Can’t believe this is a public golf course

Can’t believe this is a public golf course

Today, I promise you, I will break 75. That’s my promise. We’re here at Live Golf Chicago at Bowling Brook Golf Club. Um, kind of west of Chicago, about 45 minutes. Uh, I’m excited to play this golf course. It’s a beautiful morning. And watch this drive. Par 4, opening hole. Normally a par five, actually, but the plan is a par four. Come on, let’s play well today. Oh yes, that’s how you start a golf video. That’s how you start a break 75 video. Feeling pumped today. I’ve been practicing. I hit loads of golf shots yesterday. And I’ll be honest with you, in the series so far, going to all the different live golf courses around the world, I’m disappointed to say I’ve only broke 75 once in Mexico. I’ve hit 75 a couple of times. Uh I’ve had a lot of mid to high 70s. I’ve had an 80 at Miami. Had an 81 in Valdderama. Had a 79 in last week’s episode at JCB. But today, we’re gonna fight. We’re going to play well. I’m going to give it everything I possibly have. I’ve been playing some good golf. The drive has been not my friend recently, but I did lots of practice this last couple of days. And uh by the way, check out this whip. Little drop top golf cart. Come on, Balling Brook. Let’s see what you’ve got. And let’s play some incredible golf today. I’m feeling it. Now, the biggest protection of this golf course is water. Uh there’s apparently there’s not many trees and I mean there’s enough trees but that’s not it biggest protection compared to somewhere like Valdder Armor in Spain a few weeks ago. This feels like wide open but there’s lots and lots of water so we’ve got to avoid that. Um we’re playing the course and they must have switched the order around for the liver vent cuz we’re actually starting on the 10th. Um and on the which hole is it now? It’ll be about the fifth or sixth hole. this incredible island green par three which looks awesome. Proper Island Green and lots of other things going on. So, I’m excited. Come on, Rick. I feel pumped today. I need to have a good round. I’m going to I’m going to give it everything I’ve got. Try as hard as I can. And I’ve honestly I’ve absolutely split the fairway down number one. Oh, that felt so good. Okay, 183 yards. Uh, just going to rifle a seven at it. If it’s there, it’s really good. I think it’s there. I think it’s there on the first hole. Come on, Rick. Let’s have it today. Okay, birdie put here on number one. Slightly left to right put. I’d love to start with a birdie. I would love nothing more. Just needed hitting. Good positive signs there though. Great drive. Beautiful iron shot. And we flirted with the hole for a birdie. Come on then, Rick. Let’s have it today. Okay, second hole. 396 yards. The water is its biggest protection on this golf course. We have to stay away from the wet stuff. Left side of the fairway would be perfect. Not that left. Get down ball. Okay. Not sure what’s over there, but it’s not it’s not to the right. It’s a bit too far left. Okay. after pulling it left off the tea. 151 yards. I’m actually technically in a hazard because the red line’s here. But I suppose doesn’t really matter, does it? Cuz you can ground your club these days. Um, probably just need to land this maybe about 145 yards. Grab a bit. I think it landed on the green. I’m not sure if it stayed on the green. I might just have a little chip from the front edge. Okay, interesting little green this. It all kind of slopes away. Slopes aggressively to the right and also kind of front to back. We just found the front edge of the green again. I feel like I’ve been chipping a lot lot better, but just not getting it like ridiculously close. So, every chip today, I’m going to really try and focus on holding it. Really pick a good landing spot. Yeah. Eight out of 10. All right. Two pars on the card. Let’s go. Okay. Third hole. Par five. 562 yards again. Water all down the right. Don’t quite know the line I can cover it on, but let’s just rip it and see what happens. Oh, get legs. Get legs. Splash. Splosh. It’s the first water ballers around. Okay, maybe that’s too aggressive of an a line. Third shot. Oh, that’s too safe of a line. Oh, it’s going to be a long way from there. Uhoh. Things were going great for two holes. Oh, I need to do something with my driving. It’s weird. It’s weird at the moment. I feel what I’m what I’m trying to develop is a one-way miss. I don’t want to ever hit the ball left off my T- shots, which I’ve been doing a lot recently. So all my practice last few days has been working on almost like pretending there’s a brick wall down the left hand side of the hole and trying to move it off that brick wall. So my first he shot as it sounds wasn’t that bad. Like I moved it off that wall. It just went too far right. Yeah. So I just need to if I can work on that then I think we we’re in for a good some good hitting. It’s just when you can’t miss right like that there gets a little bit gets a little bit harder. Okay, this is this is when it rains it pours situation. I’ve gone in the bunker which is a bad T-shot but then I’ve gone right up against kind of the left hand lip which is making this very very very difficult. I’m about 280 yards away. I might genuinely have to hit it on that other fairway over there. Oh my goodness. Okay, try and bash a five iron over there. [Laughter] That is literally a trick shot. It’s never good when you’re hitting your fifth shot into a par five with a 3-wood. Uh, and I I don’t even know if I can get there. I can’t actually see the flag, but it’s number three just over there. So, that’s indicating that’s where the green is. Oh, what a golf shot that is, though. It’s up there. It’s going to be near the green. Got to get up and down for a double. Okay, no need to panic. It’s all part of the game plan. A golf e. What a game. What a humbles you. That’s what it does. It really humbles you. Um, by the way, just a quick one. Thanks for all the love recently on all the the videos. Um, Jules was super successful. Loads of great comments on that. Really enjoyed doing it. It’s quite stressful. Probably the most stressful video I’ve ever made on the channel just with all the logistics, getting people over, planning everything. Um, obviously filming one of our biggest videos ever. The editing team did an incredible job to pull the video together at such a high standard. So, it was just it was a it was a real task which I think came out great in the end. So, really happy about that. Really proud of the guys. Okay, just in the thick thick rough. Wow. Look how juicy that is. Come on. Let’s get up and down from here. Whoa. Oh my goodness. gone through the other side. This is brutal. I mean, you you one and a half ft off the green and you’re in this real juicy rough stuff. Oh, wow. This is got this for got this for an eight. Oh, this feels very serious so early in the round. Come on for an eight. Wow. Wow. Can’t remember the last time I made a nine. I say now it’s not in the hole yet. You know what it was? You know what my problem was? I talked way too positively on the first tea. Okay. Work to do. Lots of it. Okay. Okay. Breathe. Relax. Everything’s okay. Four over through three. Everything’s okay. You know what? This just te’s up for the most epic comeback you’ve ever seen in your life. Fourth hole. Four iron. It’s going to have to go a bit. Just Just chunked it a touch. Okay, this this is this is a tricky little shot. And that was pretty well executed. All right. Come on, Shieldy. Much needed put. That is a That is a phenomenal up and down if I do say so myself. Okay, fifth hole. 400 yards on the nose. Um feel like fairways key on this golf course. I’m going to try and find a few fairways and hit 3wood. I It looks nice and open down there to be fair. Really nice. Yeah, very nice. 116 yards to the pin. It’s actually really well placed to bunker this cuz it’s banked up quite high. So, it’s actually a blind second shot. I think a lot of the guys will go way further left off this tea, which brings the water in play. However, means you got a clear shot at the green. Uh 116 yards. I’m pretty much going straight at the number five at the TV tower behind. If it falls down just left of it, it’s gonna be really good. Not that far left. Oh, Ricky Shields. I think that’s going to miss the green. Ah, I should have come and looked at this green because you couldn’t miss left. Way more room right. And it all actually banks down that way. Lesson learned. My mission is to chip one in today. Needed more speed. Little bit left to right. Slightly up the hill. Oh, really could have done with that. Oh, bogey from the middle of the fairway is never nice. How’s this for a party hole? Look at that. Island green par three. The tea is surrounded by grandstands. Wow, this is awesome. I can imagine some booze if players hit the water. And imagine the scenes if someone got a hole in one. Okay, 162 yards. I’m going to hit an eight iron. Come on. Just a lovely golf shot straight between the number six and the flag. In my head, I’ve made that nine. I have, but in my head, I’ve not made it on the scorecard. I’ve made it, granted, but like in my head, I’m one over. I’ve made that bogey on the last. So, let’s see if I All I want to do is try and shoot under par and one over. That’s my new mindset. Think it’s going to be safe, but it’s a little bit Stay on the green. Yeah, it’s on the green. Just a little bit left and safe. There is definitely going to be a holding one on this green this this week. Oh my god, it’s going to be awesome round here at the weekend. I don’t think this would have got any cheers, but it wouldn’t have got any booze. Okay, big put up the hill. Once it gets over about halfway, it’s rapidly downhill. Can’t stay short. No. I thought I was going to be rapid down that hill. I honestly thought I’d hit a perfect putt. Then once it got to about here, I was like, that is really good. Oh, I thought it was going to be rapid down this hill. Obviously, the greens aren’t quite at tournament speed yet. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Down the hill. Right to left. Come on, Rick. Please. Let’s go. Let’s get it in the hole. Oh, Ricky. Come on. Don’t do this to me. Don’t make bogeies from there after hitting the green. Right. Score update. Six holes played. Six over par. Seventh hole. 440 yard par4 downwind. Just need to settle myself. I I this I can make birdies around this course. I can just need to trust myself. Right. Come on. Big drive. Find the fairway. Knock it close. Find a bit of the fairway. Yeah, it’s going to be left rough, but nothing crazy. I must admit, it’s a slices nightmare this golf course. Yesterday on the range, all I tried to do was slice it. I’m just trying to fix that left shot so much. I was just trying to hit these like big aggressive cuts. But then you come out here on a golf course where right you’re l in the water. Ah, it’s really messing with my head. I don’t know which way to try and hit it. Straight would be the answer. Okay, just left rough pin. Looks like it’s just over the the bunker as well. So, just going to have to stop quite quick. 164 yards, but slight down breeze. It’s pin eye, but it’s just off the right side of the green. Okay, pin eye just in the rough. Little chip. Land on the green. Roll up. Drop in. Land on the green, Rick. Oh, making this hard work. Oh, Rick. Just three bogeies from nowhere. Okay, we’re on the bogey train. Okay, eighth hole. Uh there’s literally just water everywhere. Three bunkers down there on the left. I’m just going to go for the middle one. We need to We need to really do something here now. Ah, left 220 yards into this par four again. Water all down that right hand side. I’m going to try and cut a three iron in there. Went dead straight to where I aimed. Oh, nice kick. Okay, just off the side of the green. Come on, let’s be serious, Rick. Until the day I die, if I can put, I will put. Okay, for par. Rick, come on. This is a big deal. We’re back. Okay. Nightthole. Quite a theme going on with this golf course. Water right is the theme. It’s got to hit it straight. Come on, Rick. Let’s Let’s hit Forget the water. The water’s not even there. Okay. Pick a line and smash it straight at it. It’s pretty good. Go on. Get on the fairway. We are on the fairway. This might be one of the weirdest rounds of golf I’ve ever had. Like h when I think about this, how am I actually seven over through eight when I’ve actually feel like I’ve played some really nice golf shots? Ah, funny old game cuz sometimes you can play and actually I’ve played and hit it way worse than this and score better. But again, I know I know my nine doesn’t doesn’t help me. Suppose if I would have part that hole, I’d only be three over. I suppose I’ve got to think of it that way really. And even that three over is just three bogeies from nowhere. Nice drive. Middle of the fairway just in this little bowl where this grid is. So I’ve got a slight uphill um lie 167 to the pin. Come on. Let’s put one close the number. Be good. Yeah. pin high at 10 foot away, 12 foot away. Again, a little bit outside 10 feet. However, this is this is makeable. Not a lot of break down the hill, then back up the hill. Oh, I really thought I was going to turn left just that little bit. It actually stayed pretty straight. I’m not going to take too much time over them. Okay, listen. Very, very entertaining front nine of golf. Let’s just let’s just leave it at that. It had everything. High hopes, shattered dreams, and everything in between. We got nine holes left to to conjure up a outrageous comeback. Let’s go deep this back nine. Come on. Okay, welcome back to break 75 everybody. Uh, brand new video. Um, front nine. We’re kind of just going to leave over there somewhere. Uh, brand new back nine. Let’s So, the goal for this bat n shoot on the par. Okay. I’m I’m not the score in the corner. Delete. We’re back to level par. That’s in my head anyway. Then we’ll just add it all up at the end. You know what I mean? Have a bit of fun with it. 10th hole. Pretty much dead straight. 430 yards. Let’s go and shoot underpower this nine holes of golf. There she is. Oh, that’s what I’m supposed to do. I mean, it’s pretty easy when you’ve got no water right or left and you can just bomb it anywhere. Okay. After one of my best drives I’ve ever hit, ever 322 yards and literally the pitch mark is right next to the ball. That definitely didn’t take a huge bounce and run 50 yards. Uh, I’ve got 111 yards. I’m just going to I’m just going to shoot lights out this nine holes. Five birdies is the goal. Sand wedge. Going try and break every pin. No, Rick, don’t miss it. Okay, chipping again. It’s fine. I need my practice chipping. Okay, I’m going to start this bat nine. Well, this not even a bat nine. This is just nine holes. Start it with the chipping birdie. Almost. Okay, everyone stay calm. Everything’s fine. I must I can see why they’ve switched the order of the course around. I It’s a It’s a great first hole for the normal golfer. Nice and friendly, nice and wide. But for the guys playing, I mean, it’s a shotgun start to be fair, but this will play the unless there’s an easy hole, this will play the easiest hole this week. They’re just going to hit driver, flick a wedge in. It’s a small green, but they’re going to make so many birdies. Okay, level par. Here we go. Rocking on track. Okay, 11th hole. Very similar distance to the first to the last hole. Sorry, the 10th. Um, just another good bomb drive we need. Very nice. Oh, these are the drives I needed on the first nine. I mean, what first nine? But anyway, it’s the drives we needed. 126 yards. I do like this course. It’s I feel like it’s a course I could play a lot and I feel like it’s a course I could eventually excluding any nines. I could actually score really well around 126 yards. Nice gap wedge. Just I just want like a tapping birdie. Travel a bit. The is that How did that I missed the green? What? That was so weird. Okay, Rick. This is where I’m at home. Just off the green. Put her in my hand. This is This is living for me. Oh, it’s low. I always just started a bit low. Okay, level par. Doing really well. So, that was level par through the first two holes. Okay, 12th hole, par five, 621 yards. Just rin just copy and paste the first two drives. I’d be very happy with that. It’s pretty good. Mr. Bunker, missed the bunker. Oh, it might have might have just caught that bunker on the right. Really nice drive, though. Wasn’t wasn’t disappointed with it at all. Y okay. It feels a little bit like deja vu. The third hole scupping me in a bunker. So I did sit in the water before that. I’m just going to hit seven iron. Get myself back in play. It’s a long par five anyway. Perfect. I like playing golf like this. Kind of a little bit of a cocky swag in my step for someone who’s had such a bad front nine. But I’m just going to I’m just going to just going to attack this bat n. You know what I mean? Show it who’s boss. Okay. 132 yards into this par five. And this is going to go stone dead. Spin right a bit. Yeah. Getting a little thumbs up from Ed. Okay, our first probably since the first hole. Decent looking birdie, but this has got a lot of break in it. It’s a fascinating green. It’s so sloped from back from front to back. I just hit it through the brake. Oh, I just hit it too hard. Okay, three pars to start this back nine. Okay, par three. And I mean, it looks fairly straightforward. 150 yards. Bunker at the front. Pin front left. Come on. One good solid iron shot to with inside 5 ft. That was embarrassing. That was such I hit about 4 in behind the ball. Oh yeah. Yeah. Golf, right? Not particularly played the par threes that well today. That That’s a lie. That’s a lie. Okay. Just 20 yards short of the green. It’s just a like textbook three. Do you know what I mean? It’s like it’s always going to be a three. Solid three. Level parat nine. I mean this nine. The only nine you’re going to see the other nine. Just skip through that bit. Okay. That was ridiculous. Okay. 14th hole. Another par five here on the on this bat nine. Uh 600 yds on the nose. I mean this is literally green light for some of the bombers. Like Bryson’s gonna be absolutely tunking it down this hole. Let’s do my Let’s do a Bryson impression. That’s a really good drive. Very nice. Okay, second shot into this par five. 299 yards away. Um, I’m just going to rip a 3-wood. I don’t I can’t get there, but we can get close. We can do our best. Just not nice not to be in a bunker on a par five. Oh, don’t you dare go in that bunker. I think it’s all right. I think it’s finished. Just short. Okay, just short of the green in two here on this par five. Be really nice to just wedge this close and maybe in. Do you know what I mean? Not asking for too much. Beautiful. Run out. Run out. And nip that really nicely. Not Not disappointed at all with that. That was a lovely strike. Come on, Rick. One time. One time for the Chicago Massive to get under path for this nine. Little down the hill right to left. Fun time for the Chicago Massive. Come on. Big. Big. This isn’t over yet. This game isn’t over. Come on. Fighting hard. One under for this nine. Overall, doesn’t matter. One one under for this nine. Okay. 15th hole, 342 yards. Again, I think some of the guys might have a crack at this come tournament week or well this weekend here in Chicago. I’m going to go 3-wood and I’m going to go at the HSBC sign. Wind off the left, water on the left. That is really nice. Wow. Really nice. Even if I say so myself, that was perfect. All things considering today, I’ve actually played some really nice golf. Like some really, really solid golf. It’s not been the best. Obviously, the third hole was a nightmare, but all things considering, there’s been some really good golf shots in here today. Just need more of them. Be nice to Nice to get another birdie here. Back to back birdies. 80 yards. Slightly into breeze. Come on. This is This is green light. This has got to be close. sit really hard. Oh, just bottom groove. Bottom groove. Slightly thin. It had a chance of grabbing and stopping, but it’s just ran off the back. That wasn’t agonizingly close. Just landed there, but just a little bit clean. If it would have landed a foot short, it probably landed and spun back. Ah, sat quite nicely just over the back of the green here. You know what? I said I was going to chip in this round. Why? Why? Why not now? Why not right this second? Go for it. Whip her out a little left to righter. Just imagine I’ve got my putter in my hand. If I if I putting it from here, I’d almost definitely fancy my chances going in. Oh. Oh, just didn’t quite hit it. Okay, in for par. Still under path for this back nine or this nine. Oh, what could have been? Okay, 16th hole, par four. Uh, again, water down the right. There looks like there’s a water hazard down there about 320 wind off the right. So I’m just going to hit a nice little draw threewood and then just land softly. Wow, that did not land softly. Might have just ran in the rough but not terrible. I could have hit probably less club actually just in the rough annoyingly. Um, I could have bit three iron down there really, but anyway, 118 ys. Come on. Wind just a little bit into and off the right. Got the bit between my teeth now to make another birdie. Oh, please land straight. Go. Very nice. Very nice. Come on then. Let’s be having you. Let’s be having you. Come on, Rick. It’d be nice, really nice to uh Oh, we need to go across this bridge. Uh it’d be really nice to pick up another birdie before we get to the last couple of holes. Come on. All right, Rick, we’re not messing about here now. This goes in. I’ve on a I’ve been on a bit of a birdie sauce diet recently. It’s got a lot of calories in that birdie sauce. You know, but I want a big dose of it now. I want a big dollop of it. Want nothing more. Come on. Up the hill, left to right. Damn you, Birdie Sauce. Damn you. Oh, so wanted it. I wanted it too much. That was my issue. I wanted it too much. Par three. Gorgeous looking hole. There’s a brick wall that you’ve really got to carry. I mean, I love that brick wall where it says Bowling Brook Golf Club on it. Still debating whether it’s bowling brook, bowling brook, bowling brook. Anyway, I’m at six iron. 177 yards. Wind into slightly off the right and it’s like little knuckly draw at that number 17 and let it just drift back in. Go on, get there. It’s floating a bit. Oh, it’s on the green. It’s actually bang on the 17. Can hit it straight at the 17. It didn’t draw. Would you would you a long put? Come on, Rick. I’d love to pick up one more birdie on these last few holes. A tiny bit right to left. Ever so slightly up the hill. Okay, still one under for this bat nine. One more hole to go. I’ You know what? I’ve really I’ve really enjoyed this course. I feel like it’s a course that you’re going to you’d learn more. I mean, it’s first time playing it. I’d love I’d love to play the third again. It’s probably a hole I’d like to just maybe get some redemption on. I’ll tell you what, if we don’t if I didn’t have that third hole today, this would have been a a really solid round of golf. Last hole of of this nine, you know, this nine’s been wonderful, beautiful, amazing, you know, really memorable. Unfortunately, this it’s a round of golf. There’s 18 holes, so we’ve got to add the front nine to it. I I’ve genuinely almost lost track of what score I am. All I’m trying to do is shoot under par nine. So, I’m under par right now. So, par or better accomplishes that target. Then we’ll just add all the shots up at the end. See what number it gets to. Um, a couple of bunkers down there about 240. Just got to knock it over them. Wind. Yeah, it’s not ideal, but it’s fine. Okay, last full shot, I hope. 105 yards just in the rough on the right. Not a particularly great T-shot to be fair. What did I just say? 105. Got to add another 100 to that. 105. 205. Doesn’t look like there’s anything at the front of the green. So, as long as I kind of chase it up there. I actually feel like I might even be able to get six there better just because I can chase it. bit like a little chasey six iron with a bit of draw. I think it’ll actually be easier to hit out this rough. Okay, I’m going to start it on the word 13. Well, it’s quite a big word. Start it on the H of 13. Little low drawy one. That’s about 50 yards short. The real chase. I think I think I think I got confused of being back at home in like links links conditions. Okay, so you know what? I said I was going to chip in this round. So, might as well give myself an opportunity. Sit. How has that rolled through the back of the green? How has that rolled through the back of the green? That’s wild. I actually thought I played that nicely. Okay, this has been an eventful round of golf. This is to finish this nine under par at least. Nice. How did it How did it do? Dropped in the right. Oh, fun round. Listen. Fun round. Just unfortunately had the back nine to the front nine. Back nine was level after that bogey there. Front nine was something over a seven. Scores there. 78. I started this video promising I was going to break 75 today. If it wasn’t for that third hole and that nine, I would have done it today comfortably. Anyway, guys, hopefully enjoy. Great. I really cool track. Really, really cool track. Feels like it’s one of those ones where if I played it a few times, I could really get the knack of it. But often just hear one shot, one shot only. As Eminem once said, you get one opportunity. Do you capture it or let it slip? Guys, thanks for watching. Be sure to check out Live Golf this week in Chicago. I honestly think, it’s my prediction. They’re going to absolutely burn it up. That’s my prediction. I think a 10 under is on the cards for one round of golf. See you next time. Bye.

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In this video Rick Shiels is back in the USA to take on Bolingbrook Golf club, Illinois and to try and Break 75!

– Designed by Arthur Hills and Steve Forrest, the course opened in 2002 and was ranked by GolfPass as the No. 1 public course in Illinois (2024)
– The ample space and terrain make Bolingbrook a great spectator course
– Elevated tees, rolling fairways and seven lakes are scattered throughout the layout
– The 12th hole was a par 4 last year at 494 yards but will now play as a par 5 this year after a new tee was added to lengthen the hole to 621 yards, making it the longest hole on the course
– The party hole is the par-3, 151-yard island green 6th, with rough behind the green for shots that may be slightly long
– The most difficult hole last year as the 237-yard par-3 fourth, playing to a stroke average of 3.36 and yielding just four birdies over the three rounds

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