 Following a night stay at Gales Hotel in Irvine we made a short journey to the Ayrshire Seatide town of Largs where our adventure was about to begin. I've done a lot of filming across Scotland in the last couple years but this is the first time we're sat on a boat about to leave the mainland and welcome to what's going to be four episodes of ferry golf yet we have set sail on a real adventure I wanted to do this for quite some time the next four Sundays you'll see an episode every week of me on a ferry on an island playing some golf and it's a real adventure and it adds to the excitement this is not about just playing golf it's about this whole journey and the first island we go to is Cumbrae and the golf course we're about to visit is Millport. I can't wait to get there to be honest with you. Once we have arrived at Millport golf club which is it's probably two or three mile away from the port itself take long to get here it's a bit more in terms of their housing and where we drove through than I expected to be honest with you but it's absolutely deathly silent here this morning so so quiet almost surreal let's get to the first CA so quiet. The Isle of Cumbrae only has 1,300 residents but this is Scotland and a golf course is part of the island's fabric and it's a golf course that's supported by residents holiday makers and daytrippers alike and from what I can see a warm welcome awaits right so on Simon is Alex Higgety who is current captain at Millport Golf Club and Alex I'm about to tear it up on the first yeah the question is what am I gonna find out there what can I expect? Lots of ferns lots of gorse keep it down the middle and once you get up to the fifth and play from there on you'll see the most spectacular views you'll see in the midst of Scotland. I like the idea of the views keeping it down the middle that's the that's the hard part yeah we'll see how we get on. Thanks, enjoy your day. Thank you, cheers Alex. Thanks for coming. Keep moving malt keep moving and bounce and bounce that's so firm that's not bad you know this place what is it 1,97 I think it's a par 3 it's gotta be all uphill the thing after four holes is just the absolute serenity of this place I said on the way in it's quiet it is so calming of it's probably I think the four greens in reg so far you find yourself swinging about 75% of what you normally would everything just drops down a little bit because you feel very much it's great so as you climb up the views just get better and better and as you can see now so the clubhouse I don't know where it is it's down there somewhere took the way to the left I think but how my word how good is that and it's still deathly silent I can imagine obviously the wind does blow on Cumbrae it does a bit in Scotland so I'd imagine there's days when you absolutely blown off your feet up here because we're relatively high right now but even on them days I think you can have a bit of a glance round yet I love courses where I say it time and time again where even if your golf is absolute garbage you can have a little bit of a look around and think thank God I'm on this golf course I'm not stuck in work or an office or something else Scotland is very very pretty isn't it right wedge up the hill so we're approaching halfway and this is just ideal holiday golf I've got you'll notice I've got no driver in the bag today you might need it when the breeze blows but other than that now it's kind of you can certainly go around with half a carry bag a Sunday bag you'll see some great stands that I love where you just prop your Sunday bag up on which I've not seen too often around the place the views like I said are absolutely spectacular I just our ferry from Largs it's just a 10 minute trip over and then like I said five 10 minute drive then into Millport it's 24 quid to play here today and I just think it's a fantastic little break from everything is with air sure there's so many good golf courses everybody knows about them for the sake of a 10 minute ferry journey and getting on to the island it adds to that little bit of an excitement and like I said it becomes a day trip it's not just about the golf it's a back kind of experience it really is nice I've just been got the scorecard on 10 because I would assume this was stroking next one it's certainly the most difficult hole we've played so far which is team back on the horizon plenty of room off the tee box but it's a second shot in which I only had a nine I'm nine iron in hand but I managed to pull it into this side it's very much into a narrow gap and either leak one right or what I did pull one left lost ball into this long stuff I thought was a fairly tough hole but maybe you've only got a short iron in hand and on my second ball it's just behind the camera woman who's making her way backwards but yeah great golf hole and tough the toughest we've played so far but stroke index one is yet to come I forget in the old it might do nearly made a bit of a save in there but like I said pull one into the long stuff over there and as I said earlier don't win Jan just have a little bit of a nose round and the Sun has come up now the views are even more spectacular I'll give myself that one but I said about stroke index one was yet to come it's a 13th hole and I can see why it's tough it's 440 off the yellows we've got a decent ball up the left side of the fairway and the camera is huge depending on which way you're playing obviously they're up or down the cameras are quite severe and you've got to be on the right side of the fairway but still left 183 in and I've just flew the drone from here in which you're looking at now I can only see the tip of the flag and it looks to be the most narrowest of greens to try and get to are really tough golf all I'm playing the fairways have been really firm and fiery I'm gonna play a six iron which is definitely not what I would play for 183 but hoping this sort of bounces in a little bit that's a decent ball here's that firm bounce it's almost like it's landed on a tennis court that's just bounded up in the air from what I can memorize from the from the drone shot I think that might have missed the green just on the left hand side based on it being so narrow and a really good strike to be fair but by far the toughest all we've played this morning right my round has come to an end and there been a really enjoyable morning we had a bit of sunshine that came in for a little bit last hole is 299 off the yellows which is where I've played from and out of interest the course plays just 5400 yards as a visitor off the yellow tee blocks and for me you know the 5300 yards sort of explains what this is all about it's having a bit of fun it's a fairly relaxed easygoing course it's very much a holiday course you come here you make it all about a day out you get that ferry over which is all part of the experience so much to eat in this clubhouse afterwards which is seemed very very friendly indeed and now it's time to get a ferry back onto that mainland see where we're going next right that is us back on the ferry to the mainland interlarges and then we're about to catch another ferry in a couple of hours time onto another island and that'll be next week's episode so don't forget next Sunday 6 30 I'll see you all then for episode 2 of ferry golf comments down below hit that like button and if you haven't subscribed already then I'd appreciate it if you would do so I'll see you all soon