First to Play Links Kennedy Bay

First to Play Links Kennedy Bay

We got the course record. Choppers, this is Lynx Kennedy Bay, the newest golf course in WA. You are about to witness a course record as Ronny Chopper will be the first person to play the new layout. You will also see Ron completely lose the plot. See you later. I hope you haven’t come for good golf choppers cuz this was a disaster. How’s it look, mate? Looks fantastic once that sun comes out. Hole number one. 347 m par 4. Water bunkers wind 104. All right, play well everyone. Bloody nerves. Anyone know where I went? Straight. Yeah. Is okay. Let’s go. I’m nervous, mate. Um, for those playing at home, we got back from Japan 2 days ago. Joel slept in this morning. We’re ready. I actually reckon that you just went one hop dunk. Really? Yep. I guess if you went over there, you’re fine. Yeah, you should have aimed left. I thought I was. There’s water on the right. I can see that. Yeah. 106. I I I warned you. Uh, okay. Not the start we’re after. Get down. What have I zapped? What have I zapped? What have I zapped? Oh no. Come on, man. I’m in the garden. Oh. Oh, man. I’m going to have a million. Oh, and the pin is that’s a tough pin. Ah, that has gone 40 meters over the pin. Oh, okay. Now, now I don’t know. Don’t go right. Oh, I had to go further left. All right. Is this the hardest hole in the course? I’ve got the yips, man. I’ve got the yips. I don’t even know what shot this is. 11. Go. Go. Not that length. Not that length. I’ll just miss this. Then we’ll go to the next triple. Hey. Uh, one. 7 to one. All right. 17 more to go. Can I can I bring up some excuses? 100%. I’m a big fan. Right. So, just for those playing at home, we got back from Japan and I spent the night in hospital because I have deep vein thrombosis in my leg. So, I have to take blood thinners for the next 90 days. Man, you got 90 days worth of excuses, dude. I can’t drink. You could get on Hey, I don’t think you can drink on blood thinners. Did they say that or you just assuming? I googled it. It was like moderate, which is how I’d do it anyway. We’ll be fine. We’ll be fine. We’ll have a look. We’ll have this will fix everything. Didn’t have it in the pocket. Stay there. Keep right. Give me six holes to warm up. I got 95 in. Based on the fact that I hit my sandwich 150 m, this is putter. Just something just nice and close and just start again. Just just start again. Do you ever start well? How am I going to start well if I never play well? Chipping. better. Well, a lot better. So, this this is the brand new site. This is the first time people are seeing the brand new. I’m sorry. It’s pretty tough. Hey, is my putt the best part so far? That feels like an eagle. I’m measuring 138 m to the flag. Hilly told me about 11 times, don’t go long. So, we’re going long. So, I’m grabbing a pitching wedge, so I don’t go long. I’m going to listen. Got a par on the card. First hole was a warm-up hole. Doesn’t normally count. Um, right. Hole in one. If we If I get hole in one, we’ll just do drone footage of the rest of the course. Yep. Go left a bit. Go left a bit. Go left a bit. Hilly told me about 11 times, don’t go long. It went over that hill. The blood thinners give you more power. I’ve never done this before, but I’m going to give it a crack. You ever done this? Imagine if I went to the gym. I’ve done bloody well. Four over. I had the ball down and as I got over the ball I I changed. Back yourself in, Ron. All right. Four over. I’m sure that the camera work’s been sensational. The drone footage has been fantastic. Everyone’s doing their job except me. I’m doing my job. This is how I play. I said PJ tour beginner run chopper. I’m right on the guts. Okay. Roughly 480 m par five. We’re going chief. We’re going down swinging. No, we’re positive. We’re making birdies. We need to. We’ve had enough triples and bogeies. Come on. Straight down the guts. Stay there. Stay there. Stay there. Don’t bounce anymore. Don’t go any more. Oh, we’re okay. I should have brought me tailor made out for this one cuz I have to hit a low cuz this mazuno goes higher. You see the pickle balls balls being made? I did actually. Have you played that? Is that pickle ball? What’s paddle? There’s paddle and there’s pickle ball. I thought they were the same thing. Pickle paddle up right now. I’ll have a Google screenshot of what pickle and paddle is. I’d vlog you, I reckon. You know what? I don’t think you’ve got any legs to stand on after our little display of baseball when we’re in Japan. No, no, no, no, no. Tell we in Japan that had a baseball machine and there was a guy warming up. I went in after him and they obviously kept it on 70 mph. No, major league speed and then then I’ve missed a couple because it was coming in couple. Yep. And then you’ve come in and they’ve gone, “Oh, we’ll turn it down.” And then just the thing was going this way and then when you came in it it went the it went underarm. I’m just hearing excuses, brother. Hurry up and make a bogey. Right. 235. I’m going to hit a two iron cuz it’s very windy. Little stinger. What’s over there? Bunda. Is it? Oh, Hillas found that. Oh, you’re up to someone else. I’m just watching um uh Nick Voke, man. He’s good as Hey. Yeah, very good player. Yeah, he’s like a real handsome bloke as well. He’s got like a real nice mustache, not a big silly one like yours. He’s just got a nice one and he’s a real good golfer. I might actually message him and see if he wants me to film his videos. I’m calling it. I cheated. How did it end up here? Okay, don’t balls it up now. So lucky to get here. We I can’t keep hitting in these bushes cuz the snakes around here apparently pretty full on. Hit it straighter, you reckon? We’re on that little little zipper. How’s the power stance on Hilly? Look at him. I should start putting like that. Okay, Joel, this is a birdie putt. What do you do with these? Like it twitches. Oh, all right. I’m just hitting as hard as I can. This is a par4 and it goes down there and it it’s got bunker and it’s got bush and it’s it’s got wind. I’m just going to hit the crack out of this. One of them. All right. Look out. Have you played many link style courses before? No. What would be your favorite style of golf course? Pub 95 m. I think that’s a smooth lobby because the wind’s behind and the ball’s been gone bloody long way. Just stump one. Come on. Bit of golf. If you think back to the first hole, I don’t know if you can remember, you put one in, you put one in the water, but like how everything could have changed if that was just on the fairway and you hit on the green. You take a three-part Build him up. Build him up. Well, bang. Just go a bit more. Just go a bit more and then go left a bit more and then go in the hole. Great chip. That’s one of the best chips of the day. You recording? I just hit it before I started thinking. Okay. H. Doing this the the hard way. giving you the full experience of Lynx golf. So Lynx golf, it’s you hit it lower and you land it short and roll it up. We’ll try that cuz nothing else is working. Okay, we’re back. 399 or 400 m par4 into the teeth. I have to hit driver. I have to get down there. I have to hit the fairway. As long as it doesn’t go in that bunker. Oh. Oh, it’s short. I don’t know what I did on the ripstick, but I’m still sore. Can you tell me if this bit goes down? Because me wife saw it in a video and she was like, “Oh, no.” And I had to sleep on the couch. 171 into the wind. I’m going thinking six. What would you hit? Go right a bit. Come on. I haven’t hit that bad. Be all right. Feel like it’s not on still, man. Imagine this when it’s really windy. I’m going to ask Chat GPT questions that I could ask a random that I’ve never met before. Okay. See what happens. Like not golf related. Not golf related. What’s one small thing that makes you happy? One small thing. Um Oh, this when I give someone a lesson and they they go out and have a good day, get their 38 points and they’ve been in the dumps for a while. That makes you feel pretty good. Yeah. I like that. Mine is no traffic on the freeway. Yeah. Isn’t that like that’s a good answer? I don’t think anybody would ever disagree with that. Yeah. Like a straight green light all the way home. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like when you get a coffee and it it’s it’s there ready to go straight away. You don’t have to wait too long. When do you ever get a coffee that’s ready to go? You can like message prior. What fancy places are you going to do? Near right. Don’t they don’t Doesn’t your place do that? You send them a text one times cappuccino. I don’t know, man. You must live in a fancy part of town. Not me, mate. I’ll make my own coffee. Now we’ve got a bit of a roller coaster. Just get it down into that little section. It’s not that quick. It’s not that quick. Oh, I thought I didn’t make it. Spot on. What I reckon I do is when I on the green, I just pick it up and put it to about 4 foot. I need that ball. I got a new putter in Japan and I can’t use it because I wish I brought it now. What am I now? Five over. 377 into the teeth down there. I can’t. Does it go left? Oh, it does go left. Okay, dead straight. Come on, ball. Okay. This is hard this game. You haven’t played it before? What’s something you’ve always wanted to try but haven’t? Have you ever skydived? No. I was about to say that, but I don’t know if I want to. I have a few times. I’ve bungee jumped. Have you? Yeah. Have you done that? No, I haven’t. See, I I don’t know how I’d go bungee jumping. Because you you why you can see the see the earth like um do do your guts like go up and you’re like the whole time you go on a roller coaster and you feel that dip. No, it’s not like that at all really. You kind of like face first wind blowing a million miles an hour and you’re kind of just like soaking it in. Like I remember just thinking like soak it in, soak it in and you’re just looking. It’s It’s actually really cool. I’d go I’ I’d go right now and go jump sky off. Yeah. If I miss another couple of putts, I might just jump without the parachute. Okay, 138. But I’m into the wind, so I’m going to hit a 9 iron. Oh, please just be the correct club. Come on. Golf shot. Go. Go. Dang. Okay. It’s not close. It’s fine. Hey. Hey. Hey. Fairway. Green. Look at you go down over. This is the hard bit. 117 over. Still haven’t played the back n. This course is actually quite nice though. It’s just it’s just me. It’s tough. If you can hit like a low ball and you’re you’re good with chipping runs, this is the place to go. like proper length. I just keep hitting in the air. Did I tell myself to go short and low before and I haven’t done it? Well done. Right. 213 m to the pin. Uh I’m going to hit a six iron just cuz I feel like it’s going to go straight up in the air. Am I going at the right flag? Is that the one? It’s a bit of distance. Oh, just hit a golf shot, please. When do we go to Stableford? When do you reckon? Eight over. Go in the hole. Then we go home. I can’t hit the green with a sand wedge, but I can do it from 200 m out. Know what it is. I know what it is. From 200 m, the expectations are okay. Around the mark, we fine. Yeah. 3T or a wedge in like dances around the hole. But that’s that’s only in your head. There’s no other game like it like this. No. Where else do you get the yips? I’ve met um I’ve given lessons to like footy players and cricket players who play in front of thousands of people and they say it’s harder to hit a drive in front of four of their mates. Yeah. What a game. We should film it. We should create a YouTube channel. Watch someone slowly break down. I’m actually feeling a little bit feeling a bit better about myself after that. Shut up. Oh, I had to go. I want to throw the ball, but I don’t have many left in the bag. Is it stable for time? It’s quick golf time. 521 m par 5. Um, looks like it’s a bit of strategic here. I can’t see. I think it goes a bit left. So, I’m just going to try and put the first one in play. It’s much nicer in the fairway because you miss fairways here. Pick it up. Oh, there’s like four more of those to go, I reckon. I assume that you’d be able to hear on the mic. The wind is blowing the camera just then. And my face a gust. Wait, the camera’s moving. Your butt head’s moving. It’s not my fault. Blood thinners. Thin. I’m I’m skinnier. I’ve got less weight. Hats are gone. See you later. See you later. Yep. Yep. Lost it, mate. Right. Two on again and then probably two on again after that. Stay there. No, I got my Don’t know. It’s a bit bushy down the left, but I didn’t go look for it, did I? See you later. 99 out a long US Open rough. Can’t What a The first couple of wedges have just spooked me. I don’t know how far it goes. 99. That should be a gap wedge. Go gappy. Just smoothie. Okay. Oh, but I got to go up too. Like I got to send this straight up in the air. Oh, don’t be long. Okay. It’s okay. I’m I’m definitely much better from just the jungle, aren’t I? Like, you’re just like, well, I’ve got a I’ve only got one option here now. I actually don’t know my score, but it’s going to say right here. This would be a lovely finish to the nine. That was just absolutely chaotic. Oh. I thought I caught one. All right. Oh, I thought I I thought I had that. Start again. I don’t need to talk about it. The pundits will be Yeah, don’t worry about it, mate. All right, let’s think of the positives. I reckon you go one under on the back nine. I always play better back. I know. Okay, cuz I think I’m so far out of it, you just go right. Who cares now? Yeah, I actually think you will go one under at least. Oh, give one of these a crack. Yeah. Can I go on one of them? How do you start it? Just Oh, yeah. All right. Okay. So, what’s just been brought to our attention? Whatever I shoot right now, it will be the course record. You are literally the first person to play that front nine. Right. Here we go. We’re going to smack this straight down the guts. like you meant to. I guess that bacon egg roll has done wonders for me. That’s as far as I can hit that. I reckon that bacon egg roll. We’ve got a coffee. The bacon and egg roll like a potato brava in the mix. I saw that. Yeah. Just we’re first playing a golf course. Pretty pretty cool. I got to remember that. Switch on. Have a bit of fun. Course record. No matter what. Unless I run out of balls. Yeah, no matter what, you could shoot. No, but if I run out of balls. Oh, yeah. And I dqed. But that is the course record. Me holding a DQ. Someone played 15 holes. All right. 109. I don’t know how far we just go like we were talking about. So, I’m going to hit lobby again. Smoothie. Green and red. Birdie. What a star that would be. What? Which flag are you aiming at? That one? No. Wrong flag. No. Are you serious, mate? The flag’s over there. It’s a dual green. I didn’t even see that one over there. That’s This is the closest I’ve put it with the wedge so far. I wasn’t aiming at it. Okay, that’s a rough start, but we’ll still on world record pace. Course record pace. Go, go, go, go. Oh. Oh my god. Just every part I do this. I can’t stop my hands from yeping. If anyone knows how to fix that, it goes like this. I go and my hand twitches that way. Uh, I’ve got the IPS. It’s diagnosed. Um Um um um um that’s I can’t explain if you’ve never had it before or like it’s like as you your hand does this when you hit it. Oh no. Yips man. It’s all it is. Okay. I don’t have many balls in my bag so this could be a quick video. Par 4. Don’t know how far it is. I can’t It’s a bit of a blind t-shot, too. I can’t see over the hill. I can do this bit, man. Let’s hope it’s in and we’ll go to the pub. The um the thing. That’s right. I’m a qualified snake handler. Boy, is it that big? Is it in your bedroom? Oh, that’s a big note rope there, mate. That flag. Now I’m just a bit hesitant on how far me wedges go. So, just going to open the face. So, a bit higher. Bit of razed. Oh, a little dark. If you make this putt, I’ll buy the first three rounds. Three? Yeah. That’s kind of how confident I am boy. Oh, what are you having, Hilly? Round of Guinness. Two, three. I’m getting the first first three rounds. You know what? If it costs me to make you go under par, I will, mate. That’s how dedicated I am to the program. Okay, 155 winds up the clacker straight up the gra. So I’m going to hit a pitching wedge and then I can just hit it hard all in one py. It’s just nice to hit the green again. That’s a couple in a row. All right, come on. Two in a row. This will be magic. Oh, little snaky. Snaky. Yeah. Okay. So, I don’t twitch when I do the pencil. If you’ve got the yips, I’m telling you, maybe give that a go because now only I got two fingers with my right hand rather than that one. The whole hands got giving the old motorbike rev. What hole are we on? 500 m par five into the teeth. Got to get this drive away. Big Australian man drive here. Hold on. Keep coming. Keep coming. Oh man, that’s borderline safe. I think we’re okay. I haven’t been in a bunker yet. That’s what Paul Kennedy’s known for, isn’t it? Or have they changed at all? 2 G 260. You know what you should say right now? Say, I can’t believe I shot the course record. And I’ll use it in the intro. Ready? We got the course record. Bang. That’ll get him. This one. Stay there. Like a bunker. Bunker or something. I think I would rather in the bunker. Just big Australian man. Hack it out. Can high. I’ll just hit it quickly before we get bitten. That’s the closest weight shot I’ve hit all day. went the other way. What am I now? Still six. Yeah. Course record. Hard stretch of holes coming up. Okay. But the wind’s helping. Yep. We’re just having a lash still. We’re just doing I’d like to keep it in the 70s is how I started. Unless the man would have quit. I nearly I wanted to. You You told me to. I never said quit. Okay. 372 m par 4. Do you reckon this is what bamboo looks like? No. No. No. Do you reckon the bush isn’t that bad? I reckon it’s probably worse and more undulating. More hills, blind shots, and windier. Okay. Yeah. Well, let’s go there. Oh, that has not come out the middle, but that’ll do. Run. Roll, lassie. That’ll do. That did not come out the middle. All right, got 125 in. Um, I’m going to go a gap wedge. I don’t know how far it goes. Big guessing game today. Haven’t guessed correctly very well. What’d you hear from your pitchy? Yeah, I’d step on a pitchy. Step on it. Yeah, Greek step. Not smashing the plates. Oh no. What’s the dance? Ding, ding, ding. What do you do? Uh, no. Your arms out and then a little half squat sideways. Almost like a bit of Yeah, that’s it. Yeah, there we go. There you go. That’s it. It’s not curling. Good. It was a bit wide. Three part. Can’t see it. There’s a little spine there. Oops. Oh dear. Oh, come on. Nothing. Rattled it in. Okay. Part five. Didn’t check how far it was. Once again, do I cut the corner on the left? Which way does it go? Left or right? Cut the corner on the right. Okay, that was like you asked. Dog leg right. Dog leg right. Big big drive coming up. I’m holding on. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Bounce. Or maybe maybe it’s going to drive you nuts. I’ve been using this tea for like it’s cracked and then the top’s a bit like that and I’ve been just like really Yeah. You haven’t noticed, have you? No. Don’t like it. I know. It’s just starting to eat me alive now. I don’t know about it. It’s crazy how different golf is per person. I know. Yeah. Per animal. Yeah. Like what some people and even what you see like you stand over a shot go that I that looks amazing and other people are scared of it. Yeah. Oh, wait. It’s a dog leg. It goes left. Joel, which way does it go? Left or right? Cut the corner on the right. Okay, that was lucky you asked. Dog bag right? I’m so lucky I drew that off. Yeah, I when when you hit left, I was like, “Oh, that’s dead.” You’ve just held on to the right hand side. There’s a map that tells us as well. This is why How are we doing this? Oh, no. You know what? Great shot. Great shot. Best driver of the day. Well done. 180 uh eight on cuz it’s straight up the graham here. This wind is very strong. I have to hit all of this, but I’m going to hit it so high and hopefully it flies that massive bunker at the front. Are you You told me to hit eight. Are you trying to make me hit in that bunker? Four. Call four. Oh, I just pushed it. It was the right club as well. has pushed it. Good club selection. You wanted me to go in the bunker, were you? Go, go, go, go. We’ll get better. I just need 15 holes. That would be nice though. Bit of a buffer. Hey, I need to replace it. I’ve just rattled it. It’s split at the bottom. Birdie. 15 holes later, we made a birdie. What are we now? Five. Actually, not too bad considering the start. It’s a hard watch. If anyone’s still here, thanks very much. And if you’re still here and you haven’t subscribed, this this is what you’re going to see all the time. Emotional roller coaster. Subscribe. What are we on now? We’re nearly at 100. If we get to 100, we might get invited to that invitational. Oh, and I’ll sleep in. Too soon. 405 m par4. Straight in teeth. Going to have to hit the driver here. Straight out the guts. Get down. Oh, we could be in trouble there. Oh, it’s so hard to hit a driver into the wind and control it. I was trying to like squeeze it. We have to go looking. I think this is the uh the kangaroo version, me. Oh, he’s flexing, man. He’s he’s Oh, he’s puffed out. Australian kangaroo. Oh, he’s frosting at the mouth. You want some? Okay, we’re in the rope. I don’t know if this is GU or out of bounds or free birdie. Oh no. All right, try that again. It’s really good. We’ll find that. That sounded good. One 2 3 4 5 Oh. All right. Little bit right to left. Wind’s picking up now. Be tough to sero. You play so man. I was hanging on. Two holes to go. I want to shoot. I have a 70 in the for the new course record. Just least last this afternoon. No one’s breaking 80 in this afternoon. Surely I’ve had two triples today. Have you triples? They hurt, man. Like not even a double. Uh 199 m par three. This could be the one that snaps it. I’ve got one more in a you break it. Got it to balance. Okay. Uh 7 iron. That’s how the wind’s straight up the butt. And we’re going to land it short. We’re going to try to play a bit of lynxy golf here. This will land and stop. Like you said, you watch. Did that get close? Look good from our angle. This has to go in. I need that buffer going down 18. Course record. No matter what I do, that’s always a good feeling. Give it a rub. I push it. Yipped again. Little little bit more. Little little yippy. 420 m par four to finish. Oh boy. Is there heaps of room, right? That’s a big slinger. Whoa. Yes, the big roper. I’m telling you, the ripstick grind goes when I hit a good drive. How’s your grind? What do What are we going to What are we going to describe today? What do we call this? Oh, didn’t start well with me sleeping in and then didn’t really get better from there. First hole, like you said, just if that first hole was like fairway green, two park, what does the rest of the game look like? I don’t know. It’s so windy now, man. 150 to the front. Do I sling a draw? Oh no, too much hand. Wow, that wind caught it and it just went to Mandra. All right, went all right last time. Try again. I’ve hit this threewood a total of 40 m today. Best two shots of the day. Two putts for a course record. Thank you very much to Lynx Kenny Bay. Uh that’s an honor to play be the first to play the new course. Sorry as well. Uh but this for a course record and the putt coming back for a course record also. This is for 80. This will be the last time you ever see this putter. I yipped it again. Thanks for watching. Subscribe if you want to see more of that 81 course record. I got they presented me with a course record, Joel. Just want to say thank you for playing firstly. Congratulations. We realized about 20 minutes ago you’re going to be the first person to play 18 holes in normally our printer broke. Yep. So we’ve just written new course record cuz you do hold the course record here. So well done. Congratulations. Thank you. Um we did have a three pack of balls but one of them fell out in the car. So, there’s two balls. Excellent. Um, you’re welcome. And just a little little something from us just to say thank you so much for first player to complete 18 holes. Hey, how long is this record going to last for? You reckon? Uh, tomorrow morning, I’d say. Best golf on YouTube. Hey, hey, hey.

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