Cruden Bay Golf Club Preview

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 we’re here to guide you through this golfing journey. This is the Top 100 in 10 Golf Podcast, episode 38. A unique and unforgettable experience Cruden Bay Golf Club. So this course, chris, is one that I’ve been really looking forward to, since you told me we were going to play it. Yeah, I’d never heard of it. Yeah, it’s, which is remarkable considering it’s actually on the.

Nish: 0:32

On our original list was ranked 24th, now up to 21 21, and it’s the 70th best in the world, 10th best in Scotland, 10th best inland, which is unbelievable itself right and I’d never heard of this place yeah and as soon as I knew that we were playing it, I googled it, which was, you know, normally like if you’re a medic or anything like that. That’s the sense shivers down your spine like somebody’s google something. Oh, no, no no don’t, don’t get diagnosed by dr google but it was the best thing I ever did, because I looked at the pictures and I went we are in for a treat. Yeah, aren’t? We, just we are I am unashamedly a visuals man when it comes to golf courses.

Chris: 1:15

Yeah, and because I’m shit at golf, right, that’s the only thing I’ve got. I can pin myself onto that, yeah, but whoa, this place looks good yeah but I’m unashamedly a lover of links courses where you’re like in the dunes and you’re like you know, you’ve got these massive contours and you’ve got these big raises and drops and elevation like that.

Nish: 1:33

Just that floats my boat completely this course has got both of us sorted, hasn’t it? Yeah?

Chris: 1:37

I think so.

Nish: 1:37

Yeah, I think so yeah, this isn’t yin and yang, this is just yang, all, all of it. But I’m going to read you a review from Google and I think this summed up for me what we can expect and why we’re excited about it. So this review is obviously a five-star review. There is a one-star review that I will just very quickly mention.

Nish: 2:00

The one-star review was never played. It. You can’t please everybody, can you? So this review says spectacular views, challenging but a fair test. Not sure what else can be said about this. It is world-class golf. The starter building the old clubhouse is worth more than grabbing a scorecard and tees. It’s full of history and with the starter who was engaged with sharing the incredible long history of the course, the club and the grounds, I could spend all day learning about what went on here. I mean, that’s just magical.

Chris: 2:39

Yeah, I mean there’s a lot of history right there. You know it’s an old school, golf course. Yeah, I mean there’s a lot of history right there, you know it’s an old school golf course.

Nish: 2:50

Yeah, but fascinatingly, there is and there isn’t. There’s not a lot, that’s happened there?

Chris: 2:52

Yeah, no, absolutely To get your teeth into yeah, so it’s just been there for a long time. Thank you, that’s our podcast done.

Nish: 2:58

But it’s, yeah, I mean we’ll get into how the booking came about. It’s actually, it’s really nice. Um, it’s, this is, chris has totally led this one. Uh, so I’ll let him explain that. But there is evidence of golf having been played in cruden bay since 1791. Yeah, so they say there’s a ballot box with an inscription saying that golf was played here. I’m hoping it’s there and we can actually see it. I’ve not seen any pictures of it, so maybe it doesn’t exist or I don’t know what’s going on with it. And then the club was actually formed in 1899, and it was laid out for golf enthusiasts out there. It was laid out by old Tom Morris, who designed St Andrews yes, he did so obviously a very, very big hitter in golf course design. And there was a change made to the layout as in it was expanded fully to its current setup in 1929 and it’s been pretty unchanged, sounds like it.

Chris: 3:56

Yeah, so we are like getting it’s pretty unusual these days, because I think most of these big courses have been developed a couple of times by a couple of the old school guys and then more recently they’ve had some fairly big fundamental changes to either bring it back to kind of how it used to be 100 years ago or to redevelop some of the bunkers or whatever. But it doesn’t seem to have had that, does it, which I guess ultimately I think probably you know plays into the fact that it’s just so good and it looks so good. Why?

Nish: 4:25

change it. Yeah, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. What was the way you used the word you described? I know you. I know what the word is, but, like you know, just tell us the word that you said. People describe this golf course as when it can. You can construe that in two different ways.

Chris: 4:41

You know, it wasn’t unique, it was quirky, quirky. Yeah, yeah, it’s quirky.

Nish: 4:46

It’s interesting, that isn’t it because I think quirk is right up my street. Yeah, like, I love stuff like that a bit unusual, a bit like not what you normally expect. Yeah, and like the last course that we’ve played that was described as quirky was the queen’s course at glen eagles okay, because it had some unusual characteristics in terms of its golf how the golf was laid out.

Chris: 5:10

Now, yeah, I mean, I love that place, yeah I mean, I think I’ve read a couple of things that say it’s been divisive because it’s quirky. It’s been. It’s been divisive at creedon bay, but I think we’ve both looked at it and gone. I know, yes, please come here.

Nish: 5:22

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Chris: 5:24

Give’s not divisive in this camp, I don’t think, because it’s exactly what we want at the golf course, isn’t it?

Nish: 5:29

I’m like fully excited about this golf course. So tell us, Chris, how did the booking come about?

Chris: 5:35

So, yeah, I guess it’s because this is part of a little trip that we’re going to be a fair old trek from here to get up there. Um, we initially had three courses planned out. Uh, one of those has dropped out because Mr Trump has ruined our plans yeah, I mean how selfish to host a tournament I know unbelievable.

Nish: 5:54

Yeah, I mean, thankfully the invitation is still there so we’ll be able to get out there yeah because that would be. That would be a great one to review for people. But let’s suppose that’s not dwell on one where we’re not playing.

Chris: 6:02

Yeah, ultimately ultimately but yeah, ultimately one of my good friends, one of my best friends from school. His partner is from Aberdeen. So I kind of just got in contact with them and said, have you got anyone locally? And she was like, well, yeah, my brother, who’s a guy called Graham, who I know, you know, been to a few festivals and stuff, so I know Graham pretty well.

Chris: 6:25

He top guy, yeah, uh, reasonably good golfer as well by this, by the sounds of it, and he’s like, yeah, that’s fine, we can sort you out, I’ve got friends locally that can kind of get to trump and aberdeen and we’ll go and do cruden bay as well yeah his surname is cruden as well, so we’re hoping to get some sort of discount for playing at cruden bay.

Nish: 6:36

Are you actually kidding? No, no, I’m certain you know he’s. That’s new information. I mean, he’s practically royalty in cruden Bay right.

Chris: 6:44

So yeah, we should be heavily discounted green fees, I would imagine.

Nish: 6:48

We rock up. Graham’s got the mayor’s robe.

Chris: 6:54

Oh shit, graham, he’s got his Cruden tartan on.

Nish: 6:57

You’re the actual, like you are, mr Cruden, of.

Chris: 6:59

Cruden Bay.

Nish: 7:01

Oh, wow, okay. I mean, he’s got to be on the booking already, right, so they must be like hang on. Actually, no, he’s not to be on the booking already, right, so they must be like hang on actually, no, he’s not, because I’m on, sorry oh, the, uh, the, the, the cruden family are here yeah oh, yeah, and it would take anything as king cruden king cruden yeah oh great.

Nish: 7:20

No, I mean what the what? The trip, even with all the courses we were, we’re not gonna put whatever would have been great anyway, and that’s like a lovely area to head up to.

Chris: 7:29

I mean, ultimately, there’s some of the, some of the, you know, the very best courses on our list are up there, aren’t they? On the little Aberdeenshire coast. So I think, I think we’re in for some crackers, really aren’t we? Oh?

Nish: 7:40

and really exciting golf, I think. Yeah, I mean this has been combined. We’re definitely playing Royal Aberdeen combined with Coon Bay, but I mean this course just if you’re listening or watching whatever, but just please google it, go and have a look. Just I can’t, I can’t do it, just this, like there’s no words, like I can’t do most of these courses justice anyway to be perfectly honest, but it as soon as you see any picture.

Nish: 8:07

You don’t even have to click through to their website, just look at the google pictures. Yeah, and I mean, what’s your, your favorite? Another favorite has changed because that got mentioned when we played at Ganton. Yeah, yeah, prior to that, you know, I thought nothing’s sifting, sifting, nothing is shifting. Silith, no, from the top spot this has.

Chris: 8:26

Silith vibes? Definitely has Silith vibes. It’s got those kind of yeah you know, you’ve got some hidden greens, some little hollows and and you got some tees that are raised up on top of dunes and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, it’s got a lot of character. Character now it’s not a long course doesn’t need to be the way it looks.

Nish: 8:41

No, again, it’s like from the gold tees, which I presume is what we all play from, but for the gold tees it’s 5868 yards yeah that’s shorter than the queen’s course. Yeah, there’s a couple of like par fours that are like 260 yards. Yeah, yeah, so you kind of like you know you look at it.

Chris: 8:56

If you just look at a scorecard, you go all right, okay, you’re licking your lips like that, but actually if it’s 268 yard par four, there’s some danger lurking somewhere but I think, like when we came off queens, we both enjoyed it because it was fun, right. So I think um crude and bay was voted the second. The second most fun golf course in the uk and ireland was that after the queen’s course at glee. I don’t think it was actually what is the number one one.

Nish: 9:18

I don’t know. I want to know now, but we’ll check up on that, right, okay? Yeah, so that’s up our street, isn’t it?

Chris: 9:24

yeah, absolutely, oh, I mean it’s just, it’s a feast for the eyes, this but also I think you know, like we said, all tom morris uh designed it. There’s a few little bits that look a little bit st andrews. You don’t often see those little streams and kind of inlets on Link’s courses but there’s a couple of those that you know just kind of sat before greens that look very kind of St Andrews first hole-esque. So that’s.

Nish: 9:44

Amazing. I mean, that’s, yeah, my main. The first thing I wrote as a general observation for my prep for this episode was full of fantastic views and just character, and that’s it and I think there’s not.

Nish: 9:58

I didn’t see. From looking at the pictures didn’t seem like it was littered with bunkers or anything like that. It’s just carved into the land. Yeah, it utilized. I mean, do you need to see loads of bunkers when one side of the fairway just drops off into this bay? You just see the sea. Yeah, no right. There’s one picture, I think, where we we looked at me very quickly because somebody’s put some really nice pictures on where it’s a lovely, hot, sunny day.

Nish: 10:24

So you’ve got a blue sky and they see I mean that must be, that must be cgi.

Chris: 10:27

Right, it’s one day. Yeah, there’s only one picture like that, yeah but it just yeah, it’s.

Nish: 10:35

I’m Very, very excited about this golf club. Maybe after what happened at Westlands, we may need to temper that a little bit because that might lead to some bad golf, but little things. They’ve got like the original clubhouse, which obviously was tiny and they didn’t need a big one. Then it’s now the starter hut and stuff like that.

Nish: 10:52

I mean, yeah, great, this is going to be so much to take in. But, like like that, I mean, yeah, great, this is going to be so much to take in. Yeah, but like I say, it’s not like again in your face, smack in your face. History, yeah, we’ve hosted such a such thing and we’ve had this player play and and it’s not about that, it’s just golf’s been here since 1791 yeah, you know like you’re playing in the original footsteps of yeah early pioneers of golf.

Chris: 11:17

Absolutely. And also just to note as well, the interactions that have had have been kind of emailing a lady called Elaine to kind of arrange all this.

Nish: 11:23

She has been so super helpful throughout the whole process We’ve kind of changed it around a little bit and we weren’t quite sure when we were going to play and she’s been very accommodating and she’s worked out for us. She’s always the thing, isn’t there with that, when you’re like, you’re almost slow yourself at the mercy of the generosity of the club there yeah, I’m really sorry, something’s happened. Yeah, like we’re being not inflexible.

Chris: 11:42

We’re just, you know, ultimately we. It’s hard to fix these plans in place because it’s kind of we’ve got a long way to travel and we need to try and fit a couple of clubs in at the same time, and all that kind of stuff, so it it can logistically be quite difficult to fit us in, but actually, yeah, she’s been wonderful, brilliant. Yeah, I think so.

Nish: 11:59

And actually what I do like about Cruden Bay is I mean, I know Chris has obviously done the bookings, he’s taken over that whole element of it. But just from going through the site and stuff like that, you know. Again, it’s not an Identikit golf course website. They’ve done it on their own and they’ve chosen their own path. But you know you can’t book online. Just drop us a line and we’ll sort that out for you. There’s something nice about that kind of hand-holding element.

Chris: 12:27

But you get that kind of personal experience, don’t you? Rather than just going on and finding your tee time and booking it done.

Nish: 12:31

Like it’s. I don’t know who you are.

Chris: 12:32

It’s a much more romantic experience, isn’t it doing? That booking and you’re having these conversations and, like you say, it just feels a bit more personable, doesn’t it?

Nish: 12:39

Wait till they find out King Cruden’s coming. Oh my God.

Chris: 12:45

Close the course. Close the course.

Nish: 12:47

Cruden family’s in. Yeah, I can’t believe that.

Nish: 12:51

Totally taking me by surprise. So this club, club, so the little bits of history that are on there are actually, like for me, very fascinating. I think I’m hoping you’re going to find them fascinating as well. But the inauguration of this club in in 1899. What they did was they held a two-day open event with prizes totaling the grand princely sum of 120 pounds, which again was probably quite a lot of money in that day and age. Now, the leader at the end of that first day was somebody we’ve come across on the podcast before, just harry varden. Okay, yeah, so what’s it? He of six open opens that he’s won yeah yeah, so harry.

Nish: 13:26

Harry varden was leading the end of the first day. The field contained our old mate.

Nish: 13:31

Feel like we’re quite friendly with him now james braid yeah so I don’t think he’s had any hand in any design on this one, but he was there and they have on the website. So that’s the first bit here. I was like Harry Varden, great. You know, I’m kind of like they’re giving a bit of a Harry Varden fanboy sort of thing and then they’ve got this footage on their website. I don’t know how found it. It’s like some old scottish archive footage and it was a promotional video. So this golf course and club was created by, I think like great scottish railway company.

Nish: 14:01

Yeah, that’s right and it was to promote travel and tourism in scotland. Yeah, and it was on their sort of parcel of land and they made a promotional video. Right, and it’s amazing watching this video actually. So they’re all like arriving to croon bay by boat. There’s a steamboat rocks up right. I mean I’m getting seasick watching this up and down.

Nish: 14:20

I mean, you know, there’s certainly no calm sea up there is there and then they’re out on this little rowboat they’re kind of, you know, carries on, and then they get to the clubhouse and it’s all you know. Okay, they’ve all got their suits on, yeah, I mean imagine playing. I can’t imagine playing in a suit but I played it.

Chris: 14:35

Maybe we should try it. Maybe we should try it. Maybe we should try it one day.

Nish: 14:39

I’m restricted enough. In a gilet At least we’d look good also playing shit golf I mean, listen, we had our invitation from St Andrews to play St Andrews, so maybe we should do it at St Andrews. Maybe we should. That’s probably the one place where we wouldn’t look like absolute knobheads turning up in a suit.

Chris: 14:57

I think we would Still would, but just not absolute Okay yeah, but yeah, I think.

Nish: 15:02

So you got this footage. Sorry, you got this footage. And then they then start playing golf and the footage they’ve got is for when they did. This opening is of the semi-final between Harry Varden oh no, it wouldn’t have been on this opening because it was 1899, but later on it was of Harry Varden playing Ted Ray.

Chris: 15:21

Right, okay.

Nish: 15:22

Semi-final Now. Do you know much about Ted Ray? Not much.

Chris: 15:25

I know his name. Yeah, Heard the name maybe. Yeah, yeah.

Nish: 15:28

Right. So it’s Ted Ray, and I’ll shamelessly plug this movie before and I don’t get anything for it. I’m not invested in it or anything like that, but as far as golf movies go, this is a good one.

Nish: 15:38

It’s called the greatest game ever played, and we’ve talked about it before yeah and that was about a guy called frank we met who was the first amateur to win the us open. It was on 1912 or something like that. So he, it was the match that us open. There was some thing that went on. There hadn’t been a British winner of the US Open, or something like that.

Nish: 16:01

So Lord Norcliffe got Harry Varden his whole mission was I’m going to fund him to go over there to bring the US Open back, and Harry Varden wanted Ted Ray to be with him as the English contingent Right okay, they’re going to go and take him on.

Nish: 16:21

Yeah, and the movie’s great. So it’s like this interplay between Harry Varden and Ted Ray, so the name for me is etched in and it’s a great movie to watch. Yeah, they actually get the golf bits quite right. I think, unfortunately, charlotte Burse in it, but they do get that that quite right. But the footage when you look at it and then you see the course yeah, this really old grainy footage and then you look at the course, the picture that you’re now and you’re like it’s exactly the same thing, yeah but it’s amazing.

Chris: 16:49

I mean, that’s pretty cool, isn’t I guess.

Nish: 16:51

I guess that’s fairly unique in most of the courses that we played.

Chris: 16:54

Like we said earlier, most of them have been changed fairly significantly. Yeah, yeah, or like you were saying, changed and then reverse back. Right, yeah, because I think they did that ganton, didn’t they? They’d made a load of changes then sort of they went actually no, this was better 100 years ago. Let’s just go back to where we were.

Nish: 17:10

I always find that amazing spend all this money and then you gotta go back to what you, what you had in the first place. But yeah, I mean that’s the course and I think it’s definitely light on highlight history like big hitting things. We’ve had this tournament.

Chris: 17:24

Yeah, well, I mean, I think ultimately it’s still quite a short course, isn’t it? Like it’s going to be a challenge, but it’s still very short, very short, yeah. So it to kind of host those big events. These days, I think you’d barely be able to get a grandstand.

Nish: 17:36

I think it’s had a few Scottish Opens, hasn’t it I think?

Chris: 17:38

there’s been a couple of Scottish Opens there. Yeah, right, yeah.

Nish: 17:40

We were saying weren’t we like, what would it be if you just let these players go out on a short course and just kind of let them attack it? Yeah, so I think we’d going to be packed full of history. I think I’m going to come out with a lot of like clubhouse pictures and and stuff like that and I think, in stark contrast to West Lancaster probably I’m going to have a lot of on-course photography, because bays like that are just right up my street.

Chris: 18:08

Yeah.

Nish: 18:08

And I think it’s going to be a visual feast, isn’t it? It is. I don’t think Jim isn’t here. However, we’ve got a couple of bits of info from him, so the signature hole, he’s informed us, is the fourth hole, which is a par three. Now I gather, from looking at the photographs, that you tee off from a tee box. That’s kind of over the.

Chris: 18:39

I think you’re basically playing from June to June by the looks of it. The tee box is on a June and then you’ve got another June and you’ve got this big gap in between. I think Amazing.

Nish: 18:47

Amazing, it looks pretty cool. Yeah, I don’t know if that gives me a chance in the Signature Hole Challenge, but anyway, we’ll see. I hope you get intimidated by that. It just looks amazing to play, so we’ll do that hole challenge. I think I’m buying into the signature. I know like I’m inherently at a disadvantage in the signature challenge because you’re like a par three specialist, chris even, even.

Chris: 19:08

It’s amazing how many of the signature holes have been par threes it must be like 98 percent, like I can’t think.

Nish: 19:14

Yeah, the occasional par four, but the last one was a par four, wasn’t it?

Chris: 19:17

and then before that, yeah, this is totally disproving my theory.

Nish: 19:21

Yeah live disproving of that SNA was par 5 yeah.

Chris: 19:23

SNA was par 5. Yeah, this is totally disproving my theory. Yeah, live disproving of the theory. Basically, I’m just chatting shit.

Nish: 19:29

Essentially, this is what’s happening but I suppose par 3 is an easy one to go for, though, isn’t it?

Chris: 19:33

because it’s all laid out in front of you yeah, and I guess you usually get that visual, you on the visuals, don’t you want?

Nish: 19:40

to make whatever you want as well, can’t you? Because you can. You can dig the terrain up as you wish and build it up as you wish, rather than a full, long stretch hole, but yeah, I mean even not playing. Well, at west langs, par three comes up and it’s like bang middle of the green like right standard, yeah all right, fair enough, so make long may that continue, because that’s a great habit to have so we’re doing that as a signature hole.

Nish: 20:02

And then we’ve got an interesting side bet actually this time around, which, uh, I think worked quite well at ganton in in hindsight and that is we’re doing a par three challenge. So there’s four par threes on this course, yeah, but it’s net, so I should be able to get some shots on you, okay, so I might have a chance here if I can, if I can get my t-shirts right.

Chris: 20:23

Oh, that’d be nice I’m liking this net stuff.

Nish: 20:25

It’s good uh, so that’s our, that’s our side bet, that we’re gonna do and we will film all of that and we’ll be able to get that on. But yeah is there anything else about croon bay that you would like to talk about? Or?

Chris: 20:38

I don’t think so, other than the fact that I’m very excited to get up there and feels I know we’ve done glen eagles but it almost feels like the first proper scottish trip. This because glen eagles.

Nish: 20:50

Yeah, do you know what I mean I?

Chris: 20:51

think, just because you just associate scotland with links, golf, right, and you just associate with those incredible kind of rugged coastline, glen eagles is the disneyland of golf, yeah, of scott Scottish golf.

Nish: 21:03

Yeah, it is definitely. Yeah, yeah, and it was otherworldly experience we loved Glen Eagles Like it was.

Chris: 21:09

it’s not this isn’t a put down to Glen Eagles, but it just. It’s just not that kind of like yeah, it’s not that, it’s that association that you have with Scotland and just that kind of like yeah, of course, it’s all league’s golf. It’s league’s golf, isn’t it?

Nish: 21:19

yeah, it’s always coastal, it’s, yeah, battle of the elements and all that kind of stuff. So, uh, yeah, this is going to be, this is going to be a good one and yeah, it feels like it’s the first, like proper, proper scottish course that we’re playing, yeah, and we’ve gone pretty high up, haven’t we?

Chris: 21:34

oh yeah there’s a, there’s a, yeah. There’s no building up to big hitters, isn’t it?

Nish: 21:37

yeah, yeah no like warming ourselves up gradually. It’s’s like no straight in Straight in yeah. So, look, we’re really looking forward to it. We’re going to fill our boots, I think, with golf pictures and content and stuff like that. And it feels the word might sound a bit, maybe a poor choice of word, but it feels like gritty golf, like it’s the real deal, like this is.

Chris: 22:04

This is golf, ultimately. That’s where it was born, right?

Nish: 22:06

that’s this is this is how it originated that area, that that land, on those coastlines of scotland.

Nish: 22:12

Right, yeah, I know, full-on, full-on test I’ll be fascinated to find out from the club. If we hopefully we’ll get a chance to speak to somebody at the club I’d love to find out about. There are a lot of. They get a lot of international visitors. I’d love to find out what the international visitors actually do think about the course. You can read reviews. I mean people leave reviews either for one or two reasons either they absolutely loved it or they hated it or they’re not played, apparently, or not played.

Nish: 22:37

Yeah, it’s just a ridiculous idea to give a one star review if you’ve not played it, but I’d love to actually know what the real thoughts of some of those players are, because I wonder if it’ll fit into this divisive narrative almost yeah yeah, maybe the purists are like well, I don’t know if this is real, is this real links golf? It’s like, well, yeah, I mean, it’s on the cliffs, you know it’s kind of what else do you want?

Chris: 22:59

yeah?

Nish: 23:00

this. This course has got a look and a feel of old head in Ireland, which is what I’m really looking forward to playing as well.

Chris: 23:09

Yeah, it’s not quite as dramatic, but it’s kind of got that element of drama, hasn’t it, and that kind of it’s going to be amazing.

Nish: 23:15

Yeah, it’s going to be absolutely amazing. So we look forward to that and we will let you know how our round progresses. Now there’s one last thing we need to do before we go, and that is when this episode airs. It is going to be the final one in the first 12 months of our Top 100 Intentional.

Chris: 23:40

Match. Yeah, wow, so we’ll hit the 12. In some ways, that’s flown by, but in some ways, like a lot has gone under, a lot of water has’ll hit the 12. In some ways, that’s flown by, but in some ways, like a lot has gone under, a lot of water has gone under the bridge. In that 12 months, we’ve played a lot of golf, haven’t we?

Nish: 23:49

yeah, we have played, and we’d have played 12 courses in 12 months by the time this one airs. So I mean that’s, we’re right on pace. Yeah, it hasn’t felt like we’ve played tons of golf, but actually that’s a decent amount in that I mean bear in mind what in the first summer sort of period we did three, so we’ve done another nine this time round.

Nish: 24:13

We’ve got another six, I think, booked in before the calendar year is out we’re going great guns, mate going great guns, so this is officially our klaxon out yeah, all right, we’re going great.

Chris: 24:22

Guns mate. Yeah, we’re going great guns.

Nish: 24:23

So we’re getting there. That this, this is officially our klaxon, or whatever you’d call it. For end of season one, we’ll call it or year one. That’s done, it’s ticked, boxed off netflix documentary coming in soon.

Chris: 24:34

I know what we’re gonna call it. Yeah, I don’t know. Let’s suggestions on a postcard.

Nish: 24:39

It’s the end of our end of one year one and I think you know cheers to years two to ten, because I think we’re going to have a fantastic onward journey now, absolutely, absolutely fantastic yeah, I mean, if year one’s anything to go by, then yeah, have an absolute ball.

Chris: 24:55

The next nine are going to be pretty fun.

Nish: 24:57

I don’t actually now. It’s got to the point where I actually don’t now remember or know what I previously did for any kind of enjoyment in my life.

Nish: 25:07

I just don’t have anything else to do or say or talk about, it just occupies every waking hour of my life there’s something going on related to this, uh, including getting lovely emails from the next place that we’re playing, which is, uh, which is hind head. So we’ll be reviewing that next time around. Now before we sign off, we’ve got a massive favor to ask you, our loyal listeners. We’re going up for a people’s choice award in the british podcast awards and we would love to get nominated and take on some of the real big boys in our industry. So these awards are usually always won by kind of agency run podcasts and podcasts that have massive marketing budgets. We do all of this ourselves. We do all of our editing, all of our production, all of our recording. It’s all done in each of the kitchens in our spare time, and we love to fly the flag for independent podcasts.

Nish: 26:04

So if we could really trouble you for a nomination. It takes less than a minute to do. We will drop a link in the episode description. If you just follow through to that, you register your email address, make sure you tick to not receive the marketing communications, because we don’t want you to get spammed, and then you just vote. Search top 110 for the podcast you want to vote for. Pop your vote in and it would be amazing if we could even get a nomination, that would be unbelievable. So we could just ask you for that small favor today, 30 seconds of your time. We would absolutely love it and let’s hope we get a nomination next time. On the top 100 in 10 golf podcast, we’ll be reviewing our round at hind head golf club in surrey, where the club have been in touch, so we’re going to have some fantastic content for you.