The Weeky Golfshake Podcast now on Youtube. Ryan and Matt sit down to discuss all things tour, all things golf and the latest topics in golf right now.
Tour Wrap Up
Why You Should Play Golf in The Algarve
Visting Portugal to Play Golf
Stay & Play Trip to Quinta do Lago
Which Sporting Icon Did Ryan Meet on the Course?
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of the golf Shake podcast firstly we have got a massive apology to make that we weren’t here last week okay we were in Portugal um it was busy Matt W it yeah yeah I’m sorry I’m not sorry just no I’m not sorry okay I’m sorry because
We said we said we’re going to try our best it was a bit of a mixture of Technology not being on our side and also just how how busy we were really last uh Monday uh the it was a bit of a bit of a difficult one wasn’t it mate to
Be honest but um but we’re back we’ve got twice as many things U to talk about but we’re going to talk a little bit about what we got on doing in Portugal really but we’ll start off as usual bit with a bit of a rundown of what’s gone
On in professional golf over this weekend and we’ll start with the PGA Tour which we obviously had the um Genesis which was was pretty good um Golf Course always looks awesome there um never played it never been to that that part of the world really but it looks absolutely class obviously the the
Headline at the start of the week was Tiger’s return his new clothing footwear accessory line that’s going on in conjunction with tailor maid and Sunday red um but uh it make a it what you will some of some of you love it some of you
Hate it I’m a bit on the fence at the minute I think it looks exactly the same as Nike clothing just with a different logo on it but um you know I don’t think has ever been that big a clothes horse in terms of you know no Brand’s ever
Been particularly excited about what he’s wearing but um and certainly Nike didn’t really sell a ton of tww clothing I don’t think I think the Footwear was a bit of a different story but the um the clothing never really shifted the needle and and he’s always quite conservative
In what he wears as well he’s never like like tiger was his like sun I know sounds ironic but he’s Sunday red right and that’s what what we’re remembering for like I don’t remember what he wore on Saturday or Friday Thursday you just don’t remember so in terms of a physical
Line but um I mean I haven’t seen too much obviously I’ve seen all about the logo and the name and stuff like that but I’ve not seen um you know a range of stuff so yeah I’ve only seen the press release from last week there was some images obviously was wearing the
Footwear this week and and the clothing for the obviously the one and the little bit rounds that he did play um I did see a nice touch the what he was wearing on Thursday I think was the same top design similar to what he wore because the
Genesis was his first PJ Tour event wasn’t it was like 17 or something and basically he wore the same it was the same top that he wore all those years ago which yeah basically okay yeah um but it was probably before he signed for Nik
That yeah maybe I mean um the I don’t well I think he signed before even turn pro but um but the yeah I don’t know I don’t know what you what you guys make of it’ be interesting to to hear your comments really I mean for me it looks
Very Nikey I mean he always wears Lambs W sweaters which obviously is kind of generally reserved for the senior section at your golf club but um yeah I mean he he’s uh he’s always been pretty similar in what he’s worn it’s been fairly boring stuff and um you know
There’s a lot of players out there that don’t really wear anything particularly outlandish and and fair play to them I want them to be comfortable and what they’re wearing for them to play well but yeah most brands are going to be pretty you know they’re going to kind of
Script clothing for people and tell them what to wear aren’t they and I think Tiger’s one of these who doesn’t want to be told what what he’s going to wear and fair enough but um yeah I mean obviously he’s not worn the Nike shoes for a little while these Sunday red shoes that
He was wearing looked like a really old style of Nike shoe that that was out a long time ago and not too dissimilar from the very uncomfortable looking foot Joys that that he’s been wearing for a little while but but yeah um there was obviously a bit of controversy with spe
As well wasn’t there getting dced and a lot of people kind of have had their little bit of a say on that I mean personally I think that golf’s a game where you’ve got a card in your hand and you’ve got a make sure it’s right when
You hand it in um I get the kind of the point of view of people saying that you know everyone’s watched every shot he’s hit for the entire 18 hours everyone knows what he shot so you know really the scoring be done electronically or or
By you know the powers that be on the PJ tour and the shop link all all that sorts of stuff that that they have and they know every single Ball’s gone that every single person’s hit don’t they so it’s quite easy for them to do that but
I still think there’s that kind of element within golf that that card and the kind of signing of it and go to the you know the scoring Hut and stuff like that now I I do understand that he had a little bit of a problem with uh some
Toilet troubles basically at the time so he was trying to get out of the scorers H as quick as possible so he could get to the bathroom but um yeah maybe he should have been cut a little bit of slack for that I don’t know but um but
Yeah I don’t know what your take on it was um it seems I think from The Outsiders it it would seem quite Petty for for those of us that play golf I mean you know rule number one when you finish a round you double check your
Score we all do it whether it’s a medal stford on a Saturday and Sunday morning um it’s you know it’s pretty surprised the amount of cards we have thrown in at the shop at howy May aren’t signed no one’s even put the handicap on them sometimes not even their full name so
Yeah it’s crazy every Sunday morning trying to do the comp admin’s horrible but um but yeah it happens all the time but yeah I mean at that level there’s no excuse for it really no I think that most people would be fairly accountable for that I mean it’s not something that
Happens every week is it on the PJ tour that people aren’t signing scores properly or or um are rushing off because they’ve got an upset stomach but um but these things tend to CR up from time to was there someone the week before at the waste management uh missed
Their tea time they got their timings wrong okay I think Lu that’s it yeah but you’re thinking like that’s like basic stuff like just turn up on time but I don’t know it was a time zone thing or an AM PM thing I can’t remember what it
Was seemed like a long time ago now I’m sure it happens I’m sure it happens but back to the golf I mean we saw uh you know hell of a finish really quite quite a climax to the round I don’t know if you watch much of it but
Mat Arma really just just strolled through the field on with a 62 um birdie three of the last four including um I don’t know if any of you guys watched this but 15 and 16 he hit iron shots on both to about three inches four inches on both holes I think the combined
Distance to hole on those two holes were like 12 or 13 inches yeah it was pretty impressive point I think the commentators were saying is that a replay of the 15th it was actually the 16th home that’s right yeah it was just just so good um there was obviously a
Few other players in the hunt so Patrick KL Xander chaule were up there for a time and kind of faded away a little bit quite disappointingly zalot Tores um I thought was going to win at one stage he hold a nice put on about the 10th or
11th hole I think to get himself in in into the lead on his own at the time um and just didn’t really finish it off and but it’s good to see him back out there and competing and playing again and looking at the he is playing and he
Looked to have puted quite nicely as well um you be it’ be good to see him contend again because he was in such a good place when he got that injury um it wasn’t long after he played that US Open where he narrowly missed out to Fitzpatrick and he’s hardly played golf
Since really so it it’d be good to see him get back um to hopefully winning ways and you think he was at a level with what was let’s be honest quite a an iffy looking PN strike yeah and he’s gone to this this broomstick the long
Poter um and seems to be yeah he could be uh he could be dangerous this year if he carries is it one of the lab golf ones he’s using I think so yeah yeah it do look they do look pretty cool look very steady it’d be good to um I mean
I’ve not ever used or reviewed one of those it’d be great great to get a hold of one so if anyone’s listening for BL gol good to get hold of one um yeah because everything that you see in terms of the testing and the way that they
Kind of reduce twisted and things like that in the put stroke it’d be really good to see that I know players like Adam Scott have kind of messed around with some of their Putters in the past and um to be honest you see a lot of guys who who’ve used either Brew mandal
Or um or some other uh like arm lock or or longer kind of counterbalance Putters a lot of people have kind of messed around with with that style so yeah it’d be good to see that as well um yeah I mean the one big you talking
About put in the one big kind of talking point I saw this week was a lot of people kind of giving Scotty Sheffer a bit of grief um rightly so well I don’t I don’t know if it is I mean um I think when you are as good as
He is from T green you’re probably going to have more puts than most people do you know what I mean so it’s one of those yeah I think it’s all the the proximity and the strikes gain stuff isn’t it because that takes in into account part that inferior should be
Holding and I know that’s easier said than done but he stats are off the charts aren’t they for for iron play um yeah he’s amazing I mean yeah he’s comfortably in the top two or three at every event from T scen isn’t he really um short games obviously short games
Immense um but yeah he just doesn’t seem to hold his fair share of puts I don’t know I think he has gone through some changes hasn’t he with his setup and and that just might take a bit of time to bed in and he might have these streaky
Weeks where he’s awesome and then some weeks where he’s a little bit more average but in a week when he puts well he’s going to win isn’t he simple as that yeah yeah and also you look at his finished yeah what did he actually finish uh this
Week uh he shot 3 under in the last round you know tied tied for 10th and you know we’re talking about him like he stunk the place out on the greens which exactly and yeah he’s not done that at all I mean I don’t know how many puts
He’s had in each round but I bet he’s still less than 36 every single he’s puted but you know the level these guys are out and the amount of greens they hit and how close they are you probably need to be somewhere around 30 even on a
Bad day don’t you really it’s one of those but um yeah he’s he’s um he’s certainly not someone I would mind having their entire game do you know what I mean he’s uh extremely i’ play greens with him yeah me too definitely but um but yeah I mean I think some of
It is a bit unfair I’m honest um we’ve all got different strengths I mean you could say the same about spe you know he’s generally amazing at putting and literally hits it like a complete idiot off the team most of the time so um you generally don’t find many
Players that have got everything and unfortunately putting’s the thing that you see most people do isn’t it on on TV um so yeah I I don’t know I’m not sure I mean it’s not as if he’s like yipping puts or missing from a foot and stuff
Like that is it he’s just not holding anything really but um he was little period that he’s having that he’s going to come through I don’t yeah he’ll be okay I’m just looking now Scotty shefley was literally of all the players that made the cut he finished TI the attemp
And he was dead last Strokes gained putting um and he was first Strokes gained um off the T and with around the green um yeah off the T I mean this is crazy so he gained seven strokes around the green but lost 4.3 Strokes putting yeah oh make you sick did it I
Supp that’s over net three isn’t it yeah still finished eight under in a TI of ATT you were exactly yeah it’s a completely different level that they’re playing at though isn’t it um but no I mean it was it was good to watch great
To see hii win as well and gets him on that kind of trajectory that all these players are looking to get to for Augusta and you know being a previous winner there you never know um I don’t know if you’ve got any like you know picks for the Masters this
Far out Matt or whether You’ even thought about it yet yeah I always think about you pick the same players I pick the same players every year I think there’s there’s a selection there’s a selection of golfers that austa suits um I never back Rory because I want him to
Win there so badly but you you I always look at cam Smith Matt SI Arma um I always look at um uh someone else obviously like the the standard Freddy Couples to make the cut because you know who’ll do that stuff like that but
Um I think DJ be a good shout this year as well I mean he’s used to be play quite nicely RS obviously up there um there is there is another one that I always back I can’t it’s gone off the top my head but um tiger no no there’s
There’s just someone else but yeah mat armor and and cam Smith are two that I always always look at around there but it’s difficult you know to know what sort of form cam Smith’s in um he’s been playing okay but I think Ro Rory would be the one for me I think
That if he if he turns up and plays anything like I think he’s got a very good chance um yeah that would be this year I think more than most I think he just seems to be pretty content with what he’s doing and he’s not getting too
Bogged down with all the rubbish off the course that he was he was doing before so yeah hope hopefully he’s good but yeah we we’ve got a few more podcasts to talk about this coming up in the next month haven’t we really but um it’s not long the Master’s countdown we’re what a
Month and a half out 52 days oh we right okay good it’s always good when that comes around isn’t it hopefully that’ll be the signal of it stopped bloody raining in England and uh I was getting out on the golf course again because last week really kind of wet my appetite for
Playing golf again and then all of a sudden I’ve not touched a club since and it’s been you back to square one again but yeah we’ll talk about our trip in a little while but uh on the L they had an aramco event um which um I don’t know if
You watched much of this yeah I watched a bit this um so Patty tavatanakit won by seven shots quite impressively to be honest very at the end yeah she was actually yeah yeah and I think is it a couple of years since she last won but
Um always been a player that I mean whenever I’ve seen a play and and whenever I was at the ladyes Scottish open and watched her there and I thought she was pretty impressive um and you just kind of think that she’s always got that game to win and I mean to win by
Seven is pretty impressive isn’t it and um yeah played well Charlie Hull was up there again had a good start to the season now she’s done you know I saw some interviews with her saying how much work she’s done over the winter not just on the golf course and
Practicing but also in the gym and kind of trying to get her body right and and be as fit as she can really start in the season and and she looks to have done that quite nicely she’s she’s sort of started very well had had two good
Results already and um I think it’s pretty much looking forward to this season it’s all for me it’s all kind of stemmed from her doing really well in the women’s British Open she just seems to have kind of thought yeah I can do this got her R down and and cracked on
With it and and fair play because she’s a very very good player so yeah hopefully we’re going to see a bit more of Charlie this year as well but yeah really good finish there dominating really um and yeah who’s to say she’s not going
To win a few more times this year but uh the week ahead we’ve got magical Kenya open which I always quite like watching um to see the ladies in Kenya a couple of weeks ago was good with the giraffes and zebras kind of walking across the
Golf course I thought it was pretty cool um so the it’s the men’s turn this week heading out there it’s not the strongest field I’ve ever seen on the European or DP World Tour if I’m honest but um there are still some great players there you
Know Adrian otegi is one that brings to mind that looks like he um it’s an event that he would fancy um but I don’t know if you’ve looked at the field Matt and seen kind of what players you you fancy for this event but there’s a lot of
Obviously Kenyon players in the field isn’t there yeah um I I look at Players I look at the South African guys as well yeah friston Lawrence Dylan fatelli um yeah I mean we we say this every week about the DP World Tour to be honest
It’s um it could be any one of 20 yeah you just you just you just kind of never know yeah I and like I say these some of these events so there’s now and then there’s two in South Africa the two weeks after and these are probably events that some some of
The not saying that these guys are playing aren’t big names but some of the kind of more standout names on the DP witor might just miss out and have a bit of a rest for a few weeks before he starts kind of ramping up towards the Masters again so you might see some
Winners that you know a bit of a surprise in the in these few events but like you say I think with it being in Kenya and two in South Africa the South African players tend to do pretty well in South Africa and I’d imagine the next
Two weeks you’re going to see a lot of sunshine tour guys get um get starts on the DP World Tour as well so you know you’re probably going to see players that you don’t really see all that much of but um yeah they just looking at the
Looking at the past winners as well it’s not like they’re completely unheard of Jorge Campo last year asham Wu the year before Justin Harden before that um and gido migli odsy uh in 2019 so it’s not like they’re they’re absolutely nobody’s but you know what you know what we’re
Saying is that you got that pool of that pool of players kind of just below that sort of upper EA I mean I would probably class Ori as kind of up there but um but yeah the the sort of yeah not yeah not not kind of prolific winners and and prolific sort of
Performers really but obviously got a great game and more than capable of competing but um PJ to is again another similar story where they’re in Mexico this week so it’s an event that a lot of the top guys are going to miss um I’m I’m fancying Charlie Hoffman mate I’m
Pretty sure he just seems to be coming into some nice form so I’m just hoping he’s gonna uh he’s just gonna Blitz everyone in Mexico this week and and see see exactly um how good he is again and hopefully get himself because he he was always talking him the Masters he’s
Always your first round leader kind of bet isn’t he that you Chuck up there yeah um so so yeah hopefully I mean he seems to have started well it’s been good to see him again playing I really forgot how much I enjoyed watching him play golf because he just looks so
Simple when he’s hitting it and from tournament I’ve been to in the past particularly the open watching him chipping round the green he’s absolutely frighteningly good um one of the best short games I’ve ever seen yeah he actually good uh to see a lot of the um
Guys that come off to DP world tour playing the PJ tour this week so you got Nichol guard Ryan Fox tobor olison Thomas dietry um Bob McIntyre’s playing is he okay yeah um Rio hits satni Alexander Bor um so yeah so it’s a nice nice mixture actually nice mixture of uh
Um carries on the way he was playing in in the Middle East I think he’ll yeah fairly well over there as well Sammy faki I don’t know where he’s gonna cope with the heat okay no I don’t know either but yeah no it’s just weird when you see like a
Finnish he yeah from Finland isn’t he yeah yeah he is yeah kind of like sweating buckets in in the heat speaking of heat Matt right let’s change the subject completely so for those of you that keep a breast of what we’re doing on social media those of you
That follow us on golf Shake watch our videos on the YouTube channel you’re going to be seeing lots lots more content from us very soon that we filmed over in Portugal because myself Matthew um Darren Ben and Tom went over to um kindon daggo didn’t we we were there we
Went last Sunday spent four pretty action-packed and full days there um doing lots and lots of stuff that you can do around the estate of kter so we enjoyed three of the golf courses in lenal kter north and kter south we also went to the sports campus we went to the
Gym we e in a lot of the restaurants we used the range the PA McGinley performance center that was there we met the teaching pros and obviously also played lots and lots of golf while we were there as well so we were filming uh tuition series which will be coming out
In the in the next few weeks in the runup to the season but also some Club review stuff that we didn’t get chance to do because of the terrible weather here in the UK so we’ve actually hit some out on the golf course out there as
Well and those of you that um have been on the social media channels we did some Instagram lives each day didn’t we on each of the courses that we played and yeah whether it was a part three or or um some of the part fours out there we
We did something out on the golf course so you know it it was good it was action-packed it was absolutely full of stuff but yeah what was your kind of take on on the the few days that we spent over there so I’m going to say two things firstly the Highlight was definitely
Paddle okay yeah it was good actually we had a good game of paddle didn’t we which was uh my first time was it your first time yeah my first time too yeah yeah it was great really enjoyed it’s something that I’ve wanted to try for ages but I think in that doubles format
It’s it’s brilliant you just literally running around all the time it’s a bit easier than playing sing I would imagine singles is very tiring yeah um but doubles seems pretty pretty friendly and pretty good um but it’s just it was a nice workout and it was nice and sunny
On that day as well wasn’t it nice and warm and we were uh yeah we were boiling in that little glass we were Yeah by our little Greenhouse so yeah so that was fun um the second thing I’m going to say right is that uh I know a lot of people
From the outside will look in at trips like this and think oh yeah you know it’s just you know just playing golf three days in the sun um and potentially maybe the last day might have been a bit of that but the first day in particular
On the Monday um that was a very long day what people don’t see is they don’t see the early start at you know we was up at the golf course by 10 7 well I think we yeah we were up I mean I don’t what time you’re alarm off but
It was half six wasn’t it and then we left left quar to seven to get to the golf course um sort of went you know had a look around the clubhouse took took a few video around there um went to the range and kind of took a little bit
There and then yeah got onto the golf course and started filming didn’t we so yeah it was it was a it was a big day wasn’t it really yeah yeah but then after after we finish after we finish the golf like what people are going to
See is people are going to see these short Punchy two three minute videos uh whether it’s Club reviews whether it’s tuition um and they all look great individually but what people don’t see is the fact that you guys and I say you guys I was there doing some Social Media
Stuff and hitting but yourself and Tom in particular um you know like once you finish Golf and then you have a bit of lunch then you’re back on the driving range TR another three four hours in the heat just constantly talking constantly recording yeah and you know that that
Was I mean I I’m I understand how these sort of things work but um I think it’s good that people kind of understand that it’s not just a jolly right there’s a lot of hard work that goes into these trips it definitely wasn’t the Jolly I
Mean it it was nice being there in some nice weather and it being nice and warm but it was it was absolutely not a jolly particularly that first honestly I don’t think I’ve ever been as mentally exhausted in my life as I was that first
Day that we got there yeah not only did we obviously play golf which was great fun don’t get me wrong but it was like you said an early start we’re up in the dark weren’t we then um got bit to shrs yeah got bitten by mosquitoes like you
Wouldn’t believe but then uh straight after that yeah we were at the performance center filmed in there didn’t we with with two of the um well one the head pro there um Callum and then Tara one of the teaching Pros there took us around the academy and then we
Got to go onto the Paul McGinley um sort of design short game area and put in B didn’t we really at the top end of the range and yeah we filmed I reckon we must have filmed about 25 videos while we were up there which was mental um but
Yeah by the end of it was probably three and a bit hours straight of just me talking really which you know I’m sure is boring to it’s boring to me so it must be boring to a lot of you guys but yeah just to make lots of little short
Twom minute um sort of coaching videos as well as some of the best of golf club videos that we’ve made Honestly by the time it got it started getting dark as well didn’t it when we left so it was literally From Dawn till Dusk we were
Working um I didn’t have any words left in my body really that night I can’t where did we go for food that night was at the Stak restaurant we went to bino didn’t we the I literally sat at the table almost like Shell Shocked didn’t really have much
Left but no it was great yeah didn’t stop me from shoveling down some of that steak though that was really good yeah it was good it was good very very good I mean um that’s another highlight for me was the sort of restaurant experience that we had while we were there and it
Wasn’t just the so we went to two standout I would say restaurants while we were there so bino which is uh kind of steak steak house really there and we were it was almost like a sharing menu that we had so there was five of us there uh Darren unfortunately the
Vegetarian um didn’t get to taste any of this amazing stake but you know his loss was definitely our game mate wasn’t it and um the four of us sort of took tued into some nice cuts of of meat around the table there lots of different sort of sources and sides and things like
That that we tried as well as a really nice kind of mixed plated starter that was fantastic um we we also went to the sports bar at um Danos didn’t we so we went there a couple of times in eight which was great um there was obviously
Sport on at the time one evening that we were there and and it was quite a nice atmosphere we went to the cheeky pup didn’t we the uh Irish kind of Pub restaurant which was great on the final night we were there you know typical sort of Pub grub but very good quality
Pub grub I would say um the kids would called that place viby I think yeah I would have said so I would maybe wouldn’t use that term myself but it was definitely there was some atmosphere there wasn’t there yeah it was it was very much a a kind of I don’t know it
Felt like a bit of a community hub for kind delanga really there lots of people it was Valentine’s Day actually we were there wasn’t it yeah um there wasn’t many couples there though to be honest there was just lots of people enjoying it having a couple of pints of Guinness and the Champions
League was on as well wasn’t it so so watching bit of that um but for me the standout that we had was um going to there’s a Japanese restaurant um that was there called Umami which which is immense I mean it was probably one of the best dining experiences I’ve ever
Had we’ve got a video coming up but um we’re going to talk a little bit more about our experience there which was just phenomenal I thought the service was was different class to anywhere I’ve been in a long time and the food itself it was was just fantastic it was using
Lots of kind of local produce um to the to the obviously area around kter and in Portugal but obviously Japanese dishes which were which were fantastic so yeah there’s tons of stuff to come but it was yeah it was full on mate was it for a few days and
Um you know just it was great to from a personal Point that’s the first time I’ve played golf since I was in Texas last that was on Halloween last that is is a long time ago um just purely because of the weather over here and I’m going I’m going to Turkey next
Friday mate so um I’ll be playing a pram over there so I won’t have actually played golf in the UK for a long time um and I don’t see that changing anytime soon with a look of the weather forecast in the middle of this week but yeah it
Was a hell of a trip wasn’t it and good to sort of experience pretty much everything that kinta had to offer yeah I would definitely agree do you want are we are we talking courses are we going to have a little yeah come on let’s talk about that so we started you you’ve
Already said we started at Len gal didn’t we right so that was the first day of our trip obviously you’ve written the course review but yeah you talk a little bit for a couple of minutes on what you thought yes so LEL blew me away
To be honest um I think that it’s I think if you go to a place like Kinder and you come across a course like lenel I think it’s perfect for um golfers of all abilities right because it is quite the fair rays are quite wide if you go offline you’re going to
Struggle a little bit but you you should at all golf courses um I love the fact that there’s loads of different T boxes that you can pick from so you know if you’ve got people that maybe don’t hit it as far they can still enjoy the you
Know the water features coming into play and bunkers coming into play um but I think it was just like the the way that the the day started it was a little bit dull wasn’t it to start with we waited a few holes for the sun to come out and
Then when it did boy did that go really really good um I I I liked the fact that it was fairly uh it felt like it was on an open piece of land so some some holes were fairly tree lines there was lots of elevation changes which I love but
There’s just these little little gaps and where you’d could look past one green and see the Fairway and another green and another t- box you could see a lot more of the golf course um and I just find that really really appealing on the eye um and the Coes were in like
The greens were in such good condition rolling really nicely we talked about that little um that kind of like crunch that your pitchmark repairer makes as it just top service of the green than the squelch that you get walk yeah um and it just you know it gives you confidence you’re getting good
As um you know it helps that you know we made birdies between us which was which was nice yeah so yeah so that was really good and then we played the North Course the second day didn’t we y um and the second day was a little bit
Overcast um and that course felt a lot tougher especially off the tea we talked about this in a few of the videos that we did where um you really needed to keep it in play if you can keep it in play you can definitely score um but keeping it in play
It was definitely a step up wasn’t it in terms of difficulty I thought than LEL was more fun I thought to play um but because it kind of eased us into the trip quite nicely I thought you know you could hit spray it off the tea a bit
Which some of us did you could Mis greens you had a bit of a chance getting up and down there’s a bit more water on it I would say than the others but but you had to be quite a way off to be in trouble really didn’t you and it was
Yeah whereas north kind of got you thinking a little bit more about it but then also with the north what what I found is if you did go offline there was no oh you might be on the next Fairway you’re hitting the trees and you’re dropping down and you’re either behind a
Bush or you’re on the pine straws or you’ve got trees and it you know you can you might be lucky and you might have a gap and you might be a to advance it out a little bit but more often than not it’s just chip it out get it back in
Play um but not the longest course um you know even off the te’s that we played it uh the second set of te’s back the goals we played it wasn’t wasn’t crazy long um no it wasn’t but it wasn’t until after when I was doing a little
Bit of research about the course and that’s what um I think it was Paul McGinley helped redesign it and that’s what they were saying that actually they wanted this to be uh plot your way around strategy off the te rather than bombit bomit bombit everywhere and I think sometimes we just
Guilty of just grabbing the driver and just trying to hit it as far as you can but actually if you hitting longer irons and free wordss off a lot of the te’s you can you can definitely put score around there um and again some nice views a lot a fair bit of elevation
Change um yeah it was I don’t think I enjoyed the north as much as I enjoyed lenel okay and then and then I thought it wasn’t until we played the south on the third day that because I didn’t think lenel was going to get topped but the South topped
Lenel for me yeah um and I could tell that that was going to be the case maybe three or four holes in um you know just the way the holes are framed the way that they’re laid out the condition um you know the first hole kind of gave me
Vura old Vibes where it’s a short path Hill Tre line but quite inviting um and then the second one the par five you a really good um t-shot there I remember you know the fairways kind of feel big and it’s it’s just like it’s almost perfect and then you get you know like
When when I’m writing the features for the course I’m very conscious of writing hole one hole two hole three like I don’t want to talk people but it was difficult to kind of cherry pick especially the front line I found um that doesn’t mean to say the back line
Was bad but I almost found it you know quite difficult to cherry pick two or three hours because we had that one where the water came into play where we kind of both went long and left without realizing you know back a little bit further then after the prob had that
Nice par five where it kind of swooped in around the trees and then the par four going up and then before you know it you’re talking through every single hole but again elevation changes um some of the views the back n was definitely I mean the way that I played the back it
Was definitely tougher like well yeah I mean like like I said to you before playing it once you get to that that 14th hole where it’s like downhill you’ve got the water on your right you you play into the green that and then you play 15 the PA three straight over
The water where we did an Instagram live which is a feature whole 16 which then goes down to the lake which we were at doing some filming that morning we got the Drone out didn’t we on the on the lake we got got Tom to actually land it
On a little green that was out there as well so hopefully we’ll get that on uh on social media for you guys to see because that was quite cool and then um yeah when you play uh 18 as well when you’re hitting it over the over the
Water there long par five and it 17 sorry 17 and then yeah the par four um to finish just s such a good good finish finishing stretch I for me 14 to 17 are the best best stretch on the golf course really and then um yeah and then the
Last hole is obviously quite nice as well but you know a little bit shorter a little bit easier sort of sort of hole but um yeah the South for me is is the one and and that’s kind of reflected a little bit in the price so I mean you’re
You’re talking sort of 150 Euros to play Len gal and the the North and the South’s about 3040 EUR more expensive so they they are Punchy in terms of price but um you know if if you’re looking at going you’re obviously going to be on a package and and probably something a
Little bit more cost effective than that you know for for instance I mean you know looking at what golfbreaks.com are doing at the moment there’s some great packages to play the three and stay over and things like that for a fraction of what the green fees would would be if
You paying for them individually and um you’ve obviously got some great accommodation um there as well so um we we looked at the Windom Grand didn’t we um and also the Magnolia Hotel which are the two that um are kind of on not on site but they they’re within the kind
Laggo kind of complex and Village if you like and we actually stayed in some of the Villas that were right near the clubhouse didn’t we which which were great too um so there’s tons of accommodation there lots of different things to suit different budgets as well
You don’t have to spend the entire world um and and I thought the restaurants some of the ones we went to particularly like the Danos of this world and was it Coco that was near the range that we went too um and obviously The Cheeky pop
In terms of in terms of price I didn’t think they were too bad either so I think you can go on a pretty decent trip there have a few beers and and um have some nice food and not break the bank which which I I think is a really good
Thing as well because a lot of golf courses now are kind of really ramping prices up aren’t they particularly um some that you know a few years ago might have been 50 60 70 euros to play and now well over a 100 which some of them I don’t think represent particularly Great
Value but I thought all three of the courses at Kinder did yeah no definitely I’d agree and I think the one thing that we haven’t mentioned is the fact that the the whole area is so close to the airport it was 15 20 minutes in the car
From the airport which um you know it’s not it’s not a deal breaker for me but I know some people you know don’t want to get in a car or a transfer for a couple of hours from an airport um you know yeah you could land at 10 o’clock and
You could be hitting hitting Balls by 11 yeah you could quite easily yeah um yeah I think we were sort of out the airport and and it was about 40 minutes wasn’t it from hitting the TAC to was you know they got the luggage out really quickly
We got the car quite quickly didn’t we and we were off so yeah it was um it was good um the drive from Len gel back to uh back to K was it was like going through Jurassic Park but um but I think we went the wrong way
Actually because we like can’t be down there um but it was but yeah anyway yeah that was that was a bit of a hairy one but yeah generally I I thought it was very good so convenient it’s a while since I’ve been there like I said um while we
Were there it was I think I was probably 15 years old last time I played K South which was obviously 20 years ago so um it’s changed a bit since then I don’t even think Len gal was there at that time um I think it’s obviously a newer
Edition and I’d only played the South I’d never played the north so know it was it was great to get out there and play the golf course again and we were treated to some pretty nice weather when we landed on that Sunday it was a bit
Rainy wasn’t it yeah and we were kind of thinking oh God we’ve just come from the Rainy UK to to Portugal that’s that’s not anywhere well not any better really I mean the temperature was better don’t get me wrong but yeah that sort of Sunday afternoon we hit some balls
Didn’t we and then went food Sunday night we got up Monday morning and it yeah it was lovely wasn’t it it was sort of between 18 and 20 degrees and once the mosquitoes had disappeared it was it was nice wasn’t it really nice yeah so
Yeah good trip was had by all keep your eyes peeled there’s loads of content coming for you to watch um my voice box is Testament to um to yeah how busy we were when we there but yeah really really good time so Matt what does the
Next seven days hold for you what you gonna be up to um so we are supposed to be playing at the Grove on Thursday oh nice um yeah so it’s actually uh it’s my birthday on Thursday oh so uh no I’m way off that yet mate oh
Really um yeah just look it and feel it so yeah so actually I’ll be honest um I played my my golf this last week so I actually played Monday Tuesday Wednesday in Portugal didn’t play Thursday but played Friday at Felix though um and my golf got progressively worse as the week
Got on so I shot like yeah I shot four over Monday six over Tuesday about 46 over on Wednesday um and I didn’t have a good time time at Felix time I mean I shot 10 over but that was the best it was going to be um but frustratingly I
Feel like I’m hitting the ball pretty well so I’ve actually gone and done the last uh a couple of sessions over this weekend and again today because I’ve worked up the golf club today um so I’ve nipped out and did some putting um I’m just need to kind of dial things back in
A little bit I feel like I’ve just got a little bit sloppy so I’m going to do a little bit of practice um this week and then yeah get to the Grove on Thursday it’s raining or not we’ll wait and see it probably will um but that course
Should drain pretty well I think Thursday’s all right Wednesday looks a bit wet doesn’t it so but the golf course here so I’m sitting at Stone Market my first home and that’s been closed since Sunday today are we closed tomorrow it took a some of the pictures that we saw of the
Course it’s as bad as I’ve ever seen it in the five nearly six years I’ve been a member here so you know at the moment just shout out to the green Keepers that are battling it it’s been such a wet winds are we’re getting so much rain um
Just to have a bit of patience guys because they’re doing it’s disheartening not just for but for you know me members are you you know some of the comments you hear are pretty stupid but yeah I mean that most are quite sympathetic to the problem aren’t they they want to get
Out and play as well and you know it’s it’s just yeah frustrating really isn’t it but yeah hopefully hopefully fingers crossed we’re in the kind of we’ve seen the back of it and you know we’re going to have a nice upward trajectory towards the nice weather in the summer but yeah
Who knows but um yeah like I said this next week I’m just just busy so I’ve been busy coaching all day today pretty much all day tomorrow and Wednesday um bit quiet Thursday coaching Friday Saturday and then yeah next week sort of Monday to Thursday is pretty steady and then I
Go to Turkey Friday really early Friday morning so um it’ll be like a travel day really on the Friday we’re playing a bit of a practice round on the Saturday day off on Sunday and then the tournament is Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and then back home
Friday again so yeah we’ve got two c two courses that we’re playing we’re staying at the Titanic hotel which is um in bck and well just outside Bell should I say and um not stayed there before I’ve played one of the golf courses before but it was very new uh they’ve kind
Of um so there’s two courses at tght well Titanic or the cullin and golf club um so basically in the last few years they’ve changed what was 27 H to 36 um so there are now two golf courses on on the property so you’ve got I think
One’s called the olympos and one the aspendos I think they’re called the courses I’ve played one of them I don’t know which one it is the more Inland of the two but it was just as they’d kind of relayed it and it was a bit new and not particularly in great Nick but
Obviously that was was three years ago so it’s obviously had three years growing in I’m sure it’ll be great when we get there um and then the other course is over more towards the coast so I think the view should be a little bit nicer from there so we’ll see and then
Our practice round we’re playing is at Kaaya Palazo which is the next Resort down which I’ve not played there before um but looks looks uh pretty good so yeah any of you that have played any them courses before you know give us um some feedback hit us up with a message
And um and let us know how we get on but I’ll be taking some pictur while I’m there um we’ve got a few review bits to do I’ve got two new pairs of Adidas shoes to to review while I’m there so um they well the S to G shoe which
They’ve changed or Street to golf shoe that they’ve done brand new one um that I got through the post the other day and there’s also a brand new shoe that I can’t talk about but um it’s uh yeah it’s good well I think you you’ll see it
Next week so have you had the you know pummer not yet no no hopefully it’ll be days I’m still waiting as well come on pummer what’s it called Nitro the alpha cat Nitro I think Alat Nitro that’s the one yeah I’ve seen lots of pictures of
It well I saw it about four or five months ago when I did my pre-book and it it did look really smart but um yeah I should be getting a pair through the post any day hopefully to um to do a review of but yeah that it’s kind of the
Season it seems like this a season of Footwear now foot jooy I’ve had a few new pairs out um we had a Nike pair that we did a review of while we’re in Portugal as well so yeah there’s a fair few um different pairs of shoes there
Some more Nike ones I’ve seen because Brooks kep go War them for the first time the other week um that are there kind of I think they’re called Infinity next percentage shoe that they do which looks quite good um but yeah lots and lots of Footwear stuff coming um in the
Coming weeks on the YouTube channel so yeah keep your eyes peeled for those going to finish off very quickly with your claim to fame are we allowed to talk about that you my claim to fame yeah you know you’re uh your little rubbing shoulders in Portugal when
Somebody coming to approach you yeah can do yeah forgot about how could you forget about that tell the world tell the millions of fans who stopped you and said Ryan I love your content keep doing what you’re doing he didn’t say that what he said was hello mate and shook my
Hand it was it was the one and only former World sneer Champion Mr John parrot that I saw um so I’d never met John before but he walked up to me as if he’d known me for about 20 years shook my hand and automatically I’m thinking
He thinks I’m somebody else but then he started talking about golf videos um to which I obviously had a nice conversation with him but yeah really really nice guy and I was a bit kind of it wasit a weird weird um conversation really because I’m thinking all the time
I’m almost trying to make what am I going to say to make him feel better because he’s got the wrong person but no he said um he said that he’d been watching some of the review stuff this year and and keep making the YouTube videos and he was enjoying them so yeah
There you go hopefully he sees this on the YouTube and he gets in touch yeah contact us John we want to talk to you about golf yeah we want to want to ask you some questions about you know your game and how you got into this crazy
Sport but yeah it was a bit of a weird one it was I saw him and I was thinking but hell John and then he came straight sh my hand so yeah it’s weird but yeah there we go I’d forgotten about that Matt thanks for bringing that up great
That’s all right so yeah that’s it so that’s all we’ got time for my uh my claim to fame at the end but yeah we’ll be back next week uh with a little bit rundown of what’s going on in professional golf as well as loads more
To bring you um to help you play more and play better so we’ll speak to you soon bye
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