E9 | Speed Dates With NBA Champs At The Masters...

Episode 9 of the GrinnaGolfCast takes us to Augusta, with Hunty on the ground soaking it all in.

He’s joined by Alex Bachman (Las Vegas Raiders), 2x NBA Champion, JR Smith, and local legend Marcus Maddox, who seems to have a bit of luck on his side around the golfing traps.

Enjoy this speed dating session the The Masters way... this one’s a proper golf trip bucket list episode.

Fast. Loose. Ready golf.

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:03

Boy oh boy, we're here live from Augusta. But welcome to the Grinna Golfcast, episode nine, golf trip of the week, Augusta. Patrick could not make it. I tried to get him to come, he regrets it, but we're here now. We've got better people filling his boots to co-host. And I've got Alex, what's your last name? Bachman. Bachman.

SPEAKER_02 0:23

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_04 0:23

From the Raiders. Oh sorry. Running back. He's had some shoulder surgery, but more importantly, golf fanatic. We're gonna get J.R. Smith just next to me. He's got a cool story about college golf and stuff like that. We've got some good interviews going on. We're just gonna speed date it. Yeah, let's talk about golf.

SPEAKER_03 0:39

I mean, why don't the game try to take a mic? Yeah, I mean, I started golfing like five years ago. Uh it was always too slow for me as a kid. ADD, mad ADD. So football, basketball, having the ball in my hands, being able to affect the game immediately was always like just something I was always attracted to as a kid. So had complete disinterest in golf until my first offseason when I had nothing else going on. How do I stay competitive? How do I decrease my chances of getting hurt during the offseason? Yeah. And everybody was golfing. Then COVID hits, and then it was really all about golf. Like it was the only thing we can do, you know, during that lockdown period to kind of stay active and be outside. So took it up with a lot of all my teammates when I was with the Giants, hit my first hole on one a year in. Well, there's a big story. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:30

So I've done everything but go in the hole. It's just never gonna happen. And my co-host and me have a bet. The person who gets it first pays for the golf trip. We go like we're going to Ireland next year and stuff. Yeah. Like business class, you pay for everything for the co-host. And he's off like a handicap of 18, I think, at the moment. I play every day, I'm off scratch. And I reckon he's gonna get one first. So tell me about the hole in one. I love hole in one stories.

SPEAKER_03 1:53

Yeah, it was uh Master Sunday, Upper Montclair. Me and my two teammates, Saquon and uh Julian Love, were out there. It had been hailing for a little bit, so a lot of people left. We stayed in and then went back out, played our back nine, hundred dollar hole, hole 16 on West Upper Montclair. I hit uh I grabbed a six iron, it was 188 with the headwinds, hit it perfectly. It landed probably like 10 feet short and just rolled in the cup. Oh yeah, it was right as soon as it came off my club. Say just came around and put my his shoulder uh hand on my shoulder and was like, yo, and then it dropped, and we just watched it go in. Yeah, and then our caddy, I looked at my caddy, I was like, yo, and he just goes, he puts his hands above his head, like just full python, like you know, yeah, or full cobra. Like he's like, yeah, he's like, I'm like, oh shoot, we just ran down, and that was only like a year or two into playing golf, and from there I just felt like every shot, like, oh, I have a chance to ace. You feel like you can make them all, you know? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Um, but from there, just like really golf has just expanded by network. I've just gotten to meet so many cool people, and I really think that there is missed opportunities if you're not around the game of golf because of just the relationships formed and the bonds formed. I can have a one-minute conversation with somebody and I know nothing about him. But the at the moment I asked, does he play golf? Yeah, his eyes light up. Yeah, yeah. We've now found a common ground, and now I can turn it into a four-hour round of golf, and like three, four years later, we're like close friends or maybe potentially doing business or doing something together. Yeah. Um, so it's one of the best investments I've ever made in my life is golf.

SPEAKER_04 3:27

Oh, absolutely. Like when I met you before, I didn't know who you were, you didn't know uh both footballers, American and Australian. But um, we talked about golf, and the one thing you told me about, like you had to have shoulder surgery. But the first thing you mentioned was, I can't play golf at the moment, like we're gonna get a game together. It's just so funny. Like, yeah, I find a lot of AFL players the same. I imagine it's NRL, NBA are the same thing. It's just like, yes, we concentrate and stuff, but you need that release away from professional sport, and golf is just perfect. You've got four hours of your best mates walking around nature, you meet people as well, and just uh the more sports people I meet, just everyone's just fanatical about golf because I think it's the best game on the planet. Like, I know we play our footballs and stuff, like we've got that competitiveness in that, that's fun and all that, but golf, I saw sort of I retired early, so I don't get concasted, I don't get injured, so I can play golf the rest of my life. Like my mum and dad are in their 70s now, dad's nearly 70, and I play with them, and I want to be able to play till I'm 100, really. And golf is one sport where you can do that. So anyway, we'll get into a segment. So, episode nine, we made it, we've making our dream 18 holes. So we're doing the ninth hole. Do you have a favorite ninth hole you've ever played, or a story, or anything?

SPEAKER_03 4:40

Shoot, uh I'm from Westlake Village, California, so Sherwood's like my home course. Um, so there's this there's a we need the master, like a quiet side.

SPEAKER_02 4:53

We got JR Smith. Yeah, we got JR Smith. Can you stop going? We got agreements going on in the skin the camera over here. There we go. Let's go. Yeah. We need the quiet place. Hey, yes.

SPEAKER_03 5:10

As I said about relations I didn't talk about relationship right here. Relationship.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

We need a course master. What's your name? What's your name? My name is Monty Tao. I play for North Carolina. No, I didn't. Name roster starting bonus. Connie Colwall, Western Illinois University, starting third baseman, 74 All-Star Hall of Fame team. Go next, Connie Colwall. All the teaching. Let's freaking go. And former marketing director, New Orleans Saints. New Orleans Saints. I'm Jaiden. I'm from Australia. I was shit at footy and now I'm a golfer. I love it. We could use you. And I also work for the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Go Cubs. Fucking punt.

SPEAKER_04 5:49

80 meters. That was awesome.

SPEAKER_03 5:53

That was awesome. That was awesome.

SPEAKER_02 5:55

It's all right.

SPEAKER_03 5:56

Yeah, no. Ninth hole, it'd probably be would probably be 18 on uh on Sherwood at home. That was hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 6:03

That was great. No doubt. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:07

Featured guests right there, celebrity shot. Um but uh yeah, probably something needs to bring it back to like my the my home course. Um yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:15

Or uh my parents what sort of hole is it?

SPEAKER_03 6:17

It's par four. Uh, you know, you hit as far as you can, and then it's there's water, uh almost kind of like an island green, but cool. Yeah, you know, there's opportunity to kind of go around the left side, but yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:29

Um what we're gonna do is I'm gonna interview, it's like speed day, and so I'm gonna interview about 10 people. Okay, and what we do is we'll put it up to the guests, uh sorry, our consumers, our viewers, and we're gonna be like, do a vote, the best ninth hole. So we'll get get some AI images, we make a few. Patrick, my co-host, does all that stuff. So hopefully yours comes out on top and we'll make a big montage about it. And sure. Yeah, but I think that's it. I think you need to go. Are you going to the masters today? Or I'm going in tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 6:59

Yeah, I'll be I'll be in tomorrow. Be the first time I've I've gone in, so I'm really excited about it. Yeah, this whole experience has been great. Um, but right now I'm just making the rounds at all the different houses, uh talking to people that I've met already and and uh continuing conversation or just getting to know new people like yourself. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 7:16

Unreal, thanks, Alex, and go Raiders, I guess. Yes, sir, appreciate it. So I've got a team now. I've never watched a minute of NFL, so I'll watch now. Let's go. Yeah, let's do it. Thanks, mate. Appreciate it. Righto, guest number two, J.R. Smith, uh, NBA legend. Dude, you win two titles? That's all I got. Two. More importantly, though, I love your story about going to college. How old were you when you went to college? Uh I was 35. 35, retired from the NBA college because we're here to talk about golf. That's what's important. Such a good sport. I'm trying to do a similar thing. I went to Q school on the Australasian PDA tour two weeks ago. As everyone knows, I butchered it. I had two triple bogeys on the first day. And I was going all right in the last five holes, I had a run-in with a rules official and I got too competitive. I was just like, oh, I thought I was right, whatever. I butchered it, but maybe next year I'll try again. But more importantly, I'm traveling the world playing golf, meeting cool people. Yeah. Yeah. So tell me about your college experience. I love that.

SPEAKER_06 8:15

Well, it's funny because my first college tournament, I was super pumped that I was excited or that I was ready. I made a nine on the first hold. So I I understand your pain. Did you talk the first car? Uh no, I I kind of hit the first one a little right, sprayed it a little right in the woods. Uh, I thought uh I could hit the hero shot. I couldn't uh hit a tree, um ended up punching out. Then I hit a I thought I had a decent wedge shot. Turns out I shanked it and hit it OB. Yeah. So then I took a drop. It was a bad. It was bad.

SPEAKER_04 8:54

Yeah, the OB in tournament. Oh, yeah. They bring it in a bit as well.

SPEAKER_06 8:58

Yeah, they do.

SPEAKER_04 8:59

I got done with a triple bogey. I was a meter outside the OB. I like hook the ball, that's my miss. The day before in the practice round, I hooked one, I didn't even get it because I was practicing shots. So I've walked up to that our, I think it was our last hole. It was the ninth hole, but it was our 18th because I started off the 10th. Oh. I found my ball from the day before, but it didn't have the line on it. It was exactly the same. I used like a left dash pro B1. I found my ball a meter inside, and I started celebrating, I'm like, oh thank god. And then my caddy's like, doesn't have a line on my oh my god, that's my ball from the day before in the practice round. And then a meter to the left is my real ball, and I'm just like, oh, so I had to go back to the T, like, free off a T.

SPEAKER_06 9:41

Out of bounds in tournament golf is brutal. It's brutal. It's the it's one of the worst feelings ever. That and I feel like um, because for me, like when when I hit one OB, I get really tense on that next T. And it's like any then now it's like my miss could be anywhere. Yeah, you know, so yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_04 10:01

You lose all your m-sor. No, no, you're gonna spraying everywhere. The drunk Australia. No, I'm jet lag, so I need a drink to stay awake right now.

SPEAKER_06 10:09

As you should. Ain't nothing wrong with it. Nah, so I played with an Australian, uh Matthew Delaware Dover, is one of my favorite teammates of all. It's hard out of day. Oh man, he's amazing. Yeah, see. Great dude. He played with him? Yeah, yeah. Played with him in Cleveland, you won a championship with him. Oh, silly. Um, just a great overall dude. Yeah, great guy. Cool.

SPEAKER_04 10:29

Yeah, like I think lots of people here. I'm just I'm very upfront. I don't really care who you are, whatever. I'll talk to whoever, but I feel like it's an Aussie culture that Americans seem to love. Like, yeah, I'll just go up to anyone. I think I got that from my mum. My mum just talks to anyone. Like, she tried to talk to, I think it was like in the president's cup, she tried to get Tiger. She's like, Well, Tiger, what's going on? Like, that's just my mum, so I think I've got that trait. But I think like Australians are just very we don't really care, we just talk to whoever we want to talk to.

SPEAKER_06 10:57

And y'all motherfuckers are competitive. Yeah, we are competitive, tough as nails. Yeah, I was like, holy sh when I when I played with Delhi, I was like, this motherfucker is like probably one of the toughest people I've ever met, my friend.

SPEAKER_04 11:08

He he looks crazy. Well, that's sort of yeah, I got knocked out a couple of times. There's a few concussions in AFL. Unfortunately, we sort of lie about it at the time because we're so competitive. But that's why I sort of I was 30 and I retired because I'm like, I want to play golf the rest of my life, I don't want to get concasted. You guys find us crazy, like the AFL. I don't know if you've ever seen it, but whenever I show Americans footage of like AFL, they're like, You guys don't wear helmets, no padding, no nothing.

SPEAKER_06 11:35

Oh, we we used to kick the rugby in the uh in the gym all the time. Oh, cool. Used to kick the ball all the time, oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 11:41

Yeah, so funny. Anyway, do you have we're doing a segment, Dream Aiden? Your favorite ninth hole we've ever played.

SPEAKER_06 11:47

My favorite ninth hole I've ever played, um or a story even from one, or well, it's funny because I was listening, I was sitting over there earlier and I was listening to uh hole in one story. So my I hit a hole in one on nine Miami shores. Sick. And it was just I just took off running, I was super excited. Just fucking just went nuts. But I didn't realize, like it kind of dwindled after I sat there and realized, like, bro, you sat there and did the podcast with Steve for four hours, and you watched all the good players hit it and where it you should hit it at and miss or whatever. Yeah, and so I'm like, you shouldn't have made a hole in one of them. Anything, but I still executed the shot, so it didn't take anything away from it.

SPEAKER_04 12:32

The yardage, the club, the type of shot you hit.

SPEAKER_06 12:35

Tell me about it. Oh, it was uh 50, it was a 50 degree. I had a little draw, it hit the back of the slope. Baby draw. Yeah, baby draw. I tried to hit the back of the slope because everybody was coming up kind of short, yeah. And you got a little backstop there.

SPEAKER_04 12:47

Use the banks, banks are always open on a golf course, always open, even on weekends. There you go.

SPEAKER_06 12:52

Always open. So I used the bank and it rolled back and came back like four feet and went in.

SPEAKER_04 12:57

How good's that? That was nuts. That was sounds like my mom's old one. She used a bank and she didn't even know it was in. Really? So she sent me the photo and she's got a putter in her hand. I'm like, You sure you got it? She's like, Yeah, I thought I was in the bunker. But uh, yeah, came back. So I love the rollback. That's how I hope I get one. I've never got one. I've lipped out, I've uh taken stories to a college physicist about how my ball didn't go in the hole once at Royal Melbourne. Yeah. That's how like it's just never gonna happen for me. But I love hole in one story. I want to, if I ever get one, the seventh hole at the national my course, the old course. It's just like island almost in these trees with the coast and big surf in the background. It's like iconic Australian hole, but I went off the bank last week and it rolled to like on the lip, and I was just it's coming, aren't we?

SPEAKER_06 13:49

We'll see.

SPEAKER_04 13:49

We can't force it. Yeah, anyway, JR, love, love your story. Appreciate it, man. Um, yeah, I love I love that you're just like fuck it. I'm gonna change from NBA to golf. Like, hell yeah. I got a lot of slack in the Australian media because they're like, look at this footy player trying to play golf. I'm like, if I fail, who gives it? Who gives damn? Like, doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_06 14:09

It's not on y'all, it's on me.

SPEAKER_04 14:11

We just have the competitive blood. You damn right love the competition, so unreal.

SPEAKER_06 14:15

If they could do it, they would too.

SPEAKER_04 14:16

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, take that.

SPEAKER_06 14:20

Thanks for us, too.

SPEAKER_04 14:22

I've got something for you, I know gift exchange. You know, Royal Melbourne.

SPEAKER_06 14:25

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 14:26

So I think it's like fifth in the world, so this is a cover from there.

SPEAKER_06 14:28

Oh shit. Yeah, appreciate that, man. Yeah, thanks, man.

SPEAKER_04 14:32

No worries.

SPEAKER_06 14:32

That's fire. Oh, yeah. Well, I'll do a gift. Yeah, we do have a big one. There's nothing special. There's nothing special. What do we got? Oh, the bridge. Tiger ball. Yeah, no. He designed it, but this is the spinnier ball. This is the one he uses. He uses the red one.

SPEAKER_04 14:48

Yeah, you like a bit more spin?

SPEAKER_06 14:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 14:50

Sick. I've got I I do the opposite. I try to brys and proof my game. So I got the left dash, like low spin. So I just try to bomb the course.

SPEAKER_06 14:58

Oh, yeah. I can't.

SPEAKER_04 14:59

I the ball on the box.

SPEAKER_06 15:01

Try one of these then. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 15:03

It'll be so different. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Yeah, I'm asking. There we go. Second guess. Let's get into number three. Righto, we're starting to cook here a bit. We had uh intruder last episode or last guest, which was very funny. So if we can get a course marshal from Augusta here, that would be unreal. But anyway, I love that old fella. JR was good, Alice was good. Guest number three, we've got Marcus Maddox, keen golfer. Tell me your golfing story.

SPEAKER_05 15:32

What's your deal? Absolutely, man. Marcus Maddox from Augusta, Georgia.

SPEAKER_04 15:36

I got a local. Importantly, a local from Augusta, our first local.

SPEAKER_05 15:40

Yes. Uh love the Masters, obviously. Um, I'm the founder of the Part 3 tour, the best golf tour that you've never heard about yet.

SPEAKER_04 15:48

Well, I saw something. You had a big promo through the drive on hand or something.

SPEAKER_05 15:52

We had we had a huge event on Wednesday. We had over 400 people show up, 20 food vendors. We paid the winner a thousand dollars. You know, it's growing in popularity. Uh, but a good golf story. So on Saturday, I had the opportunity to play 21 golf club. It's in Jackson, South Carolina. It's about 30 minutes away. But I had my first hole in one on a par four. I've had a hey.

SPEAKER_04 16:16

Nah, I'm I'm over this podcast. Everyone's had hole in uh the Jason Day hat. It's got Min Ru Li's signature.

SPEAKER_05 16:25

You just gotta you gotta show off your haircut, right?

SPEAKER_04 16:28

Sorry to Min Wu. That's a signature. It's dirty to be that, but oh, this hole in one thing.

SPEAKER_05 16:34

Well, look, it's it's my existence. Listen, it's the only thing that I needed to have to complete like my golfing career, right? I've I've had an Albert Joss on a par five, which was insane. 239 yards.

SPEAKER_04 16:48

What's that? 210, an eight or zero? 220?

SPEAKER_05 16:52

I have no shit like a three wood or something on it. Uh it was a hybrid. 239, little into the wind. And I had a hole in one at Westlake Country Club, which is local. Yeah, 160 yards. That was last year with my son. He's 11 years old. Jackson. What a good one. Shout out, Jackson.

SPEAKER_04 17:10

And we would have got a photo together.

SPEAKER_05 17:12

Yeah, it was great. And then on Saturday at 21 Club, first time playing the golf course, less than 20 people on property. My buddy Justin Whelan takes me out to the golf course, and Caddy tells me, you know, 258 yards. So I'm kind of like, do I hit a soft driver? Do I hit a three-wood? So smoke a three-wood up the ridge, down right into the hole. Five minutes later, drinking out of the Claret Jug. What? The Claret Jug? They've got it on property this week.

SPEAKER_04 17:47

Oh my god. So I'm going there. Is it Burkdale this year? Yes. Claret Jug's the British open, yeah. A hundred percent. I'm going, I'm going with a few friends. I think it's Royal Burkdale this year. Right. Can't wait. Yeah, that is. So you drank claret. You drank out of the claret jug after a hole in one. Yes. 21. Can I can you be my father? Fire out. What a man. That's so sweet. Sorry to dad. Sorry to dad.

SPEAKER_05 18:13

Listen, man. The odds to make a hole in one on a par four or an albatross, period. You want to take a guess? Oh. 0.001 or something. In American odds, 6 million to 1.

SPEAKER_04 18:29

Yeah, I don't know, American odds, but that sounds like a lot. Exactly. We've got the mathman here. Backstage, we've got to the mathman.

SPEAKER_05 18:38

6 million to 1 to have two albatrosses in your lifetime is 1 trillion to 30 trillion to one. So I just feel like I'm playing with house money, man. Do you like has anyone interviewed you? Surely. Like.

SPEAKER_04 18:50

You're the first one, buddy. Mate, like, how many people in the world currently alive would have had two albatrosses? And oh, I like that one's on a par five, one's in a par four. Correct. Shout out to one of my ex-teammates, he's still playing, Ed Langdon. I've got to get to the bottom of this. He's got a hole in one on a par four as well.

SPEAKER_05 19:08

Shout out, Ed.

SPEAKER_04 19:08

Shout out to Ed Langdon. He looks like me. He's a better-looking version of me, better at football, wears the long sleeves better than me, everything. I just try to idolise him. I'm not I'm team who Ed, a lot of the Melbourne supporters call me. Right. Um, but his story is he will not tell me what hole and what golf course it was on. Because I think it I think it's a secret. Yeah, it's a secret. Are you sure you made it? And he's got a plaque apparently on the course. But I I try, I try my hardest to get the story. He won't tell me. So if anyone's in Western Australia and they know where Ed Langdon's Park is, I need to know that. Come on, Ed. Yeah. And the other guy, Maddie Griffin, a friend of the pod, he's an uh he's a pro. He used to be on the Japanese tour, now he's on the Australasian tour. Great man. He at his home course, Victoria, GC. So my mum's a member there. It's ranked, I think, in the 90s in the world. Very, very good golf course. I think it's severely underrated, to be honest. Done by OCM, did other greens. A really good. You probably won't know OCM, but they're making waves in Australian golf at the moment.

SPEAKER_05 20:05

But I've heard of Victoria, actually.

SPEAKER_04 20:06

Yeah, so Victoria, the first hole was real quirky. It's about 220, 30 meter par four to maybe like 240, 250 yard, I think. We need the math man back. Um but he, his home course, he grew up on the public course right next door. It's just a good story. Local guy, he got a hole in one on the first hole. Imagine starting your round. How are you supposed to continue? I never asked, I gotta ask him what how'd he shot, but yeah, the hole in that is crazy. He didn't drink out of the claret jug afterwards, though.

SPEAKER_05 20:38

Like I don't know, man. It's the stuff that dreams are made of. I just feel so lucky, I feel so blessed. I I have a great life. Did you have friends there? Like you had your son. Uh I had my son at the first hole in one, which would you have it any other way? And then having my good friend Justin Whelan, Emmy Award-winning film producer. It was unbelievable.

SPEAKER_04 21:01

Wait, so you've had two hole in ones? Two hole in months, one in part four, one in part three. Correct. Also another albatross and a part five.

SPEAKER_05 21:09

Correct.

SPEAKER_04 21:10

Man, like what did you do to get this luck, this karma? Oh my god. Like, obviously, you're a good golfer. You have scrapped up.

SPEAKER_05 21:16

I'm a two handicap. Yeah, two, yeah. We got a match today, so we'll see. We do. What do you have? And we got a tea time.

SPEAKER_04 21:21

We got a tea time, yeah. We've got 17 minutes to leave. Um, we're right. Let's quicken this up. Okay. Segment time. We uh we'll we'll put it to the listeners uh about we'll go get all the guests to put their best ninth hole they've ever played, or the best story, and we'll put it out to the listeners, they'll vote on it. So you've got some competition with J.R. Smith and Alex as well, some good golf holes, a hole in one as well. I'm sick of this. I'm sick of this. I'm absolutely over this. Well, it's the hole in one podcast, is it? Let's let's make fun of the Australian who's never had one, who never will.

SPEAKER_05 21:52

Um maybe today, buddy.

SPEAKER_04 21:54

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Imagine. We can we can we can get the master's carf. If Jason Day wins, I reckon I can get to L. To party and so come on, J Day. With Melbon. Like I'm wearing his hat. I got Min Wu's signature. I don't think he's doing too well, but come on Australia.

SPEAKER_05 22:08

I'm just glad that I didn't wear the same hat because it was between this and this. Yeah. And I'm wearing that one tomorrow. So okay, favorite ninth hole you've ever played. So this is the ninth episode. Yeah, so we're talking about my favorite 18. Yeah. My favorite ninth hole. I I couldn't, I would be remiss to not say East Lake, number nine, Georgia. The home of Bobby Jones.

SPEAKER_04 22:32

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_05 22:33

The inventor of the Augusta National, the Match.

SPEAKER_04 22:37

Bobby Jones is like goated.

SPEAKER_05 22:40

The coolest part, I'm playing around with Robert Jones Black, Bobby Jones' great-grandson, a good friend of mine. We work on a project called Generation Next Project, a nonprofit that helps the game of life, the game of golf and life. So, par three. I run the par three tour, so it's a par three. It used to be number 18. Historically, there's a lot of golf courses that finish on a par three, right? Yeah, right. Um hit it on the green. No, miss the green, miss the green, chip it up to about 30 feet. You know, not a good chip. Yeah, yeah. Drain the park.

SPEAKER_04 23:16

Oh, for a par. Absolutely. I think a good pass save is almost better than a birdie. I just think a good pass save is just phenomenal. I feel better about for a pass save. I love them. Whenever I'm over a 30-footer, I tell my mates the pros. I'm like, I'm gonna make this. But if it's a birdie, it'll never go in. But pars, like good pass save. You mean you're a clutch. You're a clutch. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_05 23:37

And you would think I would choose a birdie.

SPEAKER_04 23:39

Nah.

SPEAKER_05 23:39

Uh I do have to say.

SPEAKER_04 23:41

The real golfers understand.

SPEAKER_05 23:42

So playing East Lake last year for the first time, my buddies wanted to play the tips. Oh, cool. Plus one handicaps, and I was like, no, let's not play the tips. We want to have fun. So, you know, shot 81. I was kind of ticked off. Come back the next day, 70 with six birdies. With with Bobby Jones' great grandson. Oh my god, no. Does it get any better?

SPEAKER_04 24:04

I just need like my this very strong. I need to touch this just aura. This man has oh my god, I'm losing my shit here. Uh Unreal. Well, what we'll do is tradition on the podcast, we have gift exchange. So, talking about hats, this is my local golf course. It's a bit used, it's got the Aussie summer sweat in it. I love it. But you can put in the washing machine. The Nashville, my favorite place on earth. Whenever I drive into the Nash, I just yeah, put it on. Yeah, the backwards, you've Americanized it. Let's go, Aussie. Americanized it. What are we saying?

SPEAKER_05 24:41

So shout out to Josh Thomas. Just for me. This is for you. We'll put it in the podcast studio. This is a one of 200, a local artist, a pimento cheese sandwich. Pimento cheese sandwich.

SPEAKER_04 24:53

I had one of them on practice day.

SPEAKER_05 24:55

What did you think? Yeah, no. No.

SPEAKER_04 24:56

Not for me, but I'm gonna I'm going over the weekends of Saturday, Sunday, tomorrow, the next day. So I'm gonna give it a whirl because all you guys love it.

SPEAKER_05 25:04

They're they're famous for their sandwich. It's a dollar fifty. I know the prices. How do you beat it?

SPEAKER_04 25:09

That is how do you beat it? This is really cool. This guy's really good at what he's gonna do. Awesome. Well, he's purchased number.

SPEAKER_05 25:13

So it's one of 200. There's only 200 copies of this.

SPEAKER_04 25:17

I've given you an old sweaty hat.

unknown 25:20

Bro.

SPEAKER_04 25:20

Yeah, we don't have a big budget yet at the Grinnard Golf Cast, but we're gonna get there, buddy. We're gonna get there. Unreal. Lovely. We're gonna play golf in about. We're gonna leave in 12 minutes. So yeah, I'll see you on the course. Let's have a game, buddy. Sweaty wanting to interview him again after. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Episode three.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

Well, well, well. Patty Garshagen here. Wouldn't let you get through a whole episode of the Grinner Golfcast without hearing my Dolce Tones. I want to jump on at the end of the episode and just say a quick fuck you to Jaden Hunt. He's over there at Augusta, at The Masters, whilst we're all wherever we may be, watching on Scrubbing Shoulders with J.R. Smith, Alex Bachman. It'd be nice if you could have got his name right before you started interviewing Jaden, but we loved it. I loved it. Uh, and so much so, we're gonna bash it into another episode next week with the other people you spoke to during this little speed dating session. So, you keep doing what you're doing, old pal, and uh and we'll keep watching from afar. I think you've got just about everyone, every man, woman, or beast who's watching all this thing is very, very jealous. That's been the Grina Golfcast brought to you by Golf Loot. I'm Patty Garshagen. Another episode coming next week, but for now, ciao ciao.