The antics of Daniel Kuzeff attracted 11,636 watchers to the Prime7 show, down from 14,308 for the program on the previous Sunday night.

Nevertheless, Holey Moley was the second highest rating show on the Border on Sunday night, behind Seven News, and defeated the Australian Open tennis.

Mr Kuzeff reached the final of the show, which involves competitors playing tricked-up mini-golf holes on a television set.

He lost to a red-headed rival from Queensland, Tom Kunkel, after missing a short putt and then knocking another player's ball as he dramatically flung himself to the ground.

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Mr Kuzeff was portrayed as Mr Enthusiastic and spent time talking to his ball to the annoyance of American co-host Rob Riggle who at one stage said he hated him.

"I'm not always that energetic, as soon as the cameras were on I was bouncing," Mr Kuzeff said.

"You never know how they're going to cut it or what they will say, all I knew was that I had to be as enthusiastic and energetic as possible.

"(Riggle's) a nice guy but he's got to do things for TV and the show and I accept that for what it is, a bit of a laugh."

Mr Kuzeff's experiences over three holes were filmed over three nights and included him jumping successfully on to the back of an ersatz shark to reach the green of one hole.

"I was pretty thrilled to land on the shark but it hurt quite a bit because it's made of fibreglass and it felt like concrete," he said.

"The guy they were filming before me landed on it and had eight broken ribs and could not continue."

Mr Kuzeff had been asked to give his best Albury-Wodonga accent during filming, but that was edited out of the final show.