Royal St David’s Golf Club Review

Nish: 0:00

Every story has an ending. Does our quest to play the top 100 courses in 10 years have a good ending? I’m Nish, I’m Chris and I’m Jim, and we’re here to guide you through this golfing journey. This is the Top 100 in 10 Golf Podcast

Nish: 0:15

Episode 24, the Royal St David’s Golf Club Review.

Nish: 0:19

So we’re on the drive back from our first round of 2025. It’s our fourth round in total, and we’ve had a great day today, haven’t we lads?

Jim: 0:30

We’ve had a stonker we have. It’s been pretty spectacular actually. We struck very lucky with the weather first and foremost, but what a stunning drive to the course and what a scenic course itself.

Chris: 0:43

Yeah, we’re just driving back now, past barma for this absolutely spectacular sunset.

Nish: 0:48

Yeah, brilliant way to finish the day we can give you some apologies for any sound quality issues you’re getting. But, number one, this was the most opportune moment to review a course and we’ve not done one immediately afterwards, have we, as we sort of gather our thoughts on striking whilst the iron’s hot, yeah, which is proving more difficult, uh, for us to remember what we’ve just done. However, uh, yeah, it’s so we could get it out in a timely fashion. So, uh, we do apologize for, uh, any echoiness or anything like that you can hear, but we’ll clean it up as best as we can. So our day has been amazing and that, like, we’ll start with the weather, because that’s always the first thing you start looking out for mid-march Wales links course, right by the coast, the Irish Sea, and I think yesterday, even yesterday morning, the forecast wasn’t looking great, was it, chris.

Chris: 1:40

Heavy rain all afternoon, so we teed off at what? 12.50? Basically, from 12.50 onwards it was going to be heavy rain.

Nish: 1:48

Yeah, 80% chance of rain. Two rain droplets on the weather radar and we’ve woken up in the morning and it was very sunny in Abu Dhabi. We kind of started heading over, actually, before we got in the car and we were kind of like this actually really, really nice, it’s very warm. It’s what’s going on. Uh, jim was loving it because he kept saying don’t say it, don’t say it, don’t say it. But the weather was gorgeous, sun was out. I think we were all kind of regretting layering up so much really speak for yourself.

Nish: 2:25

Yeah, that, actually that was me. So, yeah, we don’t have a weather stunning, and I suppose all golf is great in fantastic weather anyway, isn’t it?

Chris: 2:32

it makes it makes a real difference, I think, to your, to your day, into your round. Just gives you positive vibes, doesn’t it?

Nish: 2:39

happy vibes yeah, what are we attributing the run of luck we’re having with the the weather to?

Chris: 2:46

oh, you’ve gone and done it now haven’t you go on I mean, it has to be a higher power, right, have you been? Have you been praying to someone nish, not a religious man, a? Religious man, superman I was praying to uh yeah it, yeah, it’s been quite ridiculous, really, hasn’t it?

Nish: 3:02

we kept saying it, it’s like probably every two or three hours. We were like what is going on today? This is absolutely amazing. So that made our day go so much better. It was packed today on the course, so pace and play wasn’t great. It’s taken us about four and a half hours to get around as a three ball, which is quite long. Yeah, slow day wasn’t it, but we didn’t mind because it sort of took the pressure off. We could enjoy the sun and, you know, we could enjoy the course course in that respect. So I suppose what are your thoughts on how you played today, chris?

Chris: 3:36

I played all right today. Actually, obviously I’ve been doing since the last top 100. I’ve been putting some actual practice in, whereas the three we played last year had not really done any practice. I’ve played for a long time but, yeah, I feel like the practice has paid off. I played a lot better today than I have on any of the the other top 100s. Um, the putting was still a bit sketchy but um, but yeah, the ball striking was much better I thought you played really really well today.

Nish: 4:02

Actually, I think I think you yeah, you hit it quite consistently well.

Chris: 4:08

Yeah, I mean really, if I put in was and well, I think we got to the sort of 14th, 15th, and then we dropped off a cliff and we got a bit tired.

Nish: 4:15

Yeah, let’s jump to that a second, so we did have a good runner. Should we do our scores, maybe to give people context?

Chris: 4:24

on this or not? Yes, why not? Obviously because runner. So should we do our scores, maybe to give people context?

Nish: 4:29

yes, or not. So we should, because I, because I won, well, of course, yeah, let’s, let’s do the scores then. Uh, I mean, what was it? You scored about 85 points with your uh dodgy handicap on uh on my england golf, but I suppose have you done three rounds now. Is that your, I think? That’s, you have an official handicap it’s a good one to get in, then isn’t it to get your handicap there? Yeah, yeah, we should say that, obviously, jim played with us for the first time today.

Chris: 4:49

Hey Jimbo.

Nish: 4:51

What are your thoughts on your whole experience, your first top 110 experience?

Jim: 4:58

I’ve really thoroughly enjoyed it First time in a Lynx course as well. Obviously, I was a bit disappointed that it wasn’t the true links experience in terms of pissing it down with rain and blowing force, a gale or now why would you go and lie to everybody and say you were disappointed?

Jim: 5:15

so I wasn’t disappointed at all. It was, uh, it was, it was a nice gentle introduction into links golf. Uh, there’s a beautiful scenery and actually when I first went to the range to hit a few practice balls, I was quite surprised how well I was striking the ball.

Chris: 5:30

I was the most surprised, jim. I could just hear balls fizzing away behind me. I was like who’s that, jim?

Jim: 5:34

they’re all going quite a few yards more than you were nailing it.

Nish: 5:39

You were nailing it, and they were going straight.

Chris: 5:41

And then I thought it’s so much that after three you were like, right, fuck it, I’m done here, I’m going to the first team A bit more than that, it was a pretty short warm-up from Jim, wasn’t it? Actually it wasn’t that short bro, I split the balls evenly and then Jim gave me 15 back Rubbish. I reckon yeah, about five balls. You hit there, jim.

Jim: 6:10

Five, five great balls. Don’t get me wrong if you’re going to play that well, with that lack of warm-up, jim, I think you’re outstanding in good stead mate. Yeah, I mean, it’s it. You know, I had, you know, struck the ball pretty well in from time to time and then, obviously, which is always the case with me, it’s the sheer lack of consistency, um, throughout a whole round, and you know some absolute stinking holes where you’re almost getting double figures, and that’s a bit demoralising, I suppose, in some respects. But actually I’m much calmer, I think, getting a little bit older, my patience is something that’s improved.

Nish: 6:37

Do you think you played about the same better or worse than in Inverticon as a regular course?

Jim: 6:45

I think the course itself was quite forgiving in some respects.

Chris: 6:49

Yeah, I think, like we said, playing this time of year, I think the rough hasn’t had a chance to grow. Yeah, so I think actually today was you know you could. I mean, one of my drives went at a 45 degree angle and was absolutely fine. It’s a lot of birdie opportunity. Yeah, I don’t know how you did that, but fair play.

Nish: 7:07

Good recovery, jordan’s feet, well done. Yeah, yeah, I thought you played, I thought the course and that type of course suited your game quite well, jim, because you hit a couple of absolute stonkers, like with the driver today, which I thought suited your game right down to the ground. You actually even got one well high up into the air like a proper proper driver shot jim.

Jim: 7:33

Oh, I know, I know, yeah, shame, shame, we didn’t record that look we didn’t film that one did we?

Nish: 7:38

yeah, uh, talking of filming and that was a disaster. We’ll get to. I suppose we’ll get to that in a bit, but yeah, okay, let’s, let’s give the people the scores so we know what the context is here. So jim scored a very, very creditable 115. To add some context for people what? What would you normally score at a golf course, jim? Where? Where are you? What range are you in usually?

Jim: 8:02

Probably similar to that, maybe a little bit less. It depends. I can have a reasonable round or an absolute disaster.

Nish: 8:10

Yeah.

Jim: 8:12

It’s nowhere near my best score?

Nish: 8:13

No, but it’s on a par with your normal ability or normal score, you’d say.

Jim: 8:18

Yeah, when you play so sporadically, you’re not going to be able to improve. Well, you can’t. You can’t improve massively, you know? Second outing of the year is it on the golf course?

Nish: 8:26

and I suppose what I’m trying to get at there is that one of the things that we all said about the golf course was that it was very playable. You know you could, you could turn up and you know this is jim’s, you know probably what second round this year and first round at a lynx course ever, first round top 110 sort of thing and you know you’ve not walked away and been an absolute wreck at the end of it and gone. Oh no, I’d never want to do that again.

Jim: 8:57

But to be honest, I think with the whole, the whole experience you know, usually when it gets to the 12th hole, 13th hole, I’m absolutely goosed and I just want to go to the 19th hole straight away.

Nish: 9:12

I can usually tell that, by the way, you know when you say 19th hole stance.

Jim: 9:17

Yeah, you know when you used to walk your goodness knows how many kilometers up a hill. And then you know you walk trudging around a golf course just thinking, oh, this is the most tiring thing I’ve ever done. I think it’s mentally draining more than anything else, but I think one of the differences today, and probably because of the nature of the course too- was it the sparkling company?

Nish: 9:36

maybe?

Jim: 9:37

oh, we were. We were all on. Brilliant for me. We’re so happy to be out on the golf. Yeah, go around and get the and get the challenge back up and running again your son did that to us today, didn’t they?

Nish: 9:45

I think we’re all very giddy about playing golf, yeah lots of positive vibes today, for sure, yeah yeah.

Nish: 9:51

So I think that that that course and that probably would then take us into where we would rate the course. You know, if you’re, we paid 70 pounds to play there today. Yeah, our shoulder season. We’ve naturally let’s give it all the caveats, so we got lucky with the weather. It’s been dry generally, so the course was dry. Now we did say in the preview that I said to you didn’t? I was like it’s known to be a very dry course. You can so see that because it was bone dry, wasn’t it?

Nish: 10:21

like even the greens, like they were rapid yeah so that you’re probably not really going to get it massively waterlogged at any point. I mean, he’s in such great such great nick today.

Chris: 10:34

Fantastic yeah, middle of march.

Nish: 10:35

Real credit to the the green, the green keepers.

Chris: 10:39

So yeah, I think we felt it was a really really playable golf course I could seem like I could play there as a member, like I’d quite happily go around there and play, yeah, regular golf around there, like it’s not, it’s not too punishing, it’s not. You know, I think there’s a lot of enjoyable holes out there. I just, yeah, I just really enjoyed the golf around there, like it wasn’t like out of this world. Breathtakinglyly beautiful. I didn’t come away going. It’s the most beautiful place I’ve ever been and the golf holes were probably the most exciting golf holes I’ve ever played. But actually, just as an all-round experience, an all-round kind of playing golf at the level that I play golf at the minute, actually it was about right. It felt about the right kind of level of difficulty.

Jim: 11:24

So can you just remind me where?

Nish: 11:25

it’s ranked in the in the top 100 in british and irish isles. I want to say it’s in the late 80s, like is it like 87 or something like that yeah, it is around that kind of area I think I I’d spoken to a few people about playing here.

Nish: 11:36

Actually, funnily enough, a lot of people from from our way, manchester way, have played royal st david’s. I don’t really know why that is, but the overriding thing that kept coming out was that they were like yeah, really interesting course, really nice course. The start isn’t the best, and then it it gradually gets better and better and better. It definitely did get better, but I don’t quite subscribe to the start isn’t the best. I thought it was a nice.

Chris: 12:06

I think it’s almost a kind of nice Rhythm to it. Yeah, a nice way to get you into the round, isn’t it Correct? You don’t go out there and for the first few holes think, oh my God, like every you know slight miss, hit, that I’ve hit is being punished straight away, like you’ve got a bit of time to get into your flow, haven’t you Get into your rhythm?

Nish: 12:21

Yeah, after a couple of those later holes they would have been really like yeah, they would have been demoralising early on.

Chris: 12:29

Yeah, because there’s a couple of tee shots. When you get round to sort of like the second half of the back nine, which are actually, you know, visually quite they look quite difficult in terms of you’re not quite sure where to aim. You know more undulation, wasn’t it? Yeah, you couldn’t see that it looks narrow.

Nish: 12:45

You can see the dips and hollows, couldn’t you as much? Yeah, whereas in the front you can see everything laid out ahead of you. Yeah, exactly which gives you that bit of confidence as an amateur golfer who wants to just go and enjoy the day I yeah, I enjoy that.

Nish: 13:00

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, right, let’s get back again. Sorry so that was kind of a little bit on the the course, but let’s get back again and do the scorecards as such. So so jim got a 115. So well done, jim. That was excellent shooting. I scored 90, which was to my handicap, so it’s 21. So I think my handicap’s 18.8. It’s bumped up to just over 21, I think. So I played to my handicap. Very happy with that score, really gutted at the end. I didn’t quite break 90, but I’ve got a chance tomorrow. And then, chris, you scored an 83. 83. Which is 14 over, which is pretty good. Yeah, reasonably happy with that, good with that.

Chris: 13:44

Yeah, I mean the ending was a bit disappointing. I kind of threw it away. I was what seven over after what 14, I think yeah, we lost.

Nish: 13:50

We all got pretty tired, I think, towards the end. Yeah, very tired shots we’re going to give ourselves the excuse here that it was an absolute well first round, you know, and we were too giddy at the start.

Chris: 14:04

I had too many alcohol-free Guinness last night as well.

Nish: 14:07

How was your club sandwich, Chris?

Chris: 14:09

My club sandwich. It was good. Certainly, I think it’s probably the lower end of the club sandwich ranking so far. I think Okay, so like, definitely nowhere near an S&A for sure, like it was fine, the chicken was a bit dry, it was maybe yeah.

Nish: 14:28

You needed out moist on it.

Jim: 14:29

Yeah, yeah, it was toasted very well though. Yeah, the toast was done to perfection. To be fair, I’ll give it that.

Nish: 14:36

Now, I appreciate this is not going to be great for listeners, but I have to point this out to jim. So this is the road into abu dhabi. Now we’re heading back and this little bit that comes to jim is absolutely stunning, yeah, and through a little path, this road, yeah, like the mountain, the mountains on either side, there’s a lake at the bottom. I mean, we were driving in yesterday after work to get to Abu Dhabi and we were excited anyway for the weekend, and then that just really added to it, didn’t it? Yeah, we were so chuffed about that.

Chris: 15:09

I think also it’s worth mentioning the drive to the course this morning as well. I think we were in the right mood, didn’t we? The sun was shining, beautiful kind of coastal road driving around, kind of overlooking Cardigan Bay.

Nish: 15:26

We even overlooked the 20 mile an hour speed limits. It was great. Yeah, it wasn’t, wasn’t a problem. It just in terms of scoring. I think we’ve all done pretty well. Me personally, I think I was hitting it really cleanly with my irons, which I was considering giving them back a little while ago, so I’m quite happy with that. But yeah, I think we all, I think we could all give ourselves a pat on the back today for our golf. Which sets us up nicely for tomorrow.

Jim: 15:44

Can I just mention about the challenge.

Nish: 15:46

There’s, yeah, every opportunity to talk about the challenge and please do the challenge in general or the challenge whole Jim.

Jim: 15:53

Well, I think we do both, don’t we? First of all, what’s the scores and the doors.

Nish: 15:59

Do you mean the signature whole challenge? Yes, so Signature Hole Challenge is such now. Chris is now four up after four. Now it doesn’t deserve to be four up after four. To be fair, I don’t deserve to be just two down after four, because we had an absolute disgrace on that Signature Hole, we both hit the ball.

Nish: 16:20

I’d say I don’t know very well today, I think Basically, we’ve done this whole round of golf leading up to the 15th hole. Not really a missed shot. No, not hit anything poorly. Everything’s gone off the tee. You know all that kind of thing. Hit the signature hole, camera comes out and yeah, all three of us, we were absolutely cracked under the pressure. Yeah, we’re basically terrible under pressure. So the gym had set us the side bet, hadn’t you, jim? Which was you remind us what the side bet was?

Jim: 16:54

it was the person who takes the least number of shots on the 15th hole to get to the green wins and the winning number on a par four we really shouldn’t the winning number was five five.

Chris: 17:14

Well, that’s a disgrace and it’s a 420 yards. Yeah, it’s a.

Nish: 17:21

I mean, yeah, we’re no pressure, pressure on us, that’s just.

Chris: 17:26

That’s a disgrace really yeah, we’ve disgraced the name of the Top 110 podcast we have, yeah.

Nish: 17:34

But it’s warts and all. We’ve got to tell everybody what’s going on. We scored pretty poorly on that hole. And then everything else was okay, it was so bad.

Chris: 17:44

Obviously, it was the first hole that we’ve tried to film, but our golf was so bad that it was just impossible to film without it taking like 45 minutes to actually play the hole, because one of the guys behind us were getting right pretty annoyed. Everyone topped it off the tee. It was um, yeah, it was what was the only stipulation?

Nish: 17:59

you’re okay to film as long as you don’t hold anybody up.

Chris: 18:02

Well, yeah, that might have happened. We need to work that, don’t we?

Nish: 18:06

So, all in all, for me an absolute stinker of a signature hole challenge Stinker of a side bet.

Jim: 18:13

But hey, Don’t blame the challenge.

Nish: 18:16

Oh no, not at all, Not at all.

Chris: 18:18

Blame the goal. To be fair, we have got Abu Dhabi tomorrow and obviously someone’s going to get a hole in one on the signature hole tomorrow someone’s going to get hole in one on the signature hole tomorrow.

Nish: 18:28

That’ll make up for that. Oh we, we all genuinely thought I was it.

Jim: 18:30

I looked like I was pretty close to getting only one today.

Nish: 18:31

Right, that looked pretty, that was very close and ironically, that was right before the signature hole. So, yeah, maybe I was too excited about that, I don’t know. Inches away it, yeah, looked it from the tee box inches away and I was about 10 feet away, so it’s fine, but I’ll accept that it was a good looking tee shot. Do we have any holes from that golf course that we think would make our dream 18? Chris?

Chris: 18:56

I don’t know. Actually I don’t think there was any one hole that came away going wow, and the signature hole was nice enough. I mentioned earlier that I really enjoyed all the par 3’s today. I thought all the par 3’s were really good looking, good kind of risk reward, you know, a good opportunity to score ultimately, because some of them were relatively short what I liked about the par 3’s actually was they all visually looked really really nice.

Nish: 19:23

There was a lot of thought that got into planning them. I really liked and I wasn’t sure I would do, but I really liked the natural bunkering rather than the more manicured bunkering, uh, which, yeah, I wasn’t necessarily on the videos that I’d seen.

Chris: 19:41

Yeah, you look kind of rugged, but yeah, it does look nice it blends in in really, really well.

Nish: 19:45

Yeah, it does, but all of the par threes looked amazing. But they also probably did what every good par three should do, which is you hit the green, which I think I hit them all. Yeah, you did. You get rewarded. If you miss the green, you’ve got to work hard to get your par, yeah, kind of thing. So I think that was good. And then also there was a route in if you didn’t quite hit your tee shot.

Chris: 20:12

Quite well enough, yeah but also part three to finish as well, which is quite odd.

Nish: 20:21

Yeah, I might have stuck a golf ball in somebody’s soup.

Jim: 20:24

I’m not quite sure.

Nish: 20:26

Maybe it was on their bowl of beans, on the side of their toast, that I put the, uh, put the ball into. I’m not quite sure, but no, look, nobody was angry at me, so I think we’ll all say it was all right. So nothing, I think, is going through towards a dream 18 for me from there, but overall we’ve sort of had a bit of a conflab and think that the score that we would give the course would be seven and a half, which puts it above S&A for us, which, bearing in mind S&A, is like a really well regarded golf course. I think that you know that’s a real credit to.

Nish: 21:00

I think, yeah, to do that highly playable yeah definitely and that was capacious for me loved it, the club in general. It’s a golf club. I think that’s all we could say.

Chris: 21:13

Really, it was yeah felt like it just did an average, kind of didn’t necessarily feel like a royal golf club did it. It felt like correct, yeah, yeah, fairly standard, uh, clubhouse so we’ve scored that five and I think that’s.

Nish: 21:24

I mean it’s only four courses, but that’s at the bottom of our ranking so far. That’s not to discredit.

Chris: 21:30

Rosalind at all.

Nish: 21:32

It’s just a golf club.

Jim: 21:33

Yeah, that was it?

Nish: 21:37

And then, yeah, I mean, we got a nice welcome, the pro was lovely, gave us some good information about the condition of the course, and you know, he sort of said you know, obviously we’re very lucky with the weather the way it is, and he was just, yeah, very, very friendly chap, and chris got his yardage, yardage book out of him, so that was all quite good. Uh, so I think we just had a thoroughly, thoroughly good day, apart from hole number 15, which was the signature hole.

Chris: 22:03

Yeah, I think I feel like it sort of knocked us a little bit that I feel like, yeah, I think we just lost a bit of, I think, because we were trying to focus on the filming and stuff. I think we just kind of lost a bit of concentration. I’m blaming it on that anyway.

Nish: 22:15

Yeah, I’m blaming it on Jim as well. So I think with that that’s a good summation of our day today.

Chris: 22:22

I think so yeah, one thing worth noting is Nish. You found the only bunker on the course with stairs in.

Jim: 22:28

I enjoyed that you got out first time.

Nish: 22:30

I hit a cracking drive as well. I was really gutted. I drove the ball really well. I was really very happy with the way I played with my drive.

Chris: 22:40

I think the bunkering was fair. Actually you can get out of most of the bunkers. That was the only one that, as I was walking up, I thought oh, hang on a minute, that looks a little bit deeper.

Nish: 22:49

I actually played that bunker shot so well. You did actually I got out because I had to use the 50, 60 degrees. I used a sand wedge for it and I got out and I went. I could have been a bit greedier with that one, I could have said that a bit longer. Actually I was out first time of all the bunkers.

Jim: 23:06

Did you?

Chris: 23:08

Yeah, I think I only won one in the 18th. It was the only shot I played. I mean one of the ones that I was out first time.

Nish: 23:13

I took it clean out and it went 70 yards. Only one’s supposed to, but that’s not the point. The point is I was straight out first time, but I think, generally speaking. I mean, we’re looking at the scorecard here right now. So, on our, on our squabbit app, our sponsors, and what have I got near one, two, three, four, five, six. I’ve got seven pars today, which I’m pretty happy with.

Chris: 23:38

You’ve got seven personally you got seven, personally got seven pars.

Nish: 23:40

Chris, you got one, two, three, four, five, six, eight, eight pass. I’ll take that. That’s good to take that yeah absolutely. Jim got three, which I think’s excellent, and two of them were on par threes, which I’ve generally struggled on.

Jim: 24:00

I already scored. I did score a nine on one of the par threes we weren’t talking about that par three, though, were we so we can ignore that one.

Nish: 24:09

Yeah, that was a really, really enjoyable day’s golf and actually I think even if we would have had a dampening today, I think I still would have enjoyed that golf.

Chris: 24:21

Yeah, yeah, definitely I think so.

Nish: 24:24

That was one of the other things I said as well at one point. It was a really peaceful place to play your golf.

Chris: 24:33

Yeah, I think the noises around the golf course today were beautiful, weren’t they? It was just like birds, a little bit of sea in the background.

Nish: 24:36

Bit of sea, not any breeze.

Nish: 24:38

Yeah, no, it was, and actually considering it was full the golf course and we could see a lot of other players and it was busy. It was the golf course and we could see a lot of other players and it was busy, it was busy, it was very busy, wasn’t it it was. It was just like, yeah, yeah, did he say it was fuller the tea? He said every tea slot was booked today, which I’m not surprised by with the weather I suppose 70 quid on a day like today, like why, why wouldn’t it be?

Nish: 24:58

that course was a bargain. Yeah, if you’re in this neck of the woods, that is a thoroughly recommended shoulder rate.

Chris: 25:04

And I mean, obviously we guys, like you, say we got lucky with the weather, but I mean I mean what we’re saying.

Nish: 25:09

Shoulder rate is 70. We’re probably still looking at. Maybe should check this, really shouldn’t I? But maybe we could do a live google to find out what the raw saint david’s yeah, is it like 150 or something?

Chris: 25:20

140, 150, I think right.

Nish: 25:22

So, having checked this now, the summer season green fees are £140 for a round. You can do a twilight after 3pm, which is very doable coming up to summertime. Now, £90. Now that’s a bargain for a playable golf course If you’re going to maybe play three or four of these and you may be starting off your journey and playing the and I’ll use it in vertical as the elite golf courses in the country, yeah, and in the uk. That’s a great introduction yeah, definitely, I think.

Chris: 25:59

like you say, I think one of the things that when we look to the rankings for the top 100, playability was one of them, and I think that, and I think that’s probably, apart from, maybe, moortown, I think that was probably the most playable course we played and actually, to be fair, moortown was playable until you got in the greens and actually it was quite difficult. So I think it probably is the most playable For you.

Nish: 26:17

I had a good round putting at. Moortown yeah, your putting is so streaky.

Nish: 26:23

It’s just hilarious to watch. One day you’ll get it. Yeah, one one day, young christopher, you will figure this out. Um, yeah, that that I it’s it’s now know those green fees. It’s going up in my estimation more because I think that’s, that’s a great course. For 90 quid you can play that. Yeah, you know you’d be very, very happy with that round of golf, with that play. And also, I think the other thing with these courses I found is you have that less so now because we’ve now played four, we’ve communicated with a few for the rest of the year coming up, so the kind of the aura around them is disappearing. You’re not as intimidated or worried about how it’s going to be when you get there. That golf course is like probably what most people’s home golf course is going to be, like the club as such.

Nish: 27:16

So you’re going into a non-intimidating environment absolutely yeah and you’ll play golf in a place where it’s not going to absolutely leave you emotionally battered afterwards, In fact, quite the opposite. You’ll come away and go, that’s all right that.

Chris: 27:29

Yeah, it was quite a nice mixture of people on the course today as well. Actually, People were having a bit of a crack and a bit of a laugh whilst we were waiting and stuff. It was quite a nice vibe, wasn’t it?

Nish: 27:39

It would have been bad of us to miss that bit off actually.

Chris: 27:47

I thought the members that we interacted with and spoke to were all really friendly. I think they were probably all guests, weren’t they, I think, rather than members.

Nish: 27:51

Oh, so we don’t know about the members.

Chris: 27:52

I don’t think. Yeah, I think they were all guests.

Nish: 27:54

We’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, we’ll say the members are all really friendly and everyone had a good smile on their face because I think the weather was just doing that to everyone today. So, yeah, thoroughly good round. Yeah, thoroughly good round. We really enjoyed it and if you’ve got an opportunity to play this golf course, I think we would say it’s a resounding double thumbs. Up to play Royal St David’s Next time. On the Top 100 in 10 Golf Podcast, we play Aberdovey Golf Club.