Andy Johnson

I still jump on and do some of it.

And I feel like I learn a lot about golf courses when I shoot them.

I don't remember golf courses as well if I don't do drone photography and videography.

It helps me think about, see things differently.

One of the things I find very... Having now flown a drone at the old course a few times now,

is that it's also the hardest place to do that because there's so many things...

When you fly a drone, and this is just an anecdote, you find these standout features and I feel like you get fixated on certain places.

And if you think about it in the lens of a famous course that everybody would know, if you're flying a drone at Pacific Dunes, you get fixated on those holes on the coast.

10, 11, 13 they're just pulling you over there because they're so epic at the old course I find that like I just get lost and it's like wait did I just like spend 30 minutes on two holes that just share a corridor and I'm just because there's so many things that like pop and it just is a it's a testament to what we're talking about of like

Just the sheer number of little features that are there is unlike any other golf course.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's an amazing place.

Obviously, they're the host of next year's Open.

We'll have a ton of coverage for that in the coming months.

Talking a little bit more broadly, I asked you to compile 3 big takeaways from your first trip to Scotland.

What's your first big takeaway?

Yeah.

I, I think like the, the turf, uh, is the turf and the soil and then the, the wind also.

So the combination of those three allows actually very simple architecture to wow you.