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.

Good morning, everyone, or good evening, afternoon, whenever you're listening to this.

Now, research, research, research, research, research, has shown that the most popular time for a podcast to be published is first thing on a Tuesday, because it's effectively the first

day of the working week, because nobody works on a Monday now, as we've talked about before,

for which I blame COVID, laziness, and the boomtown rats. Not the mammas and papas, though, they quite like Mondays. So we're trying to get this done and out in time for Tuesday morning. We're recording it very, very early on a Tuesday morning. My goodness, it's half-past seven on a Tuesday morning, but we'll try and get it out for later this morning. So hopefully you're listening to it then. But we're recording on a Tuesday morning because our star cast member,

Eddie Pepperl, only got back from Korea yesterday afternoon, was not really in a fit state to record

a pod. So we said, hey, big guy, hey fella, you take all the time you need and we're here for you

whenever. And it turns out that he needed just a few more hours. So all I think we want to do now is hear from a man so scarred by the game that he told me he hates it and doesn't want to play again. Eddie's fine. It's Ian Carter. What's gone wrong, Ian? We'll hear from Eddie in a minute. What's... Oh, again, seriously, you know, I don't want to go into it. Yes, you don't. All I say is, you know, as you know, and you bridled against the fact that I've been on holiday for a couple of weeks. I'm now officially back at work. But during that fortnight, I played quite a bit of golf and progressively got worse and worse and worse.

So, yeah, I've had enough.

Okay.

But I'll get into it a bit later on because I did a little bit of practice on Sunday, did something different and I'd like Eddie's take on that.

But now is not the time.

It is not a top of the pod kind of topic. No, it's just it's a teaser, though. It's a teaser. You can look forward to that. But now is not the time. It is not a top of the pod kind of topic. No, it's just it's a

teaser, though. It's a teaser. You can look forward to that at the 55 minute mark as we

do a deep dive on Ian's rotary action on the way back or whatever it might be. I don't know.

Anyway, Eddie Pepperl, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie. How, I mean, not how was the trip? Yeah, how was the trip as a whole. Golf, everything, flights, loveliness. Just, yeah, tell. Talk to us, big guy. Good morning. It was, it was fine, I would say. As fine as Asia can be. I've not traveled well to Asia.

Oh, hang. Sorry. He's roaring back in straight in there.

As fine as Asia can be, I found it. You know, I, I climatized relatively quickly to the jet lag and we were staying in a nice hotel really by the course.

So it was no real stress for the week, I have to say.

And I thought a lot of good storylines developed and emerged as the week went on and added to the event in a significant way, as you could imagine.

And I was, I suppose, one of them in a small way, not as clearly somebody like Marco Penge or Ricardo Gouvaire, who I'm sure we'll talk about. But look, I, yeah, I tried to go out there and just treat it as any other event in the sense that I wanted to play good golf and tried my best. And I didn't, I wouldn't say I did play great, but I played OK. Okay, we'll get into that shortly. But you mentioned jet lag is the thing. When you go to Korea, Japan, China, jet lag is brutal. It's so much worse going that way. Or certainly I've found that and people talk about that. And the first night you're there, you have the greatest night's sleep of your life. You wake up and you think, I'm ready to go, and then you look at your clock and it's one o'clock in the morning. And then you cannot get back to sleep at all. That happened to me on the Wednesday night into my Thursday morning tea time. Unfortunately, I was asleep by 10, woke up at just exactly, I had the sleep, but you just described and was away from probably 1 till six and then I had to get up but the first night I got there I took um six night

holes so obviously you can't you can't get hold of sleeping pills um as we know in this country

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