Is that worse than @Tron going finger over the top to give the impression that he’s even drinking it? Stay woke…
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One ought not argue about matters of taste, unless your taste is Firestone.
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What a freaking episode. Seeing the full golf shots (missed 3-footers included) really gave me an appreciation for how cool Cruden is, and how different that style of golf is. Simply awesome.
Also @Soly - just…how?
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“It’s only blind the first time you see it.”
Thats deep.
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Hey Tron. What irons are you playing ?
What kind of whiskey was that? Irish? Single Malt Scotch?
DJ calls them “katanas” after the Japanese knife. But they are Rogue Pro Blacks with black shafts. Murder weaponry.
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The Cruden vid was a worthy tribute to a piece of land which no mortal could have dreamt up or created.
It is quirky, irreverent, frustrating and sometimes pompous but the world is a better place with Cruden Bay in it. Much like NLU.
Thank you for your efforts and awesome content.
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Was just looking at their web site. How crazy is it that you can get a subscription at Cruden Bay for less than a thousand bucks a year.
Meanwhile the generic country club down the block probably charges 10x that. We have golf all wrong here.
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Serious weapons. I have proper iron envy and I play 15 year old Mizunos.
This series is immense. Each episode better than the last, I found myself going to back to the pod to hear more about the courses and the trip. I’ve booked to play the old course, north Berwick and possibly Elie in March on the back of it. Seriously good work.
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This is a great point. The pods give the videos context and vice versa. Add in the written summaries/essays and the holistic approach to golf content excites all the senses.
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Firstly I won 1,000,000% agree.
Howevah, The nature of the generic country club in the US I think sadly cannot do what Cruden or North Berwick or hell even Muirfield does. The agronomic differences have been noted and those probably remain the big differences. I just don’t know if there would be as much visitor play actually rolling through to make enough money to get membership or subscription that low. Scotland is the very epitome of golf travel. Maybe I am wrong. I sincerely hope I am wrong. I want nothing more than to live in an American golf landscape of affordable, world class golf, but I am not sure if it would work. With that said, if we were to throw all the caveats, preconceptions, and history out of our heads, locations like Long Island and Philadelphia definitely could be golf meccas just like Fife or East Lothian or the Highlands.
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I totally get it, that they are heavily subsidized by tourists and they don’t have the some costs associated with maintaining their courses given the climate, etc. But man, there’s got to be something in between we can do 
I think it hopefully is the work of golf future. Maybe I’m just an optimist.
Another really cool thing, if you go on google maps and look at many of these courses…they are so close to the town or there’s usually very little in the way of a barrier.
That would be the dream. Damn.
I’ve listened to the Scotland pods no less than 3 times each.
I think that is part of the issues here.
Not accommodative from an infrastructure standpoint.
We’re to spread out and sprawled. American suburbia killing our dream.
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As a Scotsmen watching this I’m loving it, it just gets better , guys keep up the good work. Ive listened to the Podcast twice and it gives a great insight to the courses some I’ve played before.
Cruden Bay is a one of dunes wise Royal Aberdeen to a certain extent but Cruden is a very Irish Dune course.
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