No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - NLU Podcast, Episode 89: Chad Coleman on Western Scotland Golf

Episode Date: July 31, 2017

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Expect anything different! Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Noah laying up podcast back with another travel episode Hope you guys aren't too sick of these yet. This episode we're gonna talk about Western Scotland the airshare area Finally learned how to say airshare Join for the second time on the pod Social media guru from Calaway golf along on the trip mr. Chad Coleman.. Wow, Sally, it's been forever since you've had me on the podcast. You had to take me to Scotland and play a podcast. I had to literally, I had to literally caddy for a web.com win to get on the first time.

And now I have to take you along on a Scotland Golf trip to get on the second time. And sponsor a lot. And sponsor a lot. So it was a big effort to get you back. Is this a sympathy pod? This is a sympathy. I kind of feel bad, okay. We're recording this in the Open Championship.

I'm not sure when this is going to actually get posted probably next week. But we wanted a debrief from the trip to Western Scotland. I know a lot of people were asking for, I wanted to hear about the experience of playing in a pro-AM and did a lot of documenting of the first two weeks I spent in Scotland this summer. Spoilers are quite a lot of golf. I think people are getting sick.

I've tried to tone it down as much as I can, but a lot of Chromesoft Xs have been lost all over the UK. I will say my, over the past, spending the past week with you, my favorite thing in life is now the look on your face when you're trying to figure out how you can possibly squeeze another round in at any point in your life ever. If there's four or three hours or three or three hours at our gap at any point in any day, you're trying to figure out how you can logistically make that work is it's just absolutely outstanding and you're actually really good at it.

Out of this trip we played four rounds of Amazing Golf and then squeezed three extra rounds in, like just kind of just squeezed them into the peripheral time frame. There's so much light in this country, in this area in England and Scotland this time of year that you give so much time to take advantage of it, and no one ever plays in the evening here, so grab the sticks and keep going. I would say that the evening was my favorite time to play,

like without question, you come up on the back night and you have long shadows and the weather's, well, if the weather's nice, it's incredible, it's the best time of the day to play, I think. Without a doubt. But you may have heard us promoting in the past, we did a giveaway with Scotland. It's called the Epic Scotland giveaway. So we give away with Calaway and visit Scotland called Epic Scotland in which we two completely random or one completely random

chosen winner got an all expenses trip paid to Scotland a full set of Calaway clubs, whatever you want, every wanted. And then a spot in the Scottish Open Pro Am and then at Dundondolle Links and then three additional rounds at Prestwick, Royal Trune and Turnberry. Not a bad lineup. Not a bad. And they also missed in that and that was a pretty good deal. Yeah, I mean, that's like the best giveaway.

Literally, it literally was the best giveaway you could possibly ask for. I mean, you're playing in the pro-am with... So yeah, it's with the scottish open with the defending open champion, which they actually didn't know until that day, but we can get into that later. Yeah, I mean, it's... Literally was an epic trip. They wanted us to go.

And so whenever I tell people what the prize is, I'm like, yeah, the winner gets a set of Callaway clubs. Wow, that's nice. Plus, and all expenses trip. Wow, spot in the pro-am. set of Calaway clubs. Wow, that's nice. Right plus and all expenses trip right wow Spot in the pro-amp what like people the this shock So I think with the people of business Scotland They were expecting about hoping for 10,000 entries into the contest We got almost 50,000 entries. Yeah, it blew it out of the water the demand for this thing was

Crazy and I know it was only available to us and Canada listeners It was a promotion for tourism from outside of Scotland. So UK and Scotland in England so UK listeners were not able to apply or anywhere else were not able to apply Hope that's understandable. It was not in the beginning understandable But we have to give a huge shout out to the folks at visit Scotland that came to you with the idea I think back the PGA show. At the PGA show, yeah. In January, David Conner, Ivan Muffet, hope I'm saying that right, Katie Mathson, they were instrumental in all the planning and doing this as well as Jamie Darling, who is

the guy to know when it comes to golf in the Western Scotland. He is a little jitter as the guy to know. The guy to know. It looks funny, I was asking Rumi Donald for any, we're trying to squeeze the next round, which what should we do? And he got in touch with Jamie who got back in touch with us.

We had already been talking to him. Jamie's the guy that everyone goes to. Exactly. He's, everything runs through Jamie and Scotland off. Like he's, it's crazy. But I think the cool thing was that I was kind of going into it also with him, with an an open mind because I hadn't played much Scotland off at any of the only other two rounds in Scotland

I'd ever played or with you two years ago at the open of St Andrews at the castle course So I hadn't really gotten the true links experience and I can't wait to talk about it because it was Beyond unbelievable like I see why you play 36 every day I Mean, I feel like every time I do one of these I just rave about all the courses, but because it really have they really are awesome Like yeah, I do not research on them to and I've legitimately not been disappointed I don't think with the course on this whole well

I think what makes what makes the what makes links courses and course over here So much more like I feel like what makes you're you're able to like them so much more like a broad variety of them is because in America they don't like if it's not pristine and if it's not in the best shape you've ever seen you don't consider it an elite course. Where over here none of them are pristine. None of them are in tip top necessarily shape when you when you talk about conditioning and that kind of thing because that's not how links courses are. So you don't have that expectation. So you're just going basically off of how fun was it to play the golf course and did you truly appreciate

the land it was built on and the views and that kind of thing. So I think that lends itself to a lot more courses over here being, you know, it's easy to say that there's a lot more courses that are just amazing. You're talking to me tonight. You're like, man, I feel like it keeps saying that every course is amazing because they are in their own right. I will say it's a big effort to, the course we've got to play, to get those courses in that good shape. Because, you know, I have played just a little, like, five holes over at a nine hole course

the other night and you just quickly see the difference in a well-maintained links course versus a run down one But yeah, you can't expect a perfect lie every time you just can't expect the the ball to bounce a certain way Yeah, just kind of rough around the edges and that's that's the rub of the green That's the way it is and that's what makes the challenge so fun But I want to talk a bit about our contest winners Joe Bannister was our winner Joe Bannister Joe Bannister from Balexy Mississippi I can't think of someone so Joe Joe brought his wife Kathy Joe had not been outside of the United States

Since Vietnam and he did not need a passport to go to Vietnam the first Well, it wasn't on holiday where he received two purple hearts correct So two-time purple heart winner also a great grandfather. He's turning 70 this year on the first one. It wasn't on holiday. Where he received two purple hearts. Correct. So a two-time purple heart winner. Also a great grandfather. He's turning 70 this year. But a keen avid golfer. He and his wife play four or five times a week in Biloxi, Mississippi.

And never would have ever gone on this trip. His wife Kathy had never been outside of North America. They would have never done this. So to have two winners that were just so incredibly excited for this experience that would have otherwise never seen it. You could get anyone to win these things, really. I mean, you almost can't ask for better winners how it turned out.

Yeah, because we're a little bit concerned that, you know, being a blind draw, being a random draw, we would get someone who wouldn't truly appreciate what was being offered. And luckily, Joe and Kathy were the complete opposite. They were very, this kind of treatment, everything to them. And you could tell how truly appreciative they were that we were able to offer this to them.

And it's something that they would have never done in their entire lives. And they have a long history of golf together and golf runs in their family. And they're truly passionate about the game. And so it was pretty awesome that we could we could look out with such good winners. We need to get Joe game in the chrome soft. So I know, I know, it will eventually. So the first day of the trip, the first thing that Chad arranged for us, we toured the Calloway truck where we surprised them with the news.

We didn't spoil the news at all on who they'd be playing with at the Pro Am and the leading Calaway player in the field without a doubt the defending open champion Hendrick Stenson was our partner. I just got to go along for the ride. First of all, I got to, I was the biggest winner on this trip. Let's be honest, but our pro Am partner was Hendrick Stenson. I mean, we told him that in the Calaway equipment truck and the look on their face was just light up then. Yeah, I mean, if you if you follow Calaway on Instagram, you see I kind of document it the day on our story and Joe, Joe totally tried to play cool. I don't know if you noticed, but when we said Hinter Extensive, Kathy was very emotional. Joe was still like, like he was just trying to really like, you know, but you could tell they're both incredibly excited

And I mean being told that news two hours before you go T off with them is You know something else to such as another thing to add to this incredible experience Right, we hope to do this every year. I hope I can keep you in and buy it back But uh playing with Henrick in the pro surface what we got is the sky show was at Don Donald links to share We had a 1 p.m. T. time I was a bad a bit of nerves play I never played in a pro before never really played in front of people Well, we walked the course first So we made the mistake you know like you're gonna have like a big round of golf and you get there super early

Never works out well like you hit way too many range balls I had a grind session Yeah, you just kind of soaking soaking up that experience of hitting balls next to GMAC and just kind of, I mean you're hitting three irons for like 20 minutes. I did hit a lot of punch, punch three irons out there. And I mean we just, it's such an amazing weather day and I don't know, it was just kind of nervous leading up to that opening t-shot and I can honestly say after the opening t-shot I don't think I was nervous once the rest of the day. I kind of stopped noticing the crowd even. It wasn't a huge crowd but like the 11th pole, our second hole there was a huge crowd around the

green and it didn't. Yeah. It didn't have too much of an effect on me but the stadium seating around there was a second hole. You got to tell that story. Well I would just say I want to point out a couple of my favorite and solid moments. So we started off first hole is a little bit of a top or we were a tin hole. Our first hole is a little bit of a tough driving hole, especially from the T's one up where you were playing where I wanted to play the tip. I think you should have asked Henry if you could play the tips with him, but it was tough. Your caddy I think told you not to hit driver, but again, we walked the course earlier. We scouted it.

We recognized your landing zone. We know where you need to hit it. You pulled driver, obviously. And I've never seen an earlier T-Grab after you hit that golf ball. And it was on such an aggressive line. I mean, it was a little bit of a blind tee shot, and you hit it a little left, not a little left. I mean, it was on such an aggressive line. I mean, it was a little bit of a blind tee shot and you hit it a little, not a little, I mean,

it was on the intended line, but it was on a line where you had to carry it as far as you've ever carried it before to make the fairway. And your caddy thought it was gone. He said, yeah, it's gone. He thought it was farway. I was like, no, it's good. You're already talking to him before the ball

even landed that it was good. It was good. We went up there and it was it was in the left side of the fairway. I think you made a nice little par a little par there. He started out with a couple nice par. So the second hole though was banister moment. No pun intended. Joe banister. But the par three, I would probably what can say that their signature hole? Probably. They're the biggest hole from a fan stand. Yeah, there's two huge grand stands. Two huge grand stands.

We're in Stinson's group, so there's a big following and Sally gets up and hits a wedge. What was it? 50. No, 52 up there. There's a flight of 52 up into the wind. He flighted at 52 into the wind. And he got, when it landed next to the hole,

it must have hit first, probably within five feet, because you got one of those, oh, reactions from the crowd. Like, the immediate, whoa, which was, which was, went straight to your head, because you immediately did the, the divot tap and the wave to the crowd,

and you heard that woo and you're walking off the tee box meanwhile I'm still looking at your golf ball which has now spun back to the front of the green and is almost about to come off the front of the green. Oh right it was like it was like 20 feet away. Okay. It wasn't as good it wasn't as tidy. I don't care it was. I got my moment I got to wave at the crab and divot tap and they gave it they gave it pretty good applause even for it because I'm not sure they realized it was spinning back but can I just say that Stinson hit it way closer than you left handed. That was a fact. Yeah, that's actually

a fact. So we put a like a scramble, shamble format really where you can play the best driving, you can play your own ball in from there, but the pro always had to play his ball then they did a left handed challenge and Hinder got up and hit it to less than three feet. Yeah, that's incredible I've never seen anything like that Playing with Hinder Extenson I couldn't have asked for a better guy to be paired with and I everyone had always told me You know, I was leading up into it I was kind of suspicious that it might be Hinder can he be like oh he would be the best pro-impartner ever Maybe you feel so relaxed. I mean within two holes

It just felt everything felt way way more normal than I thought it would have. It's out there like you're playing with the buddy I really enjoyed picking his brain on golf course architecture and you know just what does he see on this shot and just seeing how the guy really thinks and listening as close as I can to he and his caddies conversation because there's still figuring out the course he hadn't played it before this week and it was just the whole process was really fascinating. I mean, even he would weigh in on our shots. I was getting ready to hit like a four iron from 215. And he just, I had the club out of the hole. And he kind

of pulled me off of it. He's like, that's too much. Like he was like into it. He was paying attention to what's going on. He was paying attention to what's going on. And he was investing in your game. Yeah. And then, so then I kind of hit like a thin, thin shot on that one that went over the green actually and I was just joking with him that he misclub me and he's just, well, I didn't plan on you hitting a skanky little tree out there. Like he was all over it. He literally has the best, like, the most, like, witty, like, immediate comebacks. You got to tell the true and the true one because I won't do it justice. Oh my God, that was, yeah, that was.

I got roasted. You got absolutely roasted. Like I've never seen you that uncomfortable in your life. You guys were, I think talking about courses in the area, maybe you're talking about which courses we were gonna play for the Epic Scotland sweepstakes. And I kind of just was overhearing.

And I hear Stinson ask you I think you said I think you said real true and he said real true and where's that at and without thinking twice you you turn the other way and pointed your finger and actually I think was actually the complete wrong direction but and you you started to say so it's like a couple miles that way and all of a sudden you just stop dead in your tracks And you close your eyes because you knew you'd just been you just go ahead had And you look back and since it's just cracking up and you like oh you know a Royal Trillion This don't you the grin on his face was like he was he didn't think I'd actually fall for I think what he said was is Trune around here. I was like yeah, it's just like a couple miles that way.

Pointed the wrong direction and then realized he was absolutely, he got me really good. But yeah, we had a really good time. I thought about that, that was great. Talking about, you know, just talked about Europe and traveling Europe and life in general and everything. And he was so good with all the fans. He was great with Joe and Kathy.

I mean, what an incredible. I just remember watching he and Joe walk up that fairway. And how could Joe even picture that two months ago. He's walking down the fairway. How could he have pictured even four hours before that? Because again, they didn't know. And I was a little worried that Joe and Kathy would like legit freak out and have trouble playing golf with him,

because, but they, Stinson is just, he's awesome, he made him feel totally at home and joking around with him and that made him feel comfortable and Joe Banscher got there just piped his first try. Oh, nice. He smoked it. The guy is seven grand parents. He's a great, great grandparent.

They said that already, like, great, great, no, as're great grandparents, but they are actually great They have children grandchildren and great grand children is what I mean, but And what was I gonna say? Joe bansers T ball T ball great first T ball on every every golf course bandsters, T-Ball. T-Ball. He hit his first T-Ball on every golf course. On the sixth hole, which was our 15th hole, the Caddy's did a little challenge. And so the Caddy's got up and got up to hit a shot on the part three. And Hendrix Caddy, Gareth, who was also an incredibly nice guy and getting my get invested in the pro-am.

Gareth is the best. Yeah. He gets up and apparently he is a professional, like a PGA professional, or something like that. he gets up and apparently he is a professional like a PGA professional owner saw I didn't know that. He gets up and Kathy's caddy had started walking already so he's forward and to the right and not far away It's kind of a weird narrow little gap Gareth hits the cleanest shank I've ever seen like it had speed on it It had velocity on it and had to have missed Kathy's caddy by less than a foot.

I mean, it buzzed the tower, and it was like, shank into the bush. It happened so fast. If it would have hit him in the head, it might have killed him. It made my heart jump into my throat. It was so scary, but I had to give a shout out to Garrett for perhaps the most epic shank that I've ever seen. Just a solid contact shank. That's what was most impressive about it. Yeah, I feel like I wasn't there.

I went back to the media center to upload some photos, but when I came back to meet you guys, it just happened. And Stinson's agent Chad was like, that was the first thing he told me when I walked up was, dude, you almost just missed a murder. It just happened. It almost happened it almost happened here like this was So like the reaction from everyone was so so much the same and it was very much a panic like yeah, that was almost Very frighteningly bad it must have been the catty was totally cool

Like I forget his name, but he was just so yeah, I'm fine. No worries Done Donald Lynx, it would not be my favorite course on the trip I would say. I think I've maybe been influenced a bit just talking through shots with Henrik and some of the criticisms that there was in a ton of places to land shots. It doesn't play like a true Lynx course. The Greens are really funky and some pins are really challenging to get to, not in the best designed way. From T to Green, I mean, it was a really fun course

and a nice look to it. And again, it helped we had a really nice day. And there's some really good fairway bunkers that made you think about things a lot, which is one of my favorite things about Lynx course. Oh, every fairway bunker is so well placed. Yeah. But I mean, it just wasn't, it's funny

because you could see Western Gales from Don Don Don at one point and we'll get to Gales, but it it it was kind of like peering at it like oh man, that looks kind of like a fun golf course. So yeah, don't want to be too critical of Don Don Don But it just was it was not my favorite game a bit spoiled because the rest of the trip was just absolutely fantastic. Yep I think that's pretty much it from the Pro Am. If unless there's any, not too many wayward drive points, or weren't as many marshals out there as I thought there would be. So I didn't get to pull up too many wayward drives.

And I mean, I started losing some balls. I think I made four birdies. Yeah, I think you guys played decent as a team. But then, I don't know, there'd be a ball in the fairway, and I'd be hitting a driver on a 380 yard hole. Just'd notice there just like yeah, I was in a three-iron at a program but I love seeing Kathy from the ladies tease she out drove Stinson one time. Yeah, she played her ball and it was it was really credible she was so happy. I did have to get Stinson back on one because I did out drive him again. I'm playing for further out, but I might have got him

I actually got him in real life and I pointed out that where the fitness center was located to him and he actually He's he blushed a little bit. I think I got I didn't quite get even on him But no, that was just what the vibe was like all day if those super relaxing and we could kind of talk about anything and feel really Comfortable about about the whole day. So can't say enough nice things about Henry, can super-priced of his effort there. After that, before that actually, we snuck in again in this, what you mentioned, the little sneak round in it, the King Robert the Bruce Course, the new course at the Turnberry Resort. the Bruce course, the new course at the Turnberry Resort, uh, unbelievable. Again, another, another example of Sully figuring out how it is mathematically possible to

fit in around on a day, because I got in, I got in that day and I went to my hotel and I think it took a nap because I was, like, I was pretty tired from jet lag and you, you called me and woke me up and you're like, hey, we, can you be ready in five minutes and we would have enough time to go to this course and play 18 holes. I'm like, I guess, I mean, I'm here.

We might as well as like seven o'clock or something. We'd have a 5'30. Okay. And it seemed like seven o'clock. What was your impression? So we as the most perfect night, you could draw up. We were out there in shorts and short sleeves. What was your impression of King Robert the Bruce?

It's, I thought it was just open a couple of weeks ago with very little fanfare. I had no expectations. I had no idea if it was a nine hole course. I didn't know anything about it and showed up. I thought it was phenomenal. Yeah, I mean, I had- that was my first, you know, seeing a Link's course that week. And so, I- yeah, I thought it was great. I mean, I feel like it should be getting some more notoriety, right? Don't you think? It's like a hundred pounds I think to play, which is really cheap, especially compared to the Aelsa course. But I walked away from it saying even if the Aelsa course is not there, even if you can't play the Aelsa course, it is a million percent worth making the trip down to play Robert the Bruce. Because the views on some of the like eight, nine and 10 kind of go over to the side of the property

with the Elsa courses on. And you are playing a unreal par five that goes straight at the lighthouse, the famed lighthouse at Turnberry. It is the backdrop for your shots. Then you turn to the ninth hole. And it's kind of like an inverted version of the eighth hole at Pebble Beach where you tee off

kind of an iron off the tee. And then you have a shot over a chasm to a green right against the sea and it's stunning and it's a great hole to great challenge that kind of the weird fairway that kind of goes left to right and your next shot goes right to left and then a great part three tenth and that whole that stretch of the property and that sun was some of the most beautiful golf holes I've ever seen. And you can see the Aelsa course too, which has a lot more holes along the sea. And you kind of look like still kind of wish I was on the Aelsa course. But Robert Bruce really, really fun holes.

I was blown away, especially considering there were no expectations. Lowkey, one of the funnest rounds. Yeah. Yeah. Super fun. There's just two of us out there just strolling through the sunshine. Perfect weather. Yeah, amazing. So then the next day was the pro-amon, and then we followed that up with a day at Royal Trume, which was I think your kind of your first real true links experience.

Robert the Bruce is not as raw links, castle Courses and T-injus is. And I would say the most link see course we play definitely. Yeah, I thought there's so much hype and anticipation for a real tune. And with Henrik winning the open their last year, obviously I worked for Calloway, so we did a ton of content around that win and around the course. And I had really just been looking forward to seeing it and to looking back and remembering those holes that Phil and Stinson had that epic battle last year. And I think the one takeaway that we both came from it, and actually it only took us about two holes in

to where we said, how in the hell did they shoot whatever, 1917 and 20 under, whatever in a being that it blows my mind. I mean, it's such a fun and challenging course, but you have to hit, you have to hit such great t-shots there to put yourself in position. And if you're not, if you're not hitting good shots off the tee, you're in that fescue that is probably the thickest fescue we played. And it's so tough. It is incredibly tough and it makes you appreciate more how good the best players in the world

are. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's pretty flat terrain overall. So it's not like a stunning visual course. There's several, like the first tee shot's beautiful right along the sea there. And there's a lot of great designed elements to it. Some really well-placed bunkers and some really fun holes at the wind where you know we're playing part three, sitting four irons aiming out well outside of the green,

bringing them in and then using the slope of the green to bring it around. Just at the postage stamp, I mean I kind of tend to roam my eyes at first holes that have nicknames and holes that just get overhyped Might be the most fun hole we play on the trip. Yes. It's it's amazing the way it's I didn't realize it the green sat as elevated As it does the coffin bunker to the left is just so incredibly penal the hill behind it to the left It's also penal which one of number of our team learned and it's a really short shot It's like a little punch nine nine. I think we hit, I missed 15 feet right of the pin.

You got, you got poses, Stan. Yeah, I did. I got Stan. You got Stan. So hard. You got to put the mail. I laid it 15 feet right of the pin. Sign sealed delivery.

I mean, it was, the postman did not deliver on it. There's a man. It took the slope and rolled off into a bunker well below the green. It felt fair, though. It was like, this is just a little punch shot. You should be able to hit this on the green. I missed 15 feet, right?

And the ball was gone, but it was, I didn't expect the hole to be that much fun. And that scared me. And you told me, keep it left, because I was going after you. And what do I do? I pull hook it on top of the huge the huge mound on the left the worst possible place And only shot you had impossible shot. I mean you might as well you might as well just just I don't know hit it across the green and like

I don't know there it was literally an impossible shot. So you banked it off Andrews ball Andrew's Q and two Cali reps that were going with all the Shout out to those guys. They were off some Calais reps from the area and they came out to join us for some of the rounds and to post some of our tabs. Some of our tabs. Yeah, unfortunately for them. But yeah, I had to not so intentionally bank it off of Andrews Ball to get it to stop. So it was... Andrew actually hit a really good shot. He kept it left to the pen, which was crazy.

But he didn't make the birdie putt, so sorry Andrew. We spent a lot of time looking for balls out there, but it's so much fun. I don't know, I wouldn't say necessarily playing the championship courses are your most fun rounds. It is a different kind of fun to play such a challenging course in pretty tough conditions. Yes. The way that those guys do it to get the appreciation that we walked off that course with like Henrich Schatz 63 on that course and Phil Schatz 62 and a half. Like it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't.

Oh my God. It really does not. And I think Jake Nichols has said that Hendrix performance was the second best performance of all time and Phil's was the fifth best of all time and Phil didn't win. Just to see where it happened. The Trune is a cool little town too. That's pretty much all the players are saying. Thursday night, so I don't do a good enough job on these travel pods.

I really recommend in good 19th holes. That's going to change with this episode, because we found several amazing 19th hole places. Our guy Kenny Blair runs the Buzzwork Restaurant Network. Okay, can we talk about how Kenny has a monopoly of the best restaurants in June? I mean, it is unbelievable. The restaurant went to the first night, it was called Lido in Trune and we went there just because We tripped advisor and you said hey this place called Lido's a number one place and we walked into a bar Yeah, we thought they served food

They didn't know I give a recommendation food that I go to Lido's right on the corner. So we went there. It was great We had had a dinner plan the next night already this dinner had already been planned with we didn't know at the time, but dinner plan the next night already this dinner had already been planned with we didn't know at the time but it was at Kenny's restaurant. Yeah, that Kenny's restaurant. Jamie Darling said Jamie Darling and Kenny are friends so they set it up a long time ago with a group dinner with the epic Scotland sweepstakes winners and Joe and Kathy and this is Scotland group so we knew we were doing that we

get there and just casually over dinner, Kenny who had dinner with us was like, oh yeah, I also on Lido, there's one in Presswick and one in True and We're like, oh, that's funny. We ate there last night and then I was literally in my taxi ride to Scots that night. I was just making conversation with my taxi driver and he was like, he was like, if you're looking to go out one night or go grab drinks or whatever, he's like, press

wick is the town to go to and there's a place, I forgot what the name was called, Elliot's. And there's a place called Elliot's and that's the place to go and press wick if you want to go out on like a Saturday night, that's like the most, you know, the most happened in place. I was like, alright, thanks. And I, that came up in conversation at dinner and Kenny, of course, said, oh yeah, that's my place as well. And I was like, man, you literally runs this town. He runs the town. I mean, he owns, he's doing something right. Kenny, Kenny, I can't thank him enough for his hospitality and. So especially Lido, the menus are huge. Like, I had the hardest time choosing something to eat, but the thing we both were most

blown away with, the afogato. Oh. I've never heard of this dessert. Maybe this is a real thing and we're just learning about it. Like very rich vanilla ice cream with a shot of espresso poured into it. Like really, really strong bitter espresso. I asked my Italian confidante, AJ Vopel, if he had ever heard of Afogato because Tallion drink a lot of espresso.

He drinks a lot of espresso. And he said, absolutely. He said, I basically invented it, which in his turn to mean yes, I drink a lot of it. So apparently it is a thing. Yeah, okay. Well, anyways, if you're ever in this area, and again, I think we're kind of make the case for this area being absolutely incredible, just to be able to stay in one place and play as many great courses as there are in the area. There's several good restaurants.

Again, we had a great time at all the players right, all these places too. So that's how you know it's the most highly recommended places. I highly recommend Pepperoni Pizza at Lido. I had it three straight lines in two different locations. We went to the one in Prestwick too. We saw Rory there one night. We saw Peter Uline, Patrick Earrington, JP Fitzgerald was there a couple nights. I mean it's just it's Kessler was there. It's just a ton of people hanging out there. So that's the place to be in the true and area. After that we went to Prestwick the next day. Prestwick hosted 24 open championships the last one being in 1925. It was basically the founder of the

open championship and a huge part of open championship history. The game has outgrown the golf course. It's now no longer capable of hosting a big tournament like that and it is a very different style course. I've heard so many people describe it as quirky. The first thing I'll just say is just be prepared for quirkiness and then you can also be prepared to be pleasantly surprised by it as I was because I kind of thought it was gonna be just a gimmick round of golf but again I was mentally prepared for it. First hole is crazy like it's this little jammed in hole

up against the train track. It looks like a hole shouldn't even fit there. I'm sure there's so many balls of go on that train track. And I just kind of thought, okay, we're in for a wild one. So the third hole is weird. One of the fifth is a totally blind part three, but it just kind of goes back to the history of the game and then when they designed a lot of these golf courses,

they didn't have bulldozers to move mounds and they kind of just built golf holes around the property how it was and a blind shot. It was not a big deal back then. Now it's kind of an architecturally unsound thing to do to a golf course to make a totally blind hole, but we'll say I was sneaky along though. It was. So that's what surprised me. There's tons of 424, 440 par fours. Hit a lot of drivers out there. There's a couple of short PARF 4s coming in, a couple of under 300 yards, both the 16th and 18th are drivable holes,

but really fun holes. 17th is like a crazy, totally blind approach to the green, which I know a lot of people don't like that hole, but I think if you saw it again for a second time, you'd understand it. Definitely, if you saw it for a second time, you'd like it all the way to go. It for a second time, you'd be like, at all, where to go. It's really cool.

But it's just so cool. I mean, again, all these courses are built along train lines. That's just how back in the day, people got to golf courses. And Jamie Darling, again, was telling us about this 89-hole challenge you can do where you basically walk the length of the train and play an outward line at every course.

And you could play like 89 different holes on all these different courses. It's just so cool the vibe of trains rolling by and as you're hitting shots and obviously giving a tour sauce wave to the trains and what. Of course. It's awesome clubhouse to kind of do a great job preserving the history in there. They had the original open championship belt, which was a belt that they said they were gonna give out of somebody ever won the open three times in a row with young tom morris did and uh... then they retired that was the end of the belt uh...

history in that place was insane i mean there was scorecards from the the first couple opens that that were ever held in tally marks in that they it was a twelve whole course of the. I mean, Tally marks in there. Yeah, it was a 12-hole course at the time and they used Tally marks to mark their scores and they had the score card from the first ever hole in one. And it was like four Tallys, five Tallys, four Tallys, one Tally, four Tallys. So like, first ever hole in one

and open championship history. I mean, all kinds of just awesome memorabilia upstairs and that whole entire upstairs was like, I could have spent hours in there. Yeah, it was awesome So again that was Joe and Kathy really enjoyed that round as well Really big surprise and a great enjoyment and I think again in must play I mean I kind of thought it was just gonna be one was maybe skip a bowl if you're not into that style play But now I think it's of course you really need to see and then We snuck in so we were up for more than 18 a day and again

This was another sneak in round this one we teed off around 645 or 7 Heard so much about Western Gales. I'm honest. I take that back I've heard about it from room McDonald who's is my go-to guy for Scotland golf Jamie darling absolutely love this place again That's a guy I trust when it comes to architect golf course architecture and experiences. Jamie will not steer you wrong. No, he was so excited about us playing though there that Jamie came and met us just to watch us tee off the first hole, which we had to hit drivers. We felt like we had to hit drivers and it was a four hour and a day. It rained on us that night. We thought about quitting after about eight holes. So incredibly glad we did not.

The back night at Western Gels was an absolute blast. We were blown away by the course. Unbelievable aesthetics and how the greens sit and how the bunkers frame the holes. So much, it's such a replayable course. It was so much fun. It wasn't the greatest test ever. I think the first few holes were really tough,

but once you got out there, it wasn't extremely tough. A big boy grown up golf course, ancient history there. Really cool clubhouse, incredible locker room that'll be toured. The locker room. Wow. I mean, that was like the oldest locker room.

I mean, it just looked like it was literally like the, I don't know, like the one who was... Yeah, it looked like a museum, yeah exactly. It was like so old school, like you had the natural like lighting in the top and it was awesome. And Jamie was telling us that like the members, and we walked into the little restaurant bar area and like there's a bunch of people in suits sitting around having wine and chat and then Jamie's like, yeah he's like the members here, you know, they respect the club, you know, and they, whenever they come in to have drinks or dinner or whatever, they usually put on,

put on a suit, you know, you don't have to, but they usually do as kind of tradition to the club. And I thought that was pretty cool. So it was great. And maybe it was just again, the lack of expectations only just knowing that we needed to play this course Again, I didn't know what the size of the course was that and it was it was I don't know. Maybe again the the low expectations made me almost want to say that it's like one of my favorites of the trip

Like it may have been my favorite of the trip like it was It was yeah, we had said it's such a great time out there And there's a weird misty night. It was getting. And we were the only two people out on the property. Last two cars and a lot. And just wrap up an amazing 36-hole day out there. I don't know. It was great. I'd love to play there again.

That was again, probably the course that, if I had a chance, I'd go back out again, except for maybe Turnberry, which was the next step. Tough forecast, Saturday for the Elsa course at Turnberry. Well, we had gotten way too lucky. Yeah, we had. Everyone was the whole week. It was like Saturday, be prepared for it.

So it was raining when we started. Just howling wind back into the wind. First couple of holes are tough. Chad was having a tough third hole until everything changed. Well, I hit my, this was a bar for probably at 420 or 430 But it was straight back into the wind howling howling wind and rain I blasted my driver a little right Found it only because I was literally like standing right on top of it and I could see a little bit of it

Shout out to the truva's golf ball for right on top of it and I could see a little bit of it. Shout out to the Troveys golf ball for always showing me where my, it's always been easy to find. But I found it, it was unplayable, there was no way I could even make contact with it. So, took it unplayable, took a drop, hacked it back out into the fairway, had like 95 yards in and for par and Cady hands me this my 55 degree and says I think it's a full one of these and I was on the left side of the fairway.

I played hit it, played a little fader in there and one hop, two hops rolled right back into the hole for a four. I took off like Jordan speed, that's six-hole, Hazel team. I was Reed and you were Speed. It's pretty much. That's exactly what I took off to come in. We didn't go to the chest part, we went for the high five. It was probably the shot of the trip. I dropped my club, like Reed. Yeah, it was. It was perfect.

I don't know if I've ever had a moment like that, you know, on the golf course. You hold out for four and then you made an eagle, like three holes later. Yeah. And I still got to downwind holes. I had a hold out in the eagle and I still shout like 41, I think. So, it's tough to do. Some might say it's tough to do, but not for me, my friends.

So obviously, Trump is quite the polarizing person, but I'm yet to meet a person that hasn't said raving things about the changes He made of that golf course The clubhouse is just exactly what you would expect it to be like a two-story just is a palace It is incredible what they've done Like the chair that down to the chairs and the in the upstairs like the clubhouse Everything is done with total class and the changes to the golf course have been met with such great compliments. And it's from the caddies from from almost anyone. So the old, I'm not going to

screw up the numbers here. I think the maybe the the walk between the fifth and the sixth hole, I think is what it is that the sixth hole used to almost not it basically didn't take advantage of the C at all. And so they moved the whole a part three there up against the C with a walkway just designed for you to soak up the coastline. And it didn't used to be that way. You used to not be able to see the C there at all. And it's just this awesome 50, 100 yard walk that you just take a lot of way up to this brand new part three that is just a a cute little cute little part three and then Can I just real quick before you move on? Yeah, I want to say that's sight of the biggest Toursauce fail

I love this a Toursauce fails as as Sully gets up to the t-box par three the the pin is in tucked in the in on the left side I mean there's not much room around at all you the smart play is to play a little bit right to the tee box. Part three, the pin is in, tucked on the left side. I mean, there's not much room around at all. The smart play is to play a little bit right to the fat of the grain and two putt for par. It was downwind. It was just a little bitty wedge that you tried to get up there close, elevated green,

and solid just carved this one right in there. I mean, it was, when it was in the air, like two of the caddies who had been, who had been working there since they're 14 and 15 years old, we're telling it to go in. That's how, that's how close it was. So he, he stuffs the two about three feet, does the belated club twirl in which, in during the process drops his club,

and before he even picks his club up, he reaches down to pick up his T Which is not there because he didn't use a T and it was you were I ruined the whole moment like so I want everyone to picture what this looked like the belated club twirl Which was botched because he dropped the club out on the way down to pick up his T that wasn't there There was no T god it looks so stupid. I just was like fumbling on the ground for tea. I know. I ruined the whole thing. You're trying to find another tee to claim it was yours. I was so flustered about it. I got an X-Ball OB. I couldn't handle it. So we got off to the prevailing winds. Some of the par-fives were just an absolute joke.

You hit driver pitching wedge in the next one. I made eagle. I hoped it won OB and then hit driver lob wedge with my second ball in. And then we got up to the 9th hole, the new 9th hole which again used to be a par 4. But now it's a par 3 across the chasm right next to the lighthouse. It's one of the most surreal settings. I think you could ever picture on golf course. And it was 221 yards dead downwind. I hit like a little sawdoth six sign that went way over like it was probably eight iron with the

amount of wind that we had behind us but just a just a incredible stretch of property and it is a very special place. It was one of those courses where like you literally when you every t-box you step on and the first time you lay eyes on that hole you're like wow look at this hole And then the next T-Box wow look at this freaking hole like every T-Box we sat on I looked at it and I was like this is Incredible there's there's a lot more like I guess undulations and like Framing of the holes from the T-Box on that course, which I I really liked it wouldn't as flat as like a traditional wings like a like a trun on that course, which I really liked it wasn't as flat as like a traditional wings, like a trun. Every whole lot of its own unique character and I thought that was, you know, a pretty

awesome aspect of it. Obviously the 9th hole is insane. Oh, I mean, the term, there's a lot of hype around that course. I think I've seen it ranked as highest three in the world on some lists. And I mean, it, after that stretch, we were super lucky to get that weather for that stretch. It just pissed rain on us for the rest of the day. It was tough. It was, we were just absolutely so to kind of, kind of, ruin some scores coming in. But, man, I know it's a pricey round.

I think it's 400 pounds. So it's, it's easily the most expensive in Scotland. I don't see how you can come to the area though and not play it. I mean, Pebble Beach is 500 bucks. This is every bit as worthwhile as Pebble Beach. It doesn't have, maybe the same, doesn't have the same history as Pebble Beach. It's got a ton of history. But I mean, you go and play that and play Robert the Bruce for a combination of 500 pounds and you're making that like a bandit. That's totally worth the experience. And even if you don't play the Elsa course I have really strongly recommend playing the Robert the Bruce course because that was that was really impressive

But we got into 18 and we saw a plaque for Tom Watson and I was terrified at the moment that it was the plaque Related to the shot in oh nine for getting that he had the shot in 77 to about two feet from there You were so pissed you're walking up you're going they put a plaque there for his A9 and a 09. I was so mad. I couldn't believe it. So glad that wasn't the case. I mean, the hotel that sits above that place, I think they said, I'm going to forget the story, but something about 706 is when the bagpipe guy comes out in place.

They don't serve dinner until 706 and I forget what that reason is, but there's some kind of historical reason behind it. It's just so much going on there and it's just really, really special walk. I think the best course we played on the trip easily and just an absolute bucket list type experience to walk on that piece of land and where so much has happened, so much history and the changes that have been made to it. Again, it can be really controversial with so much history there is there, but it's been met with such just unbelievable praise, and I can totally see why. I never played the course before the changes, but I mean, they'll look on the caddies' face and they ask them, I'm like, oh yeah, I mean, this is absolutely better. So, if people say that, again not be not willing to put themselves out there for Trump, I think says something about how great the golf course is. So that was it. We took off the next day. We snuck in around it,

still off on the sawway, which is not an airshare, not in the areas, about two hours away, just to know with the England border. But of course I just had flagged on the map a long time ago and wanted to make it to a really cool little links experience. Yeah, so we were driving from Scotland to England, it was about four hour drive and we broke it up with, it was about an hour out of the way, probably 30 minutes each way, but again just squeezing in. Just a solid, a classic example of solid, you know figuring out how mathematically possibly

fit in and around at any point. But it was totally worth it. I think it was a really cool drive and kind of the back rows of Northern England and a lot of character and stuff and kind of the seemed like the farmlands out there. I mean it was crazy. We started into the town that still off is the town and you said there's like a park and then just a beautiful water there to go all the buildings Yeah, like yellow and purple and like so like this best place on earth Yeah, is this best place? There's like there's like 50 people walking their dogs. I mean there everywhere you look there's like an amazing dog being walked

And it's like is this and then there's a park that was like the biggest greenest grass park right on the water I've ever seen. And like, just children frolking and dogs playing. And I thought it was literally the best little town on planet Earth. I love it. All right. I think people probably sick of us just cushing over golf course at this point. Anything we missed? Man, I don't think so.

Reach out to us with questions on the area. Now I'm getting this question, like which area do you recommend? I don't think so. Reach out to us with questions on the area. Now I'm getting this question, which area do you recommend? Again, it's so hard to rank the, can't rank the courses, and it's really hard to rank the areas. But there's such tremendous value and be able to go and stay in one place and play world-class golf in so many different places, different places every day. And with this area, and I haven't got to Glasgow Gales, I know I'm supposed to,

that's a great course. And just with Trune, Dundon will be in there. Western Gales, Prestwick, and now two Turnberry courses there. You can't beat the airshare. I mean, it's not. Well, the coolest thing about that was everything except for Turnberry was literally 15 minutes max drive. It's nothing. It's so, they're so close to each other that it's almost a joke. It's like I expected each course to be in highway for me each other. And you're like, oh no, we'll be there in 13 minutes. No.

So, yeah, you mean being your chauffeur. I just took care of all that. Chad, thank you for, hey, thanks to Business College and for coming to Chad with the idea. Chad, thanks for bringing along to me. Thanks to our contest winners, Joe and Kathy Bannister. It was a super memorable week for the two of us as well, as well as I know that it was for them.

Totally. Special thanks to David, Yvonne, Katie, Jamie, and then again Kenny for all the hosting and all the restaurants. Reach out to us with questions you may have about the area. We can set you up with some of these folks that will definitely look after you and man kind of getting close to the end of this incredible run. I've been on the summer but this stretch of the trip was so memorable and man can we to go back to the area. Love it. All right thanks hashtag. Thanks guys for tuning in and we'll catch up soon.

Alright guys that is it from my discussion with Chad. We recorded that during open championship week but wanted to let it marinate, let the open championship preview podcast and wrap up podcast kind of be our podcast for those weeks. So I wanted to do a quick little segment here talking about one engulf. I imagine anyone that is still listening to this does enjoy these travel podcasts. I know that some people are kind of sick of hearing about them

and are ready for us to get back to the normally scheduled programming, which I promise is going to happen in the near future. And moving back stateside, we'll be back as of the time of this being posted. So a lot of good stuff coming. I'll be at Bridgestone, hopefully sitting down with a few guys and whatnot.

But right after Southport area, we, so I did play a little bit of golf in the Southport area, you can find our podcast, Tron and I recorded a series of podcasts in March about playing all the courses in that area. I went back to Lip Royal Liverpool and West Lanks while we were up there just because I had such a good time at both of those courses. Made it out to Hillside for 18 holes on Tuesday of that week and then played Fornebe on Monday. Awesome. Both, I mean, everyone was kind of giving us that feedback after that leg or after that trip that we needed to get to those courses kind of felt bad about missing out on them. I totally see what everyone's been talking about

Form B It was really nice to again This is the biggest first world problem. I think you could ever have it I've been playing on Link's Golf for a month It was nice to be set least bordered by trees and not be getting crushed by the wind It's kind of a hybrid style links links, I was playing really fast in firm, which I hadn't really experienced on this trip at all. And just had a nice brown look to it and just so much, so much, just a very different style in the kind of this

heat land style of this, this type of, I don't even, I don't know what you call it grass. I've never really played heat land golf before, but it's more like a kind of like a gorse grass that doesn't grow very tall or it's cut very short, I guess I should say. And very tough to find your ball in it. If you do, it's extremely punishing, but it puts iron and three wood in your hand more often than it does driver, just because you need to be in play off the tee. But man, that was an awesome golf course and unbelievable clubhouse.

It had a great meal in the clubhouse. And it is one of those iconic picture-esque clubhouses that you're taking pictures as you're coming up the 18th hole just of the clubhouse and how it sits on that 18th green. So thanks to David and David that hosted us there. That was just an absolute blast of a day. KVV Played with me. He rolled off a red eye. Had a bit of a tough day, but recovered nicely. But hillside played up there with Alex Perry from National Club Golfour and Mark Townsend as well. They set us up up there. You know, it's right next to Burkdale. You can see the grandstands on the 18th hole

as you're finishing the round. And it is, it's really defined by how different the two nines are. The first nine is rather flat, but I really, I really enjoyed it. I mean, the course gets off to a tremendous start, but everybody raves about the back nine. And you kind of see why.

It's a beautiful little par three open around the back. And then just some extremely grand and picturesque par fives on the back nine. A lot of elevation changes back there within the dunes and just a really different front nine and back nine. A course that I mean, I'm just continue to be blown away by that whole England golf coast as they call it

and that we had such a great time up there in March and didn't get to every, I still haven't played South Porton Ainsdale, which is another course I want to play. There's that whole area, man, it's crazy how much good golf is in that area. And I know I sound like I'm just raving about every golf course, but I haven't had a bad experience in that area. And it's just, yeah, I'm, I continue to be blown away. We went back to West Langs on Wednesday because we, like I said, we enjoyed it so much the first time around.

Had an even more fun round. I think the second time it rained on us, but just that is one of the most fun golf courses I think I've ever played. So replayable, it's a place that I would love to, love to be a member of. I would love to just like have that be a place where I played a lot of golf because it is just such a fun place. Then we drove down to London. This was my first ever taste of London golf and

this was kind of an extra add on to everything I've been doing over here in the UK this summer because this is, it wasn't necessarily a goal to get to London, but I had a few days extra to spare and had a couple of it. People were nice enough to reach out with invites and to some really special places and I couldn't say no. So special thanks to Brian Shee who had KVV and I out to Walton Heath on Tuesday of this week. Absolutely loved it. Again, was really nice to get away from links for a little while and just get this little hybrid style of Fast and firm course that really put really had a lot of strategy off the tee

Which is some of the most fun golf you can play I think and that there's 450 yard par fours where I'm taking irons off the tee just because you know I don't mind coming in from 200 yards because that's just what the whole makes you do and it Tempts you into hitting driver, but you're bringing so much more trouble into play. We got to go around the old course there twice. They're having an event on the new course. We didn't get to buy the new course there, but go around the old course twice which was a Ryder Cup course back in 1981. In man just an awesome clubhouse. Again just had a nice meal at the turn when I say at the turn at

between 18s. I just had a pretty meal at the turn when I say at the turn at between 18s. I'm just had a pretty, pretty perfect day out there. So thanks again to Brian for having us out. That was an absolute blast. He's been a lot of time during that round raving about where we were playing the next day, which is St. George's Hill. Very different golf course, and he gets telling us about this clubhouse. And I was like, okay, I get it. Man, it's got a nice clubhouse. No, the St. George Hill has like a castle for a clubhouse. It is absurd and it sits so high and prominent

on the property, it feels like a much more exclusive place. It's just set really far back from the main road and it's intertwined. And this one, this place has huge elevation changes in it and just has this, I don't know if grandurers, the right word, just kind of this grand, this place has huge elevation changes in it. And just has this, I don't know if Grandeur is the right word, just kind of this grand, huge feel to it. Like the fairways are really, really wide in a lot of places and, you know,

some big downhill shots, and it goes down through the trees. And it's just an eminently fair golf course with great vistas and so many fun shots. And we got a little bit wet out there. We met back up with James Summerside and played out there. And just again, had an absolute grand day. I mean, that place was really fun.

We played all three nines there. And just had a drink in the clubhouse afterward. And I'm realizing at this time that my golf is about to come to an end. It's been quite a run. But did have one last final day with Farron Keenan at Sunningdale. We got to, I had to say goodbye to KVV. We had a nice little stretch of golf, but he and I went out, Farron, I went out and played the old and the new at Sunningdale,

which was probably the highest one on my list in London. It's on the top of near a lot of people's lists in London. And just again, I feel like I'm doing my best I can not to get spoiled and let any of this spoil me. I enjoyed the walk, maybe because I knew it was the last kind of route of the trip, but maybe the most fun walk of any of the entire trip. I mean, just incredible property, so much history at this place. I think the the new course there was built in like 1923 or something like that. And just a really nice vibe at this place. Again, an amazing clubhouse that sits right there on the

first tee and 18th green of the old course. And just kind of picking the brain of a fair and who plays professionally, plays on the challenge short for a long time, is still playing some professionally, and to get to play with a guy that really can golf as ball, and just an awesome 36-hole day in the sun, in the rain, in the clouds, in the sunshine again, through a neighborhood in London. I mean, it was just ideal.

So that's my quick wrap up from London apologies if anyone wanted to hear more details on that. This was again, just kind of squeezing in a few extra more days of golf in London. It wasn't really meant to be a big special London trip. I want to come back here definitely. I wanted to, I got a sample and a great sample at that. I don't think you can have a much better stretch of three days,

but I know there's a ton of other courses in this area and we didn't get to do the area full justice, I mean, I don't even want to start naming them because I don't want to leave one out somehow, but I want to make my way out to Royal Saint George's, of course, at some point, in that whole area. So a lot more golf to come in London, but did want to at least think a few people for having us out and debrief some on it. And again, I really enjoyed the discourse with a lot of people that we've had over talking about golf courses and, you know, kind of just seeing how golf was played in this side of the world. I mean, I've played a little bit in the past, but then obviously you can tell this past summer has been an obnoxious amount of golf. And I think I counted today 711 holes played over the last 40 days and over a million steps

walked. This was supposed to be, I was supposed to go to Asia for a couple months actually in this time of year before going back to the States, but when I decided to quit my job I said I might as well make it a hybrid of a vacation and a bit of work mixed into it. So don't get me wrong, it's been mostly fun. It's been all been really fun and mostly for fun and vacation, but reality is coming. And once I'm back in the States, I promise we are going to get back to some more regular schedule programming

and back to having some players on his guests and a lot more frequent episodes. But we've really enjoyed this travel, kind of getting involved in the travel section and talking about golf courses around the world. I want to continue doing that. So thanks for everyone that's shown interest in these. As always, if you have any questions related to anything, shoot it over. We'll gladly get back to you if you have any questions needed, vice.

That's kind of why we're doing all this. Again, it's fun for us as well, but there is going to be... We want to be helpful. We want this content to be good and useful to you guys. So any recommendations and suggestions you guys have along those lines, that's also appreciated. Again, I know these pods aren't for everyone, but they are kind of evergreen content and last forever. So I refer people back to them, you know, sometimes even years down the road. So with that, this brings a sad end to this summer in the UK. It's been the best summer ever.

I think I really do want to try to spend about a month here every year if I can because it's been so amazing meeting people from this part of the world and experiencing hospitality and making new friends along the way. And I can't say enough good things about it. I really can't. So, thanks for bearing with me for this summer and we'll catch up soon. I thought it was better than most. Better than most.