E7 | It Runs In The Family

Episode 7 of the GrinnaGolfCast brings it back to where it all started, with Hunty’s parents, Alan and Jane, in the studio.

From old-school golf trip stories to some family truths, it’s clear this stuff runs deep. Alan shares why golf trips matter, Jane talks not one, but two aces and the Bunk intervention is had.

We also add Hole 7 to the Ultimate Course and spin the wheel for a family edition.

With thanks to GolfLoot. Fast. Loose. Ready golf.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Righto Grinners. Obviously, it's been a big couple of weeks. We're right in the mix of it at the moment. But last week was all about Q school. We're going off topic here. We're sort of on topic. We're going back to the roots of the Grinner Golfcast. We're back on the golf trip. The roots. We've got the roots of my being, actually. It might have even come from a cheeky root. Believe it or not. But we'd barley.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

You can say gin barley.

SPEAKER_03 0:37

Keep going, Hunty. And then we'll hit them with the who sponsors the show. It's all going really well.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

And it's brought by golf loot. We're not a sex podcast here. We're a golf chip podcast. I'm joined by the people that have known me the longest. My mum and dad. I guess the upbringing of my golf is from these two. They're both members of certain clubs. Victoria, mum to my right, and Peninsula Kingswood dad to my left. And basically started the journey for me. We're only here because of them. And basically, dad conceived this idea in my brain about golf trips, about the best week of my and yours, your year gosh. It all started from guy on my left. So two Ken golfers, two three-you've got to deal with a pack of hunts today.

SPEAKER_03 1:26

So let's do it. Okay, well, I I did like your introduction. You didn't do the one thing of introductions you meant to do and actually tell me their names, Jane. So uh who have we actually got here? And for all the listeners, we have your parents, but their names, please.

SPEAKER_01 1:40

Uh Alan and Jane Hunt.

SPEAKER_03 1:43

Welcome to the Grinner Golfcast. Alan and Jane Hunt, the pack of hunts. Yeah. How does it feel, Jane? You you look excited over there and you're ready to go.

SPEAKER_06 1:51

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:53

And yeah. What about you, Mr. Hunt?

SPEAKER_05 1:56

I'm looking forward to uh telling a few stories about my son, about uh the golf trip that started at all, or it started with him anyway.

SPEAKER_03 2:04

You've you've found the right medium to be uh to be doing that. You're you're in a great place and you're wearing a nice yellowy canary coloured jacket. It seems like a few of our guests have been wearing something like that recently.

SPEAKER_05 2:14

Uh absolutely. What is it? Well, um the uh the R and G D Classic is a uh is a golf trip that I've been on. Uh we are about to head off uh on our 39th golf trip.

SPEAKER_03 2:28

Okay. Um That's why we do it.

SPEAKER_05 2:30

And uh it is. It's brilliant. Uh we're a little bit different to the uh the Grinner. We we don't have a Teams event, we just have an individual event. But it's held over started off just as a weekend away, um, to um to Launceston, actually. And uh but these days it goes the full six uh six days, seven days.

SPEAKER_03 2:48

Hang on. Seven days.

SPEAKER_05 2:50

Yeah, yeah. It's now a week. Hunty.

SPEAKER_03 2:53

It is brilliant. I'll I will refer to you, Alan, as Mr. Hunt for the show's purposes and Hunty.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

You could still you could No, look at his bags. I'm I'm bowing down. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 3:03

Well maybe maybe I'll call you Bunky then.

SPEAKER_06 3:08

I was not happy with that one. We'll get to that one short. It's about that.

SPEAKER_03 3:11

It's topic three in the run show. Don't worry, the intervention. All right, Hunty Senior. How about okay? So 39 years, and you you go for seven days of of the sorry, seven years. Seven days of the week, that's a week. Yeah, seven days of the week, once a year.

SPEAKER_05 3:25

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Once a year. It's uh six days a day of traveling.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

It was in the marriage contract.

SPEAKER_03 3:30

Yeah, I was gonna say, how does Jane let you off the hook for that one?

SPEAKER_01 3:33

Oh, well, she goes on about six golf kids a year, this one.

SPEAKER_03 3:36

I can see why you're obsessed with golf, Jud. All right, well, give us some memories and some some anecdotes. Uh uh the floor is yours, Auntie. I mean R and G D stand for.

SPEAKER_05 3:47

All right. R and G D stands for uh rubber and glass stick classic, um, which uh keep in mind 39 years ago, we were a lot younger. And um what basically what happened was we went Yeah, and a lot sillier, uh we went away for a you know golf trip like everybody does.

SPEAKER_03 4:03

Now the name age is fine, don't worry about that.

SPEAKER_05 4:06

And uh in our in our second year, uh actually in our first year to Launceston anyway, uh when it all started, one of the guys for his 21st, many years earlier, had been given as just a you know a muck-around gift, this giant, gigantic rubber phallus. This this thing was as thick as thick as my arm. It had veins on it like my fingers, as long as my fingers, as long as Jaden's fingers. Oh my god. It was grotesque. One of them. This this thing had this thing had its own set of heart and lungs, let me tell you. It was it was big. So um uh and it was to be presented to the guy who finished last. Okay. Okay. So and we had a uh we didn't go for the green jacket, uh the the masters, we went for a blue jacket. One of the guys worked for um Harry the Higher, the marquee guys, and they had a milliner, um, a millinery department, sort of, you know, the linen and all that sort of stuff. So she ripped it, she whipped up a uh a blue jacket with all this uh this you know leopard skin uh trip and things like that.

SPEAKER_03 5:12

So what you look like Hugh Hefner a bit well, actually, there were a couple of trips that were anyway.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

Like, I don't know, I call out of you two, I call you the conservative one, but you in the limelight and dicks is just a theme. I had my debut on the footy show, Patrick, and Sammy Newman goes, I do the old as every media asks me to do. Show us your fingers. It's what I'm known for, not my football. It's always my fingers. Well, they do directly correlate. Yeah, yeah. Well is that the thing is.

SPEAKER_03 5:44

You need big fingers to be able to catch the prune. Exactly right.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

Helps a bit. But these two are in the crowd. And Sammy knew that, so he's gone, Mr. Hunt, do do your care uh do your fingers compare? And they actually don't. I think I get my fingers from mum's side. Okay. I think grand uh grandpa was a pianist, I believe. Yep. So long fingers. Yeah, long fingers. But dad's fingers weren't good. But dad, out of nowhere on live TV, goes like this to Sammy knew and then just goes, and uh imagine what he copied at work the next day. You can take it from there.

SPEAKER_05 6:18

What where'd you cop? Uh papership.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

We'll get the video up.

SPEAKER_03 6:25

Speaking of fingers, can we can we whilst we're on the theme, can we can we do a finger test? Put him in. That's not even your roof finger. What about what about my one? What do you think? He doesn't have one. I haven't got a finger. And there again, Patrick. All right, the the age-old story that it got bitten off by a shark when I was snorkeling when I was two years old. No, I I won't bore you with the uh with the with the details. I chopped it off when I was younger. All right, so anyway, back to the gulpture.

SPEAKER_05 6:53

Back to back to the R and G Day classic. Very quickly.

SPEAKER_03 6:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:56

Um so the the winner got the uh the blue jacket with the uh so everybody uh and what we decide to do was every time uh whenever somebody won for the first time, they would get a replica jacket, but in gold, like this, with the same um the same leopard trim and everything else. And if you won it again, you just got it the second year embroidered on it. Love it. So you'll notice there are four years embroidered on it. You're a four-timer. Four-timer.

SPEAKER_03 7:22

No back to backs, I can see there. No, no, exactly. 91, 95, 99, and 2013.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

I'll tell you why. There's a good reason. 95, you've won it in my birth year. I did. Impressive. How did Mum let you go that year? Because Miles Neville, Mitch Brown, they're they're they're woods, they're stroking woods, but they've both used babies as excuses to miss a grinner, which I'm not happy about.

SPEAKER_05 7:45

Well, we you were born uh early April and uh the trip was the end of April, so it was fine.

SPEAKER_01 7:51

Wow. Mitch Brown. Have a listen to that one.

SPEAKER_03 7:55

Is Jaden your first? Yeah, yeah. My first, yeah. My first. Okay. Three weeks in and he's off to the R and G D classic. My beautiful wife.

SPEAKER_05 8:06

My beautiful wife. So anyway, the uh the winner gets a jacket and gets to wear the um you know the blue jacket for a year. Yeah. Um and the loser gets this huge rubber phallus thing. Yeah. And the uh own heart and lungs. Yeah, with its own set of heart and lungs. The following year, what's the thing? And batteries.

SPEAKER_04 8:24

It does have batteries.

SPEAKER_03 8:27

So it's Trevor Marmalade over here.

SPEAKER_05 8:30

The following year, the following year, um uh one of the guys' wives actually was at a uh sort of an arts festival in Dalesford in out of ig out of Melbourne. And uh there was a glass blowing demonstration there. And anyway, she asked him if this if if he could produce a glass phellus with a big set of balls underneath it um with uh to replace you know the old half-yard glasses that back in my in my day when I was you know 21 used to get a half-yard glass and have to scull it. Yeah. Insane stuff. But anyway, um this so this guy produced it. Um so the glass stick went for the winner. Got Phil's takes a stubby and a half of beer, and you have to stand up. We always have our presentation lunch or dinner in a public restaurant, and you get presented with the glass stick, you put the jacket on, you get the glass stick, and you've got a skull, and the uh the the only orifice in this glass stick is in the eye of the uh the eye of the hair. The eye of the hell, man. And you've and you the eye of the storm. The eye of the storm. And you've got a drink, you've got a skull a stubby at a home. Now the it's actually that's great fun. But but the w the the real story is in the rubber phallus that goes to last place. And this thing, this thing's had some uh some some great stuff happen to it. Down in Launchester Casino, um, one of the guys who won the won it in Inverted Commerce, you know, win uh the Naga, but anyway, um he talked the chef. Uh, you know, they have a big buffet and they, you know, the chef's handing over the plates for the waitress to take out, blah, blah, blah. So the chefs put it in this uh instead of a huge uh sausage in a roll and with salad and veggies and stuff, it's got this huge one of fellas in it. And she's taken it out totally oblivious to it into some some some poor unsuspecting member of the public.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

Someone random. Somebody random. Oh that's wow. It's a different generation back then, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_03 10:26

Yeah, you couldn't do that. Got the full hot dog.

SPEAKER_05 10:29

Yeah, absolutely. And the lot. This thing's had its own uh own boarding pass. Virgin uh one year gave it to it. How good is that? Dad's told me that.

SPEAKER_01 10:37

It had its own boarding pass. They printed it out.

SPEAKER_05 10:41

Classic stuff, really good stuff. And uh probably the uh Did your seat belt it up or was it got running free? It was actually on the winner. It was it was hanging out of his shorts sitting on his sitting on his trade table.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

Uh welcome to the 90s.

SPEAKER_05 10:56

All the hosties are coming down to check it out. You could not do this stuff these days. Um and it probably the only uh the other the other time, in fact, the the best one was um um my mate Woody, who runs the uh runs the event. He's run it for 29 years. Um 39. 39, I should say, yeah. Um he um he he came last. He's presented with a rubber dick. We're in a small restaurant in London, uh, and he took it around to all the tables using it as a handheld mic, interviewing.

SPEAKER_03 11:28

And there are people The boundary writer. What was his name of it? Woody Woody Woody Wood. Roaming Woody. Roaming Woody with a Woody. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:36

People are grabbing it to talk into it, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, he's How did you grab it, Alec? Well, I didn't have to. I didn't have to. He didn't, he was interviewing random people in the restaurant, not us. Yeah. Um and uh anyway, there was what this one poor young couple sitting over there cowering. You can see them looking at this and going, Don't come near me, don't come near me. And anyway, he's waited till last. He's headed over there and he said, he's leant over and he's he's sort of put it into this flag's uh face and said, You poor bugger, here you are, you've saved your pennies up, you know, for probably six months to bring your lovely lady out for a nice meal at a restaurant, and you've copped some bloke sticking a flaming r big rubber phellus in your face, pretending to interview you. They won their golf trip out, and he's gone, no, no, no, and his girlfriend's grabbed it and you said it's speaking into the microphone.

SPEAKER_03 12:33

That's awesome. So 39 years, there's there's a there's a few stories there. We we we give you the the mouthpiece, and you were having some fun there, Alan. I could see that. You were reminiscing it's because golf trips do this to people, don't they?

SPEAKER_01 12:49

They do. That's the reason we exist.

SPEAKER_03 12:52

He's got lipstick on his earlobes, he's smiling that much.

SPEAKER_01 12:55

Yeah, exactly. The Joker. He's ripped his size of his mouth.

SPEAKER_03 12:59

Now, Jane, do you go on golf trips yourself then? Or what happens when the the cat goes away? Does the mouse come out to play?

SPEAKER_00 13:06

I don't go on my golf trips at the same time as him.

SPEAKER_03 13:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:09

So I've got one that's been going for 15 years.

SPEAKER_03 13:12

That's 54 years between them.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

2011, yeah. What's that one called? The Roo Poo Koo.

SPEAKER_01 13:19

Roo Poo Koo. And where's that play? Why is it called the Roo Poo?

SPEAKER_00 13:22

It's called the Roo Poo because at Anglesey there's a lot of Roo Poo on the course.

SPEAKER_01 13:25

So they go to Anglesey, there's a lot of kangas, there's a lot of kangers.

SPEAKER_00 13:29

So that's why it got that name.

SPEAKER_01 13:31

And do all the do all the women dress like you in flamboyant? I love it.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

Yes, they do.

SPEAKER_01 13:36

Got the glove on, show the crowd. And so they're basically they all dress up. It's fancy dress almost every day, isn't it? We love a bit of colour.

SPEAKER_00 13:45

It's not fancy dress, it's golf clothes.

SPEAKER_01 13:47

Absolutely. I think you do that at Victoria as well. Yes, bit of Christmas tree action down the fairways. I've been a fairy and a fairy on the course, an angel. It's all happening at Victoria GC with the women.

SPEAKER_05 13:59

Yeah, except um Jane um Jane values every single little bit of item in her golf bag. So last year in the Rupuo Challenge, um, she's teed off on the tent tea at Anglesey. It's an elevated tea.

SPEAKER_01 14:12

Oh my god, I forgot about this.

SPEAKER_05 14:14

And uh and over the end of uh past the tea, um the tea box, it it drops away into scrub and bush and stuff like that. So her tea, as she's teed off, it's gone flying into it. So hey, this thing was gold plated. It must have been.

SPEAKER_01 14:29

Can we remind the crowd how old Mum is? No, sorry. How young she is.

SPEAKER_05 14:34

Very young 73. Very young 73.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

So basically this tea looking. Yeah, exactly. Right. Doing very well for yourself. Thank you. Um it's gone up onto this steep embac embankment. I'm talking like 45 degree angle. And it's a T. It's worth 30 cents. But mum doesn't want to lose things, so she proceeds to climb this tree. Uh climb this tree. Climb this hill.

SPEAKER_00 14:57

Down, down.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

Was it down? Yeah, you can tell. And then what happened?

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Down the embankment, and then I found it. And then I turned around to come back again. I can't remember anything after that. She's I rolled down.

SPEAKER_01 15:08

Rolled down the hill.

SPEAKER_00 15:09

Landed on the ground on my collarbone, went out to it.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

Your head?

SPEAKER_00 15:13

Well, they said I hit my head. Yeah, I was out to it for a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

Sounds like if you don't remember, I reckon you hit your head.

SPEAKER_00 15:18

And the next thing you know, the ambulance is there.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

So she's knocked herself out, broke her collarbone because she scampered up a hill to get a tea or down a hill to get a tea. And she's rolled like a kobold.

SPEAKER_03 15:29

Or was it one of those old plastic ones? What a waste of time.

SPEAKER_00 15:34

But I'm now a celebrity down there because when we went down there last week for a roo poo, I was worth it because they gave me the winning prize because we only played iron holes at the time.

SPEAKER_01 15:45

Yeah, so the whole comp stopped because there was an ambulance call. So I think mum's purposely just gone and sacrificed herself for the win.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

Had a golf for twelve weeks, but that's right, you won.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

That's all that matters. I'd do the same for a canary. I would. I would.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

So we're in Anglesey Golf Club, and all these people came up and said, Oh, you're the girl from last year. You're the girl the ambulance came for. And then one lady said, No, I'm that wiped your face, and I was the one that didn't, isn't it? So I was a bit of a star.

SPEAKER_03 16:13

Well, it was all worth it, then I'll tell you all.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

And then we have the big kahuna. And we go to Barham and we have to do it.

SPEAKER_03 16:25

No wonder you're a golf nuffy Jaden. This is incredible. Yeah, exactly, right.

SPEAKER_00 16:28

And we have Queensland, and that's sort of five days.

SPEAKER_03 16:31

There you are.

SPEAKER_00 16:33

That's it. What?

SPEAKER_03 16:34

So, so Alan's off for six or seven days a year. You're off on three trips the Rupuku and the Big Kahuna.

SPEAKER_00 16:43

Queensland or bamboo or whatever someone feels.

SPEAKER_03 16:46

You're the star of the show of the Hunt family as well, Jane, because on the table we've got two framed pictures. And I'm so glad you brought those in because you have two hole-in-one's. And now that's two career hole-in-ones, and Jaden has a big fat zero.

SPEAKER_01 17:03

Well, to be honest.

SPEAKER_03 17:04

Now tell me the dynamic of how this all evolved and when you told him.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

Can I prelude this with yes, two career hole-in-ones. Two calendar year hole-in-ones, 2025, at Victoria GC, where mum's a member. She's hit driver on both holes. What was it? Seven and fourteen?

SPEAKER_03 17:23

Jane is here to tell the story, so I think we might hear it from her. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

Talking about calendar years, on the 7th of no, on the 7th of November, I got a hole-in one on the 7th.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

And that was her second.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

And on the 12th of January, I got my first one on the 12th. Sorry, on the 14th. 14th of January, I got it on the 14th.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

Yeah, that's a bit of a short.

SPEAKER_00 17:43

And I'm now waiting to do the 16th. On the 16th.

SPEAKER_01 17:47

Fourth on the fourth?

SPEAKER_00 17:48

But it's got to be on the fourth, and it's got to be on the sixth.

SPEAKER_03 17:51

Why can't you just crack a big drive on a f on a par four and maybe get one that way?

SPEAKER_00 17:56

I probably could. But the thing is, on my when I do my hole in one, I've got to get up and tell everyone in the club how it happened.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

It just happens that often. So when I just decide to do it.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

But my son was playing with me once at VIC and I was on the 14th, and he said, You should use your driver and aim for the point here because it rolls into the back of the glass. Right to the back. So that's what I did, but it happened to the post got in the way and it dropped it.

SPEAKER_01 18:25

Well it's like it's like a 130-meter hole, which sounds small, but it's up, it's up on it and let me finish. It's up on 10th story. It's up a building. Like it's a great hole. Cracking hole, you you know I'm hitting the wedge or something. But for for a lot of players, like the higher handicaps, it's it's the loft that's the issue. So I said to Mum, just run one into the skid it up. But she didn't text me. It was a big incident at the West Coast Eagles physio room. I had a moment. I was getting a massage. It was my first half an hour of the day where I get to relax. Obviously, we train hard. There's young boys floating around with that much energy. 18-year-old boys, like Harley Reid and the co. Full of energy, an old bunky. I was old in my last couple years there. So you're having a nice Soother. Yeah, this is my Soother. I've almost fallen gentle music playing in the world. And Alan Hunt nap. That's famous for them. I'd not often fall asleep. But this time I think I was replying to someone's message, and I got a horrendous message. It sounds bad, but mum texts me just saying, I just got a hole in one, just very nonchalant.

SPEAKER_06 19:34

And I'm like, no.

SPEAKER_01 19:35

And then she goes, It's because you told me to hit drive, and I was like, no. I caused it. Which I would have been happy for mum. I support my family. However, I am yet to get one. Like I'm off pretty much scratch now. Mum, what's a healthy handy got 27? 28. 28 right now. Like it's frustrated me. Dad's had a fake one, so it was the first real one in the family. The first real one in the family. And she's wearing her outfit with checkers, leopard glove, and she's just picked up the ball, and I've erupted. I had I was getting my hammies done. I almost kicked the masseuse up, and and I've just gone in front of everyone. There's like Dom Sheet over there, Jerry McGovern, Tom Cole, all the old fellas getting their AVO work done. There's physio, two physios, about four masseuses, and I've erupted off this physio bed or masseuse bed. And I've gone, no, no, no. And everyone's like gone up and about, like, what's happened? Like, I've like, the worst thing's happened. Like, everyone's like, your mum and dad died. And I'm like, no, it's worse. Mum just got a hole in one. And I haven't had one. And everyone's like, oh, hunty, hunty, hunty. The golfers, but then like Tom Cole, Jack Becchelli, no long come in, they're like, no, they realize what it meant.

SPEAKER_03 20:56

I was like, not any of the boys we tried to ring recently, they didn't. Yeah, Jamie Cripps.

SPEAKER_01 21:01

No, they were Brady Hoff, he doesn't answer. Bo Allen definitely doesn't answer.

SPEAKER_00 21:06

But the nicest thing about it all though was Jaden must have bragged to his friends about me getting a hole in one.

SPEAKER_01 21:12

That's very impressive.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

I got about 40 messages from all these young blokes congratulating me. Very rapt.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

Well, hats off to you, Jane. And then you know what? You went and did it again.

SPEAKER_00 21:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

And this time you you witnessed the second one, I believe.

SPEAKER_05 21:25

I did. I did. In fact, I thought it was my hole in one. Oh trying to take it.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

Because he has an asterisk one.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

I hit the ball and it went up in the air, but it went up and it hit at the edge of the bunker and it started to roll down because this time the um the flag was hidden behind a big bunker so we couldn't see. So I walk up there, get my putter, and I think it's my ball, puttable distance from the hole. And I thought, oh, I said to Michelle, I could get a booty here. He goes, No, no, no, that's not your ball, that's Alan's. I said, Well, where's mine? And she and I said, I'll go and look over here. So I went and looked down into the bunkers. And down the thing, and she yells it, uh uh, it's here.

SPEAKER_01 22:02

It's here, it's the second one. And I I actually sniffed a bit of a lie, or I don't know if these two are working against me, because what I first saw in the second photo, I was like, all right, hang on a second. It's a hole in one, but you got your putter in the photo. Hang on a second, something's a bit fishy here, but then she tells that they didn't know it was in and all that. I understand it now. But I was like, are these two against me here? I didn't believe it at the start. And and another eruption pended. Yeah, I was just like I will not get one. I've marked my words, I will never get a hole in one.

SPEAKER_03 22:36

Well, you know what? I reckon you will. You know what, Jane and Alan? Never happening. Hunty and I have a bet with each other about the hole in one. Yeah. We do have a we we do have a couple of other bets, and we have had bets in the past, which we'll get to shortly. But uh I it's the one thing I just want to do before him. If I I could absolutely put the cherry on the cake here, if I get that moment where I can this message into the group the little siren emoji saying it's been done, boys. He you won't see him for a couple of weeks. Well, we got it. I am rooting for him.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

Uh the funny thing is, like, so Garsh is just playing very quiet, which is I actually think this will happen because I lip out, I reckon, every second week at just about the moment. I send the messages everything, I'm like, just slipped out again. Rutzi, Jack Ruddo was on last week, Jack Liddy.

SPEAKER_03 23:30

He gets his men weekly mention.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

Weekly mention, there it is. Tick that up, Jack Rudder, tick.

SPEAKER_05 23:35

You're gonna tell me they've all had them, have they?

SPEAKER_01 23:36

No, no, Rutzi's had two, believe it or not. So he's joined the Jane Hunt team. They haven't added you because they have an ace club. So it's Toby Benjamin, who's been mentioned a few times, Tommy Morris's mate. Yeah, there is Jack Rudder, and then there's Jack Petricelli.

SPEAKER_02 23:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:51

Rutzy met Petch, so he added him. I think Petch had it at Arra Lewin, I believe, a WA course. So they've got this thing called the Ace Club. And believe it or not, Toby and Rutzy got an ace, uh card, a sort of emblem, ace of something spades or whatever, on their ankle. And Rutzi's metch once. Petch is not a tattoo guy. And he's got it. I didn't even know they added him. I didn't even know Toby knew Pet. And they've I've got this WhatsApp group, this invite only for the Ace Club, which obviously I'm not part of. And then Jack messaged me the other day, and just with a photo to me and Loel Long, and I'm just like, what is happened here? You haven't even met one of your tattoo mates. Like, but then I go to Ratzi because then Ratzi's getting his second done. So I'm like, you and Mum need to start a WhatsApp group because you've got two.

SPEAKER_03 24:38

Have you got any tough stickers, Joan? No attention. Well, there's a great opportunity to get your double double A. Yeah. Where would you put it?

SPEAKER_05 24:50

Wow. Not not on no. No. Probably just my lower back. No.

SPEAKER_00 24:57

The butterfly.

SPEAKER_03 25:10

Well, I alluded to it before, and it seems like this room's burning up because there's something we do need to talk about. Um, and it's how your beautiful son back there is uh is gonna be changing his name.

SPEAKER_01 25:26

Oh don't, this is PBSD.

SPEAKER_03 25:28

Courtesy of uh a losing bet with yours truly. Yep. Now, as parents of Jaden Benjamin Hunt, how do you feel that he will surely be known as Jaden Bunk Hunt?

SPEAKER_00 25:41

I'm okay. I'm okay with it. Every time I go to a visiting club, it's Jane Bunkhunt.

SPEAKER_01 25:47

Jane Bunk Hunt.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

Yep, I put it on a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

Oh, so you've taken it as well. Yeah. Are you joining me then?

SPEAKER_03 25:53

Oh I'm so showing write a double letter.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

No, I'm not gonna change my name.

SPEAKER_03 25:56

Wow. Well, okay, so I thought it was gonna be a little bit harder here.

SPEAKER_00 26:00

I said yes from the beginning.

SPEAKER_01 26:01

Yeah, yeah, well, so I I approached this topic very logically.

SPEAKER_03 26:05

Give us a quick little synopsis of why this has happened again, Jane, for those who might be listening for the first time.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

Basically, you guys um pulled a rabbit out of the hat, got beers into me early, and then just as the bus is coming, day one of Thailand, we'll drink in the pool early because of the daylight difference, uh the hour difference. Um the hour difference, the clock. What's a clock? That's called jet lag, mate. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm experiencing now from my King Island trip. Jet lag. Anyway, it's a bit different over there, Patrick. In a good way. Um, but you got beers into me, and then pulled a rabbit out of the hat, said you're the new captain of the shafts. I basically laughed in your face because on day one it's tradition that the captains play each other. Um, so we had our singles match, and I said, Patrick, if you beat me, I won't come on the grinner next year. And basically got pumped, I think it was five and four. You had 45. Six and five, I believe. Six and five is well done. Yep. That's about your height, is it? Six and five.

SPEAKER_03 27:02

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

Pretty close.

SPEAKER_03 27:03

Just under in the old.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

Just under. Uh, but basically, on the way back, all the boys are like, Who are we gonna pick on? Who are we gonna who are we gonna go at? So I said, I'm a man of my word, but if there's a buyout, I'll offer it. So there was a debate for 20 minutes. Someone smartly came up with, Why don't you change your middle name to Bunk? Because that story is a bit of a boring one. I just got stuck on the top bunk the year before. I planned the trip because I was flying over from Perth, I was a bit delayed, maybe an hour later. And I normally get the king bed because I organise the whole trip and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_06 27:37

I love it.

SPEAKER_01 27:38

But I got put on the top bunk in the corner away from the air con in Cairns, and I sweated, didn't sleep all trip. Bunky. And then everyone just thought it was very funny. Tom Gregory, a friend of the pod, part of the Stroking Woods, he just thought it was the funniest thing just to call me Bunk Hunt.

SPEAKER_03 27:52

It's a nice, safe, honest, G-rated gag. Yeah, absolutely. They do exist. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 27:57

I don't know if it was you, Patrick, but someone in the back corner of the bus said, Why don't you change your middle name to Bunk? And basically, I was already looking at changing my middle name because as we know, the family history of Benjamin's not too good. So it was a good excuse. Benjamin. It was a good excuse to change my name. I keep the initials, and like we know, there's a there's a there's a good positive bunk in the fad. It was Bunk the War Hero.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

Who who was always in the bunkers, yeah. Yeah, bunkers. It wasn't bunk, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:26

Yeah, bunkers, bunk. Um he's no he was known as bunk, so like just just to I didn't know that. Just to just to put it out there, like it's very actual, it actually worked out well. I know it's Jaden Bunk Hunt now, it sounds a bit different, but I like my family, I like what the history of my family. So glad you like your family, mate. And the history So it's Jade and Bunk Hunt? Okay. I'm fine with it. Well I'd rather do that than not than miss the grinner, Patrick, as you'd know.

SPEAKER_03 28:55

Well, funny you say that, because I've just crunched the numbers on how many days until the grinner 2026, and we're we haven't locked in the date, but we're around November 20, which to this day is around 230 days until then. Now the clock's ticking, pal. That's two on. Have you got an update for me when the name's being changed? Or are we waiting for a final blessing from the parents live on air?

SPEAKER_01 29:19

So I sort of got distracted there, but my approach was to hit mum first. I didn't think she'd care. So down the fifth fairway of Victoria, I brought it up, and I you guys said, Can you please record this? So I put phone in my pocket, recorded it. Mum took a mere 65 seconds to convince her. There was a bit of speculation that she asked why, and she said, That makes sense. And then I ended the recording. The last five seconds, she goes, Whoof, good luck with your father. And then I'm away for I think I went to uh Tokyo, Japan with Ratzi, Jack Rudder. There's another thing, Jack Rudder.

SPEAKER_03 29:54

One of your 18, one of your 18 trips in the last six months. Yeah, yep.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

And so I was gone for two weeks, which I liked. I liked mum to fester the idea. And basically, night one when I'm back, I'm around the dinner table with mum and dad. It's all good. We have a nice steak and chips. Round the table, then dad goes, I know. Are you serious? I knew straight away. I'm like, my phone was charging upstairs. I'm like, oh, give us a second, like, because I want to compose myself. So I went upstairs, came down, put the phone in the pocket, pressed record. Dad wasn't 65 seconds. He was 14 and a half minutes of straight debate. Luckily, straight debate. Luckily, I had a lawyer in the room. Mum was rooting for me. She was team bunk trying to argue, because dad's a very logical man. He said, What about business arrangements in the future, potential problems that it might arise? And I said to him, How about we come up with an agreement that I want to have the all-time moment, like you said, at the altar? So when I eventually get married. Well, yeah. Yeah, when I eventually get married, how funny would it be? It seems like a safe bet now.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

He was happy with it.

SPEAKER_01 31:03

Um, but basically, when I get married, like you said, I think a grand moment would be will you, Jaden Bunk Hunt, take whoever it is, yours truly to be your lawful headed wife, would be just a grand moment, I think. So dad's agreement, he finally agreed to it, and he said, you've got to change it back after you get married.

SPEAKER_03 31:23

Okay, well, I would like to hear those words from Alan Bunkhunt senior. Well it's Jane Bunkhunt. Alan Bunkhunt.

SPEAKER_00 31:32

He's Alan Michael, huh? Don't shorten that. Are you really?

SPEAKER_01 31:36

He is. Don't don't shorten that. There's a Constable C. Hunt in the family.

SPEAKER_05 31:42

That is unbelievable. My poor younger brother. Actually, listen, I you can imagine the uh the crap I copped at school. Yeah, well, Alan, hang on.

SPEAKER_03 31:50

Don't don't go off topic here, mate. We've got something very we've got something very important to to get on the line. You've been sitting patiently in the in the corner.

SPEAKER_04 31:59

All right.

SPEAKER_03 32:00

Do I have your blessing? Well, it's not me. It's does Jaden have your blessing? Uh listen. Um you know important rules are on a golf trip. That is so true. And that's what I will be saying. Yeah, that is so true. And would you miss the R and G D classic? No. Oh man.

SPEAKER_04 32:17

No, no, no, no. I've been on all of them. So you would change your name.

SPEAKER_05 32:22

Oh, well, I would never make such a dumb bet.

SPEAKER_01 32:25

Well, you don't back yourself like me.

SPEAKER_05 32:27

Well, I might I might I might put something else up instead of changing. Well no, actually, you didn't put it up, did you? No, no, it was a buyout. It was a buyout.

SPEAKER_01 32:34

And the buyout has to be worse because I'm a man of my word. I made the bet, so the buyout always has to be worse. And it has to be agreed by all parties. If Patrick didn't agree on the buyer, I would have wouldn't have come to the grinner this year.

SPEAKER_03 32:47

Yep.

SPEAKER_05 32:48

Well, in the end, I had no choice because Jane's Jane's backing him, so Jane is a yes from Joan? Yep.

SPEAKER_03 32:54

Alan?

SPEAKER_04 32:55

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:58

Bunky, welcome. Very good. I'm glad.

SPEAKER_00 33:01

I'd love to see you organise it without him.

SPEAKER_03 33:03

Well, well. You never know. It's such a tightly run ship now that I think it would just be able to fly and cruise because whack it in autopilot and off we go. Ratzy's a pilot. Remember him. Alan, you got any more whilst we've got you here, you got any more stories from the R and G D classic? Is there any Voldemort? Voldy?

SPEAKER_05 33:26

Ah, yeah, you've got your Voldemort now.

SPEAKER_03 33:28

We do, yeah. Yeah, we've got to. Surely you've got one.

SPEAKER_05 33:30

We've got a couple over 39 years, you can imagine.

SPEAKER_03 33:34

The stats, we won't go too deep into it. How how many people have come on your trip over the time? Oh, roughly.

SPEAKER_05 33:41

That's a good question, actually. Pretty close to 70 guys throughout throughout the 39 years. The most we've ever had on one trip was 36, 36 players, and uh these days it's more 20, 24. Um but yeah, 70 70 odd guys uh through. We've had a few Voldemorts. Um uh let me think. Let me think.

SPEAKER_03 34:09

Well, 70 blokes in 39 years. That's that's a lot. That's quite a high churn rate you've got going there, mate. There's actually about how many go on the trip?

SPEAKER_05 34:18

Yeah. Uh I was gonna say, yeah, 20, 24. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 34:21

Because if you're going with eight, I was like, mate, you're knocking off three every single year. No, no, no. No.

SPEAKER_05 34:26

You know, as I said, um, you know, one year thirty-six, another's thirty-two, and whatever. But um the there's a core of about fifteen to twenty guys who sort of go on most. There's two of us who've been on all thirty-nine. One, the guy who organizes it, Woody, my business partner, uh, and myself. Uh, and the the running, the running line, the running story throughout the entire 39 years is that Woody has never won it. Ever.

SPEAKER_06 34:54

He's been close.

SPEAKER_05 34:55

Not once. Um whereas myself and another guy have won it four times and lots of other guys have won it.

SPEAKER_03 35:01

You and the other guy that won it four times, are you out there on your pedestal? Like are you four-time champions that no one's got more than that?

SPEAKER_05 35:08

Correct. Correct. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:09

Pretty impressive.

SPEAKER_05 35:10

Now, the what's what's what makes it harder about ours is that if you win it, the next year you get docked six shots off your handicap. So it's guarante it basically guarantees that you don't win it two years in a row. And in fact, you're gonna fight like hell to avoid finishing last and getting the rubber deck. Yeah. That's great. Which is a fate worse than death. Yes. And that's it's a very good rule. So um, you know, but and you know if you win it, bloody hell, and I've done it four times, you're gonna cop this six-shot penalty.

SPEAKER_03 35:40

All right, tell me about Woody then. He doesn't want he organizes this thing and he hasn't won it in 39 years. Now, Jaden organises ours, and we're 11, 10 years in, and he hasn't won it. I'd love to get that to a 39. That would be sensational. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 35:52

Why hasn't he won it? Well, listen, he's come awfully close at times. Uh, in fact, one one year that uh where were we? Uh I think it was Queenstown, actually. I I'm I I can't quite remember, but I think it was Queenstown. Every uh sorry, I'll go back one step. So um for our 20th anniversary, we decided to go overseas. We'd always gone somewhere in Australia. Um and uh we went to Mission Hills in China, and that was fantastic. So every second year after that, for a while, uh we went overseas. Um guys, you know, they've got you lose a day travelling either direction, so guys find it found it a bit harder. So we've cut that back. Um but anyway, uh, I think it was in Questan, can't recall. But Woody uh is leading into the last day by a country man. He is that far in front. I'm sitting about third or fourth. Um on our last day, it's an individual stable and we have double points. So, for example, if there are 30 guys on the trip and you win, you get 60 points. And and then uh and and whoever finishes last gets two points and in between. So there's big swings depending on how well you play on the last day. Anyway, so Woody's leading by a country mile. Um I'm talking to my lovely wife the night before, saying, Listen, I'm sitting third, but I'm a long way back, long way back. And she says to me, Who's leading? And uh, Woody, is he's gonna he's gonna you know if this is gonna work. This is the no so you said you said to me, if you get up and get over him and win it, I will give you the biggest night of your entire life when I get back. When I get back home. And I gotta But you didn't tell me it was. You get that you kept that out of it. Yeah, yeah, no, it was uh I did it. I did at the uh presentation.

SPEAKER_03 37:45

You were keeping the woody to yourself.

SPEAKER_05 37:46

That's it.

SPEAKER_00 37:47

Yeah, the only other time he ever had a bit of a problem was he decided to go to China again. And Jaden decided to get drafted to Melbourne. And poor Alan stuck on an island in China with no way to get home.

SPEAKER_03 37:59

Uh it was was this uh was this when he got drafted or was this when he got drawn? No, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 38:05

It was actually Oh sorry, when he got um his first game at Melbourne.

SPEAKER_05 38:08

You were off on the R and G D classic. I was on the R and G D. Uh once again in China at the second Mission Hills resort, which is Ha in Hainan Island. Um anyway, um not quite as well set up for Westerners as um as the uh the original Mission Hills. Um so we're there. Jaden rings me on the Thursday night. We've we've got two more days of comp, Friday and Saturday, and then we fly home Sunday. He rings me on Thursday night and says, um I've been I've been selected.

SPEAKER_01 38:38

I'm in the I'm in the you know um 29 touches on a Friday night the week before in Casey. You didn't see it coming.

SPEAKER_00 38:44

No, no, I didn't. And playing against your team, Colleen.

SPEAKER_05 38:48

Anyway, so so um I decide so he's playing at the MCG on Sunday against Collingwood, who our family have supported right throughout.

SPEAKER_01 38:58

Dad's one a nine, big hunt, Collingwood cohort.

SPEAKER_03 39:01

Yeah, it was it was destiny.

SPEAKER_05 39:02

It was our our um our great-grandfather played in the famous four in a row at Collingwood.

SPEAKER_01 39:07

Team of the Century, Harold Rumney.

SPEAKER_05 39:09

Yeah, all that. Anyway, so he's playing against Collingwood at the MCG on a Sunday. So I decide I'm gonna leave the R and G D uh and fly back. So I thought, okay, I'll play.

SPEAKER_01 39:23

Hang on, hang on, hang on. Mum tells me that you there was a bit of doubt whether I was worth it coming back.

SPEAKER_06 39:28

Oh crap.

SPEAKER_01 39:29

It was a golf trip. You weren't you didn't weren't there for my birth, apparently, or three weeks into my life. What what is what's changed now? So apparently, dad's waiting of three weeks being alive as a young baby or a debut in the G, he picks debut at the G.

SPEAKER_05 39:45

Yeah, oh that's alright. You were born, you're a fine. You had plenty of time with you.

SPEAKER_03 39:50

Yeah, exactly. I agree. This thing's older than you, mate, the R and J Day Classic. It is, a lot of them. Ten years in. Yeah, exactly. And you would do the exact same thing. No, I would. No, that's what I'm saying. Gold trips, mate.

SPEAKER_05 40:01

So hang on, hang on. So I played I played uh on the Friday. Uh it's gonna take forever. Mum's getting bored. Yeah, I think.

SPEAKER_06 40:07

Just say you got home.

SPEAKER_05 40:08

So anyway. I did, but the first flight. What altitude did you fly at on the reading?

SPEAKER_00 40:15

Don't talk about it.

SPEAKER_05 40:16

We could have got Jack Rutter to do a reading. I should have got Jack Rutter. The flight I was booked on. Should have got Jack got cancelled at the last moment. So I got back to uh Melbourne on Sunday morning. He's debuting on Sunday afternoon. I go along to I get rush home, grab the footy gear, go to the MCNG with uh with Jane and the rest of the family. And uh and I thought, who the hell am I gonna varric for? Um, you know, we're Collingwood through and through. Uh and anyway, um, you know, he runs out of the ground. I thought, and I said to Jane, shit, I'm varricing for Melbourne. What is going on?

SPEAKER_01 40:51

So he's entered as a Collingwood supporter. Apparently, if I'm in the squad or the playing list for two years, playing out in development league in the VFL seconds, he's not gonna convert. So he's entered, still a Collingwood supporter, and he was always gonna back me. I think he told mum that I'm going for Jaden, more importantly, but I want Collingwood to win. But then what was it? Halfway through the second quarter, you nudge mum and go, I'm going for the D's. Yeah. Yep, there you are.

SPEAKER_03 41:16

Yep. Welcome to the to the great family to the Melbourne football.

SPEAKER_01 41:20

Oh, you're a D-man. Oh, do you remember not remembering him up from the MCC? I do. And um I finished the game. Mum and dad always got pissed in the umpires room where they put on some drink and some sausage rolls and whatever. Not not too pissed. We'd have a couple. Yeah, had a couple. You weren't drinking, mum was. And then you were driving, and I said, Can you drive me to the Espy? We were meeting cue the cue the word, Jack Rutter at the Espy. Um, he had just got a hole in one in Baumboogle. That's why we were meeting him, believe it or not.

SPEAKER_06 41:53

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 41:54

Um, and he that's a funny story because he got a hole in one at Bomb Bugle, but he was the pilot, and that guy fell sick, so they said, Will you join us as the eighth member of this trip? Gets a hole in one with randoms, his first one. Can't have one single sip because he's flying them out. So he's rang me in Garsh and be like, You've got to make it to the SB, you've got a hole in one. So I've finished my recovery super quick. It was the shortest ice bath of my career. I rang you guys any chance for a lift, came out, got in the lift, and then I've gone to you off. I've got a good mate of mine, Patrick, that wants a lift, big Patty. And you're stumbling out of the MCC.

SPEAKER_03 42:29

I was pissed as a chance.

SPEAKER_01 42:31

You were swaying a fan.

SPEAKER_00 42:33

Oh, did we give me a lift time?

SPEAKER_05 42:34

Because we're gonna ask me, but we carried on. He's a big unit and he was swaying a fan. But you fit it in the back, you'll find it. Yeah, just fit it in the back of the car.

SPEAKER_03 42:45

Weird you put me in the boot, Alan. It was real weird. There's one more thing we need to do.

SPEAKER_06 42:50

Where's the wheel?

SPEAKER_03 42:54

Jane is all over it. She's read the rugsheet. Yeah, yeah, she has.

SPEAKER_00 42:58

I want to be the wheel girl.

SPEAKER_03 43:00

Oh, well, come on up, Jane.

SPEAKER_01 43:02

It's like Fergie Irwin's um beautiful mum. She used to know she was. Debbie Irwin. Who was it originally? Debbie, what was her original maiden name? She was a Sail of the Century model. She was, too. And so one year we found her old Sail of the Century spin-the-wheel photos, and we printed it on our t-shirts because Ferg was part of the bent shafts. Yes. And shout out to Debbie Irwin, lovely lady. Well, actually, there was an incident with you that you forgot her name, mum, but we won't go there. Uh okay, well spin the wheel, mum.

SPEAKER_03 43:31

Before we start this, you're gonna have to take that beautiful canary jacket off the top of the wheel. We've got a new place. Thanks to Q the Man.

SPEAKER_01 43:36

And Adam Tomlinson's gift to the pod, a Jack Post inspired golf ball.

SPEAKER_03 43:41

That is. Now, I'm gonna change this up a slightly a little bit this week. It's normally Hunty calls his mates. Hunty's still gonna be on the call, but this is different. You you're gonna invite the person it lands on to a round of golf with the hunts, with the pack of hunts. All three of you. So let's see let's see who it is. Spin that wheel, please, Jane. Just give it a big hoik. That'll be one. Oh. Oh, it's Jake Lever. Jake Lever.

SPEAKER_04 44:14

Oh my god. Yeah. It's Jake Lever, excuse me. He would be funny.

SPEAKER_03 44:21

Jake Lever. Well, he's a family man. Well, who's number eight for the Eagles? Because you got the choice. You got the wiggle room.

SPEAKER_01 44:27

I forgot numbers. Who's number eight for the Eagles? I'm really, really bad. Is it Huey? Elijah Hewitt? Ruben Seven. Could be a bit difficult for me. I reckon it might be Elijah Hewitt. It is.

SPEAKER_03 44:39

Yo, right.

SPEAKER_01 44:40

Elijah Hewitt. Yeah. No, no, we'll skip that one. We'll go Jake Lever. I reckon he's more likely to answer.

SPEAKER_03 44:46

Alright. Well, I'm gonna uh put the call in and uh fingers crossed I wouldn't have. He's keen to play golf with the Hunt family.

SPEAKER_01 45:02

Do I have any friends? If it gets this far through the ring, it's not good. You know the world's voice now.

SPEAKER_05 45:13

Oh, you've called Jake. Uh please leave a message and I'll see you back. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 45:20

Rick, how are you going? Uh I'm around the dinner table with my parents. Uh, and dad were just reminiscing about you just taking intercept intercept mark after intercept mark. Mum liked you as a player. And we're a family, the hunts. You're a family man, and we were thinking Gorney sort of whispered at it you starting golf. So we thought, because my parents have a crush on you, why not join the hunts for a round of golf? Um, you're a family man, so I'm assuming you won't say no. Uh and let's le let's hit the links. Looking forward to seeing you there, Jake. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 46:01

I thought it alan and Jane when you come in and with their big with their big moment, but you're off the hook.

SPEAKER_01 46:06

Do we have to go Elijah Hewitt?

SPEAKER_03 46:07

Oh, well, do you have his number?

SPEAKER_01 46:09

Yeah, this could be anything. Oh, here we go.

SPEAKER_00 46:11

Why can't I do another spin? Who you bring him down?

SPEAKER_03 46:14

Elijah Hewitt. Oh, right. We'll give Jane one more spin.

SPEAKER_01 46:19

Here we go. Spin the wheel.

SPEAKER_03 46:20

Spin the wheel, Jane. She's giving it a big hoy. And it's number 12. 12. Dom Tyson back in the day.

SPEAKER_01 46:29

Oh, perfect. Clutch him code.

SPEAKER_03 46:31

Dad knows him. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:32

I know he's beautiful. He's gorgeous. Another crash.

SPEAKER_05 46:36

Went to uh King Island.

SPEAKER_01 46:37

No, no, it's who I played with. Yeah. I can't remember who was number 12 at the end of the D's. Do you know who it is now? Latrell Pickett.

SPEAKER_03 46:46

Oh, um I don't have his number. Alright. Alright, Tyson, it is. It's golden. Except CK Golf. I want to hear from you as well, Jane and he uh Jane and Alan.

SPEAKER_01 46:58

Why does everyone hate me? What time is it in Perth? 4 53. Oh, what a weird voicemail. Didn't expect anything else with you, Elijah, with that voicemail. Well, were you in the dun what? Are you in the dunes or something? Oh dumb Tyson. It's Dumb Tyson, you helmet! Go again. Sorry, Dom.

SPEAKER_00 47:24

You said I didn't hear that.

SPEAKER_01 47:27

We're leaving that. No, no, because we got the wrong number. No, no, no. It'll look like we rolled again. Mate, I I've I can edit that beautifully.

SPEAKER_03 47:44

Alright, hunty. It is ultimate golf course time. Wowee. You like the Augusta music that plays? I don't mind it. It just soothes your soul that plays because you remember golf floot are giving away two trips to the masters. And you know what, mate? Jane has signed up to golf loot, so is Alan. First prize on golf loot is a trip to the Masters, which is pretty bloody awesome. Second prize.

SPEAKER_00 48:08

Mine was through House of Golf. Through okay, through House of Golf. Second prize.

SPEAKER_01 48:12

So golf loot through House of Golf. Yeah, well, that's the best thing about Golf Loot. They're using all the golf industry. They want to grow the game all together. So lovely. Brian will love that. We've fallen short of growing the game because second prize is a trip with Jaden. Yeah, they go on the barrel there, aren't they? The bottom of the barrel. Oh, very good.

SPEAKER_06 48:32

Play with Jake.

SPEAKER_05 48:33

So if we win the second prize, can we can we ask for the third prize? No, we're playing with we're playing with Jake Lee.

SPEAKER_03 48:40

Maybe you're playing with Elijah Hewitt, maybe. Or Tom Tarsen, I don't know who who's. What we're gonna do, hole seven. Alan, what do you got for us? Ultimate golf course. We've had some great holes thus far.

SPEAKER_01 48:51

Do you believe earlier in the pod what happened with mum and a hole seven? I believe we should go with mum. Well, what is it? To start us off.

SPEAKER_00 48:58

I love hole seven.

unknown 48:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:00

Victoria.

SPEAKER_03 49:01

Okay. Why is that?

SPEAKER_00 49:02

Because I got a hole in one there.

SPEAKER_03 49:03

Yeah, tell us about the hole.

SPEAKER_00 49:05

On the seventh. Last week? That far from the hole.

SPEAKER_01 49:08

Oh, I nearly did it again. But was it was it the seventh this time round? It was the seventh. On the seventh? The date, the seventh.

SPEAKER_00 49:14

Wasn't on the seventh. Oh no, it wasn't on the seventh.

SPEAKER_01 49:16

Yeah, that's why I didn't go in. You told us about your philosophy.

SPEAKER_00 49:19

I think what's the hole?

SPEAKER_01 49:21

What's the hole like? Do you do you like the seventh? You go on the same hole?

SPEAKER_05 49:24

Well, uh the reason there's lots of lots of good seven seventh old uh is fantastic. Um let's keep that to me. Yeah. Okay. Um I will go for the seventh of Victoria because my wife has said to me, as long as I vote for the seventh at Victoria, I'm on a I promise for a huge night. You're just you're you're trying to get lucky again.

SPEAKER_00 49:49

Keep saying it, Alan. But also I put him under the bus because I got up there and they said, How did you do it? And I said, I went up there and I thought that was my ball. And I thought, I'm gonna get a booty here. He didn't.

SPEAKER_05 49:59

I missed it. It's his ball. Yeah, anyway. I think that's gone right off track. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:05

This track we're on.

SPEAKER_05 50:06

What about you, Bucky? What is it?

SPEAKER_01 50:07

It's a constant theme in this, and it's make me uncomfortable as possible. Man, we'll go to my happy place. And Patrick, I'm looking into the future. If I am ever gonna get a hole in one, it is this hole. It is my favorite hole in world golf. Number seven at the Nash on the old course. Yep. And more importantly, off the black tees. Oh, it's just the view is immense. I've lipped out on it countless times. Yep. Um, did it the other day, I was back black tea into a short right pin, which is very rare. And I asked Nick O'Hearn actually about it, friend of the pod, on his podcast. And I said, Has anyone got a hole in one? Have you heard of that weird angle? I asked the Nash and they said, no, no one's done it. But I lipped out, didn't matter. Sent it to the group, you guys didn't care, because who cares about a lip out birdie? Didn't go in. But anyway, I can see within the next 10 years, hopefully, I hit a nice, could be anything, it could be a four-iron into the wind, or it could be a gap wedge. Yep. Depending, that's why it plays different every day. I want to personally a left to right big win, just fly it out towards one of my favourite surf breaks at Cape Shank at the end of Southern Gunnar Matter, and just rip it towards the hole, a big left-to-right bounce straight in the side. That's what I want, and I will celebrate hard that night, I'm sure of it. But the seventh of the old, it sits out on its own. It looks like it's in the clouds. The view is immense. You go up to the green and you can see pretty much all of the gunner matter, a little bit of the moon in the distance. You've got Gunnar Matter Beach there, you've just got Forest Uh National Park, I think it is, with only hikers are allowed through there. You've got the helipad, which I was lucky enough to use the other day with our good mate, actually my oldest friend Ollie Parsons. Um he got a helicopter from that little helipad and took me to Cathedral because my car broke down.

SPEAKER_02 52:04

We spoke about that on last week's episode, which I still I can't believe you did that.

SPEAKER_01 52:09

Anyway, as any good Australian golfer knows, the seventh on the old is magic. And I cannot see a world. I know, mum, I know you got a hole in one, but it was your second. Doesn't matter, who cares about the second?

SPEAKER_05 52:20

It's the old seventh old is is an incredible hole. The seventh vic is a little bit more. It is a good hole.

SPEAKER_01 52:26

You use the ramp. I actually, believe it or not, celebrated a hole in one of my own on that hole. Which the crowd's asking, Hunty, I don't think you've got one. It didn't go in. It was sitting. We were playing Twilight, it was with Maddie Griffin, the pro, friend of the pod, which we'll get on soon. But the sun was got this angle, and the ball was sitting on the lip behind it in the shade of the flag. And we all started erupting. I ran up and I'm like, come on, I've high-fived them all. And then Maddie Griffin looks over, he's like, it's not in. And I'm like, it is, it is in. And then we like look behind the flag and it's just sitting there. So I understand. You use did you use the big left bank, top left, roll it back to the front, right? It is a great hole. I do admit. Okay. But the seventh hole is a is a great hole. Nothing, nothing beats the Nash 7th.

SPEAKER_03 53:16

Like we did last week, we're throwing this over to the social audience to vote. So that's what we're gonna do this time. I'm gonna throw in the seventh at Mooner Open just because, you know, you had a couple of goes at it over the last few weeks.

SPEAKER_01 53:29

Um actually our net our previous guests from last week um schooled them on that hole. Yeah. Lockie Barker Lockham Alien, as you like to call, absolutely peached one in the other day for Q school play.

SPEAKER_03 53:42

So we'll throw that to the social audience, which is growing, Jaden. Follow us on Grinner Golfcast.

SPEAKER_01 53:47

Wow. Yep. It's Tommy Morris helped in all of that, believe it or not. First and enemy now, my friend. Yeah, almost cost us the podcast. I I was out on seek.com looking for a co-host, but luckily, Patrick, for you, it's a very niche golf trip podcast co-host role. There wasn't too many around.

SPEAKER_03 54:05

Yeah, well, but we live another day, don't we? It's a pleasure to serve, mate. It's a pleasure to serve. Um wrap us up, please, Jaden. It's been I've loved having Alan and Jane here for their their insights on the the R and G D classic and Jane's two-hole in ones, two, the Rupu coup, and the the big kahuna, and you know, the two-hole in ones more than you have. It's all fantastic. But has all been good. Could you give us a nice little outro like you you were born to do?

SPEAKER_01 54:33

Well, basically, I had to go pick up a wedge halfway through this podcast. So dad went on his ramble again.

SPEAKER_03 54:38

I don't know what was said, but uh well, you're sort of lucky he wasn't here. Oh you weren't here.

SPEAKER_01 54:44

Yeah, I'm gonna have to wait till now when this episode airs to find out what was said. But it all started on Malakuda golf course. When I was about three years old, I had plastic clubs. I think you I don't know if I had really pink lips or you put lipstick on me, because that photo, I've got peroxide white hair, I look like a clown, and I've got red lipstick on by the looks of it. Was it zinc? Pink zinc. And I've got a plastic club in my hand. So this whole golf obsession that I have, especially golf trips, uh heard the stories of the R and D D. I'm sure you kid proofed them all. So at another time I will ask you the explicit details of that one. Heard all about mum knocking herself out just for a plastic tee. So where the game of golf started with these two, so it means a lot to me. So thanks for coming in. And uh it's been a good F. Enough of Q school, we've finished all that stress and whatever, and now we're we're playing golf. We're going on golf juice, what it's all about. And that's what these two taught me. Have fun. The best golfer is the funnest golfer. Oh, well said. It's fast, it's been good fun. Thanks for coming in.

SPEAKER_03 55:49

Thank you for having us. Alan and Jane, I've had a ball, it's been fast, it's been loose.

SPEAKER_01 55:53

And I've just got one more thing. It's the gifts. It's a gift exchange. We've got this for you, mum. A nice pink jacket. Oh, thank you. And then for dad, I've got a cathedral lodge hat. Oh, there you go. Thank you. Um, and uh do you guys have a gift for us?

SPEAKER_05 56:11

Oh, well, it's a gift. I didn't realize we had to do a gift for us, but it was a gift for you. What she got?

SPEAKER_01 56:16

What are you gonna do? Uh what she got? What's it? Time to party. Happy birthday. That's my birthday, isn't it? Jeez, that's cursing through the cracks. It is my birthday tomorrow, I think. Is it? Yeah, it is tomorrow. Oh my god, you're lost.

SPEAKER_03 56:37

The third of April. Yes, it is tomorrow. You've lost your marbles, right? Well, happy birthday, mate. What's that? What did you get me?

SPEAKER_01 56:45

I'll read that later. You've got me. Let's have a look at this.

SPEAKER_00 56:51

I unfortunately put the wrong name on it.

SPEAKER_01 56:53

The wrong name on it. Oh, it's a little stamp. Is this for the golf balls? Yep. Oh. What was that?

SPEAKER_00 57:01

I should have done bunk.

SPEAKER_01 57:02

Oh, she should have done bunk. What have you gone for? What is it? A little stamp for my Oh, it's a beautiful Jaden with a big J. Oh, Jade. It's my G-rated name. I like it. Probably good for a few tournaments coming up. Um thank you, mum. Thank you, Dad. That's good. Now I can tell which which one of my balls in the rough, I guess. Thank you a lot. Alan, we'll let you we'll let you get home.

SPEAKER_03 57:28

Sounds like you're rich in a go, man. Say Jane, say Alan, say Huntie. It's been fast, it's been loose of the Grinna Golfcast brought to you by Golf Loop. Thanks for getting