EP67: One Down, Two to Play
The Chipping Forecast
Soft Ears Media
4.9 • 718 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week Eddie is on a break, so Andrew turns up at Iain’s house on the way into Wimbledon to chat. But since both have been covering tennis - with Iain also deciding to throw in a Killers concert - they are less informed than usual and instead end up talking about TV theme tunes of the 70s and 80s. However, they also hear from a qualifier for the Open Championship and his major-winning mother about what it means to play at Troon and find plenty of time to discuss why iron covers are seen as the work of the devil.
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| 0:00.0 | Folding Pocket |
| 0:03.6 | It's time now for the chipping forecast, issued by Folding Pocket on behalf of Andrew |
| 0:15.7 | Cotter, Eddie Pepperall and special guest Ian Carter. |
| 0:32.1 | Hello and welcome to the chipping forecast. |
| 0:33.4 | Chipping forecast on tour. |
| 0:34.2 | Actually, I'm on tour. |
| 0:36.2 | Ian's not on tour because I'm at Ian's house. |
| 0:37.2 | How extraordinary. |
| 0:42.2 | There could be drama this morning because the shop delivery arrives on a Monday morning, |
| 0:49.0 | so the doorbell could go. Is that drama? Well, as dramatic as it gets in these parts of suburbia. It's, you've had stuff done since I've last been here. Mind it, well, that was about 20 years ago when I was casing the joint. No, it looks like a nice little terrace out the back there, patio. Did you have a terrible clover in the lawn, though? No, that's the time you're like, little purple clover. Yeah. I think that's the floral emblem of Denmark. Is it? Purple clover. I think so. I like clover because it attracts |
| 1:14.2 | the bees to the grass, but I think it's quite good to leave your grass, leave your clover for a bit. |
| 1:20.3 | And I always feel guilty when I'm cutting the grass after that, because all the bees are |
| 1:24.5 | standing at the side of a little on watching me do it, going to put hands on their hips, many hands on their hips. How many hands do they have? Hands on their hips going, what's going on that? I was about to have that. I sat next to a greenkeeper at a dinner in the, in, well, a few months ago. And I was saying, come on, what's the, what's the answer to getting a good lawn? |
| 1:51.4 | And he said, you need to mow your lawn at least three times a week. And that really makes the grass get much stronger. And that's why golf courses and the turf on golf courses is so resilient. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah, because I was playing golf recently, would you believe, before this, Wimbledon shenanigans. |
| 2:02.2 | And just walk up the fairway, I'm, I mean, the course I play at now is a sand-based one. |
| 2:07.9 | So it's an entirely different turf to the turf I have in my garden, which is clay-based. |
| 2:13.5 | Good chat this. |
| 2:14.9 | But it was just, I was just walking down the fairway, not the green, the fairway, and thinking this is |
| 2:19.2 | extraordinary. |
| 2:19.6 | How do they manage this? |
| 2:22.4 | And I've got a new appreciation for greenkeepers and all they do, when you're growing up, |
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