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Inspiration belongs in all shapes, sizes, forms and places. I bet if you looked under the cushions on your couch – you’d even find some hidden there too. Friends, family and people we cross paths with on the journey of life shape our personalities to who we are today, and I’d like to share with you the brilliant and talented people I take my inspiration from when it comes to mrbojumbles – my friends and my golfing pals. You’ll hear from these chaps from time to time, but here’s just a little bit of background about these top roosters.
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Reece Witters (Yours truly)

Age: 26 and no sign of a moustache.
Abode: Auckland, NZ
Golfing Status: I’d like to play more, but I’d say my golfing status is: A decent social golfer that can’t shake the hacker within. Just when I think I can actually play the game rather well, consecutive shanks arrive, followed by a fat chips and four-putts – oh the joy.

CV: Pulling pin on my attempt to get a tourism degree in Otago turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I soon found my feet studying sound audio engineering in Auckland, from which I followed the trail of pebbles past the ginger bread house into a career in sports journalism/copywriting. Producing the Beige Brigade Podcast among other things was a stepping-stone to madness. After parking up in Wellington by to pick-up my Diploma in Broadcasting, I found myself producing at Radio Sport in Auckland before I taking rain check away yonder for a year or so. Now, with well-scratched feet, I’m currently back in Auckland working on the sports desk at Radio Live with the tag of the ‘Golf reporter’, and with my fingers in various other freelance things about town. When I’m not exercising my right to go bananas with unrelenting boisterous support for any New Zealand underdog, you’ll find me embellishing stories of the my weekend’s activities around the water cooler.

Unforgettable commentary moment: Ernie Els is dead in the rough next to the green at the 2009 Tavistock cup. The pin’s above his head, and he has no green to play with. The Big Easy knocks it stiff and the dulcet tones of fairway Feraghty provided a real treat…

“He just made that ball sit down like an old dog in front of the fire.” – David Feraghty – CBS Sports.

Most memorable moment in golf (probably all sports) : Cambo’s glorious triumph in the 2005 US Open. In a Sharpies golf store in Wellington City, the room was bursting at the seams with people crowded round a little bracket mounted 14 inch TV. People who had never previously crossed paths before were hugging one another with overflowing emotion and pride. How could it not be?
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Samuel Geoffrey George Williamson

Age: 25
Abode: Sydney – only because it is better than NZ in every way imaginable
Handicap: Slightly bruised hip which causes difficulty when walking or running
Alias: Master Mouse Patrol – Our Aussie based Kiwi Correspondent

CV: After studying Art History and Film at University, playing soccer his whole life, moving to Sydney, working in an Art Gallery, regularly wearing tight pants and being single for three years, suspicions began to arise over not only Williamson’s sexuality but where his life was heading. A weekend on the Lion Reds with the lads and a flukey 35 on the front nine of Balmacewan got him back on track reminding the young man what was really important in life. His new life goal is to simply make people smile.

Unforgettable commentary moment:
Any time I hear a comment on the PGA tour coverage proceeded with the words “Huh Murph” …

Most memorable moment of golf witnessed on TV:
The first time I saw Freddie Couples swing. I was in awe. I still am.

Most memorable moment on a golf course:
Hole-ing a sand wedge from an opposing fairway to secure my first eagle. Tinny as shit but boy did i love it!

Master Mouse Patrol?
Sam is the brainchild and force behind a new internet sensation called “MASTER MOUSE PATROL”. The spectacular site taps into the creative culture and community in Australasia that over the years has been at the forefront of ideas and new thinking in every aspect of the arts and business. Master Mouse Patrol aims to bring this creative community together and share the brilliant, inspiring and confronting work, ideas and advice of these people to the World.

check out his baby – www.mastermousepatrol.com
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Tim (TJ) Tregonning

Age: 25, although you wouldn’t believe it from the Frank Nobilo-esque sprinkling of greys
Abode: Auckland, NZ
Handicap: Exactly

CV: TJ’s love for golf was nurtured by his father’s 1970 model, left-handed ‘Jack Nicklaus’ Spalding Blade 7 iron. He rose/bluffed his way through the ranks of the weekly championships at the Howick Golf Course, before graduating to the fine pastures of the South Island, NZ. Qualified for his position on the Bojumbles team in 2009 by demonstrating his ability to talk a profoundly better game than he plays.

Most memorable snippet of golf on tv:
Freddy Couples muttering “Oh baby” as he watches his 3 iron into the 13th at Augusta ’98. Can someone please upload this to youtube.

Would like to see:
The footage of Van De Velde returning to Carnoustie and achieving a double bogey on the 18th using only his putter. Over and over again. What a soundtrack. Also, more matchplay events on tour.

What I love about the Bojumbles team:
Reece – Once followed up an horrific shank with arguably the most beautiful follow through I have ever seen. Poetry.
Macky – So talented with the quill that he almost got me liking Sergio
Williamson – His bloodcurdling scream of “Cuttttt” when imitating Tiger’s famous ‘high cut’.
Willis – Probably the greatest match-play opponent/ team mate alive. We have an almost State of Origin-like record in battle.
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Dave Insull

Age: Quarter Century
Abode: Auckland, New Zealand
Golfing Status: 12 Handicap and declining!

CV: After two years of misery working the 9-5 in a dreary corner of a law firm, I decided to axe the corporate lifestyle for a life of uncertainty as an entrepreneur. Since my celebrated career change I have spent more time on the golf course, the range and the couch than at the coal face earning an opportunistic buck.

Golf tragic: My second year of law school is distinct for one thing. 11.30 tee times and hours on my favourite course – working and learning the intricacies of this great game. I broke 80 for the first time, I played with 50 year golfing veterans, I played when the greens were frozen solid, I played hungover, I learned strategy and how to keep a cool head when I was one up with 2 to play.

Greatest moment in golf: Eight beers into an afternoon at the Michael Hill NZ Open in February 2009, I witnessed the rarest of accomplishments. Richard Johnson, a 6 foot 4 inches Yank, aced a 315 metre par four with a driver for an albatross. I was only 10 meters from the pin. The late summer heat, the roar of the crowd, the fuzzy clarity of a drunken epihany – a truely perfect golfing moment to be savoured.
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