April 11, 2025 • 6 mins
Regular Masters attendee Andrew Sloane joined Lesley Murdoch live from the Augusta National carpark —as phones aren’t permitted on the course— and described the action of the first two days.
He also gave an insight into some of the less populated spots to sit and watch the most high-profile golf tournament in the world.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well in time to go over to the Masters in Augusta.
And our man is on the ground, mister Andrew Sloane,
he joins us again.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good morning, good morning, good afternoon, Leslie.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
How well look all the better for talking to you.
Thank you very much, I mean again as we did
last year. Can I ask, first of all, have there
been any changes to that magical course?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well, not to the actual golf course, but the Hurricane
Helen that went through late last year has taken it
hundreds and hundreds of trees, so it's quite a different
visual and certain in some parts of the courses. You know,
when you're looking from one place to another, it looks
totally different. My favorite spots like we were different. But
(00:44):
that's the only change. They don't know. They might have
linkedened the whole. They usually do something each year, but
that would be the major difference.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
What number Masters is this for you?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Number twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Obviously just gets better and better.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, I think there's just a bit of mystique about it.
I enjoy it. I enjoy it more so for the
people that come with me that you see it for
the first time, and there's always to talk about it
being a lot earlier than what you see on TV,
which is quite right. I mean it's about one hundred
and fifty feet dropped from I think from the highest
point of the course, which is the first green, down
(01:24):
to the twelfth and that's a long walk home from
the bottom if you stop, if you've had enough. It's
very early.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
How do you look? You know, you clearly want to
see as much as you can, so you have to
prepare physically before you get there, don't you. I mean
you'd be a fit man. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I say to people, look, you should don't pick a
group in the morning on say Thursday morning, and just
just follow them and walk the whole course so you
can see the whole layout, and then you realize where
the shortcuts are. Being so hilly, it's a great amphitheater,
so you get to see great viewing, and you can
short cuts like the second hole. You don't have to
(02:02):
get out of the bottom. You can just cut through
and wats them. You can see them from the top
of the hill and then you can go through and
what's their approach on into three and four without having
to walk too far. But I've got my favorite little seats.
Usually where we're not many people go like the fifth
green I love, fourteenth Green I love for some reason,
they're not the sexy holes. So the crowds tend to
hit the amen corner all the time and around fifteen
(02:24):
sixteen clearly.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So you know you talk about the fifth green and
the fourteenth, so are they usually par Are they difficult holes?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Oh? The fifth is particularly difficult, right. It plays about
four ninety five yards, which is all up hell, so
there's no run off the drive and then a joe
average club play would be getting a three or a hybrid.
And but these boys are not Laviaria's clubs. Depending on
LinkedIn syntrom sort of six to sixty nine. Ie be
(02:53):
my guess. It's a very very groom in the that's
where they can place the pins that make it just
so difficult putting, is you know, if you get in
the wrong place on the green, you're really really struggling
for a two part.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
So you do pick a spot and you will move
to those different spots. Or do you particularly want to
follow a player?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah? Well, like I said before, you have your favorites
and you tend to follow them, and well I tend
to follow them in the morning for as many hole
as I like then you try and get ahead of
the player so they can come to you. Because you know,
you don't see every shot obviously, because you can't be
everywhere ones whereas TV you don't miss a shot, So
there's a bit of a loss of the door as
to watch shots you see, but what you do see
is the topography and the difficulty. And these players are magicians.
(03:40):
They're not just good golfers. They are phenomenal. They can
make the ball dance, they can make it do anything.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It was interesting we were talking to Matt Henry just
a little well half an hour ago on his win
the Sir Richard Heally Award, and he was talking about
much center being a plus one golfer. You know, you
wonder how people like that, how they'd go in a
course like this, would not be fantastic just to have
a round.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, well he'd struggle off the backs. But I've heard
he's a wonderful player off the members tea. I'm sure
he'shood a good score.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, So who do you think at the stage. I mean,
it's such a tough course. So at the moment, Justin
Rose Bryson, Deshambeau, Rory McElroy, you've got Hatton Connor's there.
I mean, what do you take from it?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Like Rose, and he's always plays well here, very unlucky
to lose, and it was in twenty seventeenth, so yeah,
he's nostalgically nice to see him win. But I'm probably
the leader of the Rory McElroy world fan club and
I'm not going to pack him. In fact, I sent
three textas three well known christ Church golf and celebrities
(04:47):
mister Ross Bayless, Neville Bamford and Warren James, and I
declared that it's all over. I'm not going to see
Rory ever win a mouth masters the way he folded yesterday.
But I'd love to eat my words because he's bounced
back really strong today with a fantastic score, got the
game for it. Whether he cheeps to find a way
to lose to different player every time they've taken off,
this time.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Well, you know, you never know what could happen at
under pressure as well. It's just such an amazing elite
high performance event, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And a lot of four players at the top there
and we're.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Just seeing Kegan Bradley t you off. It just looks magnificent.
The weather looks great as well.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yes, yes, has said it, but windy this afternoon. Yeah,
the weather has been like that twenty hundredrees today. I think.
Very comfortable.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh, it's just gone in the whole, very good. Yes,
hold on one, are they Keith, Yes, they are jumping
around and little people are being lifted into the air.
And if it was today, yeah, oh wow. So whether
that's a replay, I'm not sure because you know how
they switch back. The coverage is magnificent. I mean, let's
face it, what we see.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, they've got the drones, they've got the Spider Man
on sixteen year. It's pretty impressives.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And Andrew Sloan, you're you're very impressive for coming to
the phone for us, which we really do appreciate to
give us a little snapshot. It makes us feel as
though we are there. And we're grateful to Marty following
the team at the Onward Trading Company as well, because
they bring us the golf report every week. Exactly. Yep,
you said it. Well you have safe. Junie's back here
(06:22):
and again, thank you very much, and enjoy the remaining
of the golf And let's just hope we'll say it
quietly that your men. Rory comes in.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That would be good. Thanks very much, legally here for help.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Thank you, Andrew Brett fantastic Andrew sloan all the way
from Augusta.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
For more from News Talks B, listen live on air
or online, and
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Keep our shows with you wherever you go with our
podcast on iHeartRadio
Well in time to go over to the Masters in Augusta.
And our man is on the ground, mister Andrew Sloane,
he joins us again.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good morning, good morning, good afternoon, Leslie.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
How well look all the better for talking to you.
Thank you very much, I mean again as we did
last year. Can I ask, first of all, have there
been any changes to that magical course?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well, not to the actual golf course, but the Hurricane
Helen that went through late last year has taken it
hundreds and hundreds of trees, so it's quite a different
visual and certain in some parts of the courses. You know,
when you're looking from one place to another, it looks
totally different. My favorite spots like we were different. But
(00:44):
that's the only change. They don't know. They might have
linkedened the whole. They usually do something each year, but
that would be the major difference.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
What number Masters is this for you?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Number twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Obviously just gets better and better.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, I think there's just a bit of mystique about it.
I enjoy it. I enjoy it more so for the
people that come with me that you see it for
the first time, and there's always to talk about it
being a lot earlier than what you see on TV,
which is quite right. I mean it's about one hundred
and fifty feet dropped from I think from the highest
point of the course, which is the first green, down
(01:24):
to the twelfth and that's a long walk home from
the bottom if you stop, if you've had enough. It's
very early.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
How do you look? You know, you clearly want to
see as much as you can, so you have to
prepare physically before you get there, don't you. I mean
you'd be a fit man. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I say to people, look, you should don't pick a
group in the morning on say Thursday morning, and just
just follow them and walk the whole course so you
can see the whole layout, and then you realize where
the shortcuts are. Being so hilly, it's a great amphitheater,
so you get to see great viewing, and you can
short cuts like the second hole. You don't have to
(02:02):
get out of the bottom. You can just cut through
and wats them. You can see them from the top
of the hill and then you can go through and
what's their approach on into three and four without having
to walk too far. But I've got my favorite little seats.
Usually where we're not many people go like the fifth
green I love, fourteenth Green I love for some reason,
they're not the sexy holes. So the crowds tend to
hit the amen corner all the time and around fifteen
(02:24):
sixteen clearly.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So you know you talk about the fifth green and
the fourteenth, so are they usually par Are they difficult holes?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Oh? The fifth is particularly difficult, right. It plays about
four ninety five yards, which is all up hell, so
there's no run off the drive and then a joe
average club play would be getting a three or a hybrid.
And but these boys are not Laviaria's clubs. Depending on
LinkedIn syntrom sort of six to sixty nine. Ie be
(02:53):
my guess. It's a very very groom in the that's
where they can place the pins that make it just
so difficult putting, is you know, if you get in
the wrong place on the green, you're really really struggling
for a two part.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
So you do pick a spot and you will move
to those different spots. Or do you particularly want to
follow a player?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah? Well, like I said before, you have your favorites
and you tend to follow them, and well I tend
to follow them in the morning for as many hole
as I like then you try and get ahead of
the player so they can come to you. Because you know,
you don't see every shot obviously, because you can't be
everywhere ones whereas TV you don't miss a shot, So
there's a bit of a loss of the door as
to watch shots you see, but what you do see
is the topography and the difficulty. And these players are magicians.
(03:40):
They're not just good golfers. They are phenomenal. They can
make the ball dance, they can make it do anything.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It was interesting we were talking to Matt Henry just
a little well half an hour ago on his win
the Sir Richard Heally Award, and he was talking about
much center being a plus one golfer. You know, you
wonder how people like that, how they'd go in a
course like this, would not be fantastic just to have
a round.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, well he'd struggle off the backs. But I've heard
he's a wonderful player off the members tea. I'm sure
he'shood a good score.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, So who do you think at the stage. I mean,
it's such a tough course. So at the moment, Justin
Rose Bryson, Deshambeau, Rory McElroy, you've got Hatton Connor's there.
I mean, what do you take from it?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Like Rose, and he's always plays well here, very unlucky
to lose, and it was in twenty seventeenth, so yeah,
he's nostalgically nice to see him win. But I'm probably
the leader of the Rory McElroy world fan club and
I'm not going to pack him. In fact, I sent
three textas three well known christ Church golf and celebrities
(04:47):
mister Ross Bayless, Neville Bamford and Warren James, and I
declared that it's all over. I'm not going to see
Rory ever win a mouth masters the way he folded yesterday.
But I'd love to eat my words because he's bounced
back really strong today with a fantastic score, got the
game for it. Whether he cheeps to find a way
to lose to different player every time they've taken off,
this time.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Well, you know, you never know what could happen at
under pressure as well. It's just such an amazing elite
high performance event, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And a lot of four players at the top there
and we're.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Just seeing Kegan Bradley t you off. It just looks magnificent.
The weather looks great as well.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yes, yes, has said it, but windy this afternoon. Yeah,
the weather has been like that twenty hundredrees today. I think.
Very comfortable.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh, it's just gone in the whole, very good. Yes,
hold on one, are they Keith, Yes, they are jumping
around and little people are being lifted into the air.
And if it was today, yeah, oh wow. So whether
that's a replay, I'm not sure because you know how
they switch back. The coverage is magnificent. I mean, let's
face it, what we see.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, they've got the drones, they've got the Spider Man
on sixteen year. It's pretty impressives.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And Andrew Sloan, you're you're very impressive for coming to
the phone for us, which we really do appreciate to
give us a little snapshot. It makes us feel as
though we are there. And we're grateful to Marty following
the team at the Onward Trading Company as well, because
they bring us the golf report every week. Exactly. Yep,
you said it. Well you have safe. Junie's back here
(06:22):
and again, thank you very much, and enjoy the remaining
of the golf And let's just hope we'll say it
quietly that your men. Rory comes in.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That would be good. Thanks very much, legally here for help.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Thank you, Andrew Brett fantastic Andrew sloan all the way
from Augusta.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
For more from News Talks B, listen live on air
or online, and
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Keep our shows with you wherever you go with our
podcast on iHeartRadio
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