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Speaker 1: The New Zealander won their Open Daniel Hilly, a first

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Speaker 1: time since twenty seventeen. A Kiwis won it did it

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Speaker 1: reasonably comfortably. Michael Glading as the New Zealand Open tournament

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Speaker 1: director and is with us Michael Morning, eg money make.

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Speaker 1: I thoroughly enjoyed watching what I saw of it. Mixed

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Speaker 1: bag on the weather though you had some cloud and

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Speaker 1: some coal and some wind and some sun. You had

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Speaker 1: it all.

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Speaker 2: I would call it challenging. We had some very low

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Speaker 2: teverages too, which you didn't see on television. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was a tough week, but I'm pretty pleased that

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Speaker 2: we're finished with it.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, explain to me the government's role in this,

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Speaker 1: because they put money in and yet the tournament is

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Speaker 1: many years in standing, and as far as I can

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Speaker 1: work out, as successful, what does the government get and

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Speaker 1: why do we need public money in an event that

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Speaker 1: seems successful on its own.

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Speaker 2: Well, the government gets a return on its investment. We

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Speaker 2: last year, I think of them all the major events funded,

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Speaker 2: we gave one of the probably if not the larger,

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Speaker 2: certainly right up there. Entensive return for dollar spent and

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Speaker 2: the money that flows into this. This phenomenal and you know,

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Speaker 2: to run a world class event in a country of

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Speaker 2: the size of New Zealand, it's challenging, very very challenging.

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Speaker 2: This event does not run at a profit, runs at

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Speaker 2: a loss, which thanks to Millbrook. But yeah, it's really

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Speaker 2: about a number of deliverables, but particularly of course the

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Speaker 2: tourism exposure. It's going to a very targeted market and

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Speaker 2: that's a very high spend market. So and as you say,

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Speaker 2: the pitches look great and it's really it's a sort

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Speaker 2: of four hour advertisement for one of the aspects of

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Speaker 2: New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: I mean, in all honesty, I went to Millbrook when

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Speaker 1: they first opened, when there was a singular course there

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Speaker 1: and now there's two courses, and then I heard them

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Speaker 1: talking about Hogan's Gully over the weekend. Then you've got

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Speaker 1: the Hills, and I mean, for goodness that we must

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Speaker 1: be a mecha for golf internationally by now.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and it's only going to get better to this.

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Speaker 2: Another one over at one occur at Glendow Baby nearly finished,

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Speaker 2: so you know, and you know, don't underestimate the many, many,

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Speaker 2: many hundreds of millions that are invested. But it's like

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Speaker 2: all infrastructure, if you invest a lot of money, you

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Speaker 2: get a return eventually, and that's what's happening.

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Speaker 1: That's good. Good on you might nice to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Michael Glading, who's the tournament director. Hilly and we wanted

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Speaker 1: on the program, but he wasn't getting up early for

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Speaker 1: what our producers said were obvious reasons, which I assume

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Speaker 1: involved drinking.

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