Big Trouble in Little Venice
The Chipping Forecast
Soft Ears Media
4.9 • 718 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Difficult scoring conditions for the pod this week with next to zero golf actually happening. Yet Andrew, Eddie and Iain still manage to find over an hour of chat by discussing coloured golf balls, darts, TGL, the naming of South American countries and Al Besselink.
What's more, we find out which major championship Eddie decided not to play in...
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| 0:00.0 | It's time now for the chipping forecast, possibly the 6th as you listen. |
| 0:33.5 | 12th night. 12th night can be either. I didn't realize that either the 5th or the 6th of January, |
| 0:42.6 | depending, I think, when if you're a Lutheran or not. But today is when you get the whole shabang, you get 12 drummers drumming all the way down through to another partridge. So you've |
| 0:47.3 | got 12 partridges in total, because you get one every single day. And by the end of it, yeah, |
| 0:53.9 | so in the end you get as many partridges as you do |
| 0:56.7 | drummers. Yeah. This is the first moment and this is our third part of the festive season |
| 1:03.7 | and this is the first moment that you have acknowledged anything festive whatsoever, Andrew. |
| 1:10.8 | Yeah, now that we're through it. Yeah. Now that we're at the blessed end of it. |
| 1:14.4 | People are back at work. The world turns again. Although for us, I think this episode might be a bit |
| 1:20.1 | of a challenge. I think we've got a late tea time. Everyone's been out in the morning, |
| 1:24.7 | shooting 65, and we've got a late tea time, very windy conditions, the greens are dried out. |
| 1:30.4 | Because I think this has been probably the quietest week in golfing terms in the short history of this podcast. |
| 1:37.3 | So if the balance of this podcast is usually 20% unrelated to golf, 80% golf matters. |
| 1:42.9 | Then we're going to sort of flip that today. We may hear more of Ian's cinema trips, Eddie's trampolining. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, you asked us to prepare yesterday, and I woke up this morning and realised that I've not prepared, I've not warmed up, I've not even had a few swings with a wippy ball. I'm just, I am truly roll-throicing this, so |
| 2:00.9 | apologies in advance to the listeners. Yeah, that's, I tried, I did try to crack the whip |
| 2:07.2 | yesterday. I said, look, guys, we're going to be struggling. Because I looked at, the Golf |
| 2:10.1 | Digest website generally gives a sort of feel of certain stories. And I looked at it, and their |
| 2:16.1 | top story was that Tommy Ganey had pulled out of a corn fairy tour event. And they were selling that as quite an emotional thing like he gets the good guy of the year award. I was like, what? I mean, it was a decent thing to do, Ian, but I don't think it was top billing really. Well, it was and it was a decent thing to do, but it didn't really float my boat. But I did send you the link to that story just to give |
| 2:36.0 | the impression that I'd done some homework. You too, honestly. I'm disappointed in both of you. |
| 2:44.1 | Well, I was worried when Ian spelt erroneic incorrectly on the group chat, which I'm confident you did. Maybe you didn't. You spelled it a Ronamink. Is that correct? Well, what do you think? Oh, I thought it was a Rona Mick. Oh, I did. Oh, okay. Apologies to the badger. Ronnie Mick. Ronnie Mick will not be... Great jazz man, Ronnie Mick. The PGA Championship next year. |
| 3:08.0 | Oh God. |
| 3:10.3 | Yeah, well, listen, we should have had, I suppose, the tournament of champions at Capuluit |
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