Speaker 1: The guys from paying.
Speaker 2: They've kind of showed me how much the equipment matters.
Speaker 2: I just love that I can hit any shot I
Speaker 2: kind of want.
Speaker 3: We're gonna be able to tell some fun stories about
Speaker 3: what goes on here to help golfers play better golf.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Ping Proovy Grounds podcast. I'm Shane Baker,
Speaker 2: that's Marty Jerks, and we have Tyrol hatton with us.
Speaker 2: I've been really excited about this. I find you very interesting,
Speaker 2: very fascinating, and I always say you're my favorite golfer
Speaker 2: to watch play golf. So I want to start with this.
Speaker 2: If you were commentating on golf, what do you think
Speaker 2: you'd say about yourself on the golf course?
Speaker 1: Probably just along the lines of he doesn't look very happy.
Speaker 1: I think just keep it very simple.
Speaker 2: Are you happy when you play?
Speaker 1: Not very often?
Speaker 2: No, even when you're playing well.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good at still finding something to moan about.
Speaker 2: So, but you, but you seem like a happy person,
Speaker 2: Like you're you're a lovely person. I mean, I've got
Speaker 2: a chance to interact with you a few times. But
Speaker 2: you're not a grumpy guy. You're not a mean guy.
Speaker 2: You're like a nice sky So why is it that
Speaker 2: when you're on the golf course it seems or feels
Speaker 2: like you're a bit.
Speaker 1: Grumpy, I don't know, being ultra competitive and I guess
Speaker 1: a perfectionist and one in and yeah, and everyone hit
Speaker 1: a bad shot, and there's certain times in tournaments where
Speaker 1: it's it's more frustrating than others.
Speaker 3: Were you, like tho, as a junior golfer or grown up?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is this kind of a bold no?
Speaker 1: No, no, as I'm potentially calmer now, which is probably
Speaker 1: scary to hear that. Yeah, I had a few dodgy
Speaker 1: moments in my teens on the golf course and at tournaments,
Speaker 1: but we probably shouldn't go down that route.
Speaker 2: If you I mean, like you said, you're working on it,
Speaker 2: trying to improve. You're better than you were when you
Speaker 2: were a kid. Is that something that you actually spend
Speaker 2: time trying to get better at in terms of the
Speaker 2: way you feel on the golf course?
Speaker 1: Ah? No, I mean I think there's as I said,
Speaker 1: there's times in a tournament where I can kind of
Speaker 1: deal with it better than maybe other times. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: then sometimes you know, we're all human and have a
Speaker 1: really bad night sleep and you're naturally, just a bit
Speaker 1: more grumpy that day than you typically would be. Some
Speaker 1: other thing. Certain things bother you more than they should. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: my everyone has bad days.
Speaker 2: I guess tyroll your your game like I'm looking. I mean,
Speaker 2: like I know we talk. I mean, I know a
Speaker 2: lot of people talk to you about the way you
Speaker 2: act or look like on the golf course. The golf
Speaker 2: game has been spectacular, and I mean you've had fifteen
Speaker 2: starts on the PGA Tour this year, fourteen cuts, me
Speaker 2: ten top twenty five's, six top tens, you've had a
Speaker 2: runner up. I mean, it's polished right now. Where do
Speaker 2: you feel like you are right now with your golf game?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a it's been a good run this year.
Speaker 1: This year, I've tried to make more of an effort
Speaker 1: off the golf course with just like training in the
Speaker 1: gym and yeah, trying to certainly in a tournament week,
Speaker 1: be a little bit better with what I eat and drink.
Speaker 1: I think in twenty twenty, which was my best best
Speaker 1: year on the FedEx, I know there was limited events
Speaker 1: with everything that went on, but that was probably the
Speaker 1: fittest I'd ever been in my life. I was training
Speaker 1: a lot, and sort of midway through twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: early twenty one that kind of really tailed off and
Speaker 1: I'd sort of slipped back into not training and yeah,
Speaker 1: just things like that. And so this year just made
Speaker 1: a conscious effort to try and be better off the
Speaker 1: golf course. And yes, I feel fitter, and I think
Speaker 1: that's definitely how my golf game. I still I still
Speaker 1: enjoy myself in terms of like, I'm not super strict
Speaker 1: in the sense of I'm not gonna I If I
Speaker 1: want something to eat type thing or certain drink, then
Speaker 1: I probably will, but I'll make sure that I've I've
Speaker 1: earned it rather than just doing it for this because
Speaker 1: you can. So yeah, I think that's been a that's
Speaker 1: played a huge part in how I've played this year.
Speaker 3: So you talked about twenty twenty being very high up
Speaker 3: on the FedEx. How much do you am always curious
Speaker 3: about this? How much do you look at your stats?
Speaker 3: You know, are you just looking at finishes FedEx points
Speaker 3: or are you getting down into strokes gain stats different you know,
Speaker 3: better or worse in certain areas and using that to
Speaker 3: improve your game, or a little more just kind of
Speaker 3: going off your feel of what's what's happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would probably be more feel I'd always be
Speaker 1: curious at the end of a around or end of
Speaker 1: the tournament to see how I stacked up against the field.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I always feel like my I don't
Speaker 1: have a bad short game, but then I'm a pretty
Speaker 1: aggressive player and I will miss it in some pretty
Speaker 1: horrible spots. Yeah, So even though I feel like I've
Speaker 1: got a decent short game, like my short game stats
Speaker 1: would be horrendous. Ah, yeah, because it's been like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're eight yards away, which is pretty close, but you've
Speaker 1: chipped it to twenty feet, which actually.
Speaker 2: Was caused by the ball. It was kind of caused
Speaker 2: by the ball striking.
Speaker 1: You hit in the wrong spot, right, Yeah, But essentially
Speaker 1: I'm only eight yards away from the pin, so I'm
Speaker 1: not that far out. I've just missed it in a
Speaker 1: horrible spot. So now I can't actually chip it that close.
Speaker 1: Then I fit a really good chip shop it's still
Speaker 1: twenty feet. So then I feel like sometimes stats can
Speaker 1: be a bit more punishing and how than how you
Speaker 1: truly feel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're iron player. Iron stout's a bit phenomenal. Do
Speaker 3: you would you consider yourself a little bit more aggressive
Speaker 3: than the than the average player in that regard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say so. I think certainly when you're
Speaker 1: you feel you feel confident, that that's the time when
Speaker 1: you should be sort of maybe more aggressive. Naturally, we
Speaker 1: all go through times where you don't feel as comfortable
Speaker 1: and you might be ham or conservative. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: so far this year, we've we've we've played nicely, and
Speaker 1: I think there's there's certain times on a golf course
Speaker 1: where you have to try and take advantage of where
Speaker 1: you've positioned positioned yourself off the tea.
Speaker 3: What about left pins? Right pins? Any more comfort? Do
Speaker 3: shape them? In?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 3: Do you play one shot shape? Do you prefer left
Speaker 3: or right? No one over the other.
Speaker 1: I never, I never think about shaping the golf ball.
Speaker 1: If I if I do think about shaping it generally
Speaker 1: goes horribly wrong. To be honest, I I've always just
Speaker 1: picked a point and just hit it at that with
Speaker 1: with irons, which is generally the pin, and then with
Speaker 1: drivers with the driver, I've always had a shot shape
Speaker 1: naturally falling left to right, and so I just again
Speaker 1: I am a hair left of target, and I always
Speaker 1: try and score a goal I'll try and pick two
Speaker 1: points and yeah, and kind of see how many see
Speaker 1: how many goals we can score in around. I always
Speaker 1: found that that was quite a nice visual for me,
Speaker 1: certainly times when you play if a fair ways like
Speaker 1: quite wide, and you know, you just need to sort
Speaker 1: of narrow in a bit better. I think choosing a
Speaker 1: small goal is always a good thing. I always liked
Speaker 1: the quote from American Sniper always says aim small miss small.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the goal look like in your brain? Is
Speaker 2: it a soccer goal?
Speaker 1: Not so much. It would just be for example, like
Speaker 1: two trees they might be five yards eight ten yards apart,
Speaker 1: but that they're like posts, right, And I just need
Speaker 1: to and that's my visual.
Speaker 2: Interesting, Yeah, I mean I remember I was. I was
Speaker 2: talking to Paul easing Or he told me when he
Speaker 2: won the PGA Championship. He saw he was hitting at
Speaker 2: a barn the week before the PGA and he said
Speaker 2: he would start it on the left side of the
Speaker 2: barn and it would in on the right. He said,
Speaker 2: the whole week he just kept seeing that barn, you know,
Speaker 2: and sort of think about the goal in your brain,
Speaker 2: you know, to hit the goal. It simplifies the game
Speaker 2: for you. I mean, you're not thinking about cutting or
Speaker 2: hooking the golf ball. It's just simply if I can
Speaker 2: hit it in the goal, I'm gonna win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean in theory. Yeah. And if you are
Speaker 1: hitting your goal, certainly off the tee, then it gives
Speaker 1: you confidence when you stand on the next one.
Speaker 3: It is nice. Said the proving grounds. We have the
Speaker 3: posts on the fence in the back. They're exactly twenty
Speaker 3: yards wide, which is you're playing a major, I mean
Speaker 3: twenty yards. If you can hit a twenty yard wide fairway,
Speaker 3: unless you're doing really, unless you're wing for sure, you'd
Speaker 3: be good to go.
Speaker 1: We maybe we shouldn't go talking about wing foot.
Speaker 2: You're we'll get to golf courses. I was. I was
Speaker 2: asking some of the guys around the truck, and they
Speaker 2: said that you pay the most attention to your equipment
Speaker 2: of anybody in terms of a ping professional. Will you
Speaker 2: come in here and kind of watch them build your
Speaker 2: clubs or what are you the most focused on in
Speaker 2: terms of builds when you get something new made or
Speaker 2: something new Bill.
Speaker 1: It probably stems from my dad. So my dad runs
Speaker 1: a business back home, custom club fitting and teaching, so
Speaker 1: he's he's been doing that since I was I think
Speaker 1: ten maybe eleven years old. So yeah, growing up watching
Speaker 1: him always build clubs. Yeah, so naturally kind of Yeah,
Speaker 1: be in the truck and see see how things.
Speaker 2: He's easy to hover. Do you have a spot in
Speaker 2: your house that you can build?
Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't build. I would quite appy someone else.
Speaker 2: I got you, I got you. You've been a big
Speaker 2: seven wood guy as well. I'm hearing seven wind of
Speaker 2: the bag this week.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think I've used seven woods since it's almost
Speaker 1: near the start of twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, you're like an og seven would guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I copied FITSI I think in that sense
Speaker 1: he's been using it longer than me. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: generally struggled with rescues like naturally, my my mishits would
Speaker 1: be slightly more towards the toe and so early on,
Speaker 1: I just and going back earlier, like my natural shop shape.
Speaker 1: Certainly with the driver and woods would be sort of
Speaker 1: falling right. So with the toe strike with the rescue,
Speaker 1: I'd always see it going a little bit left and
Speaker 1: that that's never a comfortable visual for me. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: I tried the seven word. It's it's quite short. It's
Speaker 1: it's only maybe an inch and a half longer than
Speaker 1: my fore iron. So for a wood that feels really short,
Speaker 1: but it feels like it'd be really easy to hit.
Speaker 1: And yeah, with the loft, it's still it still goes
Speaker 1: through the rough.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I think the length on yours is forty
Speaker 3: and a half for forty in a quarter, so it's
Speaker 3: it's an inch. It's over an inch shorter than like
Speaker 3: a standard seven wood. I think that's a theme we're
Speaker 3: seeing Shane with the with Turtle and some of the
Speaker 3: players is high lofted fairy woods. They're a little bit shorter,
Speaker 3: they can manage the gap and then they don't go
Speaker 3: too far for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, exactly. So it always it's always fitted in
Speaker 1: nicely between the four iron and the three wood. It
Speaker 1: generally carries around two hundred and thirty five, sometimes to forty,
Speaker 1: so it's that's yeah, that's a nice number for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tyrell, when did you go beard? When did you
Speaker 2: decide I'm going to be a beard guy? Because I
Speaker 2: feel like I don't really remember you beardless.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it hides the double chin. Okay, Yeah, so that
Speaker 1: was a big part of the Scars the decision making.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, yeah, I don't think i'd
Speaker 2: see a double.
Speaker 1: Chin right now with sharp yeah stuff. I think it
Speaker 1: was after the Ryder Cup in twenty eighteen. I was
Speaker 1: I'm just not going to shave for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year, which Emily, my out wife, she was probably
Speaker 1: not enjoying that visual come Christmas. But we had some
Speaker 1: fun with it. It was We've got some white beard
Speaker 1: spray and we put some Christmas ball. So, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a good. Look.
Speaker 2: You have a photo of this, I do, Okay, I
Speaker 2: might have to see that at some point. It look
Speaker 2: good when so you so you're telling me you haven't
Speaker 2: been clean shaved since eighteen? Have you have you you
Speaker 2: hadn't ripped it all the way down like no, I
Speaker 2: mean us open green level or anything like that.
Speaker 1: No, I yeah, I prefer it longer. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: feel like it. It looks better.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I think you're you're a beard
Speaker 2: guy for life. Potentially.
Speaker 1: I just wish I had a stronger tash. Tash is
Speaker 1: pretty weak.
Speaker 2: You're saying you this can't grow. The DEPI up here
Speaker 2: is a little low.
Speaker 1: Yeah, gets windy.
Speaker 3: Outside of my blowoff, Tyl you're you're if you continue
Speaker 3: to improve year over year is quite impressive. What what
Speaker 3: do you think the key to that is? Like, you know,
Speaker 3: over the last six, seven, eight years, every year it
Speaker 3: seems like your strokes, gin, your finishes, your world rankings
Speaker 3: continue to improve. What is uh, what's kind of the
Speaker 3: key ingredient to that improvement?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I feel like being out
Speaker 1: here long enough now that you you get comfortable and
Speaker 1: you having good results, it gives you confidence in yourself
Speaker 1: that you know that you can on your good weeks
Speaker 1: that you're you're going to be up there and giving
Speaker 1: yourself a chance to win. So I think just having
Speaker 1: that experience and yeah, just feeling comfortable with where I'm
Speaker 1: at and I said, now I know that I'm doing
Speaker 1: the right things off the golf course and that goes
Speaker 1: a long way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're winning Bae Hill. I mean it was so
Speaker 2: tough that week. I mean that golf course obviously always
Speaker 2: plays very, very tough. Do you prefer a golf course
Speaker 2: to play really hard then to play easy? In twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two Underwents.
Speaker 1: Ah, I think it's nice to have the balance throughout
Speaker 1: the year. Yeah, bay Hill always is carnage at the weekend,
Speaker 1: just trying to hold on.
Speaker 2: Just hitting four or five irons all day everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not even that like the holes, even
Speaker 1: when you're hitting wedge or like to even eight iron
Speaker 1: and lower, like, it's just they're still so hard to
Speaker 1: get the ball close and it's so easy to miss greens.
Speaker 1: So yeah, like I said, it's nice to have the balance,
Speaker 1: but as long as the golf course is set up
Speaker 1: kind of fair, then then it's all good.
Speaker 2: Can you give us an example of, like, when you
Speaker 2: think about a fair course set up in your brain,
Speaker 2: what tournament or golf course comes to mind?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess in my mind I would
Speaker 1: always I'd always like the with par fives that if
Speaker 1: you've if it's a narrow fairway, if you hit the fairway,
Speaker 1: then you should be rewarded with being able to go
Speaker 1: for the green. Okay, Like there's no point in I
Speaker 1: always I don't really enjoy part fives where even if
Speaker 1: you hit the fairway, you're you're laying up. They're just boring, right, yeah.
Speaker 2: Because then it almost feels like you're playing a part
Speaker 2: of three because you're kind of all laying up to
Speaker 2: the same spot. Yeah, and you're in theory you're hitting
Speaker 2: the third shop in the fairway.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean the only thing you do is if you
Speaker 1: do it the fairway, you're making your lay up like
Speaker 1: a little bit easier. And like growing up watching a
Speaker 1: lot of golf, I still watch golf on my weeks
Speaker 1: off now and I always just think it's boring when
Speaker 1: if you're watching the tournament and guys are fit a
Speaker 1: good t shot and then there they have to lay up.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's just my view.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ChIL, let's talk about let's talk about your putter
Speaker 3: in just things you like. You've worked with Tony Sarrano
Speaker 3: a lot on pod models. I think you've been part
Speaker 3: of the development of our OSLO model. You've played the
Speaker 3: Oslo for quite some time, right, Yeah, and what particular
Speaker 3: little things are important to you in the putter, you know,
Speaker 3: even down to putting the grip on at a certain
Speaker 3: clocking orientation.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I enjoyed working with Tony. I've used the
Speaker 1: Oslo since the first week in the bag was the
Speaker 1: Dunhill twenty sixteen, which was my first first win on
Speaker 1: the European Tour. Yeah, so yeah, that is a special
Speaker 1: week and I basically used the Oslo almost the whole
Speaker 1: time since there's been a few little changes in there,
Speaker 1: just to scare it, you know, you need that. You
Speaker 1: need that sometimes you've nervous. Yeah, it's to freshen it
Speaker 1: up a little bit. But always always went back to it,
Speaker 1: and there was just things that I felt the visual
Speaker 1: of how I what I would rather see. It was
Speaker 1: certainly making it a little bit thinner and the head
Speaker 1: marginally smaller. But the big thing for me would be
Speaker 1: the sight line. I don't use a I never used
Speaker 1: the line on the ball. I always use the line
Speaker 1: on the putter to make sure that I'm hopefully aiming
Speaker 1: where I want to be. And I think a slightly
Speaker 1: thicker sight line which just makes it easier to aim,
Speaker 1: So that that's a big thing for me.
Speaker 2: Marty. It's interesting. It's like we had walking in here earlier,
Speaker 2: and just the line on the putter thing is so
Speaker 2: interesting to hear two players that have completely different philosophy,
Speaker 2: totally different line. You know. Joaquin said he didn't like
Speaker 2: the line on his putter because he uses a line,
Speaker 2: and he said it would feel like the lines didn't
Speaker 2: match at times. And so for you it's it's.
Speaker 1: I get that because certainly using the line on the
Speaker 1: ball from when you're reading the part and you've got
Speaker 1: the ball down and you check it, it looks good. But
Speaker 1: there was when I did try and use to find
Speaker 1: there was so many times to serve the bomb. That's
Speaker 1: that's way too low. That's way too you don't believe yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just can't trust it. So I just eliminated that,
Speaker 1: and that's why I just went blank side of the
Speaker 1: ball and trust myself that I'm aiming where I should be.
Speaker 2: You mentioned your dad earlier. Do you still work with
Speaker 2: your dad on golf, swing and stuff?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Has he been your instructor your whole life?
Speaker 1: Well, from from the age of ten ten or eleven, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've we've worked together. So I took part in junior clinics,
Speaker 1: but before that age and and things like that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: my dad's my dad's helped me massively from as I said,
Speaker 1: ten or eleven.
Speaker 2: It is how much has technology helped that relationship obviously
Speaker 2: with you've been on the road all the time and
Speaker 2: him not being able to travel, you know, week in
Speaker 2: and week out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we tried it a little bit last
Speaker 1: year with him coming out to tournaments, and I think
Speaker 1: it trying to do work at tournaments never didn't didn't
Speaker 1: work that well for me because I think ultimately you
Speaker 1: you're off weeks is where you're going to try and
Speaker 1: get everything you want lined up so you can then
Speaker 1: just go to the tournament, go out and play. And
Speaker 1: there was times where I think last year I was
Speaker 1: getting a bit frustrated, certainly on the range, because you
Speaker 1: kind of just want like a magic pill, and it
Speaker 1: doesn't work that way. So we just that was the
Speaker 1: first year that we tried coming out more to more tournaments,
Speaker 1: and we both just kind of sat down at the
Speaker 1: end of the year and figured that we both felt
Speaker 1: the same, like it didn't really work that well, and
Speaker 1: this year we were just he would only come out
Speaker 1: if I needed the help, and that would probably be
Speaker 1: on and off week. So yeah, I think that's everyone's different.
Speaker 1: Some guys want they coach there every week and you know,
Speaker 1: always on the range, and I think, yeah, for me,
Speaker 1: that would just be be way too much. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to deal with that. You end up with
Speaker 1: too many thoughts in your head, and golf is a
Speaker 1: complicated game as it is. And I think the simpler
Speaker 1: you make it, the better, the easier it is.
Speaker 3: Shane asked you the question about, you know, challenging golf
Speaker 3: courses in it it seems as if you, you know,
Speaker 3: play your best golf on tough courses, against tough fields.
Speaker 3: What do you think it is about your game and
Speaker 3: or mentality that's kind of led to that?
Speaker 1: Well, I think ultimately you want to be playing against
Speaker 1: the the best players in the world as as often
Speaker 1: as possible, And yeah, enjoying that competition and it gives
Speaker 1: you It allows you to compare yourself to see where
Speaker 1: you're at as well. And yeah, like this year has
Speaker 1: been great so far. I have played really nice in
Speaker 1: in the elevated events and I haven't been too far
Speaker 1: away from from winning a couple of times, which is exciting.
Speaker 1: And yeah, hoping hoping my week arise pretty soon.
Speaker 2: What's the most nervous you've ever been on the golf course.
Speaker 1: That that there's two times that jump out probably over
Speaker 1: that too, and half at path to win it?
Speaker 2: Okay, did it did it have movement? Like? Did you
Speaker 2: have to play it anywhere outside the hole it all?
Speaker 2: Or around?
Speaker 1: Well? I mean I couldn't believe that I managed to
Speaker 1: leave the first put short in the first place was
Speaker 1: like downhill left right. Yeah, like from twenty feet twenty
Speaker 1: five feet wasn't really a nice part to have anyway,
Speaker 1: with how fast the greens were, but I managed to
Speaker 1: leave it. Yeah, just that awkward distance where you're like.
Speaker 2: To make it, but I also have to think about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well it's one of them. If you missed
Speaker 1: the whole, we've probably got like a six foot coming back,
Speaker 1: and then if you miss that one, you've actually missed
Speaker 1: a playoff and it's just a disaster. But yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: I stood over that and the putter head was shaking,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, please just hold
Speaker 1: this and please don't miss because I didn't want the
Speaker 1: embarrassment of, like, you've missed a two and half foot
Speaker 1: put to win the tournament. I feel like that would
Speaker 1: have been quite hard to deal with. But Yeah. Another
Speaker 1: time was when I was eighteen. I was qualifying for
Speaker 1: the Open that's and Andrews in twenty ten at Ladybank,
Speaker 1: and I knew that I was there or there abouts
Speaker 1: and I was, so the thirty fifth hole of the day,
Speaker 1: it was a part three and I had seven iron,
Speaker 1: and I mean, my the head, this was behind the
Speaker 1: ball and it was all over the shop. I was,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I was so nervous, but yeah, luckily
Speaker 1: managed to hit it onto the green for about fifteen feet.
Speaker 1: But that was when I was Yeah, these two moments.
Speaker 3: Were That was in the local final qualifying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I ended up qualifying for the tournament, which
Speaker 1: was which was it was really cool.
Speaker 3: And you're that so that's seventeen. You're not even on eighteen.
Speaker 3: It's not with the putter. It's kind of rare for
Speaker 3: someone to be that nervous on a iron shot, right.
Speaker 2: I get that I could get nervous on six or seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it was just I think I kind of
Speaker 1: had a rough idea of where I was at, and
Speaker 1: I knew the top three players would qualify, and yeah,
Speaker 1: being eighteen, it was my first experience of it.
Speaker 2: And it's seen Andrews to get to. It's the holy grail.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, I think what the confidence I took
Speaker 1: from that was the fact I was so nervous and
Speaker 1: I was still able to hit a good golf shot,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I end up finishing Papa, and yeah, we
Speaker 1: went through and play played the Openings and Andrews. So
Speaker 1: that was that was really cool.
Speaker 2: So what's next? I mean, as your do you lay
Speaker 2: out plans every year or you one of those people.
Speaker 2: I mean you obviously, as I mentioned, have played great
Speaker 2: on the PGA Tour. The major finishes have been very
Speaker 2: consistent as of late. What is kind of the next
Speaker 2: goal in tyr Olhattan's head. I don't.
Speaker 1: I didn't really, I wouldn't sit down at the start
Speaker 1: of the year and set out like a load of
Speaker 1: goals I kind of I want to achieve. I've always
Speaker 1: just had the mindset of just going out each week
Speaker 1: that I'm going to go and play and just try
Speaker 1: my best. Ultimately, you give it one hundred percent every
Speaker 1: time you pitch up, then like you can't do anymore.
Speaker 1: I think it's only if you've if you've not put
Speaker 1: the work in beforehand, and you know, if things aren't
Speaker 1: going well on the golf course and you stop trying
Speaker 1: as as hard as you can, I think that's when
Speaker 1: you can be disappointed, like truly disappointed in yourself. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I've just always just tried to go out and try
Speaker 1: my best as a I guess a side goal if
Speaker 1: you like I wanted to. I want to be in
Speaker 1: the Ryder Cup team this year. So that's I guess
Speaker 1: a loose goal that I set myself, but it's it
Speaker 1: always seems so far away at the start of the
Speaker 1: year that you kind of don't want to get too
Speaker 1: far ahead of yourself. You just you just keep playing.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, Shane, I think we should maybe uh
Speaker 3: talk to Tyro about some golf course questions.
Speaker 2: So we've we've heard you. I mean, you've bagged on
Speaker 2: some courses in your day. We've all done it. What
Speaker 2: does a perfect till heat and golf course design look like?
Speaker 2: Because obviously the par fives are reachable if you're in
Speaker 2: the fairway. Do we have short part fours on the
Speaker 2: on the Hatton design?
Speaker 1: I think, well, a mixture of some longer power fours
Speaker 1: and some short ones. But then yeah, all the part threes,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be any longer than absolute max would be
Speaker 1: like one eighty five, one ninety.
Speaker 3: I love this course, yep.
Speaker 2: So like you might be getting a seven iron dirty
Speaker 2: maybe on a part three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's to a back pin. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not We're not going like one nineties to a
Speaker 1: front page. Oh no, none of that. No, it's back
Speaker 1: pin that's gonna be one.
Speaker 2: If you're playing the back fend, that's right. Yeah, wind
Speaker 2: shots off teas or in front of you.
Speaker 1: I always I like being able to see where where
Speaker 1: you're hitting it. So yeah, that would definitely be a
Speaker 1: part of if I was ever to design a golf
Speaker 1: course that would be.
Speaker 2: Fairways are like like twenty yards wide or like forty
Speaker 2: yards wide.
Speaker 1: Um, it'd be wide, but then narrower in in certain
Speaker 1: certain places. I think the part five should probably go
Speaker 1: slightly narrower, maybe not to the twenty yard thing, just
Speaker 1: as what we loosely touched on earlier. When you can
Speaker 1: be best driver of the golf in the world and
Speaker 1: you can't actually hit the fair way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had a good one. I'd go where the
Speaker 2: ball is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So yeah, maybe it wouldn't be two, Like thirties.
Speaker 2: A nice I think thirty is a good number.
Speaker 1: It's a solid number.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like the Aaron Hills fairways. You mentioned healthy
Speaker 2: eating and you know, trying to eat better during the week.
Speaker 2: What's like your number one cheap meal if you're gonna
Speaker 2: eat something super unhealthy?
Speaker 1: Oh ah, I don't know. I'm I would tend to
Speaker 1: drink my calories.
Speaker 2: Gotcha.
Speaker 1: So food wise you can okay, but yeah I have
Speaker 1: a weakness for grape juice and other things.
Speaker 2: Gotcha. It makes sense anything else.
Speaker 3: Marty tarl Uh, how about that? I always want to
Speaker 3: hear the story of the Was it a Turkish Turkish
Speaker 3: Open with a six man playoff right under the lights?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What was that? Like? That?
Speaker 1: That?
Speaker 3: That a playoff that big?
Speaker 2: Do you guys put in the same group?
Speaker 1: I know we split. So we did two two three balls.
Speaker 2: Were you in the first one or the second one?
Speaker 2: Do you remember?
Speaker 1: I think I think I was in the I think
Speaker 1: I was in the first one, and yeah, i'm it
Speaker 1: was barely intense. But the eighteenth there is a It's
Speaker 1: a Reachaball part five. But the the fairway really narrows
Speaker 1: the sort of around the three hundred mark, and with
Speaker 1: the fairies at the time being barely firm, you were
Speaker 1: kind of getting into the narrower section. And it was
Speaker 1: a fair way that I struggled to hit for most
Speaker 1: pretty much the whole week, and then one time I
Speaker 1: did actually hit it. I think we had a mud ball,
Speaker 1: which which was fun. I end up missing it. In
Speaker 1: a horrible spot. The pin was on the left and
Speaker 1: it was a two tier green sort of lower on
Speaker 1: the left hand side and rising up on the right,
Speaker 1: and I missed it long right and it was just
Speaker 1: just dead. And I remember I chipped it across the
Speaker 1: other side of the green and then chipped in for birdie,
Speaker 1: which effectively kept me in the playoff. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we went it was six I want to say it
Speaker 1: was five or six holes as well. By the end
Speaker 1: of it, we had the floodlights on. You want that one?
Speaker 2: You won on the fourth extra fourth?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you play? Yeah, I just kept going down eighteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: flood floodlights on. You definitely didn't want to hit it
Speaker 1: offline because and you wouldn't see. And yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: uh lucky that that was ended up being being my week.
Speaker 2: It's so okay. My favorite golfer thing. I say this
Speaker 2: all the time is the golfer memory. And I mean
Speaker 2: just instantaneously. Now I know, obviously you go on to
Speaker 2: win the Tournament're go, what's going on? But shot mudball?
Speaker 2: Lie where he chipped it to. I bet he can
Speaker 2: close his eyes and picture the chip in. It's just weird.
Speaker 2: I mean, I probably don't remember what I had for
Speaker 2: dinner last night, but I guarantee you I could tell
Speaker 2: you a golf shot I hit in twenty twelve. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like the fact that golfers, it's so crazy that our
Speaker 2: brains work like that, you know, it's just we're weird people.
Speaker 2: How many people do you think you can name that
Speaker 2: we're in that playoff?
Speaker 1: I just I have a list cut Eric van ryin
Speaker 1: is it schwab nice?
Speaker 2: A couple of couple of French players, Victor Perez was
Speaker 2: in it, and Benjamin Hebert Hebert really Albert air Bert.
Speaker 1: I went, that's a correct way to say it, and.
Speaker 2: And I haven't said I haven't said it correct yet. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you I mean you did four. You did four.
Speaker 2: That was pretty good, you know. I mean you weren't
Speaker 2: in this group with all of them, for goodness sake,
Speaker 2: It's not like you can remember everybody.
Speaker 1: No, I mean it's four years ago.
Speaker 3: That's what I was wondering that if that's like the
Speaker 3: biggest playoff, I mean, how I think we had an
Speaker 3: eight person playoff one time on the PGA Tour. I
Speaker 3: remember there was one years ago, and I think it
Speaker 3: was a Tory and it was like seven or eight people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe Allenby might have won that one, but you
Speaker 2: know that's that's always wild. Tyrrel, thank you for the time.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate it. Good luck this week, keep killing it,
Speaker 2: keep playing golf like you played. It's a lot of
Speaker 2: fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thanks for having me.
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