I'm gonna hit some balls yeah i'm gonna do some practice i might even squeeze a little cheeky lesson in oh it's too far on this now. And uh [Music] well anyway speaking of your 75 yes people will now be aware we've got a series every friday on youtube at 4pm uk time where you go. And battle the golf course with the sole objective of beating 75 yes we don't see no 76's nope definitely want to see 86's we want to see 74. Or better we'll take 75. i'll take that i'm gonna do 12 episodes 12 different golf courses around the uk we've done two. So far first one was at marriott with steve hindell shot 77 which was a six over very very rusty start. And no real excuses that was just complete rust um last week i did it at centenn's old links it's a links golf course with a guest from the podcast we had dan webster play with me who is the head pro at uh somebody thanks he did he played nicely who um is the hebrew there's been there. For 29 years we went out super early in the morning last tuesday at 7 30 t off it was one degree celsius. So 34 degrees fahrenheit i think we worked out at um it was very very windy it was quite mild personally it was cold. And windy it was cold it was windy. And uh it didn't go to plan well you know what was nice to me i was just walking around i had a hat gloves. And a big coat on but it was still ridiculously cold it was one of the i said this to you a few times on the course. For me i mean you actually agreed to this i'm just happy about because i thought it sounded a bit weird when it's winning to the face. And the severe winds they're facing a cold wind as well the hole looks longer it's literally not it's the same length of hole but it looks longer and you had so many shots like an island's the green it's wind into the face it gets up in the air the wind just straight away the wind's pushing and saying not today.
And it's just pushing it off pushing it off you were sloppy i'd say front nine. But hit the ball well it was a weird one won't it you hit the ball off the tee i wouldn't say as well i've ever seen. But i'd say it probably is in play. And is consistently just decent like they weren't the drives you hit i wouldn't have gone on i don't think maybe one. Or two but most and you wouldn't have hit on launch once and been like that's a beast but it'd be like far away far away far away he hit a couple we got massively punished which was unlucky to be fair that one on six when i went in the bush well that whole i think. And that's the whole world again people listen this by now you went into the bunker and i'd send you two ear shots you would never have done that if you hadn't gone in the bush because in the bush you called it unplayable and took a penalty if that hadn't happened i think you would have called that bunker shot unplayable. And took your medicine but there was no way you could do two in one hull. And it was. So weird like you know i hit up the right side on that number six so basically long story short if you've not watched it yet do get definitely go. And watch it but i shot an 82 so it's 10 over par 75 was the target that's three over par. But i've shot 10 over now what's mad the front nine i was 12 over par one of the worst front nines i've ever had in my engulfing history in the last few years certainly as a professional golfer i think. And the background i shot two on the par you were good back now front nine i found a bunk on number three which was a bit unlucky there i could have played it better i could have. But i hit a pop bunker shot that didn't get over out the lip i just got plugged on kind of plugged on the lip had to play sideways chipped it on two footage six and then.
That six hole when i took an eight on the par five that looks like pushed it slightly right off the tee but not a horrendous t-shirt i knew i'd missed line but it wasn't horrendous found the bush had to take a penalty drop stuck it in green side in two like think about it without the penalty shot like i could have either been on that green in two two putting. For a birdie four shots difference you know what you've done wrong i think the one thing you've done wrong. And this is some actually advice that you give sometimes. And i i know why you say this but you've literally been going to the golf course. And not in a single shot and literally on the first tee is as far as i know your first swing i hit a few looseners on the first one in the net yeah. But i didn't hit any yesterday last week and that's the thing i know what you often say to people you don't be able to go super like go with a range of four and do all this stretching. And hit loads of putts because it does get in your head too much. And expect too much there's obviously a balance for each golfer of like loosening up and feeling good but not going over the top. But you can't go from an hour drive at six o'clock in the morning it's freezing on the first tee and expect to play good goals and also you know what the big thing is not even just body warm-up i was i don't feel like i'm mentally warmed up you know that early in the morning because some of the shots i hit just don't have any logic to him like both rounds. So far on the the two first par threes i've played have massively under clubbed and it's almost like i've not taken into consideration it's cold it's wet i'm not fully warmed up and both times i've hit a club that would i wouldn't get there in the summer that path threw that first that first battery which was hole three i did think at the time that was a strange club did you do it 54. Or 52 52 and it was never going to get there 148 yards down hit downwind not downhill just downwind pin right at the front you got something to the flag. But it did. But it scared me the whole before because i thought i played a nice shot there and it landed kind of front edge of the green and ran through the back and i was like if i even just land this anywhere near the flag it's going to go up on that top tier. But you're right that would have been a much better result than what i actually found golf's tough yeah i felt definitely a bit of pressure you know it feels like i want to just get the first 75 break 75 out of the way. And i think that'll free me up to play much better ones in the future um the next.
One we're gonna play is tomorrow i'm going to go with a different plan there's three things i'm changing okay number one bringing in peter finch to play. For you that would help number one we're playing later so it's an afternoon tee off tomorrow loads of warming up 4 p.m and that's what i'm actually going to do. So i'm going to go down to highly which is just down the road i'm going to hit some balls yeah i'm going to do some practice i might even squeeze a little cheeky lesson in oh it's too far on this now. And uh and then.
Go and play i think this is gonna pay dividends are you in your head even more. But you gotta try you gotta try so next.
Break 75 is coming out next.
On this friday people look people have watched it oh no they won't sorry i'm confused get ready yeah i think i'm gonna think i'm gonna bring it back good i'm not gonna change any clubs. Yet do you think i'm just changing your club. Yet um i might want a minute so that's a question about it so i'll tell you that first of all.
