Folding Pocket

It's time now for the chipping forecast,

issued by Folding Pocket on behalf of Andrew Cotter,

Eddie Pepperall and special guest Ian Carter.

Hello everyone and welcome to the hotbed of golf that is Budapest.

I am at the World Athletics Championships in the aforementioned Budapest.

I'm sitting in their commentary position looking down on the track and I'm hoping that it's not too noisy.

They're doing all the sort of testing.

There might be some full-on music appearing at some point and they'll test the starting pistol. So I might just let Ian steer the way. I might just let Ian, sorry, Ian's going to steer the way because he's beyond special guest status. He's moving up to Richard Osman's status of speciality. And so he is just going to steer you through this, and I'll occasionally add whatever golfing knowledge I have in the last few days we haven't seen that much but I have caught up with it all and I'm well

aware that Eddie Peppel our very own Eddie Peppel was on the podium should have podium really

even shouldn't they at golf I think it's a really good discussion point that actually whether or not

we should celebrate people who finish second and third in golf tournaments.

And the way that you are at the athletics at the moment, Andrew, you know, because let's face it, you finish it, you finish second or third.

You've beaten, for example, in the open, if you finish second, you've beaten 154 other players.

That's 154 wins.

How many people were in the field in Galgorm, Eddie, yesterday?

About the same amount.

Yeah, same amount of people.

So you've beaten, what, 153 people to finish third there.

And yet the machismo of golf is, oh, if you haven't won, then you've lost. And that's kind of how it's often regarded. What do you think? Yeah, I quite like that, though. You know, golf's a punishing game. And I think why not add to the difficulty by making you feel even worse when you don't win? You know, you're a loser unless you win. I think golf, I'm fine with that, Ian. Golf's a tough game. So you were a loser last week then? Well, I wasn't a winner. I mean, you know, I came home though and Pip and Gus came running up to me and give me a big lick. So that was my podium finish. Yeah, they said, you're a winner in our eyes.

It's been a bit, have you been to Hungary either of your Budapest?

No. I went to the Hungarian Grand Prix a long, long time ago and I enjoyed that.

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