 Right, the sun is about to rise on a classic man versus golf hole challenge. The question is what are the holes that I am faced with and where are we? So we kick things off on the 10th hole at Kinted the Marina is, in fact, a par five and I'm gonna need a drive in and around 250 yards to get me in position A off the tee and avoid that water. And then next up, I'm gonna be looking at something like 170 or 190 into very much a layup area which should leave a short wedge into a green that is well protected to say the least sitting in front of the resort hotel. Next up is hole 12 on the scorecard and this one is a dog leg right to left. And again, gonna need a decent drive to find the top of that Brow of the hill which kicks down a little and feeds to leave in. Hopefully a shorter iron on this dog leg right to left. Some incredible views, a kidney-shaped green and a severe hump in the middle of it all and it's important to try and land on the right tier on this one. And finally is hole 13 which is another par four and albeit a relatively short hole it needs to get position off the tee with a left to right tee shot to leave what should be a very short iron in hand. However, this green may be wide but it is extremely narrow and takes a great deal of effort to get this thing to stop and land on what is a front to back sloping green. And those holes are from Kinta de Marina in Cascay Portugal and I am here thanks to the team at Glencore Golf Holidays. And one other big reveal in this video is what driver I'm gonna be using in the season ahead. Well, it is in fact, obviously the stealth two. It's the HD model and after a number of tests this is what I've plumbed for but can it do what I want it to. And first of all, it's find the fairway on hole number 10. Now you've already seen the drone footage of hole number 10 so you can see what we're faced with and quite possibly one of the signature holes here at Kinta de Marina. We're gonna break this one down and the first thing I need to do is stay left of the water on this tee shot but we also don't wanna go too far left and leave a long second into this par five that's measured in 475 meters from this tee position. So at the center of the fairway with a little bit of cut is what I'm hoping to do. And that's a great start. And again, that confidence in the driver decision was justified. Think that's position A, a great start to the challenge. Okay, so direct line to the flag is pretty much tight to this building on the left which all I'll tell you whether we can go for it or not. It's 227 so the answer is no, we can't. It's outside of my range. So I'm gonna zap a tree in the distance very much like a palm tree. That's 191 to there and then it should leave me with a short wedge in hand or at least that's the plan. Right, so between red steak and palm tree is the line. I'm gonna play a five hybrid. See if I can let the club do the work and get me in a good position. Well, that's as good as I've got in terms of two pure strikes driver off the tee and that is pretty much bang central as well. I'm hoping I've just got a short wedge into what is a tiny green. Now I am in position A but I also will say a bit of a caveat to that that we've not got a lot of green to work with. I've got a tad bit of breeze in and I've got 90 into the flag and I'm gonna go with a 56 wedge and to be honest with you, that's a full wedge if you like. And so a tad dangerous but this hole is really clever in that you've got a short wedge in hand but a fairly small target with not a great deal of room at the back of this green either. I just hope I have made the wrong decision in terms of too much loft. That's a really good stick. Again is the yard right. No sift. Sift. Oh my word, that was so good in the air and I think it needs a yard more and that'll trickle down to the flag which you'll see very shortly. As it happens, I've pitched into the top of the bank. It's rolled down a tad. The good news is it's hanging on for now at least. Well I don't know if you can pick it up on camera you'll want to see the amount of balls that are collected in here. They must get thousands per year and if you'll see where mine is I nearly added to that count. I can't believe it's just held on the bank. You can see just the pitch which would have not been too bad. Anyway, I've got the same wedge which is a 56 and we're just going to try and pop this one up and get it running at the flag. Just come on, go in, go in, go in. It's got it, it's got my word. That was, to be honest with you, I didn't want to speak too soon because it looked from the get go that was right online. There wasn't a lot of movement in the roll it seemed. Anyway, but to get that one hold out with the first hold of the challenge is fantastic. So that's a birdie, but maybe more importantly, a win. Right next hole up is number 12 in the challenge and it's 393 meters. It's stroke index two and it's called lefty and I think that'll be largely due to the fact as you've seen from the drone, it's a bit of a right to left in terms of a dog leg and quite severe and it's really narrow up top. So what we want to try and do, it will be going driver off the tee but it's all about getting position on the angle of that dog leg and if we manage to get one down there just over the brow, there's a bit of a kick down and then we should leave a short wedge in hand. We've got to get that driver away first. Well, it's the same deal really. I want to go left with a bit of cut. I just don't want to get too greedy in terms of trying to get close to the angle of the dog leg. Yeah, do you know what? That's a good bit of control. Again, you can see it coming back to center. I just need to get going. And again, I think we've just reached the brow because that's disappeared. See how much of a kick down we get and hopefully we've got a good line in and now there's nothing going to be in our way or maybe just a little bit further away than I hoped to be. Well, that's interesting. I knew I hadn't quite got the drive. I played this hole twice in the last couple of days and managed to get it scooting down the hill and we've sort of stayed on it a little bit. It's a huge difference in terms of what I've got left in. I've got 195 into this flag and this green is long and narrow. There's a bit of a rise in the middle of it. It's a really idea that you want to be on that back end. Otherwise, you've got a difficult two put. So yeah, we've left ourselves with a little bit more work than I've had in the previous two days. They can certainly understand today why this is stroke index two. So right, what we're going with 195. Okay, we're going to go strategic selection here because I've got that five hybrid in hand and I reckon I can only make the front edge but I'm prepared to sort of take that from here and see if we can make the two and not forgetting the rules of the game. I'm literally on a shot. This is stroke two. So a five would be a half. Right, let's just get this bit right. Go on. Go on. I have got it on the lower tier. So there is that, well, you'll see very shortly, an issue with the put over the rise, but I can't tell you how happy I was with the strike. And so far, two drives, two five hybrids have been top draw. Now, although I'm really pleased in terms of getting onto this green, you can see what I mean about the length of it. And it's still got a long way to go. That rise is just well on the top of there. I think it's going to swing from high to low. From the left to right. And what I'm basically trying to say is there's a lot of work still in this to try and get down in two. Cause it needs to be almost dead weight to the top of the brow. And then let it release down to the hole. Don't overdo it. But at the same time, make sure you get to the ridge. That's too quick. It's too quick. Oh my word. That's even off camera, the one I had placed behind the green. And seriously, the pace in these things is super quick. And the fear of not wanting to leave it short just meant an extra bit of a stab there. And yeah, we've got quite a bit still to do. Well, I suppose in many ways it's gone according to plan. I did say we probably looking at playing for a five almost a year from where I'd left myself in the second shot, but I am disappointed in terms of how far I've come past the hole. So with the shot stroke index two, this one is for the win. Oh my word. I looked in all of the way until the last sort of six inches or so when it started to turn away. But I did leave myself a little bit too much to expect to hold that out for par. But either way, I've got a half. I'm still one up, but don't forget, it all goes down to the wire in man versus golf. So I spent four nights in room 244 at Kinterdamerina Golf Resort. The hotel was modern, clean, comfortable and I had a great pool view. The hotel itself was perfect and it was a great location which meant we spent most of our evenings in nearby Kashkai. It was a five euro Uber and a 10 minute drive into this seaside town where we enjoyed many of the nice places to eat and drink. And as with any good restaurants near the sea, there was plenty of good seafood on offer. I love the charm of the back streets of Kashkai where we found what was our favorite stop-off at Senor Manuel's. But in amongst these streets, there was an abundance of places to eat and to be fair, they all looked really nice and the atmosphere in these streets was superb. Each morning, we would get a short two minute shuttle to the clubhouse where we checked into the pro shop, organized our buggy, picked up our scorecards and there was always a warm welcome and then later we would return to that same clubhouse for a spot of lunch and unfortunately, to do a little bit of work. Afternoons were then spent by the pool which would be overlooking the 10th green and then inside for a spa and sauna. So if you like what you see in today's video then make sure you click on the link in the video description below or head on over to GlencoreGolf.com for more booking information. Right, enough of all of that. I think it's time to return to the golf course and see who comes out victorious in this man versus golf hole challenge. Right, the final hole of the challenge from Kented the Marina is hole 13. It's called Atlantic Ocean and as you can see, I'm pretty sure we all know where the name came from. That view is pretty spectacular but it will be all the better with a ball in the middle of the fairway. And that's the first job, really debating at 323 meters do we need driver. It looks as though it plays very much downhill and we should get a bit of a kick on. But I've been confident with this driver so far so I'm gonna hit a sort of a soft one and just see if we can get one chasing down and not leave too much in to what I know is a very difficult green to get on and actually hold. And let's not forget I might be one up but the final hole counts as triple points so there's every chance the course can certainly still bite back right. Let's get this tee shot out the way. Again, a little soft one from left to right. Now it should kick and kick. We'll go down there and see just how far or how close we are rather to the green. Played the shot the way intended, fairly tight like I said off this tee and it's all about getting position and hopefully I've got a short enough iron in hand. Right, so we've got a position off the tee but I have played this hole once in the last couple of days. Just a point to mention, this kicks and can was quite a bit from left to right and we're not a million miles off being down in the ravine but as it stands about 114, playing out the first cut but again the camber is very much off the left hand side. I played this the first day and I threw a wedge in which looked really good and ended up going off the back side so I'm going to play a different shot today. I'm going to play one that lands short, short left and hopefully kicks in. We'll see. So for me, the line position is almost at the edge of the green is what I'm trying to, an edge left I mean and I'm hitting a 56 wedge and hopefully the camber does the rest. Oh, come on, be right now. We're just reliant on the bounce because I couldn't have played that any better. Go on, get down there, get down there. We're just, I mean, I'm happy. Let's put it that way because I played the shot really good. It was just perhaps a little bit too much in terms of I need to carry just a little bit further because that was coming right on the pin would just look to be on the fringe. So yeah, I'll take that to be fair. Oh, I'm really sort of half pleased, half disappointed because it meets this green and seriously, it just runs away to the hole. A yard or so more and I think we'd have been pretty close but that's ifs, but maybes I suppose. The fact is we've just got to carry this little bit of fringe going on with putter and trickle one down there and hopefully I'd like to walk off with a par. Come on, come on. Oh my word. Well, at one point I thought I'd hold it for birdie. I did a bit of a Kevin Nahr straight after that one and I'm now looking at it and I've gone sort of six, eight foot past. Wow. Of course, mezz wouldn't let me down when required and I'm quite pleased we did make a four to be honest with you because the first and second shots and maybe even third certainly didn't deserve a bogey. So that is a win for the average golfer at Quintet de Marina in Cascais, Portugal. We've had a fantastic few days. I've got to say and hopefully what you've seen is a small snippet of the course today but make sure you get tuned into what's published over the next few weeks because we've filmed a whole lot of content from here and I must thank the team at Glencore Golf holidays who made this whole thing possible. Right, that's me done with a win in a man versus golf hold challenge out in the sun in Portugal. I'll see you all tomorrow night.