And now, back to Tourist Sauce, Ireland!
I’d absolutely love to spend a week traveling around in that bus. Talk about rock star accommodations!
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Ah, thanks for that.
Also, thanks for the kind words.
Brett Eldredge has dreamy pipes
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None of us had ever been to Doonbeg. I had heard good things about the course, and I personally wouldn’t not go to a Trump course just because he owns it. As TC said in the ep, it’s part of the landscape in Ireland, and honestly we were curious to see it. And it’s kind of our job to report on these kind of things.
You can choose to believe this or not, but Trump owning it had literally zero affect on what I think about the course. I was prepared for the messaging in the video to be “say what you want about trump, but his courses can be kinda cool.” This just was not. The scenery looks nuts in the video and it is, but the golf holes are funky and so uninspiring. I pretty much felt the same about enniscrone.
I cannot say the same about Turnberry. It’s insanely good! Zero qualifiers there. And Trump owns that.
The Aberdeen course feels exactly like the ireland course. Like, the same exact greens on repeat. Insanely boring.
Of course everything is going to get dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, despite a ton of care going into the messaging. But we were totally prepared for that to be the case.
We’re on to Lahinch.
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Thank you for proving my point about Trump and playing Turnberry. A good golf course is a good golf course and I trust you guise to report as such.
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One thing about NLU not in question. Trust. 
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The holes at Doonbeg have to be pretty bad to not like the course given how amazing the scenery is.
What speicifcally was funky and/or uninspiring? Flat greens?
I’ll be interested to see the episode on Enniscrone because I remember liking it. But, it’s been a decade since I was there.
I guess there is a reason it was failing before Trump came in. If the course was amazing that wouldn’t have happened.
There are some great holes. But it’s not very strategically appealing. Kind of target golf.
Also verrrrry penal or at least was. Fairway straight into deep thick heather / fescue. Not much on recovery.
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I have heard it is very difficult.
In my opinion, that’s why it gets the ranking it does. Without question top 5 difficulty in the country.
We’re gonna disagree so hard on Enniscrone and that’ll be fun 
It’s the perfect amount of fun, rugged and quirky. Can remember a ton of holes. For reference, I can remember 3 holes at Doonbeg, even after the video:
#1: Straightaway par 5 with framed green
#14: par 3 I almost aced, Beach right
#18: just the green complex really.
Courses are art, so I don’t like telling people what to like, but I can tell you it wasn’t my cup of tea. It doesn’t pop, it doesn’t use the land like other courses, it didn’t grab my imagination and capture my mind.
It also wasn’t “bad” by any means. You’d never regret playing there (unless you had one round and skipped some others). The other stuff, I said my piece in the video.
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His Christmas album is fantastic. Such a good voice for it
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It’s the same green complex over and over. There’s no theme or strategy to the greens. Random humps and bumps, random tiers. The greens were legit rolling at about a 5 or 6 when we were there. The course just felt like it never ended.
The line ended up getting cut, but the way I described it was that it lacked soul. And compared to everything else we played… it’s just not even in the same ballpark. There’s a reason the course has had to be redone multiple times. It’s just a funky ass place.
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I thought it was an interesting episode, an issue worth discussing, and everything y’all said came across as both genuine and in your style, showing rather than necessarily telling by talking to the locals, etc. I said this above, but even if some of you had differing preferences, @djpie especially did a great job illustrating how complicated it is to try to draw lines.
Can’t wait to see Lahinch, though.
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Does Doolin have yardages?
I kind of hope not. Never done a pitch and putt like that but THAT is what more golfers need to practice. See target, feel the distance, be an athlete, and pull something off.
<75 yds take of the glove and forget the number.
Sick episode BTW. like a fine wine.
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Great stuff on the B-roll @MerchCzar, definitely “have an eye” for it. Which is more than can be said for your Guinness takes; how can you not have had ONE before now/then?!
Overall loved the episode though, other than wishing it was longer like most of the rest of them. Thought you all did a fine job of the Trump stuff, though clearly it’ll never be “right” for some people, seens as he’s so divisive in everything he does/touches.
Craic ON!
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Makes sense. From a viewers perspective having never played overseas it’s hard to tell if those sentiments are attached to “other opinions”. Would it be called amazing if it really was? I don’t know, impossible situation. But major points to the guise for even airing a second of it.
Would be so easy to pretend like it didn’t happen and not include it. So cheers. Track me down and hit em again.
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Yardages in meters every hole. We put Neil in charge of calculating, though, so there may as well have not been.
(I kid, I kid)
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