Can Ron beat a DP World Tour Player? Andrew “Beef” Johnston

Ron takes on European Tour player Andrew Johnson Aka BEEF! A true test on one of the windiest days at Sea View Golf Club.

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[Music] Good day, choppers. Here at the lovely C view Golf Club in Perth. I haven’t done this before, but today I’m going to play with one of your fans. So, be welcome back. It’s It’s not even 7:30 in the morning, man. Like wins on the European tour and now he just makes up his own rules. Oh, I’ve missed golf hitting sort of seven good shots and then one bad one and getting absolutely for it. I don’t believe it. Would you say Raz? You ever said Raz? No, never. Never. Imagine like having so much time off golf when your first game back is against me. What a fall from. Be European tour player, mate. You’re living in Perth at the minute and we thought we’d have a whack coming off an injury. Absolutely, man. I want to see the chopper go. How’s the thumb? It’s all right. Yeah, we’re getting there. We’re getting there. I think I’ve changed technique about 15 times this last week. Stinger. Raz. Call it in the air. Raz. Oh jeez. The wind’s up. Stinger. Um, I might go first. Put the pressure on. Cool. Yeah, do it, mate. All right. Par five. 440 something. I didn’t look at the sign. Sorry, mate. Uh, wind is howling, so but it’s coming off the ocean, which that’s a good thing. [Laughter] That’s on the second fairway. The name don’t lie. I tried you to fight. Just I’ve seen it over there as well. He’s actually all right over there. Hang on. Oh yeah, I’ll take it back. Five and four. This could be the first five and four. The the other day, no word of a lie, someone’s hit it, right? And you know when you hit it so bad, you know it’s heading for danger. He can’t even shout. So he’s like he’s hit it and he’s like like this. He can’t shout for. So as I’ve seen it, the ball’s like whistled over my head. It’s gone over the people on the range and it’s hit one of these trees. He’s making a beline for a car. I was like, “Oh my god.” Um I think that bloke with a dog just picked up the ball. Oh, no way. Yeah, he did. I saw him bend over. Good. [Laughter] What? I’m not even It’s not even 7:30 in the morning, man. Okay, good angle in Right. See if I can lose me ball again. That was a shock at start. What are you doing? It’s just a bit I don’t know. It’s early. The hands are The hands are flipping. Got him. Is that on it? Got him. Feels quite good. Oh, I’m happy for you. Yeah, it looks great. Like it’s such a long process, man. Yeah, that’s some white left some. Yeah. Oh, man. It’s always Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, like if I can get it over there. Yeah. A little bit, then I can kind of just like drop like hold it, you know? Y. What have you got coming up? What’s your plans? Um, we are going to Japan. Wicked. Yeah. So, have you played there? No, I’ve never been. You never played Japan? I’ve never been Japan. Oh, I’ve heard it’s different. So, we normally try and play 36 holes in a day, but apparently in Japan you play nine and they make you stop. Yeah, it takes six hours, right? Yeah. You get pissed and then you play the back nine, which sounds bloody good to me. Um, I’ll go because I’m on the wrong bloody hole again. Look at this. Right. I’ve hit two two nice shots. Two absolute joke of a shots and we’re basically in the same position. You might even have a better line in as well. If he make if he makes four, I’m going in. Relax. It’s too early for a beer, isn’t it? Oh, you got a flyer. Oh, it’s perfect. No, it’s not. That is a flyer. That just like went Oh, I ate a bit there. That just go over the green, I think. So, yeah. Bloody hell. That came out like a rocket. Watch out in B. 82. That’s yards, by the way. So, I don’t know why I can’t do the conversion. What’s that? Any idea? 75. I think we’ll figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. Heidi, pulled it a bit. I think you’re right. Just pick it up. There’s a big slope right behind the flag. I’ll take that. That’s a chance, mate. Wind’s got Whoa. Whoa. A All right. I might see it just cuz I’m a bit Oh, yeah. Yeah. Do you? No. Well done. Thanks, mate. Wow. That took us an hour and a half to play that hole, I reckon. One up the beef. The five and four is on the cards. All right, par four, second. Don’t know how far. It’s a shorty one. Just got to get this one in play. I just need one of these shots to come out the middle just to give me some hope. Very silky. Very good. What you like a six? What you That was a seven. Yeah, seven. That was a seven. Yeah. Oh, that first. Yeah, fair enough. He’s just going to bunch it around and beat me. Five and four. Oh, that was perfect shot. Oh, get past him. Yeah. Lovely, man. All right. Didn’t like it. I bloody hit it here. Take it. You really hit seven. So I went in bar lady sat down in the chair. The lady went, “What are you looking for today?” So I’ve got no idea. Like usually I have sort of like a summer cut and a winter cut basically. Yeah. And I was like something local. She looked at me went she went mullet. I went Yeah. Like this. So it’s the start. It’s the start. Very good. You going to keep it? I think so. Yeah. Normally your beard’s huge that up. Yeah. There might have been a translation problem with that. I was like, “You like it?” Look, it was so long. Like you’re sipping it in stuff and then like literally you can’t eat any food. It gets to that point. It’s brutal. I’m like, “No, no more.” So like sometimes I just cut it short and then like grow it back out until I’ve had enough again. And yeah, he he went to the barber and asked for the local and I gave him a mullet. [Laughter] Well, 142 y downwind off the left. Trying to figure this one out. So, in between a n ir and a wedge, I’m thinking wedge. It’s got to go. Stay little heavy. Door open a little bit. Uh, so 106. I’m going to go 54. I’m going to hit the green and we’re going to not lose five and four. I I want to see it. I could come on. Of all people do it against as well, like this is a good one to lose to. I’m sick of losing, mate. That’s nice. Yeah. Lovely. Yeah. Great. Cheers, mate. That’s good, mate. Is there shots or something in this? Yeah. Yeah. No, I’m just I can’t lose five and four. That’s why I’m pretty pumped. All right. You played the whole nice, man. Thank you. talking to me like I’m 18 handicapper that just didn’t lose their ball. Yeah. If only you could drop a putt. I know. Give me a golfer. Hole three, par four. Got no idea how long it is. I’ve only got rescue in the bag. We’ll pay for the blues. Oh yeah, I’ll sort it out for you. Cheers, mate. There you go. Little higher. Sorry. Very good. Sorry. B should be all right there. Huh? It’s just the difference like audio. No, no, he’s don’t he don’t go offline. No, no. I’m just not against you. But like before he even hits it, it’s like this is straight. You just know it’s going straight. Yeah. It’s so smooth. Even with that wind powering first, he still just kept it straight. I didn’t. And I’m going to hit the driver again. The car park. If I hit that same drive, I’m hitting a car. My car’s in there. No, it’s not. Actually might be all right. Yeah. What was it go with what you you’re going to be playing in? Um I’d get confused with the tournaments. O was open and was PGA. Oh, here. Yeah. Oh, awesome. Yeah. I don’t know what way around it is. One in Brisbane and Melbourne. Yeah. So, that’s the plan is to play them two, man. Yeah. So, are you going to be do you like are you living here now? Is this your home or once you’ve recovered are you where are you going? I don’t know. I don’t know. Yeah. He’s been such a witch. We I’ve been living down in Portugal for the last four or five years. Right. Last August, we hadn’t been home for like 9 months, and I was like, we need to sort of pack up and then figure it out at the end of the season. Yeah. And now we’re here. So, literally stuff’s in storage now. We’re literally here, right? So, I’m not I’m not too sure. Oh, we’re just all right. Okay. Australia’s not too bad place to live. It’s lovely, man. I love it here, I guess. But what for your work, though, it’s not great to get on the tour. The the thing is the first half of the season Dubai, South Africa, Asia, it’s not that bad. Yeah. And then I know all the guys, you know, a lot of the Aussies who just will go over for for the 5 6 months in Europe, spend time there and then come back. So it’s it’s that case. But like coming back here, I love it here. Like we’ve really settled in. When you when you’re playing on tour, is your family with you? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. So, I mean like the little ones in in every class, everything. She’s like loving it here. And I’m like, “Oh, I don’t know if I can disrupt this.” How old is she? Five. Oh, wow. She’s doing like gymnastics, swimming lessons. Loving it. Yeah. Loving life, man. And try and sort of like control the N I think. Yeah. Winds more across than the other hole. So finish. All it depends on length, right? Can we hold it? Pretty close. Oh, he’s got a part. I’m going have to hit a big hook around the corner. It’s bread and butter. 125. Oh, what? Pitching wedge. Can’t remember where me ball is. Actually, not great. Yeah, like not much hook out of that. I’d actually prefer that than 100 in dead straight shot. Yeah, it’s funny like cuz you you sort of like well this is what I have to do. Whereas when you’re middle of the fairway you can like well I can do anything. What a stupid game. He seems like a pretty good bloke. He’s a great bloke. Yeah. Like just the off camera chat with him as well. Like he’s just he’s exactly as I was hoping he would be. Just an actual bloke. Like you could go have a beer with him. Yeah. Quite easily. Yeah. So for someone coming off injury, it’s so solid. That’s what I mean. Like every single shot he gets is just like dead straight. It’s exactly where he wants to go. Great shot from there, mate. Okay. Well, mate, this is this is this is not my go zone. More of a green rig sort of guy. One hand up. Two Before you hit that, did I hear the words one hand? You said to Joel. I’m just thinking about it. I I’d hit the ground at least. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, trying to get all trying to get fancy with it. I need some I need a front. Try the onehanded, mate. work if the club’s like outside your hands and kind of in front of you, like it becomes so much easier. And I see it like with literally so many people how it it gets a bit inside and a bit behind them. And now they’re struggling to get the club back. That’s the stuff you talk about to me. Yeah, I know. I do as I say, not as I do. Yeah, you don’t even have to see it. He’s spot on. I know what to do. Can’t bloody do it. Right. So, uh, Beef’s just talked about a bit of short game stuff. I think I might give it a go. Putter. I try to keep out in front of me. [Laughter] Get me off this hole. If there’s one hole here that just has got me, it’s this hole at CV. every time I play it. Oh, this one’s slow. Hang on, man. Oh, lovely. The claw. That wasn’t, was it? Yeah. Oh, take it out. Ah, do you know what? I’ve had three months where I can’t hit balls and I’ve been partying nearly every day. I tell you, like that L. That I’m telling you. I’m telling you. They’re like, “Oh, you can’t put that in.” Sorry. Let’s start there again. Oh, what is it? Was it like hammering the English for drinking a cup of tea? I’ll have a cup of tea at night. In the morning, I need a coffee. I’ve already had a coffee this morning. Yeah. And then I’d be running in. Don’t bring the teapot out. Don’t. Yeah. Don’t embarrass me anymore. Do it. You’re going to be pouring it. I’m trying to catch it in the cup about 5 yards away with this wind. Uh par three is out of action, so we’re moving straight onto the next uh which is a par four down the hill straight towards the beach. Cracking hole. Oh, I just got to get the T-shot away. A T-shot away would be nice, I reckon. Oh, stay there. Whoa. Sit. Oh, that’s not good. Oh, the door is open. Jumper’s off. It’s getting serious. Hit one out the center. Right on. Come on. I got to the bunker. Nah, you reckon? Yeah. A headed out the middle for once though. Jesus. Taking four holes. What is your home club? Place called North Middle Sex. Okay. Golf club where I grew up. Mad little place. Windy. Lynxy. Tiny. It’s like 5 and a half thousand yards. Oh, right. But like tight. Tight. Yeah. Is it [ __ ] I’ve missed golf hitting like hitting sort of seven good shots and then one bad one and getting absolutely for it. Welcome back. Yep. Welcome back. Imagine like having so much time off golf and your first game back is against me. What a fall from grace. It’s cozy in here. Right. Have I hit that hard enough? Oh no. Oh no. Big hook with a sandwich. Yeah, it’s going to have to be. Right. I take We’re going blue flag. Yeah. Yeah. Blue flag. A chance here, John. There’s a smile on your face. Good change up. All right. 114. Oh, it’s a disaster. Oh, no. Right. 75 surf life saving club behind the grain. Oh, I thought that was money in the air. I took me jumper off and obviously this just gone a lot further. Far out. Oh, mate. Not as bad as I thought, but not great. Come on, Ron. Pop it up. Pop it up. I got the yips. Do you see that? If I was What’s going on, bro? Just jiffy. If I was in that situation, a coach uh cadding, I’d just go get it up past why can’t I do it? Whoa. This This is going well. It’s good. Oh, this is that is one of the great holes. P nine nine. It’s got me. Sorry, mate. There was one event I made like a I think it was like an 11 on one hole, right? And I come I come off and it was so ridiculous like I started laughing like this and then the guy next hole it’s one out of bounds, two out of bounds like this, right? And then three like the other way. I’ve had to walk off because it’s like you know when you get to a point where you’re making such a big number I think it’sing brilliant. [Laughter] Well done. Did I win that hole? I don’t know. Hang on. One. That’s a five for me. Yeah. And I went 1 2 3 4. Shut. Well done. Is that it? No. How many holes are we playing? Uh, is it until until you until your We’ve got one, two. Are we doing mine? Yeah, we got plenty of time. All right. I got plenty of time. I Yeah, I thought I heard you say five holes. Well, I assumed it was going to be five holes, but it’s not now cuz you want it to be nine and then it’s going to be 18. No, no, no. We’re not doing. You can bugger that off. And then a parting comp. We’ll go to the pub. Sound good? Hole six, par four. Two down. Nice. Thanks, man. That’s better. Um, we’re flying off the blue TE’s, mate. So, what does that mean? Whatever you want it to mean. You can get into ret. You want me to hit it again? Nah, you’re fine. We’ll both play from here. Come on. Let’s be fair. Like wins on the European tour right now. Just makes up his own rules. Must be nice. There’s like 15 T boxes markers, man. I don’t know what ones we’re going off. All I know is we’re aiming at the blue flags. Oh, come on. Just fade it. That’s fine. E. I’m glad we went here cuz that would have been no good for the other. That’s me fade I’m working on. I can’t remember. I think it’s 172. I’m going to go with 172. Oh. Oh. Oh, look at that. Get taken. Nah. Windy. Gravy. Gravy. Gravy. Oh, there. Man, the wind’s playing havoc now. I’m going to talk about a shot I don’t have in the locker. What shot do I have in the locker? Got to hit a soft pitchy nine. Just going to I feel like this is just going to go like this. Oh, tried to squeeze it. There’s nothing worse than hitting like a lofted club into a wind. And you How many How many clubs do you club down? Like would you go like an eight? How far do you have? 94. Yeah, you could go 9 or eight. Yeah. Far out. I don’t have that shot. And like proper like Yeah. Chip it. Softy here. It’s going to spin less, right, coach? Yeah, I know that. When your hands are a bit yippy. Yeah. Yeah. Think like some of the best wind players I’ve seen, they they hit so soft. I We always talk about it when I play decent players, the one thing we notice is they flight wedges in all the time. Yeah. It’s just Next level. So did you go to the the Oh, I went to Dublin. We got I was like I want to have a little walk around and like go to like maybe six, seven different pubs and stuff and second pub. We got in there place called Grogan’s Jr. Grogan’s guy comes down like we walk in guy comes over and he’s like do you want to sit or stand? And I was like we’ll sit and he was like okay. Walked over to this table where there’s loads of people sitting around. He was like, “Uh, these three, they’re sitting here.” And they just went, “All right.” So, you just get put with like random people. Yeah. And then you just start chatting. And there was like there was locals, there was people from America, people all over the place like on this like all these tables and next thing 6 hours goes by and you’ve had 10 pints and like everyone’s chatting. No TVs in there. I was like, it’s so good. And like it’s so friendly there and like no one cares who you are. Y just sit down and have a chat and get to know each other. I love it. Yeah, absolutely. You don’t get pubs anymore that don’t have a TV or free phone or something. Yeah. Yeah. There’s loads there that don’t. It’s so nice. Just spare for a beer and a chat. Yeah. Very good. No phones. No, no phones. Good. Yeah. Wow. Shot, mate. Thanks, man. Yep. Cheers, man. Pick him up. Wait. Now you put yours. Every now and then I play golf. You know, thanks, mate. See that? That’s what the English need to learn. Give when you land. Oh, the cricket action starting soon. Soft hands. Oh no. How much is that turned? That was a bubble. I tell you what, there’s a round of Guinness on me. If you can hit the fairway here, there’s a Guinness. And I mean like the legit fairway, not the other fairway. This one. I mean, I’d be stunned. Okay. Yeah, there’s Guinness on it. Beat the fairway. Come on. Look at the chaos. Roll me the ankle. Roll my ankle. Oh, you all right? Far out. Guinness throw me now. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it. Straight down the middle. It’s right in the middle. All right, I’ll see what fuels his I see what fuels him now. Don’t Don’t Don’t ever bet this man a Guinness. Yes. The best shot I’ve ever hit. Oh no. Come on. Yeah. Few more of those. When do you when do you reckon you’re going to be able to swing a driver? I reckon you’re close. The way you I always thought hybrid was worse. All right. So again, story with that cuz we come down here for a week holiday. I left my clubs in Singapore. Then I had surgery. I went back. I booked a flight with um with Singapore Airlines. Yeah. I thought I need to add another bag. So I’ve gone online, gone to add another bag. They’ve gone you don’t add bags here. It’s on weight. How much do your golf clubs weigh? 30 kilos. Yeah. And they were like that’s $800 Singapore dollars. Jesus. And I was like, that’s over twice the flight. Yeah. And I was like And they were like, yeah, that’s what it is. And I was like, “Okay.” Luckily, I got friends there. So, I left the suitcase there, packed half a set up to around 25 kilos. So, I left my woods there. So, I was like, “I’m not going to need them for a while.” So, we got to go back in a few weeks to go and get them. So, yeah. Woods. You can’t you can’t get Cobra here to do anything. Or is it just not the same? I’ve got I’ve got this my old woods that I use, the new woods that they’ve sent me. I think if I asked for another set Oh, yeah. Like I just I was like, I don’t need them at the moment. Yeah, fair enough. Like like you said, the theory is if I can hit a rescue pretty much flat out. I can hit a driver. Yeah, I was going to say there’s no ground contact. Yeah. Yeah. Just don’t have it’s got I tell you what, I could not hit that anymore in the middle of that was so pure. That was so pure. But like as soon as I said Guinness, your eyes changed. Your eyes literally changed and you were like, “Oh, it’s on.” And I was like, “Wow, I’ve made terrible mistake. How far do you reckon it is? You can use zap this because you’re about a foot taller than me and I can’t I can’t get over the man there. 177. Oh, meters. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. The only yardage. Perfect. Oh my god. Is that in? No idea. Just hold it. No idea. He’s absolutely dead panned me. All right, I’ll try the chippy one that I’ve never practiced before. Okay, there. Divot’s good. If I ever play cricket, I reckon I’d be unreal. That one. I reckon I got that one. Quick single straight over. Long on. Oh, around the corner. No, I could never go on the legs. But now bullets in me there. How good did we drive? All right. Bit of short game. Show him a bit of short game. Oh, hold your line. Don’t go right. It’s crazy seeing that move in the air. I know. What’s up, mate? Cheers, mate. I was going to walk that in. I saw that going in with the walk in. Damn it. When you started moving, you had me there. I genuinely thought I was like, “What part?” You sold it. I I thought I got it. Yeah. All right, Dor me. Don’t forget your wedge. Yeah. How good was me drive, though? Oh, I mean, shot of the day. All right, what we got? 141, but straight down wind. Straight down. Blue. Blue as well. Meters, isn’t it as well? Uh, hang on. I haven’t measured. How do you reckon you’re going to go? Flying. Uh, I think we might just bail out and go to the pub. Are you really? Probably. Just film there. I can’t I’m not breaking I’m not breaking 50 in this. Is it 154 yards for me? I think again with this wind nice controlled one. I think if I can start online it shouldn’t move too much. So long’s not good here. in. Soft. Soft. Oh. Ah. It’s a bit short. Is it razin? Oh, it’s on that slope. Yeah. A bit short. Do you Would you say raz? Do you know when it spins? You ever said raz? No. Never. Never. That’s what when you flip that thing. I had no idea what that meant. Raz. It’s when it spins back. Spins. In the air. You got to yell at it though. Otherwise, it doesn’t count. He’s saying it on tour now. Yeah. Do it. Yeah. Yeah. I would laugh if you on TV in the air press. It’s better than clicking your fingers. It’s when someone hits a chip shot and they’re like like an aggressive call to a waiter. Can’t be can’t be clicking your fingers, man. In a restaurant, right? Yeah. Pommy. Thanks. [Music] All right. Here we go. In the hole. It’s coming. That look long. That looked long. Good shot. What did you hit? I hit nine there. I was just trying to chip a bit, but it’s so hard. Like you hit it up. Gone. Goes hit it a bit flat. Short. Hard to judge. Big Australian man pitching, mate. Well, not going to chip it. Am I going to chip it? Come on. This is perfect putter chipper spot though. Just little pop. Oh, I had to have a go. Had to have a go. Well, two putts for the win. Nice and wide. Tell you what. Oh, we going there, are we? Well, I think the way normally we finish Ron videos is me missing a putt, which could very much be on the cards here. There. One, two. Hey, you knocked it in. Yeah, that we’ve seen. I need the practice. Well done, mate. Cheers, man. Congratulations. Cheers, mate. Mate, thank you so much for doing that as beating Ron. There’s a ball marker. Look at this. That’s quality. Um, best of luck with the 20s. So, Aussie open Aussie PGA. Yeah, that’s the end. And that’s your first your first 20s back. Yeah. Yeah, that be your first one. So, that’s today’s highlighted. Need to work on the parting. Yeah, work on work on that. But yeah, that’s the get back there, mate. I hope you do well. Great bloke. Thank you very much for watching. Go support beef at the Aussie Open, the PGA. Thanks to C view. You owe me a Guinness. I do. Yeah. You all of us. Is it all of us? Did you hear all of us? I put my hand up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If we’re going to get it, it’s got to be around after that drive. Yeah. I think it should be about 10, I think. It’s incredible. I did something good today. I’ll get the flag. [Music]