December 8, 2025 • 17 mins
After having a big old golf chat with Dai on the radio show, the guys asked him more about how he's going in the lead up to Chasing The Fox.
PLUS we ask him about being named as the host of the 2026 Best Foods Comedy Gala!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome along to the podcast. Tuesday, the ninth of December
twenty twenty five. Die hands our guest today.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Oh it's lovely to be here with a bit of
a bit of salubrious strum on bass.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yeah, get that right up yet, just really.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Grinding into a day on it Tuesday, on a Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I see you are hosting the twenty twenty six Best
Foods Mayo Comedy Gala.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes, I'm back. I haven't been on the Comedy Gala
for a few years. Various bits and bobs, and yeah,
I'm back hosting it. I started in two thousand and one.
I did my first goal and that was when they
used to it was all about you get a big
international over to host and then you'd have sort of
(00:44):
the Kiwis on the on the line up. But now
they aregating Kiwis to host it. Hailey sprawled at it
last year and ripping into it next year.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Who was the begin international? Who were some of the
big internationals from back then?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Your head? Oh, your head? I mean there was always
a favorite. Was Jamalan over here? We had do you
remember the guy Wayne Brady? He was is it anyway?
He came over and he was the first time i'd
sort of seen a bit of a diva like you
want a next box and his bloom and then he
(01:19):
you know, whenever he would do publicity and he'd get
a left somewhere because I'd often go around and do
publicity with him and introduce him to the radio host
and that sort of thing. And every time I get
somewhere here go, I fly from La to Vegas and
the chopper to do my show each night. It's just
(01:42):
always his little line and oh cool, cool man. So
you didn't enjoy my Toyota Corolla outside the Heritage with
a really average cappuccino.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And he must have been so confused when you walk
in into the interview with him, aren't you the drove?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
No, But it's always fun as it's sort of for
people who want to get into the festival. It's such
a good little buffet of all the comics that are
involved and.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Good to watch. I imagine, quite hard.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
To do, yes, because comedy does not really lend itself
to that. The acts do between four and six minutes,
So you've got to come out. You've got it if
you don't land something early. Yeah, And also you're up
against you're not up against, but you're alongside. Especially the internationals,
(02:36):
they will have been doing festivals with that show, so
they've got these little perfect chunks, which is a lot
of the locals are doing a brand new show, so
they might not have fully it's not polished down.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
No, it's a weird rhythm as well, because like you said,
they're only on for six minutes, then the see the
host comes back out, then someone else and so you're
sitting in the crowd and you're like, it's that's an
ebb and flow of like.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But the good thing about hosting is, you know, I've
got a bit of admin to deal with as well,
so it's not you know, I'm more the vibe guy.
And also we've just done the Seven Days Live to it.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
How did that go?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It was awesome, mate, it was primo. Just it's been
a while since I've been to all your hot spots,
like Parmi north.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yep, yeah, Parmi. So did you go there?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Parmi is hanging in there? Yeah, yeah, I we'd do
a cafe Sunday morning. It would have been seven o'clock.
We're on a reasonably early flight. I was just getting
a coffee and it was packed right, and I said
to the one behind the counter, I was like, so
you're packed early on a Sunday and she goes, trust me,
nothing good happens in Parmi after seven thirty am.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Whoa wow.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
They come in early, they come in early, and then
they just get hot.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Oh wow. I was shocked. We interviewed the mayor of
Pami because he was given him bit of stick about
something about Parmy. I can't remember what it was, and
he was like, yeah, we're like, we don't do any promotion,
like we don't want to. We don't. We don't say
people come to Palms North. We don't need to tell people.
We're not a tourist place. No, he goes, we're not
(04:16):
a tourist place. We don't want we don't really, we
don't care if people come on not that's not really
what we're here for. We're not despread. We're a farming
service town. We know what we are and that's fine.
We're not looking for tourists. Wellists aren't looking for them either. Yes,
I thought that's pleasant.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I had a very awkward massage issue in Parmi because
I thought I wanted a sports massage and we're in
total of the night before. So I was googling and
found this place in Parmi. I don't know Parmi. Jeremy
Corbett's from Parmi. He was raised there. And so when
we got there, I said to him, Hey, where's this place,
(04:51):
and he goes, it's not in town. That's like in
a weird suburb. That's a pretty strange suburbs. So show
up there. It's just a house, classic state house. Go
up and there's this sort of Brazilian guy who's wearing
a doctor's coat and he's got he's got like a
classic it looks a bit like a kid's medical set.
(05:11):
Like there's a skeleton.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Surprise.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, there's a skeleton on a pole sort of in
a working position. And then he goes is very hot,
and he is very hot. So I like it very hot.
So just get naked. You know, we're all men. You
get naked. So you know when in Palmi, so god naked,
put my little towel on his lying down and he
(05:34):
started a message. Massage was great. It was so hot.
I drifted off. Then when I woke up, I went,
there's four hands on me. I'm sure there's four hands
on me. And I look up and he goes, I
would like you to meet my son. What it was
just this dead and sun going buck wild? What on me?
(05:55):
And it was one of those messages. It was felt
so sketchy at the time and afterwards I was so sore,
But the next day amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Right, okay with that Brazilian magic. What was the sun
up to? Well?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
The thing is apprenticeship, I reckon, if you're get it.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Definitely a son.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
A DNA test.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
That wasn't the first question in my mind. It was
because I feel when you're introducing a son into a
message situation, you need to give the personal heads up.
You can't wait for them to fall asleep.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And then yeah, finally he's gone to sleep.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Get in here.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Do your mind if my son comes in at some
stage and creeps in with an extra sit appearing head,
I mean you've got to ask the question.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Even don't sell it as your son, just a message therapist.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah, who looks just like me, she is smaller.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
The reason that the mayor Parmison North Grant Smith was
standing up for his town was it was the FIFA
Women's World Cup two years ago. Because the Spanish women's
team were supposed to go there and they're like, no,
let's just by passed that place because there's and they said,
quote nothing to do, lack of things.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Is it's got a beautiful golf course. Actually like a
very This is the beautiful thing about traveling around New Zealand.
So many amazing golf courses that are cheap to play,
and they've just you know, they've got some old mate
who's just perfectly curated it. That's his life. Yes, is
sitting on the ride on. Yeah, losing around.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Little undiagnosed regional neurodivergence, will will go a long way.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Oh yeah, there's nothing. It's someone who wants to be
good at golf and is mildly recognizable as teeing off
and hits a tree, almost goes into the pro shop.
Then the guy behind you goes, oh, you're a bloody
girl doing chasing the foot. There's nothing worse to be
(07:54):
honest as the first tea at a club you don't
play with all the old mates just standing around, just
trying to prove.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
All you want to do. All I want to do
in that situation is proved that I'm not a dance
just completely that's all I'm trying to do. And that's
a terrible thing to think. Worry about the balls.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
That thing again, Hoby Shanks's and I can tell him
I saw the seven sharp guy, and he fucking duft.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You can feel the energy of it, You definitely can also.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
But I play golf. I played cricket. Right when I
played cricket. I'll play a shot and I might miss
the ball, but if someone was watching me, they go, oh,
he plays cricket. Yes, yes, But with golf, I can
have the ball and it would look like I've never
played golf before in my entire life.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
But I did it last or just over the last
summer where I had the yips of the tea so
bad that I hit it off the heel between my
own legs and it snapped Keysy's shaft in half standing
behind me. It was the most insane, bizarre fluke that
snapped his right under the handle. Because as I hit it,
(09:05):
we all ducked. And then you do that thing like
a gun's just gone off in the saloon and everyone
starts checking themselves like that. I just get And then
he picked his club up and it was just that
it'd snapped in half. It's ridiculous. It's a yeah, it's
it's one of those things. And like you say, but
the flip side of that is I've stood up on
the first tee at Takapuna where they are always so
(09:25):
far behind time that there's a gallery behind you, and
I absolutely drilled by one of the best drives. I
just floked it, hit the grain on the path or
and I turned around. It was the best feeling, and
I saw a guy that I vaguely recognized walk straight over. OK.
Good to see that.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, I didn't know. Well that's that. You've got to
think that it's gonna you gotta think it's gonna go well,
you can't be worried about not embarrassing yourself. That's that's
where it goes wrong.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, it's found money for you guys on Friday, because,
like you say, you're on the other side of the
hell you've done it. I reckon you take a real
condescending tone with everyone else. So what we did when
we as we did this, this, and then when actually
you just said rega.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Oh, because I mean when when you're playing alongside people
like John k and Maxki, I remember them chatting about
the courses that'd just been through that year. You know,
they played like people beach and they've got both their
bags are just dripping with much like a little bit
of a towel from Saint Andrews.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, that's a different thing. Let's come back in just
a moment.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I love there's a life.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Seeing. The other thing about those regional courses, particularly you
know Palmers North and in the White cuttle Man, they
can grow some grass, like they really know how to,
they really know. Nana Pori is a great example, which
is just west of Hamilton, and that's a course which
is mainly frequented by farmers who live around the area,
(10:54):
and so they've all got the farming equipment to be
able to like and they know how to grow grass.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yes, every arms farm. Yeah that's all they actually do that.
You just grow the best grassy can and then put
a cow or sheep on it.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
But they're not looking for yield though, you know es
also they're just they're just concerned with esthetics.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, every all you're so right all around the country.
It's just we get used to, like if you live
in christ Church, Aalkland, Wellington, you get used to having
to pay one hundred bucks to get on a nice course,
but then you go out into the wops and you're
paying twenty bucks. I mean to be honest, that's if
they're going to check the honesty box that day, you
could probably try and chance your arm and not Pat.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I wouldn't recommend I.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
To go and cross to the golf course come up
to me, and he goes, mate, nice to meet. My
name is Steve. I trialed for the team that feeds
the cults about fifteen years ago colts there where they
put the all blacks.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
From blame claimed.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It's just like, you know, that's that's what he that's
what don't opening gambit and also that's the moment in
his life that defines his life. Yes, he trained for
the team that feeds the cults, that feeds your Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It just wants you to know.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Man that went for he could have gone pro.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
But you're thinking that with all those golf courses, we
should be I mean we are. We do have good golfers, really,
but we should have lots of good golfers, shouldn't we?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah, But I don't think like like competition is not
really part of it. You know, for a lot of
those regional courses, it's just going to have a home
like the Saturday down in the Way Meny golf course.
At least when I was grown up, it would be
one by like your mate's dad who showed up barefoot
with three clubs in his hand, no bag, two balls
in his pocket and just went for it and one
you know what I mean. And that's sort of the
(12:41):
level of competition.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
See, I always thought, because I just sort of always
liking it a bit to cricketer, I always think why
I thought Australia should have a lot more professional golfers. Yeah,
you know, that real hard ass winning attitude mixed in
with I don't know why about every cricketer seemed to
bump into is phenomenal at gold.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah. So it's the same kind of thing, isn't it.
But they don't grow the grass that we grow.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
No, it's all sand.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
They don't. And they got that kaik like it's not
like coach or some kind of it's like a wheat.
It's like a harsh weed that the ball just kind
of stops on. Whereas we've got that beautiful fiscue and
that beautiful rye love a fisk you, oh god, fisk.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
You is good. I mean, I've had to succumb a
lawn to clover.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
It's same.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
It's just do I remember the day I was standing
out there, and when it's gone too far. I've got dogs,
I've got kids. It's no way I can actually do
this again properly.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
It can look quite good the clover, at least it
looks green, but like mine is completely clovid.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
What is it about a man that turns thirty and
then just gets really into lawn care? What is it?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
It's control.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
It's the last thing you can control in It's control.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
It's all about control.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And also it takes a lot of work, right, So
I think it is one of those things that's a
rewarding pastime if it works. But there's still a big
margin era Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's so it's almost a possible. And then the funny
thing is you remember.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
From your childhood it was like, I don't remember anyone
ever planting I don't remember my granddad planting a lawn.
He just always had an incredible lawn.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You're not ever getting like sods of roll out grass.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
And then the moment you pay any attention to it,
all of a sudden you get a bull patch over here,
you get clover over here. What the hell's this thing
that sprouted out?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Some places though, like you go the west coast of
the South Island and man, they run a good berm
you know Graymouth. Oh, some of the birds Westport, some
of those berms there, the western burm beautiful and actually
Christians that go and run a great lawn across Auckland.
Man is weed central. Now it's got so many weeds
up here.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
What's with the grass up here too? It's like spongy
sort of course stuff. It's yeah, well we're out the.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Sun, we're out west and co Couia loves it out there.
And also it grows on sand really well, it's like
a mess coat.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, rose over the top.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It just sends out the thick long runner and then
sort of spreeing.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah that stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
It's very spongy for bag criocket though.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
So it does get a good bit of bounce.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
And it'll take turn and get a lot of purchase
on it.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Super hard wearing and it doesn't mind the sun, you know,
whereas your rye grass that will die off quite quickly. Well,
we've gone on to grass chat.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Got a bit more Fox Chat. Actually, if you missed it,
during the radio highlights pod, Ryan Fox came through and
gave you boys a bit of trash talking. He said,
the boys are searching for their magic golf bullet.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Today.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I've gone back to him and I said, they're still
talking about it on the pod. He said, Haha, I'm
not sure it's going to help. No, Well, he's coming
for you guys.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You've seen me play. Unfortunately, I played with him recently
when me and him played as a team actually and
we lost. I mean, who loses when Ryan Fox. You've
got to be a pretty ship guy to drag Ryan
Fox down into your quagmire.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
But I mean to be to be honest, it's pretty
easy to treash to when you're making the PGA Cup. Yeah, go,
of course, you know I'm trying not to rebound it
off a tree into the pro shop. So like he's
come from, he's coming from. He's got a lovely confidence,
(16:22):
Ryan Fox. He's got the perfect Kiwi confidence, not over confident,
not under confident, yet knows exactly what he's I can
have that.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
But yeah, I actually feel like I wouldn't I offended him.
We had him in the other day and I was
talking about this incredible bunker shot that he played, and
he goes, it's my job. This is what I do
for a living, Like it's not incredible to me that
I hit a bunker shot onto the green. And I
was like, that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I was watching a thing about the people who were
doing the grounds that the masters and that, and it's
not sand in the bunker. It's ground quartz or something like.
It's a ground white star.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Ground lime stone.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
It's very something like glass or something to where it
doesn't stick to us.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It diamonds? Is it ground diamonds?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I think it's just going toffs and get a futurevel
full of plant.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
They replant and tire trees. Like a tree fell down
in Augusta and then the next week there's a new
tree that it was like a forty foot tree, like
they just brought it crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Hey, thanks for coming in, Dion.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Absolute pleasure, And whenever I fall.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Short, you let arity
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Great down.
Welcome along to the podcast. Tuesday, the ninth of December
twenty twenty five. Die hands our guest today.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Oh it's lovely to be here with a bit of
a bit of salubrious strum on bass.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yeah, get that right up yet, just really.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Grinding into a day on it Tuesday, on a Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I see you are hosting the twenty twenty six Best
Foods Mayo Comedy Gala.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes, I'm back. I haven't been on the Comedy Gala
for a few years. Various bits and bobs, and yeah,
I'm back hosting it. I started in two thousand and one.
I did my first goal and that was when they
used to it was all about you get a big
international over to host and then you'd have sort of
(00:44):
the Kiwis on the on the line up. But now
they aregating Kiwis to host it. Hailey sprawled at it
last year and ripping into it next year.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Who was the begin international? Who were some of the
big internationals from back then?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Your head? Oh, your head? I mean there was always
a favorite. Was Jamalan over here? We had do you
remember the guy Wayne Brady? He was is it anyway?
He came over and he was the first time i'd
sort of seen a bit of a diva like you
want a next box and his bloom and then he
(01:19):
you know, whenever he would do publicity and he'd get
a left somewhere because I'd often go around and do
publicity with him and introduce him to the radio host
and that sort of thing. And every time I get
somewhere here go, I fly from La to Vegas and
the chopper to do my show each night. It's just
(01:42):
always his little line and oh cool, cool man. So
you didn't enjoy my Toyota Corolla outside the Heritage with
a really average cappuccino.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And he must have been so confused when you walk
in into the interview with him, aren't you the drove?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
No, But it's always fun as it's sort of for
people who want to get into the festival. It's such
a good little buffet of all the comics that are
involved and.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Good to watch. I imagine, quite hard.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
To do, yes, because comedy does not really lend itself
to that. The acts do between four and six minutes,
So you've got to come out. You've got it if
you don't land something early. Yeah, And also you're up
against you're not up against, but you're alongside. Especially the internationals,
(02:36):
they will have been doing festivals with that show, so
they've got these little perfect chunks, which is a lot
of the locals are doing a brand new show, so
they might not have fully it's not polished down.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
No, it's a weird rhythm as well, because like you said,
they're only on for six minutes, then the see the
host comes back out, then someone else and so you're
sitting in the crowd and you're like, it's that's an
ebb and flow of like.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But the good thing about hosting is, you know, I've
got a bit of admin to deal with as well,
so it's not you know, I'm more the vibe guy.
And also we've just done the Seven Days Live to it.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
How did that go?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It was awesome, mate, it was primo. Just it's been
a while since I've been to all your hot spots,
like Parmi north.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yep, yeah, Parmi. So did you go there?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Parmi is hanging in there? Yeah, yeah, I we'd do
a cafe Sunday morning. It would have been seven o'clock.
We're on a reasonably early flight. I was just getting
a coffee and it was packed right, and I said
to the one behind the counter, I was like, so
you're packed early on a Sunday and she goes, trust me,
nothing good happens in Parmi after seven thirty am.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Whoa wow.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
They come in early, they come in early, and then
they just get hot.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Oh wow. I was shocked. We interviewed the mayor of
Pami because he was given him bit of stick about
something about Parmy. I can't remember what it was, and
he was like, yeah, we're like, we don't do any promotion,
like we don't want to. We don't. We don't say
people come to Palms North. We don't need to tell people.
We're not a tourist place. No, he goes, we're not
(04:16):
a tourist place. We don't want we don't really, we
don't care if people come on not that's not really
what we're here for. We're not despread. We're a farming
service town. We know what we are and that's fine.
We're not looking for tourists. Wellists aren't looking for them either. Yes,
I thought that's pleasant.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I had a very awkward massage issue in Parmi because
I thought I wanted a sports massage and we're in
total of the night before. So I was googling and
found this place in Parmi. I don't know Parmi. Jeremy
Corbett's from Parmi. He was raised there. And so when
we got there, I said to him, Hey, where's this place,
(04:51):
and he goes, it's not in town. That's like in
a weird suburb. That's a pretty strange suburbs. So show
up there. It's just a house, classic state house. Go
up and there's this sort of Brazilian guy who's wearing
a doctor's coat and he's got he's got like a
classic it looks a bit like a kid's medical set.
(05:11):
Like there's a skeleton.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Surprise.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, there's a skeleton on a pole sort of in
a working position. And then he goes is very hot,
and he is very hot. So I like it very hot.
So just get naked. You know, we're all men. You
get naked. So you know when in Palmi, so god naked,
put my little towel on his lying down and he
(05:34):
started a message. Massage was great. It was so hot.
I drifted off. Then when I woke up, I went,
there's four hands on me. I'm sure there's four hands
on me. And I look up and he goes, I
would like you to meet my son. What it was
just this dead and sun going buck wild? What on me?
(05:55):
And it was one of those messages. It was felt
so sketchy at the time and afterwards I was so sore,
But the next day amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Right, okay with that Brazilian magic. What was the sun
up to? Well?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
The thing is apprenticeship, I reckon, if you're get it.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Definitely a son.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
A DNA test.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
That wasn't the first question in my mind. It was
because I feel when you're introducing a son into a
message situation, you need to give the personal heads up.
You can't wait for them to fall asleep.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And then yeah, finally he's gone to sleep.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Get in here.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Do your mind if my son comes in at some
stage and creeps in with an extra sit appearing head,
I mean you've got to ask the question.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Even don't sell it as your son, just a message therapist.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah, who looks just like me, she is smaller.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
The reason that the mayor Parmison North Grant Smith was
standing up for his town was it was the FIFA
Women's World Cup two years ago. Because the Spanish women's
team were supposed to go there and they're like, no,
let's just by passed that place because there's and they said,
quote nothing to do, lack of things.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Is it's got a beautiful golf course. Actually like a
very This is the beautiful thing about traveling around New Zealand.
So many amazing golf courses that are cheap to play,
and they've just you know, they've got some old mate
who's just perfectly curated it. That's his life. Yes, is
sitting on the ride on. Yeah, losing around.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Little undiagnosed regional neurodivergence, will will go a long way.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Oh yeah, there's nothing. It's someone who wants to be
good at golf and is mildly recognizable as teeing off
and hits a tree, almost goes into the pro shop.
Then the guy behind you goes, oh, you're a bloody
girl doing chasing the foot. There's nothing worse to be
(07:54):
honest as the first tea at a club you don't
play with all the old mates just standing around, just
trying to prove.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
All you want to do. All I want to do
in that situation is proved that I'm not a dance
just completely that's all I'm trying to do. And that's
a terrible thing to think. Worry about the balls.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
That thing again, Hoby Shanks's and I can tell him
I saw the seven sharp guy, and he fucking duft.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You can feel the energy of it, You definitely can also.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
But I play golf. I played cricket. Right when I
played cricket. I'll play a shot and I might miss
the ball, but if someone was watching me, they go, oh,
he plays cricket. Yes, yes, But with golf, I can
have the ball and it would look like I've never
played golf before in my entire life.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
But I did it last or just over the last
summer where I had the yips of the tea so
bad that I hit it off the heel between my
own legs and it snapped Keysy's shaft in half standing
behind me. It was the most insane, bizarre fluke that
snapped his right under the handle. Because as I hit it,
(09:05):
we all ducked. And then you do that thing like
a gun's just gone off in the saloon and everyone
starts checking themselves like that. I just get And then
he picked his club up and it was just that
it'd snapped in half. It's ridiculous. It's a yeah, it's
it's one of those things. And like you say, but
the flip side of that is I've stood up on
the first tee at Takapuna where they are always so
(09:25):
far behind time that there's a gallery behind you, and
I absolutely drilled by one of the best drives. I
just floked it, hit the grain on the path or
and I turned around. It was the best feeling, and
I saw a guy that I vaguely recognized walk straight over. OK.
Good to see that.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, I didn't know. Well that's that. You've got to
think that it's gonna you gotta think it's gonna go well,
you can't be worried about not embarrassing yourself. That's that's
where it goes wrong.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, it's found money for you guys on Friday, because,
like you say, you're on the other side of the
hell you've done it. I reckon you take a real
condescending tone with everyone else. So what we did when
we as we did this, this, and then when actually
you just said rega.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Oh, because I mean when when you're playing alongside people
like John k and Maxki, I remember them chatting about
the courses that'd just been through that year. You know,
they played like people beach and they've got both their
bags are just dripping with much like a little bit
of a towel from Saint Andrews.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, that's a different thing. Let's come back in just
a moment.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I love there's a life.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Seeing. The other thing about those regional courses, particularly you
know Palmers North and in the White cuttle Man, they
can grow some grass, like they really know how to,
they really know. Nana Pori is a great example, which
is just west of Hamilton, and that's a course which
is mainly frequented by farmers who live around the area,
(10:54):
and so they've all got the farming equipment to be
able to like and they know how to grow grass.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yes, every arms farm. Yeah that's all they actually do that.
You just grow the best grassy can and then put
a cow or sheep on it.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
But they're not looking for yield though, you know es
also they're just they're just concerned with esthetics.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, every all you're so right all around the country.
It's just we get used to, like if you live
in christ Church, Aalkland, Wellington, you get used to having
to pay one hundred bucks to get on a nice course,
but then you go out into the wops and you're
paying twenty bucks. I mean to be honest, that's if
they're going to check the honesty box that day, you
could probably try and chance your arm and not Pat.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I wouldn't recommend I.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
To go and cross to the golf course come up
to me, and he goes, mate, nice to meet. My
name is Steve. I trialed for the team that feeds
the cults about fifteen years ago colts there where they
put the all blacks.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
From blame claimed.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It's just like, you know, that's that's what he that's
what don't opening gambit and also that's the moment in
his life that defines his life. Yes, he trained for
the team that feeds the cults, that feeds your Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It just wants you to know.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Man that went for he could have gone pro.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
But you're thinking that with all those golf courses, we
should be I mean we are. We do have good golfers, really,
but we should have lots of good golfers, shouldn't we?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah, But I don't think like like competition is not
really part of it. You know, for a lot of
those regional courses, it's just going to have a home
like the Saturday down in the Way Meny golf course.
At least when I was grown up, it would be
one by like your mate's dad who showed up barefoot
with three clubs in his hand, no bag, two balls
in his pocket and just went for it and one
you know what I mean. And that's sort of the
(12:41):
level of competition.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
See, I always thought, because I just sort of always
liking it a bit to cricketer, I always think why
I thought Australia should have a lot more professional golfers. Yeah,
you know, that real hard ass winning attitude mixed in
with I don't know why about every cricketer seemed to
bump into is phenomenal at gold.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah. So it's the same kind of thing, isn't it.
But they don't grow the grass that we grow.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
No, it's all sand.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
They don't. And they got that kaik like it's not
like coach or some kind of it's like a wheat.
It's like a harsh weed that the ball just kind
of stops on. Whereas we've got that beautiful fiscue and
that beautiful rye love a fisk you, oh god, fisk.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
You is good. I mean, I've had to succumb a
lawn to clover.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
It's same.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
It's just do I remember the day I was standing
out there, and when it's gone too far. I've got dogs,
I've got kids. It's no way I can actually do
this again properly.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
It can look quite good the clover, at least it
looks green, but like mine is completely clovid.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
What is it about a man that turns thirty and
then just gets really into lawn care? What is it?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
It's control.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
It's the last thing you can control in It's control.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
It's all about control.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And also it takes a lot of work, right, So
I think it is one of those things that's a
rewarding pastime if it works. But there's still a big
margin era Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's so it's almost a possible. And then the funny
thing is you remember.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
From your childhood it was like, I don't remember anyone
ever planting I don't remember my granddad planting a lawn.
He just always had an incredible lawn.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You're not ever getting like sods of roll out grass.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
And then the moment you pay any attention to it,
all of a sudden you get a bull patch over here,
you get clover over here. What the hell's this thing
that sprouted out?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Some places though, like you go the west coast of
the South Island and man, they run a good berm
you know Graymouth. Oh, some of the birds Westport, some
of those berms there, the western burm beautiful and actually
Christians that go and run a great lawn across Auckland.
Man is weed central. Now it's got so many weeds
up here.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
What's with the grass up here too? It's like spongy
sort of course stuff. It's yeah, well we're out the.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Sun, we're out west and co Couia loves it out there.
And also it grows on sand really well, it's like
a mess coat.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, rose over the top.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It just sends out the thick long runner and then
sort of spreeing.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah that stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
It's very spongy for bag criocket though.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
So it does get a good bit of bounce.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
And it'll take turn and get a lot of purchase
on it.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Super hard wearing and it doesn't mind the sun, you know,
whereas your rye grass that will die off quite quickly. Well,
we've gone on to grass chat.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Got a bit more Fox Chat. Actually, if you missed it,
during the radio highlights pod, Ryan Fox came through and
gave you boys a bit of trash talking. He said,
the boys are searching for their magic golf bullet.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Today.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I've gone back to him and I said, they're still
talking about it on the pod. He said, Haha, I'm
not sure it's going to help. No, Well, he's coming
for you guys.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You've seen me play. Unfortunately, I played with him recently
when me and him played as a team actually and
we lost. I mean, who loses when Ryan Fox. You've
got to be a pretty ship guy to drag Ryan
Fox down into your quagmire.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
But I mean to be to be honest, it's pretty
easy to treash to when you're making the PGA Cup. Yeah, go,
of course, you know I'm trying not to rebound it
off a tree into the pro shop. So like he's
come from, he's coming from. He's got a lovely confidence,
(16:22):
Ryan Fox. He's got the perfect Kiwi confidence, not over confident,
not under confident, yet knows exactly what he's I can
have that.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
But yeah, I actually feel like I wouldn't I offended him.
We had him in the other day and I was
talking about this incredible bunker shot that he played, and
he goes, it's my job. This is what I do
for a living, Like it's not incredible to me that
I hit a bunker shot onto the green. And I
was like, that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I was watching a thing about the people who were
doing the grounds that the masters and that, and it's
not sand in the bunker. It's ground quartz or something like.
It's a ground white star.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Ground lime stone.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
It's very something like glass or something to where it
doesn't stick to us.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It diamonds? Is it ground diamonds?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I think it's just going toffs and get a futurevel
full of plant.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
They replant and tire trees. Like a tree fell down
in Augusta and then the next week there's a new
tree that it was like a forty foot tree, like
they just brought it crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Hey, thanks for coming in, Dion.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Absolute pleasure, And whenever I fall.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Short, you let arity
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Great down.
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