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It is the final day of the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool. The | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Claret jug is polished, the engraver is on stand-by, and many people | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
think it is the name of Rory McIlroy that will be etched onto this | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
beautiful trophy. The boy who was born to play golf has a six shot | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
lead wing into this final round, one of the largest in the history of the | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Championship -- going into this final round. He practically has both | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
hands on the trophy. It is hard to see him dropping it. Powerful, | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
accurate genius. Can he do it? Of course he can do it. | :01:03. | :01:33. | |
He is on a roll. He is dangerous. Fantastic shot. Absolutely brilliant | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
shot. Top quality. Watch out, everyone else. | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
Lovely indeed. Rory is the seventh player in history to have a six shot | :01:56. | :02:12. | |
lead. All the previous went on to convert it into a victory. If there | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
is to be a hot pursuit of the Northern Irishman, it is most likely | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
to come from the likes of Rickie Fowler, Dustin Johnson, Sergio | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
Garcia... The Abbey only other players within nine shots. The open | :02:25. | :02:34. | |
has been one from ten behind but yesterday's display has not offered | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
the others too much hope. The first two days were all about | :02:37. | :02:52. | |
him, what about the three? It was wet and a little wild. The golf was | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
not bad either. Three bogeys did not help, but the DJ might still be | :02:57. | :03:07. | |
spinning. It was a day for umbrellas and these things. That is the most | :03:08. | :03:17. | |
inappropriate shirt of the day. The clothes might be subdued but the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
golf is glorious. He is young, years popular, Rickie Fowler has a future. | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
That is the walk of a former open champion. Do not discount Darren | :03:30. | :03:43. | |
Clarke after the joint lowest round of the day. | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
I do not believe you can do over 1000. 996... It is a rather strange | :03:49. | :04:00. | |
day, waiting for the end of the world and it is not happening. | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
We've seen something of a snarl. He is a latecomer to the party and is | :04:07. | :04:16. | |
not the only one. The weekend could still end with a victorious person. | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
If she ever works out they are the wrong way round she will see that | :04:26. | :04:35. | |
Adam, just in and Jim Goodall still be -- and Jim could all be lifting | :04:36. | :04:46. | |
the Cup. Sergio Garcia is a serious contender. The Spaniard is seven off | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
the lead but always capable. What do the punters Bing? Good people of | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
Hoylake, who do you want to win? -- what do the punters think? What a | :05:03. | :05:12. | |
finish from Rory McIlroy, two eagles in his last three holes. Sometimes | :05:13. | :05:13. | |
he is simply unstoppable. Rory is still the story. Prepare | :05:14. | :05:27. | |
yourselves for a special Sunday. Blake got underway this morning, but | :05:28. | :05:41. | |
we are looking ahead a good few hours. This is when Eduardo Molinari | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
and Victor Dubuisson on will be teeing off. Then it will be Sergio | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
Garcia, still very well-placed. You will be alongside Dustin Johnson, | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
got within two of Rory's league yesterday. Then Rickie Fowler will | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
set off with Rory McIlroy, attempting to win the total men's | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
titles. There are no dark clouds on the horizon. We might get a shower | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
but nothing like the downpours of yesterday. Light wind, 10-15 mph, | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
ideal for the final day of the Open Championship. There is one man who | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
is especially believed, the chief executive of the Royal and Ancient. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
You made a very big call yesterday with regards the tee times. You were | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
vindicated. How relieved were you? Mightily. We were given the most | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
dreadful weather forecast as to what it was like on Saturday, we had two | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
men on site from The Met office keeping us up to date. It did look | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
as if we might not complete play. We knew this would shorten the start, | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
so for the first time in the history of the open we went for it, and the | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
weather in the early hours was not nearly as bad as had been forecast, | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
but it came down just after play finished. It was absolutely pouring. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
I was slightly pleased by that because it vindicated the decision. | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
Our staff have had difficulty making sure the ground conditions were dry | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
but it is fine this morning. Does it set a precedent? Nick Faldo said | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
they never had it before. It is a matter for the Championship | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
committee. We do believe the order in which roles are played in links | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
golf can have a material bearing on the Championship, that has been our | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
traditional position, but in the special circumstances of yesterday | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
we managed to get it right. Rory McIlroy was very pleased, you said | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
it was the second best decision that was made. He is very much in | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
control. When you look at his scores, extraordinary stuff from | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
this young man. Tremendous. When Rory is on a role he is almost | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
unstoppable. It is his to win now. The only real danger out there is | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
the rough, which having had the rain will be pretty juicy. Stay out of | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
that and able have a job catching him. How significant for European | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
golf is it that Rory could be on the brink of becoming the first European | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
golfer to win three of the four Majors? It is significant, very few | :08:44. | :08:51. | |
people in history have done that, he would be joining the legends of the | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
game at such an early age. I have a feeling he has many Majors in him | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
yet. He is a wonderful player, a delightful young man as well. A real | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
role model for young people playing the game. He will have 7000 people | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
for the last grouping in this amazing grandstand here. You were | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
telling me early on there were 20,000 seats available. That is a | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
huge increase in the infrastructure. Has that been justified by the | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
numbers of spectators here? I think so. We did expect big crowds at | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
Hoylake. It is within striking distance of some pretty large | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
cities. We had a very large crowd after we came back here in 2006. We | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
have ended up with just over 200,000 this year. That will be a tremendous | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
boost. There are many golf fans but also sport and event fans. Speaking | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
of spectators, you have invested a lot of faith in them this week, | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
allowing them smartphones to help them enhance their experience, there | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
have been one or two grumbles from the players about phones going off | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
and people using them as cameras. How do you balance the requirements | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
of the spectators with those of the players? It is a very difficult | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
balance. People are much more used to having their phones with them, | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
using them for a great variety of purposes, but golf is primarily a | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
sport and the players must come first, and we really put our trust | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
in the spectators, through education to behave properly in this regard. | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
Social media as well. Much of the foot graffiti is not just taking | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
pictures -- photography is not just taking pictures. There are ways of | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
taking photographs without making noise. As Tiger said, keep them | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
silent. Clearly this is the way forward. You have broken ground in | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
this regard. What we have done with the wireless network is | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
ground-breaking. It is wonderful to be a spectator at a major golf | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
Championship, other drawback has always been you can only see what is | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
in front of you. Nowadays people are more information hungry, we have | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
delicate scoreboards, every green except the 18th. -- Alex on it | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
scoreboards. We have the except the 18th. -- Alex on it | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
application. -- electronic. It is a massive spectator enhancement. Stay | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
with us, because I think this will interest you. This golf foundation, | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
set up by one of the Britain's finest golfers. It recently gave an | :11:44. | :11:52. | |
award to a man who has done so much over the years, the Claret jug | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
winner from three years ago, Darren Clarke. | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
Seen you having fun morning. How important is this initiative for | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
kids? It is massive. There is no other sport quite late golf at | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
teaching kids how to interact with adults -- quite like golf. The rules | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
say a bit -- seem funny but the peach kids etiquette and honesty. | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
There are so many good aspect of the game. We need more kids involved. We | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
need to find the next Lee Westwood, Justin Rose, Rory McIlroy, Ian | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
Poulter, Graeme McDowell. The two keep the talent growing. You look in | :12:45. | :12:58. | |
great shape. Different regime? Yes, I saw myself on TV last October and | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
I felt I looked a little bit too fat so I decided to do something about | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
it. I have been on a programme, started working out, cut the sugar | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
out of my diet. That was my big thing. Go to the gym a lot, feel | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
much stronger. Saying that, unless the golf ball starts behaving I will | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
be putting it back on... My ball striking is good but my scoring is | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
not where it should be. Golf is a difficult game at times, it has just | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
been a bit of a bad run, but keep practising and keep working. Darren | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
played very well yesterday, 67. He is certainly in the mix. He is very | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
pleased that is going back to Royal Portrush. One of the great things | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
about the Open Championship is how truly global letters. -- global it | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
is. I know that you have tweaked the qualifying system. Explain what you | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
have done. We have done that. We remain committed to keeping this an | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
international Championship, we reach out to players by stating qualifying | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
events in Australia, South Africa, Europe and North America, and this | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
year we went away from hours previous system. We went to having | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
to events, that made it more rigorous because we had 72 hole | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
events. It made it more convenient for the players and it gave it more | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
publicity. We remain committed to the dream and the local qualifying | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
in the UK through regional and final qualifying still remains, and we had | :14:44. | :15:03. | |
a wonderful example this year. It will be harder to go back to his | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
factory tomorrow morning. He has really inspired people. He had acres | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
of newsprint about his progress and had to ask his boss for the time off | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
to play here. It just shows it can be done and if you keep dreaming | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
then you can get there. He was an example of it and a lovely fellow. | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
Another feature is the presence of the armed forces here. We have had | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
the Navy marshals and they are keeping is right on the course and | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
also the Gurkhas who cardigans and take par in the closing ceremony. | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
Golfers playing an important par in the rehabilitation of soldiers | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
injured in conflict. These gentlemen are par of the | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
encores foundation which is getting injured servicemen and women into | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
the sport, some of them have not played before. Sam, you are holding | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
the umbrella, we will come to you, tell us about it. For me, it has | :16:08. | :16:21. | |
been a godsend. It has got me back socialising with the public. | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
Competitive sport is back in my life which was a huge fan before I got | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
injured. It is these things I thought I would never have again | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
when I was injured. That is great to hear. Let me introduce you to Tom | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
who lost his right arm and you are right handed. And you lost your | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
right eye. This was in Afghanistan 2009 and you play of 20. How far can | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
you have to ball with one finger? On a good day it is 240 yards. People | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
watching can play with both hands but struggle with golf. He did not | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
play before and you find your game with one arm and one finger. It is | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
helped me to develop my game. Deja enjoy it? I love that. It gets me | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
out and socialising with all the lads again. It brings it all back, | :17:19. | :17:33. | |
you get that banter again. In the Simpsons the UK takes on the | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
Americans. You have sunk the putt? That is true. We played the first | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Tour in America and the second one was at Royal Lytham St Annes. It | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
was a great treatment and it was great vision to put it together. | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
123012, America versus the UK. Very competitive. The Armed Forces | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
gentlemen are very competitive and use that. -- 12 versus 12. That is | :17:59. | :18:13. | |
really inspirational to talk to you. People back at home will be | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
delighted to see how that golf is making a genuine difference. Www. On | :18:18. | :18:40. | |
the website. -- www.oncoursefoundation.com. That is | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
marvellous to see how golf can affect their lives and get them a | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
purpose. They are getting all of the best venues and John Simpson has | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
done a wonderful bit of work setting up the foundation and we are | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
delighted to use The Open Championship to bring them here to | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
meet the stars and sure of golf at its best. They are a delight. You | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
continue to grow the game of golf. We saw the Olympics and the impact | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
that golf will have the, successful World Cup in Brazil, you talk during | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
the week about the readiness of the golf course in Rio de Janeiro. We | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
are not quite the, how close are we? They have their work cut out, not | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
just in golf, but in so many sports. They have a World Cup and in two | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
years later the Olympics. Golf had slow beginnings but goodness, it is | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
accelerating now. If we can get all the grass in and complete by | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
November, by we I mean Rio de Janeiro 2016, it is not as of the | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
International golf Federation, if we can get that done by November | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
that'll give us two full seasons in South America in the climate which | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
should be plenty to get to the course up to the required conditions | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
for the top players. Before November and September. There is a vote in | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
September, originally designed to be on the same day as another election | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
in Scotland. We were joking to other women would be allowed to stay in | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
Scotland but I am only teasing. This is an important -- an important | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
moment for the golf club that is separate from the governing body. | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
How significant is this? Very significant. The club and the | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
governing body while separate are closely intertwined as you know. We | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
are based in St Andrews, the clubhouse at the Royal and Ancient | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
golf course is to many the headquarters of golf. It is | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
important that the club 's reputation is maintained. I will not | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
go into too much detail about this, there is no pressure for this. From | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
the outside world point of view to have the governing body or a club | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
closely associated with the governing body, practising what some | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
people see as exclusionary membership policies does not sit | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
very well. This is entirely a matter for the membership and it is no | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
pressure here. The members will decide, either through a postal | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
ballots, before September 18, or on the day. That is to be determined. | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
You have a lot to do today. I am looking forward to next year. It | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
will be the last for you as chief executive. You will at Saint Andrews | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
which is appropriate for anybody in golf. We are delighted that you have | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
extended another invitation to Tom Watson for the 40th anniversary of | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
his first victory. What a competitor he has been in the open. Five-time | :21:56. | :22:04. | |
winner and a lovely gentleman. We felt that St Andrews was the perfect | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
place for him to call today. I think the codes would like to see that and | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
it would be good for the game. He is so respected in Scotland. -- the | :22:13. | :22:21. | |
audience. I think we have done the right thing you. There's also good | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
news from the course because not only is he going to be completing | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
the open next year, at the age of 64, he is the oldest man to make the | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
cut and he has gone out in 33 this morning. This is a birdie at the | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
7th. He is continuing to be the greatest links golfer of all time. | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
It is a great tonic to see him out there and a great tonic to see you | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
well. Enjoy the rest of your day. We are going to talk Gary Player now. | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
It is 58 years since he played in the treatment right here at Hoylake. | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
You never truly catch up with Gary at anything. | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
Mr player, it is always a pleasure to talk to. Do you know that it is | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
40 years since he last won the open? Sorry about that. You have to | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
understand. You can be 80 years young or 20 years old. It is a | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
number and the concept that humans devised. I will be 79 in a few | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
months time. I feel like I am 30 or 40 years of age. I am blessed with | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
that. I go to the gym and I give myself 70% for a direct. When you | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
travel likely -- but like I do then it is not easy. Do you have a | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
favourite? The first victory at Muirfield was the youngest man to | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
win, that meant a lot. I had arrived in Britain with my wife with a young | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
baby and I could not travel back to be pleasant. Then you win at | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
Carnoustie, the toughest of all the venues and I was playing | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
head-to-head with Jack Nicklaus and I hit that shot at the 14th hole | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
with the feeding wood. -- with the three would. Just to play in this | :24:32. | :24:43. | |
great Championship is an honour. You say that The Open Championship has | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
lost -- lost some of its dazzle, you are concerned about the length that | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
the players can hit the golf ball and the fact that hardly anybody is | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
heading a driver today at Royal Liverpool. These great links golf | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
course is well-designed and we have got no respect for that any more. I | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
walked around a few holes and I have the gallery sequin of these players | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
going to hit a driver, I have came here to see them hit a driver. They | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
are old using a iron at the tee. This is a Mickey Mouse golf course | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
compared to the Masters. Do you know that Bubba Watson hit a driver... He | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
is no older than Jack Nicklaus but he had to hit an average of 85 to | :25:31. | :25:39. | |
get off. The drive eight of 18 holes. At the 1st hole at St | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
Andrews, you can drive over the green. We have to wake up. You have | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
got the rough year but they are not taking a driver. Everybody said want | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
the course to be hard and fast. Nonsense! Then you can hit a four | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
iron off the tee. Jack Nicholson did -- Jack Nicklaus didn't even put a | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
driver in his bag at Carnoustie. You have to make the courses longer so | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
that they have to hit a driver. You do not see -- do not seem like a man | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
obsessed with money, how much did you win for winning the opening | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
Championship? ?1000. Prize money this year? Over ?1 million. I did | :26:30. | :26:40. | |
not worry about money. I was pure as a man growing up and it was just an | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
honour to play in the opening Championship and when it. -- in The | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
Open Championship. The word that comes to my mind is gratitude. I see | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
a player at least five times a day, thank you for the blessings that | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
have been bestowed on me. One thing you always tell us about is exercise | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
regime. Press ups, setups, how many can you do? I did 1000 300 strong | :27:06. | :27:14. | |
crunchies. Back-to-back? I do different kinds. I do a lot of | :27:15. | :27:28. | |
planks. I still pushed at least 250 with my legs. I set the treadmill | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
almost at maximum because you have to get your subconscious to realise | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
that you still have speed even though you are kidding yourself. Yet | :27:39. | :27:48. | |
it is hard as you like, harbour. That is Mickey Mouse. I cannot punch | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
any harder. This is what you have to do. I met a wonderful gentleman in | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
India and he said, you have to be happy. You have got a choice. | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
Secondly, you have to rest well. Not necessarily sleep a lot. Ford, it is | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
imperative that you exercise and the most remarkable thing, the less you | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
eat, the longer you live. Great contradictory to the Western world. | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
-- very contradictory. The less you read the longer you | :28:22. | :28:36. | |
love. That -- let that the lesson. Do not look at me. It is great | :28:37. | :28:49. | |
value, isn't he? He is great fun. He makes some serious points about | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
links golf and that technology is aiding and abetting of progress. We | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
cannot squeeze any more out of these pieces of land. Royal Aberdeen last | :28:58. | :29:04. | |
week, first time I went, it was frustrating when you walk off the | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
cover Mac and you head jobs to get to get to the back teeth. It lost a | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
couple of points from the on that one. Even if you great par-5 at 550, | :29:15. | :29:28. | |
if it comes down the other way, it goes 100 yards shorter. We know all | :29:29. | :29:39. | |
of this. I think they should ban the peg at the tee. When -- bring back | :29:40. | :29:56. | |
ball striking. This technology perhaps coming to the fore, that you | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
see on a links course compare to inland courses, we have seen Rory | :30:03. | :30:18. | |
destroyed par fives with a driver. He has, I was doing some reading and | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
half of the balls used to float, old balls. I remember reading about one | :30:26. | :30:32. | |
ball that was terrible, and he said, finally, this is a new ball. | :30:33. | :30:38. | |
But he was talking about the 1.68 inch ball. They could have one that | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
weighs exactly the same and is slightly bigger, technically, that | :30:42. | :30:48. | |
could be easier. It might remove around -- move around in the wind. | :30:49. | :30:59. | |
It is just a thought. The other thing that Gary said before the Open | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
Championship, if Tiger Woods had not had a lesson after 2000 he would | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
have won 24 Majors. He feels wonderful golfers like Tiger have | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
looked for too many and series from too many coaches. In some senses. | :31:15. | :31:22. | |
When Tiger left Carnoustie, 2007, he was furious with the way he was | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
playing golf, he did not fire Hank, he just said he needed a breather. | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
He then came, we watched him play, it was a simple backswing | :31:34. | :31:36. | |
follow-through and he won seven in a row. He knows how to play this game, | :31:37. | :31:44. | |
and we all have watched him, he does not own his own golf swing. It is | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
the coach that gives it. He has got to be one of the most talented, and | :31:50. | :31:57. | |
presently, he is lost. For a man to stand up and make a dozen practice | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
sowings because he still needs to find the feel, it just shows you he | :32:03. | :32:09. | |
has not found how to put that club face onto the ball under pressure. | :32:10. | :32:17. | |
Obviously there has been a lot of challenges for him. He had the back | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
surgery in March. In terms of how he came back, how do you assess his | :32:22. | :32:28. | |
progress? Good question. You cannot call it progress yet. I think he is | :32:29. | :32:36. | |
going to unravel a bit, he kept saying if he swung that way he would | :32:37. | :32:41. | |
have known left knee. You can see why he made the change. Most people | :32:42. | :32:48. | |
did not like the way he was swinging, but he was prolific, that | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
should have been the best period of his career. His body is beaten up | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
all over the place. It is hard to make an honest, objective opinion | :33:00. | :33:06. | |
about Tiger Woods. If you add in how his world has changed, divorce, a | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
lot of things off the golf course, that should have nothing to do with | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
golf, but people watching him today, these to be 99% just love to | :33:17. | :33:25. | |
see him. -- they're used to be. When he came back, you got booed, and he | :33:26. | :33:32. | |
never got booed before. I want to see him back again, because you | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
imagine him playing the way he used to, with Rory and some of the | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
younger guys, it would be fantastic. There was an aura around him. When | :33:43. | :33:49. | |
he walked on the range it was like a freight train. Everything stopped. | :33:50. | :33:56. | |
He was the centrepiece. And I agree. Now it is a 50-50 split. When you're | :33:57. | :34:05. | |
on a good day, you think of the 50% who love you, on a bad, you think of | :34:06. | :34:11. | |
the 50% that want you to miss. He has put himself through the ringer. | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
He really has. It is difficult to unravel. Unbelievable. To rebuild, I | :34:16. | :34:22. | |
find it frustrating, he says he wants to play and then he does not | :34:23. | :34:30. | |
play. He should get out and play. We would love to see him do that, if he | :34:31. | :34:35. | |
really wants to come back, but to come back and played two rounds then | :34:36. | :34:42. | |
come here, he has for more rounds when he gets to Ohio in a couple of | :34:43. | :34:50. | |
weeks. Then he's got the PGA. That could be his season. He may not make | :34:51. | :35:00. | |
FedEx cup, which means he is out. Tom Watson said he would pick him, | :35:01. | :35:06. | |
but there was some small print, if he is fit, performing well, got some | :35:07. | :35:15. | |
results. He may not have that. If you go back to his last major | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
Championship, he has 18 victories, including 2008, and that is a major | :35:21. | :35:25. | |
and players Championship. Amongst all of that, he still managed to be | :35:26. | :35:33. | |
better than the rest. That is the crazy thing about it. He is | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
extraordinary. Our coverage has started on the red button for those | :35:39. | :35:43. | |
who want to watch. We will be going to live golf in about 25 minutes on | :35:44. | :35:50. | |
the channel. He is out there now with Jason Dufner. We are going to | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
assess the possibilities for this closing day shortly. There is one | :35:56. | :35:58. | |
man who has hardly had a lesson in his life, John Daly. It will be 20 | :35:59. | :36:04. | |
years next year, the anniversary of his amazing victory at St Andrews in | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
1995. He did not play last year and it is lovely to see him back, albeit | :36:10. | :36:10. | |
he did not make the cut. What did John say the three rules of | :36:11. | :36:22. | |
caddying are? Show up, keep up, shut up. Can you recreate the round of | :36:23. | :36:36. | |
applause? I know you've got a shot. These guys are slow. Do you enjoy | :36:37. | :36:48. | |
having your wife and caddy with you? It is good, she started three weeks | :36:49. | :36:49. | |
ago. How do you find it? I like it, it is | :36:50. | :37:03. | |
fun. We don't always have good days. I just walk away. Basically you do | :37:04. | :37:14. | |
this yourself. Do you really think I want to take that chance and club | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
him and maybe give him the wrong club? You have a shot to hit. How | :37:20. | :37:29. | |
far do you have it? What about the mentality of a major winner? What is | :37:30. | :37:36. | |
it that allows you to get to that Sunday and pick up the Championship? | :37:37. | :37:44. | |
I've always believed in any golf tournament, Majors especially, you | :37:45. | :37:47. | |
will hit some good shots and get some bad days, then you will get | :37:48. | :37:55. | |
some good breaks. The mentality is taking a bad day, rain and wind, and | :37:56. | :38:00. | |
going out to survive. Do you try and connect to those old | :38:01. | :38:09. | |
memories? It is difficult. Do you try and connect to those old | :38:10. | :38:16. | |
Andrews was my favourite one to win and that dream came true. Can you | :38:17. | :38:22. | |
remember every shot? I remember getting out of the bunker, that was | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
important to winning it. Made a lot of putts to save par. People have | :38:28. | :38:37. | |
always spoken about your long game and not giving you credit for the | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
short game. Nobody has ever come up to me and asked if I can help them | :38:43. | :38:50. | |
with chipping. All I get is people asking how to fit it further. One | :38:51. | :38:57. | |
thing people have always enjoyed about you is the trousers. Have you | :38:58. | :39:01. | |
ever got to the stage where you get up in the morning and you think, | :39:02. | :39:07. | |
that is too much? I have not. I get up in the morning in the dark and I | :39:08. | :39:14. | |
dress. The game of golf has changed a lot. Your life has changed | :39:15. | :39:21. | |
immeasurably. It has been an up-and-down life. I think we have | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
temptations in our lives that can get us into trouble and I have been | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
there. Luckily, everything I have ever done is legal, the gambling, | :39:30. | :39:35. | |
the drinking, you've only got to be nine in Europe to drink. It is | :39:36. | :39:36. | |
perfect. Always good to talk to you. This week, he chose trousers that | :39:37. | :39:59. | |
were certainly not dull. You know when they do the champions dinner at | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
St Andrews, he came out in some flour jacket, he said he would make | :40:04. | :40:09. | |
wee one. -- jacket with flowers on. They sent me a suit, it arrived in | :40:10. | :40:17. | |
the post in a box this big. I said, maybe I will wear it for Halloween. | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
Sorry, it did not even make the approval for three seconds. You both | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
played in that in 1995. Did you enjoy that? I was hoping Michael | :40:29. | :40:35. | |
Campbell was going to go the whole way, but any time you placing | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
Andrews is special. John has an exemption to play until he is 60, so | :40:42. | :40:49. | |
he will be entertaining us for a few years yet. Will 2014 B Rory's year? | :40:50. | :40:58. | |
Here he comes. Rory McIlroy. His dad put a bet on ten years ago that by | :40:59. | :41:10. | |
the age of 25 he would win the open. He is 25, is the bet still | :41:11. | :41:15. | |
good? Big misjudgement from Rory McIlroy. | :41:16. | :41:22. | |
He steadied things. First figure of the day goes to | :41:23. | :41:39. | |
12-under. That is the shot of the day. Paying the price for missing | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
the fairway with an eye on. Huge bonus. That would have been | :41:45. | :42:01. | |
seen if that had gone in. -- obscene. I think it is good I have | :42:02. | :42:09. | |
had this experience before. I was leading by four going into the | :42:10. | :42:22. | |
Masters and I let that lead slip. Then I did not make the same mistake | :42:23. | :42:42. | |
again. It is good to have that experience and hopefully some of | :42:43. | :42:43. | |
that can be taken into tomorrow. The bet made by his father is still | :42:44. | :42:44. | |
valid, they would stand to win ?50,000 each if it comes off today. | :42:45. | :42:45. | |
It is a big day for the family. It shows you the faith they had in this | :42:46. | :42:46. | |
young man for so long. He has been a star in the making and history in | :42:47. | :42:53. | |
the making. I know that he played in the Junior series for so long. He | :42:54. | :42:59. | |
has had this lead in all the Majors. He has the experience. The fashion | :43:00. | :43:02. | |
in which he does it, we were talking about the sharks, -- how he does | :43:03. | :43:19. | |
it, he had some shaky holes, but to find the extra gear and turn it into | :43:20. | :43:26. | |
a six shot lead, I hope today is like that. But I hope Rickie Fowler | :43:27. | :43:35. | |
plays well as well. Finding the extra gear is the important thing. | :43:36. | :43:37. | |
It is the atmosphere, your personal intensity, you recognise that, to | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
play 16 and 18, I would tell them 100% holes. For him to do that is | :43:44. | :43:56. | |
the most wonderful feeling when you can but on the golf ball like that, | :43:57. | :44:03. | |
you can hit it absolutely pure. Those will carry him on today. | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
Speaking to a colleague at breakfast, he reckoned there is a | :44:08. | :44:10. | |
consensus that he is perhaps one of the greatest drivers there has ever | :44:11. | :44:13. | |
been. When he is on form. If you saw what he did, he attacked both of | :44:14. | :44:22. | |
those golf balls with a driver. We nearly had an inch of rain last | :44:23. | :44:26. | |
night, so in some respects we said he would need a softer, less wet | :44:27. | :44:36. | |
Hoylake. My wish is he gets to seven. How many did you get, six? | :44:37. | :44:46. | |
Yes. Tell us about protecting a lead. Everybody is human. There must | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
be at some point a little negative vibe enters your head. How do you | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
dismiss it? It is not negative, it is just that | :44:57. | :44:57. | |
dismiss it? It is not negative, it is you're not sure. I was five shots | :44:58. | :45:02. | |
at St Andrews. You go out and you face a putt. Do I go for it or do I | :45:03. | :45:14. | |
not? It got to me, you start looking at it, where before you think you | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
would get it. There was a second thought which is not great, I don't | :45:19. | :45:23. | |
think this golf course is quite like that. St Andrews is like that. I | :45:24. | :45:31. | |
think it is more about planning the round, you got to difficult holes, | :45:32. | :45:44. | |
he will have two start solid, and then you get a little run, but the | :45:45. | :45:47. | |
most important club is the driver. There is some scary shots. Seven | :45:48. | :45:54. | |
yesterday, she just missed the rough. Momentum, we always talk | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
about momentum. That was huge. It keeps you going. The way he finished | :46:01. | :46:13. | |
was really stamping it. Rowley had a four shot lead at Agusta but he was | :46:14. | :46:24. | |
overtaken. -- Rory. You are the example of this, Nick. What was you | :46:25. | :46:30. | |
attitude going out when everybody was hanging on Greg 's shoulders # I | :46:31. | :46:36. | |
had a game plan. We know they history of Agusta and if I can get | :46:37. | :46:43. | |
within three, a three shot lead at Agusta is nothing. I have known Rory | :46:44. | :46:56. | |
that since he was 12. We talk to him along the way. He came to California | :46:57. | :47:03. | |
and to England for a couple of days. We played a practice round together. | :47:04. | :47:13. | |
I always talk about the negative words in golf, you cannot see, do | :47:14. | :47:19. | |
not do this. At the 1st hole at the Masters, he hated blessed. Suddenly | :47:20. | :47:29. | |
everything went wrong and he was in meltdown for those nine holes. He | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
has learned from that experience and he is very mature for 25. He has two | :47:35. | :47:41. | |
Majors under his belt. He has inner strength now. Mental strength is | :47:42. | :47:47. | |
something that he even said a few years ago was not his greatest | :47:48. | :47:53. | |
asset. We touched on the history of this and said that he would be the | :47:54. | :47:56. | |
only European to win three of the four Majors. These are very heady | :47:57. | :48:08. | |
times. It could be a significant moment. If he goes on to win today, | :48:09. | :48:16. | |
there are only two people who have won three. That is Jack Nicholson -- | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods who were younger. This is where the code | :48:21. | :48:27. | |
makes a difference. We always talk about the crowd noise at the | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
Masters. When you can see the scoreboard changing, the deafening | :48:33. | :48:38. | |
silence, and in the last Ryder Cup player looked like a foregone | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
conclusion for America to win. Once the balance starts to go, there's | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
one thing to consider, this is a home crowd for a Rory McIlroy. That | :48:48. | :48:53. | |
is when the pressure of the people outside the ropes can make a | :48:54. | :48:57. | |
difference. That is what happened in 1996 because this was unheard of. | :48:58. | :49:07. | |
This is sport, many things can happen. You will discover goes very | :49:08. | :49:19. | |
well. I have been speaking to the captain of this golf course. Dan | :49:20. | :49:23. | |
Walker caught up with him. This is the skipper, the man who knows his | :49:24. | :49:38. | |
way around the links at Hoylake. You will show as the hardest to find the | :49:39. | :49:39. | |
bunkers around course. We will start here at six, par three. This is a | :49:40. | :49:42. | |
201 yard par three. It is tough. You will hit a four or five iron in | :49:43. | :49:52. | |
here. Anything not precisely struck ball gathered by this bunker. It is | :49:53. | :50:00. | |
deep with a severe face. If we can get anything other than a perfect | :50:01. | :50:03. | |
line then it is really nasty. Even the worlds best have complained. | :50:04. | :50:10. | |
Absolutely. Adam Scott talked to his caddy about this in 2006. They both | :50:11. | :50:16. | |
agreed this was not a good place to go because the Championship could | :50:17. | :50:25. | |
endure. Off to home number ten. I think we can safely put this in the | :50:26. | :50:34. | |
beast category. There is a flag up there somewhere. This is probably | :50:35. | :50:40. | |
the deepest of all of the bunkers. Tiger Woods was imperious in 2006. | :50:41. | :50:49. | |
He did not manage to evacuate himself from. He had two strikes you | :50:50. | :51:03. | |
and still made par. This is a camera in the bunker. Front right of the | :51:04. | :51:09. | |
par three 13th. One of the most severe faces in any bunker here. The | :51:10. | :51:15. | |
view here is quite nice. You might be able to see the green but I | :51:16. | :51:23. | |
cannot. This is not a bad view at the last hole. Your final trap. | :51:24. | :51:30. | |
People will remember 2006, this was just one and you have made it into | :51:31. | :51:39. | |
three. It is a par-5 finishing hole. Risk and reward. If you missed the | :51:40. | :51:45. | |
green in two, you could find the corner of this bunker and | :51:46. | :51:52. | |
potentially be an awkward spot. Thank you very much, top job, | :51:53. | :51:54. | |
Alistair. Here is the Claret jug and that is | :51:55. | :52:08. | |
what Alistair will be handing over later on. Rickie Fowler is | :52:09. | :52:15. | |
challenging Rory McRoy. You will recognise him because he will be | :52:16. | :52:26. | |
wearing bright orange, the colour of Oklahoma State University. Sergio | :52:27. | :52:29. | |
Garcia would -- lovely start by Rickie Fowler. Good | :52:30. | :52:51. | |
for distance. Birdie start for Rickie Fowler. What a start. He | :52:52. | :52:56. | |
looks so comfortable with the bottle in his hand. 10-under par four | :52:57. | :53:05. | |
Ricky. Second shot for Rickie Fowler. He has to catch this one and | :53:06. | :53:11. | |
get it to stop quickly. Magic. He is producing. That has seemed to gone | :53:12. | :53:25. | |
into some rough. That was awkward. He played it well. Very well. | :53:26. | :53:32. | |
Magnificent shot from Rickie Fowler. 68, could have been 65. | :53:33. | :53:41. | |
Indeed, it could've been 65. He has played beautifully this week. | :53:42. | :53:44. | |
Successive major Championships going into the final pairing. Frank, what | :53:45. | :53:51. | |
must they do early on? Establish his brother. In the final round of the | :53:52. | :53:59. | |
US open, he became quick. -- establish his brother. | :54:00. | :54:12. | |
All sorts of crazy things can happen. If he is at the same pace, | :54:13. | :54:19. | |
get off to a similar start -- similar start like yesterday then it | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
is game on. It could be game on because he had caught up and began | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
to lose a little bit of the Stardust in the party and strokes. -- putting | :54:30. | :54:44. | |
strokes. On the first, there's a big | :54:45. | :54:56. | |
decision. A really good tee shot, it is daunting. There are of course | :54:57. | :55:04. | |
Bush is on the left. You can roll off the side of the green. Two over | :55:05. | :55:14. | |
to two under. Then it is a different ball game. He has done fabulous | :55:15. | :55:23. | |
work. He has changed his swing. Very similar moves to what I did in the | :55:24. | :55:29. | |
1980s. I learned about the rotation of changing the body. It is the | :55:30. | :55:35. | |
Sunday of a major and it will still be a test. Temple is the glue that | :55:36. | :55:42. | |
sticks together on the Sunday of a major, you to have that. -- Tempo. | :55:43. | :55:59. | |
This is the Walker Cup in 2007, the period of them playing near. -- the | :56:00. | :56:05. | |
peer of them. This is the 64th major Championship | :56:06. | :56:21. | |
for Sergio Garcia and he has to put himself in the situations and hope | :56:22. | :56:26. | |
it is his pardon. That is the problem. Three years ago he claimed | :56:27. | :56:33. | |
he would never win a major. It was an interview and he must've wanted a | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
bear hug but you do not say things like that. You just have to keep | :56:38. | :56:48. | |
trying hard. You talk about Temple. -- tempo. He has had a few | :56:49. | :56:57. | |
opportunities, for me. It is just a massive change of direction. There | :56:58. | :57:03. | |
are some players who do not have it physically, some technically, some | :57:04. | :57:07. | |
mentally. Surgical is the technical side. -- Sergio Garcia. 9-under par | :57:08. | :57:19. | |
four Sergio Garcia and also Dustin Johnson. What sort of number, how | :57:20. | :57:25. | |
far back, what sort of number do they have in mind? They have to sit | :57:26. | :57:41. | |
sure -- they have to shoot around 65 the damage for Justin was done | :57:42. | :57:52. | |
yesterday. -- Dustin. Once Rory McIlroy made some par putts, Dustin | :57:53. | :57:56. | |
Johnson became a bystander which is so unusual. He has won every year | :57:57. | :58:05. | |
since he has timed professional. He is still one round away and we have | :58:06. | :58:09. | |
seen some freaky things happening. You post a score and do not know | :58:10. | :58:17. | |
what will happen. The wind is blowing into the boundary coming up | :58:18. | :58:25. | |
eating. You never know. Make an eagle, two three behind, it can time | :58:26. | :58:37. | |
around. We have to go off air. We will shortly be coming back on BBC1. | :58:38. | :58:42. | |
We will have full live coverage on the final day of the 144 Open | :58:43. | :58:52. | |
Championship. Join us on -- join us in one minutes time on BBC1. | :58:53. | :59:28. | |
DRUMBEATS CONTINUE WITH SWELLING, DRAMATIC MUSIC | :59:29. | :59:43. |