James Sutherland

For us, it's very much about at the end of a long year, which is when our Australian Open is on, we want international players to want to come down to Australia and have a great experience.

Part of that's playing on great golf courses.

Part of it is also us looking after them as best we can.

No, I think that's something that we would like to...

I think, as I understand it, the R&A and the Open Championship in the UK has a sort of commitment, I suppose, to the old course at St Andrews to play there every five years.

And that sort of thing, I mean, we're blessed really, particularly here in Melbourne, to have a number of genuinely world-class golf courses that we could rotate around.

As you and many of your listeners will know, Tom,

The economics of tournament golf is somewhat different here in Australia where we don't have the significant television revenue and we do have a level of reliance on state government support and tourism dollar, I guess, tourism investment to make these events viable.

So to some extent we need to work with our relevant state governments and build that proposition.

Having that certainty and looking further ahead is definitely something that we aspire to.

Well, unfortunately this year I was basically in meetings from, I arrived on Monday night and I was in meetings all the way through from Tuesday through to Friday.

I saw a little bit of golf on

Saturday and very little on Sunday.

But one of the things for us is that it is a pilgrimage for people from all over the golf industry and we do have an opportunity to have meeting places that allow us to catch up with people, colleagues and business partners and indeed player managers and others that

although I guess allow us to plan ahead.

These sorts of opportunities are few and far between.

So there wasn't a lot of golf watching, but to your point, anyone that has been to the Masters will know that there are just so many iconic places around that golf course to sit and watch.

You can either choose to sit on a hole and watch groups come through or follow a player.

It's probably a little bit harder with the massive crowds that they have to...

to walk around and follow players.