Sometimes, you need something to take your mind off the news, which is largely a doom and gloom situation these days.

Thankfully, much as he did back in May of last year, when the original ‘My Bok Boks’ voice note hit the big time, South African golfer Jared Harvey delivered.

We managed to obtain some of Harvey’s more recent voice notes – one describing his post-shower routine, which is a thing of beauty, and another where he outlines why he is the best golfer in Durban.

If you haven’t yet joined in the fun, do yourself a favour and listen to both here.

You want more, don’t you? Fine – here’s another voice note from Harvey detailing why he’s the best Durban can offer:

What a character.

It’s clear from his original voice note from last week, and that one above, that he’s angry with someone called Biaggo.

We wanted answers and asked those who might know the backstory to mail us with more information (editor@2oceansvibe.com), and we received a number of responses.

Sadly, Biaggo himself is overseas at present, but other sources on the inside provided us with this:

• There’s a WhatsApp group with Jared and his pals, where things can sometimes get a little heated, especially if you give a chirp in Jared’s direction.
• He loves updating said group with his daily activities and routines, which is clearly world-class entertainment.
• The beef between Jared and Biaggo stemmed from chirps about Jared’s liberal use of Instagram ‘throwbacks’, with the latest taking place on a Tuesday rather than the traditional Thursday.
• Lately, there have been also chirps that Jared is no longer the ‘main lion’ in town when it comes to golf, but we will get to that in a second.
• In a classic ‘mountain out of a molehill’ situation, things escalated, and it wasn’t long before Jared sent a string of voice notes outlining his claims of being Durban’s finest golfer.
• Some of the guys on the group have clearly had enough of these claims, and shared the voice notes with others, setting in motion a chain of events that led to the voice notes arriving electronically on our desk.

In both voice notes, a chap called ‘Rohwer’ is mentioned. This refers to Martin Rohwer, another pro on the Sunshine Tour.

He’s had a decent enough 2019 season thus far, with these stats from his Sunshine Tour profile page:

That’s a total of R316 090 so far. For a point of comparison, you can see Jared’s 2019 Sunshine Tour stats in our story from last week.

Rohwer’s career earnings are only R482 213, as opposed to Jared’s R3,33 million, but we hear that in their recent social matches together, Rohwer has been getting the better of Jared, or ‘Harvard’ as some mates call him.

The WhatsApp group has been quick to pounce on this, saying that Rohwer is now the chief in town, and this has clearly rankled Jared to the point where he felt it necessary to strike back.

Those who know the Durban golf scene might also point to Bryce Easton’s success when arguing against Jared’s claims. As things stand, Easton’s Sunshine Tour winnings are also around the R3,3 million mark, although he now spends most of his time competing on the European Tour.

Easton is ranked number 371 in the world, whereas Harvey is ranked number 1 804.

Say what you want about Jared, but you have to enjoy his chutzpah.

In other voice notes we received, he did show a degree of introspection, whilst waxing lyrical about cars:

He’s a car person.

So it’s a no to a POLO TSI, then, but what does rev his engines?

Moleskin really is the only way to go, pal.

We have made contact with Jared himself, who has been a fantastic sport so far and taken any chirps from our side with good humour, and are awaiting his statement.

Jared, the people want to hear from you – give them what they want.

[source:sunshinetour]