The Country 05/06/25: Murray Deaker talks to Jamie Mackay

When in Auckland, you’ve gotta talk to an Aucklander! Today, we go back to 1994, and a tribute to an All Blacks legend, and discuss where the best golf course in the world is!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
When you're in Auckland, you've got to talk to an Auckland.
And next and final guest today as the biggest jaffer
I know, good afternoon, Murray Deeker Jamie.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
How the hell did they let you? And I've warned
them to stop you at the airport or if you're
coming by land, stop you at the Bombays. I how
did you get into the Promised Land?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Well, I don't know. I'm just here for a couple
of days and I'll probably get my fill and then
I'll go back to good old Dunedin where you were
born and bred and raised. Murray, I farewell one of
my best friend. Last week and I was going through
some old newspaper clippings to dig up something about his
sporting career, and lo and behold, I find a photo
from nineteen ninety four and the Sunday Star Times or

(00:42):
whatever it was in those days, in the society page,
and there's you and your lovely wife Sharon Me who
was described as a visitor from Gore, and a guy
by the name of Don Clark D. B.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Clark.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
What a great day that was.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
There was a fabulous day. I toured South Africa with
him too, and we went in nineteen ninety two with
that team that first you know, we just come out
of apartheid. And Don took one bus load and I
took a bus load. A guy called Winston McDonald's set

(01:15):
the whole thing up bloke living near you in Stevens.
He had a bus. There was a whole jet plane
full of New Zealanders going over to see what that
country was like. And I got to know Don well
and I liked him a lot. He's very very good sportsman,

(01:37):
not only in rugby, but also a very good cricketer.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Did you sell him a biomag?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Oh? He lived on one out The problem with you
with your was why your swing is so bad that
you have not used a biomag. Don lived on a biomag.
He actually had one made into a jacket just that
he could play in it.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Okay, Hey, just to finish on, you're doing up podcast
these days. You've just done one with n Baker Finch
and he says, correct me if I'm wrong. Murray and
your podcast, which has been released today, hot off the
press that Tara Eaty is the best golf course in
the world.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
He went further than that. He said that Tara Eaty
is the best golf course in the world that he
has seen, and that the other two at Tiari, the
North and South course, are in the top ten. Now
when you consider that Ian Baker Finch not only got
to the top of the world in golf when he
won the Open and nineteen ninety one, but since then

(02:37):
he's done thirty years of commentary at the great courses
of the world. I wasn't looking for this in the
podcast at all from him. I threw it out at
the end because somebody told me he'd been playing up
there and out he came with this comment. It shows
the impact that these courses are going to have as

(02:58):
golf destinations for particularly Americans to come down. It's already
happening in a big way. But for him to give
it a rap like that that'll probably go worldwide.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
I would think, Okay, hey, Murray, great to catch up
with you, and I know that you're remember it's along
with Sharon, and I know that you give yourself. Gimme
puts from four feet So Polus faded down Andy before
he gets a chance to reply. Murray Deeker, that podcast
is alive and out there today with Ian Baker Finch
get it where you get your podcast