Taking on THE FORGOTTEN Open Championship course (incredible!)

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Oh, something [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] and here we are the forgotten open venue. So this has hosted the open championship only once in 1932 and it was a historic gamechanging major for many reasons which we’ll get into that Jean Saran completed the leg of his career grand slam over these historic lynxes down at princes. Now we’re on the south coast and we have illustrious neighbors. We’ve got Royal St. Ports and we’ve got Royal St. George’s host of multiple open championships. But it’s over these links where some very special events have played out. And that’s what we’re here to do today to discover what Prince’s has to offer. Now, it’s got three loops of nine holes. We’re doing the Himalayas and then the shore course. And that is the closest to the original open routing that we can get because, well, this course was struck by tragedy. It was effectively bombed out of existence, which we’ll get into again more during the round. We’ve got an amazing day. Got Jacob. We got Mick. We got Drone. Now, this is Scratch Golfer. We have our score goals. We’re actually on a bit of a run of golds. Like, I am playing some decent golf. I know. So, here are the score goals. 69. The Jean Sarah score is really the one that we want to try and get his best round during the 1932 Open. But realistically, we’re not thinking about score because that is an outcome goal, not a process goal. Play well, enjoy. I can’t wait to show you this golf course. I came down here about 10 years ago when they were completely redoing the Himalayas. It’s just such a cool part of the world. So, we played at Roll Sync Ports yesterday, which went straight into my top 10. They were so so good. And I don’t know, it just feels like a real special place. It’s easy to say and to feel I’m going to go get my clubs, by the way. Um, when it’s nice and sunny and you’re having a beautiful time, but yeah, it feels like a really special spot down here. Come back. Come back a bit. I think honestly I think that’s fine. It’s just a real bad angle in for that pin. I think it’s got to come over a bunker. Ah, okay. I tell you what though. Epic strike. I didn’t want to lose it left and I didn’t. I’ve got a good feeling about today. I’ve never ever ever been this confident on a golf course before. It’s so weird. So weird to actually think you’re a good golfer. That’s when golf will bite your back as well. Be 12 over today. You know how I said it was fine over here. It’s not. It’s not. It’s really not. Um so I’ve got an option really. I can either go for the pin or I can go left. The only problem with going left is out of town and I’m going to have to take a relatively full swing at this to try and shift it. So I’m going to go basically over the bunker. Going to try and play the distance. Nice firm grip. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. It was always a risk, but that’s the first bunker I’ve been in in the south. Reminder to self, hit fairways. Oh, wow. That was a soft bounce. That was a pretty soft bounce. All right, we’ve got a chance for a par. I think the absolute key for a course like this and as we learned from sink ports yesterday, just got to keep the doubles off. It’s all we got to do. Oh wow, put a break at the end. Started with a bogey. However, as everyone knows, that’s how all good rounds start. I just hate to start with a birdie. the worst. [Music] So, the line here is going to be the the lone tree with a with a touch of draw. I mean, the wind is it’s kind of like a bit weird. I think I almost felt like the wind on the last was more across, but I think it hurt a touch. Or if I cut it back into cuz that drive probably only went about 2 280 maybe, something like that. So this is going to be directly into Yeah, directly into. So I could probably use that as a touch of draw off that tree. Bring it round driver. It’s a straighter drive than that. Yeah, that’s good. Okay, we caught all the bit about the tower and just say I was aiming for that tree. All right, it’s a it’s a good drive. is a good drive. Well, I’m not entirely sure why. This is a proper proper par five. It’s been a while since I’ve played a par five and I’ve not been able to get anywhere near it into guys. It might be a layup. Might be a layup. Mini driver and just cut it into this wind a touch. Hell of a hole. So, like the Himalayas. So, it’s split into three nights. You got the Himalayas, the shore, and the dunes. And the Himalayas was being redesigned when I was here last year. So, was 10 years ago. And then the other two courses were done as well. Like to really bring you back to a a championship links. Interesting second. Wow. Brutal. Right at the pin with a cut back into the wind. This mini driver is absolute fuego. Literal flame. Go on then. Literal flames coming out of this club. [Music] Who’s editing the flaming torch? Die. 50 yards back into the wind. So, the wind is definitely more this way. Just like a lob wedge with spin. Going to pull to attention very, very quickly. Nice and aggressive. Nice contact. Yeah, it’s nice strike. Nice shot. Just needed a little bit more whip. Tragedies about this course, I suppose, is during the war, Second World War, the whole course was requisition by the army. And did they use it for housing troops? Did they use it for a hospital? Did they use it for something which wouldn’t damage this wonderful course? No. The RAF used it for bombing practice. Literally dropping bombs on the golf course. What was the quote before? It was like throwing darts at a Rembrandt. Hey, listen. Different time. I’m sure people had bigger priorities than uh than golf courses, but it’s good to see it back and hosting big events again as well. It’s got the Walker Cup in 2030. I was saying with Jacob that the Walker Cup is on a heater at the moment as far as courses. Well, like display the courses within the next is that 10 years pretty much it’s got of the Walker Cup courses. So, the elite men’s amateur comp. Unbelievable. Practice hard, kids. Ouch. It was a good put. It was a good put overall. Pretty well played hole. All I’m looking for within my golf at the moment is to be able to hit greens and give myself puts for birdies. If I do that, I’ll go I’ll go well cuz my putting is actually good. Guys, it is actually good. So, this is a replica of a Spitfire propeller and this is dedicated to Laddyy Lucas who was a World War II fighter pilot who was born in the clubhouse at Princes. His dad was the secretary and obviously this was all kind of military um at the time. So, he was born in the clubhouse, was a member here, was a member of parliament. He was a Walker Cup captain. Walker Cook captain. What else was he? Member of Parliament. Me? Yeah. Member of Parliament. Great chef. Could have been. I don’t know. And it’s basically saying here that after a fight, he was losing height. He had a damaged plane. Cockpit filled with smoke. The engine died and he glided the Spitfire back and landed pretty close to this spot. and his mate Henry Longghurse. He was the most fighter pilot sounding name I’ve ever heard in my life. Henry Longghers, wing commander, Spitfire Division, South Coast. Like sent him a telegram, driven out. Driven out of bounds again. Lucas, you old dog. So, different breed. Different breed. [Music] Now, this is what I love about good golf holes, and this is why I hate things being in the middle of a fairway. Okay, so it’s a shortish hole. We got like about 380 off this tea. You got these three gaping bunkers down the left, and you got thick roof and what looks like a little bit more wetland area to the right hand side. Wind coming off the left hand side as well. So, you have to hit this left, let the wind bring it back to the middle of the fairway. And in the middle of the fairway, if you hit it, you get rewarded. you get like a wedge into this green. If you have a bad shot left, you’re in trouble. If you hit a bad shot right, you’re in trouble. It’s just a stand up, hit a good golf shot. So, all you got to do, no tricks, nothing fancy, just got to hit a good one. I’m going to take a four iron. I’m going to aim at the last bunker on the left. I’m just going to allow this wind to drift it back. Hold. A bounce. Oh, sit, sit, sit. I think I got away with it. Just It was online with the kind of thick rough, but it bounced and it looked like it kicked forward rather than right. I I mean, the way he was bouncing, it definitely didn’t go kick right. So, fingers crossed. E, listen. We got Lady Lucas on our side. So, 130 yards, wind off the left, sat down a touch. So, I’m going to use my 48, which is a 49, and then effectively just hit about a 3/4 cuz I think it’s going to bound on. Wind off the left. I’m going to end between the bunker and the pin. Sit, sit, sit. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Now sit. That ball flight was everywhere. It went up here, got stalled, and then just got like battered down. Now that lie, didn’t really have much spin. Jeez, that was a roller coaster of emotions. I imagine that was just a fraction of how Laddyy Lucas felt when he was flying in the air out of control. Where’s it going to land on the green? Kind of down the slope pretty much left to right all the way. Transfer birdie in again. That’s all I want. Wow. It’s definitely downhill, but maybe just held into the wind a touch. Not my best effort that right. Good solid putt. Right, we are one over through three. This is a proper proper tester though. proper wind. I gusting about I think he said 20 mph gusting to 30. So strong breezes and the so the the holes on the Himalayas are very kind of mixed up. I think when we go on to the shore course that’s kind of like pretty much straight up and down. So we might see some longer drives but the wind is it’s going to be predominantly off the side today actually isn’t it? Coast here. Damn. Show this double green by the way. size of this. [Music] The line is going to be bang down the middle of the fairway here with a cup just to hold it into the breeze. Again, really good shot. So, if I hit a shorter club, it’s all going to feed left. Got to kick towards that bunker. And then with a longer drive, those bunkers on the right come into play. Just like a straight straight in front of you. Got to hit the shot. Golf is without doubt, like without doubt, without question, the greatest game in the world when things are going well. And it is the worst. The most heartrening, soul destroying, will crushing game when it goes badly. There’s nothing like it, is there? There’s no There’s nothing like it. 183 yards back into wind off the right. I think it’s like a low little 34 five. Yeah, you two are switching. He’s a He’s cursed. Jacob’s cursed, mate. He’s cursed. He’s honestly He goes up to a green and just pulls up like a force field around it. That flew into the deep doodoo. That’s going to be a provisional. Yeah. Take. See what I mean? You think I’m You think I’m joking. You think I’m joking. The boys are jinx. Have to use this second ball. So, this is up and down for a double. Just got to get it on the surface. It should roll down a little bit, but it is into wind. So, be fairly fairly aggressive with it. God, it’s come out weird. It’s come out so weird. Oh, things are not a thinging at the moment. I had a couple of them recently with a lot just kind of coming out in a bit of a weird direction. Something’s a miss technique wise though. It was a good It was a good put. However, that does mean there’s a triple bogey in four over par, which puts me really, really, really behind the CQ ball considering that’s only four holes. Wow. Ouch. Not been in this position before for quite some time. This is good. Good training. adversity. Fight it. Overcome it. You know the way we’re going to overcome it? Follow the process. [Music] Fifth hole. Feels like a lot’s happened so far. Um, this is a absolutely beauty of a par three. It’s only 150 yards. And this is like the backback TE’s as well. It’s pretty simple like it’s a raised green crowned. It’s quite a large green. And the big hazard here, as long as you get it over all this uh scrape area, is that massive looking pot bunker. Perfectly formed as well. That looks like a perfect circle, doesn’t it? How nice is that? Don’t want to go in that 151 off the left. Just a nice little fizzy 7. Should be good. It’s 160 to the back. All right, keep coming then. Keep coming. There must be a slope cuz there ain’t no way in hell I managed to put that much back spin on a seven iron. There’s a there’s a pretty substantial slope. However, that that was I think my first I think my first real pure strike of the day that I like this. I like this. It’s like a ch such a challenge to overcome now. Ah, relishing it. Really feel a lot to be honest. Straight put down this slope. What? By the way, what just happened at the end of that put? What the hell was that? What happened at the end of that putt? That ball had had 12 pints and just fainted into the back door. That is the kind of ball that you’re going to find in the morning just huddled on the kitchen floor. What just happened then? That was that was never in that was here all the way. It’s got to be like a wind. It must be. Yeah, they just I mean I suppose that’s the benefit of having good like dropping the ball at pace with the hole. There’s always a chance, but that was like that was such a side door. [Music] [Applause] It fell down a little bit. I’m not quite in the same zone that I was yesterday. So just kind of treat it as a comp for every shot properly. So here we’ve got it’s part five. It’s 570 off 560. Basically that bunker on the right hand side. That’s 300. So a little bit downwind off the left. Definitely in range. My line here is over these left bunkers cuz they’re all going to feed left to right. So I’m just going to hit it pretty straight over them. If it moves back a bit, that’s fine. Well, I’m not going to wait. It’s a longer drive than that today. Yeah, that’s huge. That’s That’s a really really big drive that How far is it? So, five. So, call it 560. We’ll see how far we got to the middle cuz you just hit a shot like straight away. When you hit it, you’re like, “Yep, that’s that’s great. That’s just really good. That’s fantastic.” All right, that is 385 yard drive. Hey, we’ll take it. It’s kind of confusing me about what to hit. I mean, that was a fantastic strike. Obviously, fairways baked out. One thing I’d say about this course, like Jacob, if you kind like turn around like just off the fairway here, there’s a lot of like hazard. A lot more than I expected. Like this is a regional open open qualifying venue. Then they kind of have final usually down at St. Paul’s down at St. Paul’s. just over there. This is tough. I think this is already I think this is a harder course than Singapore’s just from a sheer point of view of if you go offline, you’re more severely punished. Like we hit some some funky shots yesterday and realistically the rough we went into was light. And I’m not just saying that cuz I’m over right 180 yards downwind off the left. 79’s 170. It’s probably going to be too much. I’m going to switch up to a nine. I’m going to aim actually quite left of this pin cuz I think that pin’s on the right hand side of the green. Can you see where the green starts up to the left? It looks like it’s a huge slope. So, I can’t imagine that this ball is not going to kick and feed right. So, I want to be pitching this left of the pin, left of the bunkers. Feed feed feed. I’m not sure. Like I think that pins nearer the back. I think that’d be pretty good. I ate it exactly where I wanted to. Just shows like the power of the mind match with the power of the body. Do great things. All right. Come on. eagle putt. But that doesn’t matter. What the for what the putt is for has no input whatsoever on the process that you go through. Ow. Ouchie. Hey, on the last hole, that side of the hole gave me something. And this side is taken away. It was a good putt. It was a good putt. Just a touch too firm. Also, the easiest of birdies, which is nice, right? How’s that? How’s that for a scorecard? Bogey par treble birdie birdie. I like to think this is what Jean Sar would have done. We’re also going to find his bunker soon, aren’t we? Is that on the seventh? We’ll find this plaque in the bunker. So Jean Sarah when he won here on his way to completing the career grand slam, one of the first players to do that. Obviously Rory’s in the news having done it recently and this is going to be out after the PJ champs. So Jordan Spe, welcome to the club, buddy. But he invented a golf club. Literally invented a golf club to use at this tournament, which it was then kind of altered a little bit, but pretty much then universally accepted as a a massive jump forward in club technology. It was accepted as a massive jump forward in club technology to the point where it wasn’t even attempted to be banned. That’s how much people liked it. Like literally everyone said, “No, no, this is good and we want this. Thank you, Jean.” [Music] 75 yards. So, I’ve just got my nine again. Pretty much the same shot as last time. If this finishes just right of the pin, that’s not the end of the world. It catches the slope and moves left, it might finish in that collection area. Just a really solid pass through. That’s it. Wow. It’s huge. Yeah. I I kind of I pushed it a touch and I kind of think you might just hit um hit like a little bit of a down slope cuz it shot forward. Hoping it’s just a runoff area. Yeah, I’m screwed. I kind of thought to the right would be safer, but I’ve left myself. It’s not impossible, but I’m kind of hitting onto a downside when it gets on the green. And out the other side, the green’s obviously the other runoff area. So, this needs to be precise. I’ve got my lob wedge. I’m going to open it up pretty straight with the arms and the hands. Pivot upwards through. Just try and generate maximum amount of spin over a short distance. It’s into wind, so it should stop. That was good. That was good. It’s just nice hitting good shots every now and again, especially when you’re offline with your approach and you got to scramble. I mean, this is what this is what great Lynx courses offer as well. You don’t need like water or stupid hazards or like incredible bunkering. You just need a race green runoff areas and that is going to cause so many problems but also gives you the option to hit shots. Get off your soap box. Right. Wow. As far as up and downs go, I think the best the best I’ve had in quite some time. Just everything about that execution, flight, spin, good put, [Applause] [Music] right, eighth hole. Um, big double green. So that flag to the right, that’s the third. That’s the third hole to the right hand side. And then our flag here to the left. Massive double green. 303 yardsish. It’s kind of like a tricky one with the with the angle. I zapped it and it was about 300. I can probably just get there. The wind’s kind of into off the right. It’ll take a bounce. I’ll have to set it out right and then with a bit of a draw. Obviously, I’ve never played here before, but to my eye, and you can hopefully back me up here, mate. To the right hand side, that just looks like scrape. Yeah. So, if it stays right, it should be okay. To the left, there’s a hazard. So, not if you neck it. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Get a lie. Get a lie. Yeah, it’s bouncing. So, a necked it. So yeah, hit out the heel. So it spun into the wind. So it would have taken a lot of distance off it. But it was it it is the miss. It is the miss. And it should hopefully just give me a wedge onto the green. A little bit of a grabby line. I’m just going to have to play what is a long chip and run. 54. Use this slope in front to try and take a bit of steam off it. If I can just get this on the green, short of the pin. I think that’s a pretty good result. Sit. Sit. Came out so far left. I don’t know. Honestly, I am I am honestly not sure though. That just like shut out so hot and left. Well, couple options really. I can There’s a fair bit of room here. You can use a lob wedge into wind. Get a bit of check. Or I can just run it through this little I think this old bunker maybe. Sometimes I don’t need to say anything. Yeah, that was uh that was pretty good. All right. Well, I mean, I don’t know if that’s a really positive or a disappointing part. I think positive in the end. I mean, that was a great chip. Again, confidence. It’s disgusting. [Music] It’s either like a driver basically. See the the box on this tea? It’s like a driver over that even maybe a mini driver over that or a hybrid like at that right bunker cuz it’s going to release and the second’s going to be downwind anyway. I’m just thinking just a hybrid. It’s certainly the biggest landing area. It’s pretty much perfect. I think it should be great. Should be great. I caught it just like slightly towy as well. So, it took off a took off a touch of spin. So, that should be bounding down there. I’d be surprised. So, that’s 426. I’d be surprised if that’s not like a two 280 290 hybrid, which is it’s one of those things that I wonder what my shots go stats are going to be like after because I I’m going to gain probably about three strokes on that 380 yard drive I just hit. Yeah. And then on this whole short one, I just fanned it 260 into the wind. It’s like it’s not really going to understand what’s going on. Yeah, I think it’s 138 middle, but this green is massive. Yeah. So, 150 down off the left though, so it’s probably still only 49 degree. We’ll be in uh that bunker in the left. Hopefully not after this shot, but just a just a chat about Jean Sar and the thing he invented here. So, 48 degree. Kind of want to be hitting this just on the edge of Sar’s bunker and let the wind Bring it back round. Just a nice smooth one. Don’t just go crazy with it. Come up and out of it. Sit. Sit. Another runoff area. So, actually, that’s a poor shot. I’ll dwell on it here before I forget about it. That’s just an open That’s just an open club face. H. So in the 1932 Open, Jean Saran turned up with a new type of golf club. The beginnings of what is a sand wedge. So before that point when people got into bunkers, the edge of the club they were using, we’ll throw some old images of clubs here. It was very sharp. So you hit into the sand or you hit into the grass and it didn’t really come out. It just dug and you had to force it through. A lot of snapped hickory shafts ensued back in the day. But what Saran did and which is just it seems so simple now, but it seems so genius is he stuck what he called a flange on the back of his wedge or mashy or whatever it was called back then. And all it was is just placing more metal at the back of the club and also had it slightly raised. So this was the beginning of bounce angle. Now, bounce angle is the difference in the angle between the leading edge and the bottom of the sole. Now, what happens if you enter sand with some bounce angle, the leading edge won’t dig because what will happen is the bottom of the sole will guide the club back out of the sand. So what Saran did was invent a club that when he got in areas like this that was costing his fellow competitors shot after shot after shot, he was more easily able to get out onto the green and hopefully hold a putt. Seems so simple and yet it completely revolutionized the way that people play bunker shots. Completely revolutionize the way wedges are made and designed. All from a simple idea here at Princes. It’s great. just thinned it. Yeah, that’s just what hit the bottom of my underwear at the top of the swing then. Oh, wow. Can’t I can’t really do a lot about that. have been rolling pretty well. That took a detour there. Okay, bogey to finish and three over on the front nine. So, you know, not my sterling best, but I actually think after that treble, things could have gone south pretty quick. And that was a to front nine. Like the amount of trouble, the amount of thick rough, the amount of water hazards on on there really took me by surprise. Now we’re going on to the shore course, which is a little bit closer to the what? You you too. Hey, you smart little boys made me so proud. You know, I was really looking forward to sausage roll and my acid started kicking off coming down there after that Nature Valley bar. Not Nature Valley Bar, whatever it’s called. Jordan cardboard crap. Maybe if maybe if I like overacid myself. That work? Yeah. I mean, I have to listen to you for the next two hours. So, maybe not. If I get a sausage roll and like try and drown myself in acid, maybe I’ll build up uh tolerance. That’s how it works, isn’t it? Exposure. Who Who’s that? It was that king of story old who like poisoned himself uh repeatedly day after day with different poisons. Uh so so he couldn’t be assassinated. This guy sounds and then eventually well and then eventually when the armies were at his door he tried to kill himself and he couldn’t. Who is that? Anyway, I tell you what like a history tour on this 9 driver gets me past all the trouble. Um, to the right looks deep, so I’m going to aim just to the right of the left bunker. Just smash it down that left channel. Kick left a bit. Uh, I didn’t see it bounce, but if that’s anything less than 360 yards, I’ll be surprised. Utter nutted. Utterly nuttily. My new protein bar. It’s coming out. Yeah. Absolutely bomb of a drive again. 80 yards. Right. Half a swing with the lob. Spin. Sit. Sit. Sit. Oh, a double hands up from Jacob. That’s either means I’ve hit it into the pavilion for six or he thinks it’s a good shot. So, it’s pretty straight. We need to take account something I wasn’t really doing on the front line. We need to take account for wind cuz it is like gusting across. It’s a straight P, but I’m just going to go inside. Right. Don’t want to give the hole away. All right. What a really good way to start the bag nine. But quite frankly, it doesn’t matter because I’m so deep in the process right now. I am process. Crap. MC name. That would be MC Process. Just like raps about being efficient and not thinking too far into the future. Yeah. What would What would MC Process rap about? Spit some bars. [Music] I think drive just kind of over this bunker here. Like I might Well, if I catch a good one, I will get to that second bunker on the left. If it just moves slightly right, should be fine. I should have enough to get past the one on the right if it if it catches the fairway first. Ah, miss it somehow. I’ll be in that bunker. I think it must be in that bunker. But if that had missed, oh my god, that would have been the furthest drive of the day. That was nuclear. Well, I am in the bunker. I must admit, I’d almost prefer this not to be on an ups slope because then it would make my decision a lot easier. I’m quite close to the lip. But that big bunker, the cross bunker there to get over that. We’re looking at 150. Um the front of the green is 190. So there’s a bit of room there. If I can get cuz it’s downwind. If I can get an aine on this with a touch of draw off that top. I’m I’m more thinking as well like the the lip of this. It kind of feels if I hit into it, it should like bounce up and go forward. It’s a calculated risk. It’s a It’s a par five. Can I get there? Ah, yeah. It was always going to be on the edge, but it’s fine. I I’ll still only have a wedge in now, but it needed to be like if that was going to work, it needed to be perfect and it wasn’t. It’s okay. Still a chance. I don’t know if that was calculated risk or just being a idiot, but didn’t work out too bad. So, we’ll call it calculated risk. Yeah. 143 yards away. It’s downwind. Tricky number really. Like 140 is like a proper full 49 degree. I I don’t think I’ll be able to get there with a 54 degree. So it is a 49. I think I just need to take a touch off it with a cut. So if I want to land it, see those bushes at the back? I b want to land it in between them with a bit of cut spin to bring it back down towards the flag. Oh. Oh, it looks so good. A tiny bit short and not like a kick. That that looked felt. Everything about that was literally bang on. Okay, shots gone. Average. Very average. I am getting better at putting. I am getting better at putting. Well, after all of that, that felt like the most dramatic five on a par five on ages. All right, one under for this nine. There’s a long way to go. All right, 175. Really nice looking par three winds into off the right. So I think I’ve got a choice of hitting like a little six, a little six, lower six, but aiming kind of at the right edge of the green and letting the wind bring it or I am a five iron a little bit closer to the hole with a fade. That’s the shot I think I want to hit. But that shot that cost me the triple bogey on the front was that kind of little fade five. What shot? It was on the front n triple bogey. It was on the fourth hole. I don’t know if you know, but it’s gone now. It’s I’m not Listen, I could I could try to forget about shots, but like something stick in the memory. You know what I mean? I’m going to go I’m going to hit I’m going to hit the five iron shot. Like that is the right shot. But I’m just going to take a little bit more of Podrick Harrington’s advice here and just if I’m going to hit a fade, hit a fade. Just go in. Stay on the green. Oh god, that was good. I’ve hit an excellent shot. That was a really good shot. Just too much club. It’s going to break a little bit left of the hill and then it’s going to break back to the right as it gets to the hole. And I’m kind of thinking one each way. Hello. Oh. Oh. Hey. Anyone like a good spasm in their ass, don’t they? That’s great. That’s great. Yeah, right at the top of the cheek. Could have been worse. Hold that line. Hold that line. It’s going to go. I knew it was going to go. It just didn’t move enough this way. Good put, though. Over the years of doing these videos and obviously like doing the these standalone standalone vlogs, I think I have mastered the art of having a full conversation with myself over the space of only a few seconds. We don’t answer you very often. Like not completing the full sentence, but getting enough in that people know what I’m talking about. Thanks, You know what? In the end, that’s a good P. It was a great T-shot. That was a good put on a tough hole. Look at this. We literally have That is That is literally asparagus. Is that the be just kicked? Look at that. Yeah, 100%. It’s like sea asparagus different. Great in a stir fry. I’ve never seen like asparagus in the wild. No freaking way. Got our mascot. We’ve got our mascot for the day. This has just been brutally kicked to death by Jacob. But we’ve got we’ve got some asparagus. Oh yeah, I’ve got it. Yeah, I see like that hut in the distance. It’s just to the left of that. I mean, it was bouncing. There was like a Oh, yeah. I’ve tightened up here somewhere chronic. Oh, this is what about 12 hours of driving does in two days. and a round of golf and some boogieing in Ramsgate. I’d have loved it if this was a back pin. It’s more of the front. So, it’s 104. The lie is fine, but it’s if I hoist it. I really wanted to like almost land this short, but it looks like there’s a big false uh There’s loads of river. Yeah, I don’t know if it just I think it doesn’t look like it does any loads anyway. I think it’s just a lob wedge and I try and land it kind of around 95 and hopefully it just stops. If it rolls on a bit past the pin, it’s not the end of the world. I got pretty lucky with the drive. So, that kick didn’t look very friendly. All right, pin high. You know what that means? Not a sign of quality ball striking for a bit. That actually wasn’t a very good putt. I didn’t trust it to begin with. And I think because I didn’t trust, I hit it harder to try and count. Well, coming past the hole, didn’t look like it did a massive amount. Well, it’s a four. My par putting still remains exemplary. [Music] Exemplary. Yeah. Like picture. Exemplary. Exemplary. Exemplary. Exemplary. Exemplary. Exemplary. Exemplary. [Music] It’s either like a a drilled pitching wedge or like a little chippy nine. I’m just going to chip a nine. It’s going to really feel like a little chippy nine. Too bad. Kind of straight away just ballooned up a little bit. It’s okay. I mean, the the biggest issue with this hole is short left, so kind of got away with it, but I wouldn’t say I was ever completely comfortable on that. Let’s get back into the process. Yeah, over that shot, I was a bit Is this the right club? Wasn’t fully Wasn’t fully committed. Go, go, go. Some big bobbles halfway. That wind was definitely moving it that way. Come on. Come on. Come on, Pete. That is a scrappy for that. No positives to take from that hole. But don’t really matter, does it? Cuz it’s gone there. Yes. Shot scope. I had three putts. [Music] So, I think we could be able to get relatively close to this green. I reckon I could go quite straight at the green. Uh, it’s just semi- rough down there. If I manage to get enough carry, it’ll be great. And if it flares out to the right, there’s actually a fair bit of room. Like, if it finishes on the hook, like that’ll be okay. Just make sure you’re not doing this because of that three put, would you? Yeah, you would. You would play this shot. Oh be good. It was straight at it. Kind of losing it a little bit with the glare. I could I could not have hit that any better. Little draw. Get kind of back into the wind. If that’s got a good kick, that’ll be close. Right. It’s just short the green. This used to be the 18th green before we go before we get off the History Channel. This used to be the 18th. That used to be the 18th green there. The practice green. This used to be old clubhouse. Right. Come on. It actually feels like a relatively flat port, but um I’d be shocked shocked if the wind doesn’t push it gradually to the right. We’re just going to end just outside left up the slope a lot. Actually hit that quite hard. Well, it’s a birdie chance, but it’s a good six and a bit foot short. Not ideal. All right, good bounce back. Ah, felt a bit of extra bit of extra added pressure there as well. ladies watching on the patio. And like you said, my underwear was poking out a little bit too much on display. [Music] I’m going to down the middle. Try and cut it to hold it against the breeze. A link golf. It’s just the best. Come on, wind. Come on. Just give me a bit. Bit more. Ah, how good’s that now? Wow. I was flirting up the right, but he got a nice few kicks to the left. It’s perfect. Now, 129 yards. I’m on a little bit of an up slope, so ball’s going to go a little bit higher and probably pull a little bit left. So, I’m just wondering whether to use that or to fight against it. I was going to use a nine iron and just let the wind bring it back. Just like a like a 3/4 swing cuz it will be killed a little bit in its initial flight. That was the shot. That was the shot. I really need to figure out how to celebrate. Oh, no. No. It’s definitely It’s definitely a goal for weakness. It’s definitely a goal for weakness, but I do find myself quite weak at this as well. It feels like a touch right or left and it’s just the wind. The wind is battering across this way. So, this is a high green exposed. It has to be moved. It has to be moved by the wind. So, I’m just going to give it a touch more. Just a touch more. really hope that the wind will bring this back. Sorry that that was my worst part of the day. I like I just shoved it. Absolutely shoved it. What a shame. What a really good second shot in. I was I was getting in my head. so much about that. Two to go. Come on. Two to go with two over par. It’s a tricky one cuz par five, if I hit a fade back into this breeze, it’s obviously going to take quite a bit of distance off. And it looks like on the left and I’ll need your reassurance here, Meg. That looks like the shortest semi on the course. like it’s cut. Yeah, I’m going to take aim at that right bunker. I’m just going to try and fizz it. If I overdo it, hopefully he’ll miss that bunker and if not, I’ll go to the semi on the left. It’s probably my best drive of the day, I think. Sit. That was great. That was really good. Loosening up a bit again. Yeah, I wanted to get into like fitness and like supplements, make my own. Maybe this is me. Asparagus. Asparagus oil. Now, this says to me mini driver. My only concern I’m on like a bit of an ups slope and if I actually if I thin this a bit, I reckon it’ll probably uh it’ll like ramp off this. So, and if that happens, it’ll probably be okay, but it’ll also dive out the air and then run with it an incredible amount of top spin. So, come on, wind. Help me. Help me. Help me. Help me. Yeah. This. So, basically, I just want that nice little layup. Leave myself just just a wedge in. That’s what I was going for. My eyes involuntarily closed at the top of my swing then. How’s that work? You know what? If it have worked, I’d probably kept doing it. This angle probably not going to affect it too much. So, just going to go in with half a half a lob wedge. Just let the wind take it rather than um rather than hold it. That’s it. Okay. Thumbs up. I’ve decided part of my process is trusting that Jacob is not a bad luck champ. There’s committed and then there’s you should be committed. I’ve hit that like a driver. Ah, not I have not stuck in the process today. I didn’t treat that like an ordinary P. I treated that like it’s Come on, get a birdie. Yeah. And hey, it’s a par. But it’s just annoying stuff like that. Trying so hard not to think in those terms. But golf just makes you crazy. [Applause] This is only hosted one open. You got the three nights. There’s absolutely no way that you wouldn’t be able to make like an open venue from all these holes. This course just shows like there’s such like a a strength and depth to Ling’s courses. And like one of the biggest problems with a lot of Link’s courses is the parcel of land that they sit on is generally quite small. Look at all the space you’ve got here. Got so much space. Come on, princess. Wow. It’s fed a long way left. I think I think it’s okay. Probably should have paid a little bit more attention to the way that fairway slopes. A that fantastic as well. Now, I hope that’s okay. I’ll be very annoyed if I’ve just did a really good drive. How long did I hold my finish for? So long by the time I got back to you, still hold a hopefully I don’t look a fool. Just want to say a massive thank you for watching. By the way, uh it’s been an amazing few days down here and I think by the time this comes out, we’ll have had so many comps take place and we’re going to be nearing open qualifying. Just I don’t know, year is accelerating at such a frenetic pace. Um we’re absolutely fine here by the way. The fairway kind of all kicks down. It’s like a little bit of a runoff soft area. I’m just on the very edge. 115. Can’t see the bottom of the pin. seem like a massive bowl. Let’s just make a committed swing. Don’t matter about the result. 115. Come on. Come on. Wow. I was trying to uh trying to get that moving with a little bit of a draw and then let the wind do the rest of the work, but that was either just a a bit of a block or a push. Just stayed out to the right. That was a good pop. Well, as we close to two overpar, massive, massive thank you to Princes for being such incredible hosts. It’s going to be an amazing Walker Cup when it’s held here. And who knows, who knows, we might get the open back here one day. See you next time.