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, Andrew Carter here.

Welcome once again to the chipping forecast.

I'm getting straight into it there.

No messing about. Good morning to his excellency special guest, Ian Carter. Ian, hello. Good morning. Morning, morning. Have you been outside because your very tinted glasses are slightly dark with a lightening. No, it's just because I sit next to the window and the sun's come in. So I haven't been out so far today, no. You look like Dave Angel Eco Warrior from the fast show. I'm going to put my other glasses on. I like them. I like them a lot. Eddie Pepperel. Now, I know the time in New Delhi is half past two in the afternoon just now, which isn't relevant. You're not there. What's happened? What? You were supposed to be playing? Yeah, no, I came home. Ian reminds me of Carmine Falconee from Batman, actually, with those glasses on.

But... what's happened? What? You were supposed to be playing? Yeah, no, I came home. Ian reminds me of Carmine Falconee from Batman, obviously, with those glasses on. But I came home, Ian, Andrews rather, I obviously didn't play very good in Singapore and didn't play very well. Didn't play very well, excuse me. And I, yeah, there's some stuff going on at home, so I figured I could give India a miss quite happily. I don't know what?

I mean, well, I mean, that's, you're just alluding to it. Stuff going on home, that sounds quite dark. Should we just skated or is it dog related? Is it pip related? Yeah, no, it's pit related, to be fair. She's not been well. And Jen hasn't been that well either. so I yeah I just I thought a game wasn't in terrific shape. And I kind of said to myself,

I think on the 13th fairway during the second round, I was on my knees, on the fairway,

beating the floor, looking at Jamie. And I said, Jamie, why am I here? And we just decided at

that point I should go home. Jamie said, because I need to earn some money, could we go to India and could so...

Interestingly, we might get into it, but I actually had to spare a few hours, as you can imagine, over the weekend.

So I went back and looked at my history from January to through March, and this has actually been my fourth best season.

And I have only earned in the last three years,

three thousand euros in that period of time through 2021 to 2023. So this year I'm actually

flying. I mean, I might even be in the green. I had you down as a sort of modern day,

Alan Wicker, traveling the globe and coming back with tales of spices and silks and wondrous

things and enjoying yourself around the globe. But your best golf doesn't, are you not a good traveller then? Is this what we're? I'm a terrible traveller, it seems. My golf, my game just doesn't travel very well. Yeah. I mean, we've spoke about it before, haven't, haven't we, I think, because I did this last year. I looked back at my career and I've earned like over 80 to 85% of my money in Europe and the bulk of that's coming in the UK. So, hey, I mean, it's horses for courses and all that. And unfortunately for me in the modern game, I seem to do best in the UK. I think this is really interesting, though, this kind of windows in the calendar where you succeed, because we kind of touched on it last week

with Scotty Sheffler, and all of his wins come in the window between the start of the year

and the Masters. And after the Masters, he doesn't win. He still has shed loads of top

tens and top fives. But all his wins are in that one window. And you see certain players at certain times of the year, and that is when they earn all their money, so to speak. Yeah, I saw this on Twitter. Jamie Weir said the same thing, and I responded, there's just something in the water, I think, for some of us guys, and it's hard to put your finger on exactly what it is. But I know for me, personally, my body and my swing never quite feel my own

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