EP96: Biggler than McIlroy
The Chipping Forecast
Soft Ears Media
4.9 • 718 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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The Chipping Forecast returns after a Festive Season break and our three-ball throw themselves into their new year of golf with all the enthusiasm of people who are suffering intensely from the January blues.
One of the main topics of discussion is Barry Hearn’s claims for how big darts can be, as well as his opinion that Luke Littler can have a similar effect to Tiger Woods and his general wonderment at the money in golf when he feels that nobody’s really watching it. Andrew then makes an equally bold claim about Luke Littler without much evidence to back it up.
The three go on to discuss TGL, Hideki going low in Kapalua, the positive side of golfing YouTubers and Eddie’s hopes for a good response on tournament invitations. And the podcast also retires undefeated from the awards game.
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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 Cotter, Eddie Pepperall and special guest Ian Carter. |
| 0:35.6 | Here we are then, the chipping forecast, a new year, a new season of TCF. How exciting that we're going to the new year with zero changes to fresh up the format. That's good. Still me, Andrew Carter, regular special guest, Ian Carter, and the one and only Edward Lewis Pepperel. Is it Lewis or Louis Pepperl? It's Lewis, isn't it? Louie. Is it Louis? It's Louis, I'm afraid. It's Louis. Oh, that's much better. |
| 0:55.6 | That's much better than Lewis. |
| 0:57.7 | It's L-O-U-I-S, yeah. |
| 1:00.9 | I think we've talked about this before, and we just forget what we've talked about, |
| 1:04.6 | because I think I asked if you're named after Louie the 14th. |
| 1:06.6 | French ancestry, apparently, going away back. |
| 1:07.4 | Beryl. |
| 1:08.0 | Yes. |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:34.2 | I think so. My late auntie, who just passed away, actually, she did some digging on it a few years ago, and I think that's what she discovered. French smugglers going centuries back now. Sacrebleu, you know, Crem de la Montth, Rodders, you know, that type of thing. It's Monday the 6th of January, which, well, first of all, I know that, it's Monday the 6th, because I'm looking at a calendar, not just any old calendar, but we were, Ian and I were gifted a calendar, a 20-25 calendar. And it says on the outside of this one, have a New Year, Andrew, to the chipping |
| 1:38.6 | forecast chaps from Big Ron. So, yeah, so Ron Atkinson has sent me, is Ron, he's still going? |
| 1:47.3 | He was, uh, my dad met Ron Atkinson in the festival a couple of weeks ago, funny enough. |
| 1:52.5 | At Richard Mansell's wife's father's football club, or one of his football clubs, does that make |
| 1:58.2 | sense? |
| 1:58.5 | He was doing a talk there. |
| 1:59.6 | Ron Atkinson was doing a talk at Ellie Mansell. So Richard Mansell's wife, her dad owns those of football clubs, apparently. And Ron Atkinson was there. So my dad had a picture with the two big Ron's. Two big Ronies. He said he was quite an inspiring character, actually, my dad. He said, my dad said of Ron Atkinson, not the other way around, that he could see why he |
| 2:18.3 | was so popular with players. It was. Yeah, there was a sudden downturn of things. I was. I was at a lunch |
| 2:23.9 | last year, just the year before, and Dean Saunders, former Aston Villa striker, was the speaker. |
| 2:31.3 | And he was hilarious in talking about Ron Atkinson as a football manager |
| 2:36.0 | and the antics that went on in the changing rooms at halftime and stuff like that. |
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