of this podcast, you get the backstory

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Speaker 1: with four to play, and now with one hole left,

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00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 1: his lead is one. Made a poor swing. It clipped

431
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 1: the edge of the tree, fell down and went onto

432
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:43,880
Speaker 1: the path and the drive on we went like maybe

433
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 1: twenty ars. I'm standing there going all right, let's just

434
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 1: got an extra hols because you couldn't really see how

435
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 1: a lad of meet washing apart from where it was,

436
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 1: and then you're thinking Monty is going to be struggled

437
00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 1: now four bar so well you can see his ball

438
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 1: there on the path. That's the front te box to

439
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 1: the left of him, so that's in the penalty area,

440
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:16,439
Speaker 1: and only justin bones made the same decision to hit

441
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: the ball to the rough again because he felt that

442
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 1: was the best way to get to the green in

443
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 1: two and so in fact that the people who watching

444
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 1: the crowd had to be moved back because we said

445
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 1: that we're aiming to where they were all standing. And

446
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,200
Speaker 1: he had a very good two hour and actually into

447
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 1: the into that roff m and as you said, he

448
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: had a pup for pat for a five, which after

449
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,479
Speaker 1: the drive was probably didn't seem very likely. How has

450
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: Monty got this part for five? Like, I don't think

451
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,400
Speaker 1: people could maybe realize how good like it was from

452
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 1: wanting to fair enough he's done that, but also to

453
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 1: compose himself and then hit those shots to give himself

454
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: a reasonable chance for five. You know, it was pretty impressive.

455
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,919
Speaker 1: I was standing by that partner. I would say from

456
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: a foot out, I would have I'd laid pretty heavy

457
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 1: older that was in the whole. It's only oh the

458
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: whole the stays out. If that had gone in, It's

459
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 1: amazing how differently my you know what would be but

460
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: ends up just slipping out and then you're you're back

461
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 1: down extra holes. And obviously I was the much happier

462
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: person to be doing that. So oh what I'll find

463
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 1: all those and after thirty six holes worth, at one

464
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:43,160
Speaker 1: stage they had shoveled big eight down finishes all square

465
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: or into extra holes. You went from having no chance

466
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: and like no chance too, you're all square and you're

467
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 1: probably at that point in the favorite to went again

468
00:25:54,960 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 1: like because all the pressure is back on like you Yeah,

469
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: it's just like wow, to honest man, I could have

470
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 1: had a better part. It was. It was ahead of

471
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 1: exactly what I wanted to with the right speed, and

472
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: it it just lipped out. So yeah, it was a

473
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 1: pretty pretty stressful walk back to the first year after

474
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: those fourth holes. Looking back into that, it's pretty cool.

475
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: I think that Monty would probably agree to have the

476
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: chance to play a Sun Death playoff. For everything that

477
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: you get for winning the Amateur Championship is you know,

478
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 1: I think you've struggle to find a situation in Gulf

479
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: apart from maybe trying to win a major championship that

480
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 1: is more pressure than that because you are It's very cliche,

481
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 1: but it's sort of you know, it definitely does, when

482
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: you like it or not, change your life a little

483
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:52,199
Speaker 1: bit for that year that you are champion. And to

484
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,199
Speaker 1: play a Sun Death playoff, to get to go and

485
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: play in the Open and playing the Masters and and

486
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: play in the US Open and off is is a

487
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: high pressure environment, and you know, it was pretty cool

488
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: to just be a part of that. For me, my

489
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: dad were walking to the tea and there were loads

490
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: of people at this point and trying to get the

491
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: trolley through and onto the tea. It was a night there,

492
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 1: but I managed to calm myself down. And even though

493
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: I'd obviously let my lead slip, like Lead said, I

494
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:23,919
Speaker 1: didn't feel like I handed it to him. It's not

495
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: like I finished, you know, with four double bogies in

496
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: a row. He played brilliantly and I can't emphasize that enough.

497
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: You know, as I said earlier, earlier in our conversation,

498
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: in a thirty six whole match, both of you are

499
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,199
Speaker 1: going to have your run at some point, and he

500
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 1: left his right till the end to have his. And

501
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: he played beautifully under under the pressure that he must

502
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: have been under, especially on seventeen when I when I

503
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: hold that part and hit me, probably thought, you know,

504
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 1: his eight nine ft looked a lot longer then. And

505
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,959
Speaker 1: I remember the referee who was walking around with them

506
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: announcing the scores after you know, monton us is the

507
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 1: part on eighteen, well on the third six and he

508
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: announces the score goes to actual holes And I just said,

509
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: but you didn't think you'd been needing to say that,

510
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: and he said no. In my my dad just you know,

511
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: he just said, right, let's just win, let's win this

512
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: next hole. Um, and my coaches in my ears saying

513
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: you've got this. My coaching flown up to watch, which

514
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: is really nice, and he said, you know you've got this,

515
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: come on, keep going, um. And the strange thing that

516
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: I remember that walking to the first he was feelings

517
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: of like, oh, wow, you've you've really let this go,

518
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: but also feelings of I was here in the in

519
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: the round of sixteen where I messed up on a

520
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: team to win the match and Mr four ft partum

521
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: and I said, you won that game, So I said,

522
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: you're going to do the same again. I was so

523
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: nervous I could barely speak to my caddy. I was

524
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: trying to walk as slowly as possible and just trying

525
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: to deep take some deep breaths and get the sort

526
00:28:54,920 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: of get the nervous energy out before each shot. But um,

527
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: as soon as I got over the ball, I had

528
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: this um. That sort of was my calm place for

529
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: the week, which is useful, you know, at the end

530
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 1: of the day, looking at it as a thirty six

531
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: hole match. We were even after thirty six holes against

532
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: each other. So I thought to myself, just win the playoffs,

533
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: you know, And that was my mindset. I cut forgot

534
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: everything that had happened in the last four holes. I

535
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: knew I've been playing some good golf. I just need

536
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: to make some good swings. Um and uh and yeah.

537
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: Hopefully we went down the first and you just cannot

538
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: bring yourself to think that this is he's going to

539
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: win this. It's just I mean, yeah, what the chances

540
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: of that? But you had the momentum at the going

541
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 1: down the thirty seventh, and despite trying to stop thinking

542
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: about it, you're also thinking, well, it would be extraordinary

543
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: now if you didn't win. Keep down on too breathe.

544
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: I was like, just keep breathing. Like he was extremely nervous,

545
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:57,479
Speaker 1: like basically having hard competitions. Monty ended up not had

546
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: a great drive and he had his second shot short

547
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: of the green. So you mean he maybe had like

548
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: forty yards chip or a pitch or whatever you want

549
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: to call it. I had a pretty decent drive. Mont

550
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: sit little the left and uh and then has to

551
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: chop out of the raft just shot the green, and

552
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: then he's sort of thinking, Okay, here we go. Um

553
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: My caddie actually told me after we finished that he

554
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: gave me a number to the pin that was five

555
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: yards shorter than what it actually was, but he didn't

556
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: want me to go over the back with the adrenaline

557
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: and stuff, and there was a little short shot. Had

558
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 1: actually had certainly six yards to the flag, and that

559
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: at this point, well I leased the flag, so I

560
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: knew the guardage, but you don't want to go along

561
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: with that green. So I purposely told layer of the the

562
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: yards that was short of the pin so that he

563
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't go long, and he left it like almost exactly

564
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: on the yardage I told him, but it was like

565
00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: six yards short of the whole. That's perfect at the

566
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: time undercooked. And then Monty had a world class pet

567
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: shot up to about a fruit. So now I'm thinking

568
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: flirte three process. I'm going to be human because I've

569
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: told him the whole yard. But he managed to managed

570
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: to put it up close. So even in spite of

571
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: five yards, Shepard made an easy part in the first

572
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: playoff hole. Well, Scousel successfully scrambled to extend the match

573
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: and left myself at a fifty yard pitch and he

574
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: knocked on a knocked onto the green to about twenty

575
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: So I thought, Jesus, this this is going to be it.

576
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: But again, one short at a time and probably you know,

577
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: whatever happens in my career wherever I go on to

578
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: do with golf, one of the best shots I've ever

579
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: hit in my life, that's with the pitch into the

580
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: first playoffole under the pressure I was under, and coming

581
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: back to my point, really, Matt that I've always the

582
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: short game generally. He did a lot of that during

583
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: the week, and of course, you know it became apparent,

584
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: particularly on the in the final, but he was doing

585
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: that that sort of shot quite a lot all week,

586
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: and also his long putting was pretty good. Scout's lag

587
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: putting was in fact very good. At that point. He

588
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: hadn't had a three point all day, and standing on

589
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: the tea of the second playoff for Laird still had

590
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: honors a poor T shirt of the second extra Month

591
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: had a great t shot, but even still then I

592
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: just thought, you know, I don't know if something told

593
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: me that you haven't come all this way to lose.

594
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: Checking back in with Laird's dad and girlfriend, basically, like

595
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: probably most people my age, I tried difficulty actually picking

596
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 1: up the ball in the air. Time well, I watched

597
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: the swing and the reactions and then then guys, beware

598
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: to look, and I just remembered, my god, Laird was

599
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: over trying to overhit that. It was so pumped. I mean,

600
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: it hits it all pretty hard, but he just study

601
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: over too much effort into it, and definitely that's not good.

602
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: All I saw was the hand come off the club

603
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: and signal left and I just thought, oh no, like

604
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: but I again felt like that was it. You know,

605
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: he had hit a poor T shot out of possession.

606
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: Monty then hit a good T shot and in um

607
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 1: lowd punch out recovery. And again even the recovery shot

608
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: couldn't have been one of the key shots for Lord

609
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: because he had to get it far enough up the

610
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: right side that he had an angle to that pin,

611
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: because again it wasn't an easy pen. Meanwhile, Scousel thinks

612
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 1: he hit one of his best T shirts of the day.

613
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: I must have pumped it three eight down there went

614
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: straight for the tea peg. I saw a bounce in

615
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: the middle of the fairway. It was quite a tight

616
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: T shirt that second hole, and I thought, sweet, I

617
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: have a little wedge in my hand, I can get

618
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: that close. And obviously we lead him trouble. I don't

619
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: know his life was like. I actually haven't seen it

620
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: on any of the footage, but apparently he was. It

621
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: was okay because there was a lot of head that

622
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: from where I was standing on the fairway with a

623
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: lot of heather around him, and heather obviously is is

624
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: not friendly for goold for golfers, so he he actually

625
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: had a very good shot, got in about fifty yards

626
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: short right. But from there I still thought, you know,

627
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: that's a tough up and down and if I can

628
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 1: just knock this on the green two parts, I'm not

629
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: going to lose the whole um. But when I got

630
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: to my ball, it was in the left semi and

631
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: to this to this day, I mean, I still don't

632
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: know how it finished in the left semi. I haven't

633
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: again haven't seen the footage, but that ball bounced in

634
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: the middle of the fairway and it must have kicked

635
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: hard left and to finish in the left semi. And

636
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: it was just sitting down a fraction um and down

637
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: wind with a with a short wedge, very difficult to agree,

638
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: which was sloping away from me, very difficult to control,

639
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: and I was kind of in between shots. And the

640
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,760
Speaker 1: ball came out just so hot, so hot, landed probably

641
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: third a foot beyond the pen, to ft beyond the pen,

642
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,399
Speaker 1: and just you know, no spin on it released onto

643
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: the back edge of the green on the fringe. So

644
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: they probably weren't that far in distance, but Monty was

645
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 1: like on the green where's load was sure of the

646
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 1: pen and lead a cracking pet sharp and maybe five

647
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: foot something like that. Nice touch to sit there. Yeah,

648
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 1: then he played under the pressure. Yeah. Then to do

649
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: that when he needed to, I think just shows great,

650
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: great character. And again, like say, after being out of position,

651
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: he needed to put it somewhere close to get himself

652
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: a chance. So Marty hadn't looked like three part an

653
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: all day, no chance, And because his pace and the

654
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: Greenes were brilliant, and he was holding out well and

655
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: he potted up to maybe they were fairly equal distance,

656
00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: Monty was just slightly Yeah, Monty much me slightly closer

657
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: than Laird. And I was like, just try and just

658
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 1: put a good stroke on it and trust, just trust

659
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: what you've been doing. It probably was a case of

660
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,879
Speaker 1: whoever hold that, who ever got to go first, and

661
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: if they hold that, that was going to be the

662
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: winning part. I'll done. Laird Shepherd when he holds the

663
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: pressure was obviously straight on me and all of them.

664
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: Sudden the shorter one becomes that much longer. It was.

665
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 1: It was also a little tricky, it was. It was

666
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 1: a tricky little left or writer. And consequently it was

667
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: always going to be a tough pat, but I think

668
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,879
Speaker 1: it would been much easier fled and these things. Yeah,

669
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: and then it's down to Monty, isn't it. Monty Scalcel

670
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:51,240
Speaker 1: has a put to keep it alive. He's been solid

671
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: over those puts all day. Oh not this time though,

672
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to learn when oh my god, you know,

673
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: and it up finishing on that green and yeah, I

674
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: couldn't really believe what had happened, but it was very well.

675
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: He'd had to be over. I just just misread the

676
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: part of it. I sort of hit it left edge

677
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: and it didn't move and it lipped out, and yeah,

678
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: it really sad. It was a sad ending, and I

679
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 1: think for everyone watching it was probably one of those

680
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: endings you wanted someone to hold a part to win

681
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: it because it had been such a great final. Um

682
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: so sort of a shame that had to be had

683
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: to be ended by a miss putt. But you know,

684
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: that's golf. That is one of the greatest comebacks you

685
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:38,919
Speaker 1: could ever asked to see. It's what makes the game

686
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 1: of golf and in match play so great, though, I

687
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 1: think is you get those little situations and you know,

688
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 1: sometimes they're working your favor and sometimes they don't, but

689
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: there was nothing to be scraced about. And I think

690
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: it was just, you know, the golf and girls weren't

691
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,240
Speaker 1: weren't there for him on that, you know, that particular moment,

692
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 1: but they were for lead and great for him, absolutely

693
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:05,959
Speaker 1: great fam lad shattered it down after seventeen olds, four

694
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: down with four to play, and in the end that's

695
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 1: the man from Sussex who comes through to become an

696
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: amateur champion at the thirty eight pold and these two

697
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: good friends and how they believe what they have gone

698
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: through today. It's the kind of final wall. You don't

699
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: jump around, you don't punch there, you're just so relieved

700
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:31,760
Speaker 1: and unbelieving. It was like shock when it lipped out.

701
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: Just mentally, I wasn't expecting that and it was like, I,

702
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, moment he's only gone and want it

703
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,240
Speaker 1: um Yeah, I just wasn't expecting to see that happen.

704
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: All the injuries, all the years of toil, all the

705
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: emotions spill over as you would understand at such a moment.

706
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: It's actually funny have reduced a few grown mental tears

707
00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,479
Speaker 1: at that moment, and it was, you know, I can't

708
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: say it was just one of those situations where, um,

709
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: you know, I know lad Well and knowing what he'd

710
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 1: been through. If there was one other player in that

711
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:11,760
Speaker 1: field that I would have wanted to win that final

712
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: other than myself, you know, it would have been Lead,

713
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,399
Speaker 1: And it was. I was obviously distraught, you know, there's

714
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: no there's no buttering it up. I was absolutely gutted,

715
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: as competitive as they come, and I wanted to win

716
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: that final so badly. Um. But at the end of

717
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: the day, I think, you know, my parents always taught

718
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: me that, Um, you know, you try as hard as

719
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: you can, but once it's over, whether you've won or

720
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: you've lost, you you lose and win with with with grace,

721
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: and you respect your opposition. And and there was the

722
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 1: great thing about the whole day was that we there

723
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: was such a great respect between the both of us,

724
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: and I think everyone picked up on that. There wasn't

725
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,879
Speaker 1: you know, too many fist pumps and getting in each

726
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: other's face, and and the game was played in great spirit.

727
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: And and that's that's the beauty of golf, you know,

728
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 1: And that's that's how I believe it should be played.

729
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 1: I think Lead thinks the same after be be finished

730
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,240
Speaker 1: and was just gonna shake his hand. You know, I

731
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 1: I honestly didn't have any words for him, and you know,

732
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: I just said, you know, you played great, and um,

733
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: you know, I wish I could have maybe been a

734
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: bit more, been able to say a bit more that

735
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 1: made any sense to that point, but I just I

736
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: was speaking. I was, I just didn't know what to say.

737
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: But obviously, you know, I think that's as well reason

738
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: why I wasn't maybe outwardly, you know, fist pumping and

739
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: really happy that I had won, because it just didn't

740
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: seem appropriate. You know, it was a real battle all day,

741
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 1: and um, you know, it was one of those situations

742
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: where I think just like mutual respect for each other

743
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: took over, and then the whole day it was played

744
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: in such good spirits and there's a lot of good

745
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: goods in the morning and stuff, you know, because you know,

746
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,959
Speaker 1: you know, going out of that second eighteen as well,

747
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 1: you know, um, someone said to me, I kinder if

748
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: it was, but saying no, you're going to make him

749
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: put everything now, And because I needed to, and I

750
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: think on the third hole, we did good good and

751
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: you know, he was we were basically same distance, like

752
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: three or fourf you think it was. And I said,

753
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: I'll just pick up and go to the next hole.

754
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: And my Caddy was sort of looking at me, like,

755
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you should have done that, and I

756
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 1: said to him, you know, I don't want to win.

757
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: I don't want to win like that and if I

758
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 1: want to earn it, and you know, Monty to serve

759
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 1: so much credit for how well he played and he

760
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: made he made it into a real, real battle, and

761
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: so I think that was just what came out at

762
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: the end. It was just you know, giving him a

763
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: hug and just go And maybe that was that was something,

764
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: wasn't it. And you know, it is difficult. You don't

765
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: know what to say to someone when they've they've had

766
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,839
Speaker 1: that disappointment and you've obviously had this success and it's

767
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: just it was it was difficult for both of us,

768
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: who were both very emotional. If that was me in

769
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 1: that situation, I would have been probably broken down, like

770
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: m tears and stuff. And Monty was like it was

771
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,760
Speaker 1: just I couldn't believe that he managed to hold himself together.

772
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: Like true, he's an absolute gent like the game was

773
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: played and unbelievable spirits there was no Both of them

774
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: wanted a charge to do well. And quite often you

775
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 1: get games and you're playing some day in and you

776
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: had a good shot and they're like, they don't say anything,

777
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,879
Speaker 1: But all day everyone was like you had a good shot.

778
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: Like there was no regardlessly one. It was just a

779
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: great day, like you would have You would have been

780
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: happy if Monty one. Obviously me and LAYERD wanted Layer

781
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: to win, and Monty and his dad wanted Monty to win.

782
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 1: But if if he if he'd got to beat or

783
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: whoever got beat, like you're still going to be happy

784
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: for the other person winning because the way the game

785
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: was played, just just the way they are off the course,

786
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: like they're both nice people, Like Monty starts brand new

787
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: and is just yeah, it's a good guy. But he

788
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: held himself together. Unbelievable. What did What did he say

789
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: to you when you hugged him. I don't know, but

790
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 1: I just said to him, you're a British amateur champion,

791
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: and I think you just there was too many tears

792
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: from us both to really get any words out. But

793
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: and I remember saying to him, you can smile now,

794
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: because I think there was just so much shock and

795
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: an emotion. I think once I gave him a Huggy

796
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:39,959
Speaker 1: just collapsed. Um. But yeah, it makes me emotional thinking

797
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 1: about it, just because, like you know, it was. It

798
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: was kind of a powerful moment, I guess. And yeah,

799
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,839
Speaker 1: something that you dream of being there, you know when

800
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: when he does something like that, so hopefully be there

801
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: from anymore to come. But but yeah, I don't. I

802
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: don't think he had many words anyway. At that point

803
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,879
Speaker 1: I began to cry. To be honest, what emotional pair

804
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: we are? Chloe got in there first, Well I think

805
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 1: Andy got in there first, then Chloe. Yeah. Then I

806
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 1: marched on the green and gave him, gave him my

807
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 1: hug basically, you know, just I've just seen something just incredible. Really,

808
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: I just I said to him out just I will

809
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: never see anything like that in my life again that,

810
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: you know, not the winning of it, but the way

811
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,320
Speaker 1: you want it not. Honestly, I feel sorry for Monty

812
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 1: because he doesn't read My sympathy is great players right,

813
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: But to anyone watching, you'll know that he didn't just

814
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: give it away. He holds some quality parts. In sixteen

815
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: and seventeen, when the pressure was truly on, even his

816
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: up and down. The first extra hole was just top drawer,

817
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: So I think he should be very very proud of that,

818
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 1: despite obviously what happened. Monty played so great all day

819
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: and such a great bow. I mean, ah, I mean,

820
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: I just can't believe here. And one of my good

821
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: friends after we finished this was phone in me and

822
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: he kept phoning me, so I thought, I answer this

823
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: and picked up and yeah, like what like down the

824
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: phone is just sanking what And I said, I don't know,

825
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: and it's just like, what just happened? Yeah, because he

826
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 1: only checked the scores at halftime. And I saw some

827
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: comments on the on the when they put the picture

828
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: up of champion Large Shepherd on there. There are no

829
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: social media, and some comments were like wait what like

830
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 1: how and then they're like someone's like I'm going to

831
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: have to go back and watch live stream because I

832
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:51,479
Speaker 1: want to know what happened and and yeah, and it's

833
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: just it's just sport, isn't it. I Mean, sport creates

834
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 1: so many moments like those, and I think that's why

835
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: we love it so much. That's a match story. He

836
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 1: told of the dark days of January, standing and the range,

837
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:06,320
Speaker 1: thinking that was it. His game had gone the future

838
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 1: plans had gone, he wouldn't be playing golf. To come

839
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: back from there, and to come back from eight down

840
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 1: after seventeen to before down before to play, and to

841
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: win the amateur championship. With all that that entails, you

842
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: just can't ask for a better story. Well done, commiserations

843
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: montese Ca so but Laird Shepherd as the amateur champion,

844
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: what a fantastic victory from all of us here, Pat Now,

845
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:38,320
Speaker 1: thanks for your company by for that. Both Court Neddler

846
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: and I agree as we've been doing these interviews and

847
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 1: editing this podcast, there are so many lessons within this story.

848
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: Overcoming adversity, obviously, determination, family, friendships, relationships, and sportsmanship still matter.

849
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: These two young men, in both winning and losing, not

850
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 1: only made us better play years, but by getting to

851
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: know them, we feel like we're better people. So we

852
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:08,439
Speaker 1: thank them for that. And before we get to Part four,

853
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 1: where you'll get further reflections from the entire cast of characters,

854
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 1: plus we have more about Laird Shepherd's future as an

855
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: amateur and a pro bad yardages and who might be

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