My reply to you. Thankyou for your support.

Probably easier to do this than reply to everyone with more or less the same answer.
Thankyou

Hello again I suppose the best way of answering everybody’s comments is to make a video rather than try and answer every individual comment so yeah views on YouTube are falling um I say I get 400 views of which only about 188 are from subscribers so that’s only 8% of my subscribers are

Watching which means I’m doing something wrong if my own subscribers don’t watch I really must be doing something wrong so there’s been a lot of statements a lot of questions a lot of support thank you very much one suggestion was you know why don’t you do four balls and

Banter imagine this scenario four of us go out to play golf it takes 3 hours 40 minutes perhaps now let’s add in the camera so I’m over on that side of the Fairway recording player a player B and play player C are down that side of the

Fairway now we normally play Ready golf you get to your ball you assess the situation you look at your playing partners and you pull a club and you go and you start walking towards the green now imagine the camera I’m recording player a I’m shouting across player B

Player C don’t hit your ball just wait there a minute so once I’ve recorded him I go across the Fairway to record you and the other guy and there’s a four ball on the tea going what the hell is going on here and it can take 6 hours to play

Around of golf when you do it that way okay why don’t you do three holes and with banter like somebody else does well when was the last time you went to the golf course and just played the 3D the 11th and the 17th and went home exactly never you don’t do it

You’re like me you’re a golfer you play 18 holes on a weekend and perhaps nine holes after work in the summer that’s not how we play golf so I’m not into making those videos and I’m certainly not into the fake banter and it is fake it is forced it is

Fake I met some people who used to be on a certain Channel and they were dropped instantly because they were golfers and not able to do the fake forced banter and laughter that’s not me either I’m a serious golfer in fact I would describe my style

As trying to help you get round the golf course in a lower number I’m nearly 59 I’m 5′ 5 I’ve got got short arms a slow swing speed and tiny little hands I got ladies hands really I take a ladies size glove that’s

How small my hands are so if I can do it perhaps you could do it you need a little application and you need to be able to learn to chip with a couple of clubs and to putt probably with more caution and to play off the tea with

More caution you see we’re not skillful at getting out of trouble so the best thing to do is not to get in trouble in the first place and that’s what I hope I’m trying to show what’s made me a little sad recently is well I’ve come back from

Holiday and I’ve been doing a lot of editing so I’ve been sting here most evenings banging the keyboard takes me about 5 hours to turn 1 hour of footage into a 20 minute coherent video but one thing that’s upset me quite a bit was the gentleman who came on holiday with

Me um he wouldn’t engage with the caddies he wouldn’t talk to his caddy and he was doing things all himself and making quite a high score in the process as I say uh in one particular video I point out that I had 28 puts to his 40 and that’s not a

Joke I I tried to teach him about grain he didn’t want to listen and he wouldn’t listen to his caddies so you see from about the second or third hole onwards instead of him if this appears in a clip there’s me together with my caddy talking and he stood over there and his

Caddy stood over there looking exceptionally bored I kept saying talk to your caddy engage with your caddy let your caddy do a job see see the caddy does all the menial tasks which it’s it’s embarrassing for us coming out of the West and having somebody do all those menial task for us

But that’s what you’re paying her for that is her job and if you interfere with her doing her job then it’s a bit rude and she loses face CU it’s southeast Asia and I’ve just edited a video here and the caddy he had that day didn’t speak much English

But then why would she she’s Asian and she probably carries for more south Koreans Japanese and Chinese and she does English-speaking people so why would she automatically know English so she’s going through the routine of using her hand as a whole and trying to point out which side of the hole to

Go and how much or pointing at a spot on the green to put over and whether it’s into the grain or down the Grain and he looks at her and she starts to do the hand gestures to try and tell her tell him sorry tell him where to put

And he turned his back on her in the clip now you won’t see that cuz I’ve cut the clip down to just me putting but the look of sadness and hurt on her face made me want to cry cuz I love the Ty people and I love my

Caddies you know this lady is getting 8 and she’s relying on your 8 p plus tip to pay for three generations to eat and live and there’s so few golfers the caddies do not get a bag every day they may only get a bag three or four times a week so it’s

Another email on the video so it’s a bit disappointing when somebody treats them badly but uh the other issue I had was he would stand behind me on the t- box in my peripheral vision over here and no matter how many times I dropped hints

And said don’t do it he kept doing it and then in the round of golf at louang in the dark um he did it on the second T and somewhere in my swing my down swing or somewhere orever there was movement and it it was probably the caddy just

Handing him his driver or whatever but he shouldn’t have Bloody been there and I snapped his head off so that was a rather quiet round of golf like he defended himself by saying you can only know that it’s wrong to stand in somebody’s peripheral vision on

The tea because you must have done it and someone must have told you off well no um I knew all about that because I’m a golfer there’s a very big difference I think between a golfer and somebody who just plays golf you know the very first thing I did when I

Joined a golf club was be given a rule book and I went home and read it and I read it every spring just a remind myself of everything that’s in it he’s obviously never seen a rule book in his life so it it was it was a poor holiday in some respects

Um so I’m a bit sad about that um I think after the first week I I didn’t see him outside the golf course he stopped socializing for whatever reason not bothered don’t care no loss so yeah there are a few sad things going on at the moment especially as I’m

Editing and I’m seeing things that I might not have actually seen on the go course and I think it’s a bit sad that somebody goes out all the way out to Thailand and says my cad is useless she doesn’t speak any English all my caddies are useless I think there’s a common

Denominator and it’s not the Cades at different golf courses anyway so this coming year I want to see what happens as I say I got some projects coming up that I want to do and at the end of the year I’ll decide what I’m going to do in my

Future um but it is disheartening at times when you put in a lot of effort and nothing happens but that that’s that’s the nature of the game I suppose it’s something that’s um there are thousands of me and very few who succeed so I’m just one of the

Thousands I just had a little moan about it that was all I was asked how what big YouTubers have you asked and what was kind of like the reply Um you name any British YouTuber above 30,000 subscribers and there is only one person who has helped me out and that was Simon at SAS golf um the others were i’ I’d send off an email and I would get back a reply saying sorry I’m busy actually only two of them actually

Sent bothered to send back an email saying sorry I’m busy all the others sent no reply whatsoever I was hoping to play with Dan Hendrickson because he’s not that far away from me he was down in toi which I can probably get there in a couple of

Hours and then Dan came up here to gloustershire and he played some courses here um but no that’s that didn’t happen either which is very sad because I really like Dan Dan I think is one of the really good guys on YouTube um um there was a mention of doing product

Reviews ball testing Club testing well I don’t have access to that uh it is exceptionally difficult to get access to that and it would cost me a lot of money to get access to that see no nobody’s going to send me stuff to test apart from go go go sport V Pro

They’re the only ones who dipped into my inbox and and said hey would you like to do some videos for us we’ll send you some stuff and they even sponsored my charity day I haven’t been paid a penny I don’t want to be paid a penny but imagine if I wanted to test

All of 2024’s drivers and declare a winner well I’m going to have to hire a studio with GC quad in it’s going to cost me2 an hour 25 an hour to hire that studio in order to do it and whil I might be able to get an

Hour when it’s all nice and quiet and the pro isn’t giving lessons the pro really wants to be giving lessons and so it is very difficult for me to get a studio to actually do that and for someone to actually lend me some golf clubs out of the rappers that’s the

Other thing I’m banging away with a brand with a bunch of brand new drivers I’m marking the face I might have to buy them so testing isn’t an option really I did uh write to mauno one time asking if they could help in any way I didn’t ever

I didn’t ask them for any particular items I just said is there any way you can help and they wrote back and basically said I do not have enough influence Ence so no testing a gear is not going to happen yeah I’m a little bit sad at the

Moment and I say I’m working hard here 5 hours to create a video and I suppose because I’m cramming it all in right now that is uh I’m I’m just working too hard yeah join that holiday I C it was all going wrong uh cheap golf courses I’m not

Playing where I want to play I’m not even in the city I want to be in uh I had a playing partner who um see I was going to changai and I got this contact can I come with you yes you can um I got it all organized for Chang

Ma I got an email saying I haven’t got that much money I can’t afford to go there so I compromised and we ended up going to Patia where I really didn’t want to be and you I phon the wife talking about the issues that I’d had and she said you

Should never have compromised you should have gone where you want to go and if he couldn’t afford it too bad so my opportunity to go to changm and play play the beautiful golf courses up there is gone it’s never coming back I can’t go next year I don’t have any

Money can’t go the year after I’m retiring so that is a regret that I will have to live with for the rest of my life that I didn’t go and do what I wanted to do I suppose that’s a little bit sad as well but anyway thank you for your support

Uh I can only hope that in the New Year things take off a little bit better I say I got a couple of projects um that may come to fruition and if they do there will be something very different on the channel which may help out

But we shall see anyway have a good Christmas have a happy New Year I hope this video response rather than me tapping out an awful lot of comment responses is enough I’ve probably missed some of your comments or replies to some of the comments on there

Um I’m not used to getting comments but I normally get four comments on a video and now I’ve got an awful lot so thank you very much and um yeah have a good time and hopefully I will get out on New Year’s Day I haven’t picked up a glove uh

I haven’t picked up a club since I got back the last time I played was about the 24th of November and it’s not unusual for me to take all of December off anyway I do that most years it’s it’s not something special it’s not it’s not because I’m doing this that

I’ve taken all of December off I’ve I’ve done it for years so 1 of January is going to be get back out there find that golf swing go and see James get my swing sorted out and then hopefully have a good year and maintain my handicap somewhere around

About 5 or 6 if I can yeah I’m going to my plan is to stay single figures until I’m 70 if I live that long cheerio