EP14: Luke on Ludvig and Eddie confesses more
The Chipping Forecast
Soft Ears Media
4.9 • 718 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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The European Ryder Cup team has been announced so Andrew, Iain and Eddie hear from team captain Luke Donald on his 12 to take on the Americans in Rome in a few week's time. Eddie waxes lyrical about the selected Ludvig Åberg as Andrew and Iain have another disagreement about how to pronounce Swede's surname. There's also interruptions from Olive and Mabel, discussions of Sepp Straka's accent, golfers called Alf and Eddie gets confessional once again.
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| 0:00.0 | Holding pocket. |
| 0:04.0 | Now on BBC Radio 4 we're off to the golf club again |
| 0:07.1 | where tensions are running high ahead of the annual match against the junior section. |
| 0:11.7 | Has the captain picked the best team? |
| 0:13.5 | Or is he simply favouring his friends? |
| 0:16.4 | Celia Emery, James Bollum and Dwayne the Rock Johnson star |
| 0:19.9 | in three off the tea. |
| 0:21.6 | If I haven't sake man, just because he's married to your sister doesn't make him a good golfer. A good morning. Good morning all and welcome to the chipping forecast. |
| 1:00.4 | I say good morning. |
| 1:01.2 | It may not be morning who you are. |
| 1:03.2 | It may not be good. |
| 1:04.3 | But it's quite early in the morning as we record this on Tuesday. |
| 1:07.0 | Again, circumstances forcing our hands. |
| 1:09.5 | But we are here now to pour over everything in the golfing world joined as ever by BBC golf correspondent Ian Carter here to correspond hello Ian |
| 1:21.1 | hello Andrew oh my voice is gone oh dear sorry. Yes. Well, it is emotional. |
| 1:27.8 | I mean, we had such a lovely weekend in St. Andrews, didn't we, a nice meal out on Friday night? We did. I wasn't very good company, though, because I still wasn't feeling great. But now I'm, oh, now I'm rearing to go. So it was a good weekend. We'll talk about that, I'm sure. but we are non-playing captains to Eddie Pepperel |
| 1:26.3 | who has come down from the mountain triumphant, not triumphant, apevent. But top ten, fair. Well done, Eddie. Well, played. Thank you, Andrew. I appreciate that. Do you? Yeah, of course I do. Like the support. |
| 2:02.1 | Anyway, lots of people saying nice things about you in your form. |
| 2:04.7 | And two top tens in the last three tournaments. |
| 2:06.7 | So we'll talk about that. |
| 2:08.4 | There's so much to discuss, obviously. |
| 2:11.0 | But all that is tied in with Luke Donald's six picks |
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