Matt Ruches

Yeah, another thing that sort of kind of illuminated to me is how one-of-one the old course is.

Like, we probably saw almost 10 golf courses on this short trip jumping around, and they're all Scottish Lynxland golf courses.

And none of them feel remotely even close to the old course in the amount of complexity and just the way that the golf course plays and the land that it plays over.

Yeah, the courses right next door, the new course and the Eden on either side have very similar characteristics.

landforms and the contours can be similar but they're not presented in the same way that the old course is with just like so much plain ground and such wide corridors for the holes that you have all these other contours that

I would presume are on the new course in Eden and all the other courses at St.

Andrews.

But maybe there's a gorse bush over the top of them.

So you're not quite like getting as much of that complexity in the in the visual part when you're playing those other courses.

So there's really just it's just an endless like.

fascination with the course of like, you can just keep diving in, learning more, finding new things.

And that was something like playing with Scott.

Like every time I had a question or a thought about something, I just asked him and he had the answer for it because he's such a wealth of knowledge.

Yeah, and something that was illuminating to me when we were flying the drones and taking photos of the course is...

Like the greens and the bunkers are really like, they make up like 95%, maybe even 99% of the golf course.

So yeah, there's all the other contours and everything in the fairways and whatnot, but it just feels like the greens are such a key component to everything on each hole.

the strategy on how you're playing it where the pin is and there's so much that gets derived from that that i feel like it's even more so than most golf courses like there's the famous cb mcdonald quote where he said the greens are like uh like the face to a painting and it's it's it's never more true than any other course than than the old course

I'll start a little bit broader and then maybe we can work into some more minute takeaways.

But the biggest takeaway that I started to realize is just like the baseline of quality in golf in Scotland is just like almost exponentially greater than America.

Like I was kind of hashing it out in my head and it's like every course in Scotland that's on Linksland is bound to have