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April 9, 2026 • 13 mins

Today on the show the guys talk about Augusta Golf Club since the US Masters is on. They have a heck of an interesting history there.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:07):
They're welcome along.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's good to be here. Yeah, thanks, thanks for I
had a couple of questions for you guys. First, straight off,
The first question is the Masters are on right now,
and there's a bit of mystique around how you become
a member of Augusta. Yeah, and how much it costs
and all this kind of stuff. A lot of mistak
around the club in general. How often, because it seems

(00:32):
like it's one of the hardest, if not the hardest
PGA courses, how often do you reckon the average member
plays around it Augusta, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Who gets the tea time at eight thirty on a
Saturday morning?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
That yeah, for sure. And then it'll be whoever owned
the most slaves back in the day probably, And then
the other thing is is it fun playing there? You
know what I mean? Like once, yeah, that'll be awesome. Yeah,
to have a go around and see it all up close,
but like every Saturday, just get flog the round, amen, corner.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't know, I've always wondered this about that course, Yeah,
because I think everybody that's ever played it obviously it's Augusta,
so everybody everybody wants to play Augusta.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Look at this holder on now that's this is the
one with the creek in Betwel. I think it's twelve
or thirteen.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
That just looks like an absolute nightmare to me.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
But I mean, and you would you be what what
golf course is a good question for you? What golf
course would you be a member of if you could
be a member of any and play like weekly, like
every week.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
And and theory I just live right next to it.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, what what golf course would you be a member of?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Because oh, this is an easy one for me.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Okay, that's the.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Way many Woodland Laft course. I just played it on
the weekend and the passing rain and I don't know
what it is about that course. Country courses here in
New Zealand are and fucking impeccable net and I think
it's because they've got an army of semi retired dudes
who are just on there manicuring this thing within an
inch of its life.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Well, I'll add to that, particularly with some of the
rural courses a bunch of semi retired dudes who know
how to grow grass because they were former farmers one
hundred percent, and so they've got all the equipment, they've
got all the tools that they understand, but they've got
no animals to find to crap everywhere. So it's like, oh,
this is great. I can just focus on the grass part.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
And one hundred percent. We had well last time I
played down there, not the most recent time, and one
of the guys was just on the just on the
tea box, on the tea box, and it's like, I
sh had a couple of hours. So I came down here.
I thought, you know, this tea box has been annoying
me all day. He's been thinking about it. So he
just went down there. One of the male blades as fucked.
There's one of my male blodes as fucked. But I

(02:49):
thought I'd still come down and give it a go. Yeah,
And then he gave me a few tips. He hit
a couple of golf balls. See the pro as well, Yeah,
he's the pro is the keep. It didn't check my fees,
God bless him. He was in bare feet and it's
just like see where you're like, it was A part
three and he said I had the ball too far

(03:09):
forward in my stance. He said, yeah, you know, if
you're chipping, if you want any kind of loft, I
just want to move that back in your starts a
little bit. Oh and yeah, get a little tip to help,
get a little tip. It did, Actually, yeah it did.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
That's good. Yeah. I think I'd be a member of seriously,
in all seriousness, if I could be a member of
any course in the world, I don't know if it
would be Augusta only because I think the rest of
the dudes there, I think would annoy me. Yeah, you know,
like I'd be like, oh god, I got to play
with They wouldn't like me. Jim Scott this week I'm
gonna four with Yeah, I don't know if you're allowed

(03:41):
to pay as of like two thousand and three, I
would have been okay. I think, yeah, we're at a
fourth Jim Scott and Bruce Jenna not not Bruce Jenner.
Bruce Jenner and Steve Miller. They're a bunch of decks really,

(04:05):
and then afterwards you've got to hang out with them
and then him what's the club? Like, what beers do
they have on tap?

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Clubhouse. They definitely don't have the beer for here. They
don't have export. What's wrong with them? They should?

Speaker 3 (04:18):
They probably don't even drink beer there. Probably it's only
your gusta beer or something. I don't know. I like
if I could just play there without the people, that
would be my course. Yeah, I'd love to be a
member of it if it was just me. But it's
the it's the people. They've always said that gust.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
They have said that since nineteen ninety, but before that
they definitely did not say that.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
That was the opposite of that.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Women. Do you want to have a guess when they
let women on to Augusta.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
They haven't, so I guess they they let eleven No
African Americans until nineteen ninety. Oh, twenty eleven is good
until nineteen ninety African amer nineteen ninety African Americans? Are
you serious? And it took them seven years to win it?
It's Tiger one in ninety seven, Are you serious? Yeah,
nineteen nineteen Americans?

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Of course, you're they a cady or something.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
I think they were expected to keddy. I think they
were burying them for a long time there. Black people
are employed at the club and service roles from its
opening in nineteen thirty two. They were prohibited from competing
or holding membership until nineteen ninety what.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Jesus Christ, all mighty females. No females are members.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
I don't know if there are any members, but they
are they but they are allowed to be members. As
of RUDA was very close to two thousand and eleven
twenty twelve, the three years after I finish high school.
They were like, all right, fine, right, I mean.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
I suppose look, I actually you know what I mean.
That's dumb, all right, They're so dumb, however, but I
do think, I mean the African American, the African American
is not allowed. The African American thing is not good.
But but if you're a club, right and you just
want to be a male club or you just want
to be a female club, I actually don't have a

(06:13):
problem with that. I reckon if you just want to
be a one thing club, race club, not race not
ra there is going to be one race club raowed.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
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Speaker 3 (06:36):
But gender, I mean, for example, all women's gyms believe
all you know, we're just just we're called mainly women
for example. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Tela used to be a
member of Curves. Now I've got I've got no problem
with mainly women.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Well, I've been talking about this for the longest time
because it makes sense. Women. I mean, Zoe experiences this
when she goes over to the deeply sexually charged gym
that we both attend, and it's that guys stare at you,
and guys will come and park up next to her
on the bike, like if there's five bikes and she's
on one, some DoD will come and sit next to us.
This is why. Yeah, but that's worse than that.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
I mean, you could be going to those gyms and
guys will fuck you, you know, while you're working out, while
you're working out on a machine, certainly if you're in
the sauna, yeah, or in the changing rooms for I
don't know, thirty seconds. Well, I mean more times, and
more times they will than they won't.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
That's right, And that's why Zoe was asking me why
I get changed here? And then she found out one
day and the women's changing rooms the exact same thing. So,
so that's why these women only gym, so that you
can feel confident and comfortable and just working out without
having to be you know, without having people look at you.
And this is why I was campaigning for Week Dudes
section of the gym, a week dude's only section of
the gym. So for the same reason where I don't

(07:49):
want to be judged, I just want to feel comfortable.
I want to be able to wear revealing clothes if
I choose to without people looking at me like a
piece of meat. What about without the gussup blowing out
and without the gusset blowing out, you know, And if
I'm going to blow a gusset. When I did blow
the gusset this time last year, it was right in front.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Of the row of milk burners, Oh no. And I
don't want I don't want.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
The real housewives of Pons and Me all having a
witness me blowing gusset.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
It's Murphy's lawa isn't it. If a gust it's going
to blow out, it's going to be in front of
a full, a full floatilla of milf burner firing squad
of milk burners and I just deployed the ring piece, right. Yeah,
back to the original point. Sorry, So a club, it's
I I yeah, that bit of it. I'm like, oh okay,
but all the rest of it.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Well, how they do that now at the moment, because
there are rules around that kind of thing as they
price you out of it. In fact, your club does that,
prices Bilbo Baggins has just walked past prices.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
People out of it. Yeah, I mean that's what golf
clubs are they the exclusivity, Yeah, just based on price. Oh,
they've gotten it. They've got some interesting rules at some clubs,
like for example, Royal Auckland. You have to be nominated.
There's not a lot of that language there, that's for sure.
Cura used a word of on that course. But that

(09:13):
course you've got to be You're going to have seven
I believe seven people have to endorse endorse you. He's
an all right guy. Seven I don't mind.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, jeez.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
And you have been members for like no, no one
has to endorse.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
You, okay, you can just you can just sign up yep.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
And it's and there's a reason why they're doing that.
Seven person has to endorse you.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Thing. It's a thinly veiled excuse to kick anyone of
a different race out.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Basically we'll not kick them out, just not allow them
in the first place. Yeah, and we're talking about one
race in particular. Yeah, and it's it's not it's not
your race. No, and it's not yours, it's.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Mind that's ruds, Yeah, Kevin.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Ruders dogs race Beardy Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yeah, like even the beard is out or is it
the twenty American pity anyway?

Speaker 3 (10:07):
They Yeah, that's that's what that So that's still going strong.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, Like for yeah, I are closer I anyone who's
ever queued up for three hours to get onto the
front nine at Royal Chamberlain and Auckland, which is the
most frequented golf course in the country.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
I used to play quite a bit when I was
working in the afternoons on another radio show, because we'd
have all morning it's men kezy go and play work
quite well. Nowadays, if you want to go and play
in the afternoon, it is like you're gotta wait for
hours because there's no tea times. Yeah. They are the
only club in the country, at least that I've seen,
that have a sign in the foyer saying are you
looking for work? And if you are, you can call

(10:51):
the council and get a job picking up rubbish here
and then the phone number. Oh wow, it must be
the only club in the country where a significant, significant
enough portion of the people playing their course are unemployed.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
That's interesting. Yeah, yeah, I didn't. But also picking up
rubbish on the course.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
No, no, no, it's an ad to the council because
the councilone a day. Yes, I believe they.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Do, which is amazing.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
And if you go there, please that you know what.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
They're the best thing that Auckland Council's ever done his
own Chamberlain Park golf course. Yeah, that is the best
thing they've ever done.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
And if you ever go there you may see a
former Warriors player. There's a lot of them. A lot
of them play there and then they park up and
have a beer quite beer in the car park afterwards.
Give us some names, man, I.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
Don't out them, but there's a few of them.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
I played there recently with my partner Tolsey and my
son Hugo and we went around and we did that
same thing. We turned up quite early, like seven forty
five on a Sunday morning because thought, oh we'll get
it early. No, oh man, everybody else that idea to
But when I was on the queue, I experienced genuine.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Camaraderie.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, camaraderie, togetherness, good man to pemble, a bit of bowomba, anyppers.
I didn't see any yoppers, but it was really nice actually,
and everyone was. There was a good vibe. Then when
you get onto the course there's things a little bit

(12:28):
because people need to hurry the fuck up, you know,
speed up a little bit. But anyway, it's it's one
of the it's a sad thing that there are not
more public courses around New Zealand because it's the kind
of it's a game that actually, okay, it's a bloody
expensive game, but it doesn't have to be. No, it
shouldn't have to be. And we've got lots of space
in New Zealand and it will be good if more

(12:50):
people could get together and play golf at a a
reasonable for a reasonable price.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
I agree. I think we getting kicked out of the
studio here. Enjoy your weekends. I saw there was a
call in the conclave for more work chats. I've got
a couple up my sleeve, so I might have to
divulge those on the podcast next week.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Right, Jerry and Maniah. Catch the radio show from six
to ten weekdays, The Hodaki Breakfast
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