In this video, Neil Tappin and Dan Parker go head-to-head in a three club challenge over the final three holes at the 2023 Open Championship venues... using just three clubs!
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00:00 Hello and welcome to Royal Liverpool Golf Club.
00:02 The green behind Dan and I is the 18th here,
00:05 and in the middle of the summer,
00:06 this will play host to the final men's major of the year.
00:10 Now Dan, who are the last two players
00:12 to win the Open at Royal Liverpool?
00:14 - Tiger Woods and Roy McIlroy,
00:15 so I think you've got to keep some pretty good company
00:17 to win around here.
00:18 - Yeah, and part of the reason for that
00:20 is that the final three holes here are a proper challenge,
00:23 and that's what we're gonna do today.
00:24 So we're gonna have a heads-head challenge,
00:27 playing 16, 17, and 18.
00:28 Now 17 is an all-new hole for this year,
00:31 a little par three. - Gorgeous looking hole.
00:33 - Well worth a watch.
00:35 And you and I are gonna go head-to-head.
00:36 - Yes, absolutely. - Okay?
00:38 But there's a twist.
00:39 - Oh.
00:42 Oh my spin.
00:44 Oh, turnover.
00:47 Uh-oh.
00:49 Oh, I'm quite pleased with that.
00:51 Oh.
00:54 Oh, that's a good shot.
00:56 Come on, hold your line.
00:58 - It's gonna be good.
00:58 - Get up.
00:59 Right, so we're starting on 16.
01:03 - Yes.
01:04 - It's 400, today it's, off this tee, it's 410,
01:07 but obviously, you play at the Open Championship,
01:09 it's gonna be a lot longer.
01:11 It's all into the wind.
01:13 It's a really tight fairway.
01:14 There's complete cabbage everywhere you look.
01:16 - Cabbage and bunkers.
01:17 - Yeah, lots of bunkers.
01:19 And do you know I mentioned at the beginning
01:21 there was a twist?
01:22 - Yes, go on, fill me in.
01:25 - So in order to make this a proper challenge,
01:27 because obviously you and I,
01:28 we don't want to finish birdie, birdie, birdie,
01:29 it's gonna be too boring to do that.
01:33 But in order to make it a bit more of a challenge,
01:35 I want you to pick three clubs.
01:36 - Three club, Chester Club, I'll pick three club challenge.
01:38 - I know what I'm gonna go for.
01:39 - You already selected yours.
01:40 Let me think, I've done one of these before,
01:42 and I think, definitely three-wood,
01:45 because I don't think hybrid will be enough into this wind.
01:47 I'm not gonna be driving great at the minute,
01:49 so I can trust that three-wood.
01:50 So you're coming with me.
01:51 - I'm going hybrid.
01:52 - So you're going hybrid in that, yeah, yeah.
01:54 Inch and a half, one hybrid over three-wood.
01:56 - Wait for it to get a bit dodgy, a lie, it might be a...
01:59 - 'Cause it's versatile.
02:00 - It is versatile.
02:01 - I'm gonna hit eight-iron.
02:03 - I'll just pick my eight-iron out.
02:05 So I'm gonna join you there, just 'cause...
02:07 - Fine, so, and then I'm gonna go putter.
02:08 - I'm gonna go putter as well, yeah, obviously.
02:10 - If I was driving it, now, small secret,
02:12 we have played these previous 15 holes.
02:14 I've driven it really poorly with my driver,
02:16 so if I was driving it well, I'd probably hit driver.
02:19 - That's what we've got in front of us.
02:20 - Apart from the bunkers and the cabbage,
02:23 a small sliver of fairway between the two,
02:25 and I've not got enough club.
02:26 (laughing)
02:27 Apart from that.
02:28 - Otherwise, feeling good.
02:29 Okay, right, go well.
02:31 Try not to hit it too hard.
02:32 - Yeah, that's the key.
02:34 - Oh, turnover, it's a good strike, it's trying,
02:42 the wind's pushing it, it's hardest.
02:43 - It bounced.
02:47 - It bounced.
02:48 - It's a right-hand cabage.
02:49 - Right-hand cabage, okay, well.
02:51 - I struck it, though.
02:54 - You properly struck that,
02:55 it was more middle-of-the-back content from Neil Tappen.
02:58 So yeah, we've played the first 15 already,
03:01 I've got the fade, so, into this wind.
03:05 I'm fancying starting it on your ball.
03:07 - Yeah.
03:08 - I'm letting it come in.
03:10 - You've got this.
03:11 - Three-wood, this is been, I've lofted this down slightly,
03:13 not in preparation of this,
03:15 it's slightly lofted down three-wood.
03:17 Come on, Dan, nice and smooth, that's the key.
03:20 (upbeat music)
03:23 - Oh my, spin.
03:27 (laughing)
03:28 - That's gone up like a pitching wing.
03:29 - It is.
03:30 - Is that number seven-wood?
03:31 - It couldn't be any straighter.
03:32 - Goodness me.
03:34 - So as I mentioned, we are actually 15 holes in, Dan.
03:37 - Yeah, this is, yeah, we've actually played 15,
03:39 mixed holes of golf.
03:40 - What are your thoughts on the golf course?
03:42 - Well, this is my second time here,
03:43 I was lucky to play enough back in 2021,
03:45 and I loved it then, and I love it now.
03:47 It's not, especially with all the stadiums up today,
03:50 actually, not stadiums, the grandstands,
03:52 it's pretty cool to see that and feel that.
03:55 But it just keeps you guessing, I think,
03:56 and I do love the holes out by the S3,
03:59 that, for me, is the highlight of the golf course,
04:01 and I'm excited to show you 17 for the first time,
04:03 which I love, first time I played it.
04:05 - Yeah, I like the, they've introduced, I think,
04:07 some new sandy waste areas, they look really smart,
04:09 they look really good. - They do.
04:10 - They add that kind of sort of rugged,
04:12 lynxy, natural feel to it.
04:14 The other thing that I sort of have appreciated
04:17 having played the course is how it plays
04:19 in lots of sort of different directions,
04:21 it's not straight out, back against, is it?
04:22 So the wind is always sort of slightly doing something
04:25 a little bit different, so you're always
04:27 a little bit second guessing as well.
04:29 - I think so, and you don't have it
04:30 so you're not into wind from a nine,
04:32 and downwind for all nine, you get some crosswinds,
04:34 you get a little bit of difference,
04:35 and playing up 16 now into some pretty good wind,
04:39 I do wish it had turned in a different direction,
04:41 to be honest.
04:42 - What's the nick on saying, Dan?
04:45 - A long way, obviously it'll give you a more precise yardage,
04:48 262.
04:49 - Is it back to the tee?
04:51 - Shall we check, actually, that's not a bad idea, is it?
04:54 186, that's not bad into wind with a three wood,
04:56 spinniest three wood of all time, I think.
04:58 - Do you know what you don't need?
04:59 Your ball to be on a little launch pad.
05:01 - Yeah, check this out, by the way.
05:02 As if I didn't need help getting it in the air.
05:04 - Oh, get your mats out, come on.
05:06 - Oh, excuse me, sorry, absolutely.
05:07 - We are two months out from the Open,
05:10 so obviously, protecting the golf course,
05:12 and we are all for that.
05:14 - I've actually got them quite,
05:15 I've strung them quite well off these mats, actually,
05:17 I think I can do with it.
05:18 - What club are you going to use?
05:19 - 8-iron three wood or putter.
05:20 Back comes the three wood.
05:22 I mentioned on the tee, I knocked this down a few months ago
05:25 just 'cause I'm, it's actually quite high.
05:25 - Same again, it's gonna offer you a tricky yardage
05:27 for the 8-iron, isn't it?
05:28 - It'll be a little bump of a run.
05:29 It's all about keeping it on the short and narrow nail.
05:32 We don't know where yours is yet, by the way.
05:33 It could be any old, any old nonsense, couldn't it?
05:37 Just keep on straight and narrow, Dan,
05:38 nice and smooth again.
05:39 Hit down this nice mat.
05:46 (laughing)
05:49 - That has gone up like a pitchy.
05:50 Look at it, it's gonna go 180.
05:53 - It's an impressive sight, that.
05:55 - I can see where that ball is,
05:56 and I'm gonna be putting that, I promise you that.
05:57 The 8-iron's not even coming into play.
05:59 - It's an impressive sight, that really is.
06:01 - Anyone want any tips on how to get it through
06:02 and up in the air, follow me on Twitter
06:04 or something, I don't know.
06:05 Not too bad there, actually,
06:07 it wasn't too far in the cabbage.
06:08 How far have you got, more importantly?
06:11 - 234.
06:11 - Okay, well, your hybrid's done much better than you thought.
06:13 - 234, and it's not a great lie.
06:16 - Is it conducive to just knocking,
06:17 seeing what, yeah, it's gotta be conducive
06:19 to knocking something off with that hybrid.
06:20 - Well, this could go on the ground.
06:23 - Could it be 8-iron, 8-iron?
06:24 - It could be.
06:25 - That's not my natural--
06:27 - Not your game.
06:28 - Yeah, I'm worried about this post.
06:31 - No, don't worry about the post.
06:33 - I'm not gonna hit the post.
06:35 - I'd be more impressed.
06:36 - Just advance it forwards
06:38 and try and keep it on the short stuff, surely.
06:40 - Your shot's looking better and better.
06:41 - It really is.
06:46 - I don't like that statement, my tee shot.
06:48 - Onto the short stuff.
06:49 - We're the team of the day, we're through there.
06:52 - I might have worked.
06:53 - I reckon that's just gone through
06:56 into some short stuff.
06:57 - You struck it all right, it was just right again.
07:00 You're having that wind do a heck of a lot.
07:02 - Good work.
07:03 - Okay, I think my eyes are seeing me slide.
07:06 I'm not on the front edge of the green,
07:07 but I'm not far off, but I am gonna putt,
07:09 'cause I said I was.
07:10 I'm gonna have to get a yardage for a putt here.
07:13 - By the way, I've been over to my boy.
07:14 Don't worry, I've got tricky shots,
07:17 I think it's fair to say.
07:18 - A 70 yard putt, so okay, that's fine.
07:21 I could actually nail really, if I fancy it.
07:23 - Hit a chip and run, doesn't it?
07:24 - Hit a chip and run, it probably would be,
07:25 but I'm feeling--
07:26 - It's a forward.
07:27 - It's a three club--
07:28 - No, hit putter, come on.
07:30 - It's a three club challenge, I'm feeling creative.
07:33 I won't use my map because I shouldn't take a divot
07:35 with my putter if I do the R and A can right to me.
07:39 70 yard putt, come on, get nice and close.
07:42 (upbeat music)
07:45 (laughing)
07:46 - Go.
07:47 - That's the biggest putt I've seen.
07:48 - Go.
07:48 - I nearly missed it, I think.
07:49 That in slow motion would have been terrible.
07:51 It might have got halfway.
07:54 - Do you know, it's harder putting from massively--
07:57 - Really is.
07:57 - Halfway than it might be.
07:58 - 'Cause I think when your putter gets back this far,
08:00 there's more to go wrong,
08:01 and I think that might have happened just then.
08:02 - You've not shot your practice, have you?
08:04 - Not massively, no.
08:04 Okay, well, two putt for a five, and he's in trouble,
08:07 so let's go six.
08:08 - Yeah, I am.
08:09 - A zero, dear.
08:11 - I don't think, not even Tiger or Rory,
08:13 I don't think would get it.
08:14 - No one would.
08:15 - And time close from here.
08:16 Would they?
08:17 Maybe they would.
08:18 They'd challenge.
08:19 Come on, Tiger.
08:20 - The thing is, you've got this bunker in front of you,
08:21 so you've got to just,
08:22 where my balls would be a great--
08:23 (laughing)
08:25 - Shall I have a go at the flop shot?
08:27 - If you want to, mate, for the hashtag content.
08:29 - It's not sitting.
08:31 I'm going to have to just--
08:31 - So it's your eight iron, obviously, as well.
08:33 I actually just forgot about that.
08:35 - That is an eight iron.
08:36 Right, I'm going to have to,
08:38 I'm going to just try and get on green.
08:41 Anything on the green, mate,
08:42 is a very impressive shot, I think.
08:44 - Oh!
08:47 - Sit.
08:48 - I'm going to have to sit down.
08:49 - Sit.
08:50 - Sit down.
08:50 Got great contact out of there.
08:51 - Oh, T.
08:52 - Sit down.
08:53 Sit down.
08:54 Just rolling off the back.
08:55 And if you'd be putting, you know what?
08:58 It could have gone a lot worse.
09:00 I'm glad I'm not in that bunker.
09:01 The key to this whole thing
09:03 is staying out of these pop bunkers.
09:05 So the fact that I've missed that is a good thing.
09:09 I have my first little look at 17 behind me,
09:11 but I need to focus on this shot.
09:14 We've got the big tent of village going up
09:17 to the side of it.
09:18 It's got lots of people watching.
09:20 - Oh no, a bit of local radio by the sound of it, as well.
09:23 - A bit of local radio.
09:24 I really don't want to start with a double.
09:26 I need to get this nestled up nice and--
09:28 - Quite the ridge you got it.
09:29 I didn't realize this back pin was so,
09:31 was on a little sort of protected corner here, so.
09:34 - All right, you took me out of it, Dan.
09:36 (upbeat music)
09:38 - Oh, it's nice.
09:43 - Sorry. - Come on.
09:44 - Sorry. - Oh, it's one of them.
09:46 One of them left.
09:47 - Meat left on the bone.
09:48 - It's racy.
09:53 Settle down now, settle down now.
09:55 One of them.
09:58 - Go on, Dan.
10:00 - Still me, which is-- - This for a--
10:01 - For a five. - Heroic three putt.
10:05 - 70 yard three putt.
10:07 Both played for five here.
10:07 I'd like to be first down if poss.
10:09 - Okay, that feels nice.
10:14 - That went right in the middle.
10:16 - Pressure applied.
10:17 - With pace.
10:18 - Pressure applied.
10:20 - Three with three with putt, putt, putt.
10:22 I might start doing this more often.
10:24 Solid down the middle.
10:25 - Yeah, so, show hole for you this one as well.
10:27 - Yeah.
10:28 - Overcomplicate the game.
10:29 - Right, come on.
10:30 (upbeat music)
10:33 - Oh, well done.
10:37 - You were hoping that I could have--
10:39 - No, no, no, none of that, none of that, none of that.
10:41 I was willing it in with that.
10:42 - Oh, willing it in.
10:43 - Well done, pair of fives.
10:44 - Right.
10:45 - Oh, 70. - On 70.
10:46 - Here we go.
10:47 - Okay, so I will grab the yardage.
10:57 Given that you've played this before,
10:58 will you tell me what we're facing here?
11:01 - Well, I made it par.
11:03 First time I played it, bang.
11:05 - I didn't need to know that.
11:05 - Well, I stopped letting everybody know.
11:06 That was a couple of years ago now.
11:08 So, it's called Little Eye.
11:10 And we've got this beautiful infinity green.
11:11 And actually, I think what impressed me
11:13 most first time I came,
11:14 and hopefully you can see it on camera,
11:16 and you can see it here, Neil, for the first time,
11:17 it's quite elevated, that green, isn't it?
11:19 - Yeah.
11:20 - Two bunkers in the way.
11:22 The one on the left,
11:23 there was an infamous video of a lad, got stuck in there.
11:26 And he was kicking it out of the bunker,
11:27 but it all fed back into it.
11:29 What was the yardage, please?
11:30 - 127.
11:31 - 127, we've both got our eight iron out.
11:33 And that view's just brilliant, isn't it?
11:34 I love an infinity green.
11:35 You don't get it often.
11:36 - If we miss the green here, we're completely good.
11:38 - All hell breaks loose if you miss the green.
11:39 - Okay, good.
11:40 - I'm really, I'm deadly serious.
11:42 Long left and right.
11:44 And that bunker there's the one that lad got stuck in.
11:46 - Okay.
11:47 - And I think made a tent.
11:48 And neither of us have a sand wedge in our--
11:50 - No.
11:50 Well, we do, but we're not playing with it.
11:51 - And I'm using it.
11:52 Okay. - Okay.
11:53 - So, that's what we've got to think about.
11:54 - A lot of information there.
11:55 - Fine, I'm just gonna hit a little chippy eight iron
11:58 and hope for the best.
11:59 - Let's go for it.
12:00 It's out to the right.
12:11 I don't know if it, oh my.
12:12 It's gone right and kicked right.
12:14 I reckon just by those fences,
12:16 you might get a free bit of relief from the ground.
12:17 - That's too forward chip from over there.
12:20 - You might not come up on camera,
12:21 there was a honk of a horn behind us on your backswing.
12:24 - I don't know if you picked that one.
12:24 - I'd love to say it put me off,
12:26 but that wasn't--
12:27 - Oh, I'll tell you what.
12:28 140, this isn't, like I said, it's not far off for me.
12:32 It's just gonna be a normal one, I think.
12:34 Choke down on it.
12:35 Nice and smooth.
12:36 Uh-oh.
12:40 That's heading toward the sand.
12:42 Get over it.
12:43 Oh, it's over it.
12:44 I could be on the putting surface, you know.
12:46 - That's all right.
12:47 - That could be all right.
12:48 - That's okay, yeah.
12:49 - Got away with that.
12:50 I thought it was heading for the sand,
12:51 but let's go, let's go make,
12:53 watch you try and make another one now.
12:54 - My next shot could be quite entertaining.
12:56 - This is gonna be good, stay tuned.
12:57 - Okay, so as you would expect,
13:02 it's not a massive green, 'cause it's only a short hole.
13:06 Complete tabletop.
13:07 I've done really quite well here, actually.
13:10 Of all the places to miss on this hole,
13:12 this is all right, isn't it, Dan?
13:14 - Well, I think so,
13:14 because we've got this bunker to the right that's dead.
13:16 These two bunkers in front that are dead.
13:18 Over the back's dead.
13:19 - I've just gotta go up the left-hand side here
13:21 and hope the slope swings it back.
13:23 Just get it up onto the green, please.
13:25 - Come on, ball.
13:30 Ooh.
13:30 That's in a good spot, that's fine.
13:33 Yeah, it took a bit of getting up there, but--
13:35 - It's on the green, it's on the green.
13:38 - Okay, so I didn't quite hold the green, unfortunately.
13:39 But more importantly, I'm over that bunker.
13:41 As you can see, down here,
13:43 if you land on one of these down slopes
13:44 and the pros come and play this in a couple of weeks,
13:46 they'll be dead.
13:48 It's been trouble down there.
13:49 Happy not to be in there.
13:50 Fluffy-ish lie.
13:52 And importantly, this big ridge in front of me here,
13:54 that I think I'm gonna try and stab it into, I don't know.
13:58 I just don't quite know how this ball's gonna
14:00 come out of here.
14:01 It's a back foot, toe high in the air.
14:03 See if I can get inside what Tapper's got his teeth.
14:07 Steady, steady.
14:14 - Get out, I'm stuck.
14:15 - I've just, ah.
14:16 It was looking all right, I just caught the bottom of it.
14:18 I've just knifed it.
14:19 - It was aggressive.
14:20 - It was too aggressive, it was a knife.
14:22 It was poor.
14:23 - How nice is this, by the way?
14:25 - Oh, I think I'm gonna look out here
14:27 for most of the day, to be honest.
14:28 It's glorious.
14:30 It's not an evil green, is it, actually?
14:32 We've both got our fill putts here.
14:33 I am frustrated I've not got one inside yours from there,
14:36 really, but let's hold a putt.
14:39 Put some pressure on.
14:42 It never had the line, but--
14:50 - Good shot.
14:50 - Stone dead.
14:51 - Well done.
14:52 - Boogie boogie start, Neil.
14:53 - That's all right.
14:54 - You got a chance to take the lead here.
14:55 - I quite fancy this.
14:56 - I do like it.
14:57 - Nothing, there would be no moral victory here at all
15:01 if this goes in, but--
15:02 - But you're liking it, you're feeling it.
15:03 - I'm not bothered about the moral victory.
15:05 'Cause I haven't hit a good shot yet.
15:08 - No, let's hold a putt.
15:09 - The value of a good putt.
15:10 - Let's hold a putt.
15:11 - Good roll.
15:16 - It just, it do's low and slow.
15:19 - Ah.
15:20 - Oh, I really fancied that as well.
15:23 - We're just following each other in,
15:24 nothing to separate us so far.
15:26 18th to go, big par five, so get that spinny freewood out.
15:29 One last look at that, Neil,
15:32 it's pretty impressive, isn't it?
15:34 - Yeah, seriously nice.
15:35 Okay, Dan, so 18th hole here at Royal Liverpool.
15:43 4.65 off this team, be playing with an awful--
15:46 - Much longer, yeah.
15:48 - What's up in these bunkers, we're looking at landings.
15:49 Two, two, one's the first one,
15:51 two, three, three's that second one you can see,
15:53 so in the area.
15:54 - You can see through the camera,
15:55 imagine that grandstand full on a daylight day.
15:58 - Great view.
15:59 - It's gonna look amazing, isn't it?
16:01 Anyway, forget about that.
16:03 Hybrid, isn't it?
16:03 - I reckon hybrid.
16:05 - And I reckon hit it quite well.
16:07 - Oh, it's a nice strike, Neil.
16:13 - Much better.
16:14 - Much better.
16:15 - I think I might need to get a lie over there.
16:16 - Yeah, agreed, it could be on,
16:18 it's sort of on a bit of a,
16:20 a bit of a humpy bit where the range is bordered,
16:23 which is normally over there, so you know,
16:25 good luck with that.
16:26 - Stop that, is it?
16:27 - Just stop it.
16:28 - We'll find out when we get there, I think.
16:29 Right, couple more three-word time for me, I think, Neil.
16:33 How high can I get this one?
16:35 Wind's so, there is no wind now,
16:37 this is a gorgeous evening,
16:38 but if anything, it's off my back off the left, so.
16:40 Gosh, the traps are just calling for my name.
16:46 Calling for my goal.
16:47 - Come on, just keep on the straight and narrow again,
16:49 that's the key on this.
16:50 - Cut.
16:56 - Oh, please cut, that's right all,
16:57 that's all over where yours is.
16:58 - It's up a bit.
16:59 - Come on.
17:00 Over that thing.
17:02 - I think it's all right.
17:04 - Bouncing.
17:04 - I think that's okay.
17:05 Just depends on, well, we'll see.
17:07 - We'll see when we get up there.
17:08 - We'll see.
17:08 - And just one last very quick thing,
17:10 a massive thank you to our friends at Nikon
17:13 for giving us the chance to play today.
17:14 So it's through their sponsorship of the Open Championship
17:16 that we've been given access to the course.
17:18 They've given me a Nikon Coolshot 50i
17:22 laser rangefinder to use.
17:23 Dan, what have you had?
17:24 - Pro 2 stabiliser, which I've been very impressed with.
17:27 It's sort of found the pins for me today,
17:28 when I've finally got in range.
17:29 - I think you're quite used to struggling to get the yard.
17:31 - Yeah, yeah, in a bit of wind,
17:33 or if you're a bit shaky or something,
17:35 you keep getting the pin on the flat.
17:36 This thing literally just found it for me
17:38 a couple of times today.
17:39 It sort of works out where it is for you,
17:40 and it makes it pretty easy, pretty quick.
17:42 - It's a golf course where it's very flat,
17:44 and it's quite hard to pick it out.
17:47 Having that sort of bit of technology does really help.
17:50 - I've always been a rangefinder guy anyway,
17:52 because I like zapping bunkers or dog legs,
17:54 or what's that over there, you know,
17:55 which you might not get on some other devices.
17:57 So I've been impressed with it, really have.
17:58 So yeah, big thanks to Nikon.
18:00 Okay, right, I suggest I got quite lucky here.
18:05 It was a white out of bounds line here.
18:06 This is all the practice area normally,
18:08 and I was very close to going in.
18:10 I reckon I've hit this upslope and dropped into here.
18:13 I think Neil's in a very similar spot,
18:16 so he'll be above the feet.
18:17 I'm way below the feet here.
18:19 Didn't really contemplate getting the three-wood out.
18:21 I'm just gonna try and knock it up
18:22 this bit of fairway here and hope for the best.
18:25 I don't think I've ever quite had a shot
18:26 this below my feet before.
18:28 Let's see how we get on.
18:30 Oh gosh.
18:31 Let's just try and get this going forward.
18:39 Oh, I'm quite pleased with that, if I may say so.
18:41 Come on, keep running, bro.
18:42 - That is a hell of a shot.
18:45 - Thank you, Neil, very much.
18:47 I mean, that was so below my feet.
18:48 I mean, you've got to do the same now.
18:50 I can just see yours.
18:51 We'll go over to it now.
18:52 - Before we get any letters, I am in bounds.
18:54 Yeah, there's at least, there's inch to spare.
18:59 An inch to spare.
19:01 But I'm in bounds.
19:03 The question is, how much can I,
19:04 how brave am I with this?
19:06 - Are you seeing like cutting off that corner at all?
19:08 - Yeah, because if I cut the corner off,
19:10 I reckon I can get there for three.
19:12 - Yeah, if you fall short, you're out of bounds.
19:14 - But if I go for it, then don't strike it,
19:16 'cause don't forget my ball is.
19:18 - So yeah, you'd surely got to move that forward.
19:20 - I'm going to aim it at that.
19:21 There's a little post sticking up in the fairway.
19:22 I'm going to aim it at that.
19:23 - Well, we're in the fairway.
19:30 - We've got it in the fairway.
19:31 What a shot.
19:32 - That was bold and brave.
19:33 - It really was.
19:34 Sight, fairway in now.
19:37 - I left myself a little more than I wanted.
19:39 - I was impressed about the full swing by the way,
19:42 weren't I?
19:43 - Yeah, unlucky with my drive, no?
19:45 - I could run out of bounds, Neil.
19:46 So maybe, you know.
19:47 - So I've got 250, 252.
19:52 - Okay, so that wind is still helping,
19:55 but it's going to be hybrid.
19:56 - Yeah, it's going to be hybrid.
19:58 Hopefully leave myself with an impossible chip
20:00 with an A time.
20:00 That's what I'm thinking.
20:01 - I'll be short-sighted maybe, you know,
20:03 on a really tight line.
20:04 - I'm going to aim towards the left.
20:06 - Up the left and maybe fade one.
20:09 - Oh my.
20:14 - Go.
20:15 - It's got to go.
20:15 - It's got a bit right.
20:16 - Just squeezing off to the right, isn't it?
20:17 But, yeah.
20:19 - I was bouncing.
20:20 - And look where the pin is.
20:21 You've got a lot of green to work with.
20:22 - I've hit that further right than I wanted to,
20:23 but I really hit that well.
20:25 - I don't mind it, Neil.
20:26 I think we're in a good spot there, mate.
20:27 - So laser sink, 218.
20:31 - Ah, that's a nice little three-wood for me.
20:33 I think a little floaty one,
20:35 as you've seen, I've been hitting all day.
20:37 - You've got that shot.
20:38 - I think I've really got that shot.
20:39 I'm going to start it on those right bunkers.
20:41 - I think you're five-ish, wouldn't you?
20:43 - And I think you just feed.
20:44 - You're a great five.
20:46 - Approaching the green.
20:47 You're short right, I think.
20:48 I mean, it could be absolutely anything.
20:51 It's just a nice floaty three-wood, I think.
20:53 - Oh, that's a good shot.
21:02 Come on, hold your line.
21:04 Be good.
21:05 - Get up.
21:05 - I've given it the old be good.
21:08 It was probably about 20 yards short.
21:10 - We've got issues, team.
21:11 We have issues.
21:13 - That's in a bunker, isn't it?
21:14 - The bunker.
21:15 - Did not think I was going to get here.
21:18 - Well, you just said you wanted to see me play
21:19 a bunker shot with an eight iron.
21:21 We're seeing you first.
21:22 - That is the eight iron.
21:23 That is the eight iron.
21:24 - That is the eight iron,
21:25 and we've got a lot of green to work with.
21:27 You've got a nice line.
21:28 We'll see mine in a minute.
21:29 It's in troughs.
21:30 - A little chunky.
21:30 - Chunk it out of there and run it.
21:32 - Look at all that green you've got to work with.
21:33 - Sit.
21:37 - Oh, if that sits and spins.
21:39 I don't know why it's going to spin,
21:40 but a tapper, that's--
21:41 - Oh, it's gone.
21:42 - It's only just dropped off the bat, though.
21:43 You'll be putting.
21:43 It's out of there.
21:46 - It's not too bad, is it?
21:47 - I like it.
21:48 Well done.
21:49 I think two putt from there for six.
21:50 - How bad is yours?
21:51 - Oh, it's in big trouble.
21:53 This is what I mean by trouble, Neil.
21:55 Up against the face.
21:57 I mean, if I had my 60 degree wedges,
21:59 I wouldn't be advancing it much further than this.
22:01 So.
22:02 - Which way are you going?
22:03 - I'm going to go for it.
22:04 I mean, honestly, I feel like I could come out here.
22:07 That's another bunker.
22:08 This is still--
22:09 - You can pop it on the street.
22:10 - Pop it on here, do you reckon?
22:12 Oh gosh.
22:13 This isn't stuff for nightmares.
22:15 - Oh no.
22:18 - Back in it.
22:19 That's a better line in, though.
22:20 Still make up and down.
22:22 Do what you did a minute ago, I think,
22:24 and just chunk one a little bit.
22:26 Oh, come on.
22:30 - That's well planned.
22:31 - Hey, we've got a putt for it.
22:32 We've got a putt for it.
22:33 - Right, I'm here for four?
22:35 I think I'm here for four.
22:36 - Yeah, putting for five, mate.
22:36 So, some far.
22:39 Two putts might do it for you.
22:40 - Come on, knock it in, knock it in.
22:42 Imagine that.
22:44 Constantino Rocca moment.
22:45 Oh, it's not even close.
22:48 - Got to be hit to go in, I'm afraid.
22:50 All right, then.
22:54 - So what's this for?
22:55 - We're both putting for six.
22:56 - Okay.
22:57 - So, are we all just going to have three bogeys each
23:00 again and walk off?
23:01 - I just went out of bounds.
23:02 And yet, still struggling.
23:06 - Still struggling.
23:07 But, after my successful eight iron,
23:10 if I can make up and down with that eight iron,
23:12 out of the bunker on the 18th at poor Liverpool.
23:16 Come on, Dan.
23:16 - Low.
23:20 - Oh, get it there, man.
23:22 I just had a go at you for being a bit weak.
23:24 I've not even got my bogey putt there.
23:26 Seven in.
23:27 - So I've got this to win?
23:28 - You've got this to win.
23:29 - On the 18th?
23:30 - Come on.
23:31 - At Royal Liverpool.
23:31 - Come on.
23:34 - Good luck, Neil.
23:35 - Thank you.
23:36 - No, I was centre from the moment it left your face.
23:42 - Sorry, mate.
23:43 - Well done, I deserved that.
23:44 That was a good six on there, I think.
23:46 - A very enjoyable knock.
23:48 - Didn't play our best, it's fair to say.
23:49 - No, it wasn't our best, but we had three golf clubs.
23:51 We can't be expected to really knock it around.
23:54 - No, no.
23:55 - So there you have it.
23:55 That's our look at Royal Liverpool Golf Club
23:58 ahead of the 2023 Open Championship.
24:01 What a place, what a golf course it is shaping up
24:04 to be absolutely fantastic.
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24:09 But for now, from Hoyle Egg, it's goodbye.
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