Group Australia has totally different opinions on speaking concerning the golf swing.
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With the Olympic golf competitions occurring in successive weeks and the common grinds of the PGA and LPGA excursions persevering with to chug alongside, there’s little time for workforce bonding among the many respective nationwide males’s and girls’s groups.
However the 4 Australian Olympic golfers — Hannah Inexperienced, Jason Day and siblings Minjee and Min Woo Lee — discovered a while for a chunk out in Paris this week, Minjee Lee stated Monday.
And their dinner dialog was revealing.
“It looks like the blokes speak far more about golf than we do,” Inexperienced stated. “Even yesterday they have been simply speaking about golf swing positions and issues like that. I truthfully don’t discuss that in any respect. Typically even on the golf course, I don’t even discuss it.”
Inexperienced even took the classification a step additional.
“They’re simply golf nerds. However it was enjoyable,” she joked.
If you happen to’re questioning simply how large of a golf nerd Day is, Minjee Lee is right here to clarify.
“Like, Jason Day was air gripping and stuff like that, all of the golf mechanisms,” stated Minjee, who has received two LPGA majors. “A bit totally different perspective of what we discuss and the way when we have now dinner, we don’t discuss golf in any respect. It was simply good, only a totally different perspective that he has and what Min has.”
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Anyway, it goes additional. A reporter requested the pair for clarification about how a lot Day and Min Woo have been speaking about their swings at dinner.
Lee began to reply earlier than Inexperienced reduce her off.
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“Taking a look at swing movies on their telephone,” she stated.
Does this justify the habits of you whipping out your cellular phone on the dinner desk to attempt to diagnose what’s inflicting your depraved slice along with your tablemates? Most likely not. In truth, it appears in case your eating with an LPGA participant, in keeping with Lee and Minjee, you most likely received’t get very far.
Happily for Inexperienced and Minjee, the chitchat wasn’t all enterprise — in spite of everything, who likes speaking store on the desk? The pair additionally stated they talked about meals, however that additionally led to a different revealing distinction between the female and male squads.
“I suppose the boys went to the identical Italian restaurant 4 instances this week and we went there final night time, and so they already knew what was good to order on menu,” Inexperienced stated. “After which we talked about what we usually eat on the street and issues like that.”
Sounds just like the Italian restaurant — which, lest you want reminding, is in Paris, France — was good, however Inexperienced and Minjee possible will probably be eating elsewhere for the remainder of the Sport.
