Dunhill

It is a beautiful pipe

... a Dunhill second from the 1970s, somehow preserved for decades without anyone lighting a flame to it.

A half a century.

And I was lucky enough to procure one.

Of course, I would go if, if, you know, I receive one." The, the, the reason for the phone call really was to make sure that if I was to receive it, am I fit enough to play? And I said, "Look, I- I'll, I'll try and do it, and I'll, um...

I mean, I got through Dunhill, and I'm sure I can get through next week." So, uh, I found out today around midday that they were gonna extend me an invite.

I think probably mostly off the back of what's happened over the last month, I guess, just having withdrawn from or having had to withdraw from a couple of tournaments that I was in due to injury, being 101 on the list.

Um, yeah, a few different factors I suppose they felt it necessary or fair maybe to give me the invite.

But, um, yeah, I'm delighted to be in.

So just at your physical state, you're obviously...

Are you still taking painkillers? You were taking quite str- strong ones through the Dunhill Links.

We'll get onto the Dunhill Links fully in a moment, but how are you?

The reputation of Celtic Football Club is non-negotiable.

The final words of the club from Saturday night's statement were they condemned in the strongest possible terms the disruption that took place during the Alfred Dunhill Cup at St Andrews at the weekend.

James, your initial take on a weekend that's brought the return of protests, statements and counter statements to the world of Celtic.

Who looked at last year and went, I fancy doing that again? Do you know what I mean? The way that season went and that's...

Yeah, I don't think, you know,

anyone's really looking for that.

If you can get a majority, it'd be nice, you know, but that's hard to come by because it's not just... one issue or the other it's multiple issues and multiple ways to deal with it so I think yeah that's one of the glories of Celtic is that it is so diverse and you know we all have different opinions and different ways of doing things yeah But it's not like, you know, they canvassed everyone and said, we'll do this up at Dunhill, are you up for it? It's just, I think that's all right for that kind of thing, you know.

Where I think they maybe erred was when they had a, you know, did a broad judge of Celtic representatives last year and they canvassed for supporting the Tenny Balls and they were told no and did it anyway.

That is superb.

And nearly as good, uh, in the Alfred Dunhill Links, which for the first time I can remember, was played in, in sunshine and people wearing T-shirts in Scotland in October.

G- proof of global warming gone mad.

25 bucks on Adrian Meronk at a whopping 100 to 1 to win the Alfred Dunhill Links, which he did fairly cosily.

That took out 2,500.

So these are the bets we love.

You bet small, you win big.

And let's hope we can put you on, maybe not to the Adrian Meronk and Austin Smotherman levels of 125 to 1, but I'm sure the meat man's got some- Got some juicy cake for us

With just one event left on the season, Porter climbs to ninth place in the season's order of merit, needing a win and other results to go his way to have any shot of gaining a top-three finish for the season.

Next up we head to the DPE World Tour where it was the Dunhill Lynx Championship held across the Old Course, Carnoustie and King's Barnes Golf Lynx in St Andrews, Scotland.

Winning year was Adrian Maronk.

Heading into the final day, two shots behind Round 3 leader Casey Jarvis.

to win his fifth DP World Tour title and his first since 2023 when he left to join the Live Golf League.

His final score of 20 under par also saw him jump 103 places up the Race to Dubai rankings, securing a DP World Tour card through 2028.

A noticeable finisher from the top 10 was Scotsman Michael Stewart, who is currently ranked second in the Tartan Pro Tour Order of Merit and played at the Duddingston Classic event from Monday to Wednesday prior to the Dunhill link starting on Thursday, finishing in second place.

His tied fourth finish at the Dunhill gave him a prize check of €197,000, a whopping 83 times the amount of money he won for his second place finish in Duddingston earlier in the week.