1182: Previewing Royal Birkdale
7/8/20261 hr 14 min
Our preview content for next week’s 154th Open Championship begins with a look at Royal Birkdale, which hosts for the first time since Jordan Spieth’s win in 2017. Soly, Neil, TC and DJ discuss the changes to the course ahead of this year’s championship and their experience playing there a couple of months ago as a part of our video covering golf in Northwest England which premieres Wednesday night on our YouTube channel.
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First 90 secondsDJ Piehowski· Host0:00
[gentle music] Be the right club. Be the right club today. Yes.
Neil Schuster· Host0:10
[upbeat music] Johnny, that's better than most.
DJ Piehowski· Host0:15
How about him?
Neil Schuster· Host0:17
That is better than most. Better than most. [audience cheering] Expect anything different?
Soly· Host0:28
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Laying Up podcast. Soly here. We are going to be previewing Royal Birkdale, uh, ahead of next week's Open Championship. We took a trip, uh, out there a couple weeks ago, a couple months ago now, I guess at this point. Uh, got to play Royal Birkdale among some other courses. Uh, if you are listening to this today on Wednesday, July 8th, we have a premiere of a new video. If you wanna get a visual look at Royal Birkdale, we have a bunch of video in this episode, some drone footage laid in, uh, over what we're gonna be talking about as well, if you wanna catch this episode on the No Laying Up podcast YouTube channel if you're not already. As well, on the No Laying Up YouTube channel, we'll have our entire Northwest Engl- England film. Uh, that'll be out 8:00 PM Eastern if you wanna join the live chat on Wednesday the 8th or catch it, uh, catch it whenever. Just make sure you check it out prior to next week's Open Championship. We get a, for a, a great look at Royal Birkdale, uh, as well as this episode. I think they're gonna complement each other really, really, really well. Royal Birkdale provides a lot of unique challenges. You're gonna have to be in control of your golf ball. We're gonna detail a lot of that, uh, in this