Chris’s Top 5 Holes of 2025

Nish: 0:00

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Chris: 0:11

I think that the more we play these courses, the more I’m just loving those risk and reward pathways. I think there’s a little video going around. I was obviously getting very excited about this, but I’ve likened the front nine at Queens to foreplay.

Nish: 0:27

Episode 54, Chris’s top five holes of 2025. So we’ve already told you which courses we loved in 25, but what about the specific hole highlights? Well, we’ve racked our very small brains. So here we go. However, before we start, please do hit follow or subscribe wherever you’re watching or listening to this podcast. We’ve got a really big year planned next year. We’ve got some unbelievable courses we’re going to play that are already in the pipeline. And just being able to get the reach higher and being able to include include more in the things that we can record and we can get from the clubs, I think is only going to enhance the experience for everybody, for us, but also for you, because we do share that journey with you. So please, if you could do that, takes a couple of seconds. Now back to this episode. So we’re not going to do these in order, only because I can’t really figure out the order. It’s almost impossible to do it in order. You know, you there’s different varying holes or whatever. So we’re going to go through and give five holes that were real highlights for us. Yeah. We are going to where we can, dependent on whether we were able to film that round or not, put in our tee shots from the hopefully that’ll be nice to bring in. Not a guarantee that I’m going to be able to do that on everyone. Because usually Chris has stood in front of me when and blocking the view to the camera when I’m teening off. So I’ll if actually, if there’s if I pick a hole and that’s happened, I’ll return a favour by not putting your tee shot in, Chris. There you go. Done. So I think let’s just go straight into it. What is the yeah? Let’s just hit everyone with the first hole that was in your top five holes that you put in 2025.

Chris: 2:10

And this is definitely not in any order. This is just in the order that I’m not sure. If you wish to do it in order, you can do that, Chris. I don’t think it’s in an order, to be quite honest.

Nish: 2:18

Okay.

Chris: 2:18

I don’t I don’t think I’ve been able to rank them in any kind of real order. I mean I feel it’s tough, isn’t it? I could probably have a little go, but but yeah, it might be quite tricky. So I get the first one is actually of course we’ve not really mentioned so far, which is actually quite surprising. But I think when you think about it, I think some of the holes on there were some of the best that we’ve played. And I think there’s probably a couple of holes from this course that could have gone on here.

Nish: 2:41

Interesting.

Chris: 2:41

But we’ve not really discussed it so far on our on our previous uh favourite courses um episodes, and that is Aberdovey.

Nish: 2:50

Aberdovey, yeah. Wales.

Chris: 2:52

I mean, what a round of golf that was.

Nish: 2:53

I don’t get that was a cracking round of golf, wasn’t it?

Chris: 2:57

And I think, yeah, it’s it’s a shame that it hasn’t got any mentions in that in that list that we’ve that we’ve just gone through. But I think because some of those holes on there were just unbelievable. Like they’re just so rugged and stacked up that they’re really stacked up. Yeah, yeah. I think just there was just a for me, there was a part of the course that kind of let you go through what sort of seven, six, seven, eight, nine, where it just just didn’t quite match the rest of the course. I think. And that’s probably the only reason it’s not in there. But actually, it’s such a such an amazing golf course to go and play around. Some characterful holes though. Oh, there’s some really some of the most characterful holes I think we’ve played so far. Yeah, particularly for a Lynx course. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, where sometimes it’s a little bit, you know, it’s just kind of pot bunkers and and a bit rough or whatever.

Nish: 3:35

But we’ve not mentioned it and and you kind of forget. And that was like what? That was only course number five of the whole lot. That was the second course of the year.

Chris: 3:42

First, first trip we did, wasn’t it? This week is it April time we did that?

Nish: 3:45

Where Jim got traumatised.

Chris: 3:46

April was it earlier than that? It was March. It was cold, I remember that much.

Nish: 3:50

But again, we got lucky with the weather, didn’t we? There was there was no rain. We did, there was no rain.

Chris: 3:55

Um, so yes, the whole lot of putting for Aberdovey, and like I said, there could have been a couple of holes Aberdovey, but the hole that I have put in there and it stayed in there is hole number 15. Um that was the the the kind of risk and reward short par four of the trade line down the side, if you remember that hole.

Nish: 4:11

That was a cracking what a golf hole that was.

Chris: 4:13

And I think that the more we play these courses, the more I’m just loving those risk and reward par fours. We and we talked about Dumbarnie earlier. It was brilliant, but uh I think the thing that stood out the most for me at Dumbarnie was those risk and reward par fours. Like they were just brilliant, like just something to go at, isn’t it? Yeah, I just think exactly it makes it fun, right? It just makes it go, yeah, fuck it, you’re just gonna have a smash in it, and it’s like it’s all or nothing, right?

Nish: 4:36

A hard length of hitting, you’re not really afforded that chance that often. Yeah, so when it happens, you’re like it’s a way of almost being a pro because they get more chances to do stuff like that, don’t they?

Chris: 4:49

Yeah, um, but yeah, I think it was one of those ones where it was such a good risk and reward hole because I stood on that T and I think I changed my mind about six times about which shot I was gonna hit. I was like, Oh, I’m just gonna go for it as I know. Actually, it’s quite it’s quite risky. I’m just gonna I’m just gonna lay up, and I’m like, nah, fuck it. You’re gonna live once you’re gonna go for it. Oh, actually, no, no, you gotta be swatching, you gotta lay up. You know, it’s quite a tight fair way. There’s not much green to go at.

Nish: 5:12

It wasn’t, was it? It was a very tight shot.

Chris: 5:14

Yeah, like you had to hit the shot, and then at the end of the moment, fuck it, I went for it and completely missed it outright. But anyway, um, but yeah, I think it was one of those that it was a genuine like 50-50 risk and reward. Like it’s a real knife edge between sometimes you get there and you’re like, Well, I can’t I can’t really make it, or the risk is too much. But that was one of those ones like, I think I can do it. Oh, can I not? And also we were off the winter tees as well. We were there. We were off the winter tees as well. Oh, it’s there, it’s there. So it was only a long item for us that day, but I just think that it was I think probably the best risk reward hole we’ve played.

Nish: 5:43

I didn’t take it on, I’m gutted about that. Pussy. Yeah, absolutely, mate. That that hole, and I’ll very distinctly remember this. That hole, and then when we did the review, that was when I vowed that if there was something like that again, you were gonna take it on, I’m gonna take it on. Yeah, because yeah, why the hell am I doing this otherwise? You’re not going from a big round or anything. I mean, unless someone for record score. Which actually to be fair, you were that day. You were playing well working. Oh mate, yeah, that was that was a round of my life. So, yeah, actually, yeah, Abba W should have been number one. That was a round of my life. Yeah, yeah.

Chris: 6:14

But yeah, again, like some of those kind of classic brilliant links holes, it’s got the railway line that just runs right down the side of it as well, which is both intimidating but also quite endearing at the same time. Yeah, so yeah, I think that was that was that was one of the first ones that sprung to mind to me.

Nish: 6:27

Aside from Carnoustie, that was probably the closest we’ve got to a links test, haven’t we? Because it was pretty windy that day. It wasn’t fully windy, but it was breezy. It was breezy, yeah. And it there was a threat of rain the whole day. Yeah, there was, yeah. And then you got holes like that just to gladden the heart, like he stood there and you know, oh yeah, mate, yeah, you reminded me of that. What a great golf hole that was.

Chris: 6:46

Yeah, there was yeah, like I said, there were three or four golf holes on that course that could have made it into me. But that was the that was the that was the pick of the uh the one that stood out, yeah.

Nish: 6:55

Right, wonderful. Right, so that’s number five. Yeah, or that’s number no, that’s not number five, isn’t it? No, no, just no, not in any order, hold on. It’s one of the five.

Chris: 7:03

If I if you were to push me, that would probably be further up the list, I think. Because I really I really like it. Don’t worry about the Chris, not yet. So yeah, next one again, in no particular order, is and again, this is number one golf course, so there had to be at least one hole from there. And I’m you know me reasonably well now, Nish. If someone tells me to do something or suggests that I should do something, I’m gonna do the exact opposite. That’s just my mentality. That’s like you say, this is the way everybody else plays. Yeah, well fuck it. I’m gonna do it differently. Okay. Um, so yeah, this is the only one in there that I think it’s probably the suggested the suggested best hole on the golf course, and that was 14 at Trump.

Nish: 7:40

14 at Trump. What a great hole.

Chris: 7:42

And I’ve seen do you know what we’ve seen it so many times on on Instagram and social media and stuff, but when you stand there and you get on that back tee and you just look down at it, it is just so imposing and so magnificent. Imposing’s a great word, actually.

Nish: 7:56

Um you’ve got a good way with words, Chris. You do come out with the right word quite a lot of times, actually.

Chris: 8:01

Imposing is a fantastic word, so it does happen occasionally, but yeah, I think the best stocking hole we’ve played. I don’t know. Up there, I just think with the the contrast of of the the kind of rolling dunes that are built into it, and then the the the bright green fairway running through the middle, kind of sweeping away to the right, and then you’ve got the you’ve got the North Sea over on your right. Very narrow strip of green, yeah. Running through the middle. Yeah, I mean that was an intimidating t-shirt, wasn’t it? It was quite an intimidating t-shirt, it was to be fair. Yeah, um, but just what a hole of golf though. What a hole. Fabulous again. Uh one of those things that you just how do how how has somebody conceived that in their mind and then kind of put that into place, isn’t it? Put that golf hole there.

Nish: 8:42

How have you imagined something there and then you’ve executed it and then it’s been received like that as well?

Chris: 8:46

Yeah. And like I say, I you know, my personality is to go, I you know, I don’t like Trump, it’s uh you know, it’s not my it’s not my it’s not my bag, and you know, there’s the the suggestions that we’re gonna do. Probably a bit too strong.

Nish: 9:02

You know, I was going up there and knew it was gonna be a good golf course, so I wasn’t, you know, I’m not not particularly I I’m I’m I’m gonna go off on a bit of a tangent here, but I I remember when we eventually asked well when Adrian eventually asked us, like, go on then, what did what did you think? You could tell he was looking at us just going like what are you gonna say, what are you gonna say, what are you gonna say, what are you gonna say? And we just went, that was absolutely freaking amazing. He was like, Yeah, it’s good, isn’t it? It’s a good club, isn’t it? Yeah, yeah, you’re right.

Chris: 9:32

Yeah, but I imagine I’d be exactly the same though, because you’re like, there’s not that many people that have played around there, you’d just be like a little giddy, giddy kid, right? If that was your if that was your local club and showing it around to people, yeah, you’re a member there and you’re playing around there like, yeah, amazing. You’re just gonna be like, I mean, everyone else can just fuck off. I’m playing Trump every week. Yeah, absolutely. Like I think I think I said it in our in our top three courses. I think I don’t I don’t think personally I would want to play there every week. Someone like Adrian, who is a scratch golfer, what a place to go and play your golfer, like such a great challenge. Yeah, if you’re good at golf for him to go and do that every weekend, and that’s really gonna, you know, that’s really gonna nail him down and and and you know provide him with a real challenge for the game. He probably goes everywhere else, and it’s like this is a piece of piss this game.

Nish: 10:15

Yeah, what’s what’s everyone going on about? Yeah, yeah. I know well mate, what a what a hole that was. What a hole that was just so signature hole, like you can’t argue with it, can you?

Chris: 10:23

I think that’s probably the only one signature hole. Interesting on your list, right? I think so, yeah. Okay. Um, we’ve had two. That’s what’s uh what’s the two third one again? No particular order was Dumbarnie. And this one you might know which one it is. Yeah, I think I I think I can certainly think there’s a little video going around. Saying this is the best hole we’ve played, and it’s it’s still up there for me. I think eighths. Not even necessarily Dumbarnie, so not even necessarily for the hole itself, but I just think the way the hole reveals itself to you is just unbelievable. I think you you’re kind of you’re milling around on the seventh screen and you put in your ball and you go, Oh yeah, it was a nice hole, and you’re kind of a little few dunes in front of you, and you’re kind of walking up, and then you just say, yeah, completely unaware of the city.

Nish: 11:09

There’s the halfway hut. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Chris: 11:10

Great. Oh yeah, completely unaware of what you’re about to just you’re about to witness when you come around the side of that dune, and all of a sudden you’ve just got this incredible view. You’re looking right out over the sea. You can kind of see the whole, you can see the golf course kind of like rolling down in front of you. Yeah, you’ve got this beautiful par three green with you know, bunker strewn round it.

Nish: 11:29

It’s yeah, not particularly difficult, not a difficult hole.

Chris: 11:32

A pretty easy par three, to be quite honest.

Nish: 11:35

It’s like a feel-good hole, isn’t it?

Chris: 11:36

That yeah, it was a very much a feel-good hole, but I just think I think that setting and the way the like I say, that the the reveal I think for that is just it just hits you in the face, and you just like bam, like wow.

Nish: 11:48

I mean, we must also offer a correction, actually, that we called Clive Clarke, American. You know, that was yeah, and he’s not we he’s actually English.

Chris: 11:56

He is English, but lives in America, yeah. So yeah, half right.

Nish: 11:59

Yeah, it’s is uh I mean what a color, what a hole he’s designed there. Yeah. Uh the brief would have been you’re at the top of the golf course here, yeah, and frame that hole, frame that view with a with a golf hole.

Chris: 12:12

And it’s gone, yeah. And we say it and people say it a lot, but breathtaking, but it was it was genuinely actually physically breathtaking coming around there. It was like a you kind of a real kind of gulp of air in when you come around that corner and just see it. It’s it’s just so yeah, yeah, so spectacular.

Nish: 12:29

Brilliant, and that’s that’s to look forward to at Dumbarnie if you play there. Yeah, definitely. We’ve given it away now, but yeah, yeah. Sorry, I’ve ruined it for everyone else, but yeah. But wow, wonderful, yeah, amazing. All right, okay, so three down, two to go, Chris.

Chris: 12:41

The next one is probably quite a niche hole for me. Or a niche hole. It’s a Chris hole for me. A few people call me niche, which is weird. Heard that on our on our tour so far. But the 14th at Hankley Common, you might not even remember it. I don’t, you’re gonna have to describe it to me. So it’s a pretty straightforward hole, like it’s a liter literally a straight par four. But again, I think we we’ve touched on it earlier. The way the the it’s there’s quite a bit of heather on that hole. The the green’s just slightly raised up, and there’s a couple of bunkers around it, but you’ve got tree line down the left and the right. I do remember it.

Nish: 13:20

It’s before you hit that other hole that kind of it’s a dog leg, isn’t it?

Chris: 13:23

Yeah, so the short dog legs.

Nish: 13:24

You are right, you know. That is a spectacular hole. Genuinely. It’s just long and straight.

Chris: 13:29

Yeah, and and yeah, and I kind of do you know, like I said last night I went and had a look through my book, and I’d I remember that hole being good. I’ll go and find the hole and look at it on the on a map, and you go, it’s just quite a straight, straightforward path four. But whatever they have done there to make it just such a visual tree. I don’t even know. Yeah, normally, like you know, the Dumbarnie one just said you come around the corner and all of a sudden you’ve got the Sea in front of you, and it’s just but whatever they have done on that hole, it’s just a straight golf hole.

Nish: 13:54

I remember from that as well. You came off the green, and it was like the next Tee was like right behind the green as well, which I normally hate. I hate that, and it didn’t detract from the quality of that golf home at all.

Chris: 14:06

I think I don’t know if it’s just something to do with the you’ve got a kind of a little dip in the fairy and then it raises up, and then you’ve just got I don’t know, there’s like the bunkers, I can’t explain it. Every other one I can probably give you a good explanation for, but when I stood on that tee, I just felt like a little kind of like this is a beautiful place.

Nish: 14:23

This is yeah, this is yeah, this is this is that was a great hole, actually. You’re right. Yeah, I d I think there’s something about gradual but continuous elevation, yeah. You know, possibly you’re playing it uphill the whole way, and I don’t know, maybe I don’t know. Yeah, we’re not golf course designers, are we? No, and uh like I say, that’s obviously a deliberate thing.

Chris: 14:46

It’s the only one that I can’t kind of put my finger on as to why.

Nish: 14:49

I’m gonna I’m gonna live that hole while you’re explaining this golf hole to us. I’m gonna live Google who designed Hankley Common.

Chris: 14:56

But again, that there were so many great holes on there, but that one for me just stood out. I think when you stood stand on that Tee and you can kind of see it all in front of you, and you’ve got you’ve got all aspects of that course just in play and in range and in view, all in one little scene. I just think it was um yeah, spectacular. James Braid and Harry Colt. Yeah, yeah. I don’t know who did that hole particularly, but a great green complex as well. I think once you get onto the green as well, it’s a lovely little kind of bowl green. It’s amazing, yeah. Yeah, it was. That’s a good choice, Chris. That’s a good left field. I didn’t yeah, like I say, I always like to have something a little bit left field in there. But that was my that was my left field hole. Right, interesting. Um okay, then this is our last one. And then my next one I think is one that I suspect we might both have on. Right. I think Trump 14 we might both have on. Right. And I think this one we might both have on as well. I could be wrong, but I think this is one that that that that we both liked. And and for this one we go back to Glen eagles, and like we say, that that trip to Glen eagles was just so fantastic, wasn’t it? Like it was just the I think my favourite trip of all the trips we did. Yeah, as a as a as a trip away, yeah, yeah. Um yeah, and Queen’s course is just designed for for pure excitement. And I’m just reading through my notes here, and I was obviously getting very excited about this, but I’ve likened the front nine at Queens to foreplay.

Nish: 16:11

Okay, it’s going there, it’s going there, everyone.

Chris: 16:14

Um, and I’ve said that the sixth is that tipping point where everyone’s got the everyone’s got the clothes off, everything’s out, excitement’s reaching maximum. Oh Lucy, you’re lucky, lucky lady. Yeah, absolutely. But yeah, I just think the sixth hole when you stood on that T is just stunning.

Nish: 16:33

And sixth is the one that when you hit the green, you see uh G West in the background. Is that the one?

Chris: 16:38

Uh I think it’s the hole before that, possibly. So you’ve got rolling fairways, you’ve got the road down the right hand side.

Nish: 16:46

You wouldn’t think with road there, you’d pick it out as well.

Chris: 16:48

But I mean, it’s a road that no car has ever fucking driven down in the last six months.

Nish: 16:52

It’s just the service vehicles for all the laundry at Glenea gles.

Chris: 16:55

That’s this beautiful row of trees down the down the right hand side. You’ve then got this just undulating, beautiful undulating fairways. Wasn’t it? You’ve got kind of three bunkers down the right hand side, and then a bit of space to the left, little valley, trees down the other side, and then a raised green. But I just think that was titillating for me.

Nish: 17:13

Glen eagles Queens was you were right to be shocked that it wasn’t in my top three, but Glen eagles Queens was my first experience of uh hole after hole where you’re like, yeah, oh my god, that was amazing.

Chris: 17:25

I’m like that was the first six or seven holes at Queens, like I say, just designed for nothing other than pleasure.

Nish: 17:34

Yeah, yeah. They knew what they were doing with that golf course.

Chris: 17:37

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah.

Nish: 17:39

Good choice. So you think that’s gonna be on so you’re you’re thinking there from your five, Trump 14, and the six that Queens are gonna be on my list, are you?

Chris: 17:48

That would be my guess. That’s your guess. That would be my guess, yeah.

Nish: 17:51

Interesting, interesting. I’m just gonna quickly change it. Can’t agree on anything, can we, near? We can’t should be doing that. Wonderful. Oh, Chris.

Chris: 17:59

Um, but yeah, again, it’s a that’s a real after playing 15 golf courses over the space of what 10, 11 months or whatever it was, it’s a really difficult thing to sit down and do that. I’m gonna have so many holes is that. I’m gonna what 15 times 18? We need Jim here for this, don’t we? We do need Jim here, yeah.

Nish: 18:15

Um get Excel out quick.

Chris: 18:18

180 plus 90, whatever it is.

Nish: 18:21

270, whatever it is. That’s 270 holes? 270 holes, and you’ve you picked out your top five. Yeah, that’s pretty impressive.

Chris: 18:29

Yeah, I think again you remember more than you think you do. Oh, you do, and I like my memory is terrible. Like, genuinely, my memory is terrible. But actually, sitting down yesterday, I I found this very difficult to pick between the bits that I’d picked out and you know, isolate those top three or top five. But it was remarkable how much of it you actually remember.

Nish: 18:48

Yeah, it’s amazing, isn’t it? Yeah, for sure. The capacity of our brains to remember like what we’ve what we’ve done. Also, you we’ve done everything to give ourselves the best chance to remember it because we’re not just like gone and played, yeah. Like made an event of it and all that kind of thing, and we’re talking about it and stuff, yeah.

Chris: 19:02

Yeah, and and uh apologies if there are any inconsistencies in in some of my reviews where I’ve come off and said that was the best fucking hole I’ve ever played, and I’ve completely forgotten it. I’m sure there probably is some of that going on.

Nish: 19:13

Yeah, but um or the worst, they came up and go, nah, I didn’t really do it for me that 14th at Hankley Common. I thought it was amazing, yeah.

Chris: 19:20

Um but yeah, I’m I’m I’m getting on and and you know I’ve got a lot of stuff going on in my brain.

Nish: 19:25

So I hit you with the question last time and I said you get you you’re on your you get you’ve been given your last wish, yeah, and you can play 18 holes, that’s it. Yeah. You’ve been given your last wish, you get one hole to play.

Chris: 19:37

One hole to play. That’s it.

Nish: 19:39

You just pick five there that you were your favourite, yeah. And it’s like, Chris, you’re gonna get four or five. So I hazard a guess if it was our last hole of golf, I’m gonna take because I’m gonna ask, you know, we’re sticklers for rules, aren’t we? Take 25 balls with you and just play the same hole 25 times, right? But yeah, okay, so you get you’re gonna pay these are your last four or five three, four or five, or maybe even two, okay, shots of golf in 2025. But yeah, you’re backed into a corner, and it’s like, which one of those five are you picking as your absolute favourite?

Chris: 20:12

Do you know what? I think I’m gonna go to Queen’s number six. Queen’s number six. I just think we played that, it was sort of like mid-morning, wasn’t it? I think when we played that. I think you go and play that hole at different times of the day. I think it would just be like a completely different hole. Like going playing that at like you know, sunset around there, go and play it like first thing in the morning. So peaceful, so well framed, such just just genuine, like we just catch the back of a par three as well, hadn’t we? Yeah, beautiful par three for players before it. Yeah, um I I could play, I could play that hole over and over again.

Nish: 20:47

That par three, spoiler alert, didn’t make my cut for five top five, yeah, but it was fucking close because that par three for me was almost the perfect par three, yeah, because it had these trees that fringe the whole thing, so you could see the ball all the whole way, it was a generous green, but it was a tricky Tee shot because you had a big bunker left and big bunker right. It was oh, I mean, what a fabulous place that was. Can I can I put it in my top three now? Can I put queen’s back in my top two? Also, like committed to it now, no.

Chris: 21:22

You could play that like and uh if I was the if it was the one hole, I’d be just playing it on my own, just at like I say, those kind of like early mornings, late at nights, just walking down there on your own, I think would just be the most peaceful place to be in in the world.

Nish: 21:37

Yeah. Chris you painted a lovely picture of that, lovely picture of that, right? So queens… I’m a bit surprised by that that it was like Queen Sixth. I’m surprised that made it into your I know we liked it at the time, but I’m surprised that made it into your uh top five, actually. There’s some curls in there. Yeah, yeah, I think so.

Chris: 21:58

I think it’s it’s interesting how differently I think about holes versus courses.

Nish: 22:02

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I feel like you you want a bit more fun from the whole.

Chris: 22:06

You want a fun fun from the hole, you want a bit more seriousness from the course. Um fair enough.

Nish: 22:14

I think that’s I think that’s reasonable. Um and there’s probably a load of notable, you know. You can’t even notably mention, can you? Because there’s too many. There’s too many. Too many. Um, but I will have to say in uh I mean okay, right. So uh one more follow-up question, I think I’ll ask you. You have a variety of holes there. Do you have uh a type as we’ve been playing? I asked you about the course, but do you have a type with holes now? Like are you uh you’re very good at par three, so obviously they can jump into your favourite very I could I could guess that. Yeah, but you know, do you you you’ve obviously got a couple of drivable par fours and you got long par fives? Is it is this one where you just like you’re either looking at the scorecard or you get to the Tee and you look at the scorecard and you go, Oh yes, I know I’m gonna enjoy this whole of golf. Is it particularly?

Chris: 23:05

Yeah, it’s interesting because then when I used to play, I used to love par fives because par fives were just a scoring opportunity. Scoring opportunities, I’d be like, I can make a three, and you know, most normal club courses I’d have a decent chance of making a three. Yeah, it’s a drive and a reasonably sure iron. But now in my older age, and I’m thinking about this in different light rather than just purely scoring.

Nish: 23:22

Mobility issues, mobility issues, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Chris: 23:26

Um their back doesn’t twist as much. Absolutely, it doesn’t. The hips don’t quite work out they used to. Yeah, I think the the the the short par fours, I think, like I mentioned earlier, I think those those risk reward par fours, I think when they’re done well, I think they’re some of the best holes in golf.

Nish: 23:42

Yeah, it gives you a blend of that kind of par threeness, yeah, doesn’t it? But also like I’ve got to get a good hit on this.

Chris: 23:49

Yeah, I’m also a fan of a short par three. I love something around that’s 120 yard 120 yard mark.

Nish: 23:54

I just like that as a that’s like your you can see you’re licking your lips as soon as that kind of happens, you’re just like, yeah, right, I’m gonna I’m going for this now. Yeah. Oh, wonderful. Yeah, that’s good to know. Right. Wonderful, Chris. What a great top five that is. Next time on the top 100 in 10 Golf Podcast, I’ll be revealing my top five holes we played in 2025, and let’s see how many match up with Chris.