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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
It's time now for the Chipping Forecast in association with Peter Millar. Brought to you by Andrew Cotter, Eddie Pepperell and special guest Ian Carter.
Hello there, welcome once again to the Chipping Forecast. First of all, an apology to make. We do recognise that in last week's episode we might have caused some offence when we talked at length about golf and golf matters. So we'd like to make it clear, this was never our intention but we overstepped the mark. We had plenty of chance, plenty of opportunity to talk about other things.
The rise and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but we talked about Xander Lombard and his final round stroke average instead. So again, we're sorry we've reflected that's not who we are and we vow to do better. Hi Ian. Hi Eddie. Hello.
How are we? How are you Eddie, champ? I'm all right. Thank you. I know very little about the Austro-Hungarian Empire, I'm afraid. So I'll let you cover that.
that topic and i'll stick to hang on a minute you had time to find out last week or the weekend find out certainly but uh i didn't early early that's the second attack from a badger in as many days that's exactly what that is so you see this story that was that was ian biting your nose aggressive story was i mean it was in the i think it was in the sun initially but
This badger biting the nose, biting a bit of a nose off. So an angler was sleeping in his tent and woke in agony with a bit of his nose missing. I don't know why I'm laughing. It's not necessarily funny, but I'm always kind of on the badger side. Anyway, this angler sleeping in his tent, woke in agony, bit of his nose missing and an angry badger staring him down.
The badger had been startled by the man snoring. An angry badger. That badger has had a terrible coaching session with Ollie Wilson. He's just lost it.
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Chapter 2: What were the highlights of the Austrian Alpine Open?
He's just taking his rage out on the nearest human. My short game has gone to pieces. I'm going to bite this guy's nose. I'm angry.
How is the badger, Project Badger, going? Project Badger's going pretty well, actually. Had a couple of very encouraging results Friday and Saturday. So I came through the club knockout. So I'm through to the fourth round there. Won on the 19th. Had to play. It was a really, really good match. Never more than one hole in it. And I was giving six shots.
And I won on the 19th and played the last six holes of the match. So the last five in regulation and the playoff hole in one under par gross.
Oh.
winning it with a birdie on the first extra hole. Got very lucky, actually. My drive finished...
couple of feet short of uh fairway bunker and then knocked it on the green and uh two putted thank you very much and then finished 11th 11th in the medal on um on saturday net 69 and took 0.5 off the handicap so yeah so uh that was very encouraging it's not i i'm not going to get down low enough for the club championship was that handicap based is it's not score based it's
No, the club championship is gross. Yeah, I know.
But I mean, it's not, sorry, it's not based. So you're saying you're not going to get down low enough. So it is based on your handicap.
Yes. Yeah. So it's the top 56 players on handicap. And I'm probably going to be about 70th, something like that.
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Chapter 3: How did Eric Cole almost make a perfect birthday gift for Laura Baugh?
They did, yeah. And I think it might have been 98 that it had... Or was it 2008? Oh, maybe 2008. It was certainly a Birkdale tournament where they ended up having almost nobody miss the cut.
Because I remember having a conversation with a really senior figure at the then European Tour after Tiger Woods missed the cut in 2009. And he said, what a ridiculous move it was to get rid of the 10-shot rule. I just remember having that conversation. So that's what makes me think. It might have been 2008 because that was Birkdale, wasn't it?
Yeah, I've never thought about it. I mean, there isn't a 10-shot rule on the DP World Tour. I've never known there'd be one, and I've not been on tour 12, 13 years. So, yeah, I guess it is what it is. I know no different.
I mean, it helped me. It's harsh, though, isn't it? It's harsh to be that close to the lead and not able to compete over the weekend. I guess so.
I think that's quite commonplace now on the DP World Tour, where the cuts are actually quite impressive, but the leading score isn't that impressive. That's the thing I've noticed over time, that there is sufficient depth there. that would make you think, oh, that was quite a tough cut to make.
Um, and yet seemingly nobody ever or rarely goes away after two rounds and shoots kind of 15, 16 under par. But, um, yeah, no, it's, it's the beauty of it. I mean, missing by a shot, it was a, I, when I finished, I didn't think I was going to make it. Jamie did.
So we went and practiced some putting and I did say, I said, if we, I warned him, if we don't make the cut and I'm practicing putting, I'm going to be furious with you. So, um, I shall scold him tomorrow when I see him. But, uh, no, I, I at least got some decent putting practice in Friday afternoon before going back to my hotel, having a sauna and, um, Two glasses of champagne.
Two putters as well during the week? Did you use different ones?
I did.
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Chapter 4: What challenges did Bryson face with AI coaching advice?
I've often seen my swing on video and I notice my left foot taps. Dale Whitnall does that very obviously. That's another common little trigger.
I do that. Left toes tap just before you take it away. Maybe that's a natural thing. Beef was leading it halfway. Sorry, Andrew Johnson, somebody emailed in, Simon Hedger emailed in asking if Beef minds the nickname Beef. You know, someone who's a quiet, thoughtful character. I don't think he does mind it, does he? He didn't mind it when he had his deal with Arby's.
No, I know, but I mean, I wonder if that was something that was foisted upon him. You know, I'm just, and this is maybe what Simon's asking, I'm just...
playing devil's advocate here and just I think the only the degree to which it probably bothers him is the degree to which it's synonymous with his fame and the kind of fame or level of fame he wasn't actually that comfortable with or even responsible for but that aside I think he's
fine with it and um and ultimately he does love eating beef and loves talking about it so it's um yeah it's uh do the other players call him that in the in the locker yeah yeah they do um to be fair it's what he's affectionately known as throughout the world i would say at this point it's a good name
Well, he was leading it halfway, but then shot 70-70 over the weekend for 17th. So he was 13th in Belgium. Top five here would have been huge for him, but obviously playing well. I noticed he got the putter going in his 62. Well, obviously he got his putter going in his 62, but that's the only thing that's really been holding him back in terms of the way he's coming back from his injury.
But not a great weekend because Arsenal lost as well. He's a big beef Arsenal fan, so... Yeah, anything more to add on the Austrian Alpine Open? We've raced through the Austrian Alpine Open.
There wasn't really a lot to add. I had quite a nice time, I'll say that. It was a beautiful place, KitzbĆ¼hel, however you say it. It's a stunning area, as you'll know. It's a little different to Kron, whereas Kron you're kind of high up and you're looking... The views are down beneath you. This is a bit of the opposite. The views are all above you with the mountains.
So a little different there, but very nice. Had a nice time. I was at a nice hotel, which had a lovely sauna, hot sauna, which I entered a couple of times, but a lot of naked, a lot of nakedness. A lot of naked 60-year-old men floating around, yeah, which was interesting.
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Chapter 5: How does Eddie reflect on his golf performance after the Austrian Open?
I'm just trying here to make a clunking segue into telling you about Peter Millar's Icons Collection. Now, neither Eddie nor I would destroy these things because they're some of the best-loved styles from Peter Millar within their golf apparel and more general menswear. These are the styles that have helped shape Peter Millar into what it is today.
Iconic styles, icon styles include the EB66 trouser. Oh, Eddie's nodding. Approval of that. He's an EB66 man. All day long. Signature sateen trouser. I quite like the look of that. I might give them a bash. Crown Comfort sweater collection. Excursionist flex blazer. Because again, we stress that it's for on the course and off the course. And need we remind you... that Father's Day is coming up.
We probably do have to remind you, actually, because it's still a very American thing. A tradition that started when a woman called Sonora Smart Dodd, Stephen Dodd, Sonora Smart Dodd, decided it was a good idea in 1909 in Spokane, Washington State. So she created Father's Day. She bought a pair of socks for her father, who was a Civil War veteran.
I don't know if she'd buy socks, but anyway, the Civil War veteran is true. You can do better than a pair of socks. To view the Peter Millar Father's Day gift guide, as well as the icons collection, head over to petermillar.co.uk. Hey, Laura Boyd, 19-year-old glamour girl, the Women's Pro Golf Tour. How's your love life? Oh, wow, the reporters and the fans, excited. How's your love life?
What's a love life? Maybe yours needs Ultra Bright. Dynamite taste and more whitener than any leading toothpaste. Ultra Bright, the one that puts sex appeal in a tube wants to know... Ultra Bright was invented to help yours. Well, we play that for a reason. Happy birthday yesterday, we're recording on Monday, to former Prodigy and tour player Laura Ball. She was 71 yesterday. No longer 19.
Anyway, her and, or she and, no, her and Bobby Cole's son, Eric Ian, was trying for, that's me addressing Ian rather than saying his middle name's Ian. Eric Ian was trying for his first PGA Tour win.
I mean, he had it with a hole to play. He did. He got hunted down, didn't he, by Russell Henley. And he didn't do too much wrong, did he, Eric Cole? And then Henley got him in the playoff. But it did make me think of Laura Boer as he was doing as well as he was. And he kind of was holding it together on a tough finishing stretch there.
Yeah.
And of course, Henley hit a fantastic approach in on the playoff hole and made the birdie. And that was four birdies in a row. to close out victory Henley finishing with three birdies in a row in regulation play.
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Chapter 6: What insights can we gain from the US Women's Open preview?
on the radio and we're commentating off tv pictures we're we're governed by what comes up but we're we've got the freedom that if it is the next player that is being shown isn't really that significant to the story we can just keep talking about the guy who is significant to the story and just ignore their shot and then maybe mention it in reportage afterwards
And so I, you know, I, as I say, I don't want to be critical of the TV commentators, but I just thought it was, it was quite glaring to me that there was nothing there to really suck me in to say, you know, this is, this is really important for Russell Henley hasn't won since whenever this will take him up to number five in the world, which it is.
Yes, but my point is that I think the audience is coming pretty much in the way that I did yesterday. I was out all day. And I got home and you tune in for the last hour and a half to see it. That's when you're going to have your biggest audience.
And I do think sometimes, and I think we're probably guilty of it on the radio, that you get all the biographical stuff out early doors and actually most of your audience haven't heard it.
What would you like to know, Eddie, if you're watching golf, what would you like to know about players?
I mean, I know Sky have made cutbacks with their American coverage.
Well, they use the world feed, don't they?
And I think it's Daniel Chopra and somebody else doing it. And I've thought regularly recently while tuning into the non-signature events where... Sky do not have more of a presence with familiar names and faces and voices that we're used to that the coverage has been borderline unwatchable. And I found that to be the case at colonial too. And I don't, I don't think that's being overly critical.
I don't think it's a particularly good product on TV. What made it even worse last night was everybody was American and, You may as well have been watching the NFL or baseball or NBA. None of it really means a lot to the UK or British audience when it's such an American-centric leaderboard. Now, that's not a criticism of the PGA Tour. That's fine for American viewers, of course.
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Chapter 7: How is AI changing the landscape of golf coaching?
Concerns. Lots of concerns. Yes, Ian, you have a concern.
No, I was just going to say it'll be interesting because we've now got a feel. Josh Carpenter, the Wall Street Journal, has been doing some great work on unearthing what the PGA Tour schedule is going to look like next year. We know Hawaii is gone. The Florida swing is going to change somewhat soon. The Cognizant is going to be coming after the Masters now, or is it the Travellers?
One or the other. It doesn't matter the detail of it. But with the Signature event, are they going to be able to mandate everybody to play those? Because that's their aim, to have all the big names playing against each other. as often as possible. But are they able to say to a Rory McIlroy or Scotty Sheffler, you will play this week at this event? I don't think they can. I think those players are
so powerful and so wealthy that there's nothing that you can do to make them play events they don't want to.
Yeah, no, I think I agree. I don't know if there's any legal mandate for them to do so. All you can attempt to do is incentivize them to play in relation to them acknowledging the importance of their appearance as it relates to the product, right? And that will probably more likely be fed from the SSG folks. and all of that side of things.
The business model has shifted dramatically, obviously, on the PGA Tour, and I don't think all for the better. But, yeah, I don't think there's any way you're going to get Rory to sign up to having to play here or there. He seems intent on very much doing his own thing, more so than ever. So, yeah. How many times do I end a sentence just with a mmm or a but?
It's interesting. I'm going to leave these ones in, but Patrick edits the pod, and then in the evening I sometimes tighten a few things up or whatever it is, just change things a little bit. And there are so many sentences that end with either me just, someone will, a noise that signifies, that's interesting, but I wasn't entirely listening, but mmm, mmm, mmm.
Anyway, I'll tell you, the big names weren't playing on the LPGA Tour this week in the ShopRite LPGA at Seaview Hotel Golf and Country Club in New Jersey, New Jersey. It's one of two 54-hole tournaments. Windy, windy conditions down there. Missing a few big names because of the scheduling, because the US Women's Open this week. So, Celine Boutier won it.
Won by a shot from Arpichaya Ubal of Thailand.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of music on the golf course experience?
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Well... Well, he had a 71. He was right in the thick of it. He had a 71 in the third round, wasn't happy with his play. So he went to the range, as he always does, but he consulted AI. He loves whatever the Vogue thing is. You know, when it was all 3D printing, he made his golf clubs with a 3D printer. Now everyone's talking about AI, so he went to AI.
And he got all the information that he needed. And it worked. A final round 65. Didn't quite manage to get up alongside Neyman and Taylor Gooch. Neyman winning the playoff at the first extra hole. But Bryson DeChambeau discovered that the principles that make the club turn over, having some alpha talk and some gamma talk put in there, were... was part of the digest that he got from AI.
Gemini, I think he went with. Yeah, apparently so. And this sorted him out. Only Bryson DeChambeau, you would think, would go to AI to analyse a golf.
Well, you would think. We'll maybe disprove that. What's AlphaTalk and GammaTalk? No idea.
It's BDC talk. Oh, yeah. B-A-D-C. Eddie's looking there as if he's got an answer.
Yeah. Well, I kind of have a rough idea what they mean in financial terms, so I was wondering if they relate, but I'm not sure. So, yeah. So, anyway...
Is it the amount of talk that the two hands put into it? If he's talking about turning over the club head through impact, is one an alpha and one a gamma?
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