Tour Pro Scotty Laycock is always good for a story, and he recently re-listened to the pod where Nick and Mark discussed the ANWA when Asterisk Talley self-combusted after a poor decision in a bunker (we've all been there!). Scotty tells a similar (ish) story, and about The Australian Bear vs The Golden Bear, in this voicemail.

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A Friday Feedback pod today, plenty of comments and questions from you.....hopefully a bit more sedate after the drama of yesterday's Mean Tweets episode....brutal....

00:00:00 We have an update on the discussion on the 'rake and replace' local rule from last weeks show.

00:05:00 Couple of comments on the chat last week about the 2009 Australian Open when Mark was absolutely crueled by official Trevor Herden, and a fun story about Tommy Fleetwood from wolfpacker Pete.

00:06:00 Kal from Winnipeg has written in with an observation about the ultimate 'slow play' partnering of Tour Pros.

00:07:00 Mark tells the story of the worst 2-shot penalty he ever received, he's still dirty about it.

00:08:00 A wolfpacker asks Mark to retell his story from Texas about the college students stealing the flags as part of a hazing ritual.

After the turn:

00:11:30 A bunch of suggestions for great course/clubhouse combos after last weeks chat about it.

00:15:00 An update on the 13th Beach Duck Spring Roll disaster.

00:16:30 Mark tells a story about getting poleaxed with the legendary Jack Newton at the Dunvegan

00:19:30 Recently we spoke about the Top 5 holes architects would be 'fired' for if they tried them today, wolfpacker Tom has some additions to the list.

00:20:30 Mark fails to learn from past experiences and goes to Grok again. It ends as well as you'd expect.

00:22:30 And we finish with a chat about the merits (from Mark) and frustrations (from Nick) of short blind Par 3 holes.

Keep the feedback coming, we love it!

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• Hostplus, Talk Birdie To Me's official retirement partner
• BMW, luxury and comfort for the 19th hole;
• Titleist, the #1 ball in golf;
• FootJoy, the #1 shoe and glove in golf;
• Golf Clearance Outlet, they beat everyone's prices;
• Betr, the fastest and easiest betting app in Australia;
• The Find My Player app - follow every player on every tour;
• And Southern Golf Club.

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Hard to believe, but sometimes we get negative, or as we call it, constructive criticism of the show and of us. We occasionally read these out during the feedback section, but today, we thought we'd pull a bunch together and do a bonus mini episode where Nick and Mark read out your 'Mean Tweets' - nothing is off limits, and Nick and Mark are seeing this feedback for the first time as they read it out live on the pod.

Ouch.....

We're live from Titleist and FootJoy HQ thanks to our great partners:

• Hostplus, Talk Birdie To Me's official retirement partner
• BMW, luxury and comfort for the 19th hole;
• Titleist, the #1 ball in golf;
• FootJoy, the #1 shoe and glove in golf;
• Golf Clearance Outlet, they beat everyone's prices;
• Betr, the fastest and easiest betting app in Australia;
• The Find My Player app - follow every player on every tour;
• And Southern Golf Club.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.