00:00And when I think about, you know, players or juniors that grow up in a different country and finding inspiration from whether it be a player or, you know, somebody that is the national hero for you, I read that it was Jack Nicklaus.
00:17And was that because of how great he was or was it something was it his book that he put out that that you drew inspiration from?
00:26Yeah, it was Jack was number one. Growing up, I was born in 1960. And through the 60s, television was really just kicking off and sports on television was just kicking off.
00:38And they had this show in the late 60s, early 70s called The Big Three. So it was Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, all managed by Mark McCormick.
00:48And they traveled around the world. Then there was the Shell's Wonderful World of Golf as well.
00:52And Peter Thompson and Gary Player were on that one time playing at Royal Melbourne.
00:59Eventually, there was a show in Great Britain with Peter Alice, Lee Trevino playing, you know, that was another show that was just so fantastic, you know, celebrity sportsmen versus celebrities.
01:10So we watched a little bit of golf here and there. But it was Jack and his book that really inspired me the most.
01:19Arnold Palmer inspired my dad and a lot of the other farmers in the area because Arnold Palmer legitimized golf to the blue collar worker, to the farmer, to the average man.
01:29And he had the cigarettes, he had the big biceps, he had the swashbuckling style, right?
01:34Everyone loved Arnie. He was the king.
01:36So they decided that they'd start building a golf course in the late 60s because there was nothing in the area, nothing within 20 miles.
01:43So they got a land grant and decided to build a golf course.
01:47Then I got this book, Jack Nicklaus Golf My Way, and it became my Bible.
01:54It became that was golf. That's how I had to do it.
01:57And I think a lot of guys my age, like for you guys, it was Tiger.
02:03Tiger changed the game more than anyone else in the history of the golf.
02:06He has made golf the way it is now. You should all be paying him 10% of your earnings.
02:11And it was the same for us with Jack and Arnie.
02:14We should have been paying them 10% of our earnings because they changed the game.
02:19They made golf popular for the masses.
02:21So that book that Jack wrote, Nick Faldo, Greg Norman, a whole bunch of guys, they're a bit older than me.
02:29But our era from the 60s and then the early 70s, that was the book that we all basically taught ourselves.
02:36I had a little nine-hole sand scrape course with no bunkers, just a fun little farm course, basically,
02:45that's turned into a beautiful golf course now, Beelwa Golf Club on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland,
02:50a spectacular public golf course.
02:54It was the only way I could learn the game, really, was to try and I'd put an iron over.
03:01I'd open the book up and I'd have an iron over each page to stop it from blowing around.
03:05And I'd work on one thing and then the next day I'd work on the next thing.
03:08So it was instructional?
03:10Yeah, if you look it up Golf My Way, it was really just a picture of Jack and lots of images,
03:18lots of drawings and lots of rendered photos of Jack and how he did it.
03:24But yeah, it was...
03:25Was that your teacher?
03:27Was that your instructional piece of how you were in the game?
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