I
mean,
it's getting cliche at this point,
but there's like one tee time that matters more than all the others.
It's
good to
your back,
right?
Like
this tournament begins and ends with him and
once he decides that he's not going to win it,
then we'll start talking about other people.
But until then,
was it 2:29 p.m.
2 52 59. Good. A little bit more opportunity to
get some good lunch. But it's all Rory.
I'm looking for the most surprising story of the day.
So I'm not sure if that's going to be someone
shooting a really low number or a really high number.
Um,
but I'm looking for something that surprises me.
It could be Matthew Jordan who is, who's
Royal Liverpool native.
Matthew Jordan,
local son.
Super cool because there is so much attention on him. We were talking to
someone
yesterday in there
kind of bummed
that he was teeing off first because they said, you
know,
this way we can't,
can't get the usual number of pints in before his opening t shot,
visualizing
the
first
today.
Now, you
play
good round.
What are you going to be visualizing tonight
or
something similar. However, I don't think I'll have to do it as much. Now.
I know now I'm in the tournament and I know what to expect.
I think it will become a bit more natural to me. So
again, it would just be doing the same stuff in terms of making sure that
I hear the shots that I want to that well, that I know I should be doing anyway.
And I think it'll, it'll be more like that,
really more performance instead of an emotion side of it.
And given
the reaction was this loud Thursday morning,
what do you think it'll be like in terms of rowdiness tomorrow afternoon?
Well, people probably had a few more drinks.
I think that's, that's one thing that they couldn't do is start drinking at half six,
maybe, maybe my dad was if he was nervous.
Uh,
so,
yeah, I think it will probably be very similar.
And as I say, as I start to go in more, um, start to come down the stretch, I think
it will get a bit louder and louder.
Delighted to be joined by Tommy Fleetwood in the interview room.
Tommy currently co leads the championship on five under par 66.
Tommy. A good start to the championship today.
How would you sum up your first round performance?
Yeah, I can't ask for much more. Um,
yeah, I, uh, started off a little bit.
I, I didn't really get it off the, that well on the first few holes. But once, um,
once I got going and played the par five fifth really well, um,
the one bogie, I made actually a great golf shot on half club too much. And,
uh, for the rest of their around just played really well. And,
um, nice to get on a run on the back nine. Really?
Um, but yeah, to be in, to be in the club as now to have played so well.
It's a, it's a lovely feeling I can rest up, um,
start getting ready for tomorrow.
Um But yeah, as first days go, this was a pretty good one.
I was curious,
Bobby Mack perspective,
the Scottish boy who almost won the Scottish open,
like,
is it at all weirdly like
distracting when you are the local favorite? Like Tommy Fleetwood clearly is.
And he said it's almost always positive except
if you let yourself feel like you're doing it for them
because you're doing it for you.
But he said he let himself feel like he
was doing it for them at Saint Andrew's last year
and he failed down the stretch to make the cut because,
uh, it got to him. So
Tommy is going to have to battle that like
the entire weekend now,
is it surprising at all for you to look at the leader or
your name saying on top of it?
Um
Yeah,
I mean,
as an amateur. Yes, it is. But in my own head. No, it's not.
I think I'm very hard on myself and
I think I earned my spot to be here and
I think the way I played it earned to be on top of the leader board as of now,
it's not a,
a thing to say. I just personally think, I believe in myself
and
I guess stepping on to the first box, you should, if you're a professional or
a competitor, you should be believing that you should be the best standing there.
Um So, yeah, I'm very proud of it.
I'm a little bit surprised, obviously naturally, but I'm also,
I played good golf today.
I think the key here is I just got to hire some, uh, some taller cameramen.
Um,
my gosh, short Kings out here getting
absolutely
the crazy thing is they're actually at, like,
they're at high height with him right now.
They're only a little bit taller.
I don't know anything about the merger. Do you? I mean, exactly.
I mean, none of us know anything. I mean, yeah, I mean, I
saw, I mean,
I saw the hearing and,
you know,
I saw
the C NBC.
Yeah, that's all I've seen.
You know,
the guys are very tight lipped because they're still trying to figure things out.
And
I think that's the biggest thing. Once everything is,
you know,
kind of set,
then we'll start knowing more information about it. But, uh, you know, I mean,
they're being pretty quiet about it to the players as they should be and,
you know, until everything gets all figured out and then from there,
then we'll all figure out what's going on.
Was it strange to see, uh, members of the golf world in a Senate hearing?
Very,
he's clearly got takes, but it's, he didn't, like,
come out on the live party line or anything like that either.
He was just sort of like, no,
someone tell me more so I can know whether to be happy or upset about this.
He seemed like he didn't know.
I mean,
it was interesting. I asked him a couple of questions about the hearing stuff
and I thought the best answer he gave was like, we got to hear it from like
Ja and the officer and, well, I feel like that is one of the,
that's probably like one of the
most newsworthy things that came out of that would come out of
a Thursday that it made it outside of just like today's plan.
Yeah,
the
good,
it's 7 p.m.
open Thursday
and this place is just absolutely gorgeous.
I mean, like
that, that's one of my favorite things about every open
is
the spectrum of colors.
Like if you just step out here, this is the third t
you've got the, just the perfect green
blends into yellow and brown
and all the worn out spots,
the sun is kissing everything right now.
We've got just enough white in the clouds. We've got
the Auburn clubhouse on the other side of it has green Ivy
got the navy blue everywhere.
The yellow scoreboards,
like every perfect color of golf championships takes place on a sunny evening
at an open and
honestly,
as someone who has spent a couple of months in
this part of the world the last few years,
it's oddly emotional because you can't get this everywhere.
Insert, crowd noise.
What?
Yeah,
finished up with the story.
I was writing this afternoon and I kind of had some time to wander
on the golf course and I thought what better place to come hang out
on the 18,
right? As close to the scoreboard as I can get.
That was a very important part of this whole endeavor
and
best scoreboards, certainly best scoreboards in golf,
but maybe the best scoreboards
in sport, like there's not that
sports that have defined scoreboards that you look to.
This is very close with master scoreboards.
Yeah, but I'll take the navy and gold over the green and white.
I'll say to the energy of this little grandstand here.
I mean, it's a massive grandstand, but
I mean, the energy here is just unbelievable. Doesn't
matter,
doesn't matter if it's
someone hold out just a few minutes
ago.
Lawrence
Thurston. Lawrence
couldn't remember the first thing. No wonder you are off the club
he's gonna go down. No,
this is like bumper pool. This is not good to watch
bumper across the alley.
I
mean, it's not,
it's not a good thing. But,
yeah,
late in the day here,
mom and dad are gone. No rules
what you said.
Hey,
well done.
Well, Jesus
Christ
on the way,
I hate
to ask the
same question about our camera and you just answered it in Spanish.
But can you explain
the frustration with that in English?
Well, I mean, I'm trying to walk,
there's way too many people on my way and I can,
and I'm trying to
deal
with
my
mom
and,
and I
can
kind of,
um,
hm,
well
done.
Well
done.
Thank you, r
your great determination. You must be pretty satisfied. Walking off that.
Yeah, as I said, you know,
2/3 12 to walk off and even par. Um, you know, I think knowing
that I had a couple of tough holes coming up but,
but obviously the two part fives as well,
um, I think walking to the 13th day,
I probably would have taken even part to finish the day.
And,
um, you know, that's exactly where I, where I ended up. So, yeah, there was,
you know, I needed to stay patient out there.
It wasn't, it wasn't the easiest of days. Um,
but, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm still right in there. I, I'm,
you know,
just go out there in the morning and shoot something in the sixties and I'll
right.
Hello, Rory.
Have a lovely evening.
Up and down on 18,
you
up and up, up, up and up and down.
Have a good night,
rough finish of the day for John
because he's now getting me on Twitter dot com.
That is, that is the scariest look I've ever seen in a human being
like,
oh guys,
I don't ever drink. You had the gun
to ask
him a question. He struggles to, he struggles to um
quell the anger in a visual sense. He really sometimes tries to hold it in. But
I will give John Rob Cobus for this.
He is not afraid to cuss in front of us the media.
He's not afraid for people to hear his like
most angry thoughts and
we need more of that out here because these guys hold a lot of crap in.
He will get it out. He's not afraid to do it with a microphone in front of him. Sneaky.
Great day for Emiliano Grigio
snuck in there at 500 to join
the local man, Tommy Fleetwood and
surprise amateur Christos.
And uh
yeah, I mean you got, that's the top.
The bottom is unfortunately Justin Thomas shockingly only beat one pro
and I think only by one shot because
he made nine. And the gentleman below him whose name I'm blanking on made 10
shoot 82 versus I believe 83
the bunkers were definitely the thing that made people look the dumbest today,
which is
really that I'm
looking back at this bunker next to us. You
know,
this is where guys have been practicing really weird bunker shots all week.
We saw Rory yesterday practicing really weird bunker shots
and, uh, he pulled one off on 18 to salvage his day.
Um,
more tomorrow, they're,
they're digging out the sides of those things
and it makes a massive difference because,
you know, then
you're
running
your
face, you're doing something really silly.
So better than, than us.
And
we get to go have a point unlike them
all
or two.