WEBVTT - Andy’s Scottish Adventure, Part 1: Muirfield, Gullane, Elie 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.800 I miss a green for example, I'm already upset. When 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:04.920 I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.320 And when I find my ball. 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.920 In a bride egg Friday Egg, the dreaded Frida Egg, 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:12.040 Frida Egg, fridaggg, Frida Egg, bride Egg, Lie. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:13.680 I'm about ready to run off of the hump. 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.159 Hello and welcome to the Friday Egg Podcast. My name 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.519 is Garrett Morrison and I'm here today with Andy Johnson. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.839 How's it going, Andy, Garrett, it's uh, it's wonderful. Just 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.360 uh ready for another week. I'm ready for the women 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.240 to open this week and uh, you know, just daydreaming 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:54.120 about return trip to Scotland. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.120 Yeah, when is that gonna happen? Probably not this year, Yeah, 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.640 probably not. It's it's to go to all the places 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:02.520 that we need to go to. 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:09.200 Yeah, travel's travels. It's been a lot of travel. So yeah, 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.640 I think I don't want to broach this subject with 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:16.240 Missus Fridegg of another trip to Scotland without her. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.720 As far as she's concerned, You're never going back to 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:19.479 Scotland again. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:24.479 No, no, no, she knows I got to go back. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.759 That wouldn't that wouldn't be realistic. But you made your 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.000 first trip there recently and that's what we're going to 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.039 talk about today. This will in fact be a two 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:37.240 part podcast because you saw so many great places in 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.920 the whatever it was ten days that you were there, 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:45.600 and so today we're going to talk about Mirfield Golan 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:51.160 Golf Club numbers one and two and eee. So those 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.680 are the three courses or three facilities that we're going 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.720 to talk about, but you saw a number of other 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.160 courses while you were there. We'll address those in the 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.760 second part of this post. Now, you are in the 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:06.200 midst of writing a series about your trip to Scotland, 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.600 and that's more of like a travelog, right You're you're 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.480 describing sort of your experiences in golf and outside of 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.040 golf while you were in Scotland. So you're doing that. 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:20.440 These podcasts will be focused a little bit more on design. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:22.560 That's the basic plan, right. 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.160 Yeah, I think that's the plan. 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.480 Obviously, some stuff will probably spill into one and the other, 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.560 but you know, the writing it's been fun to do 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.840 something a little bit different than just the hardcore course 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.320 analysis is fun, you know. Obviously doing the trip with 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.440 Brendan poor Ath, you know, you find yourself in some 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.280 humorous moments and and and bringing some of those to life, 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:51.280 like like him being being confused for Rory McElroy five 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.160 foot eight Rory McElroy and six Brendan poor ath like 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:55.600 it was. 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.480 Why did you get a sense for why people thought 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.920 he was or why this person thought he was Roy McElroy. 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.720 No, I so this happened. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.799 This happened while I was walking to the terminal for 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:14.200 my connecting flight, and Brendan told me like the guy 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.520 like came up to him and in the best, the best, 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.640 my favorite part of the whole story was like Brendan's 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.440 like at the end of it, he was like, hey, 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:29.160 good luck next week and walked away and then like 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:33.480 got got back to his kids and family and they 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:39.320 were like pointing at Brendan, and Brendan thus vacated the problem. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:40.120 He had to leave. 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.960 And then when he returned for boarding, that's when when 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.240 the guy's kid asked for selfie and Brendan's like, listen, 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:48.920 I am not Rory McElroy. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.160 He was forced to acknowledge it. So you wrote about 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.160 this incident in your first Scotland Journal, which is already 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.360 live on the site. But uh, yeah, for people who 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:04.680 can't picture this or haven't seen Brendan Porath before. Brendan's 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.960 like six'. Four he is a tall human. Being rory 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:10.120 McElroy is like five. 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:15.400 Six, yeah doesn't have curly, hair like it doesn't look 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:15.880 anything like. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:16.800 Him they're both. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.279 White that's that's about the extent of the. Similarities so, 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.479 uh completely bewildering. INCIDENT i. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.400 Mean the other funny thing is Like rory's like probably 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:28.479 pretty close to being. 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.080 A billionaire at this, point and. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.320 You, know like he would not be flying like a 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.960 Commercial united flight Through dulles Like group Four. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.200 United, yeah that's not Where rory is these. 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:45.680 Days so it was it was a humorous start to the. 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:49.520 Trip so, yeah it's fun to write about a few 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.800 things that happened and some of the characters along the 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.040 way and and some of the games and and different. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.200 Things but but it was a great. Trip it Was 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:57.720 it was really. 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.599 Fun the courses were were delight, WELL i think like 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.880 THE i think one of the Things i've thought about 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.599 a ton is, like is the architecture that much better 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.880 there or do the conditions just allow the architecture to 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.240 play so much? Better and, LIKE i think that's probably 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.640 a good jumping off point is like some of the 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.480 architecture is is you, know, amateur. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.360 Rudimentary in its. 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:27.280 Nature BUT i think what you, know the, conditions whether 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.240 it's the wind or the firmness and speed of that 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.839 of that fescue, turf that it just makes so much 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.719 of the stuff come more alive and be more. Relevant 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.320 it makes the bunkers play much bigger, it you, know 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:47.200 and it also you, know the the fact that you 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.880 have to play to the fronts of greens all of 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:54.160 a sudden make everything way more you, know in play 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:58.960 right that front left In america and when it's ninety 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:03.159 degrees and human and superintendents have to play defense on 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.320 their golf courses like we're we're just trying to keep things. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.839 Alive like you, know when you put a back right, 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.720 pin the front left bunker is like not relevant at. 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:17.040 All but In, scotland where you're thinking about like, Okay 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.640 i'm hitting a wedge AND i have to land this 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.240 on the front edge and the bent pins back, right 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.520 that front left bunker all a sudden is really. Relevant 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.599 and playing putting yourself on the left side of the, 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:32.680 fairway you, know causes some distress in your in your, 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.120 mind because you have to deal with that. Bunker SO 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.279 i think that's like one of my first big takeaways 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.080 is you, know and this ISN'T i don't know if 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.360 the you, KNOW i think there are some places where 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:51.520 the architecture is significantly better or. Great is great architecture 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.719 maybe not significantly, Better BUT i think in a lot of, 0:06:55.800 --> 0:07:01.000 sense a lot Of american courses are better, designed but 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.960 they don't have that ingredient of the the playing conditions 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.360 that allow them to actually be better golf courses. 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.320 And just the, land, right, yes because it's the land 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.720 that allows the playing, conditions first of all to be. 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.760 Great it's the nature of the soil and the seaside 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.440 terrain that a lot of these courses are. On but 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.800 also you, know you're next to the ocean and you've 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:30.960 got this, great undulating often surface to play, on and 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.840 in a lot of, ways that's more important than. Architecture. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.320 Right that overwhelms the importance of architecture to the degree 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.040 that maybe design doesn't. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:41.280 Matter as much. 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:42.400 Anymore is that kind of what you're. 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.560 Saying, Yeah, Yeah and it's like little things like you, 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.920 know you Play North barrick and we are going to 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.160 talk About North barrick, here but like you tee off 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.520 on the second hole and you look at the fair 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.760 away and it's just like, wow you, know it's running like, 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.520 crazy and there's all these little like boumps in and 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.320 mounds and and you know they're just effectively grass over 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.040 sand that's been blown, around and it's, like you know 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:13.920 that combined with like it's just that's the stuff that's you, 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.480 know irrepupacable and in. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.360 You know THAT i just butchered that. Word but in. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.440 For and, uh Like, kansas in the middle Of, kansas 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.280 you can't have. That like Obviously Prairie dunes has some of, 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.640 that but like you, know for most metro, Areas atlanta 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.400 just doesn't have that, right and they don't have the 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.160 the the weather with like the. 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:40.280 Cool pretty much. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.520 Cool it was pretty warm some of the days we were, 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.720 there but the cool weather in the sand to have 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.440 the playing conditions that they. Have SO i think like 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.800 the first thing About scotland and just in general is 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.319 like it's just a it's a marvelous place. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:57.640 To maintain a golf. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.560 Course and you, know and especially if you're playing the 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:06.560 seaside links, courses you, know you have everything you want 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.480 for a low, input phenomenal playing. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.960 Surface, yeah you, know and a lot of these courses 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:17.160 that you played are in a way pre golf. Architecture, 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:24.679 yes you, know golf architecture wasn't really architecture until somebody 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.720 had to come in and make changes in order to 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.680 adapt a particular piece of land to. Golf at a 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.479 lot of courses In, scotland there wasn't much adaptation necessary 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:40.360 therefore there wasn't much architecture. Necessary there was design that 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.760 went into placing the tea's and the greens and you, 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.960 know laying out the, course but they weren't moving much 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.240 earth or having to do things to the soil in 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.720 order to make it play in an ideal way because 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:57.120 the land was already. Ideal and, so you, know looking 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.160 for golf architecture at a place LIKE, eee you, Know 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.200 i'm not sure that's the. Point you, know it's a 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:06.160 designed golf, course but it's not an architected golf. COURSE i, 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:06.720 know that's not a. 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:07.680 WORD i don't. 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:12.200 KNOW i Think eli's, got you, know a pretty sophisticated, 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.360 routing you, know if we want to and that's. 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.559 Design that's What i'm referring to as. Design architecture when 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.400 i'm you, know this is What mackenzie makes this. Distinction 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.640 i'm not sure it's like a legitimate. Distinction somebody could 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.800 argue me out of, this but an architect comes into 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.880 play when you're moving stuff, around when you're having to 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.200 do complex things in order to adapt a site to. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:37.640 Golf that makes. Sense, YEAH i think that's the. Thing 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.280 is so much of it's just found, right it's the golf. 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:42.440 There it's. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:46.600 FUNNY i went to the beach with the day AFTER 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.560 i got back with my family and it, was you, 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.880 know Northern california beach and it's just like sitting in 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.520 these sand dunes AND i just was looking at, it you, 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.760 know AND i was, like, well this would be a golf. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.440 Course, scotland you, know, yeah. 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:05.040 Exactly and it's a it's a beach in Northern. California 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.319 so the, weather you, know it's pretty much like sixty 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.440 degrees there all year. Round you could probably have you, 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.560 know it's like where this is protected. Land this is 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.920 A national park beach That i'm, at you, know In, 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.720 scotland this might be a golf course and be one 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.880 of the best golf courses in the, world you, know 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.160 it's just the nature you look, at like the way the. 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.480 Same it's just, like, oh this would be, perfect you, know, 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:31.440 cool cool, weather constant wind and uh and sand. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.760 Dunes well that's sort of our, INTRODUCTION i, suppose why 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.720 don't we get To. Merefield this is the home of 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:43.000 The Honorable company Of Edinburgh, golfers which Predates merefield by 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.080 quite a, bit. Right it's one of the sort of 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.160 original golf, clubs but they moved to from one site 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.440 to another in their early. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.400 DECADES i think this is a little bit confusing For 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.520 americans because we don't really Have but you, know the 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.720 best way to describe it is the. Club you, know 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.760 if you talking about the group of, people it's The 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.720 Honorable company Of Edinburgh. Golfers if you're talking about the, 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.120 place the golf, course It's, meerfield. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.800 Right the club is not necessarily the same as the, place, 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.960 yes whereas In, AMERICA i mean it's almost always the 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:17.400 case that the club is the. Place. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.720 Yeah so in the in the one of the reasons 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.319 is that this, place this this club has a lot 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:26.360 of history before it settled On, meerfield as it's is 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:31.320 long term home and it it shared spaces before it 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.160 got To, merefield so it wasn't like they had other 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:38.800 courses that were exclusively the exclusively theirs before they got. 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:45.000 There but obviously extremely historic, place a historic club and. 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:49.160 Place uh it was the you, know the first place 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.679 they wrote the first rules of. Golf you, know that's 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.880 how they had the first golf competitions with The Silver, 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.160 club you know trophy that you, know they had like 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.720 the first trophy in. Golf they were fundamental in getting 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.520 The Cleric jug. Made they have A cleric. Jug they're 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.360 one OF i think five or, six you, Know they've 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.280 multiple people told me. This i'm, SORRY i can't remember 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.800 five or six places that have their own Clert. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:14.600 Jug you. 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.920 Know so this is a this is a fundamental golf 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:22.080 course and club In scotland and obviously it'll be the 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:26.840 host this week of THE Aig Women's. Open historically has 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.480 been a club that did not have women members. It you, 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.600 KNOW i think you, know they had they had been 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:38.440 removed from The OPEN rota after twenty, thirteen AND i 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.600 think part of the mandate was to adapt with the 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.920 times into the club's. Credit they have done that and 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.640 they're hosting this week AND i think that you, KNOW 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.040 i think one of the things you'll see them kind 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.439 of back into the open rota AND i think they're 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.240 going to host a lot more women's open going, forward 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.120 and that's wonderful because you, know you could make an 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.679 argument that this is the most well put Together scottish 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.240 links course that there. 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.600 Is, yeah we were talking earlier about how a lot 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.080 of courses In scotland are kind of like made before 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:14.360 the period when golf architecture had advanced to a, POLISHED 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.840 i suppose. Level i'm not saying that's, better but that's 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:21.640 just what it. Was but before golf architecture truly became ultra. 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.960 Professionalized merefield is not an example of. 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:25.080 That. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:30.040 Right this is a well built golf, course or a 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.640 golf course built in the modern way as that was 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:36.560 understood in the. Twenties and that's because it was completely 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.320 redesigned By Harry colt in the early. 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:38.760 Twenties. 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:43.040 Right the original course At meerfield was routed designed by 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:43.600 Old Tom. 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.840 Morris it was on a, small small plot of, land. 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.440 A small piece of, land, yeah kind of pretty short 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.880 holts really for the most, part and traveled in more 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:57.960 or less a counterclockwise route around the. Property it started 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:02.760 Hosting open championships, early but the First open championship that it, 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:07.080 held it actually got kind of shelled by the standards 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.240 of the period that there were some low scores at 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.440 THE i think it was the eighteen ninety Two, open 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.280 and so it was not a super well regarded course 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:19.280 after it. OPENED i think that the general consensus on 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:23.200 it is that it, was you, know somewhat unappealing and 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.680 not all that. Challenging, well, okay maybe its reputation kind 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.920 of changes as it evolves over the next couple of. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.520 DECADES i don't know that much about, That but WHAT 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.160 i do know, is of, Course Harry colt came in 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.640 in the early twenties and redesigned it completely made it 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:40.200 into more or less the golf course it is. 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:44.160 Today the club OBTAINED i think it was fifty additional 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:48.600 acres of, land and when they did, that that's when they. 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.560 Redesigned they Brought colt in to completely redesign the golf 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:57.120 course and at that point that's Where deerfield then. Ascended 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.960 and if you know anything About Harry, Colt Harry colt 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.960 is really the you, know we don't talk about him 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.480 a lot In, america and that's because he didn't design 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:07.960 a lot In. 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.760 America what he did was he. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.840 Hired people Like Charles, Allison alistair mackenzie worked For Harry 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.960 colt for a. While but those guys did the. Traveling 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.680 Harry colt he didn't like to leave THE, uk you. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.040 Know so if you go to THE, uk there's lots 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.640 Of Harry colt golf courses and And Harry colt has 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:30.280 designed and been a part, of you know of places 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.400 like figuring out and putting together the final product Of 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.600 Pine valley And Royal county down you, know like he 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:40.400 he has he is, yeah and Obviously, mirfield so he, 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.760 has he has A his roster of golf. 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:45.040 Courses is just. 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.040 Extraordinary and he's not well known In america because he 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:52.560 didn't design a lot of courses In. America but this, 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.240 guy if you go over to THE, uk he, is you, 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.920 know the bee's, knees he's you, know you, know the the. 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.600 Guy so and one of the things that was he 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:05.199 was fundamental in in golf course architecture history was he 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:09.119 was the first one that really made golf architecture of. Profession, 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:13.439 so you, know In, america guys like McDonald at the, 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.640 Time tilling hast are building, courses but they are extraordinarily 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.960 wealthy individuals who are kind of just doing it for. 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.760 Fun they're doing it building courses for their, friends their rich. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.080 Friends Harry colet was the first one that kind of 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:32.879 formalized the, profession started charging. Fees built a firm out 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:37.879 to a business around, this so that, is you, know 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:42.080 kind of like an he was a professional golf. Architect 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.760 mierfield brings him in and they built like it's a 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.680 really well thought of golf. Course it's you, know one 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.679 of the things immediately and obviously the land there is 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:53.960 different than a lot of links. Land but one of 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.879 the things That mierfield doesn't. Have it's got a routing 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.800 that moves a lot of different, directions as opposed to 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:02.199 like you, know the old course you saw at the 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.439 open it plays out and, back you, know with the 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.080 loop is a place where it kind. 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:08.200 Of jogs around a different. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:13.439 Direction But merefield it plays counterclockwise around the edge of 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:17.800 the property and then it plays the opposite direction back 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.080 around the inside of the property clockwise around the inside 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:21.240 of the. 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.040 Property so like it might be reversed from, THAT. 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.040 I think it's. Clockwise it is. Clockwise the you know 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.720 something that threw me for a. Loop The scott say 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:30.760 anti closs top. 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.520 Clockwise, yes, yeah that's a that's that throws me off as. 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.800 Well yeah, No but suffice it to, say the h 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.320 one nine goes one direction around the perimeter and the 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.560 next nine goes the other direction around the. Interior and 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:48.400 this is sometimes referred to as the merefield. Routing right 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:53.439 when other golf courses emulate this basic routing, arrangement people 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:55.600 often look at that and, say, oh that's a merefield. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.880 Routing so it's really identified with this golf. 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:01.040 Course the one hole on the golf course that stands 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:05.360 from that old tom routing is the second. Hole so 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.280 it's a really neat hole. Too it's got great, strategy you, 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.760 know it's got the wall that sits on the on the, 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.200 green it's got the boundary line up the, left it's 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:15.080 got bunkers on the. 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.960 Right it's a it's a really neat little. 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:21.600 Hole the first hole's job really is to just get you, 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.600 out and the second is where you start to encounter 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.240 some really interesting. Land like the first hole is super, 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.960 flat you, know it's hard because it's you, know pretty 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.359 narrow and, long and it plays into a prevailing, wind 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.639 but then that second hole really introduces you to the 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:41.000 ground and the types of things that you'll see throughout 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.679 the rest of the golf. Course but so they this 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:48.879 routing that they, Constructed like the thing that it does 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.119 is it's constantly moving different, directions so the wind is 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:55.520 never you, know you're not playing the same wind hole 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:57.960 after hole after, hole and then you switch and you 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:02.040 play the same relatively same wind hole after hole after. Hole, 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.840 Right so that's one of the big things that it does. 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.000 DIFFERENTLY i think the other thing THAT i noticed a 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.320 lot with With mirfield is it has a little bit 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:16.879 more eccentric. Greens you, know it's got some more you, 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:21.239 know you get out. There the fifth hole is an. 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:23.560 Example it's got like kind of a two tiered. Green 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.720 the you, know you go on that stretch of golf 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:31.680 from really like five through through, eighteen and there are 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:35.800 some really neat greens in that, stretch like the eleventh 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:41.320 THE i, mean the fifteenth has a great, green the 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:44.040 seventeenth is a really deep punch bowl kind of. Green 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:47.040 but they have some a little bit more like you 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:50.399 can tell professional, greens, right they aren't just kind of 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:53.840 like how the land sits or a built up plateau 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:58.760 like are. There they have different pockets that impact strategy 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:01.960 as you go back and relate back to the. Hazards 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:04.800 they aren't just, like, oh let's dig a bunker. 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:08.840 Here the bunkers are the other. Thing Like colt was really. 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:12.360 Known for his cross, bunkers and At mirfield you see these. 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:18.200 Bunkers they have them that sit across. Fairways you, wonder, 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.760 oh like if you looked at it On Google, Earth you're, 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:25.320 like how does that? Relate but they have profound impact 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:27.520 because of the turf and the speed of the. TURF 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:31.320 a great example is the eighth hole. There it's a par, 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:34.399 four it's a big. One it's on the corner of the. 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:36.359 Property like you, know it's kind of the end of 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:41.000 your loop around the. Property and you, know you have 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:45.040 these cross bunkers that sit probably about thirty yards twenty 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:47.560 five yards thirty yards in front of the green and 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:50.760 they're built. Up they obscure your view of the green 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:53.600 a little. Bit you can still see the. Green one 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.439 of the big things At. Mirfields there's only one true 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:58.679 BLIND sot, shot but there are a lot of like 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:02.560 semi obscured blind, shots like where they're partially, blind and 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.879 this is one of, them and you're hitting and like you, 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:09.000 know In, america these these bunkers would have note you 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:12.879 just hit it to the, green but everything pitches. Down you, 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:16.879 know everything's running away with the. Property and, really you, 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.640