Friday Feedback: Mark Allen - 'We'll never see anything like LIV Adelaide again, and it will leave a huge hole in our Summer'
Talk Birdie To MeShow Notes
The weekend is thisclose and that means a Friday Feedback show. Some ripping questions and comments from you this week to discuss and debate.
01:00Firstly Beau Hossler is not exactly the fastest player around, and a wolfpacker noticed something funny in the Wyndham tournament last weekend to do with Beau. 02:00In our Main show this week we talked about a 'pursuit' style comp with Keegan and Cantlay vs Aberg and Ryan Fox. Today we extend the hypothetical to add Beau to the slow group, and Nelly to the fast group, and figure out how many holes the slow group would have completed by the time the fast group are done. 03:30A wolfpacker says that LIV collapsing would be a disaster for Australian golf 06:00Bit of talk about sandbelt bunkers lately, turns out not everyone likes them. One wolfpacker explains why he dislikes them 07:00Mark talks about how to improve your bunker play 09:00We've recently talked about great swings, and a wolfpacker reckons we missed Aaron Baddeley circa 98/99. 10:30A comment on our Graham Marsh special recently and what his OWGR would have been. 12:00And we head to the turn with a mea culpa on an error we made on the show last week, which was inadvertently disrespectful to the Elkington family. Our apologies.
After the turn.
14:00We put our 5th wolfpacker in the draw to win a trip to The Cliffs at Kangaroo Island...3 more entries left, if you've not entered, you can do it here. 16:30Following Marks introduction of his 'Talk Birdie Watchlist', a wolfpacker writes in with his own 'Anchoring' watchlist, and gives us three players to start with. 18:00Excellent question from Sutto who is keen for Nick and Mark to outline the different levels of pros, in short, the differences between a Top 10 player and a Top 200 player. Mark talks about increasing by 'levels', or 'level jumping'. 22:00Nick adds to it, he calls them 'slivers' and says that it is largely between the ears. 27:00And we finish with a fun one, a wolfpacker gives us his excuses for when he has a bad round.
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