 Day 2, gulla nrwm nrw. But let's kick things off with some words from Eric. Golfy feel smitten until he discover you're sitting in that divot. There's no being replaced or you had a lovely wee wedge or that nasty wee hedge bit. You're in a bunker and it's then you remember you've been in the San Mair in a French Legionnaire. In fact you're an honourer. Remember? The thing is to you it doesn't matter if a dozen shots later you're trying to get out of that trap because you see you've got the bug even though you look like a mug and the golfing world knows that you're crap. Good morning. All camera and batteries. Cameras and batteries arriving. How are we? You doing takeaway coffee now? Candy, yeah. Take away the mug. Take away the mug. Yeah, as long as I am the mug. Are we good? We're good. Are you coming down? I'll come and see you up there. I'll try and just bury a buggy as well and then cover the back of you. So this brings hickories or bring nothing? I don't need to bring anything. Yeah, bring quite. I'll be back in five minutes. As far as golf courses go there's views and then there's views and the top of Gull and Hill is a view. It's hole number four and that's when you get to the top and this is what opens up. Further forth, Mjolfild over that side in a far distance there where we were yesterday which was Craigie Law, you got Kill Spindy, Gull on number three, Gull on number one and today we're on Gull on number two and it's hard to wipe a smile off a golfer's face when you get to this tee box. I'm just going to pay reference to the quality of the greens on number two, three and number one because they're all priced differently in terms of playing and they've all got different levels of standing. Obviously number one held the Scottish Open so rightly so it sits on top of the pile. But in terms of the quality and the condition of each of the three courses, to me they rarely differ. I mean they literally are immaculant. It's a credit to Stuart Duff and his team here doing an amazing job and like I said, where you'd expect to see differences from one down to three, that's not the case at all. The greens are pure every time you're playing and when I say every time you're playing, it doesn't matter what time of the year either. So there's no excuses. I can't miss that one. The layout of Gull on number two was laid by two-time Open Championship when at Willie Park Junior in 1898, measuring 6,396 yards, the course has hosted final Open qualifying for the Open Championship. There's no fewer than 107 bonkers laid out on the course and holds seven and eight from number two featured in a hybrid course with Gull on number one that provided the test for the Scottish Open in 2018. So Malcolm joined us again from yesterday's video and you just mentioned a phrase that I loved. It was a cradle of golf. A cradle of golf? Yeah. Why is that? This is where it all started. The upsetting people over in St Andrew's. Oh yeah, St Andrew's the home of golf. I love you St Andrew's, fantastic. But Scotland's the home of golf but this is the cradle of golf. This is where golf started. Mary Queen of Scots lived in Edinburgh. She played golf down here. And then we nine-hole track in Musselborough with a race course around about it. Second Open was played there. That's where the first hole was cut as the size we all play into them now. And that tube that they cut it with is in Royal Musselborough. And Royal Musselborough is the oldest continue played for trophy in the world. So again yesterday then we picked up at the Glen. That's actually the first club that let ladies in. Right. So this area is just absolutely steeped and steeped in history. Golf in history, yeah. I mean the golf courses you can see around here. I mean Scotland's golf course here with 21 courses and five across there. We don't talk about them too much but there's some quite nice courses. Not this week anyway. I've got to go there next week. No, no, no. So we're on goal on two. We've got goal number one, goal number three. Then over the bay there you see some, first of all there's some views of Edinburgh we've got on the distance over there. Yeah so you've got Arthur's Seat in the crag little lump there. Then you can see the skyline down to Edinburgh Castle and actually playing goal number one. I think it's on the 10th. There's a mound that actually Silhouette's Arthur's Seat as well. And then coming out you start off with the nine hole course at Musselborough and Royal Musselborough and Moncton Hall, Moncton Hall break course. That was the last open qualifier because they changed the open qualifiers. So that was the last of the old fashioned open qualifiers. Then you move out to Longnidry, Mary Colt course and then Craigie Lawkill, Spindie, Lough Ness. And then we've got Gullin one, two, three. We've got Artif here. We've got Renaissance. Yeah, Gullin one, two and three. And Gullin one, two, three were really interesting because that's the order of the built-in. Not better or worse course. Ah right, just reference that. Just reference. So Gullin one open qualifier when the Scottish Open happened and then two holes. This one and the last one you played were part of the composite course. A lot of locals think two is a better golf course. Especially off the backs. And three is possibly now one of the most underrated golf courses in Scotland. We have the World Hickory Championships called a lot here. And Gullin three and Kilspindie, even Gullin two are great. I mean these courses are all designed for hickory golf. So you know length is, it's all about length now and these courses are more about thinking it than length. We'll end that bit there because we've got hickory clubs with us and that's where we'll go to next. I think a little bit of a challenge on Gullin number two with some hickory golf clubs. That should be fun. Top for that. Top for that. I told you we're going to take on a hickory challenge. It's a bit of a challenge. It's 196, we've just got this and it's flagging into the breeze. Is this a driver effectively? It's a kind of fair way wood. I'm just getting into hickory so I don't know all the bits and bobs but Boris who runs a Jack White shop and clubs up in the village, which is fantastic. But a little bit of loft but the great thing with hickory is really slow you swing down. Really soft hands. I let the club head do the work. A lot more whippy. A lot whippier so you can work the ball a lot more. So we're into the wind. Slow down that swing. Slow down that swing. And kind of shut your eyes. Close your eyes. Couldn't you have picked an easier role? I'll tell you about this ball. Do you know what? I don't care where it's finished because that was absolutely... Perfect. Yeah, it was good, wasn't it? I know we all play golf for different reasons but for me this is the reason I play golf. I've just played a par three with a hickory golf club but then I just walked down to this green and wherever I look in front of me right now it's just heaven. It's just absolutely stunning. So I found the bunker. You found the green. Yeah, mine's a local ball. You've got one for the definite win. One for the definite win. Perhaps two for it. I'll take the hickory part that Marcia gave me. You know Andrew Marshall? Yeah. He's a great hickory golfer. I have to confess to you using the modern club out of the bunker. I forgot the rule. We never saw that. We never saw that. Oh, go on. Go on. That's good enough. Almost. So you've got your three. I've got my three. So I've got this for the half. This is quite a bit different, the putter. Isn't it? Heavy head. Oh, you like it. Oh, I thought you had that. Well, you had that. So the hickory championships goes to Mr Duck. Hold on. There's no question that Guller number two is a championship standard course and it asks questions of your game. It's not that type of course where you're going to stroll around the place. You're going to expect a bit of a breeze. It links the conditions. So again, trying to play those kind of shots that we've seen over the last few days. But in terms of sort of how penal it is, I think it's a fair chance to get around. Fairways, they're generous enough to be honest with you. And the only time you're going to get punished is when the drive ain't good enough or wherever shot it is your play. So it's a fair but an honest test of golf. And I think, you know, again, that's what you want, isn't it? But it's no walk in the park. Don't get me wrong. I can honestly say that's the best drive of it today. That's huge by my standards at least anyway. It's still bounding. So when you do find the middle, they go a bit, but if you don't and have it a few of the happens, they go in the rough and then it's hard. I'm going to play this because I don't know the yardage off the tee but it was my best drive of the day. It got 146 in on a par five and that don't happen to me very often. Don't get me wrong, it's downhill. Don't do that and don't follow me up with that swing. That's not a bad thing though. That's not a bad thing. Are we going to be putting for eagle? Oh, do you know what? Go on, Paul. Go on, Paul. That's close to the flag. Those lengthy conditions I talked about, it's travelled past the flag. The big camber right across in front of me and it's, yeah. Well, that's still a lot of work in it to be honest with you. But, come on, finish on a high. No, it's too weak. Ah, it's too weak. Well, it was an eagle port, it was a good effort. But we'll have to settle for a one-handed birdie. It's a good job that went in. I'm going to finish things off at 17, another spectacular view and that seems to have been all we've seen in the three days that I've been on all the fantastic trips at East Lovion. I love playing the hickory club so I'm going to try and finish things off with another decent drive but with a hickory club. Ah, that's not bad. I think it's going to end up in the rough on the right-hand side. But still, it's been an absolute pleasure. Right, so I've seen as I finish with four birdies in a row to finish the days round. Malcolm suggests he would buy me four whiskeys for each of those so you're going to talk me through a whisky tasting. I'm going to do a whisky tasting with a difference. Just how you taste whisky, how you make it a bit more fun, a bit more approachable for ladies and how the glasses work. I'm going to start off with the drink that is required as a publican. It's a drink called clear Guinness. So you've got your clear Guinness here and the swirl of that in it. What a great start. And it just cleans your palate out. So the first thing I'm going to talk about is water and whisky. You shouldn't put ice in a whisky. You shouldn't put too much water in a whisky. You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do this. How about you should do what you want and what you enjoy. So the first thing I'm going to show you is how maybe bulldog like whisky might learn to appreciate it. So if you just pick that up and smell it. Yeah. Anyone want you to put that over the glass? Yeah. So what we're doing now, when you make whisky, you call the faint so they all rise up and go over the top and turn back into liquid and you get the lovely whisky and that's a separation stage. Because you've got alcohol, it's all going up and burning round and burning round. When you put your nose in a glass of whisky very often you get a burning sensation of the alcohol. So what's happening now is all the lovely flavours and smells are collecting at the top. And I'm going to show you. I'm just going to slide it off gently and smell. I keep your nose at the top. There you go. Oh, it's a lot softer isn't it? A lot softer. Now you're getting all the lovely flavours coming out and coming right. Yeah, it's really interesting. Because it was harsh the first. So that's what puts people off, especially girls. And now, don't do the breathing in. Now do the little sip of whisky. Much more open. Well, between the first sip and the third sip, it's a massive change. Huge change. Soffins it up completely. We're going to give you an entirely different glass. We're still on the same whisky though. Same whisky. So pick that one up and smell it. Pick that one up and smell it. Much more mild. Much more mild. Because of the... This is channelining up. This is taking all those faints. This has got more air. So it's dispersing more quickly. So it's a softer feel. This is the old traditional whisky glass. And you put some water in. So you put that water in here. You've got a very soft long drink. Or becoming a long drink. So again, even the taste. It's a very small sip of this. It would be a strange answer to the video. Or a short answer to the video. And now you taste this one out here. Like two different drinks. Two different drinks. And you know all the places you stay. You come in here and they all won't become the ducks. But you've also got the Nader Abbey in North Berwick. And you've got Lodge up on the hill up there. Marina Tell has just been taken over and getting done up. Grey Walls with Albert Roof. Enterprises run that. The Dunmure and Dunbar. There's some great places and very friendly places. An old bunny whisky there. Is that your other round? You just put that on the side and you can finish that later. Is that yours? Is that my one? You can't finish that later. Being old doesn't make it better. It's just different. So I'm not a great fan of very old whiskies. I feel they've lost some of their fruits. And they go more like other spirits, brandies and so on. Correct. I can't help you with that one. So Glenfarth is 15. Wait, wait. Again, a very big difference between that and what we've just tried. Completely. And not better or worse. Different. We're good. Apart from me being bad. A very different mouth feel. That's so different than what we just started. It's a bit different than a lot of whiskies that I've tried before. For me, this has got everything going for it. It's got weight but it's not too heavy. It's kind of camely but it's not. It's toasty but it's not. It's got a lovely mouth feel. To be honest with you, smelling it, it smells like, sorry, it's going to be really quite pungent. Drinking it, it's got a lot of flavour in it. It's not over the top. I think it's really, really balanced. Balance is a word. What are your thoughts on the hip flask being in the bag doing a game of golf? Essential. Absolutely essential. And in terms of whiskies, Scottish, Irish, American? Well, there's no question that whisky in Scotland is the best. Ireland... Well, Ireland is still at three times. They have more goes at making it work than we do because they don't really understand. And then the English, they're making it but for God's sake, I love England, I do. Have you tried Welsh whisky? Now we're getting into real, just the idea of Welsh whisky. So we have the odd trophy here. It's just for winning today. It's just for winning today. Four birdies on the top. Right well, that's ever. Thank you to Malcolm. I'll cheers with my... I'm going to pick a favour. Pick a favour, yeah. My favourite was this. Glenn, 15, same as me. That was beautiful. I had to clink glasses. John Grant, you win again. No, it was very nice. Beautiful. John Grant is... John Grant, Glenn Farclas, my friends. Cheers. But you know, there is another thing missing. I mean you've got the best looking assistant going. Tracy, I think you should come and do a camera appearance in here. Can taste whisky. She's going no, no, no like this. She's looking beautiful in the background being the unofficial. Trying to make me look good. That's a tough job. If you have 20 more of them, we might look after you. Exactly, exactly.