WEBVTT - Part 3: Laird Shepherd, The 2021 Amateur Champion 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.520 I mean it's going to have to be a run 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:09.280 of golf from Led Shepherd, and it's an amazing what 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:13.480 pressure can do. It's amazing how momentum can work. And 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:15.880 if he can just start chipping away at that lead 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:21.000 MSTI eighteen holes to go, it's not impossible, but it's 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.200 virtually impossible. I think we all know that. But we 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:25.920 wish lead well, we wish both player as well. Of course, 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:36.760 put another log on the fire and nobody here is 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:45.000 given time. Welcome to the fire pit with Matt Janella. 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:47.960 If you're just joining us, we're about to tee off 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.440 on the first tea at Narn Golf Club in Scotland. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.640 It's a Saturday afternoon in mid June. It's the finals 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.880 of the playing of the British Amateur Championship, in which 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:03.040 two underdogs who have both overcome adversity and physical issues 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:07.000 getting here, are about to finish things off. Monty Scousel, 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.040 who made six birdies in the morning, is seven up 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:14.559 on Laired Shepherd, who didn't make any birdies and didn't 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.400 win his first hole of the day until the last 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:21.880 hole of the morning round, which made for a somber sandwich. 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.479 In Part one of this podcast, you get the backstory 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.640 and why it's so remarkable. They're both playing golf at 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:32.800 a competitive level. I had about five six shots. It 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.800 was very very cold, obviously January and St Andrew's but 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.560 five six shots and just chopped my club about fifty 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.839 yards and some rough and walked back to my car 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:48.320 um And I was pretty upset. You know. I just 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.120 said to my girlfriend, I'm not very good at anything else. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:57.360 So it's kind of scary thinking he spent five years, 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.120 five six years your life pursuing something ultimately turns out 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.480 essentially not to be. In part two of this podcast, 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.840 it's the first eighteen holes of this match, in which 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.760 Money and Laird, who have been friends for years, are 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.360 embarking on a journey that win or lose, it could 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.960 alter the course of their lives forever. So I was 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.120 so nurus. I actually I went to my went to 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.120 my bag about one o'clock in the morning, flicked on 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.800 the light, started chipping around around my bedroom just to 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:25.640 make sure I could still chip. You know. It was 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:29.760 just it was bizarre and I couldn't believe it. Eighteen 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.560 holes in it was Monty Scouse seven up as they 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.919 took a break for lunch. Low on sleep and both 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.800 barely able to eat, they try to reset for the 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:43.400 war of attrition that is the Amateur Championship. They're about 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.960 to play their ninth competitive round in five days. We 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.440 start with Monty's dad, Jeremy Scousel, who has carried his 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.480 son's bag all week. He seemed to have a good 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:58.400 strategy for how Monty again seven up, could get the 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:02.320 victory and all that goes with that title. Well, mine 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:07.079 set actually start again and actually say we want to 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.360 win this. We want to win this match again. So 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:14.720 we looked to forget about everything that happened in the morning. Um, 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.120 start afresh. You know, we're level par uh and And 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.760 I suppose the thinking was that if we did that 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.320 and we played good Girl for again in the afternoon, 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.360 and then the chances are that at some stage we 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:30.320 would we get over the line. Meanwhile, Laird Shepherd is 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:34.480 finding some motivation in what he was hearing from the gallery. Yeah, 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.680 first hole, I hit my drive a little bit right, 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.240 and someone behind the tea decided to start screaming forward 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:50.280 despite the fact it's not heading towards anyone. That annoyed 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:51.920 me a little bit. And I tend to play a 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.800 bit better if I'm a bit annoyage. So I've actually 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.000 asked my caddy as well to get me a big 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:01.760 black coffee. Um, but we usually would drink if I'm 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.040 playing golf, because you get a bit jittery. And then 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.880 I was like, oh, do you want a coffee? And 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.120 he's like, yeah, why not because he was so relaxed, 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:16.279 like because it's over. And so he had a coffee 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.360 and we're walking, we're playing. The first time, I'm carrying 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.720 his coffee when he set his shots, and that I 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.600 played solide the first few holes. I knew I needed 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.520 to go off to a hot start, didn't get it, 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.520 and thought, well, oh well, let's just keep grinding away, 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.080 maybe within a few holes and reduced to death sit 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.880 or whatever. And he pointed the first few holes pretty good, 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.280 just didn't get any I had a couple of chances, 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.080 just didn't manage to get it. And we got to 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.760 the fifth hole and that's when I changed in the morning. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.760 So actually quite strange that because that's when it went 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.720 downhill in the morning, and then in the afternoon decided 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.160 to driver there and he hit bomb drive just in 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.880 the greenside bunker and that's just when I all changed. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.320 He hit the bunker shot close, managed to wow his 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:01.440 first part really over around or the day ended up 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.720 having a bit of change of strategy. On the fifth hole, 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:12.080 I ended up nearly knocking on the green making a birdie, um, 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.440 and you know, it just ends up picking up holes 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:16.920 here and there after that. I think on the eighth 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.000 I made birdie to win a hole to get back 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:25.560 to five down um, and then hold a nice twor 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.400 nine to get back to four. And I said to 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.280 my Caddy after, I was like, I wish I hadn't 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.720 had that coffee now because I starting to feel a 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.760 bit the nerves again. I needed the bit of nerves, 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.000 but it's a bit of jittery as well because I 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.800 had all the caffeine and I hadn't been able to 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.280 eat that much just because I was so nervous that 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.480 it just you know, gone straight to me. So I 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:50.000 was a bit shaky, and what have I done? This 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:51.920 is when the coffee comes in. He's like, I've got 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.840 the jitters, like coffee jays. I was like, oh no, 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.200 And then he hold apart and I was like, well 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:03.719 maybe that's fair. Then that's like maybe it works. Meanwhile, 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.800 maybe it was Monty who might have needed a coffee. 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:08.599 I think I could sit here and say, you know, 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.440 I wasn't thinking about how many holes are left. I 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.320 was doing all the calculations on every hole, you know. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.839 I was like, Okay, I'm six up, twelve to play 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.560 or whatever, thirteen to play, you know, keep halfing holes, 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.680 keep trying to win the alcohole. But that that was 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.000 difficult to do because LEDs started playing a lot better, 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.440 and my game I didn't hit them ma any fairways. 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.560 In the afternoon, I got out of position a bit, 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.800 and suddenly, rather than being on the front foot in 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.080 the morning making birdies, I was sort of, you know, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.440 scrambling for parts a bit more. And that's that's a 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.279 difficult when you're out there and things aren't quite going 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.080 your way. As every golfer knows that feeling, it's sometimes 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.920 very difficult to turn it around. Coffee wasn't the only 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:49.200 thing Shepard was inadvertently experimenting with. You know, when you 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.880 look back, and it is crazy that you do some 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:57.080 things when when you're completely you think you completely out 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.640 of it, and you know you end up doing things 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.840 you'd never usually do. In the biggest day of your life. 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.400 I mean, my my girlfriends have a go at me 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.240 because I've put on brand new gold shoes for the 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.760 final and she was like, what are you doing. That's crazy. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.520 You're gonna be hearing your beast squeaking about your brand 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.080 new shoes. I was like, oh, sure, you imagine you 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.880 get blusters as well. I was like, as I, we 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:20.600 need to put a pair of shoes in the back. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.960 I didn't do it, but like a gase, they were 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.200 given up blusters on the way right, all right, back 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:30.160 to the action. Stuart Shepherd, Laird's dad reflects on the 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.760 front nine we needed to win one or two of 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.840 the first few holes. Didn't didn't happen. Um, So at 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:40.360 that point I'm thinking it's really just damaged limitation exercise. 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.040 But as you said, he wins five and then he 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.280 wins can remember eight and nine to get it to four. 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.000 I think, okay, he's now got the momentum, the big 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:53.360 game word and didn't you know fourward nine, that's that's 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:57.239 certainly kind of more realistic than doable. Yeah, at that point, 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.720 four down after after nine in the afternoon, it is 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.240 it is looking challenging, but you know, at least we've 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.960 got some back, and like Lyard said, he just wanted 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.880 it to be respectable, not you know, he was more 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.280 thinking he just didn't want to be beaten by the 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:16.600 biggest margin and history. So m and the end up 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.640 having a good part to then win another hole and 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.880 ten and just missed out and then a bad teasht 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:24.840 on eleven and plugged it in the front Banker and 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.320 I just thought, well, this really isn't what I need 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.200 to be doing right now. So I lost that hole 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:36.199 and then you're back five down with with six seven 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.640 to play. I think it was, which is not a 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.600 really a great position to be in. There. He made 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.319 bogie there and Money won the whole back. She's no. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:50.000 Five down was showing and I mean, that's just again, 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.280 that's almost back to being seven down on the first 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:57.839 tyear like well, although I wasn't even thinking that it 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.839 wasn't possible. And then when when he lost, I think 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.760 he left the past through eleventh. I think it was 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.480 to go back to five. Well, that that is the 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:10.040 hope has gone. It's back to damage limitation. And in 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.800 terms of a point where you start thinking it's not 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:18.480 looking possible anymore. For me, that was he could I 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:22.240 thought he couldn't afford to lose that one. Um, you know, 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.720 he worked so hard to get it back to four 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:29.120 and then to just lose one straightway back to to 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.600 go back to five down, and like you say, with 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:35.080 the sun running out of the timer. That's remember saying 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.440 to my sister and she's she's not a golfer, and 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.480 she said something like, oh, you can still do it, 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.959 and I just, I think I literally said, he's just 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.280 running out of holes. So it led one the ninth 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.440 to take it to four four down with with nine 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.319 to play, and I you know, obviously knew it was 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.400 far from over at that point, but I I'm we 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.280 half the tenth and I won the eleventh to go 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.600 to five up with seven to play, and that really 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.120 calmed me down. That was time when I felt because 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.080 clearly things a little bit on the slide, but I 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.320 thought if we could get when we got that one back, 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.040 I felt that was that was really quite important. You know, 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.680 you managed to get that one back because at then 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.880 Advance sort of took the momentum was with Laird at 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.200 that time, and as you know, match play can be 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:22.120 very easily a game of momentum. Laird Shepherd had lost 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.720 the eleventh all, but he came right back and won 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:28.960 the twelve. We're back to Monty for his commentary and 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.560 the very tough twelve hold I think probably the toughest 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.160 on the course. He won that one with a great 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:38.520 part put um to go back to four um. So 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.800 even though four down six to play, he's probably still thinking, 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.240 you know, it's not gonna be my day. But those 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.800 those those that stretching um, that sort of closing stretch, 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.600 and then it is brilliant for match play because you know, 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.400 there's a drivable path four, there's a really long path three, 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.080 there's a part five in there. There's a couple of 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.640 birdie chances if you get your drive away. So it's 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.600 a brilliant stretch for for what you know, proved to 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.480 be a good, good end to the final if you're 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:10.640 if you're a needtral viewer, the twelve was probably the 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.560 way it was playing, probably the hardest sol on the course. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.280 We hold a good part for par there so I 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.320 might actually get the whole bat straight away, which was 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.480 massive to get that back, do you know what. I 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.120 think probably one of the keys for me was the 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:29.640 twelve in the afternoon, because by that stage he'd got 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.319 down to I think it was at five down. Shepherd 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.760 had a really good part at twelve, and I got 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.920 it back to four down with six to play. Now 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.080 that's still heavy odds against. He's not going to do it, 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.960 is he. But suddenly you've got a little sniff of 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.760 a chance. So I think at twelve we all kind 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:49.920 of looked at each other and said, hey, four down, 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:54.160 six to play. You can feel the momentum just changing 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:58.800 a little bit and it becomes possible. Still unlikely, but possible. 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.640 I think the crowd of I mean, just because I 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.199 didn't want to see someone get beaten really badly, and 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.240 I had a little Scottish fag on my my bag 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.160 from an event I played in the States. Actually I 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.560 think that maybe got me some there some some fans 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.760 as well. But I think I managed to recruit all 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.120 the Narrow Lady members as large Shepherd supporters on my 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:24.640 way around because they all they all asked, so who 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.079 are you and I said, oh, they're Shepherd's girlfriend, and 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.640 they're like, oh, come on loud. And I think the 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:34.720 thing is everyone just loves a story, don't they. And everyone, 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:39.240 although obviously you know I feel from onto immensely. But 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.200 everyone I think loved the story of Lard coming back 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.079 because it was just so unbelievable. And you know, we 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:51.040 had people who I met and Suspectattion, just locals, you know, 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.760 saying well, it's practically Scottish with that name because he's 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.679 like Lard Shepherd, you know. And I shaved that to 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.240 LOI was like, everybody here wants you to win a 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.120 home and every how you're playing just to try and 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:06.640 get a game of it. Like they didn't want to 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.160 just go home and just be like, oh, well done 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:13.760 to to money, which they've probably were being happy with, 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.640 but everybody would want Layer too to fight back and 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.000 put up a good fight what he was doing to 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.160 even beat to get that score back to being if 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.480 he'd lost four and three, you've been like, well, well 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.520 done in the afternoon, like you played, you played well, 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.800 you managed to make a game with it. You know, 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.040 It's it's literally never over until it's over. I never 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.040 really thought after that that I was going to lose. 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.240 I never really thought about losing. I just thought I've 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.880 got to use the fact that I am so far 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.600 down to my advantage and just try and pile the 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.439 pressure on and you know, even at four down before 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:56.160 to play, I never thought, well, hey it's over. It 0:13:56.240 --> 0:14:00.280 wasn't over, but it still wasn't looking good four forward 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.839 to play at that point. Yeah, you know it when 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:08.000 four holes on the truck is unusual. I guess you 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.160 could say, you know, how often do you see that 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.480 in match playing? Ryder Cups and things like? I don't 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.800 think you see that often people winning four holes on 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.719 the truck. And he was standing on the fifteenth tea 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.560 with his head against the team marker, like deflated, like thinking, 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.800 oh my god, this is over an hour. I mean, 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.360 there's a picture that tells a story. And I was 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.640 like Layer, I was like, you're you're still on the 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.920 tea here. It's had a good drive. You smashed one 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:36.600 right down the pen over the back of the green. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.040 Monty didn't have a great drive. I can't imagine the 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.480 neres that we're going through Monty's body at that point really, 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.920 to be honest, I had a good drive on fifteen, 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.400 just over the back of the green. He y an 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.920 average drop drive and chipped up to about fifteen ft 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.320 and missed the part and I ended up getting up 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.320 and down. So when you're three down, the three to 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:01.760 play hit quality tea shot on sixteen and put the 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.120 pressure on and and Monty ends up pin in a 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.080 little bit right into some some bushes and having to 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.640 take a drop and end up. You know, Monty still 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:17.520 hold like for five there, so he made me work 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.080 to make my mask or four and a half five 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:25.880 for for for par and sixteen and sixteen it's kind 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.120 of a tough tea shot because the wind really picked 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:29.640 up and it was into off the left and for 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.360 me hitting a fade that's not a wind I like, 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:33.720 um and lead you know, stood up and in a 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.960 brilliant drive and I put a really good swing on 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:38.760 it as well. But as soon as I hit the ball, 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.600 the wind really gusted and just kept knocking it right. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.080 Took a heavy bounce off the edge of the fail 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:49.680 into a gorse bush and um again, it didn't feel 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.120 like I gave that hole to him and made a 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.120 really good bogie from a pretty impossible position and he's 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.800 still had work to do for par and in fairness 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.960 to him, he made a good part. So that's that's 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:03.120 really when it all started to all the nerves. That's 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.000 when Lairds started to get really nervous. Again. It was 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.560 like yeah, because it's it's on again. I think you're 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.080 only two don't now two to go? And it's like 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.480 Jesus got a chance again. So seventeen is a pretty 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:21.800 short part. Four there there's a so a hazard the 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.240 runs before the green, so you can't take it on 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.440 the driver, but you just hit sort of three iron 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.600 down the fairway trying to keep it short, some some 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.640 fairway bunkers, and we both hit decent tea shots and 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.680 at that point probably it started to pick up the 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.280 windiest have been all day, and it was into the wind, 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:48.040 had hundred fifty seven yards to pen um and the 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.920 green all slopes right to left, so um, you know, 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:55.120 I actually ended up chipping a six iron in from 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.880 that distance, which is a lot of club and that 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.200 kind of shot can be quite difficult when you are 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.240 quite nervous, because you automatically want to go and hit 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.960 something hard just it's just easier to do under pressure. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:12.800 But hey, again, just a quality, quality go off shot 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:19.359 at the right time. Can you put the pressure on 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:25.399 it upon it? Yes, he can into about five ft 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.480 and then you just stay he's thinking, oh my god, 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:34.119 what's going on? The shot he hit into seventeen was 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.200 one of my favorite shots he hit that day because 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.760 it was just so good, um, you know, to hit 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.480 that shot at that time, and I mean Monty made 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.600 a great up and down to put the pressure on 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.960 Laird as well, so equally, there were so many points 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.240 where mont who had a part to win or it 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.280 could have been over for a load, but he just 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.200 managed to keep it going somehow. I was still pretty 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.360 calm at this point, you know. Obviously I hoped I 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.200 would have closed is a match up by this point, 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.240 but at the same time, I just kept saying to myself, 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.800 just keep playing golf. Forget what's on the line, forget 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.160 all that stuff. Just keep playing golf. Stick to your 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.320 game plan which has worked all week and it's going 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:17.040 to work again. Um. And I made a super part 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.880 down the hill and seventeen, well, Monty hold a great 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.720 part actually going down the hill and had a double 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:27.119 break in it, which we had a long time looking 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.840 at it, but he hold it and it did feel 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.639 like that was that that was a clutch punt he 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.919 had to make that. Really. He ended up making a 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.440 great up and down the end for his part and 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:41.400 left me with a slipperest of six ft to keep 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.960 it going, and um, I think I said, there's someone else, 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.280 But I think as humans, you work, you know you 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.840 we work best when we know exactly what we need 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.840 to do. Um, And on those last holes and knew 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.520 those that that part for example, I had on seventeen 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.520 keep the match going. You know, it's this needs to 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.840 go in the hole. It's not like a stroke player 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:05.840 where like it's nice that this goes and the whole 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.879 it needs to go in. And that sort of made 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:10.639 it easy for me just sort of had to know, 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.560 like you know, black out and just sort of go 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:15.560 through the routine and just go, you know, I've got 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:17.119 to hit a quarter part and this has got to 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.320 go in the hole and and end up hole on it. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:23.000 And you know, becauld you think if that was someone 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:24.800 else and I was watching, I feel like, oh my god, 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.080 you know, your hands must be shaken, And I think, 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.640 then send back to me that where your hands shaken 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.159 and you know where you struggling to sort of keep composure. 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:37.600 But I was very very calm on the outside. Um, 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.040 you know, on the inside offs is very excited. But 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.240 you know, I just had this sort of knowledge of 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.159 this needs to go in and that helped lot and 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:50.119 was lost. So the last song six holes that we 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.120 played that day, so still had to hold his body part. 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:00.480 And again it was a massive cheer, and you're walking 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:06.200 to the eighteenth t going like wow, how you managed 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:08.920 to get to st and still have a chance. It's 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.960 like crazy. I have to say that I probably think 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:19.639 walking to I was I was going to win the match, 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:23.640 just because you know that the sort of situation with 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:25.800 having a big lead and then being paid back to 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:29.240 going down the last hole and that T shirt is 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:32.080 a very difficult T shirt, especially if you're fighting a 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.400 bit of a right miss. And I managed to get 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:37.520 up and play. It was just in the rights of semi. 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:40.399 But it was fine. Once again we hear from Laird's 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:43.720 dead even going up to eighteen, I wasn't thinking about 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:47.280 and winning it. Um maybe I wasn't allowing myself to 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:50.080 think you could win it. I thought just that the 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:53.320 chance of the prospect. We've already produced the semi miracle 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.800 having got to the eighteen. So and then that was 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.959 weird because the Laird actually drove first and he hit 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:03.200 it and slightly right in the semi. It was fine. 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:07.399 His girlfriend Chloe came up always just hit it a tree. 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:11.080 I said, no, that's lead ball there, and she suddenly 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.000 goes and we all go because we didn't see it. 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:15.879 It's so far back, so well it must be Montes 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:18.560 hit the tree. So we suddenly thought, oh my god, 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:22.000 well you know, maybe just maybe we will get down 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:24.720 the gap down the thirty seventh. So yeah, she she 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:27.639 had looked complete terror look on her face and she 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.120 thought it lead hit the tree. And I panicked because 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:33.159 I thought that was lead hitting and I thought he 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:37.080 topped it off the tea like just one of those 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:40.399 crazy things. I thought, oh no, that's it, and like 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:44.640 it was panic it was. It was definitely bandics drive 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:46.600 up the right and it was nearly into the bushes. 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:49.000 Couldn't really tell how to ask the rest stilling and 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:52.960 playing rested. Yeah, and then Monty was taking a practice 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:56.840