Ep127🏌🏿‍♂️Australian Open 2025: 'Rory McIlroy Will Play, it's Going to Happen'; Scheffler Stats: and Pubs on Golf Courses

This week on Talk Birdie To Me, we have some news on a big, big rumour from a couple of impeccable sources to do with Rory McIlroy and the Australian Open. Mark reveals all on the pod about what it means. Nick and Mark discuss what it would mean for other players being attracted, and ticket sales, with the combination of Rory McIlroy playing and the tournament being played on the Royal Melbourne composite course. Nick says he has goosebumps at the thought.

Mark says he believes 'it is going to happen', however as exciting as it is he wonders about future Australian Opens, and what the 'plan' is for Australian gold and the calendar. Mark says 'I haven't heard a plan for Australian events from GA for 20-years'.

We discuss the appointment of Oglivy as Presidents Cup Captain, and Mark asks Nick about his time playing Presidents Cup. Nick says for Washington and Montreal, preparation was non-existent, but that has now changed.

We receive a voicemail from Wolfpack member Paul who has two questions for Nick and Mark, the first on Rory at The Masters, the second on Ángel Cabrera. Mark raises Steph Kyriacou's albatross from the weekend, and we find out how many (if any) albatross's the boys have each made.

Scottie Scheffler. 31 under. Wow. Mark runs through the stats of his tournament at the Byron Nelson where he rinsed the field.

After the Turn, Nick lists the Top 5 international players who are a realistic chance of playing the 2025 Australian Open.

Feedback - Monty gets a run, Mark finds a way to sledge him and Nick joins in with a whack. Ryan French (of Monday Q on Twitter) last week in our bonus pod told a great story about Todd Balkin, turns out Todd listens to Talk Birdie To Me from Dallas and has sent us a message. We also received one from Matt in Brisbane who has an alternate 'greatest shot ever' to put to Mark after his Rory comments. We get Matt on a WhatsApp call and have a chinwag. Towards the end of the call, Matt describes his club in Jindalee as basically a pub with a golf course, or maybe it was a golf course with a pub, we got sidetracked when he mentioned pub. Mark would like to hear about other courses, anywhere in the world that a sort of like a pub/golf course combo so he can schedule a visit.

Plenty to run through in the PING global results, Nick as usual has all the results that matter. And we wrap with a Masterclass from Mark on how to get your weight in the right spot to improve your golf.

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