Matt Ruches

Yeah, very first time.

I made it to Ireland first, was my first overseas trip, and England last fall, and now I've completed the trifecta and made it to Scotland.

Yeah, it was tough.

I was going back and thinking about it.

And the trip was really a sprint.

We were shooting four different videos across a seven-day period.

So it was a lot of jumping around.

And I didn't get, I would say, as much time to sort of

digest and consume the old course itself.

I mean, I was walking around it basically every day.

And I think my biggest takeaway and something that has even piqued my interest more on the old course, it's pretty cliche, but just how complex it is,

Like I walked it forwards one day shooting a video and then the very next day, like 12 hours later, walked it in reverse shooting another video for the reverse routing.

And that just like completely threw my mind for a loop.

Seeing the old course for the very first time,

walking it forwards and then going backwards it like got me so disoriented and like really illuminated how complex the golf course is there's so much going on there's so many little intricate little things in the ground contours

and so many different ways to play the holes.

And they change so much based on the pin position.

So even though I spent like four probably full days walking in and around the old course, I still feel like I barely know it.

And I've watched tournaments.

I've consumed so much of the old course, yet it still feels almost like this foreign thing that I can't yet fully wrap my head around.