 Well, thank you so much for staying with us. Let's take a swing now to the golf course. Jamaica will be chasing a fourth consecutive title when they compete at the Caribbean Golf Association's four-ball championship in the Bahamas from October 16-20. The Jamaicans were dominant at last year's edition in Florida, winning all six trophies at the three-day championship, including the coveted Ambrose Go-Through Cup, won by the best-performing country at the tournament. 18 players will leave Jamaica shores to compete at this year's tournament and joining us via Zoom to tell us more is national women's champion Jody Monbarro, who is also president of the Jamaica Golf Association. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Thank you for having me. Not a problem. So Jody, I will start by asking you how are your preparations coming along to this competition? They've been good. We've been under the tutelage of our national coach, Jonathan Nguyenham, who is based at Sandals in Autorius. So every weekend the team has been traveling out of town to play some of the more challenging golf courses. So it's been good. It's a little bit harder because some of the team players, the national team players actually reside overseas. And so, you know, that's a little bit difficult with, you know, one part of being in Jamaica, one part of being away. But we've been there a couple of days earlier that they actually win. So I think they'll get their skills all together. Right. And the competition is in Bahamas, the Royal Blue Golf Course. Have you ever played there? Yes. And can you tell us a bit about that course in particular? I haven't played there. One of our, two of our team players have. They played in the Bahamas Golf Association National Open last year. It's a challenging course. Of course, through the Bahamas, it's windy, lots of water. It's a newer course. So it's probably designed a little bit more like an American course. So lots of hazards, lots of water. The grids are very large and tall. So you have to make sure that your approach shots are, you know, in the right quadrant where the pin is on the green itself. So, you know, I think through the extra day practice, I think we'll do us well so that we can get used to the conditions and the golf course itself. Yeah. And Jody, let me, before I continue, just belatedly congratulate you for being the first ever woman to be president of the Jamaica Golf Association. I know you're probably two or three years now into your reign, but I don't think Sportsmax has actually delivered the congratulations to you. So I'm doing that now. Thank you so very much. Thank you. Okay. First of all, the quality of opposition that you will face in this tournament. How prepared are you for that and how much do you know about your opposition going in? Well, we have, I think we have more competition this year. We have teams, you know, from Trinidad and Barbados, they didn't compete in the last two years. And so there is more competition this year than the previous, I think, two years that we've been there. We know some of the players on the sides. We have, like our team, we do have some former, what you call, German top players, so that means they played, you know, other Caribbean regional events. We do have some who have won their national opens as well. So it is going to be challenging. It's going to be difficult. But you know, as with golf, you're not playing the person, you're playing the course. If you can beat the course, you usually end up beating your competition. So we're really trying to focus on our preparation when it comes to, you know, how to attack the course and I think that would help us overall. Yeah. I see the tournament talking about a four ball championship. Can you talk to us about that format-wise? Right. It's a team of two. But of course it's four people that play in the p-time. So that's why they call it a four ball because there are four people playing at the same time. But each team is two players. It's the best score of the two that comes at each hole. And then of course that's summed up at the end for the overall gross score. All right. I want to get a comment from you on this, Joda, because I started my work in the media back in the mid-1980s. And it appears to me that there are a lot more people playing golf now and a lot more young people playing golf now than 40 years ago. Am I right? I think we've had highs and lows. When I was a junior growing up, coming up to the 90s, we actually had more golfers. We didn't have as much junior golfers. What we've had now, I think we've had more junior golfers within the last probable decade, which is good. We have seen a little dip this year. Quite a few of our juniors are away and we have been able to get new juniors in the program to continue the development. So we're trying to work on that from an association point of view. What I've found I have to say is that the trend is probably that there are more older golfers than before. So we have to try to be out there and see if we can drive more interest into golf and try to get more youngsters into the game as well. So what would account for the upsurge in the juniors that you referenced just now? Well, the thing is that golf has opportunities in golf with respect to university. Scholarships is huge. Golf is growing worldwide. So it's not just universities in the States. It's universities worldwide. So, you know, Jamaicans have always been known to do very well academically. So when you can combine that and then get the opportunity to have a golf scholarship at a top school, it's been very attractive to a lot of juniors coming up. I think also, as we've said globally, that Tiger Woods phenomenon, you know, where a lot of these juniors have come up and seen Tiger and what he has done to the game. And now, you know, this is now a role model as well for a lot of the youngsters to show what they can do. So I think that has also helped to push the game to attract more of the youngsters as well. Yes. So the competition begins in the Bahamas October 15. When does the team leave the Jamaican team? We have some leaving as soon as tomorrow. I actually leave tomorrow. But I think the majority of the team will be in the Bahamas by Friday. They're trying to do an extra practice round over the weekend, either on Saturday or Sunday or both days. The official practice round is Monday. And then the serious work starts on Tuesday. So I think, as I said before, those two extra practice rounds will definitely be key for us. Jody, when I want to wish you best of luck, we look forward to see if Jamaica can defend that title. You all seem to have the best golfers around. Thank you so very much. And thanks for having me again. Not a problem. So of course, Jody Moonbaru there, she is the president of the Jamaica Golf Association and they're getting ready to defend that title at the Caribbean Golf Championship. On that note, let's pay some bills and we'll be back.