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Episode 72 - Great Kiwi three-hole stretches
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The boys talk about their favourite three-hole stretches in the country. With some a surprise features... including a course that is no longer.
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Technical Difficulties and Podcast Adjustments
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Send him home. Time to go home there, boss. Oh, baby, boss. Why didn't you just go home? That's your home.
Introduction: Focus on TPC Sawgrass and Kiwi Courses
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We've had grand plans of an island part two rolling out this week, but we encountered some technical difficulties that we've put down to maybe Monty's recording on his phone from a hotel room in Denver, so AC and I have had to think on our feet, and we're glad you're tuning in, and today...
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We're going to briefly talk about what happened at TPC Sawgrass at the Players, and then we're going to rip into our great three-hole stretches. Well, our great Kiwi three-hole stretches, I should say. So some of the three-hole stretches, that could be, you know, holes 10 to to 17. Well explained, Cal.
00:01:02
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I'm glad you clarified that. It's clear now. ah Okay, sweet. Cheers. You know, mate, just always always explain, mate. Always explain. So I welcome in as you've already heard, I'm just having a pot shot. welcome, mate. Good of you to tune in.
00:01:22
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Hey Cal, yeah, second time I've seen you today mate, but it's there's an it's an absolute pleasure to be back on.
Rory McIlroy at TPC Sawgrass: Wins and Smart Play
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um Yeah, looking forward to sort of dissecting the players briefly and then ripping into some local great three-hole stretches as you've already laid out beautifully.
00:01:41
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it Yeah, you know, just got to dumb it down for ah everyone mate, but first of all we'll We'll look at the players. AC, probably and a far better time zone.
00:01:52
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I understand you you watched a good chunk of the players and and loved it. But, mate, obviously Rory winning the second players, great to see and and played some pretty good golf.
00:02:05
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Holding a lot of putts down yeah the stretch and and then went to a Monday playoff with JJ Sporn.
Golf Week Recap: Rory's Win and Unpredictable Leaderboard
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What did you make of of the players this year, the coverage, and and the event and and obviously you'd be pretty chipper with with rory winning as the listeners will know but maybe break it down a little bit more yeah we don't need to get too in the in the weeds on it but it was just a great week i obviously have great hours here it was on to from sort of sort of midday to 10 o'clock each night, which is just ideal. So that I watched a shitload of golf this week. it was sort of I treated it like a major. i watched basically all of Thursday, Friday, working from home, good chunk on Saturday, and then parked up Sunday, which obviously was delayed. And then you know i was at work on Monday and then just tuned into the playoff, managed to catch that all.
Spotlight on Lesser-Known Players: Danny Walker
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So...
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it was a great week it was a funny week in that as you'd refer to it a lot of bowlers names on the leaderboard a lot of people that i really didn't know an awful lot about people like smallie um we obviously had the the walker storyline just rammed down our throats who i did i don't know if you know cal but i'm pretty sure he replaced jason day um that got That got rammed ram down my throat on the the broadcast, as golf broadcasters tend to do.
00:03:36
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But no, was a great week. Some real interesting stuff sort of going going forward. on Danny Walker. Sorry. You would have thought with how they were speaking...
00:03:48
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about him on the coverage that they genuinely just plucked him out of the crowd. Yeah. Yeah, like, did someone, I saw a tweet asking if he was J.B. Holmes' son and I lost it. i I thought that was a pretty good take.
00:04:05
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But, um... As was saying before, sort of a weird week in that, yeah, it was just a mix of everything. And then now we've got all these storylines going into Augusta. um Obviously, Rory's always won, but particularly winning first time he's won two PGA Tour events.
Speculation on Rory's Chances at Augusta and Scheffler's Mindset
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before Augusta, Scheffler's looking really whiny on the course. Man, he was, you would have thought hes the unluckiest man alive. um he he was He's in a funny sort of frame of mind.
00:04:37
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You had like JT, who's just so volatile at the moment, shot 62. And then another couple of average rounds, we've got people like Hovland, Homer ejecting themselves. It's really, it was just, ah TPC always does provide that. Like, there's always a few big names that just get their ass handed to. But, um yeah, I think this week in particular, ah it seemed to be even more prominent.
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Yeah, as you said, we weren' we won't dwell on it because we've come to this podcast for it with a different agenda.
Rory McIlroy's Major Win Drought and Improvement
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But Rory's week, what did you think? Yeah. I know we've spoken about it a little bit. It's good to see him getting results with not necessarily all of his best stuff.
00:05:21
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But what did you think? Yeah, same same stuff. He gets beaten lot. But i think hey think he buried some demons.
00:05:32
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He made a couple of nice five-footers, which I know like as a player of his level should might be making them. But after what happened at Pinehurst, I think he needed to get rid of a few of those demons, which I think he did.
00:05:44
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was an old fit It was like a the new Rory performance where he doesn't just blow the field away, but he played really smart, didn't have his best stuff, and didn't drive the ball that well. But it just shows now he's he's a lot more complete and that the putter just held up clutch for him. The iron play was better. So he's a more complete player, and he said that after um the event too. So I think, you know,
00:06:12
Speaker
Augusta's going to be hard but he's put himself in the best chance that he can for that and yeah it's one of those things it gets tiring talking about his major drought but he's he's definitely still got the game for it yeah no I don't think that's ever been a better question he did you know he has never won in April yeah which I know I saw a lot of that but it sort of makes sense because you often he probably plays yeah He probably only plays once or maybe has one more in there.
00:06:46
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um Yeah. And he's never won the one after Augusta's Hilton Head, I think. And he's never won there. So, I don't know. I don't think that's a big deal. Nah.
00:06:56
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it's I think it's just the only month he hasn't really won. Yeah. but um And and he's't even he hasn't gone to Hilton Head the last couple of years, I believe.
Favorite Kiwi Three-Hole Stretches Introduction
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Exactly. He definitely doing a couple of years ago. so Mate, well, we'll move on to to our three-hole stretches, which...
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as the listeners will be well aware of how this, how this works. It is just New Zealand courses. And then we're going to, we're going to revisit and and do a few more towards the middle of the year, perhaps get a guest on. But ac have you gone in any particular order with your three whole stretches or have you just got a couple of, couple of favorites?
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I've sort of, I've got about, I've got five in there. Um, I haven't ranked them. I can probably, ah could probably rank them at the end of the, the pod. Um, how have you gone about it? Have you gone, this one thing we didn't really put any limits on it. Have you tried to put in like a mix of threes and fives in there or are you just favorite best three or like most memorable three? How have you gone about it?
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Look, I've just, I've narrowed it down to a couple. Uh, so I've gone kind of my, I kept a pretty simple. My, my favorite three holes at kind of courses in a row, obviously.
00:08:11
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Um, And yeah, there was a couple that really stuck out, but it also stuck out to me when I was got scrolling through the New Zealand golf app that I actually haven't haven't played as much golf and across New Zealand as I probably should have.
00:08:27
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and And over April, I'm planning to change that. I've got some pretty cool things booked where going tick off kind of all of the all of the top 10 and the country so it'll be good to revisit this maybe in the middle of the year once i once i have played bit more bit more golf across the country ah bit more golf meaning more courses obviously i've played yeah fair share of golfers as the listeners will know but yeah i've made i just gone a couple of favorites and then and then a special mention uh but i'll okay i'll get you to kick off with what's the first one there on on your list and
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It doesn't have to be at a particular order or it can be number five. You you let us know.
Favorite Holes at Arrowtown and Paraparaumu Beach
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Okay, um I'm going to 10 to 12. Yeah, 10's a short par four. it's It's a very short par four.
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um You could argue it probably should be 20 metres longer. Great green sight. It's got some rubbish left if you do you do pull one and get one drawing. So it's it's a great great fun hole And then 11 is a nice par 4 along the water. I don't know how much we want to talk about this, Cal, but I don't think we need to describe every hole. um And 12 is another par 5 along the river, which, i yeah, I just enjoy that stretch. You've got, the 11th is quite a difficult par 4, but it's also strategic. You have to sort of work out whether you want to hit the hard shot first or
00:10:05
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a hard, long iron into that green. It just depends how you like to play it. And then 12 is just ah and admittedly, ah like it's a pretty straightforward par five, but you can't hit left off the tee.
00:10:17
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Right's not ideal. And then your second shot, don't dare go left because it's probably one of the worst misses you could possibly find in a deep bunker. um Yeah, I just love that stretch of golf holes.
00:10:31
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Yeah, it's a good stretch of holes. tin 10, also trouble long. as As I've found out before, if you skip one through there, you're pretty buggered and left, as you said. But it also can play as one of the hardest par threes in the country, which they I believe they turn it up for in tournament play. They make it a par three.
00:10:56
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And yeah, yeah and I think both of those 10 and 11 definitely is you have to make a decision off the tee on what club you're going to hit, which is always nice to do and always fun to do because that can dictate your hole. And then, yeah, like you said, 11, it's a good scoring hole if you can keep it in play. So I think that's a but that is a good stretch of holes. One I didn't have on my list is actually the closing stretch at tee.
00:11:23
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He's 16. through 18 it kind of it still has the bones of the old you know um lockheel to it if you if you'd played there would yeah i think 17 and 18 for sure definitely like you can still see which you which is quite nostalgic when you're playing it and it's and no great holes too so yeah there's a couple of ah good stretches around around teiki and and a course that's starting to get a lot more love the the more it's the more it's played because it is relatively new.
00:12:00
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Yeah, it's ah it's a bloody fun back nine. um You can easily, you can go a couple under and over pretty easily. couple of drivable fours. Yeah, I really enjoy it.
00:12:12
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What about you, Cal? ah youga ah special mention to third the par three, third eighth, what a... I love a short three. It's good fun to play.
00:12:24
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Yeah, i I think it's a bit too easy. don't think I don't think there's enough consequence from, I don't know, for a short three, it just feels a bit easy. But I do, it's fun. A short par three is always fun.
00:12:40
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You spin one into that hazard kind of, or the wasteland, it's not a bunker, is it? short of the great short right of the green. It's it's a pretty tricky trick tricky three to make for most punters.
00:12:55
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but Yeah, it's just not close enough to the green. Anyway. um To kick off, i've I've gone with my special mention and rest easy, the great Gulf Harbour, which was you know one ah one of my favourite places to play in Auckland, a place that I ah played plenty of golf.
00:13:16
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And it holds 15 through 17 there. Look, at um like I'm going to explain it, but if you haven't been there, you're never going to go there. So it's famously been cut. So it started with the par three, fifth date just a nice solid par three, probably the weaker out of the three holes in this stretch. and then And then 16 goes into the the signature hole where you, those that know Gold Harbour, it's a dogleg right, right?
00:13:46
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pretty demanding path for that you can hit over the cliff. And, and it's, it's a, it's a pretty awesome tee shot. Like many, a man brought to their knees, trying to, you know, trying to bite off more than like they can chew and just donating one to the,
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the to the ocean and then your second shot at is, depending on how much you bite off is normally for for a regular punter like us, it's ah it's a long iron in, definitely for AC and I.
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and then yeah it's It's just a great hole and then 17 to par 5, another pretty tricky par 5 along that cliff face as well. AC, you've played a little bit of golf there.
00:14:32
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What are your thoughts on like um my take there? Nah, it's a good take. I think they're real postcard holes, those three. And they're quite awkward for right-handers because you've got, you sort of have your ball below your feet the whole time.
00:14:48
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And if the wind's going towards the ocean, that's really awkward. Nah, it's hard to disagree. i don't think that par three is great, and you sort of mentioned that it it's weak on the weaker side, but I definitely have some great memories around that golf course.
00:15:05
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Yeah, and and on 16 and 17, like, the trouble's clearly on the right, but you can't, like, massively bail out on the left. No, you definitely can't.
00:15:16
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There's a lot of crap. Yeah, you've got to... And also it demands a good tee shot and yeah, it's a demanding couple of holes and and it's it's a massive shame that, that Gulf Harbor has gone under because I'm not a massive resort golf guy, but Gulf Harbor was, was one of my favorite kind of, was one of my favorite courses in the country. I love every time I went and played there.
00:15:42
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So yeah, I see what's next on your list. um It's probably on yours. Paraparaumu 15 to 17. We've talked it the pod a lot. um We don't need to go through the nuts and bolts, but blind par 4 and then an elevated green with runoffs everywhere. sixteen 16, probably my favorite par 3 in the world.
00:16:08
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um which And which as a whole that It's a bit awkward the first few times you've played it. um I still don't quite know what the play is there, but um I think it would be most golfers in the country's favourite stretch of holes, I'd say.
00:16:27
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I don't think we're in the minority there, are we, Cal? Nah, that was shit on the top of my list. so It's a great stretch of holes. Like you said, at about 17. It's brilliant.
00:16:39
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and ah different decision every time depending on what the wind's doing and it's kind of like a split there's a split fairway and yeah it's a it's an awesome hole and and like you said on 16 um geez i've seen pretty short part three bring a lot of pretty good golfers to their knees yeah like you can't really miss either side of that grain um the big runoff down to the right and just completely fucked if you go left uh it's it's a yeah it's a it's a fantastic stretch of holes and then yeah like i love going back there and now that i'm back in and new zealand i'm like i'm gonna make sure i make a ah trip to parapan every year it's uh it's easily my favorite place to go in the country and
00:17:31
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I think even after I've ticked off a lot of these courses, the likes of kidnappers and TRI and Cody cliffs, I, I, I see, I still see it being that way. I just think it's, it's such a special part of New Zealand golf. And we, we love going there. We bang on about it all the time, but yeah, it's a great stretch of holes AC. And there's probably a, there's probably three or four other stretches through there that you could, that you could throw in as well. But you know, we've been, we've been,
00:17:59
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advocates enough for the great place. We don't need to put it down. We have. Next on my list, AC, is holes 12 through 14 at Clearwater in Christchurch.
00:18:13
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Look, the back nine at Clearwater is something that we talked about a bit on our course Nuffy series. it's a It's a very, very good back nine. That's, ah yeah, one of my favourites to play. It's just got a point of difference.
00:18:28
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Every hole is kind of a bit quirky and there's no real like bad boring holes until ah maybe there's maybe one or two but um my favorites here are 12 through 14 so 12's a it's a niggly narrow par four that makes you make a decision off the tee those that are played there you'll think you can carry the bunkers up on either side and and Some people can, but for me, it's kind of ah a long iron into a ah mid iron into into a tricky green that's kind of got go watery, kind of, watery creek. It's got creek on the right then, and then,
00:19:08
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And then a bit of water on the left. And then 13 for me is a demanding par 4. Water left with a big tree that kind of just mucks with your vision on the left.
00:19:19
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you kind of but it And it will affect your second shot. So, yeah, that too. But then the best out of the three of them is the par 5, 14. A hole that you probably have to play a couple of times to...
00:19:33
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to really figure out what you're doing. It's kind of, it's got a double split fairway, that driver can reach, uh, the first kind of burn. So best players to hit a long line short and then another line shorter than next one.
00:19:49
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And, and you kind of, and you're hitting into a, semi punch bowl green. That's got like a back, a sloping backstop that can funnel down into the, the hole. It's, it's one of my favorite par fives of the country. And I see you've,
00:20:01
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You've played there once a while ago. but don't know what your memory's like of Clearwater, but yeah, there three holes that I thoroughly enjoy playing every single time.
00:20:13
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No, I remember that being a good stretch. I must say, as i fear um' probably as you could probably tell, looking at you quite vaguely as you were mentioning them because it was just jogging my memory. I've only played it once.
00:20:27
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I distinctly remember hitting one in the water on 13 and picking up for a seven. um Yeah, but I can't disagree with that.
00:20:38
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it's um It's a good stretch of holes. Yeah, absolutely. What's next on your list, mate? I've got Arrowtown 11 to 13. 11, probably it's like one of the tightest fairways I've ever played on, that par 5 up the hill.
00:20:56
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And then 12's got a really cool green. um it's sort of It's set up above, and then it all funnels down from the front. It's got a big false front.
00:21:08
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and also you can't miss it right either. um And then 13, it's quite an awkward tee shot. um It all sort of slopes off to the right, and there's sort of these, these um I don't even know what you call them there, they're like grass bunkers, basically. You've sort of got to navigate, and then you're hitting a blind second shot.
00:21:31
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um Yeah, that's ah that's a good stretch. I've always played... Arrowtown's always playing quite fast and firm too, which which makes it fun. Yeah, well said, mate. It's hard for me to add. I've only ever played foursomes at Arrowtown. It's a place I need to go back and play my own ball.
00:21:51
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i And I'm going to do that this year. ands It's it such a special place. You've got a lot of golf to play, Cal. I do.
00:22:02
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But it's all on the horizon. A lot of it a lot of it's... booked in, ready to go. Arrowtown and Parapara Am aren't though. So, they are two places that I will be getting to this year. So, just please hold me to that.
00:22:16
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Next on my list is, and to this is a bit of a weird one. it's ah It's not a place that I reckon you've played AC. It's not a place I reckon a lot of people played.
00:22:27
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But South Head Holes, 11 through 13, are just all short path. par fours that can get you in a lot of trouble with pretty with pretty magnificent views of the of the flats and and the and the estuaries it's a it's a place that i grew up playing a lot and there's yeah those three holes there are really scorable but they've been they've brought media man to to their knees as i've got a scorecard up here and This time I played them off the front, or not the front tees, off the whites, and I played them in four over.
Memorable Courses: South Head and Cape Kidnappers
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So, look, it's it's no guarantees that you're going well because they're short par fours.
00:23:10
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But I... I love them. and And if Monty was on, I'm sure he would ah back me up. He's played a bit of golf there. But that was kind of last on my list. That was more of a special mention rather than, you know, but it's it's ah it's a great place to go. And I actually recommend anyone that's playing golf in Auckland to head out to South Head and Helensville and play some golf because it's not really talked about.
00:23:35
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what's the longest par four out of the three? The longest is the 11th, which is about 3.15. three fifth but you right up the corner you can cut the corner and make that shorter.
00:23:46
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So it's, but if you, if you fall short or miss, your your ball is like, you're in a bush, don but you can't, you'll find it and you, and you'll think you can get it out, but chances are you probably can't.
00:24:02
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And then a little bit further left in that is OB. So I, um, I had asked Steve Williams watch me hit a tee shot of that tee, and ah he was just standing behind me with his playing group, and i was like, that's Steve Williams.
00:24:17
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And I proceeded to just no quite a left. It would be like 70 metres OB.
00:24:25
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Just said nothing and walked on. Yeah, well, he's seen a lot better golf than that in his time. um I see, rebel off what you you've got to... Just a side note, that reminds me of when I was a young Tucker and I played junior pennants, I'd always look at the scorecard and like basically just score it for myself. So I'd be like...
00:24:50
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oh, 310 par 4, okay, I'll make a 5 there. And then I'd, like, get to the end. of be like, oh, yeah, so if I do that, I'll play, like, 5 under my handicap. And it's just funny looking back now. Like, short does not mean easy.
00:25:03
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Like, just because a par 4 is 320 doesn't mean you get a par. um But, yeah. You're talking about Southhead just brought back those memories.
00:25:14
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The... the The two that I sort of... I'm just going to give them special mentions. I don't think we need to keep rattling through every hole.
00:25:25
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um But there's a stretch at Cape Kidnappers, 5 to the 7th. is... five to the seventh the fifth is Short par four with a semi-line bunker and like an infinity green.
00:25:37
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Six is a great par three over the Redan. And then seven's this awesome sort of par four that goes down the hill with a green that you can't really miss. Otherwise, you have a really tricky up and down. And then the other, there's two three-hole stretches at Kinloch that I couldn't make a decision on.
00:25:56
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One's four to six. That's three par fours. Six is probably my favorite. hole at Kinloch, and then there's another stretch from,
00:26:08
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ah
00:26:11
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I think it's 15 to, no, 14 to 16, that is another great stretch on the golf course. I just couldn't really work out. couldn't decide. So I just i just thought that'd be honourable mentions. Is there anything else?
00:26:27
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I didn't have anything else. Nah, the places you've mentioned are places, though. I kind of haven't been, and I'd say, should I put those on the list to play this year as well? Maybe.
00:26:38
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but Kinlock needs to be there. You are going, aren't you? I believe Kinlock's on that North Islander, Tanaria. I will just have to double-check it, but yeah, I think it is.
00:26:49
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So that'll be that'll be great. um AC, do we have any come through from any listeners? I know that we we put this out pretty late, so chances are there there won't be many.
00:27:03
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Actually, there's another... Cal, just one one thing I was looking at is Jax. What's your favourite three-hole stretch at Jax? Because that'll be a popular one.
00:27:16
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I like...
00:27:20
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I do like holes two and three, but obviously when you get round to kind of... Is it six seven the what when you start looking over Lake Wapitipa? Okay, so, yeah, this is the conundrum i was having. I forgot to mention this one too, but um my brother's put in 6-8 at Jack's, which yeah sort of jogged the memory. So 6-5's that par...
00:27:45
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Five's the par five that sort of wraps around to the right. Six is the driveable four. Seven's the par three down that hill. And then eight's the one that Monty eagled when we played it, the par five up the hill.
00:27:59
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. That definitely, yeah. So that's four. That's four. But I actually did my three stretch, three-hole stretch there is seven, eight, and nine.
00:28:12
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I really like nine as a par four.
00:28:15
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10 was, I talked about hitting one left at Southhead, but I don't think I've ever hit one more left than I hit on 10 at Jack's point when I was playing with UAC.
00:28:29
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i was like, ah, not driver today. I'll hit three wood. And this thing was left going left. That's my memory of 10 at Jack's. But, mate, all good holes.
00:28:42
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it's It's hard to kind of split the holes around Jack's because it's such a special place to go. And and and the views are just to die for, aren't they, really? So if you haven't got there already, listeners, like that's a place that that you have to go to. It's just magnificent.
00:29:00
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I was thinking about Jack's the other day, Cal, and the one gripe I have with it is the amount of uphill holes. i don't I find uphill holes just hard work.
00:29:12
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like two, three, four, and then there's that par five on the back nine. It might be about, think it was probably 15, 14. They just feel like they don't end.
00:29:25
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Yeah. And it doesn't help that it's it's a course that you can't really walk, which I don't love.
Challenges at Jack's Point and Titarangi
00:29:32
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um Like I remember we walked it. Yeah. And I think our mate Jake's Garvin said that we'd come at 18 kilometers.
00:29:41
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Like that's just, Mate, that took five and a half ah hours, and we played quick. It's a big old day. it's a big It's a big, big paddock. And there's just, yeah, that'd be my only gripe is I love golf courses that you can't walk.
00:30:00
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um I've just got into our list of takes now, one from Simon. Rotorua 16, 17, 18, and he has prevented me breaking 80 many times.
00:30:14
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good trick to Good stretch of holes again. Another place that we've played at a fair chunk of golf. no I played 36 there in a day last year.
00:30:26
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Yeah. I can't argue with that. that whole back nine's got a few of those stretches you could probably add. It's a great back nine. Yeah, it's it's it's ah it's such a fun, affordable course to go play to. And and all the locals in Rotorua are always so pumped it to have people there. it's a It's a great, like it's so accommodating. And yeah, like when we were there this year for the Hillary Cup, they massively got around us. So it was it it's an awesome place to go. And that par 3 17th is a really fun home.
00:31:01
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Yeah. So is 16 the one that wraps around the water? No. Yeah. Yeah. No, I i think that is a great stretch of golf holes.
00:31:13
Speaker
Yeah. And then 17 the kind of elevated tee. yeah Yeah. Par three, kind of a middle iron. The other par three great too. and the and the the par four after it.
00:31:27
Speaker
um I don't know the exact number. On the back nine? Yeah. Yeah, 12, 13. Yeah. at twelve third i Yeah. um Yeah.
00:31:38
Speaker
Actually, I'm looking forward to getting back there. it's all black kids it's It's so much fun to play. And the greens are always quite firm and ah fast. Yeah, like it's an underrated. arc that play No, but i do, I also love how they have like such a handshake first hole.
00:31:58
Speaker
Yeah. Like you can have it anywhere you want. Not too much go on the green. I think it's just great for a recreational golfer who doesn't have time to to warm up.
00:32:09
Speaker
Yeah. and And another one here from from Monty, actually. Holes 12 through 14 at Tatarangi.
00:32:19
Speaker
ah That's a good take. That's a good take. that's So that's the... It's a tough par 4-12th. 13's the par 5 with the tree in the middle, and 14's that par 3 over the... Over, like, the... Yeah, the Redan.
00:32:38
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Yeah, I know. Yeah. yeah, if I'd probably go 13, 14, 15. thirteen fourteen fifteen i think the par 4 after it's so cool.
00:32:51
Speaker
Big dog leg left. I'd probably... That would probably be my three-hole stretch at Titarangi. But I can't – it's another great golf course. I like the finish to the back nine at Titarangi.
00:33:04
Speaker
That is a – that's a brutal par three, that the seventh. it's ah It's a tricky hole, though. Yeah. Yeah, six to eight at Titarangi is another good stretch holes.
00:33:16
Speaker
Six is quite polarizing, but, you know. Yeah. We got another another mention from Matt, 11 through 13 at Arrowtown, which we've already discussed. And the Kairns, holes three to five, is is really up
Aesthetic Appeal at Cairns and Travel to Tekapo
00:33:30
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there for him. So the Kairns is a course in Tekapo, which I've not got to before, but I've heard pretty raving reviews. Like it's a bit rough around the edges and it's kind of only played by locals on holiday, but it's ah it's a little nine-holer that... I think it's an honesty box too.
00:33:48
Speaker
Yeah, it's a really, like, it's aesthetically pleasing. it's It's got magnificent views, but yeah, apparently it's ah it's a fun little track to go play. Should we put that one? Great part of the world, too.
00:34:01
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Great part of the world. Yeah, oh I love kidding getting down there. ats a It's a great stopover when yeah when you're driving down to to Queenstown and get a you know bit of tucker from that bakery and and load up on some suites at the Foursquare.
00:34:17
Speaker
It's a Oh, mate, that's making me home sick. I think we need golf roadie down south at some point. I'd love to get to places like Roxburgh.
00:34:28
Speaker
haven't even played Otago yet. There's a lot there lot to do down there. Tecky also got another mention, 10 to 12. Yeah, exactly, Cal.
00:34:44
Speaker
we'd we'd be pretty close matches off the stick these days, I reckon. Potentially, yeah. oh that's ah That's a dark day for you, but it's a pretty good day for me.
00:34:59
Speaker
any any Anything else in terms of three hole stretches,
Closing Remarks and Listener Engagement
00:35:03
Speaker
we we do want you to keep keep sending them in because we're going to do another series on this and and get a couple of guests on it and and talk about some more and maybe go international. But AC, anything else from you talking about kind of holes that that you love or or any parting words?
00:35:22
Speaker
No, not really. Maybe we can make an off-the-tips composite course so we'll have six three-hole stretches. um Yeah. With listener input.
00:35:34
Speaker
No, it's been fun. It's always fun talking about... Yeah, exactly. yeah Like you said, mate, always good to reminisce.
00:35:45
Speaker
ah Appreciate you guys tuning in. If you love our takes, let us know. If you hate them, let us know even more. we We'd love to get you to get in touch and please, by all means, see your favorite three-hole stretches, whether they be country courses or some of the better holes in the country.
00:36:00
Speaker
We'd love to know. So appreciate your tuning in. Like, subscribe, and share. and And we'll catch you next time. Cheers, Kyle.