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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from newstalk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: The are a number of New Zealand Golf Open Ambassadors

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Speaker 2: playing in the pro am. We've heard from Ricky Ponting.

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Speaker 2: Let's bring in another one double World Cup winning All

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Speaker 2: Blacks captain Richie mccare, who is a New Zealand Golf

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Speaker 2: Open Ambassador this time around. Good to chet here, Richie.

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Speaker 2: How are you enjoying your time at the New Zealand Open?

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Speaker 3: Loving being here?

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Speaker 4: My golf is yeah, certainly nothing to wright hang about,

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Speaker 4: but yeah it's a pretty cool event and yeah, very

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Speaker 4: very privileged to be evolved.

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Speaker 2: Is golf something that you have played a lot of, Richie?

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Speaker 2: Did you play much golf during your your rugby playing days?

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Speaker 3: I did a little bit early on.

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Speaker 4: I had a crew and the Crusaders used to get

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Speaker 4: out on the had occasion, but I was never very good,

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Speaker 4: so I didn't really get enthusiastic. But a bunch of

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Speaker 4: mates these days, I absolutely love the golf every weekend away.

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Speaker 4: Once a year I've turned up the too the worst golfer,

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Speaker 4: so I've tried to get a little bit to get

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Speaker 4: a couple of lessons those sort of things.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's very.

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Speaker 4: Hit and mess, so I can can be on fire

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Speaker 4: for a couple of holes and then yeah, get to

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Speaker 4: bits pretty quickly.

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Speaker 3: So but yeah, I do enjoy it.

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Speaker 4: And it's one of those things that you know you're

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Speaker 4: gonna put a bit of time and differ better.

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Speaker 2: You've just described every single goal for listening to the

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Speaker 2: show Richie. You know, on fire for a couple of

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Speaker 2: holes and then it all turns to Castard. You must, though,

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Speaker 2: enjoy being in one of the most beautiful parts of

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Speaker 2: New Zealand. How is it just sort of walking around

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Speaker 2: the course there down at Millbrook, I.

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Speaker 4: Was playing with the guys, just playing with see him

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Speaker 4: forgot his last name, but the pro from Aussie, he's

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Speaker 4: just every time a company.

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Speaker 3: I just can't believe this spectacular.

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Speaker 4: Setting in view to play golf, and and I think

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Speaker 4: it's key with you preps take for granted, but it's

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Speaker 4: an amazing setting and immculate course and you know, you know,

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Speaker 4: having standing there beside these pros haven't hit your ball,

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Speaker 4: it feels it's very cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I I spoke to Ricky Ponting earlier and

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Speaker 2: asked him this question. He's been involved, obviously in massive

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Speaker 2: cricket matches. You've been involved in the biggest rugby matches

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Speaker 2: New Zealand's ever played, World Cup finals and such like.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you've got nervous or not before those,

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Speaker 2: But do you get nervous on the first tea at

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Speaker 2: events like this?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Like people ask me that and yeah, I get nervous.

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Speaker 3: I got nervous for four games of rugby.

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Speaker 4: But you kind of bet yourself you had some knowledge

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Speaker 4: and some skill to be able to handle it. When

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Speaker 4: you get those sort of feelings and you're actually not

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Speaker 4: sure what to do with a golf stick, the would

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Speaker 4: every thing goes tense.

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Speaker 3: And today I'm the first tea.

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Speaker 4: At least I made contact, but it wasn't the best shot.

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Speaker 3: But Jesus, when it ever goes.

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Speaker 4: Quiet and standing over it, some funny thoughts.

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Speaker 3: Go through you.

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Speaker 2: Here to tell you, I bet and you're one of

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Speaker 2: a number of New Zealand Golf Open ambassadors down there.

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Speaker 2: I mentioned Ricky Ponting, Tom eber Crombie, Hayden padd and

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Speaker 2: Grant Elliott. Jeff Wilson. Is he dad who no doubt

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Speaker 2: has a bit to say? One of your former teammates.

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Speaker 2: Are you enjoying the friendly competition among the other ambassadors.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a great fun. And I got to play with

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Speaker 4: Ricky Ponting yesterday, who's you know, obviously a classic cricket

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Speaker 4: but a classic golfer as well, like he's on a

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Speaker 4: scratch handicap pretty much. And yeah, that was that was

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Speaker 4: very cool. And I give as he did Clina Stick.

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Speaker 4: He likes to back himself, but he's still He's told

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Speaker 4: me the day I beat him playing golf today gives up.

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Speaker 3: So that's all we challenge for me to keep working in.

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Speaker 2: That's great motivation to make Israel dare give up golf

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Speaker 2: on the on the course. In terms of the professionals, Richie,

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Speaker 2: obviously we've we've waited a while for a New Zealand winner,

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Speaker 2: the last one back in twenty seventeen. How good would

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Speaker 2: it be to see a New Zealand winner win the

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Speaker 2: New Zealand Open sometime tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: It would be awesome. It would be awesome.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I don't follow golf enough to know

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Speaker 4: all the pedigree of all the guys, but if everyone

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Speaker 4: say is a pretty strong field, and you know, I

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Speaker 4: know John Hatton Organ eyss making sure they make it

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Speaker 4: now and they love to see a keep winning it again,

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Speaker 4: so yeah, it's I guess we'll wait and see. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: they're not going to be able to blame the course

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Speaker 4: or the brackets because it's absolutely perfect.

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Speaker 2: And this must be wandering around a course like like

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Speaker 2: you are down at Millbrook, it must be slightly more

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Speaker 2: relaxing than doing the coast to coast as you did

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Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 4: Well in a way, I kind of, as I say,

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Speaker 4: when you know what you're doing, you're sort of relax

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Speaker 4: a bit. So we're I'm on the bike. I sort

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Speaker 4: of don't mind. But this is quite stressful really when

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Speaker 4: you walk up. But yeah, a different sort of stress,

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Speaker 4: but it is.

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Speaker 3: It is. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Now I've really really enjoyed it so far and you'll

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Speaker 4: just record the next couple of days.

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Speaker 2: Good on your Richie, Hey, well thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Great that you're having a good time down there as

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Speaker 2: one of the New Zealand Golf Open Ambassadors. I appreciate

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Speaker 2: you taking the time for a quick chat to us

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Speaker 2: this afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Appreciation, No problem, thanks mate.

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Speaker 2: That's Richie mccaugh of course, and it's a golfer, a

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Speaker 2: greaterst All Black, and enjoying himself as a New Zealand

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Speaker 2: Golf Opener ambassador by the Sounds of Things.

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