 The sea, the dunes, the ghues, the adjacent railway 9 out 9 in this golf course ticks all the boxes of classic links Right, so today, yes its Aberd-Dovey Golf Club I'm on a very special hole which will feature very, very shortly in a man vs golf hole challenge but for now, going over to look around the front nine and I'll see you back here very shortly as I take on this iconic twelfth hole I'm never a fan of blind tee shots and the reason I don't like them is because If you do it a decent shot, I like to see it land, but I make an exception for this par 3. It's a stunning little hole. It's playing 140 downwind and we've got a camera planted on the green. Can I get a ball on it? I have half a chance there. I can only see the top of the flag, and that's sort of online for it. Not a bad tee shot, but a great hole. I just wish I could see the green. Birdie would be nice. Go on. Go on. Get in. Well, I quite like blind golf holds. Right, I love Lynx golf for many reasons and at Harlock a few weeks back I tried to hit that shot, that one low into the wind and feed off the camber. And it's the same with these type of chip shots. You can see the run-ins at Aberdwy have been fantastic. Great condition. We see a lot of the old boys who play around these courses for many, many years. They'll use a club with not a lot of loft, it won in and a bump and run type of shot feeding in off the camber. And that's what we're going to have a little bit of a go of. That's not a bad effort, you know. Come off that camber, feed to the old, it needed a bit more. That was a decent effort, so don't take my example of it, but that's the shot that you need to master around these courses. I've got to say, the green's absolutely superb and when you consider, again I've mentioned it on every video, we've just come out of lockdown here in Wales. And for them to have the course and the condition is it's a real achievement. So yeah, once again a credit to Aberdwy green staff. But I need to blame something so if this doesn't go in then the greens will wobbly. Bit of a swing on that. Oh, he's got it. He's got it. Like I said, greens are perfect. I'll come right through the back of the green on this par 39. I'll try the old bit of a flatter stick. That's a 7 iron. Do you know what? They're the shots. You can play and stay here at Aberdwy. Last time we came, we actually made use of the Dormie House, which is next to the first tee. It's a perfect place to start, great accommodation. And under there's some great deals in terms of, like I said, two rounds of golf and an overnight stay, but it's perfect. And Aberdwy, as a seaside town, I suppose you'd call it, really pretty, really quaint. It's a sort of bucket and spade ice cream type of place and some nice restaurants here. Daylight to day, it doesn't get much better. Yeah, so pretty decent so far, it's fair to say. And like I said, that start off to the round, that sort of first five or six holes is fantastic. You really know you're into a decent course. But a 12th year is a bit of a disaster. I don't know how many years ago it was now. But basically this green, you know the previous green washed away into the sea, which you'll see from the drone footage just over the other side to the right of the green and the sandbanks collapsed and it was a major, major loss. And they've rebuilt this green that we're looking at now. And it's still a fantastic golf vault, it's a massive challenge as well. Winding off the left, we're only playing 130 today and believe me, back there, this can play a whole lot different. But it's still, I think, got to be sent down that left-hand side and hopefully you've got to get the club right and also just judge that wind. That's half decent. Sit down, ball. Well, the question is, and as ever, you see before I do, because I can't quite see the bottom of the green, right of the flag looks like it had a bit of side spin on so cutting right of the flag, but hopefully somewhere up there. And the first part of the challenge is Achieve, which is finding that short stuff on the dance floor. Right. I don't know my feet. You do. I can't even see it. Oh, pin-eye as well. So I don't know whether you will have seen that. I'm assuming it's pitched sort of anywhere centre to flag and it's just off the fringe in the back right. I can't see a pitch mark. Maybe that's the pitch mark. It's so strange when, like I said, you've already seen it. Anyway, that was a decent club, but it's just swung away. As I said, I thought it might. A bit of wind and a bit of cut spin as well. Anyway, we're still here. We've still got a chance of a birdie. I've had a couple today. Come on, this would be nice. Roll out. I think it was always going to stay on that high side. So even though the pace wasn't there, never quite right. But a stunning golf fall, but it's not about the golf fall. Come with me, because whenever you come here, you've got to come and have a look over the top. And that's what Aberdovey's all about right there. Great golf. High dunes, the sound of the sea. I don't know, for me it doesn't get any better than that. Stunning. Those oozes charm and character. And that can be seen on the 16th. A quirky little oval at 280 yards apart fall. Take an iron off the tee and be as tight as you dare to that left hand side in the railway. I got lucky, left the shortest angle in, just 100 yards with a wedge, but that green is long and it's narrow and there's plenty of danger on the left. Miss it on the high side, leave yourself two puts and get off onto the 17th. What's the first thing you think of when you finish around at Aberdovey? I think it's when can I come back? I think that sets it all really. Top, top golf course and in excellent condition again. So congrats to all the team at Aberdovey. And like I said, I can't wait to come back.