Episode 3651: Trump Visits, The Golf Dollar, Rice Boiled, What Is A Midfielder?
It’s a big two weeks for golf in West Clare – there was the Walker Cup miracle in Lahinch, which ended in a win for team GB and I on the final green of the final match, and coming up this week we have the Irish Open at Trump Doonbeg.
Gavin Cooney joins us in studio to discuss the American economics driving Irish golf, who made the call to bring our national Open to a course owned by the Trump family, Rory’s role, and the farmers of Doonbeg who built the course before Trump bought it.
We also discuss Erling Haaland’s able deputies at Manchester City (there are none), Souness destroying Declan Rice, Jose in the CL and Ken asks “what is a midfielder?”.
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