Friends united through grief together to support cancer treatment

At Castle Hill Country Club in north-west Sydney a community united by loss and love is determined to create a future free from cancer.

For more, Rodney Frost from 'One Day Golf' joins.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Ninety golfers, one course and twenty four hours of non
stop play at Castle Hill Country Club in northwest Sydney.
A community is united by loss and love. It is
determined to create a future free from cancer. So golfers
are hitting the green day and night to raise as
much needed funds as they can for research and for

(00:22):
treatment as well. The man behind the mission is Rodney
Frost from One Day Golf. Welcome to the show mate.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
This is quite incredible.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Have you teed off yet and tell us about how
it's all going to work.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Here we have servo, we're two holes in and basically
we've got as you say, about ninety golfers here playing
for twenty four hours.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
We just keep going around and around.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
We've got daymakers at night, lit up golf balls, lit
up holes, and.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, it's actually quite fundled about three am.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Rod You know, we know the most incredible things can
be born out of tragedy. Just take us through your
background and why you're actually doing this.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Look, personally, I lost my business partner's husband in twenty
twenty two. I lost a good mate that I played
golf with in April twenty twenty three, two weeks after
he passed. At that time, my sister in law and
my wife's sister had cancer, and two weeks after his past,
were sitting on the balcony here at Castle Hill and
I just thought of something that was, let's go play
golf for twenty four hours. Would you made money for

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cancer research? My sister in law was the first one
to volunteer, but unfortunately she didn't make it.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
So yeah, it came out of a lot of trauma.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
And when I was sharing that trouble with friends, they
were all going through things in their own families as well.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, you're doing a great thing.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
And I think the time on the course for most blokes,
particularly too, is a bit of a download, a way
to communicate and to talk. It's funny how guys won't
talk elsewhere, but on the course they seem to find
a voice. Who came up with the idea of glowing balls.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, we actually just looked for them.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
People had heard about them before, and sort of on
that balcony that day we came up with all of
the ideas. You know, we've got a company company that
looks after us. With those balls, they on impact, they
light up. It's fantastic to watch yeah, it's pretty cool.
You'll see it there on your screen.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I can hear. So it's good fun.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
What's it like playing at night.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Until about two or three am. It's actually a lot
of fun.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
It's obviously not seen in Australia night golf, but it
is a great way to a great way to get
out there under lights and hit a ball around.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Have you ever who do you play with the most?
Does anyone get kind of cranky? Do you have a
happy Gilmore style playing partner?

Speaker 3 (02:31):
No, none of that, but there are I mean, we've
got any eniting from a sixteen year old girl to
a seventy one year old man playing so so far
everyone's made it through in the last two years and
hopefully everyone gets through today as well.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
I can tell you this, they're all better than me
no matter what.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
You're doing a.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Great thing, Rod. Congratulations to you and the team for
getting this off the ground, and all the best for
the rest of your rounds.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Thanks Sherbert, appreciate it. Take care