It's time now for the chipping forecast, in association with Peter Millar, brought to you by Andrew Cotter, Eddie Pepperel, and special guest Ian Carter. And...

Sad and exasperated noises.

Here we are then.

Welcome to the chipping forecast.

What we like about this podcast is that we feel

that you can all come along with us on the journey of golf and life and experience the highs and the lows

that both can bring. Well, if this weekend, gosh darn it, didn't bring both of those things, I don't know.

I'm Andrew Carter. Ian Carter, a regular special guest is also here. You're at home, Ian. Yes? Yes, I am, yes, gearing up for a week at Wimbledon. Wimburs. And I shall see you there, look forward to you. Yes. But far more important than neither of us being here. Eddie Pepperel is here, back from France, back from leading the challenge tour an event, hotel planner to an event, going

into the final round only to have to withdraw with a bad back. Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie.

Go shoot, big man. What's, how are you?

I'm all right. Yeah, we were very gutted to me and Jen yesterday, to be quite honest with you.

Yeah, it's an unusual situation. I will say that

my back wasn't very good all week and I nearly withdrew on the Friday morning before teeing up

because I was in a lot of pain then, but I at least had some movement Friday morning, whereas

yesterday morning Sunday, it was, I had nothing, frankly, and I couldn't swing a club, so it just wasn't doable. And I was more than happy to play through the pain as I did on Friday, but it just wasn't doable yesterday. So, yeah, a real shame, obviously, because I was playing well. And I think that that's, that was probably linked to the back injury because I had made some changes from the week before and was doing something slightly different. So it led to better golf, but unfortunately my body

just couldn't handle it. And that was that. So me and Jen were, well, we were pretty distraught

to have to come home, really. Yeah, well, I mean, well, we can only imagine because we, Ian and I,

obviously, we were following closely.

But so many other people got in touch as well.

They were following and sent their messages of support now, which ends up like grand as if somebody's left this mortal call.

But it is.

We can only imagine what you're feeling like because of the way you're playing but it's interesting that you say so was your back had your back altered the way

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