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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Quiet Please.
Speaker 3: We have a very special episode today because it is
Speaker 3: the week of the US Women's Open, aka the biggest
Speaker 3: week in women's golfs. Some might say I would say
Speaker 3: that Mel here, Kira here, and we're excited. We've got
Speaker 3: an interview coming up as well to share with you
Speaker 3: that has just been something we've been working on forever,
Speaker 3: especially at Mel. But how excited are you to be
Speaker 3: at riv.
Speaker 4: Yeah, very excited.
Speaker 5: First time the women have had a major championship in
Speaker 5: the La County area obviously been absolutely iconic. And I
Speaker 5: actually think, and I'm not just saying this, I genuinely
Speaker 5: think this is a fantastic setup for the US Women's Open.
Speaker 4: I think it's strategic.
Speaker 5: You have to kind of hit certain shots, you know,
Speaker 5: you have to shape it one way or another. It's
Speaker 5: very very different to what it was last year.
Speaker 4: Aaron Hills, completely different golf course.
Speaker 5: So I'm very very excited to see how the girls,
Speaker 5: how the girls try and battle that out this week.
Speaker 5: It's and it's just cool being in at La. I
Speaker 5: don't know, It's got a different vibe, hasn't it. It's
Speaker 5: just a big city and it's just cool to be.
Speaker 3: At feels like a big event. So we're going to
Speaker 3: do something fun today. We're each going to go back
Speaker 3: and forth and pick five players or storylines for you
Speaker 3: to follow, So we're going to do kind of a
Speaker 3: quick rapid fire and then we will kick it over
Speaker 3: to a special interview that we did with the one
Speaker 3: and only Charlie Hall.
Speaker 4: We haven't done.
Speaker 5: We haven't had a guest on this podcast for a while,
Speaker 5: so I feel like this was the this was the
Speaker 5: one that everyone was waiting for. So we're very excited
Speaker 5: that Charlie made some time for us last week. And
Speaker 5: as you can expect, she was authentic, she was honest,
Speaker 5: She's absolutely hilarious and was an absolute treat to have
Speaker 5: on the podcast.
Speaker 4: So thank you, Chaza, thank you Charles.
Speaker 3: And if you're here for major Riviera US women's open
Speaker 3: breakdowns from that interviews, this is not the place watch TV,
Speaker 3: watch TV, watch mel I'm Live from this week, or
Speaker 3: listen to somebody Else's show. That interview is all about
Speaker 3: Charles and life and how unfiltered and hilarious she is.
Speaker 2: So enjoy that.
Speaker 3: Before we get to that, let's start with our five
Speaker 3: storylines each mel you go first, what's your first story line?
Speaker 5: Well, obviously, I think it's the biggest one, isn't it
Speaker 5: Nellie Carter. Is she going to get it done this
Speaker 5: year US Women's Open? I said in a Golf Digest
Speaker 5: podcast last week, gosh, all my week to get mixed
Speaker 5: up that I think if she manages to pull this
Speaker 5: off this week, especially being kind of la you know,
Speaker 5: she's a superstar, like I don't know. It's the town
Speaker 5: of Hollywood and all that stuff, So I think it
Speaker 5: would be one of the greatest sporting achievements we've seen
Speaker 5: in a long time.
Speaker 4: I think that all eyes are on her.
Speaker 5: The way that she's playing is the best I've ever
Speaker 5: seen her as a whole, and she's very happy outside
Speaker 5: of golf. So this is the best we've ever seen
Speaker 5: Nellie Corder, and it's showing in the first part of
Speaker 5: the season.
Speaker 4: She obviously won Chevron Chevue.
Speaker 5: Chevron's been a long anti Qa, I love you, Auntie
Speaker 5: QA I've literally been talking to Kay too much. So
Speaker 5: she obviously won the first major of the year at Chevron.
Speaker 5: She's been pretty much dominant since the start of the season.
Speaker 5: She won Hilton, she won Mexico, So yeah, she is
Speaker 5: definitely the one to be. I think her game could
Speaker 5: not be more suited to Riviera as well. She's a
Speaker 5: fantastic driver of the golf ball. She can shape it
Speaker 5: both ways. She hits her ironshots long. It's just a
Speaker 5: putting I think on these Poana greens they get difficult
Speaker 5: in the afternoon. If she can somehow manage to roll
Speaker 5: in a few perts early and get off to a
Speaker 5: good start, I think she's the one to watch. But
Speaker 5: I also think it would be an incredible achievement because
Speaker 5: it's it's hard enough in itself to win a US
Speaker 5: Open or US Room's Open, let alone when you've got
Speaker 5: a target on.
Speaker 2: Your back m hm.
Speaker 4: And the expectation as.
Speaker 3: Well, So we'll see how she handles all the expectation
Speaker 3: of being a star in Hollywood.
Speaker 4: This week.
Speaker 3: Speaking of stars in Hollywood, my first storyline is Michelle
Speaker 3: Wee West being in the field. It is the last
Speaker 3: year of her exemption from winning the US Women's Open
Speaker 3: back in twenty fourteen. She was able to take a
Speaker 3: couple of years off due to maternity leave. So if
Speaker 3: you're thinking it doesn't line up with the years she
Speaker 3: won in twenty fourteen, it's twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: That's why.
Speaker 3: Her husband's on the bag, her kids are there, she's
Speaker 3: playing in LA, she's playing in California. She's got a
Speaker 3: custom shoe from Nike.
Speaker 4: She's sick, by the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so like she is living her best life and
Speaker 3: she is so excited to be there. Her daughter is
Speaker 3: her sports psychologist. Her daughter is five and is telling
Speaker 3: her mom, when you get nervous, just take a drink
Speaker 3: of water and think about having dinner with Jagger and
Speaker 3: me today, which is adorable.
Speaker 2: And she's gonna do it.
Speaker 3: And she's, you know, who knows what's going to happen,
Speaker 3: but I know she's been grinding and Michelle is she's
Speaker 3: a star, and she's activating out there, not just playing.
Speaker 3: She's bringing people into the journey. So it's gonna be
Speaker 3: really cool to watch her. So if this could be
Speaker 3: the last time that we ever see Michelle play in
Speaker 3: any sort of formal tournament like this, let alone a
Speaker 3: major championship, so I think that it's a historic must
Speaker 3: watch appointment television. No matter how she does, Michelle's doneing
Speaker 3: incredible stuff for our game, and I can't wait to
Speaker 3: see her this week at riv where I know she's
Speaker 3: really pumped.
Speaker 4: To be able to play. Yeah, well said, Well said.
Speaker 6: Two.
Speaker 5: So my other storyline is Mega Garne. She just recently
Speaker 5: turned professional. They just won the NC Double A's with
Speaker 5: Stanford just dominated. I mean, Stanford just killing it and
Speaker 5: Walker's doing an incredible job. It's been highly anticipated for
Speaker 5: a number of years now. You know, we first heard
Speaker 5: about her. I think it was at twenty twenty one
Speaker 5: US Women's Open when she ended up finishing fourteenth, But
Speaker 5: she just was stella throughout the whole event, and she
Speaker 5: kind of made a lot of noise with her golf,
Speaker 5: and so I'm very intrigued to see how she's going to
Speaker 5: do the professional ranks. I think it's pretty fitting that
Speaker 5: this is her first event, and yeah, she's just a
Speaker 5: lot of noise around her. So I'm very very and
Speaker 5: she's a fantastic human being as well. By the way,
Speaker 5: like I don't know what Stanford do. Obviously, you have
Speaker 5: to be smart to be there. I didn't quite get
Speaker 5: a scholarship there. If you asking now, you you weren't.
Speaker 2: You didn't try that, you wouldn't maybe if you had.
Speaker 5: Tried, maybe, But they just somehow just churn out these,
Speaker 5: you know, these young women who are already kind of stars,
Speaker 5: they develop them into superstars, not just from a golf game,
Speaker 5: but from a life standpoint. They just seem very very
Speaker 5: like all rounded human beings. So I'm very entreated to
Speaker 5: see what she's going to do in professional ranks, and
Speaker 5: especially this week.
Speaker 6: That's a good one.
Speaker 3: I had Mega gone a hand on my list, so
Speaker 3: we didn't compare notes beforehand, so we don't know what
Speaker 3: each other's top five is going.
Speaker 2: To be, which is kind of exciting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, mine is the US Women's Open truly feeling
Speaker 3: like a major in terms of how the USHA treats
Speaker 3: the players. They've been posting all this stuff about how
Speaker 3: they have wellness centers and facials and all these provided
Speaker 3: resources this week for the players, And I know it's
Speaker 3: it's kind of a secondary thing to golf, but it
Speaker 3: really truly makes it feel like a big deal. It
Speaker 3: makes it feel like they're part of something massive to
Speaker 3: compete for and I think that when they feel that way,
Speaker 3: we feel that way, the audience feels that way, and
Speaker 3: you're like, I have to watch, I have to tune in,
Speaker 3: I can't look away. Yeah, So shout out to the
Speaker 3: USA for creating an above and beyond experience for the
Speaker 3: players this week.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 5: I agree, it's improved exponentially over the years. And on
Speaker 5: the back of that, we're doing a lot more TV.
Speaker 5: So we're doing a lot more Life From this week.
Speaker 5: It's the most that we've ever kind of been on
Speaker 5: TV during a US Women's Open.
Speaker 4: We're getting a lot more guests in this time. So Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think the.
Speaker 5: Visibility of it is fantastic. I think that whoever has
Speaker 5: done this, I know that it's part of the USA,
Speaker 5: and I was part of Craig and the LPGA and
Speaker 5: part of you know, Golf Channel as well. Like, we
Speaker 5: really have elevated this week to really make it feel
Speaker 5: like a big thing.
Speaker 4: So we're on Life.
Speaker 5: From today for three hours, tomorrow five or six hours,
Speaker 5: next day three hours. So the elevated TV times is
Speaker 5: imperative to making it a bit event. So we're excited
Speaker 5: for that as well.
Speaker 2: Was that just off of the back of mine or
Speaker 2: was that your third?
Speaker 4: Now was my third?
Speaker 3: Because okay, yeah, great, I love, I love, thank you.
Speaker 3: We just have to be clear here.
Speaker 5: Yeah you know, Okay, well my third Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: So tune in to watch mel all week, yes and
Speaker 3: the broadcast, yes please. Speaking of the broadcast, Kara Banks
Speaker 3: is going to be in the booth this weekend for
Speaker 3: NBC as a play by play announcer, which is very
Speaker 3: historic a woman leading NBC Major championship golf. She is
Speaker 3: our good friend. We wish her so much luck and
Speaker 3: she's going to absolutely smash it. Kara has been working
Speaker 3: in the golf industry for the past fifteen years to
Speaker 3: get to this point, and she is the you know
Speaker 3: when you look at someone and they're like, Wow, they're
Speaker 3: just they're just doing everything well, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: all these great things are happening. It's a twenty year
Speaker 3: overnight success.
Speaker 2: Yes, and Caara is just someone that I.
Speaker 3: Want to be when I grow up, and I look
Speaker 3: up to her so much, and I know she's going
Speaker 3: to have a great week represent women in golf as
Speaker 3: the lead play by play in the booth this week Crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, couldn't agree more, couldn't agree more? Number four, I'm
Speaker 5: going to pick I have to give some love to
Speaker 5: the English girls, right, Lotty were Charlie Hill have Todah.
Speaker 4: It's kind of a tale of two hearts. Really.
Speaker 5: I think Charlie, as you will hear, she's been struggling
Speaker 5: a little bit with her ball striking. That was we
Speaker 5: kind of saw that last week at shot right. She
Speaker 5: missed the cup, which is very unlike her. But at
Speaker 5: the same time, I don't think it was the worst
Speaker 5: thing missing the cup because it was really really windy,
Speaker 5: and sometimes playing in the wind could mess up your
Speaker 5: goal swing, and I think going into the Women's US
Speaker 5: so Open it probably was for the best. So if
Speaker 5: she manages, I feel like Charlie some time. I'm going
Speaker 5: to talk about Charlie Fi. I feel like Charlie at
Speaker 5: times when a course like Riviera, where you have to
Speaker 5: be creative visually you can kind of pick t shots
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. She hones in and she loves
Speaker 5: big moments, so I wouldn't be if she turns it
Speaker 5: around this week. So I'm giving a bit of love
Speaker 5: to our girl Charlie. And then obviously Lotti, you know,
Speaker 5: she just won the last event that she played in
Speaker 5: in Cincinnati. She's obviously in fantastic form. She's top five
Speaker 5: in the world or something like that, so she is
Speaker 5: going to be one to watch as well, just with
Speaker 5: the form that she's coming in with and the confidence,
Speaker 5: and obviously I.
Speaker 4: Would love I would love Nellie to win.
Speaker 5: I think that that would be amazing. But obviously if
Speaker 5: I could have anybody else, they would probably one of
Speaker 5: the one of the one of the Brits.
Speaker 4: So I'm rooting for them too this week.
Speaker 3: So on the back of that, since you're picking players
Speaker 3: to win, I'm going to go in a different direction
Speaker 3: and I'm going to say Gino. I think she's obviously
Speaker 3: had a great season. She's been doing this back and
Speaker 3: forth world number one dance with Nellie. Nellie obviously still
Speaker 3: is world number one. Gina could very much give her
Speaker 3: a great challenge for that this week and she I
Speaker 3: want to see Gino winning a major championship like this.
Speaker 3: I want to see her in the biggest, brightest lights,
Speaker 3: and she is a star as well. I think that
Speaker 3: this golf course fits her extremely well. It fits some creativity.
Speaker 4: I would agree with that Diana as well. She fits
Speaker 4: a demeanor totally.
Speaker 3: I saw a great clip of her speaking of Gino
Speaker 3: and Nelly, talking about how Nelly has inspired a lot
Speaker 3: of Gino's practice routines, and Nellie, you know, she's not
Speaker 3: a grinder. She doesn't show up for five hours a
Speaker 3: day just on the range and then also goes in
Speaker 3: place for practice around and then grinds some more. That's exhausting,
Speaker 3: especially about the week of a golf tournament. She's grinding
Speaker 3: it home. Yeah, and I think that she shows up
Speaker 3: having ground what's the grinded? Yeah, that will do past
Speaker 3: time subcrine. So anyway, Gino's tried to incorporate that sort
Speaker 3: of thought process when it comes to the approach to practice.
Speaker 3: But I could see, you know, having a great week
Speaker 3: this week, and how cool would it be if we
Speaker 3: had like a Gino and Nelly battle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it would, it would, It would right now.
Speaker 5: Remember five, my girl, Hannah Green, she's won four times worldwide.
Speaker 4: She loves Parana Green.
Speaker 5: She just won the last LPGA event she won happened
Speaker 5: to be in La So she's very very comfortable on
Speaker 5: this kind of surface. She grew up in Australia a
Speaker 5: little bit used to these surfaces and she loves strategic
Speaker 5: golf courses like where she has to think her way around.
Speaker 5: She is one of the best. She's sorted out a
Speaker 5: driving from she was struggling a bit last year. She
Speaker 5: sorted that out. Iined it out. She's definitely going to
Speaker 5: be one to watch as well. And again another player
Speaker 5: who is not only very comfortable with their golf game,
Speaker 5: but very very comfortable down the stretch when in contention
Speaker 5: for massive tournaments.
Speaker 4: So watch out for Hannagreen this week.
Speaker 3: And my last thing is all of the brands that
Speaker 3: are activating around the US Women's Open this week. It
Speaker 3: seems like I have heard about, or been invited to,
Speaker 3: or seen on Instagram so many brands saying, Oh, we're
Speaker 3: having this cocktail party around the US Women's Open, We're
Speaker 3: doing this special activation, We're doing this special launch of
Speaker 3: this special clothing line that is not normal for women's events,
Speaker 3: and it's certainly a new thing for the US Women's Open.
Speaker 3: I think that it obviously has to do with the
Speaker 3: fact that it's in LA and it's there's lots of
Speaker 3: people there and.
Speaker 2: It's easy to activate around that.
Speaker 3: But I mean pop up stores and cocktail parties and
Speaker 3: special speakers series and anything you want to do around
Speaker 3: the US Women's Open. It's kind of you know, when
Speaker 3: you go to a men's major, you go to the
Speaker 3: Master's tournament, and there's all these cool things to do
Speaker 3: that are outside of the gates, and that is a
Speaker 3: really exciting thing to see around women's golf because that
Speaker 3: has not been the case in the past.
Speaker 4: In fact, I'm going tonight to Charlie's one.
Speaker 2: There you go, she's not doing a party, sure sure, yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: love you, Charles.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm doing something on Thursday that Cassette is hosting.
Speaker 5: And no, it's incredible, as you said, and it's been
Speaker 5: like this in the men's game for years. They open
Speaker 5: the men's US Open, especially the Masters. We've been to
Speaker 5: a couple eleven week. We love to mention, We do
Speaker 5: love to mention it sometimes getting fired to them. But
Speaker 5: they're really fun, like it's fun to hang out with,
Speaker 5: like it's fun to hang out players. Networking is incredible,
Speaker 5: and it's just cool to kind of go to these
Speaker 5: parties and brands because they try and out do each
Speaker 5: other and they do like really quirky, edgy stuff and
Speaker 5: it's cool. So thank you for doing it. The women's game,
Speaker 5: finally on a more consistent basis.
Speaker 3: Said well said, well said, We said, well well said,
Speaker 3: girl Lord do well said?
Speaker 4: Anyway, thank you?
Speaker 3: Okay, we are going to kick it over to the
Speaker 3: interview with Charlie Hall. Mel have an amazing week. We
Speaker 3: will have so much to catch up on. Next week
Speaker 3: we'll have a good old fashioned quietly it's girly chat.
Speaker 3: But speaking of a girly chat, enjoy this with Charlie
Speaker 3: and tune in to the US Women's Open all week.
Speaker 3: Longtime listeners on the pod know that Charlie Hall is
Speaker 3: someone that's very special and dear and near to this podcast.
Speaker 2: Charlie, you probably don't know that, but you're going to
Speaker 2: find that out today.
Speaker 3: Quiet please is very very honored to have Charlie Hall
Speaker 3: joining us for our US Open preview pod.
Speaker 2: Welcome Charlie.
Speaker 6: Thank you, guys. We're matching glasses on that. We all
Speaker 6: look so didn't get there.
Speaker 4: You know, I've got over there, I've got him over there,
Speaker 4: but I don't.
Speaker 6: Sorry.
Speaker 5: I'm intelligent enough, Charles, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 5: don't need to overdo it a little bit.
Speaker 4: How are you, Charles? You all right? Mate?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Well, good thank you all good Actually pretty tired day
Speaker 6: as an eighteen whole prom as.
Speaker 4: Well, says Brutal in it.
Speaker 6: Yeah you were around heading. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, if I can win round a lane this city, mate,
Speaker 5: then anyone can. So you've got you've got big choose
Speaker 5: to fill this week, mate.
Speaker 6: Did you celebrate the pub us down the raid here
Speaker 6: and you know I'm eighteen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know I did. And then I got into
Speaker 4: trouble by Mike one.
Speaker 5: He called me and he basically told me together the
Speaker 5: fuck out the pub and I was like, listen, Mike,
Speaker 5: this is cod It was COVID and rightly so. But
Speaker 5: I was like, this is probably the only time I
Speaker 5: might be going to win, so I'll just pick fine
Speaker 5: and I don't care.
Speaker 4: And I'm already drunk.
Speaker 3: So so they have They saw merch there now with
Speaker 3: Mel's face on it.
Speaker 6: Hilarious, So I'm going to have to go check it out.
Speaker 6: Yea masters merchandise.
Speaker 3: Yes, you have all your master's stuff, your butternives that
Speaker 3: you're so excited about.
Speaker 4: And then Mel your bookshelf. Mate, you can put it
Speaker 4: in your new trophy cabinet. I saw that. By the way,
Speaker 4: it's very swag.
Speaker 6: It's very swag, doesn't it? Inspiration by Justin Rose basically
Speaker 6: pasted it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, this looks very familiar. Yeah, it's if
Speaker 2: you don't know what we're talking about.
Speaker 3: Charlie got a bread new trophy case recently and it's beautiful,
Speaker 3: really cool.
Speaker 4: So were you redoing your whole house or you just
Speaker 4: doing a bit of it.
Speaker 6: No, I've red done every single fieldboard in the house,
Speaker 6: don't know. Four months? Yeah, good and everything. Honestly, I
Speaker 6: look sick. Keep waiting up every morning and I'm like,
Speaker 6: oh my god, is this my bedroom because I've like
Speaker 6: got a bath like at the end of my bed
Speaker 6: as well. It's pretty cool. Wow, like a swanky hotel.
Speaker 6: It's wow.
Speaker 4: Because where did you win? Was it in? Where did
Speaker 4: you win it this year? Was it Saudi?
Speaker 5: Where did you Obviously it was a big check and
Speaker 5: I just remember hearing you saying to Ads, You're like,
Speaker 5: but yeah, now it could pay for me else we do.
Speaker 6: Well, I could pay I could. I could afford it anyway.
Speaker 6: But the thing was, I decided to do the renovations
Speaker 6: like in January, and we'd had like a month of
Speaker 6: golf and I was like, oh, this has been a hefty,
Speaker 6: you know, spendings breath. I've been gone on you know,
Speaker 6: I was like, this has covered it.
Speaker 4: Perfect time, very nice. Have you gone and played with yet?
Speaker 2: No, I haven't know, have never been there to see
Speaker 2: any golf at all?
Speaker 6: No, I haven't, no never. I'm I'm such a home person.
Speaker 6: So listen. If I was at home and you know,
Speaker 6: for the woman's aig, I would drive up and play
Speaker 6: the golf course. But I'm not coming to America just
Speaker 6: for one round of the US Opening. Fly back home.
Speaker 6: I love home too much for that.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 5: I tell people I'm like Charlie gets into events relatively late,
Speaker 5: Like if you see her on a Tuesday, it's usually.
Speaker 4: In the afternoon.
Speaker 5: I was a little bit like that, but it works
Speaker 5: a little bit better for you. But yeah, no, Riv,
Speaker 5: it's going to be because you don't even watch golf,
Speaker 5: do Yeah, So you don't actually like the Genesis or anything.
Speaker 6: No. I watched the Masters, and I watched the Men's
Speaker 6: the Open Championship, but apart from that, I don't really
Speaker 6: watch it. Like I'll watch the old you know, like
Speaker 6: in the old days of like Chell's Wonderful World of Golf,
Speaker 6: Like I love them because I like the style Back then,
Speaker 6: I just loved how they play golf. It's like more
Speaker 6: of an art where now for me it's I find
Speaker 6: it a bit more boring.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So how do you prep then for a major
Speaker 3: championship at a golf course you've never seen before? So
Speaker 3: that's a lot of work to get to pack into
Speaker 3: a couple of days.
Speaker 6: Just like just tidy up my whole game. You've got
Speaker 6: to cover every single ara of your game for majors,
Speaker 6: like because you know expect it to be long, you
Speaker 6: can expect to be quite firm, you can miss greens,
Speaker 6: and you have these type chips thit grass. You just
Speaker 6: got to cover everything, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: So everything sharp?
Speaker 5: Do you feel in a way that like players can
Speaker 5: I know this sounds a bit odd, but I feel
Speaker 5: like you're going to feel me here because I feel
Speaker 5: like I'm on your your wavelength here, Like girls can
Speaker 5: almost over prep. People can over prep for something, and
Speaker 5: then it's totally different when it comes to Thursday.
Speaker 6: One hundred percent. Like some of my best golf events
Speaker 6: have come from me not actually paying too much attention
Speaker 6: going into the week, like arriving late, not having a
Speaker 6: practice around. Look at Anak last year, like I had
Speaker 6: visa issue, I flew in Tuesday and then the pro am.
Speaker 6: I couldn't play the prom because I was ill, didn't
Speaker 6: play pratts around and I came forth like I Sometimes
Speaker 6: I feel like I played better that way, because like
Speaker 6: every golf course is, it's not. Some golf courses obviously
Speaker 6: a lot harder than others, but you've always got a hit.
Speaker 6: There's a fairway in front of your aim the left
Speaker 6: side of the right side, or the middle side of
Speaker 6: the fairway. My Taddy can tell me that, and then
Speaker 6: there's a green. You can tell me if I need
Speaker 6: to aim a little bit left here, don't miss on
Speaker 6: the right. Do you know what I mean? If you're
Speaker 6: playing good, it's not gonna make it well, it's gonna
Speaker 6: make a big difference, but I can still get it round.
Speaker 3: I feel like you're gonna like RIV because you talk
Speaker 3: a lot about wanting to bring the Art Forum back
Speaker 3: of golf and really covering that, and I think RIV
Speaker 3: is one of the few venues left in the world
Speaker 3: that encourages that.
Speaker 2: So I think it's going to be a good week
Speaker 2: for you, Charles Hope.
Speaker 6: So I haven't been hitting it the world the last
Speaker 6: few weeks, Like I was. I hit it pretty well
Speaker 6: up to the Chevron, and then after that I kind
Speaker 6: of like lost my swing a little bit. And I
Speaker 6: spoke to my coach about it, and he goes, sometimes
Speaker 6: I practice too much when I'm home, like I actually do.
Speaker 6: Like it's ridiculous, so all my good feels get kind
Speaker 6: of it's not stale, but you know when you're over
Speaker 6: practicing too much, you don't really have that feel. So yeah,
Speaker 6: I was trying to practice a little bit less when
Speaker 6: I was home, and I remember I was on the
Speaker 6: range one day. I was like, yeah, I'm gonna take
Speaker 6: it easy today. Matt. He was like, yeah, just do
Speaker 6: two and a half hours max. And I'm like texting
Speaker 6: him and I was like, I've really done four I've
Speaker 6: done and He's like really, he said gold Yeah, And
Speaker 6: it was only eleven o'lock in the morning I start.
Speaker 6: I started like at like seven thirty or something like that.
Speaker 6: It was crazy, but yeah, but I just enjoyed golf.
Speaker 6: I love golf. But a couple of weeks ago, when
Speaker 6: I wasn't playing very well, was it Cincinnati and I
Speaker 6: could not hit a straight shot if I was in
Speaker 6: the middle the fairway and I had a normal seven
Speaker 6: into a pin. I ended up actually just creating shots,
Speaker 6: like hitting little fades seven ninees in and I was
Speaker 6: hitting it a lot closer because then I wasn't I know,
Speaker 6: you have to think a it more because you're hitting
Speaker 6: like a faith But I was thinking less because I
Speaker 6: was just doing it a feel and I was hitting
Speaker 6: it so much closer than I'd having an easy just
Speaker 6: a full six lining and I'd completely with it. So
Speaker 6: then I'd be thinking, right, I want a club up
Speaker 6: heer h it's like little Katie Faden instead, and I'd
Speaker 6: hit it close. So I was just trying to get
Speaker 6: that feel back.
Speaker 4: So you said that you absolutely love golf.
Speaker 5: I've actually spoke about this, not just on this podcast,
Speaker 5: but in basically every interview that I've ever been or
Speaker 5: if I'm on the desk and we get talking about you,
Speaker 5: I'm like, I genuinely.
Speaker 4: Because like people don't think about this.
Speaker 5: Just because we're tall players, we're kind of expected to
Speaker 5: love golf, and there's a lot of players that don't.
Speaker 4: It's very much like a business.
Speaker 5: They happen to be good at it, they obviously grind
Speaker 5: at it you genuinely like just love it, and like
Speaker 5: as soon as you kind of land, you want to
Speaker 5: go and play with your mates. You'll play with your
Speaker 5: mates on like a Christmas Day.
Speaker 4: What is it that has just captivated you golf?
Speaker 6: I don't know really. I think it was from being
Speaker 6: a youngster. Like I started playing golf when I was
Speaker 6: two years old with my next door neighbor Ben, he
Speaker 6: was the same age as me, to just whack the
Speaker 6: golf ball around the garden and then we'll go out
Speaker 6: and play on the golf course together. And then I
Speaker 6: joined kepturing and then there was like a whole group
Speaker 6: of like boy juniors down there and we just have
Speaker 6: so much laugh, have a good laugh, so so much banter,
Speaker 6: like hit flop shots for hours on the putting green,
Speaker 6: playing like for one pound chipping comps, playing for junior
Speaker 6: dit coked chicken burgers and stuff, and we just had
Speaker 6: so much fun. And I just really enjoyed the whole
Speaker 6: atmosphere of it and creating different shots, do you know
Speaker 6: what I mean? Like if we hit it in the trees,
Speaker 6: we would have to go for the green if it
Speaker 6: was even an impossib shot, because we couldn't ship out
Speaker 6: because we'll get ripped to shreds saying why are you
Speaker 6: chipping out? For why are you doing Apple? I mean
Speaker 6: you've got to go for it, do you know what
Speaker 6: I mean? And I just really enjoy it. Like sometimes
Speaker 6: I actually get sad when I think, oh, I've got
Speaker 6: got two weeks away now on tour, like I want
Speaker 6: to be at home playing with my mates, like and
Speaker 6: then I'm thinking, oh, next week I'm home, Now I
Speaker 6: can I can play golf with my mates Ryan or
Speaker 6: my boyfriend or James. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Well, that's what I'm going to say, is like because
Speaker 5: I love playing golf at home, like I still love
Speaker 5: being at home. I feel like this is where me
Speaker 5: and you are quite similar. Like I enjoyed playing with
Speaker 5: the boys, like I love the bands with the boys.
Speaker 5: Like the reason I got into golf is because of
Speaker 5: the social aspect I really struggled with, like the tour life,
Speaker 5: Like how do you do you struggle with all life?
Speaker 5: Or like how do you kind of like switch your
Speaker 5: mindset do you just go into Like well, I also
Speaker 5: love competing, like how do you? Because I feel like
Speaker 5: when you're on tour you still love it, Like how
Speaker 5: does that kind of mix in together.
Speaker 6: So I find life apart from being on the golf
Speaker 6: course tour like very boring and very lonely, Like I
Speaker 6: don't really have a lot of friends out here, like
Speaker 6: I have Georgia's like my best friend, and I have
Speaker 6: like get on with like a few other girls like
Speaker 6: Natalia and who else, like Olivia and that. But I
Speaker 6: like to keep myself myself because with my friends at home,
Speaker 6: we can all go like crazy and stuff, and you
Speaker 6: see like a silly side of me. Where then when
Speaker 6: I'm on the golf course sometimes out here I'm quite serious.
Speaker 6: And I don't know, I just find it takes a
Speaker 6: lot for me to focus. So I felt like if
Speaker 6: I was going out for like dinners and stuff every
Speaker 6: night on tour, I'll be so socially, I feel so drained,
Speaker 6: do you feel what I mean? So it's quite a
Speaker 6: hard one, like I do feel it is a bit
Speaker 6: like after the round, you're in a bit of a prison,
Speaker 6: like you know, in your hotel room for like so
Speaker 6: many hours and so bored and that. And I do
Speaker 6: try and go out for like walks and stuff and
Speaker 6: hang around with ky Adam, but I just want my
Speaker 6: energy you can say for the golf course and go
Speaker 6: to the gym, but I do find it very, very hard.
Speaker 6: That's why I only do two weeks on the trot
Speaker 6: and then play for a couple of weeks. I've been
Speaker 6: doing this since I was sixteen, been on tour since
Speaker 6: I was sixteen years old. At ten when I was sixteen,
Speaker 6: that's like like fourteen years. So it does like it
Speaker 6: does drain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's always a rule for you. You did
Speaker 3: two weeks and then go home. Yeah, two weeks and
Speaker 3: go home.
Speaker 6: And I don't like to play more than eighteen events
Speaker 6: or twenty events max, because I've got a life outside
Speaker 6: of golf as well. Yeah, which I don't want to
Speaker 6: look back and think, Yeah, I had a great time
Speaker 6: on the golf course on tour, and I've won this
Speaker 6: and I've made this much money, but I've wasted gazillions
Speaker 6: of hours just in my hotel room board. Do you
Speaker 6: know what I mean? Wishing I was home.
Speaker 2: Did you ever think about playing college golf?
Speaker 6: No, because left school when I was I think eleven
Speaker 6: or twelve years old, so I don't think I've got
Speaker 6: no gcss to qualify to go to college.
Speaker 3: What were you doing when you were twelve, she was
Speaker 3: killing on a.
Speaker 6: Golf course, kid, right, the mates and the golf course.
Speaker 3: Now, what did your parents say when you told them
Speaker 3: I'm going to leave sport at twelve?
Speaker 2: What did What did they say?
Speaker 6: When my dad left school when he was fourteen till
Speaker 6: start fastering? Do you know what I mean? Like that?
Speaker 4: Is that when he had a motor head?
Speaker 6: Yeah said so he had a motorbike. You know the
Speaker 6: days of mods rockers like the motorbike Boys, and there's
Speaker 6: always fighting. That was my dad stars in his space.
Speaker 6: He's got some great stories. Honestly, I can sit down
Speaker 6: and listen to my dad all night. It is hilarious.
Speaker 2: He's welcome to join the party at any time.
Speaker 5: Dave's a legend, mate, He's an absolute legend. He's probably
Speaker 5: the only blow that my dad would kind of like
Speaker 5: go and spot out because they were just all I
Speaker 5: build the stuff, do you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 5: just proper soul to the earth school blokes, just like
Speaker 5: say attention to our golf, just chat absolute shit to
Speaker 5: He's always kind of wears.
Speaker 4: Dave right, he's over there, dad.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And what I loved my dad and I reckon
Speaker 6: like your dad miss him in the same mat Like,
Speaker 6: as long as I tried on the golf course, even
Speaker 6: if I shot a hundred or if I shot sixty eight,
Speaker 6: he would still be proud of me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well my dad.
Speaker 5: My dad would watch me at the British Open, mate,
Speaker 5: and as soon as I started playing shit on the
Speaker 5: front nine, he's fuck off because he wants to go
Speaker 5: back to the.
Speaker 4: To the Blue Belt back in Derby.
Speaker 5: So by the time I finished, he's already in the
Speaker 5: pub having his second pint.
Speaker 6: So my dad going through about forty cigarettes and around
Speaker 6: sometimes he has a background. It'll be about sixty he'll
Speaker 6: be down in the local news agents. Again there's marlbareads.
Speaker 5: We'll get onto the sok at a minute, mate. But
Speaker 5: let's get to the positive side of it. And you
Speaker 5: you new fitness journey. Do you think that's helped you
Speaker 5: on tour because you said that really helps you mentally
Speaker 5: because that gets gets you away from the course a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, one hundred percent. But the thing is, because
Speaker 6: I got my injury last year when I snapped to
Speaker 6: the ligament my ankle, I've not really been able to
Speaker 6: get back into the gym. So it's been quite depressing
Speaker 6: because I found like gym. Going to the gym was
Speaker 6: really like my mental where I'd get away and like
Speaker 6: my mental like reset. So when I kind of got injured,
Speaker 6: so if I felt down, I'll go to the gym
Speaker 6: and I'd feel amazing after. But with doing that to
Speaker 6: my ankle, I've literally I'm only about now just starting
Speaker 6: to get back into running, and I can't lift weights
Speaker 6: or anything even because I'm back from the injury. So
Speaker 6: it's been quite frustrating. But I've got into plates and stuff.
Speaker 6: But I love going to the gym. I just think
Speaker 6: it's great, and I like I like hearing about people
Speaker 6: as well who's been inspired to get into the gym
Speaker 6: and they just hopefully found, you know, fell in love
Speaker 6: with it.
Speaker 3: But you're you're doing gym like on a different level. Generally,
Speaker 3: mel will tell stories about you going and running a
Speaker 3: ten k in the morning and.
Speaker 2: Then showing up to your tea time.
Speaker 6: Ready, Yeah last year was it? Last year? Yeah? Last
Speaker 6: year in Arizona, I think around fifteen K I fell
Speaker 6: asleep at like five o'clock in the evening, right and
Speaker 6: I was teen off at like eight in the morning
Speaker 6: or eighth day and I woke up at like two
Speaker 6: in the morning and I was like, oh, I can
Speaker 6: fit a fifteen k running. So I've gone down to
Speaker 6: the gym about half two, done my fifteen k run.
Speaker 6: Finish it probably about I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 6: how long it took me, probably like an hour and
Speaker 6: a half or whatever, and have a shower and then
Speaker 6: go down and have I had. I think I let
Speaker 6: my house self have some bacon that day and some
Speaker 6: you know, bacon sausages, and then hit a few balls
Speaker 6: and went out and paid golf and I think I
Speaker 6: shot nine under that day and I was like, wow,
Speaker 6: they go book By Sunday, I was pretty tired. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I think I was leading going into the fun around
Speaker 6: and then Sunday crashed.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 5: I remember at Soulheim last year, Robert Joe's like, you
Speaker 5: were just you were just smashing on the treadmill.
Speaker 4: Laura did a bit of psychlo Yeah, yeah, but is
Speaker 4: she going to be all right?
Speaker 5: I was like, just leave her. She's absolutely fine. She
Speaker 5: knows what she's doing. And she read it tame kay
Speaker 5: And that's when you beat Nellie like seven and.
Speaker 4: Six or something.
Speaker 5: I was like, you're on a different planet. Girl, you
Speaker 5: are on a different planet.
Speaker 6: I'm one of these people, you know. If I had
Speaker 6: the day of doing absolutely nothing and I chilled in
Speaker 6: the house, I'd find that so boring. I'd find like
Speaker 6: I get quite depressed and I'd have no energy. But
Speaker 6: if I had five hours sleep and had to get
Speaker 6: up early and then I had to do my run,
Speaker 6: even though I feel tired for the rest of the day,
Speaker 6: I'd have so much energy helps me, even though probably
Speaker 6: a couple of days after I feel tired because I've
Speaker 6: not had enough sleep or stuffing, but it just doing
Speaker 6: something makes me have more energy.
Speaker 5: With your injury, all right, I think I've spoke to
Speaker 5: you about this, but just just I want you to
Speaker 5: just clarify this. So it was in a pothole, wasn't it.
Speaker 5: Didn't you fall down a pothole? Its like in the
Speaker 5: car park?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a car park and they didn't finish
Speaker 6: the drainage off, okay, And yeah I felt down over
Speaker 6: the drainage and as I felt I heard my ankle snap.
Speaker 2: Like I I didn't really something happened.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I completely tore the ligament straight. And where was
Speaker 6: this the centurion at around the pif London but yeah,
Speaker 6: it was pretty crazy. And then I got up a
Speaker 6: bit after and I was walking around and then the
Speaker 6: physio was like, no, you definitely wouldn't have snapped anything.
Speaker 6: It's just like a little sprain. And then I go
Speaker 6: get it in my eye and I was like, you
Speaker 6: fully snapped it. And then the physio said, you've probably
Speaker 6: got You've got You must have a ridiculously high pain threshold.
Speaker 6: And I was like, yeah, I've done a few things,
Speaker 6: like I broke my wrist back in twenty seventeen and
Speaker 6: I played the week after. It was crazy. Actually it
Speaker 6: was a week before the it was remember back in
Speaker 6: the day, it was Kraft Nibisco. It was at Mission
Speaker 6: Hills and Chevron Now and it was week before we
Speaker 6: played the Key Classic and I hit this shot out
Speaker 6: the rough and I was like, oh, I felt my
Speaker 6: my wrist twinge. I went it got a bit swollen,
Speaker 6: went to the doctor's got an MRI showed that I
Speaker 6: had like a fracture in it. So then I was like, oh,
Speaker 6: I don't know. I think you'll be able to play
Speaker 6: next week. This and that come back in a week's time.
Speaker 6: We'll go and get it free. Am I ride where
Speaker 6: it's called in a week's time it healed. I was like,
Speaker 6: I've never seen it heal like this. I was like,
Speaker 6: this is this is freaky crazy, Like I must heal
Speaker 6: really quickly. Anyway, I played and I came sick.
Speaker 3: But she's super human.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I am. It's pretty crazy. Anyway, my
Speaker 6: mum's got quite a high pain threshold. Actually yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: but yeah, honestly asked my dad that story. It was like,
Speaker 6: this is freaky. I was like, are you sure that
Speaker 6: this thing's like correct? Are you sure child is not
Speaker 6: paying off the doctors so she can just play this week?
Speaker 5: That is so funny. Yeah, so the opposite of the
Speaker 5: hell stuff. Obviously. I know you're not smoked anymore, but
Speaker 5: when you when you were smoking, I thought it was brilliant.
Speaker 5: Obviously the whole world thought it was absolutely brilliant. I
Speaker 5: do I do miss Charlie ripping darts. I at least
Speaker 5: to love to talk about it.
Speaker 6: To be fair, I did rip a few darts in
Speaker 6: Singapore this year.
Speaker 4: Did you nice?
Speaker 6: Nicotine pa pouches were banned out there.
Speaker 4: Oh so you just had a few cues cigarettes? Nice?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Did you enjoy that attention? Like, did you find it
Speaker 5: funny or did.
Speaker 4: You not really care?
Speaker 6: I didn't really care, but I found it hilarious because
Speaker 6: I was, like, I was brought up in the household
Speaker 6: when my dad used to smoke four cigarettes a day.
Speaker 6: There's pictures of my mom because I was I was
Speaker 6: a nineties baby. If my mom's standing there with you
Speaker 6: know them slito cigarettes, you know, the big belong ones,
Speaker 6: the person ones like with an high waisted jeans on
Speaker 6: me and as a baby, hold me in one arm
Speaker 6: and her smoking in the other one, Like that was
Speaker 6: normal back of the nineties. So yeah, people now saying
Speaker 6: to me are smoking like it's a fascination. I'm like,
Speaker 6: this is just normal to me, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Like my sister smokes, my nephew smokes, who's like twenty four,
Speaker 6: Like my dad smokes, my auntie smokes. Everyone smokes. It's
Speaker 6: just like, hang on, am I like missing something here.
Speaker 6: It's just like not the normal. And I remember my
Speaker 6: mum saying to me, oh, tie downing, you could have
Speaker 6: at least been smoking a classy cigarette. I'm like, sorry, mom.
Speaker 5: Well, I remember I remember being in the gym with
Speaker 5: you in La This is about three years ago, and
Speaker 5: I don't know what. You were on the tread will
Speaker 5: doing some shoot or something, and I've just gone outside
Speaker 5: to go on the phone, and you've just come out.
Speaker 5: You've just like ripped like three or four three or
Speaker 5: four puffs of a cigarette and then a right, I
Speaker 5: gotta go back on the Treadwill, And just went back
Speaker 5: on the treadlill just smashed like a whole roof, like workout.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 4: I used to live it.
Speaker 6: I used to go for a run around the lake
Speaker 6: in Virginia ward down like in near like Sender where
Speaker 6: I lived, and it was like a seven k around
Speaker 6: the lake. And I remember had my little run in vest.
Speaker 6: My trainer got me it for my birthday, Kate did.
Speaker 6: And I used to think, oh, I can put my
Speaker 6: cigarettes in there. So I used to go for my
Speaker 6: little round. As soon as my life step got over
Speaker 6: seven came up, I was like, lit my diep and
Speaker 6: I'll smoke it. I'm like, great, my lungs are nicing
Speaker 6: clear now for that first pulff of it, I can
Speaker 6: neally inhale the whole cigarette now and then sometimes like
Speaker 6: it was funny like back when I used to smoke,
Speaker 6: and it was a slow day on the golf course
Speaker 6: and George would be sometimes a couple of holes ahead
Speaker 6: of me and we were we would like coming over like,
Speaker 6: She's like, was that was a long day? I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 6: that was a cigarette whole you know, the whole cigarette day.
Speaker 6: You know, it was one of them days. There was
Speaker 6: so long out there, the whole packet.
Speaker 4: Has been done.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you hate slow play?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Do you hate slow pay?
Speaker 5: What would you do then? What would you do to
Speaker 5: all these slop? Like do you when you sometimes look
Speaker 5: at like your tea times? You know, oh my god,
Speaker 5: like do you what do you want to?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: How would I resolve it?
Speaker 2: She solved?
Speaker 3: Commissioner, Commissioner, Sorry, Craig, we love you.
Speaker 5: But yeah, we need Charlie. We need things to get
Speaker 5: done around here. Oh right, Solomon, Yeah, you've mentioned that
Speaker 5: you struggle a little bit in just because it's at
Speaker 5: your routine. I think that Actually here is the one
Speaker 5: that was interviewing you.
Speaker 4: I totally get ye.
Speaker 2: Charlie was under the umbrella.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and you said you said you were
Speaker 3: really honest.
Speaker 2: You said I'm not really a team player.
Speaker 3: And I love that you said that because that was
Speaker 3: just you being exactly who you are and opening up
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I just, I just I just struggled like
Speaker 6: being in a team environment, and I struggle being out
Speaker 6: of my routine. I'm such a creature of routine. If
Speaker 6: you get on trying to say, I am, but do
Speaker 6: you like sore home? I love some time when it
Speaker 6: starts on Friday. I absolutely love it. There's a lot
Speaker 6: of stuff that we have to do before and everything
Speaker 6: that mel You can agree that it can be quite draining,
Speaker 6: can't it.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't think people understand like the actual that
Speaker 5: we have no time, Like we have a certain amounts
Speaker 5: of time to practice, then we've got to go to
Speaker 5: guard to dinners, then we've got to go to shoots,
Speaker 5: which take a century.
Speaker 4: Then we've got to do media.
Speaker 5: Then you've got to do this like you actually have
Speaker 5: no time for yourself.
Speaker 4: So it is. It is really tiring.
Speaker 5: But I must say, Charlie, you are like trying to
Speaker 5: tame a wilder animal that week. And I think that's
Speaker 5: why they brought me in as a vice captain because
Speaker 5: I'm like, I will relay the message.
Speaker 4: Just let her be. She hasn't turned up to the meeting.
Speaker 5: Just let her be and I'm like texting Vickie like
Speaker 5: is she coming down, and she's like, no, she's doing this.
Speaker 5: I'm like, that's perfect. I'll just tell her she's playing
Speaker 5: with in the morning. It's all good.
Speaker 6: No, too fair, I'm not gonna lie that. When I
Speaker 6: see that you is like the vice captain. I was
Speaker 6: buzzing you. I said to me, I'm so happy I
Speaker 6: love Melvin.
Speaker 3: Do you remember the first time you met mel Or
Speaker 3: how you became friends with Belle No?
Speaker 6: I remember watching her acts. I think it was at
Speaker 6: the Oxford Chair in the British British Masters back in
Speaker 6: the day, that's right, when you was young, when I
Speaker 6: was only really really small then, And remember watching you
Speaker 6: with your white blonde hair.
Speaker 5: Blonde hair brand used to diet Britann used to die
Speaker 5: for me for two fifty Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was like, she's so cool. And then the
Speaker 6: first time I ever met now you won't remember this
Speaker 6: was I was playing as an amateur invite the Turkish
Speaker 6: Open and there was a lock on the freezer on
Speaker 6: on like the fridge drinks fridge on the first tea
Speaker 6: and you come over and try to like picklock it
Speaker 6: or something. He was thirsty and I was like, I
Speaker 6: was like, that is this allowed? She's stealing. He's like, no, no,
Speaker 6: it's just locked. The players are allowed to have it,
Speaker 6: but it's just locked. I think they locked it because
Speaker 6: it was like late at night. I was saying. I
Speaker 6: was just like, ah, oh then wow, so good. She's
Speaker 6: like I was like, she is that being back in better?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: I still love playing with you because like I don't know,
Speaker 5: I think that you were just like a ball of energy.
Speaker 4: And like it's soul high you Like I don't know.
Speaker 4: I was like, I've got it.
Speaker 5: I'm like I love this ship for her, like she's one,
Speaker 5: She's unbelievable player. I'm like, put me, put me out,
Speaker 5: like with whoever you want. I was like, but I
Speaker 5: would love to play with like either it was my girl,
Speaker 5: and I was like, just put me out with Charlie.
Speaker 5: I was like, I can deal with it, like I
Speaker 5: just think she's awesome. We actually did all right together
Speaker 5: there and then hey, I did I remember telling the
Speaker 5: story about International Crown when when you.
Speaker 6: Play solo, Yeah, well you carried us the first day.
Speaker 4: Let's be honest.
Speaker 5: You're like, no, no, no, I think I made like one part.
Speaker 5: I made one eagle and like one part, and I
Speaker 5: think they were rinsing me in the media, like oh
Speaker 5: Mele's back must be tired. And then unfortunately you got sick,
Speaker 5: and then I had to play on my own. And
Speaker 5: then I just remember being in the press conference the
Speaker 5: next day with you and You're like you feel a
Speaker 5: bear now, Charles, how is everything?
Speaker 4: You're like, yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 5: I was like, yeah I did. It was felt well, good,
Speaker 5: said Charlie. I v so that it was an IV.
Speaker 5: I threw your peanuts through your room. Can you remember
Speaker 5: threw some peanuts?
Speaker 4: I remember.
Speaker 6: That's funny, honestly, Like my brain isn't processing sometimes, like
Speaker 6: I know what I mean, but the wrong words come out.
Speaker 6: I remember once I was when Twitter first came out,
Speaker 6: and I was well, I was about sixteen years old
Speaker 6: and I had quite a few I had about seventy
Speaker 6: thousand followers on Twitter at this one point, right, and
Speaker 6: I and you know, the golf swing room, so the
Speaker 6: golf simulators I put on my twitters, like, had a
Speaker 6: great day of woven day on the golf stimulator. It
Speaker 6: was amazing. Right now, So I'm getting all these tweets
Speaker 6: back right saying, oh, I didn't realize Woburn was like that,
Speaker 6: what was you doing at naughty Girl? And I'm like
Speaker 6: and I'm not. And I'm like, dad, why are people
Speaker 6: saying this? I'll go because I said I've been woven
Speaker 6: on the stimulator and he was like, oh, what about
Speaker 6: as mum? I was like, oh, okay, And then I
Speaker 6: realized what I said. I was mortified. I was like, gosh,
Speaker 6: I didn't know them things existed because only like sixteen.
Speaker 5: Oh and she learned a word that dick she did
Speaker 5: she did, No more stimulators for you.
Speaker 4: Charles, wait, can.
Speaker 3: We go back to the ivy thing? Because mel this
Speaker 3: has been a theme me, well for your sperm.
Speaker 5: Oh oh yeah, okay, hell this story I don't know
Speaker 5: how it's not going on the press. But so basically
Speaker 5: I was We're playing in la wheelchair and.
Speaker 6: Carlie on the back of the range.
Speaker 5: Well, on the back of the range, I was talking
Speaker 5: to Marina and Charles comes storming over and Charlie goes,
Speaker 5: you've got Carlie pregnant. I was like, yeah, and you
Speaker 5: how that happened? And I said, well, you know, and
Speaker 5: I thought, do I get into detail? I was like,
Speaker 5: I'll just skin the surface. So I was like you know,
Speaker 5: sip calive. Yeah, blah blah blah. I went into it
Speaker 5: and then Charles just like had this look on her
Speaker 5: and she just went so it was your sperm and
Speaker 5: I was like, hmm, how do I answer this?
Speaker 4: I went, yeah, mate, and she was like.
Speaker 5: Whirring geezer and just like walked away and he was
Speaker 5: like the running thing. Then I see you like four
Speaker 5: months later at Liberty and You're like, how do you spur? Mate?
Speaker 5: Is it still going strong? I was like, still strong, mate,
Speaker 5: And then and.
Speaker 6: Then oh so, so I'm cut right, guy is there
Speaker 6: and he has just started walking, isn't he? And I'm
Speaker 6: like it was it was a Monday morning after not
Speaker 6: with one we lost song Cup actually that yeah, but anyway,
Speaker 6: after the next morning after so long Cup and I'm
Speaker 6: like getting my breakfast. So I was like turned round
Speaker 6: to say something and I didn't realize it was just
Speaker 6: walking under my legs and I kicked him by accent
Speaker 6: from in my step. He went flying. He went He
Speaker 6: honestly went in the air and then landed on like
Speaker 6: the beanie bugle saint, didn't he I was like, oh
Speaker 6: my god, I'm so sorry. He's like, don't worries. All right,
Speaker 6: it's right, but sucking out your sperm went flying.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's just brilliant. You just couldn't write it so.
Speaker 6: Very bad though, but I just had to. He was
Speaker 6: all right, I just come out.
Speaker 4: I made a rubber mate. Don't worry. I've dropped him loads.
Speaker 4: He's fine.
Speaker 2: He's a tough kid.
Speaker 4: Tough.
Speaker 5: How do you deal with like how do you deal
Speaker 5: with because obviously you get a lot of attention, I think, especially.
Speaker 3: In the past couple of years, Like you've really blown
Speaker 3: up in the past couple of years, like setting the
Speaker 3: smoking aside.
Speaker 5: Like you yeah, like it's awesome, Like it's exactly what
Speaker 5: golf needs. Like you are the character that we have
Speaker 5: been wanting for years and years and years. Like you
Speaker 5: really do elevate women's golf, like on and off, you know,
Speaker 5: the golf course.
Speaker 4: Like how do you deal with like how do you
Speaker 4: deal with that attention?
Speaker 6: Probably because I don't really care. I actually don't care.
Speaker 6: It's just yeah, it's just me, like one of my
Speaker 6: favorite things. I don't really so Like for my Instagram,
Speaker 6: I do go on it, but then I delete off
Speaker 6: my phone for like a few days, and then I'll
Speaker 6: whenever I'm on it. I'll just add it on my phone,
Speaker 6: download it again and going it from compowers and then
Speaker 6: delete it. But I do find it, so I don't
Speaker 6: scroll for hours because I end up scrolling going to
Speaker 6: wormholes and just loads of stuff, do you know what
Speaker 6: I mean? Not that people post like people that post
Speaker 6: by my friends and stuff, just like you know that
Speaker 6: little search page where you could just start watching run
Speaker 6: and stuff. But I do find it quite funny, like
Speaker 6: people like, oh, it's so hard with all the negativity
Speaker 6: that we get. I'm like, why do you care about
Speaker 6: the negativity? Do you know what I mean? Like, I
Speaker 6: find it hilarious sometimes, like I love to have the
Speaker 6: little reply back and have a bit banter, and apart
Speaker 6: from that, I don't care, Like why do I Why
Speaker 6: should I care what people think of me if I
Speaker 6: don't know them, Do you know what I mean? Yeah,
Speaker 6: it does not bother me at all.
Speaker 5: And like I feel like you get a lot like
Speaker 5: you're very outspoken as well, And I love this about
Speaker 5: you because I try and stick up for women golfers
Speaker 5: all the time, when like a guy who's off scratch
Speaker 5: is like I could beat a tour player, I could
Speaker 5: beat one of the top ten players in the world.
Speaker 4: What do you have to say to that?
Speaker 6: Go on, then let's see it up, because I.
Speaker 5: Don't think they could. I don't think they could beat you.
Speaker 5: I don't think they where no where. Every every dog,
Speaker 5: every dog has its day, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: But I mean on the average, yeah, totally, Like it
Speaker 5: is quite funny, do you know what I mean? It
Speaker 5: is funny, Like so many people come up to me
Speaker 5: and like, oh, you know, I could just tear up
Speaker 5: in the US Open And when I.
Speaker 4: Could tear definitely not.
Speaker 5: I'm like, no, you couldn't. I'm like, do you know
Speaker 5: how these kills are? I had three twenty I'm like, so,
Speaker 5: I'm like this, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: Have you seen how good they are with the hybrids?
Speaker 5: Like yeah, which it can hit your wedge literally, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's crazy.
Speaker 3: But the fact that they put this stuff on the
Speaker 3: internet and say it out loud to people is also
Speaker 3: just psychotic.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I see. I think it's kind of if
Speaker 6: you've got a certain mindset, you can you can think
Speaker 6: you got to turn it into a positive and be like,
Speaker 6: come on, then I'll show you, do you know what
Speaker 6: I mean? Like it spare it spares me on. Like
Speaker 6: sometimes negativity actually gears me up a bit, do you
Speaker 6: know what I mean? Yeah, I'm going to I'm going
Speaker 6: to prove you wrong. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Do you think that that drives you? That drives you more?
Speaker 5: Like I want to prove you role instead of proving
Speaker 5: myself right.
Speaker 6: Do you know like when people say they're on home
Speaker 6: soil this week, they're they're they're the they're the one
Speaker 6: to be. So I think I always think when you're
Speaker 6: the underdog, you're better because you've got not such pressure
Speaker 6: on you and you can just sneak up from behind
Speaker 6: and bite them on the butt. Do you know what
Speaker 6: I mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, no one.
Speaker 5: I had another question then I can't think of any
Speaker 5: I can't think I was going to go with that.
Speaker 5: Oh I know what's going to go with that? Do
Speaker 5: you think we should get rid of hybrids? I'm just
Speaker 5: curious what you think about that? Do you think we
Speaker 5: should bring.
Speaker 4: Them on lines?
Speaker 6: We should? I think? Have we lost? Now?
Speaker 4: I'm here?
Speaker 2: He can I can I guess? Can I guess what
Speaker 2: you're going to say?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I was just going to say, You're going to say
Speaker 2: everyone should play a blade?
Speaker 6: Yeah, one hundred.
Speaker 3: Nice, but but can you can you have your buttternes?
Speaker 3: But can I keep my hybrid because I just want
Speaker 3: to play for fun?
Speaker 6: Yeah, a hundred percent. But I think it'd be cool
Speaker 6: to have a tournament all the pros just play with
Speaker 6: blades and I'll tell you what, Melvin, I think you
Speaker 6: would do very well because you're a proper ball striker.
Speaker 4: Oh, cheers chas.
Speaker 5: I Well, I used to love playing. I used to
Speaker 5: hate hybrids. I've never played a hybrid in my life.
Speaker 5: I used to play long irons all the way up
Speaker 5: to like maybe a three iron.
Speaker 4: Sometimes.
Speaker 5: I used to even hate putting a five would in
Speaker 5: my bag. I know I had to do it because
Speaker 5: I hit it better, but yeah, I just loved to
Speaker 5: hitting like blades and proper golf.
Speaker 4: Mate, Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: Yeah, having to create shots because sometimes they're harder to
Speaker 6: stop on the greens when you come in on a
Speaker 6: long iron, then you'd have to hit this high fade
Speaker 6: cut rather than just having a normal hybrid a normal shot.
Speaker 6: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Because I feel like, especially in the women's game, it's
Speaker 5: very much a to B B two C C T C.
Speaker 5: And like you said, earlier, Like, I wish there was
Speaker 5: a bit more creativity, And I think that that equipment
Speaker 5: to an extent has obviously elevated, but to an extent
Speaker 5: it's also hindered it. It's took away the actual skill
Speaker 5: and creatives and playfulness.
Speaker 3: I agree, Yeah, it's made it not as necessarily entertaining
Speaker 3: at all times.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So and on that, Charlie, you we already heard one
Speaker 3: thing that you would do if you were the commissioner.
Speaker 3: But seriously, if you, if you did have the power
Speaker 3: over the LPGA to make changes tomorrow, what's some of
Speaker 3: the first stuff that you would address that really irks
Speaker 3: you week in and week out to make it either
Speaker 3: better for the players or better for the audience that watches.
Speaker 6: So, I don't know, I think of random things.
Speaker 4: But do you think we need fans?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we definitely need way more fans. One like, if
Speaker 6: you look at the British Open nasher and the phone around,
Speaker 6: I had that that atmosphere was so good and I
Speaker 6: wish we had this weekend and week out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Because I also think, and this is my argument.
Speaker 5: I spoke to Craig about this. I'm like, it's incredible
Speaker 5: We've got the prize money that we do, dole that
Speaker 5: we have facilities that we do for the players and
Speaker 5: recovery rooms. All that has been elevated. Like I feel like,
Speaker 5: you know, the social media's got better this year. Expotentially,
Speaker 5: the problem is we don't have fans and the thing
Speaker 5: that creates great moments.
Speaker 4: It's not just the shot, it's the atmosphere.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: See, I would probably then have I don't know how
Speaker 6: much the tickets cost. Why don't I just have like
Speaker 6: the free tickets coming in. That's what I'll do, do you.
Speaker 4: Know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Just to get people in the door.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And you know what, I find what I used
Speaker 6: to love about coming over to the what we're playing
Speaker 6: in Europe and that do you remember would have like
Speaker 6: fan zone, you know, like you'd have a fat tenty
Speaker 6: village like in America. I don't really have that, And
Speaker 6: I feel like that would be such an appeeling thing
Speaker 6: for young kids and everything and bringing families.
Speaker 5: Yeah, do you know what I mean with the big
Speaker 5: TVs and you just go sit there for a bit
Speaker 5: if you need to chill. The widows like being chaotic. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a way more kind of kid friendly British when I.
Speaker 6: Used to go because when I used to go to
Speaker 6: the Men's Open Championship, I used to be like, Wow,
Speaker 6: this is so all this big, like the tent of
Speaker 6: village and even when you go to like Wentworth, you
Speaker 6: know the BMW, the PJ, Wow, the tent of village
Speaker 6: like that's where the whole atmosphere and then it gets
Speaker 6: people getting onto the golf course because like I'd walk
Speaker 6: down there. All my friends who don't play golf, they
Speaker 6: go to that that that they go to the bing
Speaker 6: WPJ because of the tented village and then then they'll
Speaker 6: go out on the golf course and watch golf even
Speaker 6: when they never watched golf before.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, I'm with you with that, Mabe. I think that's
Speaker 5: the biggest, the biggest challenge now because I also think
Speaker 5: if there's crowd, like I just remember you at Walton Heath,
Speaker 5: like you're going down contention, there was thousands of fans
Speaker 5: there and you just thrived like you just you're one
Speaker 5: of them players that you like it. As Solheim Cup,
Speaker 5: I feel like the more atmosphere pressure from an atmosphere,
Speaker 5: you just switch on another gear that maybe even you
Speaker 5: don't know you have, you know where some players crumble,
Speaker 5: and I think that that would just create a bit
Speaker 5: more drama coming down the stretch in these big events.
Speaker 6: One hundred percent, one hundred percent. It gives you goosebumps.
Speaker 6: You it's like you feel like you're in an arena,
Speaker 6: you know. Yeah, and you're the same as that mal
Speaker 6: when we play in the salamb and stuff. We were
Speaker 6: just buzz walking down the fairway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we will find.
Speaker 3: I think there's a certain you have to have a
Speaker 3: certain gear as a professional golfer to actually be successful.
Speaker 3: To love the show. At the end of the day,
Speaker 3: it's a show. It's a it's an entertainment. So you
Speaker 3: have to love being the star of the show and
Speaker 3: you actually win.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you have to embrace it because I'll tell
Speaker 6: you what though, when there's a lot of people out
Speaker 6: there and when you're not having a good round, you do,
Speaker 6: you feel like you go propit in yourself as well,
Speaker 6: So you have to bring yourself out. Then it takes
Speaker 6: a lot of energy to then bring yourself, you know,
Speaker 6: out of that when you just want to hide, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, one percent, one hundred percent. Right, I'm
Speaker 5: a bit conscious of time here, so do you want
Speaker 5: to do the Shush of the week?
Speaker 4: Okay, dog, yes, oh, Charlie.
Speaker 3: So we have this segment called the Shush of the Week,
Speaker 3: so you can think about it for a second.
Speaker 2: Male and I will go first.
Speaker 3: But basically, every week we think of something that has
Speaker 3: annoyed us this week, or some silly situation that came up,
Speaker 3: or somebody that was a jerk to us, and we
Speaker 3: call them out or say whatever that situation was, and
Speaker 3: that's our shush, because you know, the show is called
Speaker 3: quiet Please, so we're trying to be funny.
Speaker 6: Got to think, who were told a shush this week?
Speaker 4: I feel like.
Speaker 5: My shush of the week it's not that interesting because
Speaker 5: normally it's just about travel stuff. But New Jersey drivers
Speaker 5: just I was driving down today from New York and
Speaker 5: they just I just don't like driving a New Jersey
Speaker 5: and I enjoy driving and I just think they're psychotic.
Speaker 4: And I just don't get the road system.
Speaker 5: I think to go off and not have roundabouts is
Speaker 5: really odd, Like you have to do like eight to
Speaker 5: five left turns to get back on the motorway.
Speaker 4: So driving a New Jersey for me is not it.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's a good one.
Speaker 3: My shush of the week is Sorry, mel but it's
Speaker 3: going to have to be you because Mela. She goes,
Speaker 3: we should do this Instagram trend where you edit something
Speaker 3: as a reality show, and I was like, okay, great,
Speaker 3: So then we started doing it and the whole time
Speaker 3: Melo was shocked that I keep taking videos of her,
Speaker 3: asking to take videos of me because I'm trying to
Speaker 3: make this video.
Speaker 2: She's like so annoyed with me. This was your idea?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I know, I.
Speaker 2: Know.
Speaker 6: My shish of the week now it was an actual
Speaker 6: shish and Sunday night, my boyfriend was snoring so loud
Speaker 6: in my air, like I had tend to shush. Honestly,
Speaker 6: just snoring in my ear. I'm like that sud the ben.
Speaker 4: My health, the new bath.
Speaker 6: Honestly, I was really thinking about like pinching his nose
Speaker 6: in the middle of the night so like he woke up.
Speaker 6: But I can do it because he just looks like
Speaker 6: cute asleep.
Speaker 4: Got picky. You know, Charlie, we really appreciate you.
Speaker 5: Come on listen, you know what have you to death
Speaker 5: may and just keep being you.
Speaker 4: You are a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 5: You have many many fans all over the world because
Speaker 5: you are authentically yourself and you obviously are a rock
Speaker 5: star on the golf course, but you are off and
Speaker 5: we just really appreciate every bit of you. You're just
Speaker 5: an absolute legend, mate, And if you call me, just
Speaker 5: keep calling me melviy on what mate?
Speaker 6: Go?
Speaker 4: Will you?
Speaker 6: Would you ever come back and play one more tour event?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Ship? Now mate?
Speaker 5: I'm so shit? Maybe maybe? Why do you want me to? Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think it'd be so much fun if there was.
Speaker 4: An I would if there was an English shape, and
Speaker 4: I definitely would.
Speaker 6: Right, let's letssage, Let's.
Speaker 5: Get VI on it, get Vicky on it, and I
Speaker 5: may get the old might get the old blades out
Speaker 5: when if that was if that literally won't be able
Speaker 5: to hit it.
Speaker 2: My driver is me wants to play the Senior Tour?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I want to play ground? How do you
Speaker 4: think Charles.
Speaker 6: Thirteen?
Speaker 4: Close? Yeah, I'll say that. Yeah, oh wow, that's pretty good.
Speaker 4: Twelve years?
Speaker 6: How many? How many? I was? Any? I said that
Speaker 6: because I was just trying to think of the age
Speaker 6: that I was when I watched you in the English Open.
Speaker 6: That's why.
Speaker 4: Yeah thirty eight, so yeah, twelve years.
Speaker 6: So yeah, have a year about twenty eight stale now.
Speaker 4: Thank you, mate, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the energy of a twenty eight year old.
Speaker 4: I've got the energy of a labrador puppy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, which is which is annoying to everyone that works
Speaker 5: with the including Cara, So I apologize.
Speaker 3: No, no, I love that energy. That's what makes it
Speaker 3: so great that I love you. But Charlie, Charlie, I
Speaker 3: just wish that more people were like you and were
Speaker 3: more open and didn't care as much and weren't so
Speaker 3: constantly concerned with everybody thought and what they said, because
Speaker 3: it would make women's golf better. So if anyone is
Speaker 3: taking any inspiration, I hope that they take that from
Speaker 3: you because that's such a superpower and.
Speaker 6: I think it just made everyone's life in general a
Speaker 6: lot more happier.
Speaker 4: Ye yeah, no, I think yea, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 6: You give us a fuck what I think? Just do
Speaker 6: you and.
Speaker 4: Exactly and go kill it. Review mate, You know that
Speaker 4: would be the dream for me. It just would be
Speaker 4: to see you listen that trophy coming on.
Speaker 5: So sending good vibes, not that you need it, but
Speaker 5: wish you all the best too.
Speaker 6: And Nancy, thanks guys, I appreciate it. Celia bye, Thanks, Charlie,
Speaker 6: Bye bye bye.
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