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Chapter 1: Why is Andrew missing from this week's 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 and welcome to this week's edition of the Chipping Forecast. As you can tell, no Andrew Cotter. Andrew was meant to be here, and we will definitely get into that, but he is currently commentating at Queen's on the match between Giovanni Mpechi-Péricard against Corentin Moutet from France. He's got the big one there. Big one, big one. And he was meant to be here.
The reason he's not is because Denis... Shapa-va-va-va-va-love, unfortunately, went all the way with Jack Pinnington-Jones beating him in the deciding, no, not the frame, definitely not snooker, we're talking tennis here, game. The deciding set, of course. You would know all about sets, Badge. And yeah, in the Andy Murray arena of all places. So maybe that's why Andrew's not here.
He's just loving being in the Andy Murray arena.
Chapter 2: What were the highlights from the Canadian Open and Curtis Cup?
Yeah.
Well, it must be very special for him, mustn't it? It must be so. When you think about it.
Listener, dear listener, you are down to me and the Badger this week, which, given that I have followed no golf, played no golf for a week, I'm going to apologise in advance. Ian, we are relying heavily on you. I'm expecting, or at least hoping, for a kind of Riyad Mahrez-type hat-trick from you this week. I think that's our only chance. So come and salvage it and save me.
Could be a struggle. I've got to say, I really feel for Andrew, and he's absolutely... Raging at the circumstances because I remember from my days as tennis correspondent, you know, it is a great job to be able to sit and watch and talk about tennis. Don't get me wrong. But there are times when it just messes with your life so much and a match will out of nowhere just go on and on and on.
And then the whole schedule of your day changes.
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Chapter 3: How did Iain perform in his match against Andrew?
completely changes or your night and I always remember I mean this this may have grown in my head now but I always remember when going to the US Open and you just want as much sleep as you can possibly get and they have those night sessions that go on all night and you'd have a women's match at seven o'clock and then that might go really quickly and you think right we're in now you know it's first week should be fairly one-sided and it was always Michael Chang who
who would play, and he'd go two sets to love up, and you'd think, right, here we go, one more set, be on that bus, back into Manhattan, bit of a night in New York, and then get some really good sleep for tomorrow, and then he'd lose the next two sets. And then win the fifth set, which then meant losing the two previous sets meant absolutely nothing. He still gets through.
But he has taken an hour and a half at least out of my life. And in the end, you end up taking it... And, like, Andrew is editing this pod, and I'm very tempted to sort of read out some of the messages that have been coming from him. And this is no reflection of his professionalism in any way, shape or form. But if I do read them out...
then there'd be a lot of swearing in there, which would then make the editing process even more. So we've got to be on a swearing ban for this pod. We've got to make the edit as easy as possible. He'll pop up and talk about the things that I can't talk about at certain stages. And there is a bit of golf to talk about as well. And I've got a second place to talk about as well.
Chapter 4: What unique challenges does Shinnecock Hills present for the US Open?
So, and I think that's the best result in the TCF era. And this is our third birthday as well, by the way.
Is it this week? Yeah. Well, happy birthday. No wonder Andrew's not here. It all makes sense now. Can't stand these types of occasions. Right. Okay. Let's show, before we get into your second place, should we touch first on the match between yourself and...
andrew at the weekend at cuttington palace um it's not cuttington palace who was the victor i got i was short left short on detail unfortunately andrew yeah it was it was it was a good match the standard wasn't particularly high i i probably played the i said to andrew that's the worst i've played since i actually played with you so i'm like thinking playing with tcf people is is not good but we we have no shots
because he doesn't believe in handicaps. So off flat, and we halved. We had some good holes, and credit to Andrew, pure touch of class at the last.
Chapter 5: How did Bud Cawley win the RBC Canadian Open?
We started on the 10th. and I was one up coming down the last, and I found the green in two, par four. We thought he'd lost his drive down the right. He was left with about 210 to the green. having to fly a tree as well. He hit a six iron that zipped, just cleared the bunker at the front, zipped through the back of the green down below.
And the flag, because it was club championship day, I wasn't eligible, obviously. That's why I was able to play with Andrew. So the pins were really tucked. Greens were really fast. And the pin was right at the bottom of a step at the back of the green. So it's a two-tier green. So it was on the front tier just at the bottom of the slope.
So he was chipping back onto the upper tier of the green and then had to almost stop his ball at the top of the tier and then let it trickle down to the whole side. And my goodness me, he did it.
Chapter 6: What were the key moments of the Curtis Cup?
I mean, it was just, I can believe it. I thought, I've got this in the bag. And of course, I'd reached the upper tier of the green and I had to put diagonally across the slope and put it to about four and a half feet and then I hit the worst putt I've hit in weeks. So you had a putt to win from four and a half feet?
Yeah, I had a putt to win and he made his par so he won the last hole and so it was a half. But I think given where his mood is right now, it's probably a good thing I missed that putt.
Sounds about right. In terms of the AI handicaps, I mean, you don't have to go into detail as to what you shot, but was the AI handicap, was it pretty accurate for yourself?
The AI handicap for Andrew was sort of in the ballpark. for me I mean 24 to 28 I mean like I mean come on yeah 24 to 28 I mean I know it was bad when I played with you but I mean actually I thought you might have mounted a bit more of a defense of me last week
As I said, I'm running on fumes, Ian. I'm running on fumes. We should... Well, let's talk about... You said you came second, so let's quickly touch on that before we head to Canada.
Very quickly, midweek Stableford.
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Chapter 7: How do the players prepare for the US Open?
Oh, so near and yet so far in many respects. Teed off at 20 past four in the evening. Got round, 39 points, finished... The last three holes, birdie, birdie, and then bogey on a really tough closing hole. So you're always happy with a bogey on there. So absolutely, you know, 39 points, three under. And you go onto the computer nowadays and you enter in your score. Right.
So it came up, there's the leaderboard, and there I am, top of the leaderboard. There was another one in 39, but I'd come back with 23 points on the back nine. So I got it on count back. So I sort of drove home thinking, amazing, I've finally won a tournament. And for the first time in 10 years,
And then the next morning they published the thing and the bloke who got 44 points clearly had left the pro shop to put the score in. So it was a bit gutting at the end there.
Chapter 8: What are the expectations for the upcoming Italian Open?
What did you get for second place?
Voucher? Pro shop?
No, my tally went up on the money I can spend at the club. So 30 odd quid, something like that. Which was good because that bloke who keeps ordering drinks under my name was at it again last week. Oh, dear. So there's been all sorts of shenanigans going on. Oh, dear.
Coddington Palace, does it sound like the place to be?
Yeah, but actually, fair play to Olly Wilson, Project Badger, everything he's telling me is... Well, I'm not sure to believe that.
There's a lot of progress. As you keep saying, on both occasions you've played with me and Andrew, the performance has been lacklustre somewhat, so I'm still...
I'm Project Patrick. I sent you the leaderboard. Come on. You've got to get credit where it's due. That was in a competition, holing everything out, gross 80, breezy day. It's all right.
It's more than all right. And talking of more than all right, maybe we should move on to Bud Corley. Quite a story.
Well, before we do that, how's your week been?
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