It's time now for the chipping forecast, issued by SoftEars Media on behalf of Andrew Cotter,

Eddie Pepperel and special guest Ian Carter. Hello there and welcome to a bonus edition of the chipping forecast, the first chippalata of the season.

We'll do a few of these during the year.

Who knows when, whenever we feel like it during the week of the Masters, the Open, the Ryder Cup, whatever it might be.

But we're doing a little one in the Players' Championship as advertised because Ian Carter, our regular special guest,

wasn't able to join on Monday recording for our usual big podcast because he was travelling to Sawgrass.

And there he is now. I see him you can't but you can

hear him hello ian hello eddie yeah good good gag that's a thing now is it uh poor old eddie he

honestly that that from the start of that pod where he said hi in um until the end he was uh he wasn't entirely it. I'm slightly worried about him because he... Oh, he sounded fine. No, no, not that. But he's gone. He's off grid now. He's disappeared. Because he said, I'll do some content for the Instagram account. And I'll do something in the clubhouse. And I'll do something during the pro am. So he's played the pro am now. He'll have finished. it's as we record it's half-past two in the clubhouse and I'll do something during the pro-am. So he's played the pro

arm now. He'll have finished. It's, as we record, it's half past two in the UK on Wednesday.

So he'll have finished. Haven't heard from him. And he was, because he took out the wee microphones

as well, the brand new microphones that are just amazing. But he's bought the wrong ones.

He's bought ones with the wrong

attachment for his phone. So I think he was going to try and find an electronic store somewhere in

Calcutta, Kolkata, and that's it. He's gone now. He's disappeared. A couple of things. One thing

that I did notice in the pod with you and Eddie was that you kept calling it Calcutta and it's now Kolkata.

Yeah, I know, but if people get upset about that, I'm sorry.

No, well, I wasn't upset about it.

It was just an observation.

But the other thing is, you're absolutely right about, you know, Eddie had traveled east, a great number of time zones as well. And that is brutal. Whereas you see,

I've gone west. West is west. And I'm super tickety boo. I, you know, because I'm in that regime of

going to bed early, getting up early. We had a press conference with Rory Macaroid at 7.45 this morning.

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