I was a bit rusty around the greens but I've got three weeks to tighten up my short game and get ready for Perth (where he will defend his title at the Johnnie Walker Classic).
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I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!
We worked together in Perth on a TV show called Sweat. When I met Heath there was something extremely charismatic about him. Obviously he had talent, and I convinced him to move out of Perth and come to Sydney - the Hollywood of Australia, if you like. So I just convinced him to do that and looked after him when he arrived. We got a flat in Bondi.
I love Perth and I love the fans. The standard in the league is pretty good and everything is set up to play good basketball. It hasn't been hard making the adjustment.
I'd love to live anywhere else and I've had the experience of living in Perth and I was actually born in Melbourne, so it would be good to live there or anywhere.
We thought Perth was where we could get stuck in but we missed our opportunities there. If we had scored 'big' after bowling them out for 258, we could have put Australia under pressure but we also dropped catches. They weren't easy chances but you have to hang on to them if you want to beat a quality side like Australia.
Obviously I've played my best career basketball as a Perth Wildcat and I've got a proud history with this club, ... I really think that we've got an exciting potential this year and there's a definite hunger within the playing group.
In my first two events this year, my putting was bad. I didn't have any control with the speed of the greens, but on the way to Perth, I was thinking the greens are very fast in Australia. I like fast greens like in Augusta National.
When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.
We are committed to making sure he remains a part of the set-up with Perth Glory now his playing days are over, because Scott is a great ambassador for this sport and this club. He has a lot to offer away from the pitch beyond his achievements on it.
We have not decided yet who we will play and in training we have been mixing the players up to try and confuse the (Perth rugby media) as to what our intended line-up will be.
Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.
Until that happens the crews will be held in Darwin facilities or if appropriate taken to Baxter in South Australia or Perth.
If Perth Glory were to sign a marquee player. It would be preferable he be an Australia international returning home. Someone the local fans can relate to.
As far as the players getting signals from coaches, it's going to be very difficult to stop anybody in the crowd from an emotional response to a call if they disagree with it, whether it's a coach or other spectators. A prime example was in Perth. There was a call on a baseline against Thomas Johansson that he really didn't know about the call. There was a quite expensive box of fans on that line that were encouraging him to challenge. He did so at their request and was quite wrong. It made for a good laugh around the audience, and he had a good laugh about it. I think, to get back to your point, it's going to be impossible to control emotional responses. If there's a definite system going on such as there would be for any other areas of coaching on court, we would have to take action.
I think that was a concern early on. But I think one of the things that we found after we actually used this system in Perth is that the speed of the technology to get the call, there really is no chance for the gamesmanship. In Perth, we were averaging around five seconds from challenge to display. What we found in observing and also players recognize this, I was actually in some conversations I had with Taylor Dent, he noticed that this technology actually speeded up play rather than slowed play down. There was less reason or no reason to argue with the chair umpire. The players, once they saw the call, just went back and played. The two incorrect challenge limit kind of is a built-in safety net in case anybody tries to abuse the system. I think the concerns now for a player using it for gamesmanship is minimal.