Fore Play - Riggs Returns From Scotland

Episode Date: September 5, 2017

Riggs is back in New York after 4 days, 4 nights, and 6 rounds in the St. Andrews area. Trent grills him on what it was like, how he played, what he thought of each course, and all the details of playing the Old Course for the first time. The guys also breakdown the JT/Spieth showdown in Boston!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

Hey, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Riggs, my friend Trent, what's up, Trent, Daddy? Not much. Happy to have you back from Scotland. This is like the third time we had to record the intro because I came in way too hot. You had a lot of energy up top, which I like. Always keep the energy, but you, like, attacked your microphone.

Scotland Riggs was screaming into the microphone right out of the gate. We are back. We're in studio. We're a day late this week because of the holiday weekend. We were both out of town. Trent, how was Chicago? Chicago was great. Had a good time.

I feel a little noodily today, but, you know, we're going to be fine. Everything's going to be okay. How is your trip? It was great. We've got a ton to talk about. We're going to go all through my Scotland trip. We're going to do a deep itinerary. I am essentially the guest this week.

Trent is going to interview me about my last four days, four nights that I spent in St. Andrews, Scotland. We got a ton to talk about. We have J.T. Speeth, Battles. at the Dell Technologies, aka the Deutsche Bank, up in Boston. Yep, we had a little bit of a tiger video that came out late last week

that we're all excited about, so we'll talk about that. We got President's Cup team, so we got a lot of chatter. We got a lot going on. Before we get to that, however. Before we get to that, let's talk about underwear. You want to talk a little underwear talk here, Rigg?

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I will say when you're walking a bunch of courses over in Scotland, the underwear that you have with you and that you choose to wear is very important. It's clutch. I had my Tommy Johns on. I was ready to rock. Perfect. Very comfy. Never rolls up, doesn't roll down.

It's just stay. The best part of the, it's like, underwears are like referees. You don't want to notice them. Yep. Exactly. That's right. If they're doing a really good job, then you never even have to talk about them. Exactly.

It's great. That's how you want your underwear. And that's what Tommy John gives you. So the FedEx Cup continues to deliver. I said it a couple weeks ago that I really love the FedEx Cup. I wasn't 100% sure why I could never pinpoint it. We're two for two already with drama up on the Northeast. We had DJ and Speeith at Glen Eagles at TBC Boston.

This last weekend, we had JT and Speath, who were buddies. I don't know if you heard that. really good friends. Great friends. It's really amazing that these events are producing this because like we've said many times, we very rarely engulf get head-to-head rivalries in actual events. It's usually you have to kind of compare a rivalry over, you know, several months or several years or decades or whatever.

But it's nice to see a couple big young guns going at it, really dramatic down the stretch. What do you think on Labor Day? Yeah, your FedEx Cup comments from a couple weeks ago are aging very well. Very well. Like, unbelievably well. Like from Riggs, you lose or you're buying into the FedEx Cup. That's exactly what they wanted you to do, too. Like, all right, these tournaments are pretty sweet.

Yeah, I don't know. This might sound obvious, but this is really just a product of how much young talent there is when you got. I think when you have enough young talent, then the cream is going to rise to the top. So you are going to get these matchups where you get a speed and a DJ or a speech and a Justin Thomas. I don't think much has changed other than we just have so much talent in the game of golf that they, every time they show up these tournaments, and there's so much money on the line, they're going to try to play their best, and you get endings like this, where it's like, Spief and J.T.

were battling for the better part of the day, and then J.T. just kind of puts his foot on the throat of the other guys and wins it by himself. Yeah, and, you know, we're starting to get down that the fields are narrower. There's less folks in the field each week. They're better players. It's going to produce some really good drama. And they have, and it's great. I think a lot of many people are saying that J.T.

really kind of locked up the player of the year. I do have a, you know, he's got, he's got a major and five wins. Yeah, I've actually got a list of his accolades here for this season. Five wins, which he went back to back in Hawaii, if you'll remember. Yep. Youngest player to ever shoot 59, got his major at the PJ Championship, Quahal. He's number four in the world now. And then I believe Jason Sobel of ESPN tweeted this out.

It's only four players have won five PJ tour titles in a single season in the last decade. Those names are Tiger Woods, Jordan Speath, Jason Day, and now Justin Thomas. Wow. So he's having a fucking year. He's having a year. You know, I do think those that the 59 and the 63 at Aaron Hills are really, well, let me preface it by saying this. I was going to say if Speed ends up winning the last two events or something like that and wins the FedEx Cup, he'll have basically the same year, but a FedEx Cup on top of it.

but I do think those types of moments with those two unbelievable rounds like you said the 59 which is unbelievably historic and then that 63 to shoot it was 9 under at Aaron Hills which I believe no one had ever shot 9 under at least in the US Open right in a round so anyways he's got all those things going it's going to be really pretty much impossible for him

not to win player of the year unless like I said maybe if speed goes on some kind of tear wins the last two events because that motherfucker is always up there. He hasn't won the last two, but God, he is just, he's fucking, he's Spieth. He's just, it's amazing. It's, it's, you can never

pinpoint exactly what it is about his game, but he's, he's just constantly up there in the big events, the huge events. He's got a major this year. He's got what, three wins. Speathe, he ain't going anywhere. No, but neither is Justin Thomas. No, and JT's, I mean, it's, God, it's, it's sweet

and it's, it's like we've said a couple times, too, where we want to get to the point now, where these guys are starting to pile up huge wins versus kind of breakthrough wins. Well, I think for the longest time, and it's still possible. I'm not ruling it out where we thought it was going to be Spief and Rory battling for 15, 20 years in these next tournaments.

Now Justin Thomas is up there, and it makes it even a better storyline because I know we drive it in the ground. I know everybody drives into the ground that these two guys are friends, but it is very, very cool to have two of the top golfers in the world, two of the guys at the top of their game. I mean, what, it's speed 23, Justin Thomas is 24, and now they're battling it out, seemingly

almost like it's going to be every single week. That's like dream scenario for the game of golf. It is. It's hashtag good for golf. Oh, yeah, I beat you to it. Sorry, Trent, nice try. You know, Rory will be there. He's as good as it gets.

He's just a little wobbly this year. I think he's obviously still injured. I was wondering if he played like shit this last week, which he did, if he would just call it quits in the U.S. for the year. Yeah. But they've got, you know, a week off now and then back to back to finish off the FedEx Cup. So we'll kind of see with that.

But yeah, man, it's becoming tougher and tougher to see a world where our guy, Tiger, is the star again. I do want to say that. Yeah. If he ever comes back, he's going to come back to fucking guns loaded. Holy shit. Yeah, it's a little different than when he last played. A lot of talent in the field, as we talked about.

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Oh, tell me about it. A couple of our co-workers called Laces Out. Pat McAfee, Jerry Thornton, A.J. Hawk. Pretty good crew. Very good crew. I like those guys. These guys are really good dudes. They know their shit. We got a quick little listen into this week's show. Here you go. The stuff that sucks about football that I get reminded. Like if you're up early in the morning, it reminds me of when you have to put on the pads

and go out and practice at 6 a.m. Like as soon as the sun rises, you're out there killing each other. Like I get that feeling or late at night if you're out and it's like a weird, humid summer night. It feels like, oh, man, you got to wake up at 4.30 and get out there. my high school program. We worked out all summer at 515 the morning and dead three days and all that stuff. So I get nightmares of that stuff, which I'm glad I did it, but I don't know how I got through it.

But those are the things that I get reminded of just from like smelling cut grass. It's never like, oh, man, this smells like touchdowns and wins and victories here. I don't ever get that smell. That's funny you say that because when I get drunk or intoxicated or inebriated on any drug and I get a little wobble and my knee locks up, I think like, oh, that's all I feel after most games right there. My knee, I can't bend my fucking knee. I can't walk straight. Life sucks a little bit. That's kind of the only, you're right. It's only the negative memories that really come through. Whether it's a smell of something or a feel of something, it's only the negative memories that come.

And that's such a fucking sad existence now that I think about it. That was very good. That's for the guys from Laces Out every Monday. Is that correct? So yeah, go there for all your football needs, Laces out on iTunes everywhere, blah, blah, blah. I can relate to actually. I don't want to put myself in the same category. I did want to get a little football, a little football reminiscing for Trent. That's what I was hoping for. I didn't want to, I don't want to say I'm the same as AJ Hawk, but when I think about football and when football rolls around, I'm with him when I have bad memories of practices and 5 a.m. practices, 5 a.m. workouts. I mean, I skip most of the workouts. I'm guessing AJ Hawk did not skip any of his workouts.

Seems unlikely. Seems unlikely. But I'm excited that football's back, but I also get like flashbacks of putting on the pads in cold weather and going to, you know, hit guys at 7 in the morning. It's not great. Yeah, the best thing that I'm trying to do to relate to that little clip from those guys is when I get depressed and sad that I'm in New York City instead of walking the fairways of the old course in Scotland. Yeah. I tried to just think about all the shitty horrible shots I hit that I was really frustrated at myself about. And then I don't feel as bad.

Okay. That I'm not there. All right. So those are my best efforts. That's fair. It's not working. No, it's not. No.

Yeah, because you kind of had a whirlwind 24 hours. Let's start talking about it. Yeah, so it is pretty crazy. It is pretty crazy that a day ago, I mean, at this time, a day ago. You're standing in Scotland? I was playing golf in Scotland. And now I'm just sitting here in this fucking studio, sweating my dick off talking about talking some golf. Oh, it could be worse.

It could be worse. We don't want to complain. We don't want to do any of that. But let's, so let's talk about your trip. Okay. Okay. Let's go in chronological order. I'll just let you, what this is going to be is I'm going to let you just talk.

I'm going to let you talk and talk. and I'm going to throw in questions, and we're going to figure out, and we're going to listen about this whole Scotland trip, and I'm very excited, and I think so are the listeners. So the trip begins with probably the most challenging part of the trip by far, which is you get the rental car, and you go sit in the car, and you're sitting on the right side of the fucking car to drive the car. Right, very confusing.

And so I get it, you know, I open the left side of the door to get in. Obviously, like the whole car is mirrored, which I knew going in, but you still are prepared for him. Sure. I'm like, oh, Jesus Christ. So I get him Get out on the road I'm like yeah here we go

And you know They drive on the left side of the road Which you think like whatever Like I'll cognitively figure it out Yeah you're a smart guy There is no preparation Is it really strange I mean I was

Trent So I had it's about an hour And 15 minute drive up to St. Andrews 20 seconds into the drive I abandoned trying to follow the directions And I was just trying not to kill anybody Really? I swear to God

It is it's insanity And they have For every fucking reason They don't have like stop lights or stop signs over there, it's all roundabouts. It's a roundabout city over there. I don't like that. Just a huge roundabout crew.

Feels good to win that war. I don't like that. And when you're doing the roundabouts are kind of tricky enough on their own. You're just allowing all this freedom and driving, which is crazy because people are morons. But then you reverse the whole thing. Everybody's on the other side of the road. So the first thing I had to do is got to get into this roundabout. And I can't figure out where I'm supposed to get out of it.

So in a normal roundabout, you go around like to the right side. So the right. And now I'm going to the left. then you're just like you instinctively want to exit you know differently and like I don't know exactly what road I'm looking for and wind and I'm on the left it was insane so like literally 20 seconds in I abandoned trying to follow the direction I was just like how am I going to get off the road without like killing somebody yeah because it you're you also the fact that you're on the right side of the car really fucks you up because it feels like you have like this little like that motorcycle like doom buggy thing on the left side exactly exactly Except it's an entire car. Except it's a whole other half of the car. So I'm driving on the left side of the road. The whole time I'm like hitting curbs and bushes and shit on the left.

You are running into things. I'm basically, me, like physical rigs is like in the middle of the road, which means my left side of my car and the roads are super tight over there. There's no like shoulder. Shoulders don't exist over there. So the car's like hitting bushes and curbs and shit. I'm like, Jesus Christ. Two seconds into the trip.

So that's good. So that was a battle. At least you didn't hit any person, I would hope. I was holding into a parking lot and practiced for probably five minutes. That's what I was going to say. When you were like, I got these directions, I'm going to go. And then when you abandon those directions, you should just like try and drive around a little bit just to like get your parents. And then eventually, you know, it became much easier because I got onto a highway.

And the highway is just you just go straight. Yeah. So that was fine. I could do that. I started to get better at it. But that first, man, those first five or ten minutes, they really make you feel like just like the least coordinated, capable person on earth. Yeah, you're like, I'm a smart guy. I'm going to figure this out in no time.

And then you're handy guy. I'm crafty. I couldn't even drive the car. I mean, it's just an automatic too. You know, they have to, like, pull one out of the back because you've got some American who needs an automatic. It was chaos. So, finally, drive the hour, 15 minutes up there.

You get used to it. You're driving through all these Scottish towns. People fly in Scotland, by the way. Okay. And I posted a couple of Instagrams, but, like, the roads are unbelievably tight. To where they would be like maybe 30 mile an hour speed limit in the U.S. People are going like 75. Just flying around trucks.

coming by. You get these huge 18-wheel trucks flying by and these roads, you're like, what the fuck is going on? It was insane. So, driving through these Scottish towns, and my, I mean, I'd only slept like an hour and a half on the plane. Yeah, how was their trip over? We'll back up for a little bit. It was fine. I mean, the flight I was, um,

I had gotten a, uh, I had gotten the emergency root canal before. Oh, yeah, that's right. Do people, do people, do people know if people know that? You did blogging. It seems like so long ago. I blogged it. But yeah, so last week, we talked about it at a toothache and then I got, I ended up getting emergency root canal. on Wednesday and I left Thursday night. So I was panicking all week that I was going to be like not even be able to go because I would not be on a flight for seven hours with like a horrible toothache, you know, whatever.

So I was on the flight. I was just giddy and excited that my tooth didn't hurt. I was like sitting there like this is great. Don't even think about the golf. Just my tooth doesn't hurt anymore. And super pumped. So I had slept the whole night before I had slept really well. Yeah, because you had been saying you were only getting, you were barely sleeping at all with the toothache.

Yeah. So I had gotten a ton of sleep the night before. So then when I got on the plane and all. all that, my excitement level, I barely slept. I slept like an hour and a half out of seven and a half, seven hours, wherever the flight is. Which is shocking, because those who don't know, I've traveled with Briggs a lot now, and he falls asleep before you take off and wakes up when the plane lands. The flight attendant today told me that they checked my pulse.

No. On the flight home. That's how asleep I was. You are so asleep so fast. I can't sleep at all in planes. So when you and I have traveled, I'm just, like, staring you the whole time, like, fuck you, man. Yeah, they were like, when the flight attendants were walking by me, they were, like, giggling

because it clear they had been, like, joking with each other about how asleep I looked. And they, like, took your pulse and then, like, played with your butt all. Maybe. They literally said, oh, we chucked your pulse. I was like, that's fucking weird. Don't touch me. So, don't ever touch me. So I'm buzzing up.

Adrenaline's unbelievably high. And it's crazy because you go through all these little, tiny, tiny Scottish towns. But it's mostly just field. I mean, it's nothing. And even when, you know, I'm looking at the, you know, you do the GPS. You always count down the minutes that it says till your arrival. It's like four minutes out. And I'm seeing nothing.

Yeah. Like, am I going to the wrong fucking St. Andrews? and then you just all of a sudden you arrive and you're in the town and you make I make like one or two turns I'm trying to like hug the left that's what that was my slogan hug the left hug the left hug the left hug the left yeah remind you and it's really tricky when you make like a right turn

you turn into the left lane that's when it really fucks you up oh Jesus so when you get to another town I gotta do the left hand driving thing and all of a sudden you make like a turn you're not really painted and then you just see the course and you're just like whoa like that was it like I know what that I know that's 17 I saw the first whole I saw it was 17 I saw the road hole.

I could see the old course hotel that you hit over from the other angle. And I was like, oh, my God, we've got to find a parking lot. So I park. You can park. They have the most beautiful parking lot you've ever seen, like right behind the 18th, or the first T in the 18th green, is just this parking lot on the edge of the coast where you can, like, see cliffs up behind the course. And then you walk around, which is what I did, and you kind of take that first step coming up behind the RNA building and you just see it all. and it's just, it's like, it's insane. Because you've seen it, you know, you played the video game,

you've watched a million tournaments there, you've, I've looked at all the pictures going into the trip. Well, yeah, that's, then you're just standing there. That feeling we had when we went to TPC Sawgrass or when we first, like, walked on to Augusta, you're just like, it is weird for that first feeling is like, oh, I've seen this on TV. Yeah, and it was, and it really reminded me of Augusta

and that you, when you first see something for the first time that you know really well, but you've never been to, you immediately begin to kind of orient yourself quickly. Mm-hmm. Like when we first saw the 18th Green at Augusta, we kind of like knew where we were. Yep. And it was like, I know where I am because I've seen it so many times, not because I've been here before. And that's what it was like.

And I just stood there right behind the first tee, which is a scene. You know, there's all kinds of people, people clapping, people teeing off. Everybody that's standing there is, like, nervous and excited because it's the coolest shot they've ever hit. Right. The people playing 18 Green have, like, the biggest smile on their face because they're playing, like, the most iconic finishing hole of all time. And then you're standing there right there, like, watching them. You're just fucking standing right next to it. I started like awkwardly clapping for people and stuff.

Somebody had like a good lag puddle. Like, great. That was awesome. Good job. Way to go, man. You're just full of excitement. Nothing could, you're so happy. Nothing.

And it's also like 55 and sunny. It's like perfect weather. So then I walk down, you know, I walk around all the way down the 18th Fairway over to the road hole. And the road hole is so on the fucking road that like people are standing eight feet away away from you when you put. Like on that. that little walkway right there.

Yeah. So I walked right down there. I'm just standing right next to these people playing in 17. I mean, I was like touching the green on 17. Like, just touching it like it was a pet. I was like, this is unbelievable. Let me ask you just, let me ask you this. Okay.

So you've played, you've played some prestigious courses in the U.S. over your, over your lifetime. What's the vibe? How is it different from what you saw when you walked on to St. Andrews? It's different in how casual it is. That's what I was thinking. Do you know what I mean? Yes.

It's unbelievably casual. Because, I mean, the courses in the U.S. are obviously great, and they're well manicured, and they're perfect and all that. But they do have a certain, like, stuffy, like, I don't even know the word I'm looking for. And they're private, and you can't just get on them, and they're back into the trees, and they're built. Like, you know, we build them to be as a way from houses and civilization as possible. Yeah. And, you know, some courses over there do that as well. But at St. Andrews, you know, it's just, it's such a part of the town, which is obviously very cliche to say.

But, yeah, I mean, there's, like, fucking buses and cars driving right behind the tea. You know, I drove my car right behind the tee. It's probably didn't drive right through the tea. I tried to. Like, you know, as guys are teeing off, hitting the most, you know, the most memorable shot of their golf career, these guys have played thousands of rounds, playing the coolest round they've ever playing. You're just driving your car, like honking of people right behind them. So it's unbelievably casual. Okay.

And it's got that whole vibe, that whole area just kind of has that vibe because, like I said, it's in the town. And, you know, and then you look, you're one street over from the 18th, and it's just a very normal town with, like, trash cans and, like, normal shit, little cafes and all that. So it's a very, you know, it's an unbelievably interesting vibe. I did that scene. A stoolie recognized me right away on 17 Green, so he, like, takes a picture with me on the 17th Green. That's incredible. I mean. Which was unbelievable.

Well, so I want to say this, that he clearly didn't. I think he's like some American guy that lives over there now. Mm-hmm. And he was visiting St. Andrews for the weekend with his wife. And they're all walking. And he clearly had no idea that I was going to be there. Yeah. Because the shock on his face when he was like, that's Riggs.

Yeah. What the fuck is Riggs? You're not at a bar in New York City. 100%. You're at St. Andrew. He, like, he couldn't even speak. He was like, he was so, like, starstruck at the fact that I was there. not that it was me that like he was like what the hell is going on he's like i'm in st andrew's

scottland and there's just rigs walking around weird so he take a pick then i meet up with uh well i go up to my bed and breakfast check into my bed and breakfast great cozy little spot perfect um on this murray park place which is like this little you shaped kind of horseshoe shaped row of bed and breakfasts in st andrews so for those of you out there if you ever going to book a trip um find this little row it's murray park or murray park place something like that this little road and there's like dozens of little bed and breakfast in there and what i did was i just emailed and called like 20 of them to see who had availability it's like 60 70 pounds a night for my own room on suite with the bathroom all of that which is nothing it was literally a block away from the first tea yeah that's

all you need um so that's that's my recommendation everybody call all those places if you're going to go by yourself you're going to go with buddies um they even do you know they do like family type rates and all that. So that's my recommendation if you're going to go there. So I go check into that. Meet up with a stoolie, this guy, Maddie, who had emailed me about a week after I booked a trip and just said, hey, Reg's like, you really inspired me. I love the show. I'm going to go over at the same time. I don't want to bother you, but if you want to grab a beer or something, just let me know. And I email back forth. And I was like, no, man, let's play a round or two together. So we ended up, we had a Friday afternoon tea time. Okay. at a place about 20 minutes away,

which we're going to get to, called Crail. So meet Maddie and I go to, like, we met in like a public shop, make sure he's not a psychopath. Right, you don't want to, like, come into my hotel room, and then he's wearing your skin.

100%. He turns out he's, so he's a Toronto Stooly, nicest guy in the world. Toronto Stooley. Toronto Stooley. He did preface his email. He was like, I'm a big GoPret's go guy.

I hope that's okay. I was like, it's fine. Just don't bring it up. So met him, and we would go on to play the next three rounds. together, including probably the greatest Saturday anybody's ever had, which we'll get to. Nicest guy in the world. Shout to Maddie. He's going to come up a lot

because he was there for, you know, half the trip or whatever. Big shout to Matt. So meet up with him. We drive over to Crail together. Who drove? I drove my car. He had taken a cab up. So I drove my car. Poor guy I thought he must have thought he's going to die. Especially because he's in, so he's sitting in the shotgun,

which is the side of the car that's just in the bushes the whole time. And I'm not kidding when I say bushes. Like there are like tree branches and little bush branches. that like hang over the roads and I'm like in the bushes the whole time like you can hear shit banging off the car like not I'm not kidding and so poor Maddie and he kept you he would just go bushes bushes as we're driving down the road so it's about 20 minute drive over and of course like as we're walking to the car I like got in the wrong side of the car and he's like this is not a good start rink so I know I know dude I'm not I'm not I'm like so all the local scots are passing me on the road you know like you're like you're like you're like Ricky Bobby just like sitting there after the they're doing 70 Trent I'm doing 20 and I'm just like trying to keep it in between the lines trying to kill anybody so we get to Crail uh Crail so crail is the seventh oldest golf club in the world it's about 20 minutes uh down the coast south from st andrews

and it is an old tom morris design you know late late late maybe mid-1800s of the course was actually kind of designed I think the club was founded in the late 1700s. So it's no joke. And this place, it's great because it's not on the level. It doesn't get the recognition touristy-wise of, like, being a huge main attraction like the old course or Carnusti or Kingsmarns, which we'll get to. This place is fucking awesome. It might have been like all around, my most fun round that we played over there. Might have been part of my start, which we'll get to.

But we roll up to Crail. I got two courses, the Balcomi links, and then this other newer one that's only 15, 20 years old. something like that that's called the Craighead. But we played the Balcomy, which is the old one. And we teed off, man, 3 p.m. It is, at this point, it's like 60 degrees, sunny, very little wind. And I'm like, this is Scotland? Like, what is, this is a joke.

Played in shorts, short sleeve shirt, nice vest, as you might have seen on the social media. We tee off. It's just a twosome with a caddy. Okay. So we're not bothered by anybody else. where he's playing a two-sum. I start Birdie Eagle. Woo!

Really? It was insane. Now, don't get me wrong. The holes are, the first hole's like 320 downhill, so it's like a drivable par four, and it's playing downwind. Hit my drive up, left to the green, chipped up to like 10 feet and made it. I was, you could not have wiped the smile off my face if you tried. Yeah.

And then I go Eagle on two, which is like a 500-yard, maybe 490 par 5. Driver 5 iron gets like this crazy links balance, you know, the guy's like yeah it's playing it's about you're about 205 out you know you want to play it like a uphill 190 shot or something like okay five iron kicks him get up there it's like six feet away make it so I'm like oh baby legs golf is awesome yeah like it's so easy I could do this all the time and I'm playing against mattie we agreed to play a little game he's like yeah I'm like an eight I was like I'm about a six right now well you just want to play straight up he's like definitely that's just too straight up I'm like four up through four against him and I he's like you stand back

and beat you fuck you I was like I swear to God, I'm not this good. But I was. I was three under through two. Ended up being 300 through four. Made a couple doubles. A couple triples coming in. But I down the stretch on the back nine was able to hold together.

This course is the views on this place. So it's like it's like 5,800 yards from the tips. Okay. Not very long. No. At all. It's got like six part threes. And it is spectacular.

or it is one of the most, if not the most fun course I've ever played. It's like every single hole has a water view of the North Sea. So you're hitting these shots, you know, a couple of them are kind of dog legs like over the water where you cut off as much as you want. Then you kind of loop back around. You go up a little higher. You get to the back nine. The 13th hole is like this got to be one of the hardest part three is on the planet.

It's like 215 yards uphill, straight into the wind over like all of this shit. and you're standing there like we hit I hit the I have like a 16 degree hybrid which is like a driving hybrid instead of a three wood I hit that Maddie hit three wood we weren't even close to the green I mean it was driver all day we just couldn't like we couldn't convince ourselves to hit driver and the caddy even said sorry caddy um Kevin was like I think he was like a one handicap or something and he was like I've I've hit driver here many times he's like I've also hit wedge you know it's just like it's on the wind so the wind was in our face there but But yeah, so they have, I believe, four holes out of the last six are par threes. And three or four of them are two or three of them are just these awesome holes. So that the whole wrap for that 13th there is a part three kind of going the other way where you hit way downhill. And then you walk your way back over towards the last couple holes on 16. I make birdie, made like a 20-footer for birdie on like a 280 yard par four or something. Maddie makes, he makes eagle.

Oh, never mind. So we each had an eagle. And then 17 and 18, you know, I needed a, I needed par par par to shoot 78 and did it, which, again, it's 5,800 yards. I played the greatest round of all time, I had a couple triples. I was really excited because the first pop bunker I was ever in in my life, Fairway Pop bunker. I failed to get it out the first time. Okay, that's what you want. Which is what you want.

Yeah, that's fine. I was like classic. Yeah, that's classic pop bunker. Yeah, it took me two to get out, made like a double. On the first hill, actually, it was really funny because we both hit, you know, we both hit our drives. the middle of the green, we're both nervous, like, not really watching, kind of like high-five, and then we made contact. We were like, great.

And we'd get up there, and I say my ball was in the left, like, pin high, and there's this tiny little pop bunker, like, in the middle back part of the green. And Maddie's ball was in there, and I was like, you son of a bitch, I was so jealous. I was so jealous. I was so funny. I wanted to be in there so badly. I was like, God, that's awesome. So we had to, like, get it, you had to get into, like, this tiny little bunker and, like,

splash it out. I was so jealous. Oh, that's great. So it was, it was a spectacular round. It was the coolest introduction. to lynx golf that I think you can have. Again, the weather was absolutely perfect. The wind did pick up on the back nine, which was nice.

Like playing into the wind was intense. And then when you turn around, because, you know, a lot of these links courses, I mean, without the wind, they're just not built to be that tough without the wind, and they're not. And so, you know, you want to get the full experience. I'm like, give me, like, I want these crazy fucking bounces. I remember you saying that before you went over there. You're like, I mean, like we want carnage. You wanted carnage on the course.

And I think I reverse psychology. mother nature big time oh because i said i wanted carnage everyone's like don't jinx it don't jinx it i swear to god no one's ever had four more perfect days of weather than i had ever it was like between 55 and 65 and sunny with effectively no wind like the whole trip really it was unbelievable um so anyway so crail you know it's way cheaper than the other ones it was um it's like 60 or 70 pounds i can't remember 100% exactly there's different rates depending on different times and we teed off it 3 p.m. on a Friday, so I think we got a little bit of a cheaper rate because it's kind of twilighty. But it's way cheaper than a lot of the other courses in the area. The views are incredible.

The course, like you said, is old school Lynx golf. It's kind of like though a little bit more of the working man's club, which a lot of them over there are, which again, we'll get to a little bit. But, you know, our caddy, for example, is a member at Crail. He's been a member at Crail, you know, forever. And the same thing. When I played Carnusty, my caddy is a member at Carnusty, and he's grown up playing there forever. So a lot of these clubs are more, you know, they're not for like the rich and the wealthy and with these huge initiation fees like there are in the States.

I mean, Crayal was just a bunch of the people that we played that were around us were overseas members. Really? Where it's like something absurd, like 185 pounds a year or something and you're like an overseas member. You get like a cool book and you get eight rounds a year or something like that. It's unbelievable. Was the course back?

No. No. No. So since we were playing as a two, we waited a little bit. But we played in about, I think we played in just under four hours. Okay. You know, walking. Yeah.

Which was great. And we probably had five T shots or so, especially on some of the par fives, where we waited a little bit. But that's just because we were a two. Yeah. And we were playing really well. And we both play really quickly. So it was, you know, what are you going to do? So we tried to slow it down and play a little slower.

But even in between, in between, I was able to bust the phone out, like, take much of picks, which I was trying to document as much as I could. Yeah, if you didn't, you should have followed Riggs on Instagram. It was fucking great. I was popping. My Insta was popping. So, um, so, so we finished up, you know, around 7 o'clock. We buzz back over to St. Andrews, um, kind of catch the sunset and over there.

Pop into the Dunvegan, which is the classic, uh, 19th hole bar at the old course. In your mind, how much were you planning to drink while you were there? Not much. Yeah. You know, I wanted to do, I wanted to do a couple beers. with dinner, maybe go out, you know, like on a Saturday night, depending on what I'm doing Sunday. But the plan was to not drink too much because you're cramming so much into it.

Yeah. And you want to experience, you want to really enjoy the golf. And for me, you know, as kind of competitive and demanding of myself as I am with stuff, I don't, I, I won't enjoy it as much as I, if I suck. Yeah. If I play, like, dog shit. Well, the last thing you want to do is fly across the world, you know, try and have this awesome experience for yourself and also be thinking, man, I'm really hungover.

right right which we'll get to that did happen so so going in you know i wasn't thinking about drinking too much and friday night we had so we had this big ambitious plan for saturday so friday night we had a couple pops had a couple uh had a had a little nice meal quick food um and then you know we went to bed around probably 11 30 11 we went back to our rooms asleep by midnight or so so that begins saturday which saturday is by far the greatest day I've ever had. I love it. So Saturday, we, I've talked about this a little bit, but there's a couple ways you can get on

the old course. You can either ballot, you can book a tea time a year in advance or a year plus in advance, something like that. You can ballot, which is basically just a lottery, which is, you know, 20, 30 percent chance a day, but you got to have more than one person. Or you can do the queue, which is you just get up as early as you want. Usually you got to, you know, get up 2, 3, 4 a.m., get out there, get in line. top 16 people to get in line are guaranteed a spot.

And then, you know, they usually have a good amount of spots more after that. So you just want to get there as early as you can, get as early as a number as you can and wait it out. The starter shows up at 630. They show you the T-sheet when it's your turn up in line. And whatever is open, whatever you can grab, you grab. So Maddie had already done this. He had done it like two days before because he got there a couple days before I did. And we had a 730 AMT time at Kings Barnes, which Kings Barnes is awesome.

and we'll get to that. So our plan was, well, we don't have to get there crazy early because most people that get there early want to take the earlier tea times. So we're like, we'll get there a little bit later, later, in air quotes. We got there at like 4.15 in the morning. So we're like, we'll get a later afternoon tea time, ideally, and maybe we can play together, which is like unlikely,

but if you get there early it, I might be able to. So we get up at 4. We're out. We're in the line at 415. Miraculously, we're number 9 and 10 in line. Whoa. Which is low. Yeah.

There are a couple other people that had been there in line the day before, and they said at 3 a.m. number 16 came. That's what I was thinking more like. Yeah. So we got really, really lucky. It was a Saturday morning, too. So we were like, oh, yeah. So from 415 to 630, we did the lines. We had bought a couple duvets for like seven bucks.

They were having two for one deal for the college kids coming back to town. So two duvets for seven bucks. It's cold as hell out there. A duvet. What the hell is a duvet? You know, like a cover that you. you would put like a nice, like, comforter over. That's what I thought you were saying.

Oh, okay. And that's what you're talking about. So we stood out there because it's cold in line. It's like, it's like 40 degrees. And it's dark. So it's just cold and you're sitting out there for a couple hours. So we had ourselves wrapped, like cocooning ourselves in these two days. It's really sounding more and more like you and Maddie are dating.

But okay. Well, we're out there with, you know, 20 other people. Yeah, yeah. And everybody's got, you know, one group of people. They drove their van up to there and they were sitting in their van with the heat on. Oh, wow. and all that. So people do whatever they got,

whatever they got to do. The line's really cool. It's kind of fun experience. Everybody's excited. So anyways. I bet. I bet that's awesome. It's awesome.

It's fun. So anyways, about 645, we find out that we've got two spots at 250 in the afternoon. 250 tea time in the old course. We're like, wow. It's perfect. Perfect.

Because you got a 730 tea time. We don't have to move our 730 time at all. We get to play together. It's going to be the afternoon. The weather looks perfect. We're like, wow, this is going to be unbelievably. So we had parked the car very nice. near the first T at where we had to do the old course Q, jump in the car, over to King's Barnes,

which is very close to Crail, same type of drive. I'm almost killing everybody. Get there about 715, T off at 730. We'll play with one other guy, this guy, Clarence, who was from Brussels, Canadian guy. Clarence, more Canadian. A lot of Canadians over there. It was crazy. Canadian guy who had moved to Brussels for a job for a couple years, 40 years prior.

Met a girl, been out there for 40 years. Oh, wow. Really nice guy. His favorite course in the world was Kings Barnes, so he was super pumped. He had played it a handful of times, I think. Kings Barnes is, so I believe it was built 17 years ago. Some people, a good amount of people might know this, might not, but it was built, I believe, by like an American guy

or driven by an American crew of people. Well, not architect, but the people that, I don't know who exactly the architect was, but the people behind building the whole thing are like American. And it is, you call it the Pebble Beach of Scotland. It is magnificent. I mean, it is unbelievably gorgeous. There are a bunch of holes on the water where you hit your approach shot.

And all you can see in the background is the North Sea. You're elevated. The 12th hole they call the greatest par five in Scotland, which is basically the 18th at Pebble Beach, but even more magnificent, to be honest with you. Yeah. So it's phenomenal. It doesn't really play like Lynx golf.

It plays, you know, it's built like a lynx course, and it's in Scotland, but it plays like an American course. You can pretty much fly your ball everywhere. You don't really get crazy bounces. But it's just done perfectly. I mean, it's manicured phenomenally well. It was designed, you know, for people like us going on the trip that we went on to go pay a bunch of money and play it and take a bunch of pictures. and walk away being like, wow, that was unbelievably fun and awesome, and that's exactly what it is. I mean, if you go over there, you just have to play it.

You're crazy if you don't. A lot of people that were kind of texting me where I was getting a lot of DMs from people being like, you know, what are you thinking about the trip that had been over there before? We're saying that, especially a lot of America, people like, Kings Barnes is their favorite course in the world. Wow. I mean, it is magnificent. It's a good challenge, but it's not too hard. We had a decent wind, which, again, every time I kept saying that over there, and they're like, this isn't a wind. Laddie, this is a breeze.

That's what they kept saying. This is just a breeze, Laddie. That's what they kept saying. But again, it's just, it's a must play. If you go over there, you cannot not play it. And you very well might walk away from it being like, that's the greatest course we played over here. I think if that course were in America, a lot of people would say that's the greatest golf course on planet Earth. I think the one knock on it, again, is that, you know, you go over there to play Scottish Lynx golf.

And it's not that. And it plays like an American golf course. I don't know if that's even necessarily a knock Is it's just like it's just different No, but I know what you're saying Because if you go over there, you are anticipating a certain style And that's not really what it is Right, and again, don't get me wrong

I mean, it's in Scotland And it's built with like, you know, The same type of bunker faces And there's some pop bunkers and all that But it just plays a lot more like an American course And it is just really, really fun to play It's got some incredibly picturesque part threes as well Can I remember which one is in the back night

It's like 14, 15, 16. One of those holes is this part three that's kind of on this small little cove. And you've got to hit over the water, and it's just one of the coolest part three's that you'll ever play. So the course is great. I played well there. I hit the ball really well again. I mean, we played the T's that were, I think, $6,800. So that was one in from the tips.

I think the tips there are like 75 or something, which they have the Dunhill links coming up. And I think the first week of October were the European tour event where they play the old course, Carnusti and Kingsmarns. And so they have like the pro tees that are deep. So we played one in from that, which I think, again, was 68. I made like a six or seven footer for par for 79 on 18. You were playing well. I cleaned Maddie out again. I beat them all three ways again.

I felt so bad. God damn. I felt like an asshole because I have not been playing very good golf this year. I think I've only broken 80 like twice. Yeah. And I've had several rounds in the night. He's just kind of like been struggling, moved to New York classic. But so to my first two rounds I broke 80, I was like, oh my God, this is surreal.

I was the happiest person in the world. When the bright lights come on, when you go to Scotland, you got to play well. You got to. And so anyways, we had an unbelievable day. We had on the 17th T, I believe one of the general managers or whatever, this guy, Allen drove out and said hi. And I want to give a shout to Rue McDonald, who runs the Scottish golf podcast, who had been going back and forth with me via email and told. Twitter and just trying to help me get kind of hooked up or helped out wherever I could

because obviously the whole trip in general it's not cheap so anywhere I could save a buck I was trying they came out they comped our lunch after we had a couple beers which was really really nice of them but Kings Barnes is and another little status of me now I asked my caddy 80% 86% of the play is American on Kings Barnes 86% isn't that crazy that is crazy which I thought I knew that it was it was kind of um you know it was built for that reason but 86% is seems high but it's it's worth it it's just a spectacular course i mean you could build a trip around going to just kings barns playing it you know two three four times and you'd be like that was the greatest trip of all that's incredible it's an unbelievable golf course it is one of the

more expensive or maybe the most expensive over there it's like two hundred forty five pounds or something like that which is you know 300 something bucks or whatever so it ain't cheap no but it was awesome the place is very very cool and so we're done around you know God, we were done by 1130 and we tee off at the old course and, you know, whatever, three or four hours and it was like, wow, I've already got a rounder in my belt. I played Kings Barnes, which is this like Pebble Beach type course.

Shot of 79. It's shot of 79, so I'm hitting the ball well and we're like, we're getting ready to tee off the old course. So we actually, we had a bite, like I said, a couple beers on the house. Thank you very much, Kings Barnes, love it. Go back, nap for an hour, and then, you know, walked,

there's nothing cool in the world and grabbing your golf bag. sitting right next to your bed and walking the four-minute walk down to the first tee at the old course. And, you know, your nerves, the nerves, and you're not even, you know, it's not like a, you're not playing for anything. You're just going out to, like, just play ball. No, but you know what's behind it. I mean, all the history, all the history that you have with it, just watching it on TV, all the moments you've seen with it. I mean, I can't even imagine.

And it gets hyped up the more times you hear people do what I'm doing right now, which is talk about it. Yeah, I guarantee you're going to motivate it. a bunch of people to do this exact thing that you did. And so, you know, we're only, we're not even halfway to the day here. I'm playing, I'm playing, I ended up playing six rounds on the trip because I got too drunk on Sunday to play a seventh. But I played six rounds. So, I mean, at this point, I'm only a third of the way through my golfing part of the

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All right. So, the old course, Saturday afternoon. 250 tea time. Walk down there. First of all, when you pay and you check in. They give you a cool little bag, a little baggy with like some teas, a little yardage book, the scorecard, and then you can keep that little baggy, you know, and use it as like a tea bag or whatever in your golf bag. Yeah. I'm already excited.

Nice little keepsake. So, you know, so we walk up. We had, it was a little bit of a chaotic start to our round at the old course. So we walk up, you know, we had decided to take caddies, which is the play, especially if you're playing the course for your first time. because the lines and all this different stuff is crazy. So get the full experience. Take a caddy. Highly recommend.

So Maddie and I have, so we're supposed to have caddies, but apparently our caddies were finishing up. They were doing a two a day. They're finishing up on the new course. And so the little lady's like, yeah, well, they'll just meet you on the first green. Like, okay, interesting.

Whatever. How a big deal. Yeah. So 13 off. And as, And as there's a road that runs across the first tee. And as you're teeing off, you know, there's people that are just idiots and don't know what's going on. They're like walking across the road.

And the starter who was a lady this time was like yelling at them. And no one was paying attention. So there was this really weird vibe where, you know, the other two guys in our group, Brian and Mark. Brian, I have to mention because, so his name's Brian K-I-D-D. Okay. People are going to know this. Shout out to Jason, Kid. This guy, Brian Kid, apparently, is a Premier League legend.

Like, one of, like, the greatest Premier League players. Oh, he's a player. Soccer player. Brian Kid. Yeah. Don't know it. For either Man City or Man You, which we found out, like, halfway through the round, because one of, because Maddie, my buddy Maddie's caddy was, like, a huge fan of this guy.

Yeah, there he is. That's him. Isn't that insane? Brendan pulled up the thing. Oh, he's an older guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's like an old, like, legend.

Now he's like a coach or something over there. Is he short, like a soccer player? He was a soccer player. But, I mean, you know, he was like, he had great touch and all that. You could tell. Yeah. Which, again, so we found that out, like, halfway through around, which was insane. Any sort of paparazzi lurking around?

No, he was the nicest guy in the world. He would have never known. Very cool. Current team, he is the joint assistant coach of Manchester City. Man City's, you know, one of the most powerful sports. I definitely know that name. Right. So that's who we're fucking playing with, which we didn't even really, I realized until the end.

Um, so it's him and his son, and then myself and Maddie, you know, we decided to have a match again. I'm cleaning Maddie out, poor guy. God, I bet Maddie hates you. He's like, this fucking Riggs guy is such a scumb bad. You guys had, like, the trip of a lifetime together. You're now dating, but he definitely hates him. But I took all of his money. Yeah.

So anyway, so I'm up on the tea and right as a team at ball, get ready to hit it. The starter just starts yelling, far! Like, yelling at the people crossing the road, like screaming in my ear. Yeah. And you're supposed to be having me. like this majestic. This is like the most iconic. Like I'm like, everyone's, in my head, everyone's quiet.

The whole world's quiet. She's watching Riggs. Everyone watch Riggs right now. These people, this late, so it says, lady walking across it. I'm going to post the video on my Instagram. My plan is to leak all of my footage over the next, like, three or four days. Andy Dufrein when he's trying to bust out of jail.

Exactly. And so, so there's this lady walking across. And, I mean, people are screaming at this point, like, lady. We're in the middle of a golf here. Yeah. She's walking across, like, on her phone. and behind, like two feet behind her is her like four-year-old kid. So we're like screaming.

I'm like, I want to hit, but like there's a kid there. I'm supposed to be having a magical moment lady. And so everyone's kind of like laughing and it's weird. And then so I finally, so I get up, my turn to hit. I pull driver. It was a little bit into the wind, but at this point, but I pull driver that's absolutely not a driver. I mean, it is the biggest fairway on the planet. Yeah.

But there's like a burn that cuts in on the right. And it's absolutely like a three-iron. something, but you're so nervous that you're like, I refuse to, like, top or duff something. Yeah, you just want to, like, get ahead of something. I know I'll make contact with a driver. Yep. So I'm like, I'm just going to do that. I don't care where it goes.

I just want to make contact so that I'm not the guy that topped the ball in the first tee. Hit a pretty good drive. And the second that I make contact, the lady, like, yelling. And so I'm, like, so disoriented, like, what the hell is going on? Because in your head, again, you're going to hit that and then just admire it. I'm going to watch it forever and never forget. I didn't even see it because if she started screaming in my ears, so I'm like, I'm pretty sure I hit pretty straight. Maybe she's a huge fan of the podcast.

Yeah, that's huge. Imagine she's like mashed potatoes. Yeah, JJL. Yeah, JJL. That would have been electric. So ends up, ends up I hit a good T-Shed. I thought it was fine at the time, but again, there was so much going on. And Maddie hadn't hit yet, so I had to get out of the way.

So Maddie's been chirping. I think it was Ian Baker Finch, who famously when he was like, he went through a spell where he's playing like shit. and he hooked one left out of bounds on one, which is like impossible. That's so far left, it's unbelievable. Yeah. So Maddie's been chirping him the last couple days, steps up,

snap hooks one, like, blatantly way out of bounds. No. And there's chaos, too. Like the whole exact same thing that happened to me, happened to him, so he's all disoriented and around it. I felt really bad for him. And he's like, I guess that treats me right for chirping.

So he walked up there. His ball had to have hit a car or a house or something because he was like 10 feet in bounds. Okay. Just laying there, which on that whole part of the course, which everybody should know from having a picture in their head, it's totally, his ball's fine. Yeah.

So he ends up laying up and then wedges it to close and saves par. Wow. Which was awesome. I get up there, I hit a wedge to about 15 feet, one of the better, probably the only time I hit a green with a wedge all week. I literally couldn't hit my wedges. Hit a pathetic put, lacked in, make par. I'm like, let's go.

That's a weird stuff. It was a crazy start, like not the, but also part of the, you know, that's the charm. That's the beauty. That's what you get at the old course. That's what you get at the old course. So we're off and running on the first green. Our caddies meet us. My guy, Tim, who we had such a good time and dominated so much that I asked him to caddy for me again when I played the old course on Monday, which he did.

So we had a really good time together. New Zealand kid, probably 21, 22 year old young kid, fucking hilarious. I can't do like the New Zealand accent, but the way they talk is like even the Scots, like make fun of the way that the New Zealanders talk, just shitting on him. Yeah. He's like slapping his mouth around talking. So we're off and running. You know, we play the front and it was, uh, there was very, very little wind on the front

nine. It was about 60 degrees sunny and essentially no wind. And that front nine with that type of conditions is just really easy, to be honest. There's just not much trouble. The nuance of the course, you know, you have to play it a bunch to understand everybody says. so I won't sit here and pretend like I understood all the nuances by playing the course, you know, that one day, and then I would end up playing it twice.

But that first round, it was, you know, you stand up and they're like, yeah, you can pretty much hit it as far left as you want. You know, a lot of the holes, there's like gorse bushes on the right, but it's just a bunch of par fours on the front. Pretty much a little core feels like a ton of par fours where you can just rip driver. Yeah. And then, you know, you kind of have like these little pitches in if you hit a good driver. again, especially on the front. There's a good par five that's got the huge valley, which I would fuck up every time,

which is a drivable, very, very reachable par five, especially in our conditions. And, you know, I think I had a five iron and a six iron in, and I made par bogey. But I also, I got a little too aggressive on a couple of my T shots, and I had to take two unplayable eyes in the front end where I was barely in the gorse bushes,

about like a foot. So you found it, but you couldn't play it. I think I went out in 40, which I was pretty happy with. I just had like a couple sloppy bogies and whatnot. But again, it was really tricky to kind of get that full experience on the front nine because there was no wind and perfect weather. And you're just standing up there. And it's, you know, a lot of people have said this to me, but it is true where half of you is thinking, you know, this place is a dog track. There's nothing special about this course.

People have said that a lot over the years. And then the other half of you also feels as you're playing it and the way that the slopes and stuff. around the greens and especially on like the second hole and all that work where you're like this is the most unbelievable like cool golf course in the world and I especially had that feeling the kind of mixed feeling on the front eye which everybody gets and I'd listen to a bunch of podcasts I had listened and read a bunch of stuff so I knew I was going to have that feeling and I was playing well so as I was the happiest person in the world and I was very much soaking that up being like I totally understand what everybody's saying and I played the video game so many times and I knew all the

holes anyway. Yeah. You know what I mean? Inside out. And it's really cool because you can actually, you know, on the front nine, if you just turn around when you're walking up the front nine, you get the view. And you can see St. Andrews. You can see the skyline.

You can see, I think it's the Hamilton Hotel. It's the big, famous red one. That's just, and you kind of get that little, like, knot in your stomach of excitement when you see it. And then, you know, you, so anyways, we make the turn, you know, nine is kind of right in the middle of what they call the loop where, you know, you know, you know, you know, you, You know, there's five holes or so that you kind of go out in a loop. We grabbed, we each grabbed a couple beers each.

We drank one pretty quickly. Put the other one in our bag for, like, the last couple holes. And we got into an absolute battle down the stretch. On the back nine, the wind picked up, so the wind was in our face coming in the back. Yeah, I made like, I think I made bogey 10. I drove it like up near the green, made bogey, which again, that's part of the beauty of it is. So the 10th is a very short par four. I drove it into like a small little gully, just short of the green.

tried to hit a bump and run, bladed like a gap wedge over the green, like, you know, three jacks from there, made bogey, which again, I was like laughing, like, oh, that's classic St. Andrews. That's just classic me playing St. Andrews. Totally got me, and I was like loving it every time I would fuck something like that up. That's like one to land in the pop-bunk. Yeah, right, 100%. So then we play the 11th, which is, you know, one of the most copied and famous part 3s on Earth. If you know in the video game, it's when they put the pin on that, like, middle left that makes it absolutely.

impossible. I believe it's the Bobby Jones bunker that's on the left. Most people call it the shortest par five in the world. You know, it's like a hundred and so I believe for us, we had 150 yards and it was straight downwind because that hole, that's like the one hole on the back nine that goes the same direction as most of the front nine. And I hit a pitching wedge to about six feet, made the pop for my first party at St. Anders. I was like the giddiest person on earth. My poor guy Maddie. So he played the course twice he made hit it in the bobby jones bunker both days and made double both days poor guy he was like trying to hit it out sideways and backwards yeah and again i was like hey mattie classic san andrews classic old course gotcha gotcha buddy um so then we turn you know you play

12 basically 12 through 18 you know all the way back in towards the town straight into the wind the sun's kind of set and mattie and i had a great match in our hands and i was My goal going in was like, you know, I thought it would be really cool if I could break 80. So grind like a couple grindy bogeys, couple grindy pars, especially the par five, I think is it 14. I think it's 14. That's got the hell bunker was playing like a beast. And the pros play it like 100 yards back from where we played it or 70 or 80 yards back from where we played it. And it just was playing a beast into the wind, you know, went like driver three iron, like seven iron.

Missed the green had to had to play it so there's like a huge swale to the right of that green over by the 15th T-box So I had to you know get over there and I'm like six feet below the pin and it's rock hard surface and And Timmy's like I think it's like a seven iron. I was like love it Just I was like that's why I'm over here kid yeah See I'd bump a seven iron up there to like 15 feet and barely miss the putt tap in and I was like that's that's a link shot That's what I like to see. That's right. So then 15, you know, I think I had a nice par on 15, 16.

I had three jacked for about 20 feet for bogey to go to eight over for the round. Okay. And to go two down against my guy, Maddie. Yep. And we had tied the front. So it's, we're playing for, you know, all three ways. The last two holes, I'm two down, two to go. 17, the road hole.

Hit a good drive on 17, goes over, you know, over the left side, into the left rough. Like, kind of blasted it left, but that's a good drive there. Yeah. hit a really good four-iron into the front section of the green, again, from all you video game kind of sores out there. You know that front of that green. It's insane. Penn was like back right.

I lagged it up to about four feet, made it. So, Maddie Mae, he got road-holded big time. Did he? Yeah, he, like, picked up Struggle City. So now one down, one to play, play in the 18th, straight into the wind, walk over to the T, which is just, I mean, at that point, you're like, well, this is going to be. You know, this is like the most iconic hole in golf.

Yeah. So I was first up, I ripped a drive. I mean, probably the best drive I hit all day. Roasted it. You know, it was well over the road, which again, into the wind was, it's still an easy hole, but it's, you're playing an iconical, you're nervous. Hit a good drive. So to Maddie, we get up, walking up the fairway after we take all her pictures on the

Swoken Bridge. Yeah. And I get, hey, Riggs, what are Saturdays for? from someone walking up the side, like walking up 18 with us. Yeah. And I was so giddy because I had a good job and I was playing well. I was like, for the boys, baby, let's go. Normally we, normally were assholes about it.

Yeah, sometimes we kind of like to give people like the wrong answer and like kind of make fun of them and have a good time with it. I was so giddy. I was like, yeah, for the boys, let's do it. Let's fucking go. So, so then, you know, we wait for 18 to clear. I had, I think I had like 90, 90s. yards into the wind. I hit a little sawed-off pitching wedge and hit a really

good shot to about, I don't know, 10, 12 feet, something like that. Maddie hits one into the Valley of Sin. Oh, classic. Maddie. Were you wishing you were in the Valley Ascent? Kind of. I was like a little upset that he was in it and I wasn't. So he lags

went up there at about 15 feet, makes it. So now in order to have the match, you know, I've got whatever 10, 12 feet for Bertie. And this was the exact pot. I mean, I had watched guys the day before when I was standing on the green. I watched like three or four groups come in and one guy, one guy had this put and he took it so seriously and blew it like six feet by and then missed that one coming back. It was like the most devastated guy in the world.

Yeah. So I knew what it did, but I also knew I'd watch some people play it pretty poorly. And it was like a 10 foot or so that broke like eight inches right to left. And I just buried it. Yeah, buddy. I absolutely buried it. And I gave a little. fist pump, unbelievably. That's Stooley, who's named Leon, but he spells it like lion, like the creature. Film the whole thing, which, I mean, I can't even, that was like the most fairy tale.

I honestly, like, I couldn't believe they didn't bring the claret jug out what I made. But I was like, you're just standing there waiting for the ceremony to start? For the rest of the night. Like, at the Dunvegan, at every place we went to, I was just expecting people to be like, congratulating me, basically. That's how I felt.

It was the coolest, moment of all time. So knowing all that, all the lead up to it, that it was to have the match, your celebration is pretty fucking reserved that the Stooley got on video. Yeah. Like, I mean, it's a good celebration because you're clearly like, I nailed that. But I'm surprised you didn't like take your fucking shirt on. The other thing about the celebration is that the putt, the putt broke such a good amount

that I didn't know it was going in until it went in. Gotcha. Right? Because it was like well outside the hole. Yeah. Whereas like, if it's like a pretty straight putt, you can kind of walk it in and give a huge kind of cool or fistpup or cool or golf celebration. Yeah.

When it kind of breaks in at the last second, you kind of like, it's kind of stunned me. Yeah. You can kind of seem like, oh, that went in and gave like a quick jolt. And then you want to relax. Like, it's just amateur golf. Like, nobody gives a shit about your buddy potty. Even though you thought they were going to bring out the clarity. Even though I was like R&A, like, come on out here, guys.

Bring the podium. Let's do this. Get ready to etch my name in that trophy. And then afterwards, you know, I walk over and Leon was up there. And I was like, hey, man, you get any of that? He's like, I got the whole thing on video. That was for Bertie Red. I was like, yeah, and he was all pumped, so he took a picture, and it was just, and then it was

really crazy because, you know, we tip the caddies out, and then they kind of go away, and then we say bye to Brian Kidd, the famous soccer guy we played with, no big deal. And then it's just Maddie and I just standing there, and like, nobody cares about us anymore. Nope. We're just standing there, like, basically just between the 18th green and the first tee, just standing there, like, well, we just have the really cool match in the back nine at the old course, like, into the wind. It was just, it was the coolest experience of all.

all time. That's awesome. It was surreal. That's, uh, you making that putt and having on video. Not to compare my Avalon putt to your St. Andrew's old course. But it is nice working a job where that moment, you'll have that forever. It's so cool. That's insane to me. Um, because, you know, that's something like I would have told people about and they would like not believe me. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And be like, okay, yeah, you're buried 18 at the old course. Okay. Shoot 79. Beat your buddy. Okay. Yeah. And then I actually had it on video like in, and my outfit was a 10 out of 10. You were looking good in that video.

And it was, I don't know what it was about the lighting, but it was just dark enough that my, my, uh, you were like glowing. My quarter zip was like glowing. It looked like I had like a glow in the dark quarter zip on. It was insane. Was it, which one were you wearing? My master's quartership, yeah.

That's a good one. So I was glowing. I made that. You couldn't wipe the smile off my face. I think Maddie said to me at the bar. He's like, is that the 200th time you're going to watch that put on the video? I just watched it. I was not stopping me.

I wasn't even listening. anybody else was saying. But we went into Dunveig in about, you know, five minutes after we're there. Timmy, my caddy came in to meet some of his buddies. He was buying his drinks, having a good time. So it was awesome. It was an unbelievable Saturday, probably the coolest Saturday of all time. I think so.

I mean, it sounds like it was, most definitely. At this point, I'm only halfway through the trip, which is insane. It's crazy. I don't know. We're going to have to do another podcast on this trip. I guess so. So, yes, my master's quarter zip on Saturday was fire. Another thing I got a ton of compliments about were my firefighter.

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Shout out to Ollie. He hooked me up a couple times on the trip. But, yeah, Colin, who's a caddy at St. Andrews. That's his gig. And he's a member at this place called Leaving Links, which is about 25 minutes away from St. Andrews as well. And just to give you, kind of that tells you a little bit, you know, about the club where, again, it's not like these Ritzie type clubs.

It's like your average, your common man, your common Scott. This is where these guys go to play golf. I really like that. I know it's so cool. I really like that. I mean, not to shit on U.S. course, whatever, but it's like having stuff like that, that feels like the right way to do it. It is so cool. I mean, the guy caddies at St. Andrews for his full-time job and then plays at leaving lengths away is like his club that he belongs to where he plays all time.

What a life. So he invited me. He came, picked me up in St. Andrews, and he was like, I have a rental car. I can drive. You're not going to drive, laddie. That's okay. So we get down there. We played like a two-man scramble, which was kind of like a group, group play event.

that they were doing for the day. He was like a six. I think I played to a course seven. We played well. We shot like four under, which was, you know, they'd do a couple strokes, like 20% net 64 or something.

We were right in the mix. A couple other guys shot something absurd. Like there were two like a plus five and a plus three playing together. And they literally shot like 59 or something like that. Which is crazy because it was a little windy. Again, they would call it a breeze. I would call it a wind.

But this course, it was an unbelievably cool experience. Even thistle is the club that these guys actually belong to, whereas there's a couple clubs that I found out, a couple rival clubs at the same golf course. Oh, boy. Which is kind of sweet. That is kind of sweet.

Very sweet. Like, I've thought that after we start drinking a little bit, you're just going to start burning each other to the ground. That'd be awesome. Yeah. You're like a fit... The only thing your trip needed was like a fist fight. Right.

Like, I'm a leaving thistle guy for life now, so I would have burned that other place to the fucking ground. Fuck, yeah. Fuck that place. Fuck that. So, um, to this course, it was classic,

like, Scottish, old school Scottish, Scottish, Lynx golf. And like I said, the vibe very much is like, this is where the locals play. Right? Like the local guys aren't going out and playing the old course every day. They're not playing Kings Barnes. It's 86% American. They play places like leaving links, also like Crail, where I played. And so we got out there. The first five holes for four and a half holes are all on the water. You're looking at this volcano in the distance. How cool is that fucking

volcano? That's awesome. I couldn't tell you last time I saw a volcano. Love volcanoes. Very awesome um so i'm look you're looking at this volcano while the water's all down you're right you can like sea islands out there across and then as you kind of come back especially on the uh latter part of the back nine you're playing back into the town which it's not like pageantry like the old course it's like just the town you know i mean so it's like it's cool because you get both experience we get the holes on the water um and then you also get that experience where you're playing back in to the town there's all like on the 17th hole i between the 17th and 18th there's like the like like leaving bowling club, which is like their outdoor version of bowling over there.

That's like between the two and that's like OB. That's very Scottish. And then, yes, super Scottish. So that's what I mean. So I thought that was an unbelievably cool contrast to doing like the King's Barnes is and like even the old cores and Carnusti, which are these huge sort of attractions and big names. Go play a place like Leaving Links. If you've got an extra round over there, it was awesome.

The members were unbelievably cool. The 18th is one of the more spectacular roles there. like 460, 470, back towards this huge clubhouse over water on the approach. They have like a little burn where we could, we both hit such shitty drives. We had to lay up, Pitch one, Colin pitched one close. And then it was great playing with these guys because every time I, you know, somebody hit a good show, you know, good shot, Laddie. Oh, I mean, that's it.

That's what I would need out of the trip. Like, I mean, I'd like to play well. You play the old course, but I would really just need the guys being like, good shot, Laddie. Yeah, and I also, we were talking about a couple different figures. And I was saying, like, you know, we think, like, Ian Poulter's a douchebag, and he's, like, a fud. I was like, what do you go? I was, like, we call a douchebag a fud. Fud. I was like, I love that.

A fud? Oh, I bet if you called Ian Poulter a fud, he would get so mad at you. He would, like, punch you in the face. Because, like, he hears like, whatever. You're like, whatever you idiot. Americans would be like, what's up you fud? I bet he would, like, come into the gallery, swinging. That's exactly what I said.

I was like, well, is that again? I'm not saying, but if you see Ian Poulter, maybe call him a fud. Don't be afraid to call him a fud. And, yeah, and Colin, he said it was such conviction. He was like a fud. Like, oh, it like hits you to your core when you say that. Absolutely. So then afterwards, you know, we finished up around 1 o'clock,

and we just sat in the clubhouse, myself, Colin, this other guy, Dale, forever, Trent. And it started out as like, yeah, what should we do? Riggs, are you still thinking, are you going to go back to Sanders and play some golf? Do I need to drop you off? And I was like, no, I could take a cab, but let's have a drink. You know, we had a couple pints, and then Dale was up on the rounds, and he's like, oh, you want a little whiskey that rigs? He was like, yeah, sure, I'm not kidding.

The next thing I know, it was like 7 o'clock at night, and I was pretty fucking drunk, but I was still with it a little bit. We were ragging on each other hard. You know, they're telling me about the club, and then they're getting into all these other fucking guys at the other club and getting me into the politics, and we're shooting the shit. Yeah. Having a great time.

A couple more whiskeys after that. I swear to God, the next thing I remember, it's 6 a.m. I'm in my in my bed and breakfast, fully clothed in bed with the lights on. Oh no. Shoes, socks, everything on. Oh, no. Just laying in my bed like, what the fuck happened to me?

And I'm super nervous. I'm in Scotland. Yeah. I'm like, oh, I could have done anything last night. Anything. Anything. I don't, like, do I have my passport? Do I have my wallet?

At least I'm in my fucking place of residence. Because this is the infamous picture that you put on Twitter of you. shoeless apparently shoeless in the bar with your feet or with your foot on the table and just like with glasses of whiskey all around you everywhere so that picture that might be a new Twitter avatar that is that picture is beautiful

so I have a fucking 8 a m. T time on Monday morning at the old course I am hungover as fuck I can only imagine like unbelievably hung up you're probably still wasted definitely still wasted definitely definitely

And so, you know, same deal. I walked down to the first team. Were you supposed to play with Maddie? No, so Maddie, so I got, shout out again to Ali, hooked me up with a guy Ricard, who is a teacher at St. Andrews at the university. Yeah. Professor. Sorry, he's a professor at the university.

Don't want to screw that up. He teaches international relations and terrorism. So we had some really interesting chats. Really good guy. He actually, he lives in one of the little, like, houses or condos right on the 8th. 18th, basically. Very cool. So pretty sweet.

Yeah. Really nice guy. So we played and we got matched up with a couple singles that had done the line. And one of the guys was from Cedar Rapids. What? Yep. No way. His name is Brian.

I go, well, you know, Trent Ryan, he goes, nope. Nope. Sure don't. And that was the end of the conversation. All right. But you made your tea time. Made my tea time no problem because I mean, I must have gone to bed pretty early. And, you know, when you're old, you can always sleep for so long.

So I popped up about. I mean, I was up, but I was 6.30-ish, I was up, and I was, like, crushing water, stretching, like, doing anything I could think of to try to feel better. I ended up walking down by the first tea, grabbed a sausage, egg and cheese, nice and greasy, crush that. So it felt like I was back in the States doing, like what I usually do at this point? Yeah, these guys that you drank with are, you just never going to see them again? So, you know, we do the whole ordeal again on the first tea. I hit three iron this time. I rip a three iron down the middle amazingly.

I was so drunk still, probably, that I was, like, unfazed. You're at your best. You're at your best. I had to be because I don't know how else I can explain it. I don't really remember it. So we get out there and we're on like, we're on like the, and again, it was very similar conditions, very benign conditions, basically no wind,

which is a little bit of a bummer. I know that sounds, people are going to be like, fuck you, rigs, you went over there and it was perfect weather the whole time you asked. But they know. I wanted it to be, I wanted the experience, at least one day. Yeah. So anyways, we get out there, you know, we're playing.

I played well again, ended up collapsing down the back, I was I think I was four over on the 16th T. There was like no win. So I tried to just rip one. I was trying to go birdie par birdie finish was my goal to shoot 74. I was like that would be savage. And there's all OB down the right side on 16. I took a super aggressive line and hit it way out of bounds on 16, made double, made a sloppy bogey on 17.

And then I scald one over the green out of bounds on 18. Almost killed somebody to finish like double bogey, double finish to shoot 81, I think. But on the 16th green, I'm standing there, and Colin comes running over because there's a bunch of double greens out there, you know? Yeah. Comes running over from like the double green. I think it was 16, where there's double green, 16, 15, something like that. And he comes running over. No, laddie.

Oh, no. And he just gives me like a big hug. And he pulls out his phone. He's like, look at this fucking picture, laddie. I'm like, oh, my God. I go, I don't remember anybody. I don't remember any of that. He goes, I don't even remember taking it.

And I was like, no way. He goes, I text Dale. He doesn't even remember leaving. I go, neither do I. He's like, Jesus Christ, what the hell happened? So we were all unbelievably fucked up. You don't want to, because it can go two ways. It can go that way or it can go like you were the most shit-faced person and you made a complete

ask yourself? Yep. But when everybody he doesn't remember making ass to themselves, your brother's for life. He's laughing. I'm like, dude, I don't remember leaving. He goes, none of us do it. I was like, thank God, Jesus Christ. But it was so cool because I'm standing on the 16th green of the old course and one of the

caddies runs over and knowing me talking about her story from the night before. I was like, hell yeah. So I was, like I said, super hungover. And then it was a little bit unfortunate that, you know, so I played the old course. I'm hungover's balls. It's been a long day. And so then I played Carnusti, and it starts raining, and it starts getting a little windy. Yeah.

And we buzz over to Carnusti, and I'm playing in a single just by myself, which was a little unfortunate. I'm like the last group off of the day, 310, just by myself at Carnusti. So it was like slow. I ended up playing through three groups. It was not that the course was slow. I was just playing by myself against a bunch of foursums. Yeah. So we ended up

playing through like three groups, which is always weird. I got my ass kicked by Carnusti. Obviously Carnusti is really hard. It's what a lot of people consider it the hardest on the Open Rhoda, if not the hardest course in the world. And I was hitting the ball like shit i mean terrible like on the second hole these guys they wave me through to play through i did the classic like like skunked my drive into the fescue it's the worst um trying to hurry and then i you know hit a good recovery shot and then hit it left in some fescue took me like three

to get out of the fescue make triple on two so i'm like oh god i would end up playing through a couple more uh couple more groups coming in on the front and then um but just to talk about carnoose real quick. I mean, Carnusti is, it is a fucking golf course. Yeah, like, people can say St. Andrews is a little, like, quirky, or people can say, like the most spectacular dog track on the world, wherever you want to say, where Carnusti is a fucking golf course. Like, every hole is sick, and it's different and unique and challenging. I mean, a lot of people say, number one at Carnusti is, you know, maybe like the most forgettable hole there, but Sergio, I think, made eight there. In 99, we ended up shooting like an 88 or

89 or something like that. So there's just trouble everywhere. And it's, it's, I, the first six or seven holes was the first real, like, Scottish experience I got out with the weather where it was raining and it was windy and into us pretty much the whole time. And I was like, oh, Jesus. And I was, for those six or seven holes, I was like nine over par. Something like that was getting fucking smoked.

Yeah. And I was like, this is awesome. Yeah, I was going to say, here you are. Finally. So I was walking with my caddy, Billy. It was just me and Billy. Um, who's, he's, he, he lives in a house right next to Carnusty. That's cool.

He played pro golf for a while. So he's a really, really good player. And he, this is crazy. He was like, yeah, yeah, you know, I do golf podcasts and whatnot. And so that's kind of like, you know, I was telling him stories about different people that I'd met so far and how I got hooked up different places. I said because the golf podcast. And he was like, I'm really interested because I, right before the PGA is like, I looked

up golf. podcast on iTunes just to like listen to something because I'm a big podcast guy. He had listened to Foreplay right before the PGA, right before the PGA. That's awesome. Yeah.

And he's like, you guys were the guys saying the PGA's the worst major, right? I was like, I totally agree. That's because we're right. But I was like, that's really good for our kind of like iTunes SEO

that he just looked up golf podcast. And he was like, you guys popped up and I listened to it. And he loved it. So he had listened to a couple episodes or an episode of the podcast. He was really good player. He was like,

he was really he was trying to lure me into he wanted to bet me on like holes whether i'd part of them or not and um and i would have done it but he he was like i don't want to like take your money because you're not you're not going to make part here okay touche and and the course is hard i actually played much better on the back nine the wind kind of died and it was actually the sun came out a little bit so it was actually nice down the back nine and i think i was like two or three over on 18 and then i made triple on 18 all right but i so on 16 is like the Tommy watson hole where they have what I think is a very unnecessary plaque and Billy was telling me that Tom Watson

hates this plaque but Tom Watson won the open there but they have a plaque that said when Tom Watson won the open here I think it was like 77 or something I'm not sure 100% sure in that year that he bogeed this whole all four days that's a weird plaque very weird plaque to have yeah but it's very famous part three

I hit probably the best shot of the day I had a six iron to like eight feet missed the pot which was a bummer because I really wanted to make that one and then yeah and then 17's a really tough hole I played it pretty well made a boge and then on 18 I hit you know it's the van de Veld it's the we had Patty talk us through the entire hole oh yeah um where he hit it in the burn twice there and made double I hit my drive well right I was I got a little bit unlucky to be honest with you off my drive because I was like six inches to the right of a fairway bunker so I couldn't even I couldn't stand anywhere right there's nowhere for rigs to stand no rigs couldn't stand so I tried to take this weird

hack at it, uh, kind of like left it in the fescue and then tried to hit one on the green and like scald it into the burn, took a drop, shipped on, missed like a six-footer for, for double and made triple just like Vandeville. Jesus Christ. And I want to say, I mean, I was a little loose like when I was playing through and stuff, I was trying to like pick up, like I picked up like a three or four footer and stuff. So, but I think that that triple made me shoot 90 on the number. Okay.

I mean, that's pretty good. Yeah, I mean, it was. You're hungover as shit. I got my ass kicked, and it was kind of a tough way to finish, but it was, I had a nice Guinness and a salmon. Yeah. Out on the patio, overlooking the 18th at Carnusti is a couple people that had gone out later in the day, came in behind me. And that was like, that was the conclusion of my trip. And again, it was just perfect weather.

I maybe had six holes the whole time where it was imperfect weather. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of a drag, but sounds like it was fucking awesome. It was unbelievable. It was really cool. I'm glad you went. I highly recommend for anybody, if you're going to go, you got to go. You got to go.

You got a birdie 18 to shoot 79 and make sure somebody films it. You have to do that. You got to be wearing a master's quarters of it. You got to be wearing like the most mint green master's quarter zip of all time. At a weird time of the night where it ends up making it look like you're glowing. You're glowing in the dark on that whole setting at the 18th green. That's what really makes the trip. At the old course.

Everyone can replicate that. That'll give you a nice trip. But it was the coolest thing ever. I was not even really upset to come back in because I was so happy with what had gone down. Yeah. You know what I mean? And I'm so convinced that I'm going to go back many, many times after having gone there once. It's just such a fun way to play golf.

I'm sure next time I go, I'll get the exact opposite weather. Yeah. I almost guarantee it. That's what my takeaway was. Since you didn't get the weather he wanted, you got to go back. You got to. Yep. So it was totally worth it.

It's a very doable deal. Like I said, just to kind of recap real quick. But I was able to do, you know, I was able to get round-trip flights for under $900 bucks direct from New York to Edinburgh. It's an hour, 15-minute trip up to St. Andrews. Accommodations are very, very easy. The drinks

and all that are very relatively cheap, especially if you live in somewhere like New York or even Boston or whatever. So it it's not the cheapest trip in the world, but it doesn't set you back as much as you'd think. And there's a million resources out there. There's podcasts, like I said, Ruth McDonald's from the

Scottish Golf podcast, which I listen to five or six of those leading up to it he's gonna he wants to have me on the show um which i'm happily going to go on and talk to those guys but it's um it's very doable it's very cool i think if you're you know if you're a big time golfer trent we'll get you over there at some point we'll see yeah for sure but you if you're a golfer you know you got it you just got to do it it is just it is that cool the old course that setting that first tea and the 18th green how close they are to each other the town mixing against the course it is just uh it's must see in my opinion very cool i'm glad you went i mean i enjoyed following

the Instagram stories. I very much enjoyed listening to you tell all the stories from the trip. That was very, very cool. Yeah, I'm just beaming in the studio right now. You are. Still upset and get the clear jug, but somebody's going to talk to somebody about that. Yeah. And there's a lot more that you can do, man.

You know, they have seven courses at San Andreas. I played one of them. Right. You know, so they have the old, the Jubilee, the Castle course. All these courses are supposed to be phenomenal that I didn't even play. Just, you know, didn't have time, whatever. So there's also a bunch of other places in Scotland that I want to go. and see courses.

Just driving through the damn towns is really cool. Just getting the experience of driving on the wrong side of the fucking road, sitting on the wrong side of the car, feeling like you have a dune buggy tied onto the left side of the car. Yeah. It's just such a cool experience. Yeah, and you listed a bunch of resources. Now you're one of those resources.

People should reach out to you. Hit me up. Email me, you know, DM me, whatever. Like I said, Maddie, who, you know, I'm sure you kind of will always have this cool little experience together. We're buddies over there in St. Andrews. He just kind of emailed me out of the blue. It was like, hey, man, I'm going.

I got nothing going on that weekend. If you want to grab a beer, it's great. And we ended up playing three rounds together. Probably the coolest Saturday I've ever had in my entire life. We spent the whole time together and all that. So, yeah, reach out to me. If you got any questions, I've now been over there. I've fucking done it.

Fucking awesome. I am Scotland. You are Scotland. Oh, yeah. And you got shit-faced in Scotland, which is very funny. I got annihilated in Scotland. God, I got so fun. I was so hung over yesterday.

When I woke up, I was like, oh, no, you idiot. I'm so hungover. Not only do I have this tea time, but you got to go across the fucking world. You got to get back to New York. Yeah, so luckily, I mean, after I finished Carnustia, I came back to my bed, and I went straight to bed. Yep. So I actually got a decent amount of sleep, and then I slept on the plane and the whole way,

and then I got off the plane, went home, dropped my stuff off, boom, back on the office, wrote a couple blogs, podcast. I'm going to go straight home. I'm going to sleep my ass off and then back to work. Boom, grind, grind, grind, grind. It's amazing to go in, you know, that short of time from to walking these epic fairways at the home of golf where the game was invented and created and began. to sitting in the center of Manhattan.

And you're sitting there at your desk just like, fuck. And when I was on the subway, I was like, this is so different. This is so much different. Is it clean? Like, it's clean over there? Very clean. St. Andrews is an unbelievably cool town. How about this?

I think a little bit over half of the population is students. Really? So in the summertime, you know, there's 9,000 students at St. Andrews. So the town's got to be somewhere around 16, 17,000 people. Probably half the people. So a little over half the people are students So in the summertime, you know, it goes from, it gets cut in half, the population gets cut in half in the summertime

Because all the students are gone. It's like a college town. So it is a college town. It's a really cool college town with the coolest golf, you know, in the world there. The town's awesome. There's a bunch of really cool little restaurants and bars and stuff in there. Everything's walking distance. Like I said, get a bed and breakfast right in town there.

That's what I did. I did it with no information whatsoever. Rue would eventually help me out down the line. but I had already, you know, called 20 places and booked a place and all that. So it's very doable. Just hop on the phone and do it if you're going to try to plan a trip. But you can stay your ass right fucking there. I was a nine-iron away from the first tee at St. Andrews.

I walked down there even yesterday or this morning before I left. I just walked right down and looked at the first tea in the 18th. It was like, all right, sick. I'll see you soon. That's so cool. That's so cool. It was really, really cool. I'm be beaming.

I'll beaming for a long time. I'm going to be posting all kinds of Instagram still because I've got a bunch lined up at Riggs Barstle. Check me out. A little plug, no big deal. Nice. At Barstle, Trent, I'll just have like dog pictures on that. Yeah, I think that's all we got.

Trent, got anything else? No, I think that's it. That was awesome. I'm glad I fucking got to sit there and listen to you tell that story. That was fucking sweet. Well, I appreciate you listening, I hope I didn't bore everybody with my Scotland details. No, I think people would be very, very interested in all.

Okay, good. Because to me, yeah, it was just, it was the coolest thing ever, and I think that it's not something that just I should, you know, everybody should go out and do it if you can. Doing things by yourself. I'm all for that. Just everybody should go do things by yourself.

Do it by yourself. We are the do it by yourself crew. We really are. Yeah. Yeah, we're just out here experiencing John Mayor concerts and. Broadway shows and the old course at St. Andrews. Everything. Oh, yeah.

You'll meet some people. You'll have a good time. Yep. All right. We'll be back next week. We'll be back on Tuesday. Back to normal programming. And then we've got kind of the home stretch.

We've got two more FedEx Cup. and then we've got the President's Cup. I think that's all I got, Trent, Daddy.