Matt Ruches

like one two three maybe even four like really stand out world-class holes because the land just lends itself to to really interesting and unique things and then part and parcel with that is like the sandy the sandy uh soil and the fine fescue turfs

make the playing and uh like the playability of the golf courses like such a drastically higher level than america so it's like you have these inherent qualities in scotland in the land that just makes the level of golf so high and it almost like makes each course like destined to be like really good in some form or fashion so when you're like trying to rate them or like assign some sort of grade to them like we're talking about kind of

our egg rating system in the courses, it makes it so much more difficult because it's like, oh, well, it inherently is going to play really, really well and allow you to play very creatively and either fly the ball or use the ground and play your game how you want to play it.

And then also, like the land itself is going to generate some really spectacular golf holes in themselves.

So...

it's almost like every course in Scotland is worth going to venture and see.

Cause there's, there's, there's bound to be a few really cool holes playing over some really unique land forms because it's just inherent from the natural environment.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And one thing that kind of adds to that is like with those elements, you can simply have like one singular feature, kind of like the fourth hole on the old course.

There's just a singular like bump right in front of the green and it causes

so much like thought anxiety of how am i going to get around this thinking about where do i need to land it to to properly use it and not have it kind of hurt hurt your shot so that's another thing is what you're saying and how you can just it can be so simple yet so captivating i feel like we we often found ourselves admiring such a small like detail on certain holes

and being just wowed by it because of how much impact it had on how you played that golf hole.

Definitely.

My next one, which might not come to a surprise, is that St.

Andrews Links as a whole is even more incredible of a golfing facility as I imagined.

I mean, I didn't really know a ton about the other golf courses going in.

um i just knew that there is so many and i didn't even realize like you have the the strath tyram and balgrove courses which i had no idea even about and it's really cool the way that it works one of the caddies was telling us about how you kind of start on the balgrove course or or the himalayas putting course

And you kind of work your way up because there's like kind of this like tier system of courses and the difficulty, the length and all of that.

So like as you progress as a child and get better at the game of golf, you get to progress up the golf courses.