 Harlec castles saw the longest siege in British history, between 1461 and 1468, where the men of Harlec were not yield. The castle women stand proud on the hilltop, overlooking a golf course that has been granted royal status, providing a new battleground, and like the castle, the quest to overcome its defences are a significant challenge. For me, the purest form of the game is Lynxgolf, of which Royal St David's is the epitome of. At first glance, Lynxgolf can often appear to be a barren landscape, an uncompromising terrain. Firm and fast greens, a wind that changes with the tide, rolling fairways on even lies, and run-offs that gather and punish. The challenge is ever-changing, but the charm and purity of the game is eternal. Right, so two holes to warm up. The best way I can describe it is thinking of the classic open scenes, where you've got the white fairways all burnt middle of July, classic open visuals, and that's what we've got down here at Royal St David's this morning. It looks absolutely stunning. Not a breath of wind, which is unusual down here, I can tell you. And you've got a tee shot. The crowds are gathering, and we've just got a three-wood with a bit of cut off the left-hand side. Oh, do you know what? Unexpectedly, that's happened. Go on then. Go on then, Paul. Not often you describe it, it happens, but it just did. Right, so people often ask me what is I love about Lynxgolf, and there's lots of things, but one of the big deals is I like trying to play shots that I don't necessarily have the capability to do, but I like trying them out here, and this is a 175, slightly into the wind. I'd normally be sort of full on six iron, but out here today when the run-ins are really fiery and firmy, you know that's going to pounce off, then I'm going to go up to a fibre, really soft, and try and just feed one in and watch it rolling off the canvas straight into the hole. But it's just, like I said, I don't even mind when I can't execute what I'm doing, but I just love trying to emulate those type of shots. I've overcut it. It's a nice try-hand. Will it feed on to that green? You see it running on there. Do you know what? It's done alright. It's down the sort of bottom end of that other green. It's okay. It's pretty much like I said, not good enough to execute it, but I still love trying it. The idea of this hole is just to show you the tee shot, but also this is where I finished, and you know what, it wasn't too bad, but it just again shows you a real feature of Lynxgolf, and it's these swales and run-offs that I'd call them. A fantastic feature of golf, they make it, they make it, it's the tough part of Lynxgolf as well. It can often be really punishing even on good shots. You've either got a really good short game if you can chip this one close, but for me it's a bit of a choice of Texas Wedge. And trying to get this one up and down in two is no easy feat. Go ball, go a bit more. I don't know what I'd take that, but what a rising again. What a great feature of Lynxgolf at Royal St. David's. Little par three, hole 11. Punch ball green, just 130 yards, nothing of it, into the breeze, and one that everybody remembers who's played here at Royal St. David's. Just hang on there, hang on to the left hand side. It's a good club in terms of distance I think, and kick. Right, my ball did okay, better than I thought to be honest with you, but I just wanted to stop, we're still on 11 that is, and show you some of these. There's a lot of work going on around St. David's, and there's sort of humps and bumps and these big swales that they've built. It's a fantastic addition. You send your ball off down the left, off the tee shot, and you can see how all of a sudden you might get a kick straight back down again and still find yourself up on a green. In that instance, the elk, but believe me, these swales can either be, well, it can sometimes be punishing as well, but a great addition to the course here at Royal St. David's. Yeah, it's challenge time again, a bit of man versus golf, and I love this golf hole, it's a 15th. It's stroke three, it's a tough one, but it's a stunning par four. I think it's time I tuck it on and beat it, because it's beat me up many times over the years. Right, first thing is to find a short stuff, and like I said, this is in the dunes. Green, let's forget about the green for now. I'm going to go with three wood, and I'm going to try and hit a bit of a cut. Start it down that left-hand side and feed it back in. Sounds perfect. What? It's a good ball, hasn't cut enough, but where does that finish in terms of distance? I think that's okay. Decent ball solid, didn't cut, but a decent start. Happy with that. The tee shot just ran off the fairway, but reason I'm happy with it. This is a hole where you've got to walk forward and have a look if you've not played it before, especially. It's a little bit blind, and it's a tough one. Pick out a line and stick with it. We've got a camera up there, but that's a little bit ambitious, I think. That's a great strike, you know. You'll see this before I do, because like I said, that green is blind to me. I think there's a white marker that I was aiming for, and I'm right on it. So you tell me, how's that got on? I don't know whether you'd have seen that land yet, because obviously I've not seen the footage, because there's some, like I said, some severe drop-offs, and it looks as though it's pitched in somewhere around here. So hopefully you've got it. But anyway, the point is, we landed on the green, and I'm pretty happy with that, to be fair. Stroking next three, putting some birdie. Come on, make my day. Go on, ball, go on. Ah, decent pace, but to be honest with you, still on that tee, and assuming I can make that, which I did, that's a blinking golf fore, but what a good golf fore more importantly. I think the mark of any good golf course is sort of, it asks you questions of your game, and it continually does that. I don't know whether you're on the tee with its iron shot. Even simple and straightforward chips, at least that's how they appear. But Royal St. David's does that, literally right the way throughout the course, and there's a lot of questions. I'm afraid I don't have too many answers for it, and another delicate little chip in here into a firm green. Oh, hang on, that's half-decent. Go a little bit more, go a little bit more. Yeah, somewhere around there. That's not a bad answer on this occasion, but Royal St. David's real good design and the quality and the mark of an exceptional golf course. That's me done a great start to our series in North Wales. Royal St. David's was absolutely fantastic, but still hard like refuges to yield. Well, not a lot anyway.