E4 | Adam Tomlinson & His Black Balls...

Episode 4 of the GrinnaGolfCast welcomes another friend of the pod, Adam Tomlinson, into the hot seat.

Tommo brings plenty to the table - including a few classic Tommo-isms, some honest two handicapper wisdom, and why the Mornington Peninsula is the place to be for your next golf trip.

The boys also hear from 'Davies' and those lightning quick greens (and something pretty cool), continue building the ultimate course and welcome new sponsor GolfLoot to the show.

Whack it in your ear holes now because it's... Fast. Loose. Ready golf.

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:07

A bit of news getting around. The Grinna Golfcast. A bit of media. The whole Max Gordon thing is blown up. Anyway, we are the Grinna Golfcast here with Patty Garshagen and Jaden Hunt. Jaden Bunk for the loyal fans out there.

SPEAKER_02 0:24

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SPEAKER_03 0:31

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SPEAKER_02 0:33

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SPEAKER_03 0:54

How good is it? How have you pulled that out? Hang on a second. The Masters did they mention? And they did. There might be a little birdie whispering some tickets for old Bunky. I might be going. I might be going in action.

SPEAKER_02 1:07

I'm not having that.

SPEAKER_03 1:08

We will see.

SPEAKER_02 1:10

I didn't believe you about Gorney coming on the on the uh Grinna Govcast, and then he then he did appear though. So maybe you are scheming something. But anyway. Anyway, there's a third wheel here. There is a third wheel, and he's he's a good looking rooster and he's got a good looking hat on.

SPEAKER_03 1:24

Who have we got, Bunky? We have got former teammate of mine and lifelong friend, I guess. Not really, but hopefully for the future. We've got Adam Tomlinson, GWSDs, but more importantly, a handicap of two, I believe.

SPEAKER_02 1:40

And before I speak, sorry, Tomo. Gorney said he's handicapped his shit out.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

Oh, thanks, Doug.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

Well, anyway, the floor is yours, Tomo. Welcome to the Grand Golfcast.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

No, thank you very much for having me. Uh, you know, Jay's spoken a lot about this podcast, and I was uh very excited for him to uh ask me to come on, so thank you.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

Well, he was on Media Street a couple of weeks ago, Triple M, Channel 7. Like, it's just I can't believe he's he's taken this for a real spin, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 2:06

Always tell him to put a sock in it. You never heard him speak this much in uh, you know, as lifelong friends who couldn't come to my wedding.

SPEAKER_02 2:14

Um did he at least get to go to your bucks? Because he took over into the book.

SPEAKER_03 2:17

I didn't come to your bucks. Yes, I did. There you go, did he? He fell over a chair. He won't go there. No. Yeah, fell over a chair.

SPEAKER_02 2:26

When he was on Triple M a couple of weeks ago, he he did this big 20-minute segment, and that's that's a big that's a big stint. The Grinner golf cast got a couple of little mentions, and every time we thought we were gonna get deep into what this was, uh Toma, not Tomo, uh Daisy Thomas, sorry, and um Billy just steered him back to the footy chat and the pack of hunts and all that sort of stuff.

SPEAKER_00 2:46

It's funny because people don't realise that once you finish playing footy, you don't want to talk about footy. Oh you actually only want to talk about the one thing that you've been missing out on for the past however long, and that is for us golf.

SPEAKER_02 2:56

Yes, great segue, Tomo. Great segue. You're a naturalist.

SPEAKER_00 3:01

Well, it's what I uh missed on a lot when I was playing. And uh since you know, finishing up footy, I say retired, I got to do the lap of retirees, but I was actually delisted.

SPEAKER_03 3:10

Um, I didn't get to do that, so you must have been a more successful player than me, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

Oh, I think they were just trying to keep me happy um for where I work now. But uh what was the saying? Yeah, 11 months off, so all I did was play golf, and it was heaven. Have you been to golf your whole life? Um yeah, so since I was about 10 or 11, my old man got me into it and used to play a lot with him. Had a bit of a hiatus when I was sort of 14 or 17 because I threw too many clubs.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

Oh, that I've actually sounds like someone I know.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Yeah, yeah. We we can go back there. But um, since playing footy, since sort of like I was 21 at the Giants, and then even more so moving back to the heartland of golf on the Mornington Peninsula. Golf has been pivotal and probably the number one reason my wife and I fought.

SPEAKER_02 3:58

A bit speechless there, Tommy. That was a great testimony to golf from from here.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

There you go. No, so I'll I'll I will no, I won't get um sent out. Someone's been doing it, someone's been reading the run, she no, but golf for me straight into it. Golf for me, many things. Um, the ability to play with mum and dad. There's not many things as you get older that you can do with your parents. Love that. And uh the way you connect with people. Um, you see people come out of their shelves, you see people have the best and worst times, but you know, it's a great way to organically just meet people. And I'm all for putting my name on the t-shirt. Whoever joins joins, and yeah, haven't met too many shockers. Uh yeah. But um, it's one of the great things about.

SPEAKER_02 4:38

Hold up right there, because a couple of weeks ago when we had Gourney on, he said he plays with you regularly. Now he said he is staunchly against putting his name on the team sheet and hoping to see who rocks up. Yeah. Are you very much the opposite?

SPEAKER_00 4:51

Are you the I'm all all and sundry? I'm not Doug. And Doug's Doug being Gourney? Yes, Dougie Bollinger. Uh Max. You know that's good. But I'm very big on having nicknames for people that only I call them. And when we're playing footy, if I've never known who they'd know who was speaking. So Jaden was always just Jay. Yes. But no, when Max puts his name on the T-sheet, uh, there's a lot of D's fans down the beach, and they would very be quick to put their names on the sheet. So I used to put a few uh braid and size and fill-ins on the um on the t shirt.

SPEAKER_02 5:26

Is that the same fill-in that you played like Collingwood? Yeah, he played basketball games. With the basketball game.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

That's very good. So um, yeah. Uh, but nah since Max is living back in town and not down the beach as much, I'm happy to play with anyone.

SPEAKER_02 5:38

And the Ocuba, talk us through that.

SPEAKER_00 5:41

Uh yeah, so do you play golf in that? I play golf in it religiously, um, unless it's blowing an absolute Megan and you and it's a good look.

SPEAKER_02 5:50

Yeah, but Hunting before we remember in the green room green room earlier before we came on air, he's like, I I need a new look. And he put on one of these little sort of hatless visors, or what do you call them? You call it a visor, not a hatless visor. It's not on a visor, he goes, This could be me. Yeah, well, so he's looking for a look, but you you're rocking.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

So my old man had he's got a few Akubras and they've got character. And I've worn this religiously for six years, and there's not much character to it, but um, we'll slowly get there and character. There's a few small, there's a bit of a bit of sweat.

SPEAKER_02 6:21

And you and there's no issue wearing an Akubra in the golf course?

SPEAKER_00 6:24

Like, does it? I mean, your head should stay relatively still.

SPEAKER_03 6:26

So you talked about club throwing. Do you uh chuck in the acuba throw?

SPEAKER_00 6:31

Uh no, I'm no, I'm too scared of losing to remote. Means more than your clubs. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

Did you ever pin the uh the the ball marker on it or anything like that?

SPEAKER_00 6:39

That's my mum does that, and bless her, it's just not a vibe. A golf ick.

SPEAKER_03 6:44

What did you say you had a problem with my mum, Patrick? I heard that.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

Your mother the other night when we caught up for pizzas and had a little listening party before uh before at one before at one, which was a weird dynamic, by the way, Tomo. Like we sat around and watched. You remember when you used to be at a primary school on school camp and the and the DVD thing would go around the screen? It was a little bit like that, but it sort of moved along with the voice, and we all just sat there in silence watching that whilst we listened to the podcast.

SPEAKER_03 7:10

The tape on the mouth as well. Yeah, good.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

We made sure everyone taped up their mouth. No talking, listening only, listening party. Uh, your mum said, All right, uh, who's the one here who's making my son change his middle name to Buck? Oh, yeah. And she she she doesn't like the sound of it.

SPEAKER_03 7:25

I wonder, I'll get permission from mum. The some of the greatest two voice memos on uh recordings on my phone is when I had to bring it up to both mum and dad. Mum was an easy seller minute, dad was a 12-minute debate, and I had a lawyer in the room, mum. Mum was arguing my case, so thank you, mum.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

Yeah, well, I I think she has changed her attitude on it a little bit because she didn't quite seem so hot on it.

SPEAKER_03 7:47

Yeah, right. Maybe she's just trying to impress me. What's your current middle node? Benjamin. We don't go there, it's a negative family thing. I'm a bit, yeah. Anyway, I'm happy to change it away from Benjamin.

SPEAKER_02 7:59

Tomo. This is a golf this is a golf podcast, but it's also about golf trips. Do you go on any famous golf trips, ones that might be better than the great grinner that we go on?

SPEAKER_00 8:10

Um my 30th, we had 12 10 of us go down to Barn Burgle and King Island. Um, you would have been invited, but you would have been in South America or Machu Picchu or whatever. What's the thing you do over there when you go overseas for something for 10 weeks with nothing but his wallet? Yeah. I don't have a wallet. Well, you know what I mean. You take nothing away and just get by. He's a big flyer, he's a big flyer with no luggage.

SPEAKER_03 8:39

There are things that come everywhere with me. These are my my boys.

SPEAKER_00 8:41

You talk about the icks, yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_03 8:43

The Tevas.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

Um Jesus Christ. Nah, so we did Bamboo, King Island, but life's a bit of a golf trip down at the Mornington Peninsula. So look at that. Um yeah, very blessed to be able to just roll into most of the courses down there and have a whack.

SPEAKER_02 8:59

But you'd you'd say you currently don't have a an annual trip with the lads that you go away with. I've got two kids. You don't have to be a man.

SPEAKER_03 9:07

You're missing out, you're missing out, mate. The famous Yarrawanga Duck Brown. Yeah. The boys Ed, Tomo, and Duck all knew that I was searching for someone. This is in the hub on the sunny coast. And you went with Duck. Oh no, Adam just Adam and Ed actually both said, Hunty, we've heard the stories, we're not coming. What did you hear?

SPEAKER_02 9:27

I want to know what's sieved out of the group.

SPEAKER_00 9:31

The amount of that he shows on the course multiplied by 12 or however that it's just I love Jay, but I just couldn't do four days of ten of them. Whereas Dr. And it was only six in Thailand. So it wasn't that. But you know, I'm I'm open. I'm open. Open for business.

SPEAKER_02 9:54

That's a nice little nice little diversion into what Hunty has called tomoisms.

SPEAKER_03 10:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

Hunty, can you elaborate on some of these tomoisms and what tomo over here might be is a meaning?

SPEAKER_03 10:06

Well, I finally got onto our great mate Ed. Actually, all three of our great mate Ed. And uh Ed who? Ed Langdon. Yeah. Sorry. Um, as you know, Tomo and probably Patrick, that he is the hardest man in Australia to contact. He's useless. Anyway, I rang him, finally he rang me back, and on the way back from Driversdale training, actually, on the on this whatever freeway it's called, um I've lost my train of flight. You are a helmet. What were we talking about? Apparently Tomo is. Oh, Tom O'Zim's.

SPEAKER_02 10:38

And he said, pal.

SPEAKER_03 10:41

Well, we're getting him on, but he refused. He wants me to fly um pay for his brother's flight because he can't do the podcast without Tom in fucking tow. Whatever it is. Anyway, Tom Langdon, come down to Melbourne. I'll pay for your flights and come on the because we want you on there. Yep. Ugandan style. Anyway, that'll make sense in a few weeks. We might just take that clip for the promo. Ugandan Ugandan style. Anyway, he said, what shall I ask Tomo? He said, Yeah, you gotta you gotta come up with the tomoisms. And we've got a few, one of them being the Acubra. One of them, actually, I'll leave it to the end. Secondly, when he putts out, he often, if there's a group behind, will just sprint to the next fair. Make such a big deal of it as well.

SPEAKER_02 11:24

Are you a real relay runner when it comes to in-between?

SPEAKER_00 11:26

I've been told many times that I need to take more time. And I like I trust all the golfers I play with. And if you're taking too long, I'll be 80 metres in front and just back you to hit over me. Um it's ready golf. No, he plays quick golf. I do like Adam. Yeah. I'm conscious of time. And look, I'm not as much of a go-getter as Jaden, but I fit a lot into a day, and sometimes I'm like, I've only budgeted for four hours of golf here, and I've got to get back to Melbourne. Or I've got to get to the game.

SPEAKER_02 11:56

And that includes the drive from Portsey back to Melbourne.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

Yeah, yeah. So I'm like, I've either got to pick up my daughter or something, so I'm like, can you hurry up?

SPEAKER_03 12:02

What um she's a bit different to our last week's guest, Miles Neville. Oh yeah. Wow, the turtle.

SPEAKER_02 12:09

Miles is like, I've got another mate, Bogger, and he he'll take practice swings and visualise his shot when he's in the rough. I'm like, mate, hurry up. But you sound like you're fast and Dom Sheed's one of them. Is he? Dom Sheed, jeez. No, there's no there's no time for those sort of opportunities.

SPEAKER_00 12:24

We didn't really have any slow pokes at the D's when we played. No, but just when I get on a story. Oh my. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

We got him. We've got him. He's lost.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

We were playing Parma Coolum. Yeah. Oh, yes, yes. Is this when you're in the hub? Yeah, yeah. So the dinosaurs. We've got to touch on we've got to touch on the hub golf in a bit. Please. So this was one of the rounds we've gone there, and there's dinosaurs, there's cars, and we've also called the bloke up and go, mate, like we're rolling in it too. Like, are there any carts available? And he goes, Oh mate, um, we've only got two left. And we're like, sweet, we'll take him. Because we played in sort of a group of six, and a few of us walked. We rolled up, there's 32 carts. No one on the course. No one else on the course. And um, we you know, light was fading, and we're like, oh yeah, like we want to get this going. And Hunty decides to tell his greatest ever story and spoke at one word per minute, and they came out at the end of the 16th hole and we're like, boys, you've got to get off. I remember Oscar McDonald was fuming fuming. Um but yeah, we'll touch on touch on the the the hub golf bit. Well, I'll go, yeah. Well, uh hub go, I think, I think you asked me, do I have what was in the agenda? Something about my greatest golf story, or yeah, anything on the yeah, like I said, I don't have one like one story, but when we were in the hub in 2020, we were lucky because we weren't in Melbourne and you couldn't do anything in Melbourne, but we still had restrictions on what we could do. On the golf course, it was the one place that no one from the footy club could see. So you could drink, you could eat, you could just do what you want. We didn't have that.

SPEAKER_03 14:05

That would have been nice, massless.

SPEAKER_00 14:07

This this I reckon it might have been the same day or maybe separate ones. We're playing Baruchie River, and Duck Brown's got this brand new set of golf shoes, and that's right. And he goes, Oh, I might be pleased to play this week. I think I feel a blister coming on. He walked 18 holes in socks. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 14:22

He walked in the humidity, he couldn't risk the blister. And then look, we all had a blister is an absolute derivation.

SPEAKER_00 14:27

No, there's nothing worse than a big sister, and you don't get enough credit or you don't get enough sympathy for a little bit. But like we all had days where we stunk it up, frustrated, life was no good. Like one day, Goody's calling he goes, Oh mate, you're all good for this one? Yeah, all good. He goes, Oh, what are you doing? I said, Playing golf. He goes, Who are you playing with? He goes at Hunty, and he goes, Right. Two minutes later, Hunty's 50 metres away. Oh, Goody, how are you? Sorry, mate, you're not playing. It's just like eruption.

SPEAKER_03 14:57

Yeah, it got to the point.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

Well, because you were playing golf with Hunty.

SPEAKER_03 15:00

No, no, no, no. They were dropping us both. He was dropping us both. So bringing us I was obviously coming back into the TV. Oh, you were, and I was dropped. Yes. It got to the point. This happened with Mitch Brown as well, because he'd often be playing with us, and all three of us were on the edge. Not one of Goody's fanboys, unfortunately. Um, anyway, we'll get to that later. But it got to the point, there's one time at the Nash where Duck gets a call. Very similar story. Duck gets a call, gets dropped, and then he's like, oh, then Goody Classics, like, oh, what are you doing? Trying to like start a relationship that doesn't exist. Um, anyway, he goes, whack. He goes, oh, with Mitch Brown, he gave him a hard time. Gave me a hard time, probably gave Adam a hard time. Anyway, we'll get there. Let's get him on. Does he play golf? He doesn't. Um, he won't be listening to this. Um, you never know. Anyway, it got to the point after the promotion of the last couple of weeks. Duck would answer the phone and he'd get dropped, and then Goody would be like, oh, what are you doing? I'm uh playing golf. And he'd be like, who with uh Hunty? And he's like, uh pass the phone on. It got to the point where he wouldn't even call, he'd just use one of his. He must he must be postpaid plan or something, because he would just use the same phone call to drop three people.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

But uh back to back to the hub life in golf, you know, there's a day when I snap the shaft and my driver I threw it. And Hunty the whole time was like, I'm not a club thrower. I'm like, oh cool, like you're not a club thrower. You're not a club thrower. You're not a club thrower. Played like Pelican Waters one day, that's where I snapped mine. Maruchi River. We're at Maruchi River on the back end, and there's like not much water, a little bit of water. And I had a round going. And his through wood, and he's off the T. Can't remember where he's put it. He's thrown his through wood like far left, probably 60 metres, into the pond, and the demons that jumped on his back. We got down to the green at the other end, and he goes, Tomo, can you come back and get my club with me?

SPEAKER_03 16:53

Because no, because I originally said that is immature, Jade. I'm leaving that club there, I don't deserve it. And then a couple holes later, I was like, uh, I need that club. So old big big brother Adam.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

We went back and we walked and we found a way to walk, and like luckily the water looked like it was three metres deep, but it was only ankle deep.

SPEAKER_02 17:11

Oh, there would have been bull sharks in there, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_00 17:13

Uh inland. Knee deep, I think. I got him uh got him on nut huggers. Right. Um but no, it was we were very lucky to have golf because it was awesome but grim at the same time. Yeah, well, we sure as hell didn't get it down in Victoria.

SPEAKER_03 17:25

And I know we waffled on there, but the main tumourism, which Gorney did allude to, with this little handicapped speculation. Yes. Is Adam is the greatest guy on a golf course, but there's a bit of speculation about gimme's. Oh, here we go. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 17:41

I did notice he was a little bit far away from the microphone when we started the show. Is that his sort of gimme range that we talk about?

SPEAKER_03 17:47

Very good. Adam, gimme socially, yes. What about in comps?

SPEAKER_00 17:52

No, I'll never do them. But if if there's people who are, again, slow. You'll you'll bend the rules. And I'm like, go on, knock it in, pick it up, move on. Wow, it's a great debate. I I'm a stickler for the rules, especially.

SPEAKER_03 18:10

In a comp, you can't play uh, you can't, you can't. You definitely can't.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

I play with uh Sticks Alan, who you called the other day. A lot of pros, and I love counting my shots and counting my stats. And so if the ball doesn't go in, the ball doesn't go in, and um I count my parts on everyone, so it's uh it's probably matured a little bit in the last four or five years. But also as you get better, you get more You want to see it in.

SPEAKER_03 18:38

Yeah, you do. Also, like you want to see the polish to your craft. You actually realise how much like that shot, that little two-foot putt-means just as much as a drive. That's what people don't understand. And the better you get, as Adam would detest to, it becomes a putting comp. It's all it is with the big boys. It frustrates me because I don't put anywhere near enough. What's that? Did you say detest to or a test? No, I said putting test. Did you? Well, geez, we're having a garshism over here. We're gonna have to. We'll call we'll call the. Adam's Adam's already running the show. He's moving you on.

SPEAKER_02 19:12

I'm calling them a mulligan.

SPEAKER_03 19:14

Yeah, fair.

SPEAKER_02 19:14

All right, we're good. Any more tomoisms?

SPEAKER_03 19:16

I think that's I think that's it. Yellow balls. A lot of people don't like the yellow balls.

SPEAKER_02 19:21

I like them. Are you a yellow ball man? Yeah, yeah. I'm a yellow man.

SPEAKER_03 19:24

You two have disgusting.

SPEAKER_02 19:25

Nah, I like them. What about the other colours? Multicoloured?

SPEAKER_00 19:29

Not multi-colour. Do you guys remember Jake Steen? Uh he was actually a decathlete, went to the Commonwealth Games, played at the Giants and Gold Coast.

SPEAKER_02 19:36

Jake Steen. Catholic? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good fact.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Um he is a phenomenal athlete. Alan, huh? Funny story, when he came to the Giants, he hadn't changed direction in 10 years, and so he we didn't rehab for the first month because he was just so sore. But Volvik brought out their coloured balls, the real that matte style balls. Yeah, and they would grip and rip. Oh, yeah, that's right. And they brought out black balls. Black balls. Yeah, and um Jake brought a dozen of them, and you know, but you think a black ball, why not blue balls? No, no, no. No, no, he didn't have blue balls either. But um a black ball, and it was you think, okay, if it's not a cloud in the sky, okay. But um, it looks like the uh smallest ball flowing uh flying through the air. Um and so he probably used it twice and that was it.

SPEAKER_02 20:26

But um I've I'd never strictly yellow. Strictly yellow. What about strictly yellow? I don't mind the fluoro sort of pink ones. When it was a real overcast day, I find them very easy to see. Auntie is shaking his head. He doesn't like that.

SPEAKER_03 20:40

All right, I don't want a yellow ball. Especially you, Adam. You're a fucking two.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

We've had some we've had someone email in. They want to remain anonymous. All right, but we've finally has as Tomo almost puts the golf club through the TB.

SPEAKER_03 20:53

Mind you, five were from Tokyo, Adam. I need to get it recruited.

SPEAKER_02 20:56

That was centimetres away from the TV. But we've had we've had a listener, we've had a listener send in a story. And Tomo, this is close to home because this happened on a golf trip down in Portsey. Okay. Was a short path there. Now the the sender wants to remain anonymous, but he's but he's called, he's called the the person who's done this, accused of this, John O. John O. Don't have a surname. John O Ports. Anyway, John O steps, I don't believe he's a member. They say they're on a golf trip. John O steps up and is and absolutely flushes one, but it sails over the back and disappears. We all think it's gone, scrub bushes, who knows? You know what it's like at the back of the state.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

The next T-box is up there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:34

He says, Right, boys, I think that's gone. I'll play another. So he declares the first lost and hits off the T again. This time, perfect. Lands soft, one bounce, drops. We all lose it. Get to the green, nothing over the back, nothing anywhere else. Where's the ball? The ball's in the hole. John always going berserk, hands up, phone out, calling people. We say, mate, that's three. He goes, Yeah, but it still went went in for one from the T. So now he's telling everyone he's had a hole in one, even though it was technically his third shot after click declaring his first loss. Does this count, Johnny?

SPEAKER_00 22:08

It stinks of a non-golfer. Yeah, it does. And like, but the pessimist in me, I'd be wrapped with a three for two and get to the next tee.

SPEAKER_03 22:16

Like, you know, it is Would you be happy with that?

SPEAKER_00 22:19

Well, I was talking about it is a worse. I would just after thinking going, oh, I'm about to, you know, I'm about to bogey or double bogey. Probably double, because you're thinking, oh, for one, two, one.

SPEAKER_03 22:29

Give them a hole in one. You don't waste on a prov.

SPEAKER_00 22:32

Nah, well. Imagine if you go three under.

SPEAKER_03 22:36

Who cares? Who who gives a damn? I played with randoms the other day and I hit my provisional. It was going in. And I'm like, don't go in. Please don't go in. They thought I was weird, but that happens a lot. But anyway, what that reminds me of, Patrick, is we have Friends of the Pod. It's growing, the Friends of the Pod. We also have some enemies of the pod. Tom Morris incoming, probably next week or week after. An enemy. I want to hear from him though. We'll give him a chance to speak. Another enemy of the pod. Yes. Patrick? Who? Who does this story remind you of?

SPEAKER_02 23:09

Well, I have heard that this could be relative to us a person who has once come on the grinner. Yes. Voldemort.

SPEAKER_03 23:18

Who we don't speak about. He shall not be named. Adam, if you say his name, you have to have a shot of tequila.

SPEAKER_02 23:24

Let's move on. This segment's getting some great traction on the traction. Bit of traction. The ultimate course. Some people like the sort of AI style we've brought to it, Hunty. Some people don't. But you know, we we we have a little bit of fun with it. And we are building, if this is your first, if you are a first-time listener, we're building our ultimate course, Tomo. So hole one, we had Victoria.

SPEAKER_03 23:59

Vic GC.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

Vic GC number one, nice little par four. Never played it?

SPEAKER_03 24:04

Hole two.

SPEAKER_02 24:06

Gorny Southern, par four. And we sort of gave it to him. We just sort of let him have it. Tomo's face series.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

Okay, Adam, listen to this. Is it raining? If it's raining and you're playing that course, take your shovel.

SPEAKER_03 24:20

Yeah, it's gotta be summer. We're we're no, we're giving each hole its time and the shine.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

I'm just trying to think of what the second hole is.

SPEAKER_03 24:27

Conditions are perfect for each hole.

SPEAKER_02 24:28

Yeah, we're fair with the golfers here. And hole three, we gave it to St. Andrews. St. Andrews Beach. So we're started with three part fours.

SPEAKER_03 24:38

No, that's all. That's fine.

SPEAKER_02 24:39

That's a pretty is it a challenging start? Or not really? You can say No one's eagle. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:45

Two's drivable.

SPEAKER_02 24:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:47

And then three is just a classic pitch into a sort of bowly, greeny thing. Okay. There's a good chance of birdie's on all three.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

But we're four par fours to start. Sorry, three par fours. I I'm gonna go first here because I jumped the game with what I said last week. But I'm going Flinders Gold Club the Coffin. I have to cracker.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

I have that on my list too. And it's a bit of a par three if you really want to go for it, but um it's still a par four. Porti is another part four, so you can't really use it, but it's our hardest hole of the course. Good hole. It's a great hole. Uh one of our best. Our best is 14. Yeah, we're not on 14. No. Um have you you played Cerento? Yep. Yeah. The fourth hole's a fun hole. The fourth hole is great. So you're going with that? Oh, I don't want to.

SPEAKER_03 25:34

No, just go with it. Oh, the rival here. Pre-game.

SPEAKER_02 25:38

It is fun, but you've got to play the line right, and if you overdo it and you drive, you go into the legs. It's the big dog.

SPEAKER_03 25:45

You can see from the road, from the bakery. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, sorry, no, no, no. That's the seventh.

SPEAKER_00 25:49

Oh, okay. That's the seventh. Um I haven't played Sorrento. This has got the pine trees up on the left, and you can try and thread the needle. But if you do draw one round the corner, it can get really close. I do know.

SPEAKER_02 26:00

That's a fun hole. But if you slice it, CLA. It's water.

SPEAKER_00 26:04

You're dead. Yeah. It's a long way in.

SPEAKER_03 26:06

Okay, go. Sorrento four. That's a good hole. And you've got what have you got?

SPEAKER_00 26:11

Okay. I'm Flinders. Flinders. That was my number one, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:15

Now, this is the second best course on King Island. Not my bad.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

You're going back to the hang on. Hang on. I thought this whole segment was like Morning to Peninsula. That's Gulf Trick Location.

SPEAKER_03 26:29

You skipped ahead there, Adam. Anyway. Second best course on King Island. Still a quality course. It's unfortunately put a lot of money into its clubhouse. Ocean Dunes. So fourth hole, classic par three. We've hit three par fours. We're hitting, we want a glory hole here. We you you put the T-Box out in the ocean, out in Bass Strait, and you're hitting over a ravine, crashing waves. It's only 140 meters, but the visual aggression, I guess, in your face makes it feel like it's 180, which it is into the wind. It feels like 180. Anyway, I do have a story. So my first ever goal trip. Just starting the story.

SPEAKER_00 27:14

Everyone who was um listening earlier, he takes forever to tell a story. So um I'll zone out and come back in at the end.

SPEAKER_03 27:22

My first ever goal trip, I was luckily enough got invited with Jack Watts and his mates. One of his mates, Alex Davies. Yeah, he's in the group behind me. Me, Dad, Dom Tyson, I think Michael Hibbard were in the hole ahead of par five, I believe, the fifth.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

Um's flavour.

SPEAKER_03 27:38

We've just teed off, and we can't really see the green of the fourth, but we hear an absolute eruption. And I could only think one thing. This could be a hole in one. So I sprint over the hill, and the boys are going, and I like get the nod from Wattsy, Jack Watts, and he's gone, it's in. So I don't know if we can air this. I um I've got to be careful here, but I got Bass Drake is Alex Davies and his mates are going hoo-ha all over the shop. So that is the story. And I think we should. I love Hollywood's story.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

I believe it is a hole in one if it's not in comp.

SPEAKER_03 28:22

Yeah, it is on a golf shoot. We're playing for a proper trophy and stuff. It counts. I believe instead of spin the wheel this week, because no one's answering me, I realise I don't have any footy friends. Let's try an outside friend. And I reckon, can I call Alex Davies? The guy who got the hole in one. Yeah. Well, give us your phone. All right. On top of that. Great man, how are we? Wow, he's answered.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

You've finally, someone has finally answered your call.

SPEAKER_03 28:51

Uh you're the fifth call of this podcast. The first two weeks that I got no luck from the footy players.

SPEAKER_04 28:56

Oh, nice. What are they doing to you?

SPEAKER_03 28:58

But we've gone on an A-lister here with Davies. You're grin at you're a grin at folklore with a Greens Quick Davies comment from me, my terrible chat Yarrow.

SPEAKER_02 29:07

Just quickly before we Davies, were the Greens quick that day?

SPEAKER_04 29:11

Oh mate, they were lucky. In the middle of summer, we're talking.

SPEAKER_02 29:20

Now tell us about this hole of one.

SPEAKER_04 29:23

Well, um, what a timer. It was oh, ten or so years ago now. We had a beautiful trip down to the lovely King Island. Uh middle of winter. Um, ocean dunes fourth hole, if anybody knows it.

SPEAKER_03 29:40

Classic hole over the ravine.

SPEAKER_04 29:42

Iconic signature hole on the ocean. Um played with a couple of guys last week and actually said uh on the hole, they actually hit driver. So I'd love to say it was a big, dramatic, windy, wintry day. Um, but we were absolutely kissed on the dick and uh not a not a breath of wind, uh 138 meters, flushed an A-In. Um as good as I could hit it. I was playing with with uh a very good man, Jack Watts, who straight off the club called it pretty much. He said, This is going in, all right. Um flew, perfect flight, landed 10 feet short. We were just that saw the ball rolling, rolling, rolling, and then it it dropped, and it was just what followed that was uh was simply uh some of the most maddening minutes of my life.

SPEAKER_03 30:41

Madden, love it.

SPEAKER_04 30:43

Had Watsy just run up and me the biggest bear hug of my life at my out of the good mate, Will Shoe, and he's just screaming, he didn't know where to look, what to do. Um and then we had we had Watsy's old man who was um Andrew, just stand yeah, Andrew, just standing there, not not sure, not quite sure what to do with himself while we were running around like absolute baboons. Um and then and then within 30 seconds we look up at the green and and Hunty's in the the group ahead of us. He's driven back to the the Fort Green and and um and seen what's happened and next minute we look up screaming at the top of his lungs. It's just uh just turned it into uh Did you do the same, Davies?

SPEAKER_02 31:42

Or or what? Did you keep it in front of Watsy's dad? Did you keep it slightly screwed in?

SPEAKER_04 31:47

Oh god, no, we were we were going absolutely loose together. It's literally the uh the moment of my life, I think, to do it with a few of your best mates in in a golf trip like that and and have uh have everyone else sort of get around it. It was it was body special.

SPEAKER_03 32:03

Oh Alex, I'm tearing up a bit. That's what golf trips are all about. And I don't regret a thing.

SPEAKER_04 32:09

Exactly. And if that doesn't make your morning nothing will.

SPEAKER_02 32:12

Exactly right. Oh, very good, Davis. Thank you for a superb story. And just finally, would you say that that hole at Ocean Dunes would be should be hole number four in our ultimate golf course?

SPEAKER_04 32:25

Oh, I've probably got a very biased opinion, but without doubt. Uh that's enough, I mean it's truly a uh iconic hole. So very, very special play to my heart.

SPEAKER_02 32:35

I, in my hot little hand, have the Grinner Invitational rule book. Um, this is the booklet which costs us about 80 bucks to print every grinner. Do you give a little share that to GDA Vice City? Uh that was just a theme. So every winner, and this will go on the socials, every winner um gets the front cover the following year, the individual winner.

SPEAKER_03 32:51

And each year is a different theme. Oh, this was one of the teams.

SPEAKER_02 32:55

Well, the the individual winner gets it. So this is Jack Lidget who won it in what in Adelaide, and then so in Cairns he was on the front cover, and then they they put the sort of uh J.

SPEAKER_03 33:04

Won it in Adelaide and then proceeded to lie along the train tracks at Raw Adelaide because the team's comp is what really matters.

SPEAKER_02 33:11

And he and he missed and he missed a three-foot putt to win win the team's comp. And then we went to a playoff and we lost the playoff. Because of his uh cousin. A Neptinus, yes, he's a Nept cousin. Anyway, uh I Tom I sorry this is a long-winded introduction to the segment. It's very simple. I'm gonna give you three of our grinner bylaws. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 33:28

And I'm sure I'll love every single one.

SPEAKER_02 33:31

And I want you to adopt one of them and say you're gonna take this to you're gonna adopt this into your uh game.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

He's a bit excited, he's got the gold shaft nice and erect there.

SPEAKER_02 33:42

All right. Article three on the green, section one. Upon achieving a birdie or an eagle, it is mandatory for the player to immediately follow with the designated birdie or eagle dance.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

No, next no, because I play with Jaden too much and he's too animated. Too animated, boring.

SPEAKER_02 34:02

Okay. Article one, the hole out. Section one. In the event of a hole in one, it is imperative that all players promptly cease play. Disrope. Looks like we're going to stir and immerse themselves in the nearest water hazard. While the use of soap is discretionary, it is strongly recommended.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

We're at Porti. You're jumping in the water too. Yeah, yeah, you go on a the London bridge, I reckon. You are literally running to the London Bridge. Yeah, yeah, you are. Poor Harold Holt. Yeah, Harold Holt's gonna die.

SPEAKER_03 34:32

He must have got a hole in one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:35

Then he was taken, take then taken by the Chinese types.

SPEAKER_02 34:39

We've solved the mystery of Harold Holt. Not just a golf trip podcast, this one. There's never been a hole in one on the grid, I said there's never been any nudity. No need to worry about that. The last one, um, but if you don't take this, this is disappointing. Article eight, failing to score, ceased to exist. Section one. In the event that a team fails to secure a single point in the team standings, the entire franchise is obligated to disband entirely.

SPEAKER_00 35:06

I think you take that one, then don't.

SPEAKER_03 35:07

Yeah, and the other team gets to burn all their kit that night. A ceremony, and it is also the Voldy rule. That team, that franchise shall never be spoken of again. If this ever happens, Jaden, it was close the most frugal person.

SPEAKER_00 35:20

It was close. If you were sitting there watching someone else burn your most prized possession in the golf clubs, I just can't imagine. No, no, just the golf club.

SPEAKER_02 35:30

I'll continue to read this. 1A, all four players from the dissolved franchise are expressly prohibited from identifying themselves as members of that franchise henceforth. 1B, all members of the dissolved franchise must surrender all team branded merchandise to the opposing captain. Following this, all four individuals must witness the opposing team captain burn the garments to ashes. These ashes will be retained by the winning team for safekeeping. One C, a segment of the ashes shall be preserved and ceremoniously placed in the trophy as a lasting tribute to the concluded franchise. I'll take that rule.

SPEAKER_03 36:03

And believe it or not, you think that's unlikely. This this rule was invented because in Queenstown, Jack Rudders last year as captain, they didn't win a single skin. They won two halves, so it was 7-1 in the end. But gee whiz, they were close to an 8-0 drubbing. So that's why we invented it. They were very close.

SPEAKER_00 36:22

Shout out to Rutzi, one of the great people in the world. Wow. That's good because Morning didn't remember him. Really?

SPEAKER_02 36:28

He's a pilot. Nah, love him. Location of the week. Brought to you by Golf Loop because they're taking you around the world and they might have been able to take you down to drum roll, the Mornington Peninsula. We finally got there. This is why we got you in, Tomo. Wow. Tell us why, Tomo, the Mornington Peninsula is this week's location of the week. Thanks to King.

SPEAKER_00 36:51

Rain, hail, or shine, you will have the best weekend of golf. Yeah, I agree. Doesn't matter the weather, and I think that makes part of it.

SPEAKER_02 37:02

Give me, you got a three-day golf trip, three rounds. Where you play. What's your makeup? I don't know. What is your makeup? What's your three rounds?

SPEAKER_03 37:12

I'll add it in a little uh not an asterisk, but further info, they can also access private golf courses. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything down there.

unknown 37:20

St.

SPEAKER_00 37:20

Andrew's Beach. I think you have to.

SPEAKER_03 37:22

On the first day. Probably. Yeah, it's a good starter. Wide fairways, Tom Doke design. Yep. All tee off together.

SPEAKER_00 37:29

I'm portsy biased. So we'll go, we'll leave that last, but my probably my favorite course outside of that is the Mooner course at the Nash. I always ask, Hunty, whenever you're playing, if you don't have a full group, I'll play. I it's my favourite at the Nash. It is.

SPEAKER_03 37:45

I've got this is from the Moona. So at the Nash, the blue flag is the Moona course. So they luckily gifted to me because I think I broke the world record of February or January it was rounds at the Moon at the Moona course. I absolutely love it. Good course off the blacks. Friendly for the Burgundy players.

SPEAKER_00 38:03

I forgot to mention you're playing two rounds in one day because you've probably got to fit the dunes in. So you're squeezing dunes. This is the thing about the Moon. You can squeeze in plenty of things. The Dunes is like it's a it's it's probably one of the first best ones down there. Jason Day's, you know, they've got his quote on the plaque saying this is the best course down here. Dunes is very good. It's a great, it's a great track.

SPEAKER_02 38:26

So you're so your three-day golf trip when you're squeezing in four rounds. Just confirm it for us. St. Andrews Beach. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 38:33

Nash Moon.

SPEAKER_00 38:34

Nash Moon, the Dunes, and finish a porti.

SPEAKER_03 38:37

Are you going Nash Moon and Junes in the same day? Well they're right, they're close to each other. Yeah, yeah. I like it.

SPEAKER_02 38:42

And then afterwards you can pop down to the St. Andrews Beach Bureau Brewery. Get a bit of a few strappers. Yeah. Yeah, a few strappers.

SPEAKER_03 38:49

I uh didn't fit the strappers into the budget tonight, but we've got wood-fired pizza. I was trying to think of the food of the region. And I think St. Andrews Brewery and a few other establishments make a fien uh fiend, a fine old um wood-fired pizza.

SPEAKER_02 39:03

The old Friedman property down there. Do you know that? Yeah, I did. The racehorse training. I did, next to Moona Lynx. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 39:08

Behind great race horses you see. It's where St. Andrews Brewery was, or is that another one? Yeah, no, that's it.

SPEAKER_02 39:13

Yeah, that's the one. But that's where the you know Maccabi Deva would have raised.

SPEAKER_00 39:17

The stables are actually named after that. Yeah, yeah, they are.

SPEAKER_02 39:20

But Maccabi Deva would have worked in those.

SPEAKER_00 39:22

Great day to go down on a Saturday afternoon and have a punt, isn't it, Hunter?

SPEAKER_03 39:25

Actually, can we can can I go can I uh uh provide a question to the listeners? Yes. Which drinking VIP boothie thing at St. Andrews was Macabee Divas? I'd like to know which one. I'd like to go smell the walls and just be a monk's greatness. I think it was the one as you do know.

SPEAKER_02 39:44

I think it's the first one on the right when you walk in. Oh it's written there. It is written there. Okay. I think it's first on the right, but I could be I could be mistaken. But there there's there's superstars and center down there. We're about to wrap it up, Hunty. Before we do, we want to say a big thank you to Tomo. He's been a brilliant guest. He's been very patient with us. Um we have we have rambled and maybe a few little mulligans have to get pulled out here and there, but it's been enjoyable, and you've got a gift for the great man.

SPEAKER_03 40:15

I know how much, Adam, you love the Nash.

SPEAKER_00 40:18

So I love I love the sparkling water at the halfway house. I'll give you that.

SPEAKER_03 40:23

Wow. What about the Nash burger? The No, I don't eat there, I believe. That's just a bit like Max.

SPEAKER_00 40:32

I told you I didn't fit too much into my day. But go on. Anyway, let's exchange gifts.

SPEAKER_03 40:37

So there was a sale on. I'm not, I don't the budget is I've already said that he's a frugal man. The budget isn't that wide. Long Island is about to open on March 21.

SPEAKER_00 40:47

It looks pass.

SPEAKER_03 40:49

Phenomenal. Anyway, the Long Island Pro Shop had a clearance sale of the old Scott stock. I got there on the last day and they were basically giving away stuff. Five dollar hat I got. You're known for your hats on the golf course, the Yakuba, so I've got you an absolute ripper. I'd like to see you with that on.

SPEAKER_02 41:08

That is like the hat you wear at primary school that you get out of lost property with if you forget to bring your hat.

SPEAKER_01 41:15

Jesus, it's mate. You know what's five bucks? This doesn't fit. Oh, one for my daughter can wear it.

SPEAKER_03 41:20

Yeah, exactly right.

SPEAKER_01 41:21

You can pass it on.

SPEAKER_02 41:26

Look down the barrel there, Tommo. You know that. You you give that to your daughter and you put it in the bottom of her school bag, and then a day where she's forgotten her hat and she can't go outside and play, she's got that in reserve. Thank you to uh it's not even national, it's not even proper national merch.

SPEAKER_03 41:46

How much was it originally worth?

SPEAKER_01 41:49

How much was it originally worth? 69 bucks. Five bucks I got it for. What a bargain.

SPEAKER_00 41:57

Now do I get to give you my gift? Yeah, it's a gift exchange.

SPEAKER_02 42:00

Actually, weirdly suits you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:04

Uh obviously, you wanted me to bring something that was iconic to me. Yeah. So I brought my hat, but I'm not gonna leave my hat here. Yeah, it means too much, okay. So uh the weasel ball. For people who are familiar with the Hamish and Eddy podcast, Jack Post is the weasel. I play with him every now and then, and he handed me this weasel ball that I played about four rounds with and didn't lose. Okay. So the weasel was a bit worn, but when you have him on the podcast, you can give it back to him. Will he come on the podcast? Absolutely. He's not working at the moment. So Patrick.

SPEAKER_03 42:36

Get him on.

SPEAKER_00 42:36

Get him on.

SPEAKER_03 42:37

One of your big KPIs this year was a random one.

SPEAKER_02 42:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 42:40

What did you want to do with Jack Post? He's got many golf stories, dude.

SPEAKER_02 42:45

Isn't Jack the bloke who built the sauna in his backyard? Yes. I'd love to get in the sauna with him. Record an episode in the sauna.

SPEAKER_00 42:53

Always asking to have people in the sauna. I'd do that.

SPEAKER_02 42:55

We'd have to keep the episode pretty short.

SPEAKER_03 42:57

We want to record an episode in the sauna. He'd love that. Would he do recommend it accept? Can you arrange this for us? Can you be the mediator? Sure.

SPEAKER_02 43:05

Do you know him? Because that would be a bit weird when we knocked out back in.

SPEAKER_00 43:08

Can we sit around the sauna and he's all for it?

SPEAKER_02 43:10

Well, let's do it.

unknown 43:11

Love it.

SPEAKER_02 43:12

We'd have to keep it pretty short and sharp because it's starting to get a bit wheezy after about 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_03 43:17

We'll get some electrolytes in us. Oh, yeah, that's all.

SPEAKER_02 43:22

There's not many podcasts out there that actually do it from a sauna. This is it's frontiering new ground.

SPEAKER_03 43:27

This could be groundbreaking. The old weasel.

SPEAKER_00 43:30

Thank you very much, lads. Very much appreciated.

SPEAKER_03 43:33

Thank you for coming.

SPEAKER_02 43:34

Hunty, take us, take us away. And if you start going a little bit over the top, I'll I'll wrap it up.

SPEAKER_03 43:39

Righty oh. I got told I was too loud, a bit too boisterous, but we have just knocked off episode four, and we, geez, we still got a job. Adam read the run sheet, and he was merging segments for segment like a like Spider-Man. From building to building, he went, from segment to segment.

SPEAKER_02 44:00

I don't know about that one, but merging segments, segments like Spider-Man.

SPEAKER_03 44:05

I am continuing my call out. Tommy Morris, I want you for episode five or six. Ed and Tom Langdon as well. You're not returning my calls. Over and out. Patrick, do you want to finish us off with something?

SPEAKER_02 44:17

So the ultimate golf course is growing some serious momentum now. Um Tomo took home a new bylaw that he can take back to his golfing channel. Naming right sponsor. Yeah, we heard a few Tomisms, and uh, you know, we've got a naming right sponsor. So I had some great time, you had a good time, and we hope the listeners had a great time. It's fast as loose. It's ready, golf. Thanks for listening to the Grinner Golfcast with Huntie, Dunky, Patty, and Tom.