BRAND NEW SEGMENT!!!
This year we will be doing GOLF CLUB REVIEWS!
Arthur recently caddied for Erik van Rooyen At the Alfred Dunhill Championship hosted at the Nr 1 rated golf course in South Africa, Leopard Creek Golf Club!
We talk about his experience and how much work goes in to being a caddie. We also reveal the 1st golf club review we will be doing this year at the TrueFit Golf Club Fitting Centre.
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Hello everybody welcome back to the human golf show me and Ary this morning we’ve got a very exciting review this morning uh but before we go into that we just wanted to say thank you for all the support um as of the 11th of August we
Are year old last year and what an incredible response it’s been we really are so grateful because this is a passion for arth and I um it’s not a business that’s generating money for us at the moment and we say those type of things because this show is really meant
For everyday golfer in South Africa and we’re not selling clubs um we are not trying to punt a particular brand but we just want to show you what these things can do and this year for us for me and Arthur we want to don’t just talk to guests because it’s obviously the core
Of who we are but we want to go into a bit of Club reviews we want to talk about the South African golf landscape a little bit more and give you a better understanding as to when you go either into a retail store or into a fitter or
To a coach what does that look like and what type of results can you get out of it so thank you and we bless you guys for the year and everything that you do and thank you for all the support Arthur morning good morning welcome to my home
Your home very excited to be here um beautiful morning and very very excited for this year yeah I think it’s going to be a different year it’s going to be a positive year um and excited what lies ahead yeah and those that want to chip author if you’re sitting behind a desk
Right now and this is his office overlooking onto this beautiful cop leave range um you can definitely swear to him or chirp him if you want to because I’m jealous every day so Arthur before we go off onto the review side today because just quickly what club are
We going to review today we’re going to review the new Cobra dark speed yeah very excited um it’s launching on the 8th of February so we’ve got a little sneak peek testing going on here today very excited to try the three different heads um apparently it’s very fast and
Long which I need yeah so yeah I think we’re going to run through it today uh hit the three heads and you know review the results and it’s also obviously going to be very personal um we’re not biased to to a particular brand or to anything so it’s going to be an honest
Review based on what we think and dat and data obviously we’re going to use the trackman today um which is really cool I think that validates a lot we’re using provies today so the testing is going to be very consistent I think so so yeah it’s going to be fun so Arthur
Just before we go into that I want to steal you for 5 minutes you carried for your best friend um and somebody that’s come for you for quite some time in your life um and just want to remind Eric if he ever sees this the one that didn’t
Come to your wedding yes Eric F royan yes so end of last year he’s asked you to please come in and help him caddy at the Daniel classic corre in inel Champion championships in um leard leard Creek MH now obviously we all know a lot of us that haven’t been fortunate enough
And I was fortunate enough to have played it the setting is incredible but it was also 30° plus plus 30° plus but if you don’t mind just talk us a little bit through it because I tell you what I was so jealous that I couldn’t make it
Because if you just think about who was there the entire Stinger team was there except except for Grace oh wasn’t Grace there I don’t think he was there no um and you guys were actually socially with him so again Works in this environment and then you
Get this opportunity to go and sit with the top players in the world and have a bit of a bride with them some family time but take us through this what was your experience like I think first of all it was nice I was excited to caddy
For him just to spend time with them more than anything we don’t get to see each other much um if anything you know week to 10 days in the year yeah so just to spend some time with him off and on the golf course is very special to spend time with his family
Um his daughter’s I’m his Godfather um Valerie’s Godfather Valerie Ed that his Godfather um so it was it was very special um just from a Time perspective um you know um secondly um without him knowing that I’m very invested in his game you know I spent a
Lot of time watching him supporting him uh want to see him do well um so being on the golf of course trying to get a job done is pretty special um so it was really really cool um we managed to stay on the golf course which was nice um so
We had some good off time but it’s also a lot of work I’ll tell you that it’s a full-time job um from could be 3:30 until 7:00 in the evening so it’s not it’s not a holiday I’ll tell you that for free um and it’s obviously very
Stressful um but I had a good time we had special moments some very special shots that I think we should should actually put into into this there was a shot I saw which I told him to lay are we going to go bunker we going to go ask
You so that was the fourth it was the eighth hole I think it was round two if I’m not mistaken I mean it was everything is a blur cuz you s in the moment right yeah um you’re not really focus on score you just focus on you
Know one shot at a time um focusing on your game plan focusing on what you need to do um so yeah we were at the eth and for some reason it’s such a weird hole because dri’s too much and then he’s got like a little hybrid SL forward which is
Technically too little you make the G the hole a little longer um and it was uh pretty much into the wind the whole time so he wanted to hit this little low fade squeezer the whole time just to you know drop the ball flight make sure we hit Fairway and then
We can obviously go from there cuz it is a very very difficult hole with the green sloping all the way there’s a massive dip which is you don’t want to go down there mon will put up the eighth hole for us as a visual reference you
Don’t want to go down there it’s it’s just a tricky hole I think 78 is very good very good holes the par three and then the par four and I’m I’m assuming it’s a stroke one so for some reason every day he he just you know started at
Left and stayed left and we were in that bunker pretty much I think two or three out of the four rounds um and he hit it in the there and he was just in the bunker on the down slope ball was sitting quite low you could hear the commentators after the
Round saying like you know this is an impossible shot he can’t get this to the green there’s no way if he was going to try and get it on the green he’d have to aim it in the bush 20 yds right of the green and play a high hook Against the
Wind there’s just no chance so you’ve got to hit it out of the bunker you’ve got a tree which is like maybe 20 m in front of you two trees and you’ve got to literally hit it around the tree probably like a 20 30 m
Draw so he asked me what do you think we should do here and I’m playing Mr Conservative here I’m like let’s lay up take the five and go type of a thing and you know it was like F this we’re not yet to make a cut we’re yet to win so
I’m like okay I’m riding the wave with you we’ll do it and I think it was a 79 and probably one of the most impressive shots I’ve ever seen um missed the tree turned it around it was slightly into the wind so wait a minute maybe there is
That was a quick change of mind J are you kidding me no way you can’t do that the ball up and I think he got it a couple of met onto the green and that a result on its own having a birdie pot where we had to up and down from
Probably 100 for par on that green was incredible I mean listen I know he’s a mate of mine but he is a special player I think he’s just getting started on his um season I think he’s going to have a very good season his team is strong his
Purpose is strong and very excited to see what happens this year yeah and it is amazing because Eric again came into the spotlight end of last year when he won the it was worldwide techn Technologies it was a great confident boots and obviously also very back great
Back nine but very emotional win for him that was a very personal one with his mate um that unfortunately has passed away um but we saw that human side of Eric at the same time and Arthur I you just wanted to comment on it because everybody that knows after if you come
Fitting here whether you’ve played with him a round of golf my mates always talk about he he’s he becomes everybody’s caddy on the day he would sit you down you know and as amateurs and he would be like okay I’ve got your visual here I
Want you to have a highway he calls it the Highway N am I right uh Target Zone I can’t remember as the highway and he says create a highway visually in your head and it disown your nature Arthur for anybody that plays with you or comes in
Here that you are so focused on customer experience and I’m not selling your business now but also just helping everybody and not just focusing on yourself and and individually always and that’s a remarkable thing and it’s why I am so grateful to have you in my life
But thank you for sharing that with us and congrats because I know you guys ended up well and it was a special win cuz Lou ended up winning it and it’s something he’s wanted for a long time very long time yeah so for South African
To take it and also for all those guys that always come support these events because guys they can’t do it on every event that happens in South Africa they play in a certain League um but they they still take the time to come through
To you 100% yeah it was a special week I mean we played with charl we played with Louie um which is very very fun and we got it going I think um there were a couple of factors with regards to jet lag and sleep that hit us um on the
Weekend and that’s you can’t control that that um there’s not enough um I called it salts which is like a hydration thing we we were drinking on the course I mean you can’t rely on that for Chet lag and lack of sleep um but it was a super special week and mark my
Words that is one tournament that he’s going to grab one day I’ll tell you that yeah and we’ll thank you selfishly Arthur for us because you gave us a lot of TV time um as the car for and and that Eric was also so kind and everybody
Involved and it just shows you and I suppose we can end on this particular point the golfer Community is abs absolutely incredible you know I was thinking last night when I was this morning now that we sit with with Puma South Africa or Cobra as we know them
They just all work together we all want great things for each other yes we all fight for our capacity we fight for our P our piece of the pie but it’s never an ugly fight in South Africa uh and and the golfing Community is remarkable so thank you to everybody that supports
Golf and all the Charities that golf supports and all the effort and stuff that goes into it and we want to play our small little role in this Golf Community and we we so grateful that you allow us to do this because this morning we can take a break from our day-to-day
Work and do this and you allow us to do that um and for that we will be forever grateful to you
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Awesome show, Team! Arth is definitely the best in the business 🏆
Best in the business 🎉appreciate you brother