Rory McIlroy’s return to motion, tributes to Bernard Langer’s profession and predictions for the Genesis Scottish Open function in a bumper version of the Sky Sports activities Golf podcast.
Former Ryder Cup-winning captain Sam Torrance and John E Morgan be part of common host Josh Antmann to look again on the newest speaking factors from {the golfing} world and preview an enormous double-header in Scotland.
The trio talk about McIlroy’s return to motion along with his title defence on the Renaissance Membership, his first aggressive begin since narrowly lacking out on US Open victory in June, plus mirror on why this week’s occasion is nice prep forward of The Open at Royal Troon.
They have a look at the state of Scottish golf and a few of the contenders for a house victory this week, having seen Robert MacIntyre end runner-up in final 12 months’s occasion and Ewen Ferguson coming in off the again of profitable the BMW Worldwide Open on Sunday.
The 2 friends pay tribute to Langer, who signed off his 50-year DP World Tour profession on residence soil in Germany final week, with Torrance sharing some uncommon tales about their experiences competing collectively in Ryder Cups.
Torrance additionally recollects previous experiences of representing Crew Europe within the biennial contest, taking part in in The Open and his prolonged skilled profession, plus has say on the comparisons linking Scottie Scheffler’s dominance in latest seasons with Tiger Woods in his prime.
“He’s an incredible human being and it’s an incredible few years he’s having, but you can’t compare him to Tiger [Woods],” Torrance instructed the Sky Sports activities Golf podcast. “Not even near not but.
“You may by no means get stats like he [Tiger] did. The World Golf Championships had been just about a serious and the fields they received had been one of the best they’d on the market the entire time, and he received so lots of that. Stuff like that’s past perception what Tiger did.
“How many times has he won a tournament seven times? Scheffler’s fantastic, don’t get me wrong, and there is the opportunity for him to carry on. I’m not taking anything away from Scheffler whatsoever, but I think people are just getting a wee bit carried away.”
Scheffler is likely one of the solely gamers on the planet’s high 50 not in motion on the Scottish Open, however do our podcast panel count on him to rock on the closing males’s main of the 12 months and declare a outstanding seventh win in 11 begins?
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The Genesis Scottish Open protection begins with Featured Teams from 8.30am on Thursday, forward of full protection from 1pm. The match is dwell all week on Sky Sports activities Golf, with The 152nd Open then dwell from July 18-21.
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