Ryan Gerard's Open Championship Insights & Highlights

Uh, I got Ryan Gerrard joining the show. Let's go! Ryan Gerrard. Hold on, dude. I'm going to give him an earpiece. Give him an earbud. Let's get an ear. So he can hear. Does that work? Ryan, I just have to let you know that we had a preview show for this Open Championship and you were one of the, not necessarily on the performance of your game, but on the listed odds, you were one of the long shots that I kind of suggested. And buddy, what a week. Like it's just amazing. We out here, man. Well, here's the thing. Like I actually had him on my short odds. So it's kind of tough that we get Ryan on the show here and you're calling him a long shot. No, no. I'm reading two things, right? I'm reading off of what they're listing, which I think was way off. Like that's why we loved you this week. Second of all, Smiley passed on a screenshot of a text you sent him about, I don't know if you followed through, but you're playing North Berwick with Hickories leading into this week. Anyone who is that immersed in Lynx golf culture will love that guy this week at the Open. Two under. Two under with Hickories. Ten holes at North Berwick. I got them in my room right now. Yeah, I got this set of Hickories in the room. I got a driver, a Niblick, a four iron, a six iron, an eight iron. The eight iron's got 48 degrees of loft on it. And then you guys at Scottie Cameron made me a Napa, like a custom 8802 style old putter. So we played North Berwick with Hickories last week. Wait, hold on. Charlie, I think I need to like borrow one of these clubs from tomorrow night and whack one of these things. You got one? Do you have like a percent of the ball? No, they work with a Pro V1. They're like a Strixon Z-Star. Yeah. You want one? What do you want? Do you think I should like hit the opening tee ball at, well I guess it could be a moment tomorrow night. What are you going to do with the clubs? Are you just going to chill in your room? Yeah, you can have one. What do you want? I don't know. What's going to be the big moment tomorrow? Because most likely, if you're going to win the Open Championship tomorrow, can you just like think of like what your big moment might be so that we can at least like have a general idea. Maybe like a sick bump and run? Yes. Like a hollow or something? Well, I mean, I've got to say like on the scrambling front, Ryan, I can't tell you how much I appreciate you normalizing wedge shanks. I get crushed on the show for the wedge shanks that pop up from time to time. I say it out loud and I flipped on your Instagram stories and you had a little caption, shank you very much. Amazing part you made. I don't necessarily have a question here, just thank you for bringing that into the public discourse. All right? You can still make bars. No pictures on the scorecard. Yeah. I hit one like 370 down the gut on 8, 65 yards in like front middle hole location, the easiest thing you could ever do. I mean, just sat there waiting forever and I just completely blacked out over it. Hit it almost. Full Haas. Oh man. I mean, almost hit it on 11T. It probably went further right than it did before. But you made par. Yeah. Oh my God. It was an amazing par. That's the thing is like, we don't have to let this be a negative thing. You can shank a ball and you can still make a par and Ryan's leading the charge against that. I'd say, Ryan, what's been like the most interesting or revelatory thing you've experienced playing your first open championship? The conditions, obviously unique week of Royal Birkdale, but like, what are you taking away from this week? I'm like, wow, didn't expect this. So this is super cool. And what am I taking away from this? There's so much sand in there. Like almost every time someone hits it, flies it into a bunker, it's going to plug. Oh really? Yeah. And then like, I rolled it barely into the bunker on 14, like the green side one both days. There is, I feel like they brought dump trucks last night and put more sand in there. There is so much sand in that bunker. I felt like I was sinking like over that shot. Where'd you hit it? Like 14. Oh sick.