 The Lake District National Park is a world heritage site and renowned for its lakes, forests and mountains. Some of the finest landscapes are spread across the region of Cumbria. Lake Windermere is one of the most popular visitor locations within the National Park, but this channel is about golf courses and not lakes. Although I do like a lake. What I can tell you is just five minutes drive away is a golf course that was founded in 1891. I've never been there before. It's a little bit chilly, but we're going to take a little bit of a look around. Before we get to the golf course, the camera lady just saying she's down to us because she wants them to eat. So we're going to stop by in Windermere where I believe she's found a nice cafe for some breakfast before we kick off. And it seems cafe culture has spread from the cities as we had a queue on Monday morning to get into what was obviously a very popular spot. And it was soon easy to see why. Tracy ordered the cornbread with avocados, eggs, mushrooms and a whole lot more, which quite honestly was divine. I sell for a simple bacon sarnie, but it was quite honestly the best I've ever eaten. So with the camera woman fed and watered, we could now make our way to the golf course. Shot and was a decent shot away, but we've just had, well, not great news anyway. I've just arrived. We left very early this morning and it's been very cold overnight. I've just arrived in the pro shop and I've been told we're going to be playing 18 temporary greens, which is not going on two parts. One, I hate playing golf with temporary greens. And two, we're trying to show this golf course off. And for me to show you any drone footage, that kind of thing is going to be a challenge when there's no flags in the real greens. But we'll work it out. We'll get some positivity out of it. This series has already led me to places I wouldn't have otherwise gotten to. It has led me to a new excitement to play golf again, discovering golf courses for the first time, provides a mix of excitement, optimism and sometimes a heightened anxiety of first-tea nerves, all of which are good reasons to get out and about if possible and try something new every now and then. And the first positive we're going to take is just how nice is the day. It's pure blue skies and as I've already said, extremely cold and fully understand why these greens are. Pretty much frozen underfoot, but either way, I'm going to struggle but we'll find a way of showing off what seems to be already a real quirky golf course that it looks like I'm going to have to come back to. Just to give you some idea of the frustrations is behind me. We've not played to this whole yet, but a sort of elevated green with that mountains in the backdrop is just, well, breathtaking. Unfortunately, I won't show you the green while you're playing too, but it's so frustrating. But also, in a way, it's drawing me back in because I'm getting a little teaser today and that means that ultimately, I've got to come back and see this course at some point, not only with the greens out, but obviously with leaves on trees and maybe in a bit warmer days. But absolutely breathtaking views. Well, it's time for a little rest on Neil's seat. A bit of water. It's a bit of a hike to be fair. There's a few inclines to say the least, but as I keep saying about the views, incredible. What I've decided to do something a bit different, and I wondered if you can ever relate during the winter golf, is that I've set a different kind of challenge to myself and that's I'm not putting on the greens or anything like that. So I'm trying to hit fairways in regulation. So all my concentration has been on my game off the tee. And at least it focuses the mind a little bit because, like I said, when I get to the greens, just in case I pick up the ball, put it in my pocket. But having that at least sort of mindset on the tee, set some kind of challenge. And the rest is just about walking to the ball and taking in those views. Now once again, a huge thank you to Tacomo Golf for supporting this series of videos. Quite simply without their support, we couldn't do this. And as you'll hear later in this video, I can't help but be impressed by all of their golf clubs. The one thing our camera ladies just picked up on that I hadn't is that there are no bunkers on the course release. Not so far anyway. I've not seen any. And the other point that I'd like to mention is I've not played driver yet either. There's a lot of interest in short par fours, but really all about position it looks to be. This one plays, well, two sixty three off the back. We're another 40 yards further forward. So either way, I think there'd be a lot of strategic play around wind them here, but we'll have to come back before we work that out. Which seems the perfect moment for photo of the week. Don't forget Tracy or Andy in the comments down below. I'll tell you what I will say whilst the camera's on. It's just a shout out to the Tacomo Threewood, which we're going to look at in a lot more detail in the weeks ahead. But I'm absolutely nailing this thing. And actually, you know, I'm not overly keen on Threewoods, but this is super impressive, you know. And whilst winter greens aren't ideal, I took the time to enjoy the surroundings. Windermere is a very pretty golf course indeed, with some breathtaking backdrops, and somewhere I will no doubt return in the warmer months. I'm ripping this thing. Well, it's at the black of my marker post. But you know what? I think this challenge is actually doing me a bit of a favour, because again, I've hit a fair way in reg. And my concentration on tea is perhaps far greater than it normally is, because maybe just get up here and give it a wallop. Whereas because of this challenge I've set for myself mentally, I think it's actually helping my game. Right, so that's golf finished, drawing it to a bit of a premature close, because we're staying in a van this evening, and as yet we've got nowhere to sort of physically stay, park the van. So before it gets too dark, I think we need to get a bit of a shift on and find somewhere suitable. And that led us to the oldest pub in Windermere to plan our stay, but we learned that heavy snow was forecast in the area, which could cause a problem with travelling the following day. We needed a change of plan. So 48 hours later I am back in Hollywood Golf Club, a golf club that isn't open either. You see, it was a very good decision. The snow did come down, and the temperatures dropped to something like minus four overnight. Despite my willingness and also my wife's to get out and stay in the van, it's not perhaps the most comfortable thing to do right now, and certainly it was a wise decision to return home. Unfortunately home looks like what the Lake District did, and that's a golf course covered in snow, so for the time being we'll be in the van editing and we'll wait. Keep our fingers crossed and hopefully be back on the road next week, and that snow disappears. We've got another episode of Off the Beaten Track, and without temporary greeners. See you next week. That was nice anyway.