Golfing In The Slums Of Mumbai

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The Wonton Don

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00:00and stepping up to the tee is the world number two all right he just biffed a car on the first

00:07swing hey how are you greetings from Mumbai a year ago I saw a YouTube video of some people

00:16playing golf in the slums of Mumbai so I reached out to those dudes and we are now heading to play

00:23slum golf with these slum golfers the bad news is they don't have any lefty clubs finding lefty

00:29clubs is the bane of my existence the good news is the clubs are made out of like pieces of metal so

00:35he said we could try twisting one and turning it into a lefty club other than that I have no idea

00:41what to expect but uh yeah well we'll at least get nine holes in all right we have arrived so nice to

00:55meet you okay see the golf pro yeah all right okay cool oh I was asking if you had a tee time today

01:09too or it's uh yeah no no no you can North Face Gucci that's a rare a rare find how many years have you

01:17played golf well how about you yeah this is you yeah oh wow once inside the slum I met the rest of

01:28the foursome I'd be hitting the course with how are you thanks I'm not very good at golf oh yeah no I

01:36I work with some people who are very good but I'm not the best when did you first play slum golf for the

01:44first time 1998 1998 he played his first round who is your favorite do you know Brooks Koepka yeah

01:54yeah I mean he's not a personal friend of mine but he is a close friend of my friends oh yeah yeah

02:02Suresh gave me a tour of the greens but I still couldn't see anything that resembled a hole one

02:15one is fully there oh yeah nice so they actually do have a hole what do you think Riggs would make of

02:21this course he's kind of a a strickler when it comes to the greens I don't know if he would approve but I

02:27tell you what we were definitely paying more than Riggs pays to play 18 350 US that's probably how

02:32much they charge to play it like some of the top courses in the US yeah yeah that is the buildings

02:41in the concession and outside the pipe and rolling the cutting cut and turning the golf face see this is

02:49the iron face and this is the the gas pipe to take the grip the hold is very good all right so you use

02:56the gas pipe for the grip and then the building material material for the club yeah that's genius so

03:04I was going to ask him I am a lefty he hits not like this he hits with like this if we had a tool we

03:12could we could try to twist this yeah then you want to let you know yeah and change in direction in

03:18yeah I think he was was able to to twist it maybe you need to give it a little more curve

03:34yeah I don't really know what I'm doing you know how to turn this so it has a little more of a lift or is this okay

03:46okay it's okay all right yeah hole number first is there that is the hole this is the first hole

03:53first the tee box is there after the hole okay this is first hole party all right off to the first tee

04:00hello hello good how are you playing a little golf we'll meet you at the 19th hole on what is an

04:08exceptionally hot day seven of the top ten players ranked in the world are through to the knockout

04:15stages you and you partner me and this partner okay all right and stepping up to the tee is the

04:22world number two all right he just biffed the car on the first swing do you yell four here i know i don't think

04:32there's any really point all right good distance this is absurd hit it over the truck

04:43great contact if he can get his ball yeah what a beauty of a shot he's really got a hold of that one

04:52yeah all right try not to talk to her in my back swing guys quiet on the tee box i'm trying to like

05:01balance it on a little piece of trash or something yeah you need a tee you got to take your window when

05:09you have an opportunity three-time winner is about to tee off should just miss the bunker down the left

05:20perfect it's playable oh yeah i don't think you're supposed to touch the ball thank you i'm gonna go

05:28from here i'm just gonna go nice and soft oh that's good curve at that point suresh told everyone to

05:39just bring their ball inside the slum before we caused a serious traffic accident it's a tough lie

05:50oh just a whisker away magnificent effort that was perfect oh a little too much mustard on it

06:07i'm gonna put the leaf

06:10crews now looking to try and set up a chip onto the green all right i'm gonna put this in

06:15oh what oh no it's going left all right i gotta aim very far right my putter wasn't behaving

06:30i think that's a quadruple bogey i need this little thing to be curved on the back side

06:37and trying to read the greens was an absolute nightmare

06:40it's the unforgiving green

06:48but in the game of golf focus and determination can overcome any obstacle

06:55yes

06:59i got this i'm winning the first hole yes okay you're losing the first hole yeah next hole

07:06there to that this is the hole is there see okay is there okay

07:13where is the hole what is that towards the chairs yep

07:16i needed any advantage i could get so on this hole tried using my lucy breakers 10 as a t

07:21oh no five second rule no no oh my god nope these gotta we gotta throw these out oh god

07:41wow good shot there you go

07:43i need a very good shot oh okay nice one guy thank you nice lift you got pure contact on that

07:55oh unforgiving greens

07:57so rush was slipping so there was no better time to walk in

08:13oh oh oh let's go

08:18oh thank you thank you go down yeah you just gotta you just gotta have a light touch that was incredible

08:28but to me

08:31come on go come on go come on in come on in come on in

08:37too much sauce okay donny this is huge i think if he hits this you guys win the hole

08:41i mean that's what you can see it might not be the 18th hole at augusta but we we do have some

08:48spectators up there put some bad juju on this make a miss

08:54nothing's guaranteed okay you open the window on this one okay where's uh the third tea box

09:00okay where's the third hole again oh around the corner

09:17great shot sir great shot

09:22hey we're in the middle of a golf game yeah let's talk at the turn

09:25oh i'll take that hey let it roll let it roll oh in the water hazard

09:39that's what playing it safe gets you

09:44oh that's a bounce

09:55oh i like that roll i like that roll you'll be able to tap that in is this the hole what is it

10:04all right cool definitely doesn't need that much

10:11wait roll over i can work with that i can work with that

10:18yeah that's good

10:19oh i mean i think that was still five yeah five yeah it's down yeah maybe yeah

10:33so you guys won that hole i was shocked to learn that our round was already over that was uh a three

10:40hole course so did that break down to about 12 000 rupees as a hole i want to try to play another hole

10:47another yeah maybe we could help them make a new hole we could find some other holes around here

10:52seems like a good hole right there could i try to make one more hole because i saw there was like

10:58a big uh hole over there in the slum there there yeah it's like that one yeah the ball going to not

11:04find it i think i can reach down and get it i'll see how deep the actual hole is oh yeah yeah dirty water

11:13in there that'd be a great hazard actually oh yeah i accidentally dropped the ball on the sewer hazard

11:22what just happened i thought this was a separate hole but this hole led into this sewer

11:30oh i see it yep it's in the sewer i think i can get that out but that's the sewer they don't want

11:34it back do you want me to get it out no no no no okay well that's the hazards of slum golf better playing

11:41the three holes it's going to be another 10 000 rupee charge for the lost ball

11:48i was still determined to play more than three holes though so kept searching this is a good hole

11:53would you play this with me yeah okay how about we start right here you got to clear the the water

11:59hazard like arnold palmer both the player and a course designer jack the clocks

12:11oh that's a tough roll back there you go he just sent you halfway to the hole oh nice teamwork makes

12:19the dream work huh should have put a chip down oh wow oh wow oh my gosh just skipped it over the

12:31the cup great shot sir

12:33oh you're the master of this all right thank you 25 years of experience huh yeah

12:50wow wow very good that's very good but not quite in the hole can i get it over the rocking in yeah

13:16no i'm not gonna stop till i get it in this hole in the hole the hole

13:25no man got it in yeah maybe we should stick to those three holes over there those are much

13:31better designed holes that one's tough

13:36our round was over by this point but felt like i was finally getting a feel for slum golf

13:40so decide to keep hitting balls is there like a t i can put it on oh wait a bottle cap beautiful here we go

13:52all right well didn't hit this tractor yeah the bottle cap's a great tea

14:00hey quiet on the green

14:01i also took some time to learn more about the history of slum golf so you were the first person to

14:11play slum golf right me and myself my friends all friends all famous these games around the europe

14:17and playing to last germany and playing to the luxembourg are there slums in luxembourg yeah then this name is

14:25urban golf urban urban golf you see the urban golf sorry rigs and trent play when there was like

14:32two feet of snow in new york world championship every two years uh indian team is going to play in

14:38urban golf oh an urban golf championship every two years foreplay should definitely cover that

14:44and have you noticed more young kids in the slums playing some golf that time slum golf playing from

14:50the best club allowed to you come to play inside a lot of people is coming to playing here slum golf

14:55yeah yeah the u.s guys is coming the all europe news reporter playing to here all indian good player

15:02for uh within money playing here how do you think a guy like tiger woods would handle

15:07a course like this yeah tiger no he's tiger tiger he's he's a god of golf my dream to tiger one time

15:16one shot playing the slum golf i know people who know him so i'll try to reach out my message to

15:23tiger tiger come in mumbai playing to slum golf a very great game okay i'm very good your fan come

15:31and playing one time indian slum golf my my dreams dream tiger playing to one time in india in slum golf

15:42i'm waiting your tiger suresh is waiting for you tiger yeah it's it it only takes you know 20

15:50minutes i'm sure you can work it into your schedule then it was time to say our goodbyes very nice to

15:55meet you very nice to meet you too very nice to meet you yeah thank you sir yes

16:04all right and that was slum golf uh i think we got absolutely fleeced that guy charged us 360

16:17dollars to film there we were supposed to be filming for like five to six hours we just played those three

16:25holes and he was like yep we're done so that comes out to like uh more than a hundred plus dollars per hole

16:32i don't know he said he had to like pay so his friends could take time off work and golf with us

16:39but we were we were golfing with little kids he was just there with one friend and he also said we

16:45had to like pay off the local mafia so they wouldn't give us any trouble i don't really think we were

16:50causing that much trouble but hey it was a cool experience nonetheless i probably you know won't be

16:57playing golf in an indian slum anytime soon and now we're at chow potty beach where we're going to

17:04enjoy the sunset all right there's a few people going hippo mode yeah i don't think i'm going to be

17:11getting in here i kind of want to know the temperature but no no i'm not getting in there

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