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 there, Loyal, Chipping Forecastees everywhere, is that TCFers.

Here we go, here we go, it's Masters Week. Well, it will be as you're listening. We are actually recording this on Sunday evening because I am travelling to the United States of America tomorrow. So good evening to Eddie Pepperl. First of all, hello, Eddie. Hello, Andrew. You look confused already. I can see your little face. I was just sending a message privately while you were talking. But it's been sent and I'm ready to go. To a guy on the Isle of Wight. It was to Jen, actually. He's in the other room. Just ask him in favour. I wasn't prying. Actually, I was. Ian Carter is already in the States. He is acclimatized. He's been there for a week and has a sort of

Graham McDowell Carly Booth Twang as a result to his accent. Hello, Ian.

Yeah. If you hadn't asked Eddie I was going to, so well done. I want to know what you've asked Jen to bring you.

No, I'm not going to reveal what I've asked.

Yeah. Oh, God. That's embarrassing. Embarrassing starts. A big Masters preview pod.

So these are exciting times. Ian Carter preparing for your how many masters now. So you,

at 2003 was not your first, but your first as correspondent. Did you do a

couple of rogue ones in the 90s? You went rogue. Well, I wouldn't call it rogue, but I did one in

1993. So when Bernhard Langer won for the second time, that was the first time that I came, on Easter

Sunday. And I came here because in those days, I was a cricket reporter for the BBC World Service.

And I was being sent to the Caribbean for a cricket tour.

And I had the best boss that anyone's ever had.

And he worked out that the Masters was the week before.

And he said, I tell you what, I think we could get you in there as well.

So off I went, and that was the first time I came here, came back a decade later, and basically

I've been here every time since, apart from 2020 when Dustin Johnson won in the COVID one,

when, well, we sat together doing it on the, on the telly, didn't we, in Salford, which was slightly different to Augusta. Slightly strange to, oh, Augusta's near the Caribbean. You can go to Caribbean first and then to Augusta. Those were the days. No, it was Augusta first and then on to the Caribbean. Oh, was it? Oh, I suppose it might have something in common, and actually outside of the gates of Augusta,

it's not as pretty as people might imagine,

bit like Salford.

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