WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:04.440 In a world where fairways meet the airwaves, where berties 2 00:00:04.599 --> 00:00:08.359 and banker collide. Welcome to the show that takes you 3 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:11.800 beyond the clubhouse and onto the green. There is balls 4 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:15.400 and teas, your passport to the golfing universe, where every 5 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:19.239 swing tells the story and every part has its punchline. 6 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:22.640 Get ready to step onto the lost screens and dive 7 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:26.839 into the world of givets, drives and delightful better. 8 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:33.439 The Magician. 9 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:38.920 All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is yet another Wednesday, 10 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:41.079 and it is the one and only Tony told the 11 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:44.039 ball with a lot of flair. I am the Magician, 12 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:46.520 and yes, of course, if you've seen me on the 13 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:48.679 golf course, you realize that I am a classic man. Listen, 14 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:52.640 ladies and gentlemen. It is that day where I get 15 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:57.079 to check to experts within the social golfing sphere and 16 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:01.039 all the other professionals who would be listening. Man, I'm 17 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:03.960 so delighted that we have started the year. This is 18 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:07.760 our second episode and now what better way to actually 19 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.719 uh than to actually started off on a high note. 20 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:14.120 Last week we had three guests, and now we had 21 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:16.719 a beautiful conversation with our guests, and I just want 22 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:18.760 to say thank you once again to them. And then 23 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:22.280 this week we've got someone who is an expert when 24 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:26.280 it comes to golf equipment, golfing gear, and he knows 25 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:31.319 all about the gadgets that are currently dominating the industry. 26 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:36.719 So ladies and gentlemen, please allow me the opportunity to 27 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:43.519 introduce miss Jason Rowe. Mister how are you TARTI. 28 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:45.680 Great man, Thank you so much for the invite. Hello 29 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:48.560 to all the listeners. Privilege to be on your shows. 30 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:53.359 All right, thank you for actually honoring the invite Jason, 31 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:58.480 and wow, how punctual were you? 32 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:03.519 I've been waiting here for fifteen Let you down, but yeah, yeah. 33 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:04.120 That's going on. 34 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:07.920 Awesome stuff now that so Jason, Welcome to Bows and 35 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:11.039 is the only relevant podcast when it comes to social 36 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:15.159 golf and today, I'm actually highly delighted to have someone 37 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:21.520 who understands the ins and outs the trends around golf 38 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:25.919 for powerl golf equipment, golfing gadgets, someone who's got an 39 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:32.360 idea of how the whole industry has been revolutionizing. So 40 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:35.719 I'm honored to heavy Year and I believe that we're 41 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:40.520 going to have a very interesting conversation because like any 42 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.120 other golfer out there. I'm also trying to figure out 43 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:48.080 what is relevant now, how will it work in my favor. 44 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:52.520 But before all of that, I would actually like you 45 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:55.520 to reintroduce yourself. I tried to do it, but I 46 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:59.680 don't think my introduction had a lot of weight on it. 47 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:05.479 To a lot of one to blow my own on. 48 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:07.520 But I mean, you know, I'm one of the founder 49 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:11.199 founders of the Golfers Club. You know, I've been selling 50 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:14.199 golf equipment since I was I don't know, probably fifteen 51 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:14.639 years old. 52 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:15.360 I left school. 53 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:18.240 I think I finished my sen at seven, which would 54 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:20.599 in today's terms, would be the equivalent of a grade 55 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:22.360 A grade nine. 56 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:23.319 I think my. 57 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:26.479 Kids are they going to university and the other ones 58 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:29.599 in grade ten? So yeah, sen at seven was you know, 59 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:31.960 the gen X the nineteen seventy when I was born. 60 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:36.439 So I was in school, you know, so, and yeah, 61 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:38.680 you know I left school in the first two weeks 62 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:39.240 of senate eight. 63 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:39.919 I was. 64 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:43.000 I was a good golfer as a youngster, and I 65 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:47.360 played in a provincial golf for Western trans Ball, and 66 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:50.199 then we moved to natal and I played for NATL 67 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:53.680 for a good few years and I met you know, 68 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:56.800 I obviously met some of the very good golfers that 69 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:04.319 have achieved some success on on on a multitude of tours. 70 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:07.439 I played golf with Darren Fihart, who did very well 71 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:09.919 these kept eas European Tour card for I think twenty 72 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:13.000 five years. He was, you know, just a great example 73 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:15.680 of somebody who who worked very hard at his game, 74 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:18.600 and and and and you know you're in you're kept 75 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:21.759 his he's playing card, and he's one of our better players. 76 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:25.600 I was lucky enough to to play with guys like 77 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:29.800 Tim Clark who we were in the same side, and 78 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:34.360 and Rory Sabatin Simmy Clark was. He won the Players Championship, 79 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:38.240 he won the African Opened, uh the you know, he 80 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:43.120 won the this Canadian Open, Australian Opened. He was an 81 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:46.839 exceptional player until injury obviously affected him. He doesn't play anymore. 82 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:49.199 But I mean he's one of the all time money 83 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:52.480 winners on the US Tour. And Rory Sabatini won probably 84 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:54.600 seven or eight times on on the US Tour. So 85 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:59.040 you know, so Africa traditionally a younger players. I mean, 86 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:03.720 our golfer our professionals have always punched way above their 87 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:06.439 weight category in terms of accomplishment. 88 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:07.160 I mean you look at. 89 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.800 Guys like Charles Watts or Louis Stays and Dean Burmmuster, 90 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:13.800 Ernie Alson Ratieff person were a lot of you. 91 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:14.759 Know when I was around. 92 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:16.959 I mean, Ernie just won again for the eightieth time 93 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:20.360 eight years tour, went on the on the Senior Tour, 94 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:23.639 and Ernie's just you know, next to Gary Player was 95 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.240 our greatest ever and Bobby Locke, who won the Open 96 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:29.480 four times. We've just had a you know, we just 97 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:33.319 we just had some really great players. And Africa, you know, 98 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:35.519 I think it's I think it might be. You know, 99 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:38.160 we're just a great sporting nation first of all, and 100 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:40.800 second of all, we have great weather and and you 101 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:44.040 know we've got you know, we've got four hundred golf courses, 102 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:47.079 and golf is relatively cheap compared to the rest of 103 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:50.240 the world. And some some listeners out there might disagree 104 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:53.560 with me, but you know, we really have great opportunity. 105 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:58.680 You know, I've been I've traveled extensively, very luckily. I've 106 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:00.639 traveled to all parts of the world to play golf, 107 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:05.040 and I can tell you golf is very affordable compared 108 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:05.560 to the rest. 109 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:09.639 Of the world. Yeah, yeah, that's very interesting, and I mean, 110 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:12.800 uh uh. You know, you know, as you've been speaking, 111 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:15.800 I'm thinking to myself, well, you've seen it all, and 112 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:19.600 not just from the parrel side, but from an experienced 113 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:22.519 point of view to say, you've been in the golf 114 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:28.000 course for so long and you've come across our icons 115 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.920 when you come to South African golf whilst you were playing. 116 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:35.319 So the key question now would be okay, you you 117 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:40.399 play provincial and you find yourself today as an MD 118 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:42.600 for Golfers Club. 119 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:45.560 So we're we're a golf for each other. 120 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:49.720 And you know, the way it worked was I thought 121 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.199 I was in a pro golfers. So every young every 122 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:56.000 young footballer, every young cricketer, I think they're going to 123 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:58.160 play for the fun of for fun out or they're 124 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:00.399 going to play for the proteins. You know that that's 125 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.240 just the nature of youngsters and their dreams. And you know, 126 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:05.839 when I started realizing I was a good player, but 127 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:10.439 you know, I was getting beat. I'd win a tournament 128 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:12.399 and then and there would be guys that are winning 129 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:15.120 seven eighteen tournaments, and there would be guys when you 130 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.519 go play at a national level, there were guys that 131 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:19.800 you'd play well and you'd still get beat and you 132 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:24.680 start realizing that, you know, this is a very tough 133 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:28.120 game to succeed in, you know, and you know something 134 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.480 for the parents out there, there's you know, the parents 135 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:32.000 out there, I mean, we always want the best for 136 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:34.959 our children, and they really think their kids are going 137 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:37.000 to be superstars. And it's very good to give them 138 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:40.839 every opportunity, but you have to realize that only the 139 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:43.040 top one hundred or one hundred and fifty golfers in 140 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:46.319 this world actually make a huge success. 141 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:48.920 Out of golf. It's a very it's a very tough living. 142 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:51.360 And so I decided, if I wasn't going to be 143 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:54.279 a professional golfer, what is the next best thing? I 144 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:56.399 could stay close to golf. And you know, there's there's 145 00:07:56.519 --> 00:07:59.319 many opportunities in golf. You can become a golf club manager, 146 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:03.240 you can be greenkeeper, you can you can join institution 147 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.000 like Golf ORSA to do an unbelievable job running amateur 148 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:12.040 golf in this country. And I was always, you know, 149 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:16.399 very much an ADHD child at school, and I was 150 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:19.959 busy and and I couldn't concentrate very well, and and 151 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:24.439 and in those days, you know, ADHD wasn't really diagnosed, so. 152 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:27.480 You know, my mother was and irony out. 153 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:29.120 Of it was my mother was a school teacher and 154 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:32.159 you know she you know, and and anyway, so I 155 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:36.440 was restless and and I left school, you know, fairly young, 156 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:38.919 and I jumped on a bus from the from from 157 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.320 the towel and I came here as a seventeen I 158 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:45.120 was just turning eighteen, and I started my career selling 159 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:47.159 cause I wasn't very good at that. But then I 160 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:49.200 went to go and I went to go, and I 161 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:54.360 went to go and visit a guy at in town. 162 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:57.480 They started My mentor at the time was a guy 163 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:01.600 called rees Use and Reese undercome company called the Pro Shop, 164 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:04.879 who are still the biggest, you know, one of the 165 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:06.720 biggest retailers in South Africa. 166 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:08.919 They are now our competition, you know. 167 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:14.559 So after spending nine years with Recite, I decided We're 168 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:17.120 going to open, you know, with some partners of mine. 169 00:09:17.159 --> 00:09:19.200 I've got some very good part I've got a good partner, 170 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:21.080 you know, in the business. 171 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:22.840 And we started off very small. 172 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:25.440 But you know, if there's a will, there's a way, 173 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:27.960 and you know, we started with one store and we 174 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:30.240 went to two stores and we opened a third store 175 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:32.600 and now we have we have six stores and a 176 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:35.480 big warehouse, a central warehouse, and we have a franchise store. 177 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:36.440 So we're up to. 178 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:39.600 Seven stores and you know, with the second biggest retailer 179 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:42.879 in South Africa, and and you know, we employed one 180 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:45.320 hundred and thirty people and and you know we've it's 181 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:47.440 just a dream and we work on the basis that 182 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:51.000 you know, customer is king, and you know, it's just 183 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:53.080 it's quite a good Cinderella story. 184 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:54.799 So you know, you know, for those people. 185 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:57.240 Out there that I'm not I'm not advocating that that 186 00:09:57.399 --> 00:09:59.919 youngsters drop out of school, but you know, if you 187 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.559 if you have the belief, you know you can you 188 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:05.440 can definitely make a success out of things. 189 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:08.840 Definitely. And I mean your story is very very it's 190 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:11.000 a bold move that you made. Like you said, you 191 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:14.399 left president when you were seventeen, came to Joburk and 192 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:18.559 then that's when you met Riez who actually encouraged you 193 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:22.240 or mentored you to actually one day have your own 194 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:27.159 So I just want to find out from your site, Jason. 195 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:30.720 So obviously there is a story behind every single thing. Now, 196 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:33.919 how old were you if you can recall how old 197 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:38.200 were you when you first held your first golf club? 198 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:40.679 Yeah, so I was quite I was quite lucky. You know. 199 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:45.639 I have a younger brother. He's also a good. 200 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:48.759 Golfer, and in fact he runs our Cape Town operation now. 201 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:51.840 But my dad was a very sports orientate. He was 202 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:54.480 a good sportsman as a youngster, and he introduced us 203 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:57.799 to soccer and cricket and. 204 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:58.879 Tennis and swimming. 205 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:01.759 And he was a golfer. He wasn't the greatest. I 206 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:03.759 think it was a decent golf a single figure handicap. 207 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:05.919 I think it was a seven or eight handicap. And 208 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:08.000 and he, you know, he put a golf club in 209 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:10.840 our hands. We weren't, you know, and and and you know, 210 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:13.159 I only sound like I was one of those privileged 211 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:15.720 kids that you know that it was a country club child, 212 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:18.639 because I definitely wasn't. My father was a racial trainer, 213 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:20.960 and my mother was a school teacher, and my dad 214 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:23.840 had my dad's passed now and he and and he 215 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:27.200 wouldn't disagree with me, but he was was a big gambler. 216 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:29.559 So we never really had money as children, but but 217 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:33.960 my dad was He was always there at the cricket matches, 218 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:36.360 always the soccer matches, and he was he was like 219 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:37.120 our coach, you know. 220 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.679 What I'm saying, and and and and he made. 221 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:42.759 Us excited about every sport we played. And he would 222 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:45.440 play golf with the guys and we we we'd sort 223 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:47.919 of have one golf club and we knock around with them. 224 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:49.240 And he taught us the rules. 225 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:51.399 And and you got to keep up with the guys 226 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:52.960 in front of you and make sure that you fix 227 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:55.679 your pitchmarks, and and once you've hit too many shots, 228 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:57.399 you've got to pick your ball up because you got 229 00:11:57.399 --> 00:11:59.120 to keep up with the guys in front of you. 230 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:03.200 So he was very instrumental. It was very instrumental in. 231 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:06.960 In ensuring that you know that we understood that golf 232 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:10.639 is a gentleman's game, and and and and it's a 233 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:12.879 it's a game of honors. It's really the only game 234 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:16.039 where you govern yourself. You know, your your own referee. 235 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:19.080 You know if the ball moves in the rough, or 236 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:22.600 you happened to, you know, infringe on the rules in 237 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:25.159 any way, and nobody else ses. Only you can go 238 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:27.399 and tell your playing partners that you've done something wrong, 239 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:30.440 you know. And that's why I believe it's the greatest 240 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:35.519 game you know, but but I was always very interested 241 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:40.759 in the equipment side of of of of golf. I loved, 242 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:44.240 you know, I love the latest technology in in in 243 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:48.399 the drivers and shafts, and you know, the first cavity 244 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:52.039 back irons that came out were made by Ping and 245 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:54.039 and you know, the first and the best wedges when 246 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:55.960 I was a kid that came up with square grooves 247 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:59.600 were you know, and and and Cleveland Wedges made unbelievable 248 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:00.840 beautiful looking wedges. 249 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:03.919 And I always was like sort of enamored with uh. 250 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:07.200 And I love the alleure the of the technical side 251 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:10.200 of golf equipment. And you know, if you you know, 252 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:13.960 if a shaft was regular to soft for you, you'd 253 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:15.759 hook the ball, and if the shaft was too stiff 254 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:18.679 for you, slice the ball. And you know, that's that 255 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:21.919 that we've obviously I've taken that passion across you know, 256 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:24.480 and trying to inculcate that with my staff. 257 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:27.039 You know, So when when when the. 258 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:29.240 Average golfer walks into our store, I always tell them 259 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:30.840 we have to make an experience for them. 260 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:33.600 We have to tell them we are the doctors. 261 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:35.840 And you're the patient, and we're going to make sure 262 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:38.840 that that you know, you walk out of here that 263 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:41.279 your golf game isn't a better place. You're much healthier, 264 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:43.519 you've got a good mindset, and you're going to enjoy 265 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:45.799 the game more. Because if you enjoy golf and golf, 266 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:48.440 I've got to tell you know, the listeners out. 267 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:51.879 There, that golf is such a it's such a difficult. 268 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:55.159 Game, but it's got a terrible and cruel way when 269 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:57.360 you have your worst round of your life, if you 270 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.600 had one golf good golf shot, or one you hold 271 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:02.759 one long putt, or you you know, you hit one 272 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:06.039 good drive, or or you make one last birdy, it 273 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:08.039 just seems to bring you back to the game, which 274 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:09.960 is it's just it's just an amazing game. 275 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:12.279 It's quite abusive, if you have to ask me, because 276 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:15.960 I mean many times we have a lot of terrible rounds. 277 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:20.200 But like you said, that one shot makes you believe 278 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:22.000 it tomorrow is going to be a different day. It 279 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:22.639 gives you hope. 280 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:25.840 Yeah, you know, I've seen I've seen some of my 281 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:28.840 best players and my best customers say to me. You know, Jay, 282 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:31.840 I'm giving up. I can't play this game anymore. I'm 283 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:33.840 not playing anymore. I said him, Are you crazy? What 284 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:35.600 are you going to do on a Saturday? What are 285 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:36.600 you going to do on a Sunday? 286 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:39.240 You know, you know what I'm saying. It's it's you know, 287 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:41.639 there's something about golf. You know. They say that you'll 288 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:44.080 learn more about a human being, Yeah. 289 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:46.679 In four hours or five hours around the golfer than 290 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:49.919 you will over twenty years over the boardroom table, you know. 291 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:53.679 And there are so many deals being made and and 292 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:58.840 you know, my biggest my biggest plus or the biggest 293 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:02.840 encouragement has been seeing so many players of color come 294 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:05.840 and play golf. I mean, you know, I just see 295 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:08.120 the guys coming and they're so excited and they they 296 00:15:08.600 --> 00:15:10.159 you know, they just want to they just want to 297 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:13.720 play golf. So you know, we are grateful for every 298 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:15.919 new golfer that walks through our doors. I can tell 299 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:19.000 you so. And you know, my staff are very diverse, 300 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:22.600 and a lot of them come from different backgrounds, and 301 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:25.559 it's exciting for me to uplift them and and and 302 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:27.559 teach them the game of golf, even tho they were 303 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:30.799 born into it. You know, because whether you start golf, 304 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:34.679 it whether you start golf at sixty, who you start 305 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:36.879 golf at six, it's a game for life. 306 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:38.120 You never rarely leave it. 307 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:41.320 You might go into a bit of a hiatus and 308 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:44.200 you might step away from it. But there are times when, 309 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:45.840 you know, there are times when you're go on holiday, 310 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:47.559 you want to play golf every day. And there's times 311 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:49.480 when you're busy at work and you're under pressure and. 312 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:50.039 You can't play. 313 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:52.840 And there's times when some young couples there, you know, 314 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:55.080 young couples are having a baby, and you know, the 315 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:58.279 modern couple today that the husband is quite involved and 316 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:00.519 he needs to be there and whatever they can. So 317 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:02.279 he would love to play, but he's got to look 318 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:04.320 after the baby, so you know, and and and you 319 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:06.799 go through patches, but I mean, ultimately, everybody comes back 320 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:07.240 to the game. 321 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:11.559 People get hooked to the game. I don't know. For 322 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:14.679 some reason, there's there's a magnet around golf. And I'm 323 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:17.639 speaking from experience. I spent quite a while without playing golf, 324 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:22.200 but as soon as the buck came back, sure, I 325 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:25.799 wanted to be on the golf course every single day. 326 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:27.879 Yeah, and that's and you know, and and you know, 327 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:32.919 I see it. I see it especially with you know, 328 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:39.200 and a lot of guys or ladies when they were 329 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:42.080 sporting at school, they played a bit of hockey, or 330 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:44.279 you know, a guy was a half decent cricketer, or 331 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:46.399 he could catch a ball or kick a ball, or 332 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:49.639 whatever the case the case may be. When they start golf, 333 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:52.559 they think it's going to be a bit like hitting. 334 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.039 A hockey ball, the cricket ball, or or like kicking 335 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:58.080 a soccer ball. But it's so much different. You know. 336 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:00.960 It's just you had one good shot, five bad shots, 337 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.359 and you know, one duff and then a real absolute 338 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:06.200 beauty and you think yourself, jeez, I've got it. And 339 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:07.799 then and the next minute you get it on the 340 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:09.759 head or you have you missed the ball completely, you know. 341 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:12.680 So, but my biggest excitement. 342 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:18.319 Is seeing when golfers break one hundred for the first 343 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:21.680 round for the first time, or they break ninety ano 344 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:24.440 they want to break eighty five. When they break eighty five, 345 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:26.599 they want to break eighty, you know. And then they 346 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:28.480 come to me and they say to me, how I'm 347 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:31.720 now shooting consistently eighty two, eighty three? 348 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:34.000 How do I shoot seventy nine? Say? How do I 349 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:34.559 break eighty? 350 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:38.759 And I'll tell them listen, I said, I we sell 351 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:42.480 We've got millions and millions of rands where the stocks 352 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:46.480 are stock in our stores. And if you want to 353 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:50.000 take it to the next level, you have to go 354 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:53.200 and practice your short game. You have to go and 355 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:56.119 you've got to practice one hundred meter shots, the eighty 356 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:58.160 five meter shots, the sixty meter shots. 357 00:17:58.440 --> 00:18:00.079 You got to go and practice your chipping around on 358 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:02.440 the greens. You've got to vary your short gam you 359 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:02.880 got to. 360 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:05.480 Bump and run the hop and stop the spin, the 361 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:06.960 spinny one, the high flops. 362 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:08.359 You've got to go into the bunker. 363 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:10.279 You've got to play the long bunker shot, the short 364 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:12.440 bunker shot, and you've got to go and practice your 365 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:14.319 three and four foot puts, because those are the putts 366 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:17.480 that make all the difference when players go through their round. 367 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:20.440 When players go through their round, they say, jeezus, you 368 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:22.559 know I actually hit the ball, okate that. 369 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:24.319 I don't know how I shot what I shot? 370 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:33.000 And how many pus did you meet? Missed from under 371 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:35.160 four foot? Oh I missed three of those? Okay, So 372 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:37.319 now we've got two three puts. Take two off there, 373 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:40.960 you know, and take thee take the knocking, knocking the 374 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:42.599 three four foot is. 375 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:44.720 That you missed. Now we five shots better. So if 376 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:46.759 you shot eighty seven and down to eighty two. 377 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:49.400 And how many times had you done for chip that 378 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:50.440 you didn't get onto the green? 379 00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:51.400 And I did that once? 380 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:53.880 Okay, take one more of How many times did you 381 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:54.799 choose the wrong club? 382 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:57.079 No? Four times? You see? And then when they go 383 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:06.799 through there around the Hello, jes amateur golfer is inemy. 384 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:09.200 Sorry, yeah, your line was breast for a second year. 385 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:09.799 I can hear you know. 386 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:11.799 Right back. 387 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:13.920 Sorry, And I was saying the difference between a between 388 00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:20.279 a professional golf and an amateur golfer is a professional 389 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:23.759 golfer knows exactly how far he hits every. 390 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:30.640 Club point one and and an amateur golfer. 391 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:32.559 If he's got one hundred and fifty meters to the flag, 392 00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:35.200 and he hits his eight time, let's say seven one 393 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:38.720 hundred and fifty meters, he won't take a sixth time 394 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:41.880 because he believes it's his seven one hundred and fifty meters. 395 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:44.440 But he only hits his seven one hundred and fifty. 396 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:46.759 He only hits his seven one hundred and fifty meters. 397 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:50.480 When he hits it, well, he doesn't take him to 398 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:52.720 the fence. He might get it slightly thin, No, he 399 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:56.200 might have it slightly fat. You know, and and and 400 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:57.960 and and and when he does hit is slightly fat 401 00:19:58.000 --> 00:19:59.759