EP68: Open Championship week begins
The Chipping Forecast
Soft Ears Media
4.9 • 718 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Iain and Andrew begin the biggest week in golf with the best seat in the house, chatting in the stand on the first tee of the Old Course at Royal Troon with the isle of Arran rising up out of the Firth of Clyde and security guards being savaged by miniature schnauzers on the beach. They review a dramatic and popular win for Bob MacIntyre at The Scottish Open, as well as a flying finish at the Evian Championship. We hear from Brian Harman immediately after he has returned the Claret Jug and also Ludvig Åberg, with the pair wondering if the Swede has an issue with finishing the job in final rounds. Andrew also wonders how often his mother is going to go out of her way to publicly humiliate him during the week. More to come on Wednesday...
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| 0:00.0 | Folding Pocket |
| 0:03.6 | It's time now for the chipping forecast, issued by Folding Pocket on behalf of Andrew |
| 0:15.7 | Cotter, Eddie Pepperall and special guest Ian Carter. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to the chipping forecast. |
| 0:33.1 | The chipping forecast at the Open Championship. |
| 0:44.1 | And when I say Ian Carter at the Open Championship, is this not, please use your powers of wonderful description to say where we are at the moment. |
| 0:45.8 | It's a bit better than my living room, isn't it? I mean, wow. |
| 0:46.9 | We are sitting in the front row of the first T grandstand and away to the left is the back of the grandstand that guards |
| 0:58.2 | the left side of the 18th and between that grandstand and the beach is the first fairway and we're |
| 1:05.1 | looking straight down that first fairway. The grandstand here is at right angles and there's a little tunnel where the players will emerge through to hit their first T-shots on Thursday at the 152nd Open Championship. |
| 1:18.6 | It's that, I mean, there's no setting like this. Yeah, this is really... |
| 1:21.6 | First T's, this is as good as it gets, I think. |
| 1:23.6 | This is, it is, because then you've got the Firth of Clyde away to the right. |
| 1:27.7 | You've got the dumpling that is Ailsa Craig over there in the distance. |
| 1:32.9 | And then the Isle of Aram, which as you and I know is a very, very special place. |
| 1:37.8 | Home of Shiskin, my favourite golf course. |
| 1:40.1 | It's where I got engaged. |
| 1:42.1 | Do you not get engaged up on the top of goat fell? |
| 1:44.5 | I did, yes. |
| 1:45.7 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:46.3 | As my brother in his best man's speech remarked, he said, Ian got to the top of the mountain, |
| 1:52.5 | and he looked at his girlfriend, and he fell to his knees in exhaustion and said, |
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