Eddie Pepperell

Well, yeah, and my view was it's like when you play that game with a buzzwire.

I think it's called buzzwire or something like that where you have to follow the thing around.

Another one you mean, yeah.

Yeah, not hit the electric shock.

The point of that game is combining precision and speed, and the person that can do that in combination wins.

But when you have to be, when you have to be so precise, you tend to slow down.

So the whole point of a reduced sweet spot is the way it is, the impact it has on people's behavior.

And that's exactly what we should be trying to incentivize as a sport, you know, and so therefore the player that can swing with the most speed and hit the middle most often.

deserves fully to be you know far and away further up the fairway which I still think would benefit the Rory McIlroy's and the Cameron Young's of the world because they're so good at delivering the club you know consistently the way they do but um at the moment you can just get guys as we saw with Ludwig at the players just swing 180 miles an hour hit one way off the toe and somehow still go down the middle of the fairway it shouldn't happen and yet it does so

Yeah, there's lots that can be done.

But getting it across and over the line is going to be so difficult because of the commercial interests of the big manufacturers and, of course, the two major tours and the relationships they have with one another.

So the governing bodies are going to have a hell of a hard time making any true inroads, I would say.

I think that's ridiculous.

I don't know how Jimmy Walker's going to handle Hal Tong Lee.

Poor guy.

I do think there's most certainly scope this week to see a Hao Tongli, a Jordan Smith, a Christopher Rytan type player slash story emerge where they don't win, but they are right there in contention through 54 holes.

I recall Bernd Wiesberger a long time ago.

um being in contention i can i think there are enough good young european players coming through who have got their pga tour cards or non-international players who could you know chuck in some pretty good performance uh this week but it's an open event isn't it let's be honest and on a course like this there are probably 20 guys where you could imagine at some point they're gonna have a chance

at the moment so he you know i could see him on the leaderboard and you know who knows i mean i only said what i said of tommy um not not wanting to receive another text message from one of his coaching staff that um you know the nature of the golf course in that what i've heard is that the carry if you can carry a long way and i'm just i've noticed with tommy his ball speed's been you know down when i watched him on tv he's

definitely accurate but he's not as long as a lot of the guys so if it's but yeah if it was Shinnecock this week I would be taking a very different approach Andrew I just want to ask you sorry I just want to ask you on Tommy because you're our sort of fashion guru the train driver cap what do you think