Friday Feedback: Has Sir Nick Faldo 'Cracked the Code' re: Distance? Aussie (Male) Golfers Under-Performing, and Different Balls for Different Moments

Plenty of comments and questions from you this week for Nick and Mark to discuss on our Friday Feedback pod. But we start with touching on our exciting new competition where you can win a trip for you and a friend to The Cliffs at Kangaroo Island to play 18 holes with Mark Allen and course architect Darius Oliver - the course is not even open yet, and you might get to play it! You can find out how to enter here: https://tr.ee/OAXE2M

Onto the show:

03:00 A suggestion from Rich on a Tour Pro who we missed in our recent Top 5 players who were (or are) cheered against.

04:00 Tim asks Nick and Mark if pros were allowed to use different balls for different clubs and shots in tournaments would they? Nick and Mark run through the various scenarios and the ball, or kind of ball, they'd have used were they able to change it up.

05.30 Drew on Aussie golfers underperforming, and makes some big calls on a few big names. Michael says something similar and asks who the next batch of golfers coming through here. Nick and Mark give their thoughts, and agree that our male golfers are generally underperforming, whilst the women are flying. Mark believes going to Europe would be helpful, and that covid did not help.

08.00 We talk about the need for young pros, or aspiring pros, to have a sense of adventure if they are going to make it in golf.

09:00 Nick talks through some of the young Aussie pros he rates as having potential.

10.30 Mark discusses why limiting the number of limit of Pro Ams that you play in, as a young pro, is important.

11.00 A question for Nick, a hypothetical (or is it) on a 'wine-based bet' on his performance of certain shots.

After the turn:

13.00 Andrew had a session with Nick a few months ago, and wrote in with the improvement (or otherwise) in his game, and he also saw comments this week from Sir Nick Faldo about reducing distance and is interested to hear Nick and Mark's thoughts on Faldo's comments.

15:00 We discuss how shorter tees might work.

17.00 Robert has written on a way has heard that some pros keep balls warm during winter. Nick and Mark discuss (legal) ways of keeping your golf balls warm.

19.00 Al has a question about the Womens Opens' and where they are played.

20.30 And we finish on a fun comment from Steve in France.

A cracking Friday Feedback pod leading into a massive weekend of watching the Open Championship , and then figuring out how on earth we'll manage flicking back and forth between the final stages of The Open and the Argentina v Spain World Cup final ..... eeek !!!

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