The Year Ahead

Nish: 0:02

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. Episode 58, the year ahead. So we’re entering our second calendar year now of our challenge, and we’ve got some great new things that we’re going to be doing on the Top 100 in 10 Golf Podcast. The courses that we’re playing in this year include a local gem in Delameer. We’re playing some of Surrey’s finest in Walton Heath, and the really exclusive Swinley Forest. We’re playing a superb course in Somerset, which is Burnham and Berrow, and that’s part of our Top 100 in 10 society. We’re doing a two-day event. You can actually come and play as well if you wanted if you head to our website, top100in10.co.uk, and you can actually sign up to play and be there with us. We’re doing a Ryder Cup style event and we’re going to play a course this year that I think until we’re still on the first Tee, we’re not gonna quite let ourselves believe that we’re playing it, but we are hopefully we’re 99% sure that we are gonna be playing the old course at St Andrews, which is a full pinch me kind of course and moment. So we’ve got some wonderful golf already planned in, but we’re actually hoping to bring you quite a few new things to get you excited, uh kind of about the year ahead uh and uh our challenge in general, but more on that in a moment. Can I make a really small request of you? Wherever you’re watching or listening, could you hit follow or could you hit subscribe? It takes a microsecond of your time, it doesn’t cost you anything, but we get higher numbers that we can then go to the clubs and we can then get greater amounts of involvement from them. I’ll give you an example of a recent time that that has happened. We’re gonna be playing Castletown on the Isle of Man. We approach them about our podcast, let them know, and they’ve actually gone and arranged for us to have a match with a couple of club representatives. So that’s gonna be wonderful content, and what a wonderful way for us to get to learn about the club, the people that run the club who basically set the tone for it, and then also the course that we’re gonna be playing. Like we’ve got people who are from the club explaining to us about the nuances and the beauty of that golf course. So that is a wonderful way to get content out to you and a different way to do it as well. So please act now, and then we can reach those goals and we can get those targets and get that content done together. Now, back to the exciting things that we’ve actually got planned. So, starting this year, we’re actually going to be looking a little bit beyond the top 100 list uh to bring you what we’re calling the lost courses. So these are courses that have either just dropped out of the top 100 altogether, or they’ve been rising and they’re bubbling up and they’re just on the cusp of becoming top 100 courses. We think these courses are going to be worthy of your attention. The quality is going to be right up there, the experience is going to be right up there because they’ll be trying to get either back into the top 100 or get into the top 100 for the first time. So I promise you that you will love, love, love this feature and you will learn about some clubs and courses that you might not have considered. Um, but they’re gonna be right up there. Now, if you, as you’re listening, happen to either know or are a member of or know somebody who’s a member of a club that you think is in that same category almost and of quality of course and experience and things like that, please drop us a message, get in touch with us. You can do that on our website, you can drop us a comment on our podcast, you can drop us a YouTube comment on the video, get in touch and uh we will approach the clubs and we’ll find out how we can we can get them on and get them featured. So we’re looking to do about four or five lost courses in this year. Uh we’ve got a couple of really good, exciting ones to start off with. That’s definitely something we need your help with in identifying what those courses are. We’ve we’ve we’ve done our little list, but please do that. The other thing we’re going to be doing, which is a little bit of fun, is we’re going to be carrying documenting the lost ball diaries. So I play with a top 100 in 10 branded golf ball. Now, those golf balls, now as I’ve bought them, have a link on them, which, if you head to that link, gives you instructions on how you can tag yourself, tag us, and you can actually win a prize for yourself from that. And it just helps us in chronicling where people are finding these golf balls. They might turn up in like a lake wall package that you’ve bought, or they might turn up at a pro shop that you’ve you’ve played at. And these aren’t necessarily restricted top 100 courses, it’s not what I’m trying to do. I just basically play with those golf balls all the time, anyway. So if you find one, get us tagged. Uh, you can win a prize for yourself, you can win a sleeve of golf balls of your choice. Uh, and we’re going to be keeping a track on how many I’ve lost uh so we know how many are in circulation at any time to see what we get back. So that’s a good little one to sort of follow as we’re as we’re going along. And then we also have this year, uh and particularly in the following weeks, we’ve got some incredible bonus episodes that are dropping. Now that includes things like we’re talking to a tour player, which is gonna be I’ve already done the interview and I know that’s gonna be so enlightening because we see this top half a percent at the top of the game, and we think they’ve got this amazing life. Well, let’s learn a little bit about that and and see what it’s actually like. So that’s gonna be a wonderful uh episode. We’re gonna be getting insight uh onto the top 100 rankings. It’s an episode we did earlier in the in 2025 trying to demystify how the rankings were done. Well, we’ve actually got gone one step better. We’ve got a top 100, official top 100 panelist on the podcast who’s gonna be telling you what he’s looking out for when he’s assessing a golf course, which is gonna be unbelievable content. It’s gonna be so fascinating for us to learn that and for us to change our perception of how maybe we approach golf courses and see them. Maybe, maybe not, we don’t know, but it’ll be wonderful to get that feedback. You’ll be able to watch a putter fitting slash lesson with me. Uh that is over at the guy with the guys at Zen Golf, uh, who’ve got the the moving green uh and put view where you can get all the um AI assistance, uh the virtual reality stuff and assisted reality stuff where you can see the ball tracer and your club path and all this kind of stuff. So it’s going to be incredible content that because it’s probably a part of the game that people don’t get fittings for that often, and maybe they don’t even get lessons for because you think, well, it’s just butting, isn’t it? But I’ve never had a lesson on that, I’ve never had a fitting on anything like that, and uh I hope that you can then experience that through through my eyes as such. And then also before we get into the meat of our golf for this year, we’re gonna be talking to a golf coach who is also a psychologist. He’s called The COG Coach. He’s gonna be on and an episode where he’s gonna be talking about strategies to get you to play your best golf possible. Now, I know that is gonna be invaluable not only to us but most people listening because he is an actual golf coach. So he’s not just coming at it from a purely psychological point of view uh and trying to get you to improve your mindset, whatever it is. It’s actual meaningful takeaways that you can get for your game to help you get the best out of it. So that’s some great content that we’ve got coming up in that’s in the next following weeks before we get into the the meat and bones of our golf. But I realize I’ve monopolized our time enough at the moment. I’m missing one very important person who’s normally sat opposite me. He’s not in the room today, but he’s joining us virtually. So uh I spoke to Chris about our year ahead and what he’s excited about. So, Chris, this year we’ve got nine courses, 2026 next full calendar year. We’ve got nine courses definitely booked in. Definitely, maybe. Um year of Oasis. Oh yeah, sorry. Yeah, I’m I’m living in the past, living on past glory. Um so I’ll give you the list, and by the magic of podcasting and editing land, if you’re watching this rather than listening, then I will put a list, a bulleted list, you can see. So we are playing, not in specific order, we are playing Delamere, uh, we’re playing Burnham and Berrow, uh, which I have mentioned in the past. People can come and play with us if they wanted to, if they get on our website. We’re playing uh Swinley Forest, we’re playing Lip hook, we’re playing the old and new course at Walton Heath, which I’m very much looking forward to. We’re playing Wallasey, which is near to us, we’re playing Castletown, and we are throwing it out there, big fingers crossed. We are playing the old course at St Andrews. So maybe let’s take the old course at St Andrews out of that place. Which other one are you looking forward to playing? Uh the old course at St Andrews.

Chris: 9:38

Um, just everything just leads to that, doesn’t it? I mean, yeah, you can’t it’s it’s hard to look past that. But when you look at the list for next year, it’s it’s difficult to look beyond that, isn’t it? But then you do look beyond that and you go, actually, we’ve got some really cracking, cracking golf courses lined up, haven’t we? Um I mean Swinley Forest is gonna be pretty epic. That’s kind of right up there, isn’t it, in the in the in the upper upper echelons. It’s kind of a it’s a world top 100 course as well, isn’t it? It is, yeah, and it’s quite exclusive as well.

Nish: 10:06

Like I don’t think it’s like a you know, there’s no like book online facility or anything like that. Contact them to get on.

Chris: 10:11

I’m very much looking forward to that. I think yeah, that the guy that we’re playing with seems like a very, very interesting guy to play with as well. So I think it’s gonna be probably one of, if not the most interesting rounds that we have throughout this entire top 100, I think. Um, so that’s gonna be pretty cool. Burnham and Berrow looks set to be another great, great day out or weekend out for us. Did a bit of a ride a cut with with lots of lots of kind of pals and and various other people coming down. So um, yeah, that’s gonna be a cracking weekend. I mean, my first ever trip to the Isle of Man. I mean, essentially that there’s not many that I’m not looking forward to, but yeah, um each has got its own little little story to tell, hasn’t it? But yeah, I’ve never been to the Isle of Man before, so we’re gonna go and play Castletown, so that’ll be a first ever experience for me. So that’s a pretty cool thing.

Nish: 10:55

It’s mad. And like the with the Castletown thing, like we’ve we’ve made the schoolboy error of booking the weekend just before the the Manx TT.

Chris: 11:04

It’s still great though, isn’t it? Because like it’s gonna you’re gonna see it like absolutely buzzing and at its at its best, right? That’s kind of what people do it for. Um yeah, you know, it’s mostly. Who knew ferries were so expensive, eh? No, yeah.

Nish: 11:17

Took us by surprise. Um, okay. Well, uh, look, we should we should talk about the challenges that we’re gonna be uh doing in the year, and I think we’re a little bit guilty, we’ll hold our hands up here of not maybe making enough of some of the things that we have been doing while we’ve been playing golf, because I suppose initially we just had that excitement of fuck, we’re just getting on the golf course, you know. That was it.

Chris: 11:41

Um we still have that though, Nish. I certainly do anyway.

Nish: 11:44

We still yeah, 100% have that. We’ve just got to focus it a little bit.

Chris: 11:47

Every time we’re driving up somewhere.

Nish: 11:50

That’s it. Um, but we we we do and we have just recently done a uh episode, it’s just last week, of the best of our signature hole challenges. So look, we we we’re gonna really go to town on that this year because it’s that that’s essentially is everything about this challenge all boiled into one hole of golf, isn’t it? You know, you you’re picking the best of the best. Yeah, absolutely net though, right? Not net net, not gross though as well because we’re agreed on that. Um but yeah, just you know that we’re definitely gonna be keeping that going, and and we you know, we’re gonna have all the footage of of all of those wherever we’re allowed. We’re gonna we’re gonna have that on for for you to uh to watch. So you’re three up in that currently. Uh so we shall see for the hundred, I reckon, Nish.

Chris: 12:43

Yeah, I think I think I need Jim to eight.

Nish: 12:46

How many have we done so far?

Chris: 12:47

We’ve done we’ve done 18.

Nish: 12:49

So we’ve got yeah. Yeah, I need I need Jim to chuck in some not par threes, basically, then I’ve I might have a chance then. Um but talking of par threes, the other thing that I’ve set Chris, and we did this in the Christmas special. Uh I’ve set Chris a challenge to get a hole in one at a top 100 course. Now, there is logic to my nice easy challenge there, then there is logic to my madness here. Like you are very good at par threes. Oh, I think you s you switch on, like something happens, you know, somebody will moon you, or somebody will put a flag out somewhere, and it’s like right, I’m gonna beat that.

Chris: 13:31

I’m essentially just I’m just a very lazy man, Nish. So like my brain can compute in this day and age, it can still compute like one shot to the green and put that’s a par three, I’m done. Like if I’ve got four or five shots to play before I get there, then my brain switches off. I think at that point, it’s thinking about something else.

Nish: 13:48

I love that. I love that. Um, well, look, we’re we we’re gonna say so. We you know, on average, most courses have four par threes. So we’ll do a little ticker, we’ll do a little count up and see how many top 100 par three holes it takes to get. Look, we’re not discounting par fours, but uh they have and there have been some driveable ones, haven’t there? So you never know, do you um so it’s not restricted to par threes, but obviously that gives you your your best chance. So we’ll we’ll we’ll cover that for you. Now the odds of a holding one are pretty low. The other reason for setting this is because you haven’t had one yet, and famously, you’ve come fucking close at Queen’s on Gleneagles. So it’s there, it’s there for the taking, Chris, and what a what an achievement it would be, and a feather in your cap it would be to do that at the top 100 golf course. We might just need to keep it quiet though, depending on the golf course.

Chris: 14:45

Can we just like if if we played true towards like the back end and we’ve not done that, and I’ve still not had one, can we just like stay there and film all day until I do get one? Edit until yeah, that’s like a hundredth course. That’s the last course.

Nish: 15:00

Just do it at the post-stump. Yeah. It’s like Chris has been there for three years. Just waiting, just wait. It’s like, I don’t like golf anymore. Yes, I mean, yeah, we you don’t you probably can be wise about where you actually really put your effort into it. So you might not want to do that at like Turnberry or a Trump course because I can imagine the round in the clubhouse will be pretty pricey. I’ll just I’ll just do a you Nish, I’ll just slope off afterwards. Not go in the clubhouse. I’m I I I’m signed up to that as a tactic. Why let anybody know? It’s only for me, it’s my own personal. I’ll brag about it later, that kind of thing. So I I’m very much looking forward to that, Chris. And I think actually, I have a feeling you are gonna do it because it’s this, it’s right up your strasse for getting your competitive juices flowing.

Chris: 15:50

This, yeah. I must admit, Nish, like the desire to get a hole in one now, you’ve set that challenge, is pretty intense. Great. I love it. That is the purpose. We’re gonna go through like a rocky balboa style like warm-up routine. I’m gonna like be like chipping up some steps of the local library or something with some kids following me up the stairs and then like driving at big pieces of meat, something like that. I don’t know. I’ve not I’ve not really thought of it but something. No, no, there’s gotta be some kind of training you can do, you know.

Nish: 16:19

Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, like lugging big hunks of wood through snow and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. Excellent, right? So, so that’s what we’re gonna do, and then we’ve got one extra one. It was uh told to me by a friend during golf today, as it happened, a very frosty day outside, but managed to play a good round today, and he does it with his pals on golf weekends. And I thought we could just do this for the challenge and we’ll keep a little running counter going. But what they do is they when they go on a golf weekend away, they’ll say that if you leave a birdie putt short, you put one pound in the kitty, and that goes towards beers and stuff at the end. Um, so I think we’ll do that. We’ll keep a virtual kitty, I suppose. Keep totting it up, and it’ll just make us because I am very guilty of this. As soon as there’s a birdie putt, it’s almost 99% of stats are made up on the spot, but I’d say 99% of them, I will leave short, and it’s so frustrating. I mean 99% of nothing is still still nothing, right Nish.

Chris: 17:19

That’s true. If you don’t hold any birdie puts, if you don’t get it, for a birdie.

Nish: 17:27

Yeah, obviously the magic of podcasting. You know, you have a chat before you come in the episode, and uh I feel like I’m pretty risk-free on this. I don’t have to take any pound coins out. It’s great. I don’t have to do anything. Um, so we’ll do that and we’ll keep a little ticker running. Uh ticker. And do you know what, Watch? We’ll make it net. We should make it net because for me anyway, sure. A net birdie, I think. Because then at least I’ve got some skin in the game. Otherwise, I’m basically just watching you putting a quid in or not, and that’s it. So it’s uh might get quite boring. Um right, so our episode is about the year ahead, and obviously we’ve talked about the course that we’re gonna play and the challenges that we’ve got, and Jim’s gonna set us side bets and all that kind of stuff anyway. But obviously, the the wider challenge is playing and getting on to play the top 100 courses. And I suppose as we’ve gone around the country and we’ve travelled far and wide now, and we’ve spoken to many characters, and we have our chats on the podcast. We also then have chats off camera as we’re going around, of course, naturally, and your talk, your thoughts, and talk does turn to you know what the logistical problems are and what the practical problems are and getting some getting onto some golf courses. So I thought maybe we could have a little bit of a chat about that, really, and just what your general feelings are.

Chris: 18:51

Funny one, isn’t it? Because I think when we first set out to do this, we kind of sat down and we were like, This is pretty ridiculous. Like, we’re not really gonna be able to do this because you look at some of those places on the list, and they’re so like exclusive, and you know, you’ve kind of got to know the right person, or you know, and that’s a very small, a small remit of people right there, actually, kind of members there or whatever that are able to get you into these places. Um and then all of a sudden, after like four or five months of doing it, we’d kind of made lots of connections with various people who were like, Yeah, it’s just gonna be a piece of piss, we’re gonna smash this. Um, but I think, yeah, after what, 18 months or so, I guess go kind of understanding that list a bit better and understanding some of those courses on there that we didn’t necessarily realize they were kind of exclusive private clubs of kind of that that um that collection of courses that is unattainable is kind of growing and growing, and you think sitting there going, hmm, actually, there’s quite a big quite a big chunk of this that we need to somehow get into these places, and we don’t necessarily have the need to do that, right?

Nish: 19:56

Yeah, I sort of had the same thing as you where it was like this. roller coaster of emotions and thoughts about it all and you’re like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, do you know what we’ll get this? And you know, from a lot of clubs, and I’ll say the majority of clubs actually, you know, we you when you contact them, you you get a really good reception. You know, it’s nice, kind courteous. We haven’t on some occasions, and some clubs have been a little bit shirty, I would say, on email. Yeah, and and I suppose it’s easy to do on an email, like you can just be quite impersonal or whatever. So fine. Yeah, can’t I can’t say excuse it because manners cost nothing and you can let people down in a in a courteous way and that’s fine. But some ways have been a little bit like okay well do we really I mean if you know if if I had a choice I wouldn’t come and play your course now because like you put me off.

Chris: 20:47

But and I’ve yeah same thing where you’ve gone like and we’ve kind of you know flown out the trap haven’t we quick and we’ve done 18 quick yeah and I think I need to almost think we’ve got to slow down almost you know but I think because so when we’re doing it and we’re in the summer months and you’re playing and you’re kind of meeting lots of people it kind of it feels quite a lot easier.

Nish: 21:06

And then during the winter you’re not really playing you’re not getting out there you’re not kind of like chatting to that many people I think it all of a sudden becomes it feels like it’s more challenging throughout the winter I think doesn’t it kind of realise and you’re also at the end of the year you kind of sit down and go right what have we still got to do right what what are these places that we’ve got to go and go and try and play at some point so there’ll maybe a bit of a real let’s let’s check some let’s check some names out there like you know we’ve we’ve we’ve talked about places that are the upper echelon of exclusive you know we’re talking places like Wentworth Wentworth is one um I mean JCB is feeling like that’s kind of up there and feels a little bit more attainable potentially but you know you’ve got a place like Queenwood you’ve got Rye you’ve got now this is the one that blew my mind was Skibo Castle which is up in Scotland and how the frig are we going to get onto this place because you go wild isn’t it it’s yeah like you have to be a member of something called a Carnegie Club to get on it right and that is like a club that’s for very high net worth individuals who value privacy who value exclusivity all that kind of thing you know and and it’s like well they don’t want two Dossers from Stockport turning up and playing on their golf course because that’s just kind of what they want to stay away from and then you go oh Paul name check Paul because he was very great he was great in getting us onto Carnoustie and um you know your Paul’s like yeah that’s one that even I think I need a miracle for and he’s played all but 25 of the golf courses in Scotland he’s connected he’s like he probably knows a member of every single golf club in Scotland and he can’t get on it and he’s just go wow that is like again for for for quite a bit of well for most of this for pretty much the entire thing I’ve been like yeah we’re just we’re gonna do this right we’re just gonna definitely do the top 100 and we’ve got made such great progress over the last 12 or 18 months that it just feels like it’s just a a nailed on you know that we are just going to get through and play these top 100 but there is a chance that we might not actually play these top 100 golf courses in 10 years then what do we do? Podcast’s a sham at that point Yeah it hit me today actually when I was playing and it was because Nick of of One Pound in Pot Challenge said well what are you gonna do if you don’t actually manage it and I was like shit bugger off Nick you know it did it it it did hit me suddenly and I was like okay right well look I’m I’m I’m you gotta put these things out into universe sometimes don’t you and I think we will we’ll retain hope until hope is gone absolutely there’s always hope but I mean yeah you do look at the guy who’s played 600 courses in Scotland and still hasn’t managed to get on that one one course and then then the other was like Loch Lomond you know was like it’s members only you know you need to be invited on members are hard to find you know can you get charity day but charity days are like some of them like tickets three grand or something like that and you’re like well I mean yeah I know it’s exclusive and I want to play it but that’s a hell of a lot of money you know yeah exactly so yeah it it’s just so it’s a different mad little exclusive world but I sort of uh mention in in the intro before that there are I mean I feel lucky that we’re here not in the States because in the States it feels like it’s the balances the other way around where most of them you can’t get on unless you know a member or whatever and they’re so exclusive and they’re even more exclusive with their membership numbers right they you know they have like yeah 50 people are you know uh members and that’s it.

Chris: 24:49

Yeah hundred grand each or something.

Nish: 24:51

Yeah.

Chris: 24:51

Yeah I mean you got you basically got no in to go and play there and that must just be soul destroying I suppose if you wanted to do this in a place absolutely it’s uh it’s a very short short podcast yeah it’s just done so I mean yeah it’s just mad and then you know we we we want to do uh which is in your hands Chris so we a trip to Ireland we we we’re we’re we’re planning so even that I think you sent me a message didn’t you the other day and you’re like oh we might have needed to start planning this a year ago yeah well it’s basically 26 saying that a lot of the Tees in for 2026 in a lot of the the big the top course in Ireland are all done finished um yeah all probably which is mad it’s pretty wild absolutely mad yeah to think that you know I mean what what what is that with with Ireland is it is it American golf tourism is that what it is yeah American golf tours all that kind of thing you know those big Irish trips all the uh the Irish heritage all of a sudden comes out and the Americans and they they want to go and do a trip back home and then yeah back to the motherland sort of their place I mean it’s just Links golf right Links Golf attracts people from all around the world right because it’s just it’s class and we’re the only play person only place that’s really got it you know UK and Ireland yeah it’s rugged beauty through Links Golf isn’t it so yeah I mean I feel like um we we we probably discussed it in an episode I feel like we did towards the end of our playing episodes last year but it that step into Ireland feels massive almost like it’s pretty instrumental in how we’re gonna go about it and yeah I think we’ll get on them like it’s like that’s at least it doesn’t feel like there’s anything in Ireland that is like a skebo castle sort of where I know it’s like I don’t know privately exclusive yeah yeah yeah it’s uh it’s crazy look it’s crazy and and I suppose look if you’re out there listening and you’re like this sounds like fun even though the the conversation turned very very dour all of a sudden you know we would we would be gladly accepting gratefully accepting any kind of help to or contacts anything like that you know it’s it’s um we’re lucky we play a sport where people are very generous and kind and you’ve got a story to tell and there’s you know you you can’t have in my opinion you can’t have a boring crap round with anybody I think four four and a half hours with them you can have a good time. And I think that’s I think that’s the one saving grace for this niche is that you know the like you say these places are difficult to get onto and they are exclusive and there’s only a handful of members but like the community that we’ve already built around us has just been phenomenal right the number of people that have kind of reached out and you know offered us to come and play with them or their course and yeah it’s been it’s been pretty pretty um yeah pretty ridiculous how forthcoming people are with their time and time and money and accessibility and everything else it’s um it’s it’s pretty it’s pretty cool.

Nish: 27:53

I think like on balance no we can’t we still can’t really ignore and gloss over that there are some places that are you know being the gatekeepers a little bit they’re trying to uh keep the riffraff out yeah wisely so why would you let us on a golf course but you know they’re trying to almost protect that image and exclusivity and all that you know I’ve had loads of stuff where from courses I’ve heard stuff like oh you know we’re very very selective with who we partner with okay great um wonderful and then they’re like you know and and you can’t do anything you can’t even do an interview you can’t do anything on on our premises and it’s like well steady on like we’ve just asked like we’re doing this we want to book a tea time with you and does somebody from the club want to get involved like that’s all we’ve asked we’ve not said lay out lunch for us or you know get it’s just nothing it’s just like can we book a tea like not even can you give us it for free you know there’s there’s zero zero any of that this is just the first you know first email you just get something really shirty back and you go all right okay fine you know it kind of it just adds to the challenge there right like it makes it it makes it more exciting it makes it more fun it makes it um yeah just that I think our personalities rise to that kind of stuff oh yeah all right well yeah then we’re gonna be right how we’ll we’ll see how we yeah we’ll see we’ll we’ll we’ll get on don’t we worry by the way yeah that exactly right uh the generosity of people will see us through uh but yeah I mean look we can’t we can’t ignore that that that is definitely part of this journey and part of this challenge and I think we will make more of an effort to keep people abreast I think of how that is and how that’s going because I think go online book your tea time I mean there’s nothing in that is there that’s you know a very simple thing it is almost documenting this journey is about that little six seven eight club cabal we’ll call it um that’s the the difficult ones to get on and uh we will keep you all abreast of how that goes and maybe we’ll sprinkle that in into some episodes as we’re going along and and and and see because you never know you just never know but yeah I think well that’s our that’s the challenge for our year ahead.

Chris: 30:20

I’m just looking forward to getting back out there. It feels like an absolute lifetime ago that we played our last course it was only what two and a half months ago October end of October middle of October it was canoes long enough isn’t it it feels like such a long time doesn’t it’s been placed I’m just I’m just looking forward to getting back out there.

Nish: 30:35

I almost forgotten what you look like Chris in person virtually and that’s it. I’ve seen what that first tee at St Andrews is like and it’s pretty wide so I think I don’t not even dreading that that’s not it’s easiest T shot in golf night isn’t it I mean it looks like it doesn’t I setting myself up this little long iron with a is it like a hundred yards wider crazy ridiculous yeah like the 18th is quite wide as well isn’t it I think yeah yeah I mean bloody hell yeah well I’m setting myself up like I say but doing well for for missing that one. So that’s our year ahead but we need some help. You can see we’ve got about nine courses booked in at the moment we would like to get that number up to 13/14 if we can we have a trip to Ireland that we want to plan and get booked in but we also have loads of golf courses that at the minute we’re not in on. So listen if you’re out there you’re an avid listener or even if you’re not you’ve just sort of picked up this in the last few episodes or you’re completely brand new today please we’re asking for the bottom of our hearts just help us out a little bit uh we would love to come and give you a match we would love to come and um experience the golf course where you are get the hospitality there we would reciprocate we’re members of Reddish Vale which is a McKenzie design course so it’s one of these unherald unheralded lost courses type places where it’s fantastic design it’s not a long course we’re in Manchester so relatively central in the UK we want to hear your stories because golf is and we’re so lucky golf is a game about stories and people’s stories and there are some wonderfully generous and characterful people in our beautiful game and we want to share that we want you on our podcast we want you to tell us how you got into golf and what makes you passionate about your golf course so we need your help we need you but we’ll we promise is that we’ll keep bringing you content that we know you’re gonna love and we’re gonna keep you updated on our journey and what’s going on we’re gonna be as warts and all as as we can really because this very much is about how highlighting successes failures trials tribulations about getting on some of the best course in our cut in our land and we’re quite fortunate in the United Kingdom certainly when I compare it with world lists and US lists that we don’t necessarily view golf as this private shutaway thing that people can’t experience we do see it as come on everyone come and play and I particularly saw that in Scotland that’s that’s been been a very refreshing part of the game so uh yeah we will keep you updated all of our journey and this next run of bonus episodes that we’ve got before we start playing golf again uh I honestly promise you’re gonna absolutely love so please stay tuned. Now next time on the Top 100 in 10 golf podcast we’ve got a tour pro and current Welsh number one golfer on this very show. Don’t miss it