Riggs Full Round At The Keep (McLemore Resort)

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All right, folks. Welcome to the keep. We are doing a different kind of video today. We’ve done this a few times before. People seem to like it. So, we’re doing an update on my golf game by me playing the keep at McLemore by myself. We’re playing the blue TE’s here, which are 6600 yards or so. It’s a little bit windy. We played this golf course a few days ago. We played his two man scramble. So, I’ve seen it before. It’s that simple. Me, Jonesy, my guy Jacob on the bag. We’re going to roll around this golf course and just see what we shoot. Shot for shot, ball and hole. Big thanks to Body Armor going to power us through this. This thing’s delicious. Strawberry banana hydration good for you. Delicious. Big thanks to Shipsticks. Got our clubs here. Get our clubs home. You don’t have to drag them through the airport. You have to worry about anything. You just bang, sign up, leave them on your doorstep. They arrive wherever you’re going to be. And then Chevy. We got here through a Chevy Chevrolet together. Let’s drive. The EVs are phenomenal. Iconic American brand. And this is an iconic golf course. It’s new. You’re going to see a lot about it over the next few years cuz it’s spectacular. So, here we go. [Music] Oh god. Run. Forever. Yeah, it’s fine. Honestly, insane where that thing went. All right, it’s fine, boys. Good luck, everyone. Yep. Good luck. Thank you. All right, Jonesy. This is a big swing for the round here. We got 254 pins all the way in the deep back right. Wind’s hard off the left. All trouble short. So, I’m aiming way left. I got a 3-wood. I’m going to try to throw it up in the air left. And if the wind takes it towards the green, that’s great. That was [ __ ] awesome. Come on, Jonesy. You know, that was a nerve-wracking swing. The whole video could be over on that swing where I just go back and I’m like, I’m just going to play after those guys and film a different video. But nope, good yardage there. You know, this was one of the holes in my dreams last night when I was thinking about this round that I was like, we got to get through that without much damage. Because I mean get any hole in any round you could make a mess up, but other than like there’s only three or four where I was like there’s some big shots you need to like really get through up the hill then down the hill. Yeah. Like three or four feet outside left downwind. Wow. God, I thought that was pretty good when I hit it. Holy cow. For a long time. I just can’t believe how fast that was. Bang, Jonesy. Come on. You know that’s amazing. Four, Jacob. Come on. Look at him. He’s got the drone. Yeah. Let’s go. That was huge. Even a five I would have been fine with, but a four is [Music] nice. I love this hole. Split fairway here. Par five. Wind is helping. Pin looks like it’s kind of back right again. It’s going to be a tricky pin, but can deal with that when we when we cross that bridge and we come to it. Little trick of the trade here. There’s ground under repair up the right side. So you can kind of blast this to the right if you need to. And then you get like a little bit of relief. So you got to use the rules to your advantage when you can tee in a little lower. I usually just have a little bit more control when I tee it lower. So te it low, swing away. I’m going to try to open the face a little at a dress just to keep it from turning over. And then uh like I said, you can miss as far right as you want. You’re fine. So if that’s what happens, that’s what happens. Yeah. Yeah. Just in the right rough kind of where I was trying to hit it. Strawberry banana. God, that is really good. I really like those flash eyepiece. They’re good, aren’t they? They are. After a little night of cocktails, those are nice. See, Jacob likes to flash IV. So, again, a little education, brand new course. Um, ground under repair. We obviously can’t hit off that. So, you might see that a few times today. It’s why I kind of whacked it over here on purpose. So, we just dropped it right in this grass. Hit from there. Again, rules are rules. I mean, I did just rip a 3-wood. So, I might as well hit it again and just get it up there as far as I can. Cuz with my wedge, I usually just the closer I am, the better I feel. So, I might as well just do that. Oh, riggedy boy. Good thing we didn’t do that on the first one. Safe. All right. It makes the next shot a little harder. All right. We’re aiming this about 30 ft left of the pin. Greens are firm downwind. It’s going to be hard to stop it. So, I’m just trying to hit it middle of the green. If the wind takes it, that’s great. Just in the left rough, I think. Plenty of club there, rigs. I was really just an idiot there. 60°, please. Going to move left to right on the green, huh? Back. Damn, that was kind of a hard spot. All right, this is makeable. Very makeable. A little bit scared of it, gang. Okay. Sloppy but one [Music] over. All right, we got 123 straight into some serious wind. It’ll tell you how much wind there is. I’m hitting an eight iron. So, I’m going to choke down on an eight iron and try to hit the little draw just right of it. Okay, just just short of the right edge there. I kind of stuck it into the ground and flared it a little, but it’s just about pin high on the right side. So, we got a long birdie. Look. Thank you. Kind of kicks it that way. Yeah. Kind of kicks it up a little. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I’m going to chip it. I changed my mind. Yeah. I don’t I don’t love the putt. I just think it could bounce here and like be hard to figure out what it’s going to do. Just stabbed it a little. It does look pretty straight. You got to play it dead straight. All right. Pulled it. All right. [Music] Bogey. Literally get the ball in the air with a little bit of a draw uh just right of that tree and it should be way up there. I remember last time we had like a wedge in. I hit my I hit one of my better drives last time. So, I like this hole. I think it’s fine. Right. Wind kind of switched. Yeah, it did switch. Turned like right into me. That’s going to be a long shot in now, but that’s all right. Just off the back left. Okay, good strike. Hard to go right at it there. It would have been the right number, but I just didn’t have the balls to do it. Just not really driving it well yet. Come on, man. Been driving it so good lately. Let’s go. You got to commit. Just get through it. Hit the inside of that golf ball. God, that took a horrible bounce. Took like a low skid bounce. I know. Instead of that like I was looking for a little bit of love on that first kick. Yeah. Really? That chip I thought was going to be money. Got to stay active, boys. You know, keep the body firing. Got to try to hit it up at that bunker. If it turns over, great. It’s kind of the move. I think that’s my worst swing of the trip. God, I’m just waiting forever, man. God. That is very difficult. God damn, man. That’s it. All right. Well, at least it’s sitting up nice. Yeah, sure is. Look at that. Sevenwood fitted at the right edge of the green. It’s going to come out nice out of here. All right, dude. The sevenwood. That’s a uh that’s an ad for the sevenwood right there. Like that thing is so sick. You can really hit that thing out of anywhere. I was in the middle of a creek basically. All right, get that 60°. You got to be kidding me. Oh, it’s supposed to take that firm balance instead. It just hit total dirt and died. That is just horrible. Hey, Jar. Hey. How you playing rigs? Not very good, Jerry. It’s okay. Still got a lot of time. I got to wait 20 minutes every swing. It’s kind of pretty tough. Yeah. Good speed. Thanks. Oh boy. Frustrating. One down. J. Two down. Two down now. But I I don’t know where they’re at. Two down stroke play. Yeah. All right. You know, I my my my first chips have been not the best. So in a par three they birdied. That’s a great birdie. Yeah, they birdie. Okay, four over through five. Couple birdie holes here coming up. Couple good driver swings, couple good wedges, and we can uh let’s get one back on these next two, you know, down. I think it’s going to be okay. One the other day was okay. I know that’s what I The other one was hit better. That one just depends on the bounce. Yeah, exactly. I was trying to hit it low. Not that low. Trying to hit that low draw. I just I’m not quite using my body. Just kind of like body’s just asleep. Got to get it involved. Might have to start doing some squat jumps on the tea. Rocket jumps. You ever do those? Hell yeah. Just [ __ ] it. Just do like a hundred of those. Oh my god. You do like 10 right now, pass out. Fine. Wait, that it? Yeah, that’s it. Yeah. Oh, bro, dude. It was It was hard to tell. Yeah. I mean, it’s fine. I was try again. I was trying to hit a low draw with that bunker and turn it and I just pulled it a little, but it should be fine. It’s a little wedge in. None of this tummy sticks [ __ ] with this golf course. Swinging it like a donkey. I got to swing it like a man. All right. I’m hit a little pitching wedge. I think it’s got to be a 110 115 shot into this wind. Really don’t want to flirt with it too much. So, I’m going to try to hit it just right of it. And if it draws back in towards it, that’s great. Get down. [ __ ] it. Okay, that was pure starting to find it. Let’s go make a putt. That had a nice sound to it. Finally actually committed to just getting through the ball. That was a little compression session there. Held held its line perfectly in the wind. That’s what we like to see. Kind of a downhill slider. Wow. What do you think? Looks like it might go right. Okay. I like that. Yes. Okay. There we go. Momentum he said. All right. Now we’re back. We had a little stretch. That’s always going to happen. A little rocky there in the middle, but we’re back. I made a nice par, Jar. There you go. Yeah. That’s it, buddy. Keep going. How’ the last hole go? Even. Okay. You make par. They made par. Yeah. All right, Jerry. Yeah. Hey, keep it up, Jerry. Yeah. I like your spot you’re in right now. Me, too. I love it. Yeah. [Music] Okay, part five here. Downwind. Te it high. Let it fly. Here we go. Yeah, that’s a good one. Bamos sounded like Jerry made one. I heard him chanting. Still a little tentative, but it’s out here. I think we’re going be able to whack it up there near the green. Probably 260 out or something downwind. All right. This is a uh same three what I hit on the first hole. Just [ __ ] like you’re saying, get a little bit loose and just let it go. Be in that bunker. Yeah, I think that’s likely in that bunker. Not the worst spot. Jacob’s loving the drone action. So, a good one to do that you’ll love is like drive it backwards and do a reveal. So, like pull. So, what you could do is like go a little bit backwards like this and then start moving the camera like that and you can start to do like your Isn’t that cool? So, so you learn how they like work together. So yeah, you can like play with that is is sick. That’s like a really cinematic shot. And then you can start tilting it too with like the L bumper, right? The bumper so that it like comes up like this and stuff. It’s sick. I think it might have helped. I think it did. I think it would have been We’re hitting all kinds of stuff today, dude. I think that helped. I think it was going to like die. All right. That was insane. What an interesting round. Yeah, we got a good look for Bur. Yeah, cuz that would have died. A couple more feet would have been good, but I think it would have hit here and gone back. That’s a great break. Let’s capitalize. That’s hilarious. All right, right-handed golfer’s dream here. Just right to left down the hill. You just get it started. Gravity should take it right towards the hole. Okay. Par. Damn. I had it. I’m just hitting it gutlessly. Play B four over 27. Oh, wrong thing. [Music] I’m going to hit a draw just at the uh maybe like 40 ft right of it. That’s fine. Totally fine. Hit it a hair clunky, but not bad. Okay, 40 or 50 footer here up the hill. It goes pretty good right to left and then straightens out there. Jacob, this thing’s all about speed. A lot of confidence in the line. All about the speed. You just lag it up there within 5 ft. We can make that hit. Got up there. Okay. Just going to go a little right. Yeah. The valley’s that way. Come on. Okay. Good up and down. I know. All right. We’re grinding right now. We’re grinding right now. Good read, my man. Good read. [Music] All right. I think they’re up by the green, aren’t they? Okay. Yeah, I think it’s probably between them. Again, I’m not quite swinging that great, but it’s fine. It’s straight. I just want people to know if you go look at the PJ tour and you go look at scoring averages when it’s windy versus when it’s not windy. It’s just harder to play golf in the wind. So, it’s blowing out here right now. This hole is into a good 20 mph wind right now. It doesn’t sound like it because we got the mic on, but wind is definitely a factor of four over through eight. Starting to find a little bit of momentum. I hit that one actually better than I thought. If we’re in if we’re in the trust tree, I thought that wasn’t as good, but into the wind, I’d pipe that down. This is in position A. Come on, man. I like, you know, between you and me, people watching. I just really wanted to play some pretty good golf today. So, four over through eight. We’re in a good spot here. Come on. Playing this about a 150 shot. We got 131 down to 126 into a good I think it’s at least 20ish yards wind. And uh I’m going to hit it at that little tree behind the green. That little like dead tree. Try to draw it towards the pin. Okay. Just left. Just short left. Pulled it a little. Trying to like take a lot of club and just flight it through. And I, you know, I probably quit on a little too much, but that’s a fun flight to shot. But also, just from there, it’s like so easy into when the wind’s off the left, it’s so easy to leave the face open and your ball just goes way right. So, I was trying to like last second be like, don’t do that. And then you pull it. But this isn’t a bad spot. Pretty straightforward. A little right to left on the green. All right. Okay. All right, my friend. Right to left valley’s that way. The wind’s kind of messing with me cuz I think the wind wants to push it a little. Yeah, you’re right. Down here, it does not look like it breaks much at all. Okay. Jesus. Tried to jam it in there. That was a snap that way. [ __ ] me. All right, gang. We are five over through nine. Kind of a sloppy bogey there on nine. That was frustrating, but we are on a pretty good streak right now. We got a par five here. I’m still back into the wind, so it’s not the easiest, but there’s a big fairway. Gonna try to hit a hard draw off the right center. And if it cuts, I meant to hit a cut. So, Whoa, that was bad. Have not hit one like that all day. Jeez. Okay, so I’ll bounce it in there. Just trying to think what am I I got to get some distance out of this to be able to get home in three, right? I don’t even know if the four iron’s going to get over that. I think it will. You know, it’s not an easy shot. Not sitting very good. That’s safe. I was in that [ __ ] hole. Look at this ball. This is going to be a wild result. There’s just mud all over this ball. All right, I just got to smash throughwood as best I can. I have no idea how this mud’s going to react, everyone. This could be interesting. Did you see that? I hit that pretty good, actually. That was insane. I hit that right in the middle of the face. You can see the mud. You can see the mud right in the middle of the face. What is it to that bunker on the right? I can just hit it over that bunker. Is that the plan? bunker. All right, let’s see. One into the grove. Two topped out. Three into the ground and repair. Four. This is my fifth shot. I need to make this for park. Great shot, Rigs. Thank you, Jerry. Come on, Jerry. We’re even now, baby. Where you I love that. What a comeback. I know. Three holes in a row. So good. Okay. Be a rigy bogey here for sure. Just my old lungey slap dick t- shot. Top to four iron. Mud ball. Shout out to Bubble Watson. Three-wood. Another 3-wood wedge. All right. Up the hill a little left to right. Okay. Close. Oh man. Ugly double there. Ugly. Goes to seven over with one of the harder shots coming up on the golf course. It’s hard out here. Very difficult. Beautiful view. [Music] 53 playing 151. Hit it at the left center of the green is the plan. All right. Couldn’t tell what that wind was doing. I don’t know if it was helping. I know. It starts hauling. Suck it up the hill. The next par four is a short one. Yeah. Smash it up there down with the wind. Hopefully helping now. Little wedge in. We got to make some birdies. Stop playing like a little [ __ ] and make some birdies. Playing defensive. Play offensive. You know, best defense is good offense. Just played a little too much break. breaks off the planet. Look at that. Jesus Christ. God damn. It’s just a [ __ ] solid took a horrible bounce. All right. Yeah, I know. I just zero birdie looks is very frustrating. Bad bad bad ball [Music] striking. Just going to hit it at the left edge of the house. That’s probably the play, right? I think a good one here. You just got like a wedge in, right? That is so horrific, dude. Almost fell over. What’s over there in that side? Trying like a hund different things now. I got no idea how to hit it all of a sudden. [ __ ] Hey. There we go. That was the first actual golf shot of the day. That’s exciting. All right, Jones, we got a birdie look finally. Fun. How you playing? Okay, I’m start, you know, I made par there and I got a birdie look here. There you go. That was a little compression session. I’m starting to uh I’m starting to do is lean onto my left side cuz I get tired. So you just stay on your left side. You don’t get over to your right and then you got no power shifting from your right. So on that one, I tried to really feel in my back swing like I got over to my right side and then send it through. Oh, we’re making this one, Jacob. Come on. Okay, starting to hit it better. However, still got a part five left. Yeah, that was a good shot in there. That was a hard one to figure out the break cuz the canyon’s that way, but we’ll take that. 61 playing 167 straight into the wind. I hit a five iron in the exact same shot yesterday over the green. So, I’m going to try to hit the same shot with a sixiron. Oh my god. Is that right next to it? That’s got to be really close. Come on. That was a dart. Here we go. No, it’s rolling off the green. No. Oh my god. Stay. That’s a pretty good spot. You’re fine. Looked like it was right there. Was coming to your feet. Damn. I was over it thinking like this is probably a five iron, but it was like it’s gusty. It’s like Yeah. It’s just tough. That’s one of the harder shots of the day. Just like you could get that going, dude. We saw that group behind us. They had guys all over the place. Yeah. All right. My god. Jesus. I know. I thought that was in. Okay. It’s a hard hole today. [Music] God, dude. Got a ways out on this P five after a hook that kind of ran through the stuff. So, just hit a 3wood up there into the wind. Smooth. Yeah. Should be good, right? We are nine over par through a smooth 14 and we’re halfway through. So, 14 and 12 holes. We’re nine over. 16 is going to be tough. 17’s awesome little rock hole. And then 18 should be downwind. 16 and 18 should be downwind. You know, if I can hit something up there and make a give some little look for birdie here, then, you know, 17’s a short hole. I really should be able to if I can get the driver cooking for the last three, you know, we should be able to have some decent looks on the last three holes. So, we’re trying to stay positive here. Got that 3wood up here somewhere. Hopefully, we got a short iron in and try to get close to that 80 79. You know, Jerry just asked me. I said I think something breaking 83 or so usually pretty solid. That means you’re about 10 over which you played about half the holes you parred. No birdies yet, which is just devastating, infuriating. So we got let’s give ourselves some look. Let’s lock in. Got to get the driver in the air. That would help a lot. just started coming right back into us, dude. Look at that. Finally just hit a good chip. That’s usually the best part of my game. And I’m [ __ ] glimp [ __ ] all these short game shots. Look at that. Straight into a wall of wind. So folks, the wind is so gusty here. Frankie and I were talking about behind as well. It’s gusty and swirly. So, it was very funny like when we were about to hit that wedge, it was downwind. You could feel it off the left and when I hit it was straight into it, like picked up as we were hitting. Now, it’s straight left to right. Look at the pin is like ripping left to right. So, it has been an absolute battle to try to figure out the winds here. So, hopefully it shouldn’t be too big of an issue on this chip. Okay. Oh my [ __ ] god, man. Boy. Oh boy. That’s frustrating. [Music] It’s just horrible, man. Kick left. I think so. Hey, Rigs, you don’t get club length if you’re not in a scramble. No. No, just got to play the balls alive, Jerry. Unfortunately, good pass. Uh, we got 112. I’m going to hit a little wedge. What was that bounce? Jesus Christ. Just have scraped it around. Nothing impressive. Nothing too horrific. 10th hole was ugly. I guess didn’t break right at all. Huh. [Music] All right. Very cool golf hole here. We’re very much running out of gas. Need a body armor. I’m going to get a body armor here in a second. But unbelievable hole. Kind of a rock stadium on the left and the right. Almost like a horseshoe of rocks up there. So, uh, straight into the wind here. I’m going to try to hit a little draw up there and then hopefully hit one close. Hopefully make a birdie. Oh boy, I just got nothing left. Oh my god. hit a rock and just rocketed across the green. That was insane. That’s insane. A shot like backwards and to the right. Yeah. You know, a couple uh car path marks, couple rock marks. I think that’s from a rock like this one right here. I could have gone anywhere, dude. I think the other day we had a double bounce or one went there and and then there maybe uh that one almost hit the other rock, but that was insane. Oh boy. Oh man, another bogey. Grueling slow death march. All [Music] right, 18th hole. Stunner. Great views all up the right. View from the green is sick. You really want to hit it farther left is what you would look for cuz you got a much shorter angle in. So, I’m going to just try to pound one at the green and hope I miss those bunkers and then uh you know, hopefully hit it close and do something cool. Yep. Pretty good spot there. It was just the ball striking all day, catches up to you. I just drove it horribly all day. When you drive it horribly, you just got you’re just chasing so much. I couldn’t hit with the wind. I couldn’t hit anything close enough either to really have many good birdie looks. I maybe had three or four decent birdie looks. That’s just not enough. Par fives. I played like [ __ ] because I was driving the ball so poorly. But, uh, you know, mid 80s, it’s kind of like couple strokes worse than my scoring average for the year. So, hopefully make a let’s make a birdie here. 136 playing 129. It’s got to be downwind. It just has to be. It’s going to hit a full wedge. I think the wedding’s got to be helping. It’s got to be playing closer to low 120s. I think as long as I hit this pretty pure, it should cover the front edge. So, I’m going to just aim right at it. All right. All right. We got a bird putt. The wind kind of kicked up and took took it a little left, but we’re up there. Another just gorgeous view out here at the uh the keep. Telling you, man, once this grasshole grows in, this place, it already is off the charts, especially the Highlands, course has been there for a while. It’s it’s matured and all that and it looks amazing already. The greens out here are perfect. Half the grass is perfect and once it fully grows in, this is just going to be off the charts. It like sits up on this stadium Zoya which is really nice but as you can see like half of it’s dormant still. You can see sort of the sidelines. It’s a brand new course so it’s starting to grow in a little but what an experience. It’s hard when the wind kicks up as you can tell gusting. Didn’t have my best ball striking today but to be honest you it’s not that far off from my mean is if I if I got a putt for an 84. I think my average for the year is about 81 and a half or something. So you throw in some wind in a new course. That wasn’t my best and also not even close to my worst. I think you guys are shoot seen me shoot like 110 before in the wind. You know, we’re trying to stay positive. We got the boys behind us who have been rooting me on a little bit. So, uh, yeah, let’s make this for an 84. Sounds better than 85. So, let’s do it. Big shout out to Body Armor, Chevy, and our great friends at Shipstick. Soon as I’m done with this round, as you could tell, I’ve been a little frustrated at times. Been a little bit like dragging, as you will, you don’t want to have to drag your clubs around forever. Just bag these things up, see you later, and they appear and wait for you at your house. It’s the nicest thing ever. So, shout out to Shipsticks, too. Wow. Yeah, it was faster than I thought. I thought it was going to be really slow. It feels like it’s way up the hill, but you said it. Fight till the end. That’s what Tiger would do. Fight till the end. Focus on every shot. fight till the end. You know, two great rounds walking. I appreciate the help. I know it was a slow one out there. It’s a little bit of a frustrating battle, but I appreciate you. 85 from your boy today. Big shout out to Body Armor, Shipstick, Chevy, and the Keep here at McLemore. This place is awesome. What a logo. What a place. What a layout. And uh they’re building this thing up to be as epic of a buddies, friends, couples destination, golf destination you could possibly have in the mountains in the at the base of the Appalachian Mount Appalachian. Appalachian. I always say the A too softly. Come on. Appalachian. Um awesome spot. I think that was a smooth 85 13 over. Could have been lower, but guess what? It wasn’t. That’s just the number. That’s what it took. Uh we’ll try to be lower next time. Thank you. Sure.