The One We Raised £785 At: The NISH Invitational Review

Journey And Event Overview
Nish 0:36

Every good story is about the journey. And this is the story of our journey trying to play the top 100 courses in the UK and Ireland in just 10 years. This is the Top 100 in 10 Golf Podcast. So today’s episode takes in an event that we run every year. It’s a charity golf day we do called the Nish Invitational. It all started off a few years ago, and it was for my birthday essentially, that was why we did it. And the name has sort of stuck, but that has now evolved into a charity day. We do it in aid of the British Liver Trust. I’ve got my lovely little pin badge here. And this year we uh managed to raise a whopping, I’ve got the certificate here, a whopping £785 for the British Liver Trust, which was an amazing effort from all the golfers that were there. So um this is my way of thanking all the people that were there personally and for thanking our amazing event sponsors who were uh so gracious in providing prizes and things that just made the day extra special for us. So I’m going to give you a bit of a rundown of that. We’ve got a chat with those uh sponsors as well uh because they were so kind, so generous, and what they donated was amazing as well, so it’s well worth learning about that. But before we carry on, please drop us a like, drop us a subscribe, drop us a follow. It gives the algorithm all the signals that they can find other people like you. You obviously find this content interesting and it will serve that to other people. That helps our podcast grow, that helps us get out to more people, which also helps us get bigger and better content out for you to keep you more interested. So please do so. It costs absolutely nothing, it takes a second of your time, but it absolutely means the world to us. Now back to this review episode about the Nish invitational. So the Nish invitational was born out of me doing an annual golf day for my birthday. This year is the first year we’ve actually done it for charity, so there was a bit of a slightly different focus on it. The name has stuck because, well, look, I run it, so it gives me the right to do that. However, it is uh all about having fun on that day. Golf can be a really serious game sometimes, you can really get obsessed with the numbers. This Nish invitational day, we do have prizes and things on offer, and I’ll get to that in a second. However, this day is about having fun with other like-minded people, having a bit of a laugh, and we definitely try and capture that. It’s personally hosted by me, I’m always there. I make sure that everybody’s involved with what’s going on. So I’ll give you a little rundown of what’s going on. Uh, there is a link in the episode description. If you want to get involved next year, uh please do so. It’s in support of a great charitable cause, which is the British Liver Trust, and they do a lot of great charity work, they’re not one of the really big charities, so anything that they can get is really, really gratefully received. And the liver is one organ in our body that we really ought to be paying a little bit more attention to because it filters out a lot of the stuff that we do when we do have fun on the golf course, the liver helps get rid of. So, the Nish invitational. It’s a fun day, as I explained. We play 18 holes of championship golf, and in amongst that, we set up loads of little challenges and little prizes that you can win. Standard Society Golf Stuff Day. However, we actually do a few other things that I hope for a little bit out of the box, and they actually make people get involved a little bit more. Um, so this year, as previous editions, we held it at uh the Worsley Marriott Hotel, it’s Delta Hotels actually now, but the Worsley Delta Hotels. And uh they’re amazing hosts, it’s an amazing setup for it. There’s a beautiful uh clubhouse bar, there’s great locker rooms, so it kind of adds to that feeling of it being a premium golf day. Um and we always manage to have a beer outside in the terrace. So we started the day off uh welcoming everybody there, letting them know what they were playing for. They’re playing for the Nish invitational trophy, and uh we have a few other trophies, so we’ve got a longest drive trophy and a nearest to the pin trophy as well. Now, when we do our intro, uh we absolutely make it clear to everyone that the day is about enjoying yourself, having a bit of fun. Uh play the hero shot today. That’s it’s that kind of atmosphere and that kind of vibe. And we were very lucky this year we had a uh guy called Tom who’s following us around filming the event for us. So we will be playing that clip. It’ll be available on our socials, but we’re playing this in the on the video version of this episode. So please go and head to that or head to our socials and you’ll be able to watch it. Gives you a really good rundown of what the day is about. It’s the social element of golf. We all want to have a bit of a laugh. Usually people linked through me somehow, so we try and do the groups where similar people or people who, when I booked in a little group, play together so they can have fun. Um, and you know, we do mix it around a little bit. Um, however, like I keep saying, that word fun is really, really important to me. I want everybody to leave from the ish invitational thinking, do you know what? What a brilliant day that was. I want to come next year. So we’ve been very lucky, the event has been growing each year as we’ve been going along. Um, and you know, next year we want to make it even bigger and better.

Warm-Up, Welcome Pint, Putting Prize
Nish 6:04

Now, we do our welcome, we headed out to the practice range, uh, and that was a really good chance on the practice range. We’ve had an hour there for it’s a grass range at Worsley, which is amazing. Uh, a new experience for some people who turned up, and it’s a chance for everyone to kind of informally get to know each other because it’s probably the one time we’ve all got our golf clubs in our hand where we’re out together. So we managed to have a little warm-up. Uh after our warm-up, I took everyone into the bar for their welcome pipe, and um you know, everyone had a chance to quickly down a Guinness. Uh, after that, we headed out to the Putting Green where we had a putting contest uh for a prize, and the prize this year was uh for the putting contest was provided by Dan over at Northern Ballmarkers. Now, Dan is somebody I’ve followed on socials for ages. Again, all of his links are going to be in our episode description, but what a top guy! Just wholeheartedly and very generously donated a load of stuff to us, which meant that the money that we’d gathered for everybody for their compentry could go directly to charity. So it was brilliant that

Sponsor Spotlight Northern Ball Markers
Nish 7:11

Dan did that. And I had a little chat with Dan earlier. He’ll tell us a little bit about what you donated and his journey through golf in general as well. So, firstly, thank you for your very kind donation. They went down an absolute treat. We’ll tell everybody what it was in a second. Um, but thanks to you, we were able to raise raise nearly £800 for um the British Liver Trust, which is a wonderful cause and I suppose a little bit less recognised as a charitable, as a charitable cause, having spoken to the fundraisers, but very important, your liver is a very important organ in your body. So, Dan, thank you very much. You you really helped us out with that. Um, now you I’ve mentioned the prizes that you donated. Perhaps you are in a better position to tell us what you donated and then also tell us a little bit about Northern Ball Markers and how you started your business.

Speaker 1 8:05

Yeah, so um set over prizes, I think a couple of tools, a few bags of teas, um, and a hybrid head cover, um, as well as a bag of teas for all the players on the day. Obviously, yourself reached out for a charity donation. Being a customer, I was more than happy to help you. Um so Northern Ball markers, um essentially I’ve made custom golf accessories, or it kind of started out with custom golf accessories um being going in 2018-2019, so quite a few years now. Um started off hand stamping ball markers um until I had access to a laser. Um, then started from later upgrades to them for all I’m kind of on something here. Um from a marketing background, apparently in my last job role. Um, and I kind of it things grew and escalated. And I kind of in a position where I was like, hang on a minute, I could start a business around this. There’s a bit of a Nish in the market. I was other guys in America doing similar stuff, but in the UK there wasn’t really anybody doing it. So I kind of started from there. Um it didn’t really mean to evolve into this. Um, it just kind of organically grew. Um, but alongside all the custom products, I kind of um I kind of wanted to make stuff that I liked, i.e., head covers or towels or keys and those kind of products. So I knew I needed to have like some wrong branding, a good logo, so that people would want to kind of purchase other products alongside the customized like ball markers or the the releases that I do. Um and that, to be honest, has just grown over the last few years. I’m in a position now, a lot of the time I make stuff that I like and hope that customers enjoy it, seem to if they’re buying them, so it’s it’s quite cool like that.

Nish 9:42

Well, I mean, look, you you you you you sort of um uh as you would, and I was expected you to do you you exp you it described what you provided to us pretty matter-of-factly, but actually these teas are really cool because they’re all sort of different colours and they’ve got stripes on them and stuff like that. So it’s not just like a I’ve got a wooden tee and that’s it. Yeah, yeah. Um they do look really, really cool.

Speaker 1 10:04

The teas have actually become over the years got more and more popular and become the biggest seller alongside the metalwork and the ball markers, um, because obviously people seem to love the colours. I keep selling out of colours, I’m on the verge of 50 colours at the minute I’ve done over the over the last six or seven years in teas, which is is mad. I think it’s nearly not far off three quarters of a million Tees made and sold, which is a bit mad if it’s just me and my garbage, but obviously I’ve returned customers and it shows so that people enjoy the quality and the colours, they’re a bit different.

Nish 10:35

So yeah, they’re great. I mean, it’s it’s interesting, isn’t it, with with golf, kind of how that accessory market is going. And and you know, we’re on Instagram, so we see a lot of it and and whatever. And you know, you’ve got I mean, clothes are getting more and more expensive to buy, so everyone’s kind of probably shrinking back to just their old reliables that they wear, but the accessories are the one thing where you can kind of show off a bit of style. Like you you said it’s a really cool towel, for instance.

Speaker 1 11:02

Something a bit I think people like stuff that’s a bit different, um, and that gives people the opportunity to kind of yeah, show a bit of Panasoing on the golf course.

Nish 11:11

Yeah, absolutely. It’s it yeah, it’s great. I mean, look, the the response we got from all of our players was was amazing, and obviously the little individual tea packs were were great because you showcase a lot of your uh your best-selling colours so that they were they went down well. Um tell us, no, you’re on the top 100 in 10 golf podcast, Anne, and it would be remiss of us not to ask you if you’ve played a top 100 golf course, and if you have, where was it?

Speaker 1 11:34

Um so I had actually had a look into this. I’ve played four in the current top 100. Um my favourite was Kings barns, it’s one of those days where everything just clicked in the golf swing. Um, I think I had I had four birdies through ten holes. Ridiculous score, but I just had the weather was class, it was, I think it was March time, the weather was great, golf was good, you have a day. It’s it’s yeah, it’s one of those that you’ll remember for a long time.

Nish 12:00

I’m in awe of uh four birdies in ten holes. That’s amazing.

Speaker 1 12:03

Yeah, well, that will never happen again. I’m lucky if I get two in two in one round.

Nish 12:08

Yeah, I mean, I’m lucky if I’m getting four in a year, to be honest, and so I I I I hear you, brother, I hear you. Um I mean you if it’s if it the numbers four, you might as well give us what the other three are because that would be a good one.

Speaker 1 12:18

Um West Hill, West Hills, West Hill, is it in the West Hill, yeah. Sorry, yeah. Um Siloth, which was many moons ago, that was probably my first one. I can’t, I can not that I can barely remember it. That was probably 10, 12 years ago. Um, and then Hunstanton as well.

Nish 12:34

Amazing.

Speaker 1 12:35

I I matched I’m playing the old course in St andrews in October. Um so I’m really looking forward to that, taking that off the list and obviously experiencing that.

Nish 12:44

Right, so key question. Let’s bring it back to northern ball markers. What are you gonna make for yourself for that day?

Speaker 1 12:53

Um, it will be a fresh ball marker. Um, I’ve got a few ideas. I’ve done a design before which is make golf great again, and it’s obviously in Scotland, and I’ve done it before, and you kind of got in layers there in bronze copper because of the colour of the copper is the colour of the skin and it looks like it’ll be something around there, and there’s four of us playing a role. Something we can just to remember the day, the date, people’s names on it, kind of thing. Uh as much as as much as I do make them for other people, I do like to make my own stuff and kind of have those those memories as well.

Nish 13:24

Absolutely. I mean, and and and actually the reason why we um sort of hooked up with Dan in the first place. So we we we run a society and we did a custom bag, it was a valuables pouch that that Dan uh customized for us. And you know, the quality is absolutely unreal. Like again, when people got the prize, they were like, This is amazing, thank you so much. Um, but yeah, like to be able to customize stuff like that for a special occasion, particularly playing good courses like they always are, there’s something special related to that round.

Speaker 1 13:54

But I think when you go to these places, you can buy a ball marker in the shop, which is great, but actually having the date, your name on it, the the the it rather than going, oh, what year was it I played that? It’s like you’ve got that date and that day kind of time stamped on it, which is like a little bit more unique. Um, so yeah, that’s that that’s something I’m definitely gonna be doing to remember that date.

Nish 14:15

Brilliant. Well, look, Dan, thanks for joining us, and thank you for your kind donation. Um it really was uh incredible for us. And um I think you’ve given me an idea now, which I’m gonna have to run by my wife, but I think I’m gonna go back, I’m gonna tell you all the dates of all the top 100 golf courses I’ve played and get a custom ball marker. But um, yeah, thank you, Dan. Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 1 14:37

Nice one, mate.

First Tee Nerves And Side Games
Nish 14:39

So I’m sure you’ll agree what a top guy Dan was, and he was very, very generous in donating us some some amazing prizes. So we then teed off, and we always make a bit of a thing about the first tee. I tee off first. Um, I think our group actually went out first this time as well. Usually I go out last. Um, and it was brilliant getting gathering everyone around that first tee. We’ve got some signage up, so it makes it look like a nice proper pucker golf day. Uh, and everyone feels special then on that first tee. So we we did all of that. I got a good bit of barracking. Thankfully, I managed to get my drive away alright. Um, as opposed to previous editions. I think last year I might have done alright with my drive, but previous years I think it took me four goes to get onto the fairway, which was absolutely brilliant for everybody. So I might just do that again deliberately. I don’t know. I didn’t do it deliberately last time, but I might try and do it deliberately this time. It was good fun for everyone, and then we’re out on the course. Uh, and when we’re out on the course, there’s a few uh aside from the overall winner, winning the Nish invitational and and winning their prize. Um, but we had a nearest to the pin, we had a longest drive competition, and it’s great. We run it all through our sponsors app called Squab bit, it’s all free to run, so you can keep a live leaderboard, and it was great because everyone was kind of messaging each other and you could see who’d got birdies and things like that. Uh, so it was great to keep in touch with all of that. And obviously, we had Tom, our photographer, following us around, so he had various checkpoints he was gonna film people. Um, and yeah, I think everyone had a really good laugh with him, and it feels quite nice actually that you’ve got somebody around filming you and following you around and gives you that little life of a creator kind of uh experience, which again is just part of it being a special day. So we did that, and our prizes, the main prizes that we had, uh were very kindly donated to us by Torque Golf. Now I spoke to Jordan, who’s a putting coach over at Torque Golf, and I spoke to Neil, who is the biomechanics coach uh at Torque Golf, and they told me a little bit about what they do, but then also the prizes they donated.

Sponsor Spotlight: Torque Golf Coaching With Data
Nish 16:47

Uh so hello Jordan. Uh you are um the putting coach over at Torque Golf, and not just the putting coach, tell us a little bit about yourself and then we’ll get into what Torque Golf is.

Speaker 2 16:59

Um yeah, so as you mentioned, I’m a specialist putting coach. Um work with Cheshire County as well as the um England Boys and Girls National Squad as well. Um yeah, I’ve been coaching putting for the last seven years. Um and then yeah, the last sort of five years that’s been sort of my main focus. But um yeah, that’s kind of the the sort of ethos going top golf is that we offer specialised coaching for every aspect of the game, which is a little bit unique for us that you we don’t really find at many um facilities or driving ranges, for example.

Nish 17:35

So we we already or our listeners and regular listeners will will know of a young chap called Ellis Cornell, and you already coach him, which is which is absolutely brilliant. So um I obviously, and if anybody is on Instagram, most people are on social media these days. You literally can’t miss Jordan, he’s a he’s an absolutely wonderful coach. We we repost some of his videos as well from time to time. Um, but tell us tell us how Torque Golf started.

Speaker 2 18:02

So um myself, uh Ollie Barnes, who’s our head professional and um sort of founder of Torque Golf, and Charlie Markert, who’s our short game coach. Uh we were all based at the Mere Golf Resort. Um we have the Mere Golf Academy there, and basically we had already started to move into the sort of specialised coaching area with myself doing putting, Charlie focusing on short game, and Ollie specialises in um 3D biomechanics. So we’ve got uh one marbles 3D systems here, we’ve got 3D force plays for Ollie uses. Um we really wanted to expand that, and then obviously with the weather in this country not being ideal in the winter, it kind of seemed like a good idea to kind of have something indoors where you could sort of focus on every aspect of the game under one roof. Um that was kind of where the idea started from, and then yeah, we found this facility in in Altringham and set it up from there. So we can literally do everything in this room really, which is which is a great thing to be able to offer people.

Nish 18:59

I was gonna say you you can cover every aspect of somebody’s game, can’t you?

Speaker 2 19:04

We’ve got coaching wise, we’ve got Ollie in 3D and biomechanics, we’ve got Gareth James, who’s the Welsh national coach, um he’s our sort of lead swing coach. We’ve got Luke Higgins, who’s a swing coach and also does all of our custom fit ins, so we do offer custom fit in there as well. Um myself with the plus-in, Charlie with the short game, we’ve got Alex Walker who works for us, who’s just started to come in to do some swing stuff with us as well. We’ve got Jamie, Jamie Drake, who’s a swing coach, um, we’ve got Jordan Brooks as well, who’s a sports psychologist, and then we’ve got Neil Day, who is our um fitness and bio mechanics coach. Um you’ll be speaking to Neil in a minute. He can explain what he does because it is it is uh pretty special what he does, like not many people around who have the knowledge he has, so it’s uh yeah, it’s interesting, it’ll be a bit of an iodine for people, I think.

Nish 19:50

Yeah, well I mean we will certainly get to to Neil shortly, but it just highlights how amazing this prize is that you donated. So thank you so much, John. That was um very generous of you guys to uh to do that and support the charity. Um so obviously we’re covering every aspect of somebody’s game, but the the the game is moving on, it’s not just uh go out and play and learn it instinctively. There’s a lot of data and tech involved. What do you guys use at Torque Golf?

Speaker 2 20:19

So our launch monitors are Foresight, they’re the GC Hawk, which is the overhead launch monitor. Um we’ve also got uh 3D force plates in two of the base. We’ve got Zen Green Stage, which is a moving platform. So when I’m doing my cluster coaching, I can create any sloping doors, which is amazing. Um we also have a Zen swing stage in one of the um simulators, so you can actually play on sloping lines with your full swing, which is a great coaching tool, but also great for people who come down here to practice. Um to be able to actually practice off a sloping line because you can’t really do that on a driving range, obviously. Golf courses aren’t flat very often, so um it’s nice to be able to practice that. We’ve actually got an indoor chipping green, we’ve got an indoor bunker, we’ve got a couple of different lines you can chip off. Um we’ve got a gym, um we’ve got some port level on the top green, cleaned all roll, uh projection systems, pot views, we’ve got a lot of a lot of kit in here. Um and basically we’re always trying to expand and sort of offer clients the sort of latest and best technology we can. So we we’re always looking to expand um our kit and bring things in that we feel are gonna help us as coaches, but also for people who want to be able to practice it.

Nish 21:31

Yeah, I mean it’s amazing. The the the bunker has piqued my interest. I’m uh habitually stuck in them. Um so I will definitely tap you up for something there. Um, but yeah, it’s amazing you mentioned the sort of the Zen Green stage and swing stage, and obviously we’ve been we’ve been over to the the facility in Sheffield and you know what an amazing technology that’s. So, you know, we’re obviously in Manchester and you’re in Altringham. So anybody local to us, get yourself down there and give it a go. It’s absolutely wonderful. Wonderful technology.

Speaker 2 21:59

Yeah. Uh if anyone is interested in obviously um coming down, you can go onto our website, uh, which is www.talkgolf.co.uk. Um we’re on Instagram, all the coaches are on Instagram as well. Uh, if someone’s looking to come down but don’t really know what they’re looking for, just feel free to pop in or give us a call. There’s always someone around if you do want to pop in around the chat as well. That’s a good way of us showing you around as well, so you can see the facility. So uh yeah, if anyone doesn’t need want to come down and have a look, please feel free.

Nish 22:26

That’s amazing. We’re gonna pop all the links down in our descriptions, so uh a nice easy way for you to find the guys. But yeah, give them a give ’em a follow as well. Because there’s some amazing insight you get just from little tidbits and you see little things and and you can follow the coaches, so it’s well worth doing. So obviously, when we’ve given you those links and all that kind of thing, I think it’s really important to highlight that you can actually, just as average Joe Golfer Armage 16 handicap, you can go along and use the facilities, can’t you, Jordan?

Speaker 2 22:57

Yeah, so we offer memberships for practice, but you can also just hire an area facility by the hour. That’s all available on our website. But again, if you do want to ask us any questions, please feel free to give us a call, send us a message, or like I say, pop in if you’re if you’re local. Um but yeah, I think the the benefit of being able to you know have the data when you’re practice in is obviously massive. Um, you know, not I know some driving ranges now have the um ball tracking technology, but in here you’ll get your club data as well. So if you’ve worked on something with a coach, you can see the actual numbers of of what you’re doing in your golf swing and same with the put in. So it’s it’s a good way of practicing and getting really good feedback on what you’re doing.

Nish 23:35

And you know, it’s amazing. The game is heading that way, isn’t it? So it’s just um it’s wonderful to have all that knowledge in your head and and pick it all up. Now, you are on the top 110 golf podcast, Jordan. It would be remiss of me to not ask you what your favourite top 100 golf course is, and it can be the UK or it can be the world.

Speaker 2 23:54

Um my favourite top 100 course that I’ve played is the old course at St Andrews, and just for the the whole sort of experience of the place as well as the golf course. Um, but I do put Turnburry and uh Kings Barns very close behind because I’ve been lucky enough to play all three of those and they’re all amazing. But yeah, there’s just something about St. Andrews, it’s just uh you know, when you know who’s played there and kind of all the all the shots you’ve seen on TV, all the opens you’ve seen, and you know every great golfer ever’s been around that golf course, so it is pretty special when you play it.

Nish 24:26

Pretty special, isn’t it? Yeah. Have you managed to secure yourself some tickets for the open there next year?

Speaker 2 24:30

Uh I haven’t looked yet to be honest. I’m hoping I’m there as a coach, then that’s amazing. That’s that would be ideal if it happened.

Nish 24:38

S someone in your stable to make it through, and then you’re in, then you’re in, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 2 24:43

I was at the women’s open this year, so if we can do the open next year, that’d be really nice.

Nish 24:47

Wonderful. Oh well, thank you for your time, Jordan. And I’ve got Neil from Torque Golf here with me.

Biomechanics, Footwork And Injury Fixes
Nish 24:52

Now, Neil, first off, thank you so much for your uh wonderful donations to basically the British Liver Trust. We ended up raising nearly £800. So that was in no small part thanks to you. Um, you were very kind in donating three prizes to us. Um, could you perhaps tell us what they were? I think you’d describe it better in your own words.

Speaker 3 25:15

Yeah, so we’ve got a swing, uh full swing prize uh with Alex Walker, um the Resident Sorbro. Um so that’s obviously looking at the numbers on the full swing and seeing if there’s any improvements that can be made, which make sure they can with most people. Um there’s a short game prize with Charlie Markert. Um, so that’s gonna be all based around shipping, um, anything from sort of 50 yards in or so, depending on what the person wants to work on. Um and then there’s one with myself, which is gonna look at any constraints in the body uh which could be leading to spring force. So if you’ve got a pro that’s trying to get you in certain positions, but your body doesn’t go there. That’s kind of like my part. So I’ll be looking to see if there’s anything from an exercise or an ability point of view that we can add into them uh to improve the transfer.

Nish 26:05

So I’m quite fascinated, particularly by your session, though, the biometric uh biomechanics session, sorry, not biometrics, biomechanics session. Um so I mean what what can somebody expect in that session?

Speaker 3 26:17

Um first session I normally do is someone I I sort of build it from the floor up. So unless they’ve got any real particular injuries in spine, shoulders, neck, and stuff like that, I’ll look and see how they generate force into the floor. Um a lot of people’s eyes open when I actually get hold of the pelvis and put them in certain ways, which then start to load the foot up properly, which is what should be happening in the dog swing. So and then I’ll just look and see sort of like what the capacity of the foot, the hip, the load the the trunk is with regards to getting into certain positions and I sort of put a load in there and then we’ll mobilize it, um kind of clear out any kind of obstacles of mobility in in the in the leg, and then we’ll go and load it to backfill those new spaces with the ability to put force in there. And then people tend to have much more of an understanding of how to use the legs and and have the ability to get into those new positions.

Nish 27:11

So I I can imagine you can probably extend somebody’s golfing career because if you’ve got the mechanics of their swinging right and it’s working with their body, they can play on a little bit longer.

Speaker 3 27:22

Yeah, so most of the people who come to see me are injured. So as far as golfing careers, it’s like an immediate extension. So um yeah, like the same techniques. So my background working in football predominantly as well, as golf, has been um re-rooting, try and work out why injury occurs. It doesn’t always occur at the site of where the pain or the problem is, it can be throughout the chain. Uh everything’s moving at the same time, so everything’s relying on each other’s a load well. So I’ll kind of like hunt through, hence why initially I’ll look at the feet. If you’re not using your feet properly, the whole system’s unstable from the bottom up. Um, and then your hips are a big, big player, a lot of power comes from there, a lot of range of motion. So if you get that right and you start using that right, you can increase efficiency, you can increase power, take a load of stress off people’s backs and stuff like that.

Nish 28:11

And um yeah, so as far as getting people to last longer, definitely so so um I’m dead interested in this because I did probably about six or seven months ago, I saw an Instagram post by somebody, and it was about how crucial footwork is in the golf swing. You know, you you get fixated with hand positions and whatever, but actually the thing that’s touching the ground is your feet and and using that properly. Now, there is one very famous, poor, probably poor exponent of that, and that is Mr. Scotty Scheffler at the minute with his random footwork. So, as a biomechanics expert, what are you thinking when you’re seeing his footwork and what he’s doing?

Speaker 3 28:55

You say his footwork’s bad, but what his pelvis is doing is really good. So I always without getting too technical, I always look at it, like you’ve got spine. Imagine spine is like a spring sort of thing. The pelvis is the bottom of that. So if the pelvis is moving there, then the spine is going to kind of get to get loaded, and then it’s gonna catch up, and you’ve got all this leverage, and then you’ve got the club on the end. So you kind of want this uh spine moving like this, so the pelvis is the bottom of it, so he gets his pelvis in very, very good positions. Um and he’s probably I think he’s like one of the leading people with regards to how much his pelvis moves um towards the ball.

Nish 29:37

Interesting.

Speaker 3 29:38

So it works for him. The good thing with him is it’s consistent for him. It’s very, very hard to teach that to be consistent. Very probably uh tricky to do that.

Nish 29:50

I I’d imagine you’re not trying to encourage people to start doing what he’s doing. It’s an idiosyncratic thing uh swing, isn’t it? Um so um obviously we’ve got these three sessions that that people have won. You’re very kind in donating those those prizes to us. And I think one of the things that’s coming out to me is that this isn’t like a you’ve got to be a pro, semi-pro, really good at golf, whatever. Anyone can benefit from all of these sessions and in a in a wonderful facility. So that’s great. Like anyway. Um, Neil, we can’t we cannot leave you without asking you what your favourite top 100 golf course is if you have played one.

Speaker 3 30:29

Um yeah, I’ve played a few. My favourite is Hillside. So um I was lucky to get on there last year with a friend of mine uh consort bought, and the back nine is just phenomenal. So that’s definitely up there.

Nish 30:45

It’s an absolutely magical golf course, isn’t it, Hillside? Um, is there any that’s right up on your wish list that you’d like to play?

Speaker 3 30:56

I think everyone keeps going on about Trump Turnberry. It’s the one that’s pretty good. Obviously, St Andrews, where we’ve started. Um I’ve met the captain of Carnoustie, and uh I’ve been invited up to play there, so I’ll be taking that up at some point soon.

Nish 31:10

Oh, absolutely, that is a that is an amazing golf course. I I’m I’m praying that you get a little bit less wind than we got. We got 50 mile an hour winds when we played, which made it a bit of a challenge.

Dinner, Banter And Fundraising Thanks
Nish 31:22

So they were our main sponsors uh of the the prizes, some amazing prizes they got there, and the winners uh will definitely benefit from those. So I’m hoping that’ll give you a bit of an idea of it being a really good, serious golf day with some good prizes on the line, but actually that it is fun. Uh, and when we finished our round, we like I said, we had a managed managed to get a drink on the terrace um afterwards the weather held out for us, and then we always make sure that we do the prize giving over dinner. So we had a three-course meal uh this time round, and it was great fun. Everyone had obviously had a couple of drinks after the round, we’d we’d been able to speak while we were playing. We all waited as the groups came in, we all waited on the 18th for the other groups to come in, and it was great because everybody was just having a little bit of a laugh, and you know, how did you do? Oh my goodness, you know, the longest drive, I can’t believe it’s somebody won it with a 200-yard drive on the they just basically just got it onto the fairway, and it was great because everyone was having a bit of a laugh about how all of us we couldn’t get onto the the or keep it into the confines of the fairway. So, yeah, great, great banter with everybody. Um, we had golfers of all different abilities with the usual banter about handicaps and and all that kind of thing. But um we did that and everyone stuck around afterwards. The World Cup was on, so we watched watched a bit of football, had a few beers, and everyone had an absolutely wonderful time. Uh, and obviously the video of the day that captures it, it’s very short, but it’ll give you an idea a flavour of what what happened. So, like I say, I was very proud of all of our fundraising efforts. Everybody you know dipped into their pockets very generously. Um, we had a charity hole as well, which was sponsored by OTG Golf Gloves, um, who donated golf clubs basically for people to hit the green on the charity hole. Uh, and our main podcast sponsors, I must mention them four-ball drawers, they were very kind, they donated a free ticket into one of their drawers in our goodie bags. So we had a great team of sponsors, thank you to all of them. We had a wonderful charity for whom, as I mentioned, we raised £785, and it caused really dear to my heart. And I must say a big thank you to Worsley Park Golf Club as well. They were amazing hosts, they were so generous with the way they set things up, they set all of our Nearest the Pin stuff out for us, um, looked after everybody so, so, so well. And we are looking to grow the Nish invitational for next year even

How To Play Or Sponsor Next
Nish 33:56

more. So there’s a couple of things out there, and that is that if you are somebody interested in sponsoring our event next year, please get in touch. We would love to have you on board and we can tailor the exposure for your brand according to what you wish to do. And if you’re listening to this as a regular listener or watcher of of our podcast, and you feel like you want to get involved, you can drop us a message uh on our socials, you can drop us a an email that is admin @ top100in10.co.uk uh and uh or you can comment on the episode and we will run a uh uh list really where we can let you know as soon as we’ve got the details for next year if you want to get involved. We’ll have a little bit of an early bird discount for next year to get to get in so we can get our numbers confirmed sooner. And uh I I hope you all support that event um and want to get involved for for next year. So I think next year it will be entering its seventh year the Nish Invitational. So um yeah, that it would be great to have as many of you out there listening and watching to come and join us to come and support the event. Next time on the Top 100 in 10 Golf Podcast, we are welcoming back Sophie Walker from Sky Sports, who is going to give us her lowdown on where the Solheim Cup could be won or lost for Europe.