Says Andrew Henare with a grin: "You'll be waiting for a while."
The pro-am will be the first leg of a Wellington one-day circuit series, featuring Sir Bob Charles as the special guest.
Andrew Henare Golf has organised the pro-am as a fundraiser for the club's junior programme, which runs every Sunday from 7.30am to 10am at four different levels, catering for 5 to 17-year-olds.
The pro-am has enticed Charles from Christchurch to play as well as help boost the profile of blossoming juniors.
The Napier club has about 50 junior members, mushrooming from eight this time last year when Henare got involved, although the programme has been there since the club's inception.
The Napier Central year 4 pupil shoots 6-over par in the six-hole junior level four course and enjoys his chip shots and short game.
Henare practises three days after school.
"I enjoy playing soccer," he says when asked if he plays any other sport.
Adsett, 9, of Taradale Primary, "pars a few holes" on the nine-hole level three course.
The daughter of Napier pharmarcist Warren Adsett started playing when she was 3.
"I like driving balls, mostly straight, and I like putting," says the youngster who also plays nine hole of the normal course with her father who shortens the course for her.
What about her iron shots?
"Oh, they are pretty easy," is the innocent response from Adsett whose sister, Verity, 6, also is in the level 3 programme.
Swanick, who turned 11 on Tuesday, boasts a handicap of 10.
The first-year Taradale Intermediate pupil started playing at 4 when ex-Black Sox father Vinnie surprised him with a set of plastic clubs.
"I went down to a nine handicap but I've moved up to 10 with some crap rounds," says the right-hander who can make 100m approach shots dance with the flag on the greens.
Swanwick, whose father still coaches him with Henare, is hoping to become a top amateur before turning professional to claim a major crown on the PGA Tour circuit some day.
So how does he deal with pressure?
"I just clear my head, wake up and play my game.
"When I make mistakes I learn from them and try not to make them again."
At the age of 8, Swanwick went to the former Sharpies Driving Range in Hastings where Henare and Jasmine Smith honed his skills.
"Jasmine came here [Napier club] to drop off some players so I met her because I hadn't seen her for six years," he says of Smith who has returned to China where she mentors.
Swanwick practises four hours every day during the holidays but that comes down to an hour a day when school starts.
The level one player from the junior programme does 18 holes. He can handle wind but detests rain.
Last year he was first in the stableford section of the annual Kapi Tareha Memorial Tournament at Napier club.
He was runner-up in the stableford section of the Wairarapa Open, playing 36 holes each day.
"It's quite exhausting because the Matserton Golf club course is pretty hilly."
Does he intend to follow in the footsteps of his Black Sox pitching dad?
"I play softball but I had too much going on so I didn't play it," says the youngster who has been in the Golf HB junior academy for the past two years.
Charles will oversee their clinic from 8.30am at the club before the pro-am tees off on Monday.
