Matt Ruches

Like I didn't, I didn't personally go up there, but I saw some of the photos you guys took and it's like such a spectacular site overlooking the entire St.

Andrews city.

So it's, I mean, yeah, there's, there's no shortage of options and kind of like you said, my personal preference is if I'm going to Scotland to play, you know, golf courses that are hundreds of years old,

those are the ones that I want to seek out and go see.

It's just really hard to build a modern golf course with modern equipment and make it feel like a golf course that's been sitting there for 200 years and was basically kind of forged by nature.

My final takeaway is kind of centered around the reverse course or the left-hand routing, as some locals will call it.

I was a bit skeptical going into it.

I just thought it was going to be a little bit more contrived and forced to make that going around the opposite way work.

I know kind of all the history around it and how they would alternate basically weekly long ago.

But I just wasn't really sure how it was going to be and if it was just going to feel kind of gimmicky.

But it turns out that there's a plethora of really awesome golf holes.

And a lot of things really illuminate themselves.

One thing that I think people can kind of, this paints the picture well for them, is when you're playing the 16th hole on the clockwise or the correct routing,

there's all these really cool rumbles and contours right in front of the tee box on the 16th hole that you're basically just hitting your drive over and walking over.

And you don't even think about them when you're playing it the normal way.

But then once you reverse it and you're playing, what is that, the third hole then out to that 15th green, it's like amazing how much of these little contours come into play in your approach shot.

And it just completely flips the script on you

um and it really does present like this completely different golf course that it's just like it's almost like this eerie feeling because it's like you know these greens in the forward direction you become familiar with them and you know their identity but then the second you turn around and play it in the opposite direction it changes the entire dynamic of the golf holes

and there's just so many of them especially on that kind of outward nine uh playing the back nine in reverse essentially uh that works so well and like some of those holes even feel like maybe they're even meant to be played in that direction and the green because the normal way you're coming in the greens pitch away from you and then when you play it in reverse it's kind of a more typical back to front slope so

It was really just fascinating and it kind of shocked me of how well it worked.