Man great sell. Amazing Race/Idiot Abroad type of stuff seems like a good fit.
Couldnât sleep last night so I watched this at 1 am. Was in a weird place⌠this made everything right. Bless all yâall.
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England could definitely be at least 2 seasons. Northwest (Lancashire) and Heathland (not to mention SE and a smattering all throughout the country). Iâd be all for Season 5: Heathland. Just set-up camp in Surrey.
Down the road, repeat trips to Scotland (Muirfield, Turnberry, Troon, Prestwick, Machrihanish, Western Gailes, Kingsbarns, Carnoustie, Gleaneagles, etc. etc.) and Ireland (RCD, Portrush, Portmarnock, The Island, European Club, Rosapenna) would be possible without any repeats.
Stateside, Michigan or Great Lakes is the obvious one.
South Africa and Argentina as sleepers, too.
Iâd be really interested if a continental Europe trip would be feasible. Koninklijke, Utrecht, Noorwdwijkse, Chantilly, Fontainbleau, St. Germain, Les Bordes, Catalunya, Valderrama, Sotogrande, Monte Rei, West Cliffs. You could probably split it into Benelux+France and Iberian peninsula. Not sure if thatâs worth it or it starts to verge in to EAL territory.
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you missed Morfontaine
Doubt theyâre getting on that. They didnât do Cypress Point in California. I should add that I know VERY little about continental European golf so I have no clue how accessible most of those courses are. I just know Morfontaine is AGNC, CPC level exclusive.
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There are tons of public/resort courses they could get on in Japan assuming they have a native speaking golfer to help them. Beyond a few resort courses near the ocean most will be nice, but nothing amazing once you get past the main differences with courses elsewhere in the world. Those differences being: lots of elevation change up and down, you donât play straight through 18 holes, remote controlled 4 person automated golf carts that stay on the path, beam activated magic carpets instead of stairs, metal cup bottoms making a distinct noise when balls fall in them, double greens with one for winter and one for summer on many of the older courses. Thereâs enough to make an interesting 4 course or so series, but without a native speaker youâre going through a guided travel company and the costs are dramatically higher.
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Which one did the bury Rory in?
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Great questionâwe unfortunately did not get up to that part of the country.
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Hogâs Head also has a burial site or two. One of the holes is called Limbo b/c in the 500âs AD the local early Christian communities would bury unbaptized children there instead of by the churches. Better go back, @Randy
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If the first night isnât at the Robot Bar in Tokyo then all is lost.
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A Midwest Michigan/Wisconsin trip is so obvious I almost think it must be in the works already
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I just want to know what Callaway paid for a CGI budget because there was no way that fox was real.
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They arenât âsupposed toâ be anything. Itâs free content.
Who wouldnât want cypress point or pine valley content? Or Tokyo GC? The range of that end down to Iowa munis is what makes it so great.
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I tripodâd the camera and laid on the ground hoping to get a cool shot of the fox walking by. It was zoomed pretty far, so the window had to be pretty small for him to actually get in the shot, but figured it would be a cool transition shot. Sure enough, he stops and poses DIRECTLY in the shot. Then sits down! That must have been like .01% of what wildlife photographers experience, but it was easily the most memorable part of the day for me.
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Any of us would be happy for CP/PV content. That doesnât mean it should be a Tourist Sauce episode.
If Tron and Soly want to start a new C-Suite series on the complete opposite end of Strapped (Iowa munis are not Tourist Sauce) that features courses like those, Iâd eat up the content. But personally, I would be disappointed if the Tourist Sauce seasons went away from courses that we can get on with reasonable effort. (There are a couple that I would argue havenât fallen into that category, but the vast majority have.)
Iâd also argue that youâre completely off base in saying the arenât supposed to be anything. These arenât simple course vlogs.
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Honestly I think this would be tough content to make work unless they only did it like once a year (An Annual C-Suite Christmas Special with @Soly and @Tron?). A lot of what makes Strapped great wouldnât translate to a video series of two guys playing super fancy courses (seeing the Strapped boys at Adare was great, but it doesnât work as long-form content without the fish out of water component). Itâd be really funny if they could lean into a theme and sort of make fun of themselves, but purely as a âlook how cool this place that we played isâ type thing I think it would be tough to make jive with the overall NLU vibe.
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Weâve thrown this idea around for awhile, but itâs just really tough to execute. One, a lot of private courses arenât thrilled in the least bit about people out filming. Two, itâs pretty tough to not come off like a complete douche.
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I would love it if you and @Tron just embrace your inner heel, like both of you did at the start of the first Strapped episode. Those âexecutiveâ interviews still rank as some of my favorite NLU footage. Make it an absurd look at the C-Suite that is entirely tongue in cheek (assuming some of these private courses let you film).
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