1186: Kicking off The Open at Royal Birkdale
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Be the right club. Be the right club today.
That's better than most. How about him? That is better than most.
Better than most! Expect anything different?
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. Excuse me. Gosh, I'm already all jumbled. I'm very excited for this week. To the No Laying Up live show presented, as always, by our friends at Titleist. Solly here, joined by Mr. TC. Hello, TC.
It's coming home, Solly.
I knew you were going to say that exact phrase to start. I knew it was not even going to be a hello, just a it's coming home. Randy is here. Hello, Randy. Hello, Solly. Neil is here for the first time this week. Hello, Neil. How are you?
Gentlemen, I'm fantastic. I'm ready to bear witness on this Open Championship. Randy, I've stayed out of a lot of the, you know, you can get all hot and bothered early in a major week, but I feel like I paced myself really well this week. I'm ready to go. Proud of you. Thanks, man.
On today's show, we're going to check in on what we've learned about Royal Birkdale so far this week. We're going to hear from some players on that topic. So we got some quotes here and some links to Mark Darbin spoke, CEO of the RNA. Nick Faldo sounded off a little bit. We're going to check in on that. We're, of course, going to be drafting our teams for this week, clear out our notebook, heading into the open, which begins tomorrow. We'll, of course, be live after that. Every round of play Thursday through Sunday, one piece of equipment you might see this week more than others. That's utility irons.
What are the hosts introducing and who’s on today’s Open Championship preview?
Lots of players are going to be opting for a utility over the high lofted fairway or hybrid this week at Birktale. It's going to typically produce a lower, flatter trajectory. They can flight down control into the wind a bit more. This is where fitting comes into play. All right. This is where it's one of the hardest spots in the bag to figure out for yourself, whether or not you know you want what do you want between the your woods and the last iron in your bag what's the descent angle going to be kind of on your four iron uh that's the importance of going to somewhere like titles.com and finding a fitter near you uh they won't even let us just let us just guess on that they want us fit into stuff uh to fill up that part of our bag to make sure we are understanding things that
we wouldn't think to look in on our own. And that's, you know, that kind of goes throughout the bag and wherever your, your transition is from, from the iron into the woods or to a different set of, you know, different sets between irons and things like that. So.
So they might be no better feeling than a well-struck U-boat.
running on lynx golf it is a it's a joy to watch that ball scamper uh 60 go ahead i have a question i'm sorry are we are we finished with the title no 60 of the utilities played on the pga tour this season have been a titleist they got a couple great options you can get fit for there's the t250u that comes in a two three or four iron build it features a really clean profile compact then you got the u505 which has a large slightly larger profile than the 250u it gives you higher launch With more forgiveness, it comes in a 1, 2, 3, or 4 iron build. No matter what, just go get fit. If you don't end up in a utility, it's helpful to get that top end of your bag dialed. Titleist.com to find a fitting near you.
Randy, please take it away. Oh, that's wonderful. Go get fit. It's life-changing. You know, we're going to draft new teams this week.
I was just curious, Neil, is there any update from what happened at the U S open? If you could fill the people in.
So it's been a busy stretch for your boy on the home front, but I'm going to have, I'm getting ready. I have no time to get ready. I don't really get ready for anything. You know, I just kind of stay ready.
You don't have to get ready.
I played golf this morning. Correct. Yeah, but I don't really get ready for that. I'm going to take you through my ideal routine, maybe project what I would like my routine to be, Randy, and that will be coming this week.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–1:55
2
What are the hosts introducing and who’s on today’s Open Championship preview?
1:55–19:42
3
How are course conditions at Royal Birkdale described and why does firmness matter?
19:42–26:19
4
How will firmness and runout influence driving strategy at the Open?
26:19–30:12
5
What do players like Rory and Scotty say about rough, fairway bunkers, and 'poof' moments?
30:12–53:50
6
Which specific holes and course changes at Birkdale are creating controversy?
53:50–55:52