I am lost for words....

So the big question is, did you manage to hang on in there? I don't know whether it's tough. watch an enjoyable watch, and well, I'm sure you'll let me know either way. It was certainly It was enjoyable to play under idyllic conditions—the Robert the Bruce course, by the way. at Turnberry, and well, it was a really nice evening. Now I mentioned that prior to that I'd been filming for a couple of hours with Gary Player, which I always find a surreal experience, coming out of my mouth as an average golfer, and I spent a fair bit of time with him. This guy is 90 years of age. and we were filming some short-form content just for Instagram, and this was leading up to the the Open Championship in Birkdale. Now if you don't follow me on Instagram, you're going to miss a lot of that kind of content because I spend a lot of my week doing this something like that as well, but anyway, it's shot in portrait mode, which means it's kind of the wrong way why not landscape, but I thought it was well worth sharing with you, so take a look through this and Some words of wisdom from someone like me, a nine-time major winner. This shot here is a hundred yards. Into the wind, he takes a wedge and skies it up in the air, and I stand there and take a seven iron. Now watch this—this is a hundred yards. I'm going to hit it exactly six feet off the ground. Did you? see that six feet off the ground, I don't care how strong the wind is, it can't affect it, so you've You've got to have touch, you've got to have feel. Golf is not just the same swing every time. I put this ball. Right in the center of my feet, okay? There, I've kept my weight on my left side—none of this shifting. put the weight back onto the right side, leave my weight on the left side, put the ball back in my Stance, pick the club up pretty quickly, and just look at that— that shot's not even six feet off. the ground no wind can affect that now you don't see that very much on golf in America, South Africa Australia, but in Scotland, on the links—it's different; you've never experienced something like it. Unless you play in a strong wind, people invariably tell others that one of the greatest The greatest victories I ever had were when I was the youngest man to win the Open at Muirfield, and the wind was The wind was blowing, and the rain was blowing, and I shot 284 with the old wooden clubs, heavy shafts. chamois grips and a ball that went 60 yards less, but I was hitting shots this high off the ground Just keeping that ball low, low, low into the wind, and what a difference it made once you hit it. High, you're going to cry; low, you're going to make the dough. But here, you want to play. A flop shot requires you to open the clubface, and your backswing is going to be a bit longer. than normal, you're going to open the clubface, but you've got to accelerate because the club You see that shot? I think I should really stop after that, but you see, I accelerated. Stand there, the club face is open, club back a little longer, but watch my head, watch my head. Look how high that goes. Look at that—I mean, that's the sky. That's the advantage with it. A 60-degree wedge—so everybody wants to have one of these; this is an essential club when playing. High flop shots—it's an absolute necessity for weekend golfers who only play on weekends. if they could learn to run the ball up, keep it low, take your putter from here, take your little Beautiful little fairway woods—don't be scared to putt with that; a lot of pros do that, you got it. to keep that ball low, the quicker it stays on the ground, the better. Now here is an 8-iron I'm turning it into a 7 iron now I'm standing wide, you see? When you stand wide, you're strong. You stand narrow, you're not strong; I can push off your balance so easily now—this is your fault. That weekend, golfers hit the ball, you watch them chip—they all chip like this. There, wait, forward, and then just hit down—look, look, look at that, look at this shot. Eating the flag up, hit the flag, let's go in, oh that's the thing, keep that hit down on it, hit. Yeah, golf is a crazy game—you hit down and the ball goes up; hit up and the ball goes down. But with chipping, make sure your weight is forward, keep it low, and hit down on the ball—don't scoop. Here are the three things that count in a bunker: stand wide, stand wide, and keep your Weight on your left side, no moving your weight off. Now the next thing is the most important thing. And that's cocking your wrists too early; in a normal golf swing, your wrists shouldn't cock like that. In One Piece, but a bunker play is completely different—cock the wrist early now, I came out. with a saying 60 years ago, light the match—you know, when we had the old matchbox, we used to light it To light the cigarette, you had to strike the match; otherwise, it wouldn't spark—and the same applies to this. With a golf shot, and with a bunker shot, you can see that this shot I'm about to play is going to be with a 60-degree loft. Watch my wrist, cock them now. I'm going to drop that. There I'm going to take a pitching wedge. and play the same shot now you've got to have feel to do this because it's a completely different Loft! Now the ball is going to run. Look at that ball! Look at that! Now there's a nice shot! You see, now you come here and you take a nine-nine; now you better have some feel with this. I'm going to place it very close to the face because if you don't play this properly, you're Going right in the face, so nine nine, just a short little swing, watch it run, watch this, look Look at that ball run—do you know what they call it in South Africa? Is it the same as what you call it? Here's the talent I can tell you—this old saying about the Texas wedge is true if you take a putter. From here, you can take the putt with both hands like this—you can stand here and putt. like that, and I'll beat the average amateur golfer And watch this—I hit that with one hand; watch where this goes—get that on camera. so they don't think it's a trick, you see, I'll put it with one hand, you know can bring your chip, I'll beat you every time. So this is a club, and you—if you're not going to Duff this—you're going to duff the chip, but you're not going to duff the putt. But this is a stroke. Saver of all, he's incredible on so many levels. I mean, at 90 years of age, his enthusiasm for the The game is just incredible, and it rubs off on you—if you ever complain about anything, spend a bit time with that guy who's just full of positivity, and you know what's weird? I posted Some of them, uh, Instagram, we got six to seven hundred thousand views—it was an incredible, huge amount. and on Facebook there were actually comments where people somewhat defended this guy have a little bit of a pop at him, and you know what—whether you love or hate somebody when they're I think they've earned a bit of respect at 90 years old, and social media can be pretty disgusting. Sometimes I tell you, some of the things people are willing to post are unbelievable, but anyway, I'm not. I'm gonna stay positive. The following week, which was actually last week, I was at the Ladies' Open Championship at Royal Lytham St Anne's, and once again working with some of the best players in the world on the ladies' game it was on the Wednesday prior to the Open Championship starting and we were looking at things like what's in the bags of certain players, um Megan Kang We had Celine Boutier there; we had a whole host of players who were all out of PXG. roster to be fair, and it was great to spend time with them. Great to have a look at how their bags are set up, and to be honest with you, very similar to how my bag would look with similar items choices in terms of clubs didn't have quite the wear patterns that.observable in terms of the center of the club face, but um, it's great to watch and understand how tempo plays such a massive part on distance and not just like sometimes the men get a little bit excited and try to hit the ball as hard as we can and watching them, you realize otherwise anyway, there's a bit of a Um, the turnby thing, the sort of uh, ASMR, as it's called, the sort of silent movie type I don't know if it's your thing or not, but we thought we'd give it a try. Let me know what you think. You think as ever, and uh, I'll see you. We've got a lot coming—there's a lot of videos been filmed. Over the last week or two we've gotten the variety back in the channel, uh, which I hope you're all Enjoying it, and again, I'm sure you'll let me know if you don't, and don't forget about that Instagram thing. Instagram and Facebook, there's a lot going on there that doesn't always make it onto my YouTube channel, so yeah, keep your eyes peeled— their average golf is at 99, by the way, I should have I mentioned that bit, I'm done.