The Open preview: Who will lift the Claret Jug? Faldo and Dougherty analyse the contenders...
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Who are the hosts and guests previewing the 154th Open at Royal Birkdale?
this episode of the sky sports golf podcast is brought to you by the chrome tour golf ball family from callaway champion golfer of the year scotty scheffler retained the rider gap and the most dramatic afternoon here in the gap Hello and welcome to the Sky Sports Golf Podcast presented by Callaway. And it is our open preview podcast. As you can see, we are at Royal Birkdale in the sunshine. We're going to get seven days wall-to-wall sunshine. That's what we think anyway. Delighted to introduce a man who's lifted the claret jug on three separate occasions. Sir Nick Feldo, how are you?
Thank you. I'm very good. Thank you very much.
This is all right, isn't it?
Well, it's proper Lynx-y stuff. Summertime. This is meant to be how a Lynx is played, isn't it? Especially in England, we get this. We normally get some good hot weather, but this sun's firmness has been around for a couple of weeks now. And it probably, as you said, looks like a lock for the week. So that's unheard of on a Lynx. They're going to be... Well, that's going to be the main topic. We're going to come on to that, yeah.
I can't wait to see the test they get. And like London buses, you wait for one and two come along at once. Not just one Nick, two Nicks on the podcast today. That's the best you could do, isn't it? When you're thinking of things I've done. No, I was going to say you're going to hear lots this week about Tommy Fleetwood being a local boy, but we've got another local boy here as well. Yeah, Ish. Yeah, I grew up, so my first ever golf coach was Richard Bradbeer, the head pro here. He used to go to Misery Hill, down where the old range was. Spent a lot of hours here, Saturday mornings. Dad with the tube, picking him up. That was called Misery Hill? Misery Hill, yeah. I might have named it that. Yeah.
That's... They're so wonderfully negative.
Yeah, exactly. Well, we are English. 50 years ago.
Oh, yeah, thanks, yeah.
Almost to the day, in fact.
Is it?
That a 17-year-old Nick Faldo teed it up in his very first Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. And that was actually, 76 was the long, hot summer as well, wasn't it?
Yeah, I think back at the first Green Court, fire day one. Is that right? Yeah, I think I made a par. It's caught light, you know. So...
What are your memories of teeing up as a young pup?
I honestly don't remember much of the Open. It's been fun remembering the story. I only turned pro in April, April 14th, 76. So we had to then ask the PGA, good old British PGA, for permission to turn professional. So they rubber stamped me somewhere in a May meeting and I played my first tournament the French Open in June. So I bet I've only played two others. I came, I qualified, I led the qualifying at West Lanx. I did the good old Monday qualifying, like, well, back in the day, it was Sunday, Monday, wasn't it? Back in the day. And then came here and played my first, played my first Open. I did all right, made the cut, finished 30-ish or something, I don't know, and kind of thought, I think I announced to the world, oh, it was all right, it was average performance, sort of thing.
So, and, but,
How is the unusually dry, firm weather expected to change Royal Birkdale’s challenge?
and the only thing i really remember was it was an absolute dust bowl i remember coming home and you know take your trousers and your sand the black sand was up to your kneecaps because it was absolutely burnt dry you know i was going to say you were 17 it was a couple of weeks before your 18th birthday were you conscious of the other teenager making his open yeah because everyone knew him after he was yeah after 54 holes steve balestros Yeah. So, yeah, because it was Seve. Well, Seve was the introduction to the world, wasn't it? Yeah. The way he played and, of course, the famous chip and run through the gap of the bunkers on 18. And, yeah, obviously we then saw a lot of Seve. You know, he was winning.
He was already winning in Europe.
So did you know about him coming into that week? Did you know who this Seve Ballesteros was?
Do you know I... Oh, this is going to test me. I don't know whether the Irish Open was before... Gosh, the open or after, because Dave Cannon took a picture of Sevilla now.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who are the hosts and guests previewing the 154th Open at Royal Birkdale?
0:00–2:57
2
How is the unusually dry, firm weather expected to change Royal Birkdale’s challenge?
2:57–19:58
3
Why is Tommy Fleetwood considered a favourite and how might he handle the home crowd pressure?
19:58–31:29
4
How do Rory McIlroy and Scotty Scheffler’s preparation and form shape their Open chances?
31:29–51:13
5
What link-style strategies do Faldo and Dougherty recommend for playing firm, fast links golf?
51:13–55:00
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