Lee Westwood talks Ryder Cup and the STRESS of being World No.1 ! | Rough Cut Golf Podcast 076
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- In this episode of The Rough Cut Golf Podcast the team are joined by a very special guest! Lee Westwood’s tells us some incredible stories about The Ryder Cup, Seve Ballesteros, Living in the Tiger Woods era and the STRESS of being World Number, life on LIV Golf and what the DP World Tour are fining him!
0:00 Intro
0:30 We are at Close House
2:45 Updates on Quest For The Open!
7:00 Peter Finch has a moment of reflection
10:50 Welcome Lee Westwood
11:15 Peter Finch vs Lee Westwood coming on Thursday
17:30 Pete and Lee have filmed before!
19.30 How to get over a bad shot
21:16 Lee Westwood and The Ryder Cup, Seve Ballesteros and Europes chances for 2025
32:00 Lee rates Peter Finch’s chances on getting to The Open
35:00 Lee Westwood’s life on LIV Golf and what the DP World Tour are fining him!
44:00 Living in the Tiger Woods era and the STRESS of being World Number 1
46:00 Incredible Seve Ballesteros story
54:30 That was epic!
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Without a doubt one of the best golf personalities I have every seen I could listen to golf stories from lee all day long
You guys have quickly become my favorite golf podcast to watch! Thanks!
Glad you enjoy it!
Great interview. My best memory of Lee was watching him on the driving range at the Open at Royal Birkdale eating a pie with one hand whilst hitting balls to about 170yds one handed and putting them all within 3 ft of the flag. Unbelievablly talented. Between you and Iona, loving the format of your interviews and getting people to be so open and give really interesting insights to the game and their career. Looking forward to more of the same
I'm not a great fan of LIV but Lee is one of the few I have no qualms about joining it.
Gotta love him...👍
Liv teams sponsored by different pies is the future of golf. Thanks guys, great entertainment. Lee was fantastic, serious, honest and funny to suit each question. 10/10. 👍
Superb podcast. Always been a big fan of LW. Great to hear his views & answering good questions. I am also a massive fan of Finchy.
Absolutely brilliant podcast, Lee has always been an honest and straight talker which is refreshing in this day and age.
Really looking forward to the on course videos with him and Pete.
Great work Pete and the team.. 👌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Absolutely fantastic content! Thank you.
Love the shoes keeping the door open. :)
Great interview looking forward to more well done gents 🎉
Lee's a Legend and always will be. Excellent Pod Cast guys 😊
Loved the podcast guys, Lee was coming through the ranks back when I started taking golf seriously, So I've always been a big fan and admired his game and attitude. I can't wait to watch the match 👍
Great podcast guys, loved it. Lee is a legend 🙌
Great pod - i am a big fan of Lee Westwood - seems unfair the way people seem to have forgotten all he achieved just because he went to Liv - he was more loyal to the European Tour when the others were taking the cash from the PGA tour. Has a great dry sense of humour as well
Great podcast. Such amazing insight and hilarious stories from LW. Didn't think it would live up to the PH episode but it did! Spot on. Cheers from Ottawa Canada 🎉
Feels only right got to watch this after I’ve seen the match with Lee - great vid btw 😊
You guys are bloody good at your job!!!!!!
Got to be the the first time I've seen Alex Etches Jr without a hat on 😂 great watch/listen as usual 👍
I can't believe Lee can remember most of the shopping list at the time he found out he will be world 1. Amazing story.
Excellent interview, Lee gives an honest assessment. Enjoyed the Seve/Martin Gray story (Martin was my best man at my 1st wedding and often gets a mention on the course) and a maths lesson with Mr Westwood senior never featured golf! 👍
Very good honest fandom conversation chaps!
favourite you tuber favourite golfer cant get better thank you for the video
Pete's Pie emPorium - could be the first RUclips channel to turn into a pie shop 😂
Perfectly priced pies for any budget!
Sir Lee Westwood and Sir Peter Finch....my 2 favourites
The Seve story had me nearly choke on my coffee in the office. Hilarious
Lee's comment on how hard golf is reminded me of the late great Robin Williams' skit on golf. X)
Highly recommend looking it up on youtube.
Seve story was the best, Lee is a legend
Westy at his best. Great pod cast.
Excellent
Lee is Class.
Met Lee in the Starbucks on George street in Edinburgh a few year back, even at 7 in the morning, the guy was champion
Go and win that senior us- open Lee, with what blandy just did that's gotta give you the spurt you need, then two fingers to the senior British, the talent you've got is unreal, I can remember following you years ago at the world matchplay, you and woosie, you totally blew me away, followed you since, many players deserve to win a major but I think you deserved it more
50:29
Lee just made a really significant point on pairing with a partner or partners within even a scramble.
Matching games provide familiar recovery shots from errors and if you have a different player with you in a team, it will backfire so easy.
Yet you think, different players fulfill the differences, it’ll only happen, when you don’t miss any of your shots!
My local course, love videos and such like this from there, can’t wait to see the match, presume on The Colt?, the whole estate is unreal
hahahahaha I was checking there was no leaks under there, God knows what it's meant to look like 🤣
Ah, Lee Westwood. My favourite golfer. I miss watching him play but I simply can't muster any interest for LIV. Such a great and funny personality. Can't wait to see the match! Thanks for this, guys, your podcast deserves ten times as many subscribers.
Can you nothing but love - sorry, luv this guy?
Been a fan since I became awere Lee, but this got me cracked from the start!
Also thumbs up for Matt and Kieran - familiar from the Earlier RCP-podcasts AND Pete the all negative on himself Finch! What a teammate he would make in a foursome…
The Stamford course looked great
Lee is a golf comedian par excellence. His trash talk is another level. "Shame you didn't practice your puttin"...."did you run out (of excuses)" ROFL
Love the podcast! Lee was great loved hearing his perspective on pga-liv and stories.
Lee is one of my favourite golfers he is very down to earth. What a great pod
Great chat with Westy. Actually quite shocking to hear how the DP World Tour are treating a member of 30+ years
He apparently is not a DPWT member in good standing.
Always liked him, and surprised he never secured a major championship. That being said, I and many others don't fault him for making move to LIV, his reasoning being solid. However, no one wants to hear him and others from LIV bitcx/moan over their ineligibility in certain tourneys.
Love Pete and the guys, but felt interview was a little too much of a lovefest; he could have provided some pushback questions.
Must be a RUclips error with the subscribers on this channel.... Should be 200k plus
Let’s get it there!
Great stuff fella’s, Lee-gend Westwood. What a fella, What a golfer.
Who next Pete? A Pete and Tyrrel Hatton 9 hole match play swear-a-thon. All swears cost £50 and all money raised goes to charity
„I am the best golfer in this isle“ is such a brilliant comment 😂
I think he was saying, aisle, as in shopping aisle.
Everyone keeps saying don't give to much away but Lees mentions Petes putting and say it would of got him the win if it was better 🤦🏻♂️
Pie test study, now that is a first. Tiger would have been a Telly Tubby back in the day
Didn't hear the word chopper when you talked about LIV Pete 🤣
I can never be world number 1, but if the aisle is empty at the store I can be the best golfer in the aisle, I may scream that next time I go to the grocery. 😂😂
After listening to Lee Westwood i wanted to watch The Miracle at Medinah. RUclips video from the official Ryder Cup account is unwatchable (sound out of sync) & impossible to buy the video. Any ways to get a hold on this piece of history?
Fantastic golfer in his day.Unfortunately like Colin Montgomery he does not get the recognition he deserves.
DP Tour is nothing but a PGA feeder tour now. Wouldn't mind if the PIF either takes over the DP Tour or starts a new European Tour and gets it back to what the European Tour used to be in the 80's and 90's...before the PGA expanded its monopoly on world golf and created a situation in which golf is mainly for the benefit of America and American TV audiences.
The Pie-der cup 🥧
Come on - this comment deserves more likes!
Aka the podcast that almost never was. Shoutout Subway
Shoutout Starbucks!
I’ve no problem with any of them leaving for LIV for the money, that’s between them and their consciences regarding the source of the money. I was disappointed when Westwood and Poulter left, I thought they would already have enough cash to be able to turn down the offers from a murderous regime, but apparently not. My problem is with them bitching about not being allowed to play on the tours they deserted afterwards. The trouble is that they left for the money, and then realised they were playing in events that absolutely no one cares about. They knew the rules and consequences, so just leave and get on with it. And don’t pretend they did it to “grow the game”, that’s just laughable.
I'm sure they sleep just fine with a clear conscience. You should stop watching all golf if you have a problem with liv because the pga does business with China (slave labor) and Dubai and you may not know but I'll give you a history lesson. The ruler of Dubai tried to give his 12 year old daughter a few years ago to Saudis crown prince but because of bad optics they decided against it.... side note both of the Dubai rulers daughters have disappeared because they tried to escape their father.... last time I checked the dp tour has the race to Dubai hmmm curious also the over 20 major cash cow sponsors of the pga do billions in business with Saudi Arabia so there ya go
Congrats on the Podcast. Just goea to show that you can be loyal as anything for donkeys years and yet one decision to make your life better and you get lambasted for it.
I defy anyone who whether its sport or normal Joe working his shift to refuse an offer of less hours more money. LW doesnt need Euro tour the Euro tour need the likes of LW and IP.
All that stuff is great Pete but the future has to be more pastry related content
Too bad Lee wasn’t feeling well. Didn’t seem very into the podcast early on. He’s a character that I love to watch.
I presume now that Blandy has won the US PGA Senior Champ that gets him into the Senior Open irrespective of what the R&A think ?
The Senior -Open- Closed
How about this idea a RUclips ryder cup
The Senior Open is the same week as the JCB LIV... So he couldn't play anyway!
You know what would be funny? Instead of using the typical *BEEP* sound when someone swears, instead put the sound of Pete absolutely smashing a driver over the swear
Will look into this for sure.
Great interview with Westie, gents. Just one thing. Maybe this isn't possible, but I'd love it if you could ask some harder hitting questions to LIV players. I know that everyone on Rough Cut isn't particularly a fan of LIV, and all that it involves, and yet like many other people, you seem to tiptoe around the subject when talking to a LIV player. It just all feels a bit fake, because we all know they only did it for money, we all know that they probably hate all the gimmicky stuff about LIV. I'd love to hear them talk about sportswashing and other subjects like that. There's just a number of massive elephants in the room, and it's really weird that no-one seems to be able to talk about them to LIV players.
@@andrew_l1900 No, I'd love for those questions to also be asked. You're seeing an agenda that isn't there. I just want people to talk about elephants in rooms, and stop being so fake with it all.
Well, if you consider professional athletes in athletics, there are these Diamond leagues events, but they are few during a year. And then there are the World’s annually and the Olympics every fourth year…
Same thing with the NHL. Teams play some ”100” games in regular season and the regular season events are by the rules 60 minutes, but actually the teams play only 10 to 15 minutes with attitude, the 45-50 minutes is just show and beer league style hockey. Cannot watch them regular season matches, cause the coast to coast without intention to score unless an empty net after goalie lost it and defending team made a huge mistake mid-game.
If you can’t pay the fine; don’t do the “crime”..
I think US PGA TOUR screwd the colab by going to raise more domestic investors into the mix and starting the signature event series.
Now there is virtually ”college golfers” and random Korn Ferry players winning and in contention on the regular season events emphasizing the fact that PGA Tour is just a national elite golf league that used to pay the best prize money for anybody, who’d qualify for an event.
And by winning one get an exemption, yet coming thru Monday qually.
Asian, Europeantours are continental. Yes, PGAT has stops in South-America as well, but they are like charity classics, where only limited number play without a cut.
Very, very poor conduct by PGA Tour’s behalf.
The LIV issues and the DP world tour issues are strange, especially as Aramaco sponsor then women’s tour, so effectively the same masters that own LIV. Lee Westwoods comments are illuminating and sad, he and Poults have given so much to European golf, politics and suits should be kept out of sport.
Can't think of anything worse than golf going nearly all team based. Lee Westwood winning 14 times or whatever seems like an achievement that is his and his alone. Whereas in a team he could play bad but be dragged to a win by his team
What part of golf is going all team based?
PGA tour has very little team stuff and Liv is 80% individual
"the fines aren't the same"
You gave up your membership! They didn't
Lee exactly PGATOUR screwed the European tour
The dp world tour was going bankrupt lol. That’s what the strategic alliance provided
A lot of Liv Golfers on RUclips lately….. it’s almost as though they’ve been told to drum up some popularity 🤷🏼♂️
Or they're allowed more freedom to do social media stuff than PGA players. Oh wait yes they are. 😂
@@dirtyoffroader2093Yep Grant Horvat did a video where he played in the Farmers pro-am with Jason Day and he wasn't allowed to show any of Day's shots.
@@WhoDunnit32 They did indeed, Bryson also mentioned in an interview last year, that the PGA restricted his freedom to post content on social media, after they stopped Garrett Clark from using PGA players footage aswel. Everything had to go through the PGA first. The control freaks 😂
Image rights was a big bone of contention with Phil and the PGA
@@davidfletcher6836 Yep that's the PGA Tour for you, social media golfers are exploding right now it is a good time to partner up with them, no wonder LIV is around when they are still so antiquated.
Love this podcast, but you really should've asked Lee about the moral side of joining LIV. It's sportswashing by a despotic regime, simple as. How much money does an exceedingly wealthy sports star need?
Hopefully one of your co-hosts won’t repay Westy’s generosity by tweeting that LIV is trash.
Rick has Lee westwood on and gets 1million views, and this drivil gets 10k views ! Give up this waist of times guys, its a waist of time!