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An Honest Game (Advanced Program) · Spotlight English: Advanced

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Spotlight Advanced. I'm Andrew Davis and I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Paul at Dvis. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting.
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  Speaker 2: It is easier for people to understand no matter where
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  Speaker 2: in the world they live.
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  Speaker 1: A woman is alone playing golf. Golf is a sport
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  Speaker 1: where people hit a small ball with a metal stick.
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  Speaker 1: The ball must go into a cup in the ground.
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  Speaker 1: A round of golf is eighteen holes. A hole is
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  Speaker 1: a place where a player begins and ends that part
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  Speaker 1: of the game. Each hole is a different distance. Each
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  Speaker 1: hole has an average number of hits it takes to
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  Speaker 1: get the ball into the cup. This average is called par.
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  Speaker 1: Every hole has a par of three, par four, or
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  Speaker 1: par five. She writes down how many hits it took
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  Speaker 1: her on each hole. At the end of the game,
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  Speaker 1: the player adds up the total number of hits for
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  Speaker 1: all eighteen holes. That is their score for the game.
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  Speaker 2: Today, the woman is playing better than ever. She has
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  Speaker 2: a chance to make her personal best score. She is
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  Speaker 2: now at the last hole, which is a part four.
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  Speaker 2: She has taken only two hits so far. If she
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  Speaker 2: makes her next hit, she will get the ball in
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  Speaker 2: the cup in only three hits. That would be called
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  Speaker 2: a birdie. A birdie is one shot under par. Birdies
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  Speaker 2: are hard to make. Every golfer wants to make them.
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  Speaker 1: She takes her swing. It looks like a perfect hit
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  Speaker 1: straight towards the cup, but the ball stops on the
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  Speaker 1: edge of the cup. She waits and hopes the ball
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  Speaker 1: will fall in, but it does not. She taps the
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  Speaker 1: ball into the cup for par. She missed her best
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  Speaker 1: score by one hit. She is about to write the
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  Speaker 1: number four for her score on the last hole, but
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  Speaker 1: she waits. She looks around and sees no one. She
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  Speaker 1: thinks about writing the number three. No one would know
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  Speaker 1: it would be her best score. She was so close.
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  Speaker 1: She may never play this well again. She is not
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  Speaker 1: sure what to write.
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  Speaker 2: On today's spotlight, we look at honesty in golf. In
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  Speaker 2: some sports, like soccer or baseball, cheating sometimes happens. Players
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  Speaker 2: pretend to be injured to gain advantage, or they try
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  Speaker 2: to trip their opponents when no one is looking. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: coaches even teach this, but cheating is not a accepted
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  Speaker 2: in golf. A golfer who cheats must deal with the
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  Speaker 2: negative results for the rest of their lives. The following
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  Speaker 2: golfers were faced with a choice to tell the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Each made a decision. The results were very different.
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  Speaker 1: An entire game of golf covers a large area. A
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  Speaker 1: golfer has many moments alone. If he wants to lie,
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  Speaker 1: he can easily make up a full score. He can
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  Speaker 1: move his ball to a better spot. This makes honesty
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  Speaker 1: very important in golf. It guides a player when no
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  Speaker 1: one is watching.
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  Speaker 2: Truthfulness is part of the tradition of golf. A player's
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  Speaker 2: honor means more than any score or victory. Bobby Jones
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  Speaker 2: was one of the greatest golfers of all time. In
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  Speaker 2: nineteen twenty five, he played the US Open, one of
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  Speaker 2: the biggest golf contests of the year. Jones was close
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  Speaker 2: to winning the US Open. It was the eleventh hole
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  Speaker 2: of the final round. Jones hit his ball into the
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  Speaker 2: tall grass. When Jones stood over his ball, it moved.
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  Speaker 2: He had not touched the ball, but discounted as a hit.
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  Speaker 2: According to writer David R.
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  Speaker 3: Smith, if the ball moves at all, even by accident,
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  Speaker 3: it's a one shot penalty. But no one saw the
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  Speaker 3: ball move except for Bobby himself, not even a gallery member,
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  Speaker 3: not a caddy, not even his competitor. There wasn't a
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  Speaker 3: TV camera pointed at him, but Jones called the one
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  Speaker 3: shot penalty on himself anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Officials questioned whether the ball had moved, but Jones was sure.
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  Speaker 1: He gave himself a penalty. A penalty adds one hit
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  Speaker 1: to a player's score. He lost the US Open by
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  Speaker 1: one hit because of this penalty. Afterwards, people congratulated him
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  Speaker 1: for his honesty. He replied, you may as well praise
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  Speaker 1: a man for not ribbing a bank.
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  Speaker 2: Bobby Jones played the game of golf honestly. People remember
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  Speaker 2: him for his truthfulness as much as for his many victories.
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  Speaker 1: VJ. Singh is a golfer from Fiji. In nineteen eighty five,
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  Speaker 1: he was only twenty two years old. He was new
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  Speaker 1: to professional golf. He was hoping to make golf his career.
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  Speaker 1: That year, in the Indonesian Open in Jakarta, Singh changed
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  Speaker 1: his official score for his second round. He lowered his
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  Speaker 1: score by one hit. This improvement would have allowed him
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  Speaker 1: to play the final two rounds on the weekend. He
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  Speaker 1: could have won more money, but contest officials discovered he
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  Speaker 1: had cheated. Singh was forced to leave the competition. Singh
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  Speaker 1: was then not allowed to play golf for a while
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  Speaker 1: by the Southeast Asian Golf Federation. Singh denied he cheated.
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  Speaker 1: He said it was a misunderstanding, but an American player
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  Speaker 1: who was at the contest said it.
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  Speaker 2: Was not a misunderstanding.
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  Speaker 3: All of us who were around are very upset that
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  Speaker 3: VJ denies this.
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  Speaker 2: For years afterward, Singh had to work part time jobs.
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  Speaker 2: He played in small golf contests when he could. He
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  Speaker 2: had to struggle to get back to professional golf. He
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  Speaker 2: finally made it many years later. He became very successful.
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  Speaker 2: He won the biggest contests in gold. He earned millions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars, but he still denied he had cheated. Many
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  Speaker 2: fellow competitors and golf followers never forgave him.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty three, professional golfer Justin Dodan cheated in
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  Speaker 1: a similar way to sing. He improved his score at
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  Speaker 1: a contest for the chance to play in the final
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  Speaker 1: two rounds he could have made more money. Dodan erased
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  Speaker 1: the number seven on his scorecard. He replaced the number
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  Speaker 1: seven with the number five. This improved his final score
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  Speaker 1: by two hits. Golfers who played with Dodan noticed his
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  Speaker 1: score changed, so they contacted the officials. There was an
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  Speaker 1: immediate investigation, but Dodan quickly withdrew from the competition. A
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  Speaker 1: few days later, Dodan made a comment on x I
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  Speaker 1: am here to admit one of the biggest mistakes I
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  Speaker 1: have made in my life. I cheated in golf. This
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  Speaker 1: is not who I am. I let my family down,
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  Speaker 1: I let my competitors down, and let myself down. I
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  Speaker 1: pray for your forgiveness. First John one nine.
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  Speaker 2: First John one is a passage from the Christian Bible.
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  Speaker 2: It says, but if we confess our sins, God will
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  Speaker 2: forgive us. We can trust God to do this. He
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  Speaker 2: always does what is right. He will make us clean
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  Speaker 2: from all the wrong things we have done.
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  Speaker 1: This Bible verse is a reminder to Christians. It says
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  Speaker 1: that God will forgive them no matter what they have
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  Speaker 1: done wrong. Unfortunately, the world of professional golf is not
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  Speaker 1: as forgiving as the Christian God. Dodan confessed that he
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  Speaker 1: had cheated. VJ. Singh admitted he had cheated, but neither
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  Speaker 1: was forgiven by many golf fans. If Dodan had not
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  Speaker 1: withdrawn from the contest, he would have been forced to leave.
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  Speaker 1: He later left the professional golf tour in Canada. He
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  Speaker 1: later played in Latin America. He hoped for a new start,
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  Speaker 1: but his competitors and golf followers may never view him
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  Speaker 1: the same. He hurt himself, his family and his friends.
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  Speaker 1: He damaged his character.
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  Speaker 2: Honesty is as big a part of the tradition of
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  Speaker 2: golf as anything else. It is a sport where honor
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  Speaker 2: means more than skill. Champions have lied and won, but
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  Speaker 2: they never earned the same respect again, that is the
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  Speaker 2: biggest prize.
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  Speaker 1: would you feel if others cheated on you? You can
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  Speaker 2: The writer of this program was Peter Anderson. The producer
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  Speaker 2: was micheo Osarki. The voices you heard were from the
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  Speaker 2: United Kingdom and the United States. All quotes were adapted
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  Speaker 2: an honest game.
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