 So I get to phone call only a few days ago Andy would you like to come down to Princess Golf Club which is adjacent to Royal St George's and do some filming with a legend of the game and talk about the nuances of Link's golf amongst other things. How long do you think it took before I decided to make that journey so it's five and a half hours in the car I'm on my way. Yeah good I don't know what permit is required but we've got a parking thing for Princess Golf Club which is where we're due to go. Okay so a bit of an update it's 20 to 7 I've been on the course at Princess doing a bit of a wrecky getting some drone footage ready and prep for tomorrow the day has gone our so good journey down here is fantastic with one old left film in terms of the drone footage I got a text off my daughter and she asked me what is or whose is the case at the top of the stairs you know what that means don't you I forgot my suitcase now I'm fortunate in that behind me well somewhere around there is my I've managed to go out of my trousers and my polo shirt for tomorrow but that's about it everything else is back at home five hours away so it's a quick stop at Tesco Superstore I'll have to get some new undies I think what a nightmare I think about them from the first day seriously I'd rather go on these socks medium ones or extra large I'm not sure there you go a bit of F and F this day just gets uh fully up by the minute we've just arrived in our bed and breakfast was staying in a place called broad stairs which is what about 40 minutes away from sandwich and the guy's been waiting all day because he's so excited because he's got who he thinks is Andy Sullivan the golf pro who's playing in the open staying in his B&B and then I turn up he's a bit disappointed I think right is the morning of the main event and uh this is a nice kit all good to go and uh we are ready for come on 100 pounds 100 pounds of two dozen balls in there right no thumbs no thumbs when you were getting prepped for a US Masters and you're getting prepped for a an open would your kind of practice leading up to that differ would there is a is a different concentration on the shot repertoire for example yes definitely going into Augusta you've got to try and hit the ball a little bit higher right so I always played at Augusta and I made sure I stayed a little bit behind the ball to get the ball up in the air okay now when I come to play in an open I do the opposite I almost lean into the ball yeah to keep it a lower flight a different flight altogether yeah see the high flight yeah yeah look at that that went so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag it's right on it as well did you see that yeah you know what they call that in South Africa the same as you call it here talent okay here you don't hit any high chip shot yeah yeah you keep it low to make the dough yeah you hit it high makes you cry yeah yeah why do you think that in links golf in particular they've sort of stood the test of time if you're like in terms of the length is it because of those conditions and well because first of all you've got a which is the whole idea of golf the only shot in golf where you have a perfect lie and a perfect stance is a drive yeah even on a green sometimes the ball is lower than your feet or higher than your feet yeah but on a tee perfect lie perfect and it's teed up yeah and yet most tournaments don't have a premium on driving yeah where's the open look at this rough yeah yeah they lost 14 members here last year in this row this is a paradise for my horses so you've got to hit it straight and that and that's the whole idea keep the ball in play yeah yeah that's a good question you had there totally different flight again there yeah different flight see yeah fantastic completely different flight very good thank you very good so how would you I mean that was my query earlier on you can even sort of flight the driver down lower can you all right let's hit two shots yeah here's a normal shot we'd be playing at Augusta look at the height on that very nice okay now now I come to Lilliam and Sennans and watch the flight of this narrow fairways yeah fantastic look at the difference yeah yeah past the height yeah so impressive yeah oh god yeah just to repeat you know what they call that inside every now the same as they call it same as they call it yeah yeah the last time I'm Mr. Feeway the Pope was an altar boy right Gary we've got a typical sort of link situation big big runoffs and swales one minute it's a good shot the next minute was sort of 20 yards from the flag and not a particularly welcoming shot that I would fancy but so what options have you got again well you see the average weekend golfer he's watching the pros on television and they all chipping with a wedge or a sandwich so he comes out here now and he tries to hit this wedge or sandwich and he hits it he hits the face and he runs back always skulls are ball over the green and remember look at this ground it's hard look at this it's hard it's not soft look at this I mean the club is bouncing and look at this ball look at this look look at that yeah yeah still very so now you can't hit a sandwich off this your club will bounce and you'll you'll hit a terrible shot now you take a putter and you stand here like this and you aim it to the right and you give it a look at that there's your pa see you got your pa so and now take a seven nine it's so complete it's such a different game of golf you take a seven nine and you hit down on the ball make sure that you hit down on it don't hit up on it see I hit down yeah yeah see that right it up yeah at least you're gonna as a weekend golfers you're gonna get it on the padding surface forget about the less people use a sandwich even if it's in America or where it is at a pitching wedge the better hit it low to make the dough you hit it higher to make you cry right Gary another another situation that we've we've put together we're very much what would you say 25 30 yards a lot of green is running away in terms of the slope and there's a bit of undulation between us and the flag and you said we've got sort of four options yes all right so here I'm gonna I'm gonna take that sandwich off hard ground which I don't like and I hit the shot and what is that a foot from the hole yeah right okay but do not use that shot now let's go to the extreme give me the wood now I'm going to a five wood this is better you take this little club and you just play it like a putter stand wider just play it exactly like a putter look at that pin high same distance both gimmies both gimmies now you take a putter putter going to the other extreme now this is what I recommend for the weekend golfer so you play this putter and obviously it's just going to go low by itself get down on slope now look at those three shots there they're all a gimme you've got it surrounded and now a 7 9 now this is a shot you need to have quite a little bit of practice with but I'm gonna hit this off the back foot hands hands well in front weight leaning forward hands in front and I'm just going to hit down on the ball there hit down on the ball hit the flag now look at those four shots there for the different ways of playing yeah but the one I would say do not use do not use the sandwich unless you play golf every day keeping it low again keeping it low there's a but that's a perfect example this is our masterclass ladies and gents