The Christmas Special & Awards

Nish: 0:03

Welcome to the Christmas special of the Top 100 in 10 Golf Podcast. In true classic Top 100 in 100 style, I forgot to press record on our microphones as we were doing the episode. So I’ve had to take the audio from the video recordings that they made. That means that the quality is not as good as I would hope, but hopefully you’ll still enjoy the episode. Every story has an ending. Does our quest to play the top 100 courses in 10 years have a good ending? I’m Mitch. I’m Chris. I’m Jim. And we’re here to guide you through this golfing journey. This is the Top 100 in 10 Golf Podcast. The Christmas special and end-of-year awards. I don’t want a lot for Christmas. There’s just one thing I need. I don’t care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree. I just want you for my own. More than you could ever know. Make my wish come true. All I want for Christmas is for you to follow or subscribe wherever you get this podcast.

Chris: 1:04

For a moment like that one. For a moment there, I was hoping there was going to be a question of what’s your weirdest Christmas moment you’ve ever experienced. Because that was probably going to go in number one, I think. I have to say quite, quite comfortable.

Nish: 1:14

Comfortable for a second. I had to come up with this thing, you know, like looking for funny Christmas songs or funny lyrics, whatever, and so nothing was appropriate. I’m just going to put this in, I’m just going to do it in a creepy way, and I’m just going to really pigeon out. Yeah, I did. And then right at the end, they’ve got the light, and so I was just reading it out, and I think, actually, that’s the perfect segue into it. So please do. It would really be nice over Christmas. Uh, well, look, here we are, gents, the three wise men, I suppose, here for our Christmas special and end-of-year awards show. Um, yeah. I was going to do something with the names as well, so that’s that Balthazar and whatever they’re called, and you know the actual three wise men. Gold Frankenstein and Guru. That’s what we needed. Uh, but look, it’s our end of year review. So, how has your golfing year been? I’ll start with Chris, maybe. Okay. How has my golfing year been?

Chris: 2:05

Um, I mean, it’s not been a bad golfing year, has it, really? If you if you can look back and reflect on some of the places we’ve been, some of the courses we’ve played, it’s been pretty, it’s been pretty awesome, hasn’t it? Five times the number of courses we played last year, so it’s a bit more fodder for the review. Probably more, yeah, more golf than I’ve played in the last 20 years put together. I’ve played we’ve played what 15 courses this year, and probably played a handful of times in between that as well, like 20 times. That’s that’s a lot of golf for me. Yeah. Um, so yeah, it’s been it’s been good in terms of volume and in terms of quality as well. Obviously, we’ve played some some really class golf courses. We have played some amazing courses, we’ve been to Cales D, we’ve yeah, we’ve been to every country in No Ireland. We’ve not been to Ireland yet. We’ve been every country on the uh the Isle of uh England, Scotland and Wales. Mainland, UK, there you go.

Nish: 2:56

The island of Great Britain. Is that what it the island of Great Britain? Thanks, Jim. Brilliant geek. Uh yeah. Is there anything in your golfing year that you just got my goodness, that I’ve disgraced myself there. That’s not good.

Chris: 3:10

Many times, many, many times.

Nish: 3:12

Just look at all the videos about golf.

Chris: 3:14

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it’s been mostly it’s probably a 95% disgrace. 5% average golf. I know.

Jim: 3:21

Fair enough.

Chris: 3:22

Um no, I mean I don’t like, you know, we we’ve never really gone about it thinking that we need to be amazing, have we like we’re just gonna we’re just who’s this who is this person? Yeah, alright. Yeah, I mean, yeah, every day, every night, Nish, I just go to bed and cry cry myself to sleep with the disappointment that I brought up on myself.

Nish: 3:47

Start sending me your scorecard through, maybe that’ll that’ll make it worse. Yeah. Um Jim, how’s your golfing year, mean? Great. I played my first links course.

Chris: 4:00

You did play your first links course, yeah. So was that for you? That was a great experience, yeah. Um I mean I love it in particular. I felt that was I was playing pretty well for my standards anyway, and really thoroughly enjoyed it. Um didn’t think it was as testing as I thought it might be. Um the conditions were favourable anyway, so it wasn’t the uh the true blinks experience, I suppose. Um obviously you’ve had a few more recently which have uh been a little bit more testy.

Nish: 4:29

Yeah, we sort of uh we talked about it in our our top three, top five episodes, and it is remarkable we played 15 rounds, which is sort of ahead of uh the rate that we need to do. But 15 rounds, all clear as day, aren’t they? You know, you can really remember the we can read that you don’t I suppose because we’ve uh taken the time to stand at a tea box and go, isn’t this amazing? Yeah, you’re taking all that the visceral clues and going on, but yeah, I mean that does feel like a long time ago, though, doesn’t it?

Chris: 4:58

That that’s it does very very vividly though. I mean it was my only trip, wasn’t it? So in that respect, yeah, and that’s why it stands out so much for me. Yeah, yeah. I thoroughly enjoyed that. Um the Golf Society Day as well, yeah, the inaugural Golf Society Day. Yeah, absolutely. So that was a great experience, although my golf wasn’t did let me down a little bit, but um still we’ve got lucky with the weather again.

Nish: 5:23

I think we have just generally, haven’t we? Look anymore, is it? No, it’s just standard, we expect it. Yeah, sunshine’s on the righteousness.

Chris: 5:32

2026 is gonna be a rude awakening in the world. Absolutely.

Nish: 5:38

There’ll be like this this um all the chance, all the the news will be like, oh, this wettest year on record. Let us win this year on record, yeah. First monsoon to the British titles, yeah, absolutely. Uh wonderful. Okay, well look, I thought we’d go through a few things that happen in the golfing world that we really should talk about, and we probably have covered at various points, but like let’s just bring it all together. It’s been a great year, Robert, sure. And let’s start with the man himself, Rory McElroy. Yeah, one year from Rory, eh? Your bet finally came in, was it you always put money on Rory?

Chris: 6:12

Well, that’s that’s Tommy. I always put money on the city. Oh Tommy, right. Always put money on Tommy, right? He’s yet to come in, but 2026 feels good at Tommy.

Nish: 6:20

Yeah, I mean it is hoping, it is hoping for sure. Absolutely. I mean, you know, and and and sort of what a way to do it, and just yeah, I think some of the shots he was pulling out and and to do it in the masters, but we all thought it was settled for him to do it at the open. In the open, right? Yeah, do it in Ireland. Yeah, and no, that didn’t happen. Yeah, it was all you know, but yeah.

Chris: 6:37

I think the way that it happened as well with the US Open you know, Pioneers before, and just yeah.

Nish: 6:43

I just think I think the other thing with Augusta as well, it felt like there was a bit of redemption around Augusta with it completing his grand slam. Yeah, the place where he had his probably biggest major meltdown from way ahead in the lead. Yeah, all these things just happened, and it just felt like this is his.

Chris: 7:00

Well, yeah, I think he’s I I think when it only when that meltdown against Brighton, I thought he’s not gonna, he’s never, he’s never gonna win a major.

Nish: 7:07

We were in for his knocking there, yeah, he’s at it now. But to pull himself back from that, yeah, I’m just gonna Masters. Is it is it Masters First? Is he US opened? It’s Masters first, isn’t it? Yeah, because it does Masters first. Back in the last year. Back in last year, yeah, that was it. Yeah, so it’s like he never had all that time stewing over it, yeah. You know, like, oh my god, what’s gonna happen? I mean, it was just I mean, we we obviously we did it, we watched it live and we were doing our reaction. Like, my goodness, like what how good is that? Maybe we should just do them all have a roarie or win another 18 majors or something like that. But yeah, what a phenomenal year from from Wory, and that kind of leads me into you know, probably not his crowning moment per se, but then the crowning for us as golf fans, European golf fans, was how good that Ryder Cup was, and just sucking it to the Yanks for all that grief that we were getting. In the end, well we were in the pub, weren’t we, Jim?

Chris: 8:00

We were and it was just yeah, we put through the rigger, I think, from that rider cup. It was fun, wasn’t it? Because going into it, you kind of felt like we’ve got a pretty good chance of this, and then after the first couple of days, like, yeah, we’re just gonna fucking wipe the four wheels, isn’t it? And then even after the first probably six or seven ties, you know, six or seven holes, you know, yeah, lots of blue header on you, yeah, yeah. On the screen, and then as as is such with with sport, things can change in a lot of people. Really? Because like after the first two days, you’re like, Great, we’re hammering the Americans, yeah. But the last day is gonna have no entertainment value, yeah. Because you’re like, What’s the point now? You felt the highlight.

Nish: 8:38

Then you just went through the ring for the whole of that day, really. Yeah. Well, we we we we were here on Saturday as well, weren’t you? And even Emma was watching, and we were sort of just watching on the screen, it’s going, this is amazing. Like, we’re we’re really like mailing them. Like, this is this is alright. Gonna have a nice easy few hours on Sunday in the pub. It’s gonna be okay. Didn’t quite do it that way. Credit to the team, I suppose, from from the States, and and obviously we’ll have uh uh in podcast land. This is now after we spoke into a very special guest, and that’s Tom, who gave us a really good insight into writing in general, and yeah, and obviously what happened. Yeah, we should say that it’s actually it’s actually August. I’m fucking boiling August, then I’ve painted the windows and all that kind of thing. Um, but yeah, so that means that that was that was an incredible uh experience. Uh and my predictions that I put in on the American podcasts for us winning by, our winning margin all came came through. Did they? So I didn’t realise that. Yeah, yeah. So I was just like, sweet. I didn’t put any money on it, so I don’t back my judgment that much. But um what were you what were your I can’t even remember now? Is it 14 and a half? We won 14 and 13 now. Something like that, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think you like that is that very tight, very tight, too tight, too tight. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the earthquake that was set off when uh Shane Lowry jumped up and landed on that 18th green. Yeah, um and then our final thing, really, that’s been a really big highlight of the year has been a chap called Josh, I think his name is, but he’s the ginger golfer, and he’s trying to break, or he will break the world record for the most number of 18 holes completed in in a year at sort of official golf courses, kind of thing, at 581, which is phenomenal, really. So, what is the record now?

Chris: 10:35

Is it 580 or is it like one? He’s just doing it by one, I think so. He’s doing an armando, isn’t he? Well, I think I think Atlantis, you know, trying to get the one.

Nish: 10:48

I feel like he’s uh I’ve I’ve sort of known about this for a while, and I feel like it was like the target was 581 because it was like a little bit like it’s like, are we gonna do it? You know, am I gonna get to 5’81? So my target is 5’81. I think the way it’s gathered momentum, and that’s kind of what I want to talk about here, because he’s got the five-part Sky News doctor sky sports documentary and all this kind of thing, and like you know, he’s doing uh plug for it, I suppose, but he’s doing uh uh sign an auction, there’s always raising money for charity, um, and he’s McMillan, and there’s another charity that he’s raising money for, but uh he’s uh gathered so much momentum that I think actually if he did say I’m just gonna see how many I actually can get, he’d he’d he’d blast past that now. So that’s calendar year. The calendar year in the UK, all in the UK, yeah. I think I don’t think there were any did he have a trip over? Didn’t go to Ireland, I don’t think. No, I think it was all mainly in the UK. Yeah, phenomenal, like absolutely amazing, and like it’d be great following that journey as well. So you see like the the places that he’s been and like people he’s played with and all this kind of stuff and like the courses. It’s like yeah, it’s great, it’s giving me ideas of like who to who to hook up with, where you gotta go and play. Yeah, I mean what way to spend the year though, ain’t it? Yeah, like living in camper bags playing golf every day. Yeah, I think his objective was like, I’m gonna try and see if I can just get two rounds every single day, yeah, and see if weather curtails that. But yeah, I’ve also seen some videos having played in some pretty horrible weather. Yeah, yeah. But you know, you’ve got to get yourself up and you’ve got to get there and do it. It’s funny, he’s he’s keeps all the scorecards in microwave.

Chris: 12:27

Oh, it’s almost under score turned out at the end of the day.

Nish: 12:29

Yeah, yeah, that’s it. I guess it’s 581 then. Poor gallon. I imagine that. Yeah. All I want for Christmas is a Tesco three county tick of a salad. Yeah, just like it.

Chris: 12:44

Oh no. If it had 581 club sandwiches as well, I should hope so. Well, uh I’ve been relaxing that, haven’t I really? Yeah. I was like five or six this year, I was on it. Yeah, kind of stipped, hasn’t it?

Nish: 12:59

There’s been a few places that I just even haven’t had them on the menu, I’ve been. Yeah, I think I’ve just forgotten about it. Just the way my brain works. So rare of you, Chris. Very uncharacteristic. One thing he does do, actually, is he’ll have a shower at every club. Alright, you really have to be. So there’s always yeah, there’s like this thing saying that he’ll like go, like he’ll rate the shower in his review in the end, they’re like where the towels are provided, all the colours are like I think that’s a lovely little extra touch, isn’t it? So they’ve had clubs where because I’ve seen a no he’s coming in, he’s booked into play, and he might be like parking there overnight before he moves on to the next stop kind of thing. Uh they they’ll have like pictures of all the towels stacked up with little sign-ups saying for Ginger Golfer, you know, enjoy your towels, that kind of thing. It’s like I think that’s great. Traffic warden’s there, however, the fight hour. Well, yeah, yeah. How would you want to be a traffic warden? Like, just feels like that’s not a job to be doing. Like, just maybe it’d like being hated. I don’t know. At me if you’re a traffic warden. Yeah. Actually, no, we did find something out today before we came on air. Jim does a really, really good impression of King Charles. You do do a really good impression of King Charles, Jim. Come on, Jim. Let’s let’s have it. Come on, Jim. We heard it, we all heard it. No, we didn’t. No, we’re not doing that. Come on, mate. I think we go with atomic rem right now, but we need to hear it. It was brilliant. We didn’t have to say anything, so there was no accent, so it was great. But like I was really surprised that could it actually be. I’m not a peer pressure.

Chris: 14:33

Did we get the skill anymore? Did we get the uh on video started recording? Can we just edit it later at this point?

Nish: 14:39

Yeah, we’ll just do that. You’ve got to do it now live. No, no, no.

Chris: 14:45

Always giving to peer pressure, Jim. Never.

Nish: 14:48

Your audience wants you to do this. I’ve I’m I’m getting live tweets about you giving this impression now. Like seriously. Come on, Jim. Don’t hold out on us. I will just paste it in. Alright. It’s more authentic. I’m gonna paste it in there. No, no. Uh yeah, I mean it’s phenomenal, and uh you know, he will break the record because he’s got all the rounds sorted out now for the episode. Uh yeah, wonderful effort. Um, well, not wonderful effort, amazing effort. And I’d love to know if I think we spoke about this maybe last year, maybe maybe halfway through the year, and like has his enjoyment of golf diminished in now? Is it just I’ll need to play two rounds? Yeah, or is it uh no, actually, I still I’m in love with what I’m doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is he finished yet? Or is he a little bit of a short time? No, is he going to the end of the year? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so it’s got like about a month to go or whatever it is.

Chris: 15:51

So what do you do on the year’s day after you’ve done that? 364 days and what do you do on the year’s day? What’s the first thing you’re gonna do?

Nish: 16:00

I don’t know, what do you do?

Chris: 16:01

Quick miles, you go and go to your driving range. Do you think it would become like a bit of an addiction, though? Like you wake up in the morning, your body’s like, I need to go.

Nish: 16:09

Muscle memory, yeah, yeah.

Chris: 16:10

Yeah, or is it like fuck that I’m never playing golf ever again?

Nish: 16:13

I mean, I don’t know. I’d I’d like to know how his hands are actually, because my hands after like a two or three day trip, but they’re always just really horrible. Like, I just don’t feel great, but it’s been two rounds a day.

Chris: 16:26

Oh no, yeah, we went there.

Nish: 16:29

I mean, it’s it’s got very different hands. So factually correct. Look, I can’t remember any of that, but uh, but yeah, but uh right well I feel I should move on then. Um yeah, great, right? So we are now gonna get to the bit that is all about Jim leaning the way. Jim’s not really ever had to fully compare compare anything, but he is word in actually. Well you did you did a list of QA, didn’t you? Part one and part two. So he did that, and they were phenomenally successful, so I think we’ll it’s good to pass the ranges on to you again, Jim, and let you let you do it. And headed me out.

Chris: 17:08

Well, you never did your impression, so so now obviously coming to the end of the year, um how many podcasts have we done? 8,600,000, I think. Oh right, yeah, so yeah.

Nish: 17:32

Something like that. Yeah, yeah. It’s been productive. Yeah, well, one a week, yeah, yeah, yeah. It keeps up with the posting schedule, we’re alright. Yeah. It’s good. I mean, it’s amazing. Like when you look back at it now, and like the numbers and average is 50 people a day listening. Or 50 episode downloads necessarily 50 people, but like 50 episode downloads every single day on average from nowhere, you know, and people responding and replying and all about in us, and you know, just wow, it’s been pretty much.

Chris: 18:03

Just show you the internet has no standards at all. Well, I think it’s it’s obviously there’s been a little quite a few other people who’ve participated. You know, we’ve had you know a fair amount of listeners that have uh reached out and and helped you on this challenge. So I think we should raise a glass for them. We’re really up to, thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. Um, and and you know, I know that you you will reciprocate if anybody wants to come up uh this neck of the woods to play uh the Hallow Turpin Redishman.

Nish: 18:32

If you want to go to the Traffic Centre Driving Range, I’m happy to buy your bucket. Is it pretty close to the range? Is it actually fully closed then?

Chris: 18:41

Right. Um but obviously reviewing the year now is this Christmas special is uh has come around. Um, you know, if you can remember and cast your minds back, um, not to necessarily to the golf, but obviously to the podcast. Yeah. Um favourite podcast moments? You can go to Christmas. Oh, but you’ve made notes and I haven’t, so I need to operation.

Nish: 19:03

I’ll go first. So it’s the first list, by the way. So this is probably a podcast moment already. That you’ve made notes and I haven’t.

Chris: 19:09

I mean, my mine are brief and were made in the five minutes uh preceding me coming to record the podcast. Something’s better than nothing. Exactly. Um so yeah, I think my favourite podcast moment was when I was substituted out with Alex and Hobbes for the day. Yeah, yeah. Because I thought it would just show what this podcast would be if you just brought someone on with a bit of charisma, you know, a bit of a bit of wit and a bit of you know, some some um some good anecdotes and stuff like that. So some personality. A bit of personality, yeah, you know, it goes a long way. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, the numbers don’t like it. The numbers don’t like it. Snaps don’t lie, as they say. Um yeah, I think it’s probably my favourite moment of the year, yeah. And you got subbed out. Well you got subbed out, yeah. I think there’s a little bit of bitterness there if I’m thinking about it. My favourite movement.

Nish: 20:02

I think my favourite moment of the year was when I uh I did my new intro where I was like saying oh it enables us to get better guests and you both assume that you were guests being playing our roles as like as as we are to be fair.

Chris: 20:21

We just kind of rock up and expect you to do all the work and all we do bring booze though. We do bring booze, yeah. There’s all good guests to do. All good guests. Never turn up at the end of it.

Nish: 20:30

Absolutely. Uh yeah, I’ll I’ll say that was that was a that was a nice moment. I think uh for Mark personality is that it’s always got to be something that I find funny, you know. I’ve always liked the fact that and this isn’t a particular moment, it just happens as the podcast goes through. Anytime anybody says the word whole, Jim sniggers right every time that basically every time it just knows it’s gonna happen.

Chris: 20:58

What we should do is every time someone says hole and Jim sniggers, you should just edit in the uh King Charles That is a brilliant idea.

Nish: 21:10

I’ll have it.

Chris: 21:10

I can have it on a soundboard on my on my that is that should be our our goal for next year is to have like a little soundboard that we can just press that all.

Nish: 21:17

I’ve got so so don’t we’re giving them ideas, Christopher. Well I think improving the production of the actual episodes. I’ve got this thing where at the start I’ll play three or four clips from through the episode that have been good to give you a little bit of an idea of how the episode’s gone. And I at the minute I have a little sound that remotely sounds like a golf swing, it’s like a swish. I’m gonna change that. It’s gonna be whatever it is. What? Um yeah, I think done sealed. That’s that’s a good thing to do for the Gates, yeah. My other favourite moment is when I received your letter of resignation now. Um trying to get rid of the audience. LinkedIn had worked out as well. Uh yeah, I’d I’d probably say that uh yeah, that that one when I tried to subconsciously suck you out. But yeah, that’s my that was my favourite moment of all of the 52 episodes we took of the year. And that’s the end of the Christmas special. Thank you very much. Chris, going for a pipe. Make sure you pick up right there. I might have to think of a better better answer than that, but yeah, that’s that’s my one so far.

Chris: 22:32

And I suppose you know, favourite podcast moment, favourite episode. I think Chris, was you gonna say the one you got subbed out on? Yeah, so you know better about Tom. It was brilliant. I didn’t have to think about anything, I didn’t have to go around and bring booze, yeah, to drink in a Sunday night. Yeah, exactly. Or a Monday night or Tuesday night.

Nish: 22:48

My favourite episode.

Chris: 22:50

I suppose because I’m looking at it from a hosting host’s point of view because you obviously you’re there, you’re thinking of the creation and what are the contents, and then you’ve got to listen to it back and edit it and then release it. So you probably have a much better memory than us, Kissman.

Nish: 23:08

Yeah, I mean, in in totality, you probably listen to the same episode about 20 times before it actually goes out. So you’re like, I’m sick of it now, I really am sick of it. But yeah, favourite episode, I don’t really know. Um well, we had we had a couple of real highlights, probably. I remember the behind the head one was pretty good because we got really good content on that. There’s interviews, and that was just funny, wasn’t it? The guys were hilarious, yeah. Yeah, that was good, it was good funny. It was face-to-face funny as well. Uh sometimes you’re doing interviews and they’re on uh as virtual as virtual, so you don’t quite get the the repartee, I suppose. But that was that was really I did enjoy that. Yeah, enjoyed editing that together as well. Um felt with Andrew and Tony, it was like you know, looking a few years in into the future, like what we’re gonna be like, and like the way they were even just fighting, and who wanted that? You know, all this kind of time like they had that that total golfing made banter the whole way through. So that was that was a particular that was a nice episode to actually it was a pain in the arse to put together because there’s loads of different sources of info and whatever, but and and files and whatever, but it was a pleasure putting it together, and I felt pressure because that’s such a nice course. I was like, I want to make it a good one. Uh so that was that was a really good one to do. Um I think I liked uh what was the what was the first one that I put in? Probably the Dumbardi one I liked because that was one of the first ones where I put in a load of our actual golf spliced into the video epic version, of which there is one if you don’t know. Um so that was a good that was a good one to do. I don’t know.

Chris: 24:48

I think my favourite one um was probably the the the live masters one that we did. Not because I particularly enjoyed doing it, yeah, but I just think it was sometimes you can sit here and you just chatting away around, you don’t really think about the the you know where it’s going and where it’s gonna end up. But I think sitting there and chatting live to people about something that’s happening in front of you was pretty terrifying. Crazy, wasn’t it? Also, yeah, it was pretty weird, but I think yeah, just getting that understanding of the fact that you are just essentially just just chatting shit into the abyss. It’s quite it’s quite a nice nice feeling just to know that that’s that’s what’s happening and no one else, no one’s out there listening. It’s fine. Big brother is has got a place in the world at the TV show, obviously. Um also we don’t I mean mind-numbingly, but we’re not gonna not gonna watch it, but we do get the early days. We’ve got some decent elements from that. We don’t we don’t get feedback from this, do we? Apart from that guy that keeps emailing us to tell us to get off the hour or he’s gonna you know do some pretty nasty things to us. But sorry about that. We don’t get feedback, but we never should get into feedback there, and as we’ve got any questions coming out of the days we were talking, so that’s quite a nice, yeah, nice thing to do. And obviously, it was just a great tournament as well.

Nish: 25:59

I think I can pinpoint the moment my mask started going wrong because we had the massive TV here, didn’t we?

Chris: 26:03

And it was right in front of us, and it was just like we didn’t have any sound or something for a while. We didn’t have any sounds like no fucking idea what was gonna come.

Nish: 26:17

And by the magic of editing, nobody knew the actual editor. Yeah, that was a that was really cool. That was about something different, wasn’t it? Yeah. I’ll never do it again, but no, I don’t think it will, but unless people really want it, I don’t know. But uh the I mean in terms of interesting polls should do a poll gym, yeah. I mean in terms of interesting ones, uh again, this is podcast land now, so when this has gone out, the episode will have gone out, but it hasn’t done out yet. In terms of a fascinating episode, Tom about the rider cup, yeah, and just got some called and stuff like that. We were both just like keep going, can we just keep going? Like this episode could have been it could be Tom. Yeah, it was it was good, wasn’t it? Yeah, yeah, it was good. Yeah, but that’s that’s just been out just before this episode. Well we haven’t heard the edit yet, edited it yet. So I’m really looking forward to listening to that, that’d be really interesting. Really interesting. Yeah, it’s it’s a good one. It’s a good one. I think we’ve got we’ve got some good questions and answers in there, didn’t we? I think so. Yeah, I think so. We’re actually quite good interviewers, I think. There’s been a few people places that we’ve gone to and we’ve got good info out of people. I mean, not juicy’s a very strong word, but yeah, maybe I’m not so controversial, but like you know, it’s we’ll put people at ease, and then they just kind of you know, then give us some nice interesting facts that yeah, I don’t mind listening to it. Truth serum. Yeah, truth serum, that’s exactly right.

Chris: 27:50

Yeah, and that probably leads on to favourite guest. It’s gonna be difficult, yeah. And that means to be diplomatic, yeah. That really leads directly on to my answer because I think you know, like I say, we’ve had some great guests throughout this year, haven’t we? We’ve had some really genuinely interesting, talented, yeah, you know, funny, intellectual, but any everything that we’re not essentially, we’ve had those people on our fill the gaps, exactly. We’ve got to fill the gap somewhere. Absolutely. Um but yeah, I think Tom for me was I mean, he was just such a such a humble guy with such an incredible CV. Just look at the stuff he’s done.

Nish: 28:26

Just well, that stuff he’s done with Wigan was amazing, wasn’t it? Yeah, I mean what an incredible guy. Sorry season that was, 2024. Do you remember that one, Jim? Do you remember that year?

Chris: 28:35

I’m not watching the episode now, because I know what you’re gonna do. I can just imagine.

Nish: 28:39

I’ve got uh I’ve I’ve found a cutout like uh of a wiggin shirt, and I can you can do I found a feature on Cap Cut, which is what I edited the video episodes on, where you can pin it to a bit of the video and you can follow it around. So basically you can just have me in a wigging shirt the whole time in that episode. If you don’t watch every disappointed gym, trying to make you find it shirt like that. And cocktail sticks and put them in your eyelids, you can’t keep them open and watch it. Yeah, no, but uh honestly, we want to be a little bit more than a lot of them.

Chris: 29:11

You can see exactly why so many top teams and top sports people have them have him in their back room staff because he is just such a such a down-to-earth guy with obviously a talent for what he does. But like I think sometimes you meet those kind of people that are involved in those things and they’ll just it’ll be the first thing they’ll say in a conversation. Do you know what I mean? They’ll come at you and be like, oh did you know I was the I was the you know the sports psychologist for Wigan Warriors and but he was just so me because I’ll just go um yeah, but he was just like Leon Twitter. I don’t really want to talk about it all that much. Like, yeah, I’ll talk about it because I have to, but he was totally different lady, it wasn’t he? But yeah, he was very yeah, yeah, just a top, just a general, all round top guy. And someone who’d be great to spend a bit more time with him from next year. Oh, yeah, I can see where this is going.

Jim: 29:59

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nish: 30:01

Wigan home dressing room. So uh we’re in the Wigan home dressing room here with Jim and his Saints top.

Chris: 30:08

I mean, I have no interest in looking at that. But yeah, no, it’s it’s you telling to get them to be your psychologist for all the this challenge. Oh well, maybe, maybe that might work out. Maybe. I mean that’s right.

Nish: 30:21

He’s good, Jim, but he’s not like hypnotised me. I had a fascinating chat with Alex, who’s top running golf guru, and he’s another one where I could get him on, and we can just chat for an hour, an hour and a half. Yeah, just flies by. Yeah, you know, and he’s got such a good, I think, just a genuine honest opinion as well to things that actually a lot of that resonates with how we are, I think. Yeah, you know, we we sort of almost turn our noses up a little bit. The the reverse turn our nose up all the smoothiness in golf sometimes as well. Yeah, and it’s always great to chat to him. And I’m looking forward to hopefully in in next year, if not, then the year after, maybe, but actually getting to play golf with him because I think it’ll be fascinating to spend that amount of time. And yeah, and again, the face-to-face is you know, this is this is a wonderful medium for connecting people, but actually, you you do need that face-to-face time with people to actually see them. So I think probably Alex, but he’s run very close by Tom, very obviously, and actually really, really uh enjoyed our interview with Ellis. Alice was great, yeah. It was great, you know. What an insight into some of your starting off wanting to make it in golf, like it’s not my not my makeup at all, you know. And it was like yeah, I thought it was it was really nice interplay like between you two as well, because it was like it was sort of just going, like, this is basically was me. Yeah, it was essentially like bullseye, wasn’t it?

Chris: 31:52

These are mistakes I made, yeah, otherwise you’d be an accountant. The worst punishment you can possibly have in mind. Um so in terms of um worst podcast moments, I think this is quite a difficult one actually, because if there is a bad podcast moment you’re gonna say that wouldn’t it?

Nish: 32:14

Yeah, I could do, yeah, that is true. But I I don’t know, weirdly, I kind of like leaving those things in because you can’t be out of it in the map. I can’t be out of it. But I’m gonna keep on here as well, haven’t you? It’s a this is a great segue to what ChatGPT said about our podcast, but I think that is that’s genuinely what we are about. Like it’s not this uber polished scripted thing. Can’t polish it to English, yeah, exactly, and other such phrases about our podcast be shit. Yeah, you know, we we’re not we we aren’t trying to you know win some production award for slick. I’m pretty sure you do ask people to vote for us to win some sort of production around. No, just people’s choice. I’m getting nothing from the slickness approach. But yeah, it you know that that’s that’s a genuine but yeah, well, what what Chris Chris did a bit of yeah?

Chris: 33:08

I did I did some lazy chat GBT um research before I came on to my own podcast. There are other AI provisions, bot provisions, and whatever, but um but yeah, so this was the key the key takeaway point from ChatGBT was the top 100 in golf podcast doesn’t rely on celebrity guests like PGA Tor Pros because they wouldn’t go on, obviously. Yes instead its charm comes from authentic voices of the golf community. So there you go.

Nish: 33:35

So if you’re one of our guests, you are officially an authentic voice of the golf community. I think I think I’d I’d I’d be happy with that being on my grave. He he brought he brought together the authentic voices of the golf community. I’ll be created, so I won’t have a grave anyway, but a tree inscription somewhere. I can do that beenish. I like that. I think that’s great. I actually think that’s it. It’s a really good synopsis. Yeah, that pitch it where we want it, you know. It gives you a leeway to be crap, is what it does. Yeah, yeah. Authentic I guess. I suppose like I mean, we’re we are yeah, are we defined worse as in like a bad moment? Are we saying worse as in I don’t know, it’s difficult, isn’t it? That one. Did we answer that last year? Last year, we might have done. Did we answer that last year? I’ve no idea. That’s what I had for breakfast yesterday. Do you have one? Jimmy, but actually we might ask you. We should throw these questions back at you, which gives me some thinking time. Well, you must have thought what’s been your favourite moment and guest then so far. We’ve had so many laughs on doing this this year.

Chris: 34:55

Um I can’t narrow it down to one or even a couple, I don’t think. I thought the when we when we relocated to your um to your pad next door and uh did the couple. I thought they were just really good episodes. Yeah it was Sunday afternoon, there was a bee rolling that’s my worst mass.

Nish: 35:19

That that was my worst podcast. I’m gonna go into anaphlactic massive fucking bee. I’ve never seen a bee that big. Because I’m just lying in hospital, like nobody’s producing the episode, so we’ll have got away with it. That bee was fucking massive, absolutely, on steroids on it. That one, yeah. It was boiling as well that day, so just being like this. That was the shirt that I wanted glass day. It was like this nylon shirt, like looks cool, but it’s really hot. Like this because the heat is building up, and then the the buzzing started.

Chris: 35:57

So that was your words podcast moment. Mine’s mine, mine wasn’t strictly a podcast moment, it was uh it was an off-air WhatsApp um within the podcast group, which was where Nish texts me to say you’re going off on TikTok, which was a pretty a pretty brute brutal truth that I’m a fucking old man chant about golf on platforms that I don’t understand to audiences that I don’t know where they are, um, and I still don’t know what the fuck TikTok is.

Nish: 36:27

No, it’s not it’s not a to-do list. Alright. TikTok, TikTok. Uh yeah, I can’t even remember what that was now because it’s been superseded by so many other viral.

Chris: 36:38

So yeah, my my request is can we just can we just do it in book form next year? Yeah, yeah, let’s write it properly, let’s write it up properly.

Nish: 36:46

Yeah, well, I mean just yeah, just just just write a book. Just write a book. Write a book and get like puffing. That that one guy can buy the book.

Chris: 36:56

Um going on to the golf really now. I think because this podcast is all about golf and we wouldn’t need here if it wasn’t about the challenge. Yeah. Um I think this is going to be quite a difficult question for you to answer, but maybe not favourite on course moment.

Nish: 37:11

Favourite on course moment. Um does it have to be restricted to the top 100 golf courses, do you think? Three, nine hole. I mean, I’ve got fucking hole in one in July, and Chris had to stand there and watch it. I mean, it doesn’t get much better than that. It doesn’t get much better than that. I think we need to stick to the challenge. Well said, Jim. Well said. Oh god, yeah. I was just gonna rely on that being admissible. No favourite moment. I I know, I know, I’ve got one, I’ve got one. It’s probably a bit of recency balance than this, but I’ve got one, and maybe it’s gonna uh be uh superseded by something else as I think about it. But drive an 18 on Hollingwell. That was a very, very tight drive. It was signature hole challenge, it was longest drive competition, and I boomed it and it went it went over three reality, and it I was arrow straight as well. And it was just like fuck I can actually play this game, that this is great. One shot out of eight eight eighty-nine or whatever it is that day, or 108 that day, or whatever it was I did, but that that felt pretty damn good that actually. I did enjoy that. Yeah, I think I think the other the other one would have been that was probably comparable, would have been and as I’ve mentioned this in a few episodes previously, that I I don’t now really have first T nerves, like for whatever reason it seems to have gone, but uh Trump was the only one where I was stood there, and I I was like I’m fucking nervous at you because it was like even though they don’t seem as narrow, but it was it was like narrow, it’s two completely new people, yeah. I didn’t know Graham and Adrian at all, yeah, yeah. And it’s like I think I went first as well, and it was like oh no, no, Adrian went first, thank god, but but then Adrian is it’s a great golfer, so he just pumped it right down the middle, and it and I don’t know, did Graham go next to that chat? Whatever it was, but like well stood up and I was like, Oh, please, just I just need to get this away. And it was like safety first, get your three hybrid out, and I pinged it absolutely pinged it, and I was like, Yes, this is great. So that was relief, I think, more maybe than favourite on course moment, but yeah, that drive an 18 hole in one was. Yeah, that was a good shot.

Chris: 39:42

Yeah, uh, my favourite on course moment was um Glen Eagle’s Queens when I just went through a little patch. So I nearly got the hole in one and the twelfth or whatever it was. And I had a chance for a hole in one and the par four on the next next level thirty, and I just played four or five holes. In a row. You were going on really well. Yeah.

Nish: 40:02

You were gone for like almost three birds in a row or something. Yeah, it was what two or three under a foot. No, to think rethink this.

Chris: 40:11

Well, no, you just yeah, it was a nice little nice little feeling like the old days.

Nish: 40:16

You played really well in the Queens, actually. You had a really good round. Yeah. What which yeah. That’s sometimes made up. He was gonna hold on to those feelings sometimes.

Chris: 40:29

Yeah, that was a nice little nice little stretch.

Nish: 40:33

Beautiful place to bait. Just yeah, no, we um we we had a little chat to the the the four of us. Um yeah, we’ve got us and our wives have a uh a WhatsApp group. But anyway, the point is we’re talking about booking another golf weekend away, and it was like, I mean nothing’s gonna compare to Glenn Eagles, and then sent me an email like there’s an offer from Glen Eagles, she would have just been there again.

Chris: 40:57

Well we should have known if she would have just done like one of the courses, she’d have just done like Queens one year and then Kings the next year, yeah. Baked out a little bit.

Nish: 41:04

I know in hindsight, that’s exactly what we should have done. Yeah, yeah, get double the fun. But what that I mean, maybe not a golf moment, but that whole weekend, that trip.

Chris: 41:15

Well, that’s the thing, your favourite off-course moment, I suppose, the experience of Glenn Eagles. That’s why that’s why I had down for my favourite off-course. Off-course moment was Glenn Eagles, I think. Favourite off-course moment. Um sitting in the sauna with Judy Murray was was pretty fucking cool on Sunday morning. And just that moment where I kind of looked across and I was like, is it Judy Murray? And then she kind of closed her eyes and looked at her again. And I was like, fucking hell, it’s Andy Murray. That was that was quite a funny, a funny moment, but like I’m not really good at recognising people, you know, like family members in people’s faces, and I was like, shit, that’s just Andy. We do know who that is. Yeah, so that was a pretty cool moment. But yeah, just the whole Grand Eagles experience being at the hotel was one of the coolest things I think I’ve ever done.

Nish: 41:57

It was pretty awesome. Um, and this is probably an encore, it’s it happened on course, but it’s not a golf moment. That’s one of my favourites. Is uh we’d finally, or I’d finally managed to convince Chris to have a camera on his bag for when we were playing, and we got to hole five, and it was like, Chris, the camera’s like off, lock sided hanging off, and it’s not even like it’s to the side, like it’s not gonna fill me a plane in all shots, it’s not gonna be there. Even if it was, if you stood in front of it anyway. So yeah, actually, yeah, we’re podcasting.

Chris: 42:31

No, uh no pictures, let me take it up.

Nish: 42:32

Yeah, the pet shot, turn around as Chris stood right in front of the camera. Liza’s microphone on the core somewhere. Oh yeah, Liza’s microphone had done that.

Chris: 42:42

Yeah, that was a good one as well. Yeah. So funniest on the course moment. It would have been quite a few would have thought.

Nish: 42:51

I ermate. My own one. Oh yeah. Okay, but we’re going there.

Chris: 42:58

The next question is going to be most embarrassing to know, I suppose. I think what I’m actually to the same. Yeah, I mean, what do you need to try to get on? It still makes me fucking joke. Um do you know what? Because I’m not on that social media anymore. I’m actually seeing it, so I’d love to see the footage if we could maybe just watch that. It’s happening on Instagram here, so you gotta get on.

Nish: 43:21

I’m gonna show you. You’ve got to get on, you’ve got to like it, you’ve got to afford it in the way before you get access to viewing it. I’d like to I’d like to see that again. I’ll put some baby music over the top of it as well. Yeah, brilliant. Um I’m not embarrassed about that though, weirdly, because I feel like I almost couldn’t have written that script any better, like getting stuck in a bunker at Carnegie. Well, not even a very big bunker as well. That’s that that’s probably the embarrassing bit, wasn’t it? If it was a really deep one, like okay, fine, but it was just a bit of a nothing bunker, really, and it’s like nah, it all just I think it came to a head in that one moment. Uh yeah, I think for me, you know, annoyingly Chris is good at golf, so it’s quite hard to find moments where he’s had a bit of a meta. But there was one moment that was like Glenn Eagles, that was on the king’s course when he was just like just duffing his way up the side. I was like, oh, you just go, do you know what I can happen to the fucking best house? But didn’t didn’t you guys both have like eagle putts on that hole as well? We did. We had eagles, we had the we’re going for Glen Eagles on those putts, so it was like that kind of made that even even better. But what no funniest other moment, anything I’ve done personally that I’ve found funny. I think there’s been a couple of occasions where I’ve talked myself into a bad tea shop, Rogers and then I’ve just gone, I said I’m gonna top this, and I’m gonna top it, and I’m gonna top it, done, topped, done. But yeah, probably that probably Carnisti. Carn Housty does it, doesn’t it? Which is one of my one of my favourite encore moves actually was also made in my drive on 18 at Carnisti, you know, and that was such a big famous tea shop.

Chris: 44:58

Yeah, yeah.

Nish: 44:59

So to get that right.

Chris: 45:00

In fact, and one of my favourite on course moments as well was it when the three of us were at St David’s that day, and it was just like glorious sunshine, real like slow pace of play, but it was just it was just such a nice experience, wasn’t it? Just kind of meandering around the golf course for that. That was that was quite all three of us together as well.

Nish: 45:15

That was yeah, it was great, wasn’t it? Glorious day, wasn’t it? Yeah, like joining unexpectedly like this. This is this is amazing. That was good fun. Yeah, it was really good fun. Excellent, it was.

Chris: 45:25

Um, I think when we were on last year, um, we all had a few resolutions, so um so Nish, yours was to break 90 on a top 100 course, do that a few times, do a plus 18, do nine pars across 18 holes on the same board.

Nish: 45:42

Well, slow down, right. So breaking 90, I did uh I didn’t at Rawls and Bayes, I got 90, but I did it at the Duddy. Yeah. I broke 90 at Queens. Yeah. I broke 90 uh at uh at Cruden Bay. Yeah, on quite a few occasions and uh and then what’s the other one recently? What have we played recently? Uh I probably I think maybe Dumbani as well. I think so Yeah, like I feel like that’s a nice it’s a good thing I’ve kind of not it’s doing it’s not a monkey’s a target, you know, to do, but that’s that’s that’s good that. Do a plus eighteen, so plus eighteen, so I’ve beaten that, yeah, yeah.

Chris: 46:22

So I’ve seen it. Nine parts across eighteen holes.

Nish: 46:25

Yeah, I’ve not managed that. I’ve not managed that.

Chris: 46:27

Um beat lower score of 79.

Nish: 46:30

Just then that was a that was a general. Yeah, yeah, that was generally I’ve uh the I mean uh funnily enough, the closer I’ve got to it was on it is on our top 100 of course, but yeah, I’ve not really got close to beating a 17. I’ve not I’ve not been consistent over an 18 holes enough for that. I’ve always had this one mad hole, and it just like just fucks everything up, which is golf, I suppose, isn’t it? Uh yeah. So well that was always next to you, and the year after and a year after. There was one other thing, and that was I wanted to get round the top I wanted to get around the top 100 course for the same golf ball. Okay, yeah. Because I’ve got really close the previous year at Moortown. I lost it on the 18th of the drive, didn’t it? Yeah, that’s right. Put it into the chairman’s swimming pool. Yeah, um, and I did it at the very last course that we played at Carnisti of all places. All but all bar one. All bar one. But think about Carnoty was like it was hard to lose a golf ball there, wasn’t it? Unless you put it on the dykes, yeah. Yeah, it was it was there you go. There you go.

Chris: 47:37

It’s a beautiful hole, he’s off. So Chris, uh yours was open qualification. How did that go? Uh pretty well, actually, yeah. So um what opened we talking about? It was the open. I mean I qualified and finished 18, so I mean I’m kind of happy with that. That’s alright, yeah. And uh to shoot something in the 70s was uh was your other target. Yeah, I painfully missed out on that this year, so I think I’ve had two, certainly two, maybe three rounds of 80 this year. Um definitely Queens. Queens, Dunbarney’s turnover, wasn’t it? Dombarney, yeah. And then certainly those two. There was King Kings was somewhere close to that as well. I think you yeah, you played well at King. I think you showed the 80s and Kings as well. I think at King’s, yeah. So yeah, close but no cigars.

Nish: 48:21

Didn’t you hit the 80s in Aberdovey? Or St. David’s or something? Oh 70s, sorry. Yeah, but I mean like getting close, like getting something low eighties. Did you not? That was probably interesting at that point.

Chris: 48:34

Interesting. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, no, yeah, close but no cigar. But I’m I’m gonna roll that forward for this year. Okay. It was probably a bit overambitious last year.

Nish: 48:43

I don’t think that I was gonna do that. What is coach wrecking? What’s he seeing for it? Yeah, what’s the open or shooting seventy? Yeah, yeah, both. Just do it a book, don’t they? And then you know you’re all done. Uh are you just rolling just that one thing over there for next year?

Chris: 48:59

No, I think I should put some more things in there as well, but I’ve not really thought about what they’re gonna be yet.

Nish: 49:04

Um no. I I’m gonna I’m gonna roll my I’m gonna beat my low score. I’m gonna roll that over. Specifically in the top 100, of course.

Jim: 49:18

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Nish: 49:19

I don’t think I think you’ve got a few things running against you there, haven’t you? Because it’s a new course, yeah, hard course, but you know, there’s all other bits going on. I think that’s gonna be more reserved for like playing at Disbury, basically. I think that’s a place to go and shoot low. But uh I’ll definitely roll that over. I think it would be amazing to I think I’ve I have broken 85 as well at uh top 100, but if I can I’m gonna go with that shot, I want to shoot an 80 exactly at top 100. I’m not sure whether I’ll get a place that we’re playing that we know we’ve got lined up. I can’t, you know, it’s very rare. We probably may have already played all the real short ones that you’ve got a potential chance at. Yeah, I don’t know. I really don’t know how it works out, but um yeah, that would be good. Good thing you can’t use the ball thing anymore, can I? I mean how do you to be honest nowadays we’re so big just probably sign it and just hand it over to some of the other fans. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Chris: 50:23

Just something that you had to have a couple of minutes to think. Any anything adds that you want to add in from rolling the shooting somewhere in the 70s? Yeah, I don’t know what else what else can I do next year? Um I’d like to try and play a bit more golf in between the top 100 uh rounds. This year I’ve just played the top one round and then rolled out. I’ve done two or three rounds. I did Fridays. I mean, I’ve played seven rounds at Radio, I think, this year.

Nish: 51:00

Yeah, but I mean you’re going from look at the year before where you’re probably only getting ten rounds full style. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So you know you’re probably getting to 25 rounds, aren’t you, last year? Yeah, probably. What else do you want?

Chris: 51:12

Oh yeah, true. I probably don’t want to play much more golf than that, to be fair. Exactly. Um yeah, I don’t know, I’ve not really got it into time at this point. That’s absolutely fine. Absolutely fine. What about you, Jim? Well, mine was uh to play more than three rounds, so I think I played four and to beat hundred on a few occasions and failed spectacularly. So um yeah, I’m gonna play more golf next year. Time well. Yeah, it’s not gonna happen. So it’s not gonna happen. I’m gonna tell you, I’ll tell you right now, it’s not gonna happen. I’ll try that, I’ll try. Um, yeah, and then you know try and improve that score and be more consistent with that. Um, but yeah, get to the riding range a little bit as well, I think.

Nish: 51:48

You said something about Jim Mini, you were just like, I just need to get him to the driving range and give him like a couple of lessons. Yeah, give him a couple of lessons.

Chris: 51:59

Sweet, let’s do it. So there you there you go. That can be that can be my new year’s resolution. I’m gonna take Jim to my New Year’s resolution.

Nish: 52:07

We’re teaching to beat you. That’s my aim for the year. Alright, mine’s gotta be I’ve got to always be Jim whenever we play. Always beat Jim. You’re only playing yourself. Yeah, so yeah, I think maybe my new one’s gotta be always check Chris isn’t stood in front of the way of the camera before a show.

Chris: 52:27

Check it a game instead, though. Um we had we had some new year’s resolutions from last year, and not a to not lose anything in the year of 2026. Okay, of course. A whole year. Yeah, the surrounding areas. No, let’s let’s make it interesting, let’s put a better. You might not get to that much.

Nish: 52:51

You can’t get through around. I know. We’ll get to signature whole channel is like, oh fuck, I’ve left my phone in the car.

Chris: 52:58

That’s not that’s that’s fine, it’s not a boss.

Nish: 53:01

I mean, he wouldn’t, he doesn’t know where it is. Well you get to the car, and it’s like, this is not it. Oh, it was in my bag all the way along.

Chris: 53:09

So our new year’s resolutions last year didn’t have one. Swallow an air tag is what Christy’s doing. Determined to lose weight. I’ve got the opposite. I’ll actually put weight on. Making it easy for the challenge easy for that. I don’t do them. Uh and me, mine was to get a job, and I did get one. You did get a job, mate.

Nish: 53:29

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Congratulations.

Chris: 53:31

As an impersonation.

Nish: 53:32

Commutations. You’re horrible, horrible dirty person getting a job now. Yeah.

Chris: 53:37

Um I think obviously it’d probably be remiss of us not to have a little bit of uh a look into next year and what’s coming up. So obviously, you’ve got I think is it six courses? I think five we know. I’ve got the diary already because obviously it’s pretty much off season now. Yeah, um hardcore planning time now. Planning and practice, and range every day.

Nish: 54:01

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s weird, isn’t it? Like winter practice is always always a bit weird. Everybody’s probably they’re still the same, aren’t they? It’s like how do you keep your swinging groove? Range, mate. Range, not a range, don’t you? I hate it. Not not a range personally. That’s why finding the one that’s near us that’s the grass range, yeah, was like life changing, but obviously in the winter you can’t do it. So yeah, it’s not it’s not really for me. Life changing. Mate, it was amazing, not mate. That was something I was just like, I actually don’t mind going to that and actually having a practice, you know. It’s still shit practice, but um yeah, no, that was yeah, that was good. Yeah, it’s course wise. What you look for to next yeah, yeah, what yeah, what of course is most looking for to next yeah, I wouldn’t have. I mean the biggie. Yeah, it’s hard to look forward to. Fingers crossed the biggest thing. Um St. Andrews, the old course, but it’s forgotten the name again. Fuck Chris does not know the name of the past. Shanky Forest, Sherwood Forest. Shanky Woods, it’s called Shanky Woods. Thank you very much. Oh god. Uh do you know what? Let’s just leave this as awkward silence. Let’s just figure out edit this out.

Chris: 55:25

Come on. It’s not like GPT, so we were giving you the second name. It’s Swindley Forest. It’s there somewhere. Um Swindley Forest. Yeah, I think in particular, I mean A, Swindley Forest is gonna be incredible, right? It’s one of the kind of big private members, but it’s gonna be pretty pretty special to go play that. But also the guy that we’re playing it with, just it seems like an absolute legend. Like he’s climbed Everest several times. He’s survived the earthquake. Survived the earthquake at base camp. So he came down with uh Goldwell, is it the the owner of Google at the time that died, or whatever? He was there that was there on the same helicopter with him. So he’s got out some incredible tales to tell on the ground. Not bad golf, is it that rock? No, yeah. I’m like a self, you know, I’m a certified like Everest geek, like I’ve always been obsessed with Everest and like climbing Everest, so it’s like tiny. How many times have we done it? Several jokes, several in his mind, in his imagination, he’s done several balls. Yeah, just to meet someone who’s actually you know had the balls to actually go and execute that and do that. I think that’s gonna be pretty cool.

Nish: 56:27

He made it in his dreams, but thinking quiet that even in his dreams, he hasn’t done it. Damn it, I’m dreaming about it. It’s just ridiculous. That’s gonna be like Alex, who I mentioned before as a guest, and I remember he told us about swindy forest, and it really stuck in my mind about that when they went in and it was like halfway hooked, they ordered their drinks and whatever, and it was like, right, how much do we have there? Oh no, it’s okay, we’ll settle up at the end of the day kind of thing. It was like myself at the end of the next nine hours thinking, oh, how much is this gonna fucking? Oh no, we’re more than we’ll find out how much goes on the tag. Just the clarity, how much are you charging me for this to the topic, you know, that kind of thing? So uh yeah, I mean, but we’ve had a little bit of an experience of that when we’ve turned up to halfway huts and they’ve either had our order or they’ve just gone, oh yeah, we just charge it to you at the end of the whatever. But yeah, this feels like it’s exclusive, like you know, play the member, it’s like you the member for the day or whatever and that kind of thing. So Swinley Forest, it’s cool. Yeah, quite looking for that. I’m quite looking forward to Burnham and Berrow. Burnham and Barrow’s got a good reputation, but that’s our second society day. Um and that’s that’s a a two-day event as well that we’re doing. It’s a shame I suppose for that, but uh that’s gonna be good because it’s like a right-up format that we’re doing so that uh and then I think the quality would be just as good as well as this year, as well. If not bad, mate. Absolutely. Yeah, I mean blowing a blowing a lead after the first day, I think is gonna happen, isn’t it? Uh yeah, that’s it. That’s uh those are the two that we used to cover, don’t they?

Chris: 58:11

Yeah, and I mean the last question I think we’ve already covered it really was uh golfing target for next year, but you know, in terms of where you want to be, you want to shoot you you want to beat your lowest uh score of 79, you want to beat uh 80 on uh on a top 100 course.

Nish: 58:31

Yeah, yeah, I’ll I’ll take that. Yeah, not too greedy. Incremental changes. Oh, absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, uh and then what we I worry about, signature challenge. I think you’re back to three up now, aren’t you? I think and you but we started off you were three up because I didn’t even know it was a challenge till the full fucking course. So uh so I can’t feel like I’ve kept it level pegging because you streaked ahead of it. You’re right up at one point, yeah, yeah. I’ve got a challenge for you.

Chris: 59:00

I’ve just got my own challenge. You go first level you hold him on next year.

Nish: 59:08

How how funny is this? My challenge to you was exactly about that. So I said you we’ve got what is it? We’re looking at each course, there’s usually going to be four par fours. Uh well four par three, sorry. Yeah, so you’ve got each course, you’ve got four goes to get a hole in one by the end of playing all these top 100 courses. That one of the top 100 courses, that’s your challenge. Because you’re you’re a part of par three specialist anyway, yeah. And I think, yeah, I think that’ll focus your mind even more because of little things like when can’t actually can we name this as a podcast favourite podcast moment when when Lee was mooning you at the Nishing would take because you got the ball inside mine, and you were like, Somebody’s got to beat you, but then you just I think when your mind gets focused on something like that, and you’re good at parfums anyway. I think you know, if you’re like, right, um so what is that? We’ve got twenty eighty two courses to play.

Chris: 59:58

Yeah.

Nish: 59:58

Or what do you mean? The rest of the challenge. Rest of the challenge. Rest of the challenge. Getting eight on the top of the playmates for next year. So what’s that? 82, what’s 82 times for? 328. You’ve got 328 shots getting a hold in one on this challenge. Yeah.

Chris: 1:00:14

I mean if you think about that in the context of how many power threes I’ve probably played in my life that that doesn’t load that one.

Nish: 1:00:20

Have you never got one of that?

Chris: 1:00:22

That’s interesting. I think I’ve finished.

Nish: 1:00:26

If it was episode. Resigned. Resigned. It’s over. I’ve got hundred shots, Chris. You’re pretty good at that. At least one. One legitimate. Crazy golf doesn’t count much. Yeah. Um yeah. Alright. Anything else you want to know, Jim? I think that’s it. No? Alright. Well, I think that was a good. Defined good. But that was a good review. I quite enjoyed that. And I quite enjoyed letting Jim ask the questions. I don’t think they filed him back enough thing, though. Should have done like Utah or the Google Brown. Well, in front of the big Er, yeah, wonderful. Well, thank you. Wish everyone a Christmas. Merry Christmas to you two, first off, I suppose. And happy new year. Yeah, and to you. Yeah, and obviously Merry Christmas to all of our listeners and watchers and soon to be subscribers. Yeah, I mean, I think next year, uh, already, because of the courses we know that we’re playing, we’ve got some great stuff coming out. Yeah, yeah. We’ve hopefully gonna have a good island trip sorted out as well, so that’d be great. So, you know, I think we’ve and I think I’ve I’ve got another couple of courses lined up that you know it looks like it’s heading the right way, so there could be could be some good things coming out. Uh so yeah, so keep your eyes and ears peeled for all of that.