It’s Who You Know

Nish: 0:05

Every story has an ending. Does our quest to play the top 100 courses in 10 years have a good ending? I’m Nish and I’m Chris.

Jim: 0:14

I’m Jim.

Nish: 0:15

And we’re your hosts, guiding you through this golfing journey. This is the Top 100 in 10 Golf Podcast

Nish: 0:21

Episode episode 7. It’s who you know

Nish: 0:26

. It’s not what you know. It’s who you know. But what do we know? Not much. We’ve tried to put a challenge together without too much initial thought. We’re trying to blag our way through it, through it all, really. But who do we know? Well, that’s an interesting question. So I’m with JTC and Chris again to discuss the third of our 100 courses, and this is starting to feel like it’s getting a little bit of momentum, just at the wrong time of year when the weather starts closing in. So who do you know, jtc? And how did we end up booking our next

Nish: 1:00

course

Nish: 1:00

?

Jim: 1:01

Southport and Ainsdale our next course, southport and ainsdale. Well, it is who you know, um, and I think, having discussed quite the the podcast and the challenge with quite a few people, there seems to be, it seems to pique quite a lot of people’s interest. Um, but southport and ainsdale’s come about through one of my best friends, one of my oldest school friends in fact, who I introduced you to Nish probably about a year ago. Really nice guy, yeah, paul. So we’ve known each other since we were 11 years old. Competitive, like Just a little bit, yeah, particularly with things like tennis, but, as you’ve seen, with golf as well in in recent times. That, um, yeah, yeah, it’s all elements of sport, really, and that never leaves you, yeah it never leaves you.

Nish: 1:52

He’s really good. He’s playing with us as well and, yeah, I really enjoy spending time with him.

Jim: 1:57

Actually, we’re going to enjoy that round yeah, so we’re, having having mentioned the challenge, um, when we met a while ago, um, he’s managed to, uh, to wangle his way on to south port and ainsdale, so, uh, course, number three of the top 100. Um, so, as you said, it does seem to to be snowballing a little bit and gathering that momentum and, um, yeah, so, the more and more people that we do discuss it with, um, you know we’re getting a lot of positive feedback in terms of um. You know how to try and get on these courses as well, a lot, of, a lot of good tips, um, and people had one off sorry which you had one of the chameleons of course, yeah, yeah, um, the secret society, the underbelly handshakes and all that handshakes, backhanders, I don’t think there’s anything like that, really.

Jim: 2:47

No, it’s, it is. You know. You know golf is a community, yeah, and um, and I’m pretty sure that, um you know, is this thing you know, gathers even further momentum, that, um, there will be people who are interested in in helping you complete that challenge, because obviously there are quite a few courses which are not impossible to get into, um, but um you complete that challenge, because obviously there are quite a few courses which are nigh and impossible to get into, um, but um, you know, that’s something for another day. I think. Um you know, and um you know, we look forward to the preview for sna we do on tuesday morning we’re playing with matt, aren’t we?

Nish: 3:19

that’s paul’s yes, yes.

Jim: 3:21

So paul’s um, paul it’s um. I think it’s’s Paul’s son’s friend from school. So they got introduced and they’ve got a you know, a love for golf and probably hate for to do and the. S&a was one of the courses on the list and you know within the space of a couple of hours. You know, I think that was arranged.

Nish: 3:54

Yeah, it was great, I think we were. Were we filming? I think it had just come in that day. Oh no, we were out, I think, on a Friday. We were out on Friday and the news went check your messages. Oh, we’d just been to see South Sharks. Of course, that’s it, yeah, yeah. And it said check your messages, particularly number three. I was like what are you on about? And he’s like right, we’re playing the third course, we’ve got it sorted.

Jim: 4:28

And it was like oh, it’s and then it’s really really soon as well.

Chris: 4:30

It was great, lovely little surprise. So thanks, jim, no problem at all. No problem at all. Yeah, and this is one I’m really excited about as well, because this is one that I think you hear people talk about in really high regard, I think, when you because obviously there’s a belt of courses around there and I think a lot, of, a lot of what you hear, you know just kind of talking to other golf golfers is a lot of people would put this above some of the other ones that are kind of hillside and Birkdale. Even People speak really highly of it.

Nish: 4:50

It’s got a good reputation there.

Chris: 4:52

Yeah, for golfers for sure. I think it’s fairly highly thought.

Nish: 4:56

And is that the toughness of the course, or is that just all-round package?

Chris: 5:00

I think probably all-round package. I think yeah, but I think probably more about the course. I think rather Right, that’s interesting, isn’t it?

Nish: 5:07

Yeah, yeah, okay.

Jim: 5:08

And another Ryder Cup venue. Of course Did they do two.

Nish: 5:12

Two clubs have ever done two Ryder Cups, that’s Birkdale and S&A. It’s affectionately called S&A, so I’ve forgotten the names. But yeah, 33 and 37. So we’ve done the 29, 1929 Ryder Cup venue in Moortown. We’re now going to do the next two home ones, 33 and 37. So is that a thing now?

Chris: 5:38

Maybe we should be wearing the fashion for the times of the Ryder Cups that we wear in plus fours when we go and play these.

Nish: 5:41

I’ve got some plus fours actually. Yeah, yeah, Should I.

Chris: 5:43

I shouldn’t encourage you, should I?

Nish: 5:44

Should I do?

Chris: 5:45

that no, definitely not Did I think.

Nish: 5:50

No, you can Nish, but I’m probably not going to come play with you, do you not think?

Chris: 6:03

Maybe I should.

Nish: 6:12

I don’t know. That never occurred to me. I’ll get you some hickory clubs as well. I could use my dad’s old slasinger two iron blade that he made me learn on like he didn’t. He had no idea that were blades. He was like you’re rubbish at golf, that was it right. And then only when you go and actually get fitted, somebody looks at your clubs and goes you’ve been learning to play on those. Yeah, they’re really hard to learn to play on. Like okay, yeah, yeah, fine, yeah, I’ve still got no better. But you know, with game improvement it was, yeah, still still terrible. But, um, yeah, didn’t ever consider that. I’ve not. I’m not dusted off the old plus fours for a while.

Chris: 6:38

Are they like genuine plus fours for golfing, or is that?

Nish: 6:40

like a proper golfing, kind of like.

Chris: 6:41

No, they’re proper golfing like the tartan and all that kind of stuff yeah, yeah, maybe you should save those for sort of st andrews or something that’s probably a good shout, isn’t it?

Nish: 6:49

yeah, or would it feel like I’m taking the piss out of scottish people if I turn up in like black cap and little bobble on the top and all this sort of thing? One of those little ginger wigs, oh god, yeah, playing bagpipe music as you? Rock up to the uh as you rock up to the course in your car. Yeah, no, we’re not going to get very far with that, are we?

Jim: 7:09

no, no, no. I think we need to keep this oh look, the top 110ers are back.

Nish: 7:16

Stay away from them. Yeah, anyway, I digress. But yeah, two rider cups, so it’s pretty pretty.

Jim: 7:23

Pretty historic, anyway, pretty historic 1906, I think the course was established. So yeah, pretty good history. Obviously my home county, merseyside.

Nish: 7:33

It is mate, it is mate. Doesn’t feel like it’s going to be a meth course, then does it. I think it’s pretty. Is that right? Was that a good application of the word?

Jim: 7:45

No word, no, oh, is it not no?

Chris: 7:45

it wasn’t you have to use the word the word meth when it comes down to somebody’s clothing. Is it clothing? Yeah, all right. Would nishini’s plus fours constitute a meth or not?

Nish: 7:52

general daily attire perhaps sorry, jim jtc disappointed mate? No, you’re not. You’d expect it, yeah, but ben hogan’s played there and ben hogan’s like my absolute like like swing um hero, like I love. I love his golf swing model. It model my golf swing. On his golf swing has hulk hogan played there.

Chris: 8:18

That’s who I model my golf swing on muscling it down.

Nish: 8:24

Yeah, you heard about ben hogan’s story like and and his swing and how that developed. So he’s been widely regarded as one of the best ever ball strikers, like by everybody. Um, he had a really bad car accident. I think he won one major before his car accident, had a really bad car accident, like fighting for his life, all this kind of thing and then came back and then went all the rest of his majors after that and it was like I think he couldn’t move his right arm above sort of parallel kind of thing and all that did was he says himself it helps him because it just a condensed his backswing and b he couldn’t get his right elbow out. So he was all everybody in golf was like get that right elbow tucked in. So he had a lovely natural soft draw because he was always coming from inside the ball and it was always tucked in and it’s like that’s fascinating, isn’t?

Chris: 9:22

it didn’t know that absolutely. That’s why tiger woods kept crashing his car and he’s sort of later later years of his career just trying to revive his career.

Nish: 9:30

Ben hogan did it then this worked and this is less risk because the cars are safer nowadays so you know, yeah, that didn’t work very well didn’t it no no, I imagine, though. Imagine if you come back and then we’re not at 20 majors or something like that. Right there’s people trying to put you, trying to crash their cars all over the place. Well, I don’t recommend doing that, but no no, no, no, not big, not clever okay consider myself told um.

Jim: 10:00

So what kind of research have you done into the, into the um, um. So what kind of research have you done into the, into the um, into the course? Have you spoken to anybody who’s played there? Watch videos?

Nish: 10:11

I tried I tried to get paul on on today, really, but, um, what did you say? He’s uh, and I think he said I was trying to get matt on as well, didn’t mean is? I know matt’s a bit microphone shy, um, which is fair enough. I can understand that. I thought paul might be up for it, the chat, but he just basically just ignored the question, didn’t he?

Jim: 10:32

I’m the great chap, well you didn’t ask me, I mean I tried to ignore the question for a few weeks, but I’m just next door, so you just you just knocked on the door.

Nish: 10:40

I will hunt you down yeah, on the walk to school with the kids, that’s it With a microphone attached to the. So, Chris, what are your thoughts on?

Jim: 10:48

Yeah, you did ask me whether he might be keen to do something. I didn’t think he would, but I think it’s something that people might get a little bit more involved in in the future. But I think they want to kind of see the format and what it all entails first and foremost, before they uh, they get involved but I think the chat would have suited him down to a t, because I’m actually really enjoying looking forward to playing the golf thing is yeah, yeah yeah, I mean I have a podcast ball now, like every time we’re out.

Nish: 11:19

We’re out. Last night, my good friend, tom biddle, who’s done all of our artwork, um, he, um is getting married. So we went on a mini stag and we I ended up chatting to rob about the podcast for about half an hour. So, yeah, I’m, I am that person you are, but it’s basically my life at the minute, um, but yeah, uh, but watch, I have to watch some videos. Rick shields again, it’s a good thing. It’s basically my life at the minute, but, yeah, but I have to watch some videos. Rick Shields, again is a good thing, but he played it when it was like baking hot, okay, sun’s out, all that kind of thing. So I don’t think I really got any pointers from that. But you can go and I mean their site, their website is spectacular, like really, really well put together website, yeah, and the flyovers are amazing, like you can literally just watch every single square inch of that golf course in in prep, sort of done that and I’ve forgotten it.

Chris: 12:15

They have. They have missed some of the important bits that we’ll be playing from, though I did notice it was mostly kind of fairways and greens. They’ve missed. They’ve missed a lot of heavy, rough and the gorse, the gorse oh plenty of gorse.

Nish: 12:25

There are those areas out. I think I’m gonna say it again par for the gorse, see if I can get this? Can we get par for the gorse trending? Yeah?

Jim: 12:32

yeah, well, one thing I did notice that there were a heck of a lot of bunkers it is bunker central pot bunkers as well, so I I’ve got a bulletproof bunker technique, yeah. You didn’t use that last time we played. Yeah, I’m not looking forward to it.

Nish: 12:52

I think the best thing is going to be to stay out of the bunkers. That’s always a good idea.

Chris: 12:57

Yeah, I’m starting to regret what I said to you when we were at Moortown actually, which was I don’t really go in that many bunkers when I play golf I feel, like that might come back to bite me this time there is a guy who does like going in bunkers.

Nish: 13:12

Actually it’s called dan grieve. He’s a golf coach uh, he plays down at woburn, I think, but I follow him on instagram and he was on one of rick shield’s videos and, uh, he said I’m one of these weird people that I like missing the green and I like going in bunkers because it gives me a chance to be creative with sadist absolute sadist. But fair play, whatever floats your boat. Absolutely. Yeah, I was. I was 100 for getting out at moortown, though I mean, they weren’t anywhere near the hole in the end when they got out, okay, yeah getting out of the bunkers, so I was laughing.

Nish: 13:46

that’s progress I’ll take that. Yeah, new sand wedges Doing okay, feeling a bit better about it. I don’t think I need to buy a new one just yet. We’re good.

Jim: 13:55

So another Lynx course anyway. And where is this one ranked in terms of the top 100 from that list?

Nish: 14:04

97. 97? It’s one better on the rankings than Moortown. I mean, Old Woodley’s got to be absolutely effing spectacular, hasn’t it?

Jim: 14:13

If it’s 30 places better. Yeah, I know somebody who moved to that neck of the woods just so they could be a member of Old Woodley.

Nish: 14:20

Right.

Jim: 14:21

Well, that wasn’t the only reason, but they are massively into golf and that was the club that they wanted to play at and be a member of.

Nish: 14:31

I moved here so I wanted to play a member at Reddish Vale. That was the only reason and I couldn’t live in Reddish.

Jim: 14:36

Sorry, Tom, Eating Reddish, Eating Reddish yeah, so what are your expectations then, based on your research into the course? How will it play to your strengths or what do you really need to focus on in this course?

Nish: 14:52

It starts with a par three which is brutal in front of the members.

Chris: 14:58

It’s quite a long par three as well. It’s like 180, 190 yards.

Nish: 15:01

Something like that yeah, it’s not short, it’s not a wedge, you’ve got to clip it.

Chris: 15:02

You know it’s a 180, 190 yards, something like that yeah, it’s not a short, it’s not a wedge, you’ve got to clip it.

Nish: 15:05

You know it’s a mid-iron. I mean, you know we’ve got an early tee time this time it’s like 10 past nine so I’m hoping there’s not many members knocking around at that time. But otherwise, yeah, they’re all watching you and you rock up as a visitor and it’s like the like you know.

Chris: 15:31

So you got to take dead aim and that’s what you got to do, so bricking it, mate, I think is the uh is the phrase for that start, I think.

Nish: 15:34

But then, if that goes well, that sets you up really nicely, doesn’t it, you know? And your kind of confidence starts flowing through the veins. And god, good feeling, I think. Towards the end of moortown I felt my golf was clicking back into place. I’ve had a terrible 4 or 5 months with it, really, ever since I shot a 79, and I think I just got too too confident.

Jim: 15:54

I thought I was better than I actually was and then just one of those sports as well, which is which is so punishing and unforgiving can’t take liberties with it, can you?

Chris: 16:04

I think I said on the last one that actually, tita green, I was pretty good, you were really good. So naturally, the thing to do after that was to go and change your grip, which is what I’ve done in the last couple of weeks. Why have you done that? I don’t know why. It was annoying me because it was wrong and I knew it was wrong, but I was just playing with it anyway because I couldn’t face changing it. Yeah, it’s like right, we’re going to play another round in a couple of weeks. I’m going to correct it, I’m going to sort it out, right. So, yeah, that’s made. That’s made my ball striking significantly poorer than it was before.

Nish: 16:31

I feel like so. Did you do that before we played Mow Town?

Chris: 16:34

no right, so you’ve done it since post Mow Town change?

Nish: 16:38

yeah, I feel like maybe you so why do you do?

Chris: 16:43

that’s just not the way my brain works. Fair enough. There’s nothing logical about my about my thought process.

Chris: 16:51

Yeah, okay this isn’t right. I must fix it. Um, I I’m like you know, I think this top 110 is becoming a bit of an obsession. But I’m obviously, I think to be a golfer, you’ve kind of got to be a little bit obsessive, yeah, to be a bit obsessive about your, about technique, clubs and everything else, and I think, yeah, I think that’s really kind of sneaking back into my psyche. Is that is the obsession with the golf swings, like when we played over the last couple of years, I just I’ll just go and hang around quite happily, but now we’re playing a bit more regularly. It’s just starting to creep in. That I’m are you saying I start to feel like I need to go and practice to. You’re not just happy to play the courses now. Yeah, I think I might be.

Chris: 17:28

Ooh it’s hotting up I think your side bets have triggered this, jim. I don’t know what it is, but I think it is. Just Like I said before. I was playing once or twice a year. If I play rubbish, fine, I can just park that, move on. I’m not going to play for another six months. I’m like I can’t go and play like that again. Like I’ve got to, I’ve got to improve.

Nish: 17:47

So you felt that badly about how you played at Moortown? Oh yeah, I need to change my grip, even though that was all short game related, yeah.

Chris: 17:53

Yeah, it’s something that’s been. It’s been in there for a while and I think there’s a lot of loose shots that happen in there because of that.

Nish: 18:08

And it’s just, it’s a good, good test of it. Then, yeah, let’s see. Let’s see, I mean, at least you know, let’s think positively and it’s going to be a good round, but if it isn’t, you’ve got something to blame it on, which is always a nice thing, isn’t it, rather than just going.

Chris: 18:18

Actually, I’m terrible, yeah essentially that’s what I’m doing here. That’s what happens with me. I’m just getting my excuses before we play.

Nish: 18:24

Right, I’m going to take my old wedges out, because then I can blame the old wedges. That’s what I’ll do. That’s a good idea, um, but yes, this starts with a par three and that’s that’s a toughie. Bunker central, absolute bunker central. Um, but uh, yeah, like interesting location and stuff like that as well, because it’s like three courses next to each other. You see it on their videos as well, the times when there’s trains going by, and I always just find that odd. It’s really odd. It’s like you’ve got this lovely serene video where it slowly fades in, really slowly moves forward through the course, and you’ve got this bright yellow Misery Rail train going past.

Nish: 19:06

Northern Rail railway train going mersey rail train. Oh, it’s mersey rail bright yellow, you can’t miss them. They’re not as bad as northern rail, I don’t think do you think that when you go there, like you get to those holes and they just go right?

Chris: 19:20

well, we’ve put some screens up that you can see through, but like they’re tinted so when you’re teeing off you don’t see the train going by or anything I think my only experience of them is we went over to a gig in liverpool and it was the last train back and everyone piled onto the train, at which point they cancelled the train makes sense we had to find. Uh, yeah, another, another way I’m getting back from liverpool to manchester. Oh, no, no, this is liverpool southport train. Okay, there’s one specific train. Yes, is that it.

Chris: 19:47

Is that?

Jim: 19:48

railway line. That’s it. It goes from Southport all the way down to Hunts Cross, right by Liverpool Central. It doesn’t go by Lime Street, and then that connects to the Wirra lines. Okay, being an avid train spotter, I know all this.

Nish: 20:01

I think you’ll find that was the.

Chris: 20:03

B5932, that was actually the South Portland line.

Nish: 20:07

I think I’ll let you know, but built in 1928. Do you mind if I hand you down for Trainspotter? I’m not a Trainspotter.

Jim: 20:17

Well, you went a bit high pitched there, mate I think that was a bit defensive, wasn’t it?

Nish: 20:20

but also what’s Trainspotter?

Chris: 20:22

this is a golf podcast. We can’t really take the piss out of train spots.

Nish: 20:25

Yeah, that’s fair we talk about obsessing spirit.

Jim: 20:28

I think, yeah, I mean I am, I am a big geek.

Nish: 20:31

There is, there is, that is very evident you’re big, yes, big hands, mate, yeah, yeah, uh makes playing golf very difficult yeah, I mean actually, yeah, does it nice cling to it, mate, just using any excuse, any excuse, yeah, yeah, brilliant. Um, and then I think that I’m probably gonna do what I normally do on links courses, which is test the boundaries of each, each hole something that I need not.

Chris: 21:00

Test the boundaries of your patience golf is just great for me.

Nish: 21:07

I I love the feeling of walking off a course and going. I did myself justice today and I played really well, regardless of score, and I felt that was good. But I don’t let it be. I beat myself up about it if I play really, really poorly, because I just still. You know we’re playing S&A on a Tuesday morning. You know I’m one of these people that likes a lovely, crisp winter morning to play golf as well. So you know you can you get your woolly hat on, you’re all wrapped up, a bit of chill in the air, you get warmers and all this sort of stuff and then it’s. It could be a bit frosty. I’d love all of that. That’s. That’s great golf for me. Um, because you’re like, nobody’s going to be out playing golf at this time and nobody’s out doing anything fun, are they? They’re just going to work or whatever. It’s like, yeah, we’re playing golf today and it doesn’t. Everything pales, pales away until the side bet comes along. But you know, oh the side bet.

Jim: 22:03

So we did talk in the last podcast that when, or we had a thought that when it’s an old Ryder Cup course, that obviously you’re going to make your own scores but probably have maybe a match play.

Chris: 22:20

I think that’s a good idea. I think like I said we missed a bit of a trick, didn’t we doing that last time? So I think, yeah, we should definitely.

Nish: 22:25

We’re remiss of us to not do a match play, I think so. Yeah, so we’ll do our normal scores, but we’ll keep us a whole count as well. Yeah, it just keeps it interesting. I mean actually, and yeah, we did, it would have been brilliant. That wouldn’t it like going into the 18th, and I know it’s we’re level.

Chris: 22:39

Are we going to do that one-on-one or are we going to get a bit of a?

Nish: 22:45

we should do jumping ahead a little bit. We have booked to play Ganton in June and we’re doing a four ball better ball competition. I’ve never done any kind of competitive golf ever, so I’m going to speak to you about how all that works, but it could be a good excuse to do match play against Paul and Matt. I think we should compete against each other. Oh, okay right, I love Paul on my team, so he’s good with driver.

Jim: 23:13

And when he’s not, his second shot’s a race.

Nish: 23:15

Yeah, his recovery is unbelievable. That’s the thing that always gets me. If he gets himself in trouble rarely does, but if he does he’ll whip out his hybrid and great it’s on the green. You’re all good with that then, aren’t you?

Jim: 23:31

oh yeah, okay right so yeah, that’s pretty good, obviously, as well, that’s it.

Nish: 23:34

So I hear. Well, he’s got to be. He’s a member at SNA, isn’t he? You can’t, can’t be a hacker over there can you?

Jim: 23:42

well, that’s something them on the side with in the amongst yourselves, yeah, um, you two, or maybe we should be together actually no.

Chris: 23:52

If they’re both really good, then that’s probably not going to work, is it? I think, we’ll figure somebody a game.

Nish: 23:57

All right, we’ll be able to do we’ll. We’ll. We’ll speak to them and see, I mean, there might be, there might be like good friends, paul and matt, but maybe they don’t want to be in the same team and they want to split up. So it probably does make sense for to not be the same team, I think. So, yeah, that does make sense. Actually, let’s compete, let’s do that. We’re only doing it informally anyway. Yeah, things, you’re not going on any honors boards or anything, are we?

Chris: 24:20

unless we are also. You’ve never you’ve not seen me in a competitive environment oh, no this is it now? Is it now?

Nish: 24:28

We’ve had two and a half years living here and Chris is a great guy Dead placid, gets on whatever and then suddenly turns into this absolute animal. I’m a competitive guy.

Chris: 24:39

I vividly remember this from playing golf as a junior and I’d been out and played a county match or whatever it was a competition and I got in the clubhouse and one of my other mates had been playing in a different group. I came in and I was having a bit of a crack with him and the guy I was playing with just turned to me and went.

Jim: 24:55

Do you know what?

Chris: 24:56

I thought you were a real dick for the entire time I was on that course. I didn’t dare speak to you. I was like was yeah once I was in that zone, like I mean, I’m like a real, like want some of that line.

Jim: 25:12

Once you’ve had a club sandwich and an original lemonade you’re fine.

Nish: 25:14

Yeah, I think you need the club sandwich on Tuesday morning before you go out, and that’s another thing that we’re probably going to introduce, isn’t it?

Jim: 25:23

yeah, best club sandwich is this like a? I hope S&A live up to expectations.

Chris: 25:29

I mean, if they haven’t got branded napkins, mate and walking out like you’ve got to have a branded napkin now I’m sure for me, I mean, it’s going to be interesting, some of the nicer clubs, whether they actually serve a club sandwich, isn’t it? Is that beneath them, you mean yeah?

Nish: 25:43

for that. Like a rocker, put out wentworth and went with him like have a club. Do you like a foie gras this morning? You know all right yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Chris: 25:50

You could just like put some pieces of bread between that and, you know, a bit of lettuce, make it triple stat yeah, first off. Right, just substitute the uh, are you trying to?

Nish: 26:00

make us make a club sandwich, sir. No, no, no, no, I’m not doing that at all, but just do what I say, please. Uh, yeah, I think. Well, so are we talking like tiger woods, trash talking competitive, or you just you just sort of focused on unapproachable?

Chris: 26:18

I think, just pretty unapproachable. Like I am, I’m, I am in the zone, like I’m not don’t come anywhere, there’s nothing. There’s nothing else going on other than that next shot interesting, isn’t it? Isn’t it that yeah?

Nish: 26:30

I love finding out about stuff, about people like that. I don’t know, a bit weird like that maybe, but that psychology of it all where you go all right dead, nice guy, whatever, All right guy, sorry, I should say. But yeah, get him in a competitive environment and then, it’s like what has happened here.

Jim: 26:47

Well that’s sport, isn’t it? I think it does bring it out. We all are to some extent.

Chris: 26:51

I mean I think it’s definitely lessened with age, that. So when I’m playing a sport now, I’m definitely much, much better than I used to be. So I used to have a terrible temper when I was playing any sport, any competitive sport, Just get annoyed at everything, just get and everything.

Nish: 27:05

And yeah, uh, that that has actually just reminded me of something we discussed on the way to more town last time, because we were talking about the challenge as we do. Um, and then you did say something that was quite interesting because you said about sort of doing it, and I suppose we’ve played two courses. We’re getting on to number three here now. You know the grantors are 3% of the way there, but Chris went. I’m determined to do this.

Nish: 27:35

I was like, okay, like why, why is that? He was like I don’t know, maybe there’s like this because you were very good when you were younger, you know, and you played well professionally. You wanted to be pro and it was like that’s all I ever wanted to be professional and wanted to be pro, and it was like that’s all I ever wanted to do, because I just only ever wanted to play golf professionally and then gave it up and sort of missed the boat. And this is like feels like my chance to maybe relive some of that, because you’re playing these amazing cause which you would do regularly redemption, I suppose in some ways for that decision that you made.

Jim: 28:04

But you made the decision, so it’s I did make the decision.

Chris: 28:07

I’m not someone who looks back particularly much in life, but that’s probably the one thing that I would look back and I go. If I’d have that time again, I probably would have done that slightly differently. But I think at 16 you you know, everyone else is going out and having fun and you’re going. Well, actually, maybe I shouldn’t be spending my time playing golf. Maybe there’s maybe there’s more fun things to be doing. There’s definitely more fun things than playing golf left, right and center.

Nish: 28:28

But yeah, uh, yeah, I think it’s interesting because it’s a different motivation to what I’ve got. Yeah, I want to brag on social media.

Chris: 28:37

Yeah, I mean that’s not, that’s not me at all, no, it’s not you at all I mean, I don’t get it.

Nish: 28:41

I really don’t understand it. Like when that’s because one of these things like talking, you know when are you becoming facebook friends? Basically is the thing, isn’t it? You know, yeah, I’m not really on there, sorry, what? Yeah, no, I don’t really do so, so you don’t do social media. How do people know it’s happened if you haven’t posted on instagram? You know, it’s just like, it’s just weird, it’s, it’s a different, different mindset.

Chris: 29:06

Yeah, it’s just never been me at all.

Nish: 29:09

I’m jealous of that. I really am jealous of that Because, as most people probably attest to that, once you’re in it, you just get hooked on that, and you just keep doing it.

Jim: 29:19

I know what you are for dinner every fucking night. No, you’re not that bad. You were at one stage that was more because you were eating out a lot. I was eating out a lot pre-kids, I think. One of your favorite phrases. I’m gonna social media the fuck out of this yes, everyone get ready, is he a? Mutant. It’s like you know you post something. I’m like, oh god, you know, do you actually look in the background? I’ve got to be picking my nose or something.

Nish: 29:47

It’s like that type of thing, isn’t it? It’s just posted.

Jim: 29:49

It’s there for everyone to see.

Nish: 29:51

Don’t tag me in that one. It’s a curse because you’re never off. You’re always looking for an opportunity to pick a picture to post. Each to their own. I hope somebody somewhere is living vicariously through me thinking he’s got a great life. I don’t think they are by any stretch of imagination. They’re like he’s got a good life, he’s doing all right, isn’t?

Jim: 30:11

he. What they say to me is oh yeah, nishinemura again.

Nish: 30:15

Again, that’s the face, again, that’s the roll of the eyes.

Jim: 30:20

Jealousy suits you well, it is jealousy, it is jealousy, how do they do it? I said, well, make it work.

Nish: 30:29

I do find that. I just find it interesting that you had a different um outlook to, oh, your motivation. Sorry to do, because I know you originated the idea anyway, yeah, um, yeah, but, yeah, but what? What was the, the push for that? And? And actually, probably, that probably was somewhere, yeah, and it’s like I don’t, I don’t know that it’s not.

Chris: 30:49

It’s not on a conscious level yeah, yeah, of course, but it’s just just me, as I say in the last couple of weeks, just reflecting on kind of why I wanted to do it and maybe that’s, maybe that’s part of the reason I got uh, is it enjoying it again?

Jim: 31:00

because I’ve been playing for years, and then moving next door to niche, and then we’ve obviously played a couple of times over the last 18 months and it’s like actually I enjoy it again now.

Chris: 31:08

That is exactly it. So, like I said to you afterwards, I said I think I’ve fallen in love with golf again. And that’s great for me, like it’s a. Really, you know, that’s a massive bonus to get out of this Already, only after two, yeah.

Nish: 31:26

Is that, I feel again, which I’ve not done for 20 odd years you can’t do anything better than, yeah, just playing the golf, best golf courses in the land, like that’s what you’re doing. It’s like it’s the dream, isn’t it?

Chris: 31:32

I am just a very expensive very expensive.

Nish: 31:36

I’ve never had dreams where I’m just basically doing that, burning through it, um. But as I sent, there’s another friend of ours mutual friend of ours sent me a message saying oh, you got the list of the course which we have on our website, wwwtop110.couk. There is a list up there now, um, and he sent it to his dad. His dad came back with what is your millionaire or something I’ll tell you for free. Now, he won’t get onto wentworth and he won’t get onto this and he won’t get that. I was like I want to do it in nine and a half years now because I want to go back and gloat. That’s like, yeah, we did it. So, yeah, it’s just kind of, but yeah, that’s what motivates me.

Chris: 32:15

I think we’ve both got a real determination to do this, haven’t we? I think between us, yeah, I think we’ve got enough of an obsessive behavior that we can.

Nish: 32:23

I think we’re definitely going to push to do this I still feel we, even though we have done degree of, I still think we haven’t actually got a plan for for doing it now. We haven’t sat down and gone, hey, we need to make sure that we cross off 10 courses a year, or like we’re going to do this cluster versus whatever. I think we’re still sort of fudging it a bit. However fudging it has got us to four booked and you know we’re three months into the challenge. I mean, that’s going into june. We’re going to play a lot more in between as well. There’s no number of courses that can get us on to just haven’t nailed it down yet. Um, so yeah, let’s fudge our way through to like 20 and then we’ll we’ll think about a strategy or something after. I think.

Chris: 33:04

I mean, I’ve fudged the last 38 years of my life, so I mean another 10 years won’t hurt. Yeah, why not?

Jim: 33:10

I think it’s when you have to start planning for the ones which are further afield and the clusters. That’s when there’s a lot more logistics need to come into play, and that’s that planning aspect Logistics and permissions.

Nish: 33:23

Gotta put your permission slips in, haven’t you Can? There’s just the extent of permissions there you go. Got to put your permission slips in, haven’t you? Yeah, can we go and play for three days and play five? I mean, we’re knocking off five golf courses. It’s a good reason to go away.

Jim: 33:33

That means there’s four free weekends coming up. No, no, no, Might not otherwise. Oh no, no, no.

Nish: 33:38

That’s not part of the deal. Again, it’s like the technicality of of the closest to the pin. You know on which shot do you have to be closest.

Chris: 33:51

Does your provisional ball count? Yeah, but yeah, yeah, I think I think at the minute, we’re picking off the low-hanging fruit, which is the easy bit. Right? It definitely, yeah. As it progresses on, it’s going to become more difficult, for sure. I think we’re aware of that, though, and I think you know. I think even just playing that second round has given us more of an insight as to how it could possibly happen. Do you know?

Chris: 34:10

what I mean we now know about these secret societies that are kind of bubbling away in the background or whatever.

Nish: 34:17

Oh yeah, societies, societies.

Nish: 34:20

Nobody said secret, yeah, I think, I think. I think also kind of I like that unstructured approach almost as well, because then you’re just open to any opportunity. But if you have a rigid, we’re gonna do this, we’re gonna play 10 in a year and these are the 10 we’re gonna play. Then we’re gonna move into year two and that’s what we’re gonna play. It kind of closes you off to I mean, we’re never going to say no to a round of golf, of course but it closes you off to somebody going have you considered oh, no, no, no, that doesn’t fit the plan. I think that a healthy dose of being able to just wing it, I think is a good way around it because you just don’t know what’s going to come up.

Nish: 35:01

Paul might suddenly well, paul’s your mate and Paul his family’s irish as yours and I think you were saying that, look, I’ve got some pretty sure paul’s got some good contacts who are to play in ireland. I’ve got a lot of family there, you know and and I know you have as well, so it’s it’s kind of one of these things where you go, does this suddenly mean that a week away you know we can say the family’s with us and whatever. But like a week away you know we can take the families with us and whatever. But like a week away gets us quite a lot over the line and that’s a nice little trip to know that you’ve got. Yeah, absolutely Interesting.

Jim: 35:37

It is you learn along the way.

Nish: 35:39

Clock up some mileage on the old GPS watch which, by the way, yeah, we should definitely.

Chris: 35:45

Just we missed this from the more um. So yeah, I think, as we’d mentioned in the previous pod, nish bought himself a new fancy well, singing well dancing gps. Yeah, golf watch.

Chris: 35:58

And I wanted to throw it in a water hazard when I did to um yeah, because every time nish got to a hole it turns out he was looking at the wrong hole on his gps so he’d kind of wound it forwards or backwards a couple of holes. So I’m kind of stood there at a par three. So that’s 150 yards and she’s going. It’s a 550 yard par five driver, get your driver out.

Chris: 36:24

I don’t think that’s right, nish, I think. I think you’ve got some technical problems happening there, so you need to we’re on 17, aren’t we now?

Nish: 36:30

is that? No, mate? We just started two holes ago like, uh, what’s going on, honestly. But I so I had this is a garmin like I think it’s a shameless 60, yeah, or maybe not Blame the user, not the guy.

Nish: 36:44

Well, there is that, of course, but this is a Garmin S60. I had a Garmin G12, which just clips onto your belt, buckle Dead basic, gives you the yardages, tells you where the hazards are and whatever, and it was bulletproof. It was absolutely bulletproof. I had it connected to some sensors on my clubs and at the end of a hole it would just go. Did you do that in six? And I confirm it and it’s done, it’s all logged. You know this.

Chris: 37:13

I spent probably more time faffing around with this thing, yeah I think it took us four and a half hours to get around. I think if nish had just been using his old watch would have been around in about three and a half hours, I think.

Nish: 37:23

I think we’d have been back by the time it rained on the 18th. You know, it was really winding me up and I was like we’re not on the 13th hole. But it’s just that’s where it’s picking me up, as, like, I’m stood on the t of hole six. Why is it telling me I’m on the 13th hole? And then, obviously, at that point because I’m a man, I don’t read a manual, I just get on with it, don’t you? And I was like, how do I change which is easy on the garmin approach.

Nish: 37:47

So I’m kind of regretting giving it to chris now. I’ll get it back or something, but just like, hit him and it falls out of his pocket and then that’s. You know, it’s mine again, but it’s like this is supposed to be really easy to use and help you out. It’s just a hindrance doing the whole thing. So, look, I’ve only played one round and I’ve probably learned a little bit more now and the activity tracker has actually clicked into gear now I’ve done a radical, so it’s actually some actual stats now. Um, I’ve been wearing it when I’m like at night and it gives you sleep stats as well, which is, yeah, I don’t. I don’t like that I don’t like that.

Nish: 38:22

It freaks me out a bit knowing that you’ve had like five hours you’ve just not slept, actually yeah, you have a problem with sleeping you’re not a great sleeper, yeah. I’m great. It’s like it goes, like it starts off. There’s a little bit of fiddling around and like just kind of you know fidgeting then the fucking snoring yeah, 12 hours evidence that well evidence, yeah, yeah. Well, that’s gonna happen again soon, isn’t it? Yeah, yeah. So I’ll reserve judgment, maybe for a couple of rounds read the fucking manual.

Jim: 38:54

Maybe just to throw in a thought out there.

Nish: 38:58

I’ve got time, mate. I’ve got two kids. I don’t know if you know, I’ve got two kids and a podcast.

Jim: 39:02

Chris has got two jobs, two kids he’s just better than me isn’t he? What can I say you know yeah 94, yeah, yeah six shots better yeah, so overall I’m still four up.

Nish: 39:17

This is great, I’m plus four. Chris is plus four on me oh, that’s not the side.

Jim: 39:22

That’s not the side I mean. I think it’s dangerous, that isn’t it?

Nish: 39:24

because, as we established if Chris took and he could legitimately take 20 shots off his short game. I mean, he’s wiping the floor with me every week, isn’t he? So that’s when it really doesn’t become about the score, and I’ll probably stop keeping score. Just go and play for the pleasure of playing shall we?

Jim: 39:41

Yeah, I can imagine the pods will be a little bit shorter. Riveting yeah, how was the course? Yeah it was fine. Yeah, it was all right Scores in the doors.

Nish: 39:49

Yeah, chris that was lovely 73.

Jim: 39:52

Yeah, I got 125.

Nish: 39:56

Oh, 125, eh.

Jim: 39:58

That’s my zone. Wow, that’s my zone.

Nish: 40:07

But then again you shot 79, so I mean low 80s for you on a regular basis is somewhere in there. There’s a, there’s a decent goal for somewhere in there just needs to be brought out. I think I think I will struggle generally because these are all new courses. I think if you’re going to shoot low, you shoot low. Of course you know because you know the nuances of it all and like where to lay up and like no strategy. And I feel like I’ve got to be a bit more strategic with sna because there are a lot of bunkers that are probably within my driver range, around about 230 average. I yeah, I mean just looking at some of the pitches.

Chris: 40:34

You’ve basically got a fairway which is just like bunker, bunker, bunker, bunker littered bunker like every 30 yards all the way up the fairway.

Nish: 40:40

Everyone’s pretty much covered. That’s a fair point. Yeah, putter, I think is going to be handy, isn’t it? Just put it on the fairway you probably could do that.

Nish: 40:49

I think I probably missed the fairway. Yeah, actually, that does remind me I did a shot, so I did. Uh, it must have been like the 12th or 13th. Uh, no, I think it was even late, I think it was a 12th at moortown, just going to go back to Moortown, just for one second. This is brilliant. This is how my strategic as long as it is one second, literally one second my strategic play works this well. So I absolutely nailed the driver, properly nailed. It Went dead straight, caught the downslope of the fairway, it got over the little bridge and then it goes down and I was like that’s nearly 300 yards, that’s brilliant. You know I’m on for this now.

Nish: 41:32

So it was like 289 yard drive, feeling dead good about myself and it’s all still downhill, approaching the, the green. So I thought here’s what I need to do. Don’t try and fly it, because I will, I’ll duff it or whatever you know, and I’ll, I’ll just get a bad contact. So I’m just gonna like put a seven iron just down, because there’s no friction, like it’s like the laws of friction don’t apply sometimes at these courses. And then I was like just just just bump it and it’ll just roll down.

Nish: 42:03

So I hit it and it’s going. I’m thinking I think that’s going to be right. Stop, stop, oh no, it’s going left. It’s going left straight into a bunker. And I was like, so even when you try and be strategic and all I’m doing is putting a seven iron, I still couldn’t do that right. I might as well have tried to just go for the hero shot and just land it on the green and see what happens. Yeah, that’s how. That’s how strategic play goes, but anyway, I thought I have got my phone ready for this when we were doing sna research, um so just googling about it and seeing what was going on, I decided to put um southport and ainsdale reviews into Google and other search engines.

Chris: 42:49

Are there any other search engines?

Jim: 42:51

Yeah, I mean Ask Jeeves doesn’t exist anymore does it Ask Jeeves, safari Brave, what was it? Microsoft?

Chris: 42:57

Edge Ask.

Nish: 43:00

Jeeves, that was brilliant, wasn’t it? You used to write a full question.

Chris: 43:05

You had to write a full question. I’m write a full question. I’m not sure you actually did.

Nish: 43:07

You did have to, but it was like yeah that’s jeeves, yeah, um, but these, some of these reviews are absolutely hilarious, right? So obviously you don’t read the good reviews, do you read the bad reviews?

Jim: 43:18

of course, is it kind of like no one told me there was going to be golf played in this course.

Nish: 43:22

Yeah, you’re not far off. Oh, there, there are. There are. Admittedly, there are not many bad reviews to find. Okay, so that tells you a lot about the, about the places that we’re playing, uh, but this, uh, where is it? Uh, this is 11 months ago. It’s five words, and it’s five glorious words. A club full of bellends that’s what it says. Says member of neighboring. What that’s not helpful. At least try and qualify it somehow. I thought it was brilliant. What’s this one here now? This is a three-star review, right.

Jim: 44:11

Three stars. This is a review Totally unhappy.

Nish: 44:13

So it’s three stars, so they’ve obviously just gone. It’s all right. It’s meh, right, meh. It’s one of only two three-star reviews and it’s a review. The review says please, please, drive slow when leaving site in your car. Thank you, that’s not a review, that’s an instruction it’s a review of the reviewer that’s what is that?

Nish: 44:41

I can’t name the name. I don’t want to do that, but they’ve only ever left one review on google and that was their review. I don’t think they get what review is and they’ve given it three stars. What are they rating the drivers, leaving out that what? Please drive slow when leaving sight in your car. Thank you, it’s very polite. I couldn’t believe it.

Jim: 45:02

What was the phrase?

Nish: 45:03

Jobsworth, Jobsworth yeah, this is one of the one-star ones, right. I booked a tea time for my daughter, who is 14, only to find out that she could not play as I. Her dad, in brackets, could not walk around with her as a caddy. Pathetic joke. Very upset daughter, right. I’m sure they have a list of rules on the website.

Chris: 45:32

You can’t do that most places.

Nish: 45:32

It’s probably like just safeguarding right and also you can’t just like they don’t know you’re not playing the cause. Playing the cause, they’re not just gonna let you on. They have official caddies for that, like you can actually hire a caddy can’t you, yeah, yeah, well, that was another thing.

Nish: 45:45

Yeah, you can actually hire a caddy, can’t you? Um, so that was that. And then you know, I sort of uh joking about the uh member, member of neighbouring club leaving review, but this is hilarious. So this is on TripAdvisor and this is, oh, have I lost it? Where is it now? This is a terrible review on TripAdvisor, not a terrible like. The review is hilarious, but like it’s, they rate it terrible. Guess what the word of the day was in this review. So the review is entitled municipal course clubhouse depressing and roadside cafe food. That’s the title of the review played here last year and it’s like a pay and play municipal compared to its neighbors. Red flag straight away compared to its neighbors right, yeah, greens like my back garden.

Nish: 46:39

I mean, fair play, mate, if your back garden is that good then, um snotty members who obviously don’t care for visitors. And to finish off the extortionate day, you sit in a dreary, dark clubhouse with these old garden members perusing a menu of sandwiches and a menu of sandwiches and chips, etc. Don’t look at the menu then, like if you don’t like the look of it.

Nish: 47:01

If I go to a restaurant, I think I don’t like the look of it, just don’t eat. It’s very simple. At least I’ll be able to get a club somewhere. Exactly, you’re right. My advice would be swerve this play and play hillside.

Jim: 47:12

Ding, ding, ding, ding just over the train track yeah you never notice the trains at Hillsside.

Chris: 47:20

You google his name and just see where there is a promoter for Hillside Golf Course absolutely guarantee better all round packages.

Nish: 47:28

You won’t be made welcome here at this parkland municipal. They’re describing one of the reputationally one of the best courses in the world.

Jim: 47:38

In the world. Never mind yeah.

Nish: 47:40

As a municipal.

Chris: 47:42

I’d love it if he just played the wrong golf course. There’s just like a little pitch and putt next door that he’s gone around. This is ridiculous. I paid for this online. It’s just scandalous £130.

Nish: 47:52

I just I found that Up to now it’s not been a thing that I’ve thought I’ll look at the reviews. But yeah, I really wanted to look at the review on this one that’s hilarious. I mean the one about the upset daughter. Well, yeah, you should know.

Jim: 48:08

And then the advice yeah, I think it’s probably time to set the challenge for this. I think we should, yeah, this round, yes, so I’ve done a little bit of reviewing myself, actually. Oh, and I believe the flagship hole number 16 number 16 yeah, yes, par five par five. Um. So obviously we’re not going to go closest to the pin on this one that close to the flag.

Nish: 48:35

Sorry, yeah, you’re doing well, aren’t you? You know, bryson dechambeau. Well mean you’re doing well aren’t you? Yeah, bryson DeChambeau.

Jim: 48:40

Well, exactly, so you’ve been doing well, haven’t you? Maybe, so I think for this course, the challenge has to be the longest drive On that hole On that hole.

Nish: 48:56

Okay, make sure your watch is working, come on, she’s got his wedge out for the par 3, 14th, yeah, actually, yeah, so, uh, all right, I feel like I. I mean, it’s got to be on the fairway, hasn’t it to qualify as a long drive? Right, that’s generally the rules.

Jim: 49:14

Yeah, great, you’re going first then well, depends what happens in the 15th, doesn’t it True? Come on, some traditions you just can’t let go. Shut up, we’re a four ball.

Nish: 49:25

Pace of play is important. When you’re ready, you go. Of course, I reckon we’ll get Matt and Paul in on the longest drive on the 16th as well and see what they do.

Nish: 49:44

That’s as well and see what, see what they do. That’s a good idea, isn’t it? I think that obviously, they’re not going to claim the win. That’s between us two. However, get them involved in the challenge. Yeah, that’s the longest drive hole. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that, yeah. Oh, yes, see me just like punting a little seven iron and we’re just letting it roll.

Jim: 49:56

Let it roll, let it roll come on, baby, we can do this putting a seven.

Nish: 50:02

I’ve never heard that before. I’ve never heard that, just just do just a putting stroke. It’s really good actually, and it just kind of goes straight in the bunker.

Chris: 50:08

It goes straight in the bunker, it’s brilliant yeah, great techers thoroughly endorsed that technique.

Nish: 50:14

Yeah, um, no, I think. Well, we are obviously very much looking forward to playing sma. I think that’s really good and we have to say, yeah, thanks to, thanks to paul and matt for getting us on, I suppose, because, yeah, like I said, this is one without their generosity yeah, I’m really excited about because a lot of golfers proper golfers talk about this in hardcore golfers I’m excited about this one yeah, they’re all. I think the few people that I’ve spoken to are really surprised that it’s down at 97 actually. Well.

Chris: 50:40

I think when we read it out, when we were looking at the Silith, I was really surprised that it was that far down, because it’s like I say it’s supposed to be a really good track.

Nish: 50:47

So, yeah, I’m excited about it yeah, because Silith was like 50, no 46, something like that. Yeah, so it’s got it. Yeah, allegedly. It’s what? Two times worse or worse, I suppose. What am I saying? It’s not worse, is it? It’s on the top 100%.

Jim: 51:08

But on what?

Nish: 51:08

fucking metric Exactly exactly. Yeah, well, yeah, we’ll have some news on that soon. But yeah, I think there must be some math behind it at some point.

Jim: 51:19

Maybe not, but yeah, I think there must be some math behind it at some point?

Nish: 51:22

maybe not yeah, but again these ultimately subjective, isn’t it? You know, one man’s?

Jim: 51:25

oh yeah, it’s like you know the 10 best war movies of all time, you know, etc why would you bring that up, jim?

Nish: 51:32

why would you bring the 10 best war movies, of which? Samurai is the only one, but you know well, I did watch that today for the first time.

Jim: 51:39

Yeah, yeah, I knew that but it was because I was reading something in the telegraph, because you know I’m a telegraph your reaction was that was mine.

Nish: 51:49

I was like you’ve never watched Saving Private.

Chris: 51:51

Ryan, that is insane, I know, I only watched Shawshank Redemption for the first time about two months ago.

Jim: 51:56

What you knew, I told you.

Nish: 51:59

Oh, I must have been drunk, mate, I forgot. I’m glad you’ve watched them now, so that’s good, sidetracking it a little bit. What was your review? Brilliant.

Jim: 52:09

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant, absolutely fantastic. Both of them were yeah, yeah, yeah. Don’t know why I didn’t watch them all together at the time.

Chris: 52:15

I always find it difficult that everyone like Shawshank Redemption always gets voted the best film of all time. But I think that’s, I think that’s overselling it a little bit.

Nish: 52:23

It’s a great film, but I think it’s a lot of people it’s a lot of people.

Chris: 52:27

Greatest film of all time.

Jim: 52:28

I mean, toy Story 3 is definitely the best, yeah.

Nish: 52:31

I think it blends Toy Story 3.

Jim: 52:33

It great movie no, no, it’s the shittest of them all.

Nish: 52:35

I thought, yeah, yeah, but you’d never seen Sam and Brian until today, so I don’t think I can trust your opinion. You’ve got through 45 years of life and never seen. Well, it actually wasn’t out then, was it?

Jim: 52:47

but you know no it was in 1998 or something, I think it’s a long old whack, though still like over 25 years. I’ve watched a lot of films in that time and a lot of shit on TV it doesn’t.

Nish: 52:57

It doesn’t. I mean it’s going to sound stupid, it doesn’t. It doesn’t age, of course it doesn’t. It’s set in the 14th of the second world war, but what I mean is the way it’s shot still looks like relevant and like pucker now, doesn’t it? Yeah, band of Brothers next mate. That’s what you need to watch. Have you seen Band of Brothers?

Chris: 53:16

I’ve seen Band of Brothers so one of Lucy’s uni friends’ dad was in Band of Brothers.

Nish: 53:21

Really Like a main character no he had a couple of lines in it.

Chris: 53:26

to be fair, that’s all right, isn’t it, damien Lewis?

Nish: 53:30

Just some fella called Damien Lewis.

Chris: 53:32

No, so he’s actually had a few lines. Had a few lines. Yeah, no, he was actually. Oh, it’s the Radio 4. What’s it called the? I can’t remember Archers, the Archers. He was in the Archers. That’s what he was famous for, right, a bit of a side hustle as a Band of Brothers extra.

Nish: 53:52

Band of Brothers was brilliant. You will really enjoy that. Yeah, I think that’s better than saving Brabant Ryan on that note and on that.

Jim: 54:05

I hope you have an amazing day on Tuesday. Thanks, jim. Yeah, we will, over at Southport and Ainsdale.

Nish: 54:13

Yes, so you need to drop in on anybody and say hello or you know, go and see my parents say.

Jim: 54:19

I say hi, I went to the one last week, so um, no no, don’t really know that many people up in that neck of the woods, but, uh, you’ll get a great welcome and it’ll be an amazing course. Yeah, um, I’m quite jealous, but also with the amount of bunkers that they have on there. It’s not the, it’s not the time of year to spend on the sand Might take some flip-flops with me or something.

Nish: 54:38

I think I’ll be in there a bit, a little beach towel.

Jim: 54:40

Yeah.

Nish: 54:41

I mean, what’s the etiquette with bunkers? If you’ve had like four shots in the same bunker, can you just like go, I’m throwing it out of the bunker now.

Chris: 54:49

I think you’ve just got to hold the swearing. i 1

Nish: 54:50

Just swear more until it comes out. Yeah, just just hit it harder and harder. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. This makes perfect in all that it’s gonna be. Uh, I think I’m gonna be practicing my bunker shots a lot on tuesday, but that’s good. Actually, this might just be the thing I need yeah, yeah I never practiced bunker shots at all, so, yeah, maybe this is exactly what I need. What’s, he said, standard foot further back from? He’s, like you, so close to the ball, they just need to move further back, at least two feet at least.

Nish: 55:19

You need to be much further away from the ball every time somebody gives me bunker tips, the next bunker show I always play really, really well, and then it just goes back to me using my own logic again. I should just go tell me what to do and then we’ll do it that way, right, lovely? Thank you very much no yeah guys, good chat again next time on the top 110 golf podcast. We find out how we played at the famous S&A links.