 Welcome back to the channel for a special edition of brake 40 I am up in Ayrshire in Scotland we're a championship links it is done donnell links this is a brake 40 quite simply can I play nine holes in 40 shots or less we shall see now before we get this video started I just want a quick rundown on what the clubs are in my bag for today's challenge and this time starting with driver that is the tailor-made stealth 2hd I've then got a five wood from pxg gen 6 a gen six hybrid which is a number four then I've got gen six irons which are six through to pitching wedge I then have a sugar daddy two wedge 54 degrees finally or last but not least maybe my 60 degree tailor-made heito wedge and finally is the mes putter here we go hole one for 10 straight down aiming for a little bit of a cut off that bunker that is hidden by my back and yeah it wasn't a bad start to be honest with you knew that I couldn't reach but it still leaves a fair bit in just over 190 yards and that made it what a 220 drive all carry because there's no roll these fairways have been sanded and it's the 40 hours of rain anyway real good pickup I'm slightly blinded by where the flag is but I've got a feeling that's right on it it just depends whether or not the distance is right but a second swing of the day I've got to be happy with that as you can see it came up short and again pitched and stopped now it's about can you get the pace after like I said a deluge of rain over the past two days and the answer is no I couldn't and this is not what you want to be faced with on the first hole of the day which is probably best part of eight nine four to save par do you know at times it looks as though there's several takes on this because I can't believe how many of them I hole actually on video but trust me that's a real positive swing and a decent start with a four great golf hole left to right shape if you can yeah make that ball work in your favor because this is like I said dog leg left to right only short but position is key two fairway bunkers right in the middle of the fairway I'm going to go over the top of them and you'll see again just a little bit of sanding here just to absorb the moisture I've still got a seven iron in it was a little bit bottom groovy but not a bad strike to be fair the main thing was it was it was on the short stuff but still a long way from the flag did I learn from the first putt that we just needed to give these a little bit more effort in terms of pace yes I did but didn't get the line quite right however we should be able to tap this one in for another par so a decent start after well two decent swings with driver let's see if we can carry that on this is our par five five hundred and ten yards rain has just started to fall again as you can see this is just about going pretty much down the middle it cut a little bit more perhaps than I'd want it to because we can't quite see it from here but alongside the right is a burn there it is and yeah I didn't want to get any close to that it's a difficult one five wood I'm aiming for the green gorse which again I've got a yardage on I know I can't reach and to be honest with you a really good shot because this burn runs right the way across the angle there going it appears again so you've got to be really careful in the way you plot your way through this hole but with the rain coming down I still had a seven iron in and really like this shot controlled it really well a bit of a punch shot again into the wind but this green is so so tough and with that pin where it is yes I am on the wrong level so up the hill it goes and then once it reaches there it releases down and swings at the same time and I've got to say really pleased with that watching back I can't believe sort of how casual I do roll these things in because they're a bit further than you would like them to be in terms of being comfortable anyway it's another par and a decent start that'll look back down that hole which is at a super par five anyway next up par three into the breeze again solid strike it's 175 but I would guess playing more like sort of 190 and what I'm doing at the moment I'm finding greens in reg but I'm not getting near to pins but that's better than not finding greens I suppose so then let's put a bit of a roll good roll at this one and you can see that break off the greens are very very good here at Dundonal Lynx and you've got to be on your game and switched on at all times because the breaks are they're some are subtle some are severe anyway hole five driving the ball really well follow on from the round at Presswick to be honest with you yeah couldn't be in the ball any better now this is a so second shot in this is reaching for that PXG five wood really confident with this at the minute 10 side blue shaft in it 55 stiff and able to give it a good old dig and really it's only about getting into position of which I was in a good one the flag is hidden away I'm just going to pause that for a second and if we can look at the railway line you'll see that the sort of left of the centre railway stanchion there is where the flag is hidden it's in a dip in a bit of a bowl and I tried to get clever and grip down a little bit on a hybrid and try to sort of punch one in really unsure on the yardage and all I did was cut right across it and tried to be too clever to be quite honest with you and I just wish to add a played a six iron anyway it didn't leave a bad position to this flag because this green is severe and the pin is in not a bad place as to where they can have it and this to be honest with you it's the kind of shot I love to try and play it was a really controlled wedge pitch it off the bank and camera in and yeah I was really I spoke to my wife who was on camera and yeah I was pretty tough with that I think even she said it was a good shot so not only in reg but we have got a chance of salvaging a par and we did and I was really happy that was a because I struck the ball well we were at one bad shot there would have cost me but anyway super par three now this just 135 yards burn down the left bunker on the left flag is centre of the green but just over the bunker you've got no real option on here there's no bailout you've got to take it on and in the air this trust me is right on the flag I'm holding a pose and it just pitched and stopped and it needed an extra yard to kick down towards the hole so how good does that place look though bit of sunshine out now it's so so nice but yellow on the gorse but more importantly what happens with the port bend of the knee that ain't going to help you and it's slid by it was a good effort but again we're racking up parts here and at this stage things are going very very well indeed right next hole and hole seven three hundred seventy yards that driver once again hit the shape this is a bit a slight right to left but what I've done is definitely overcooked it there even though it's not a bad area to land in it could be a lot worse obviously from memory I still had sort of 150 in I tried this sort of punch shot that I played the seven iron earlier on in the round and it's just a very controlled again that ball flight is really good into the breeze and just anywhere on the green would have been good I think yeah it landed sort of higher up that bank and made its way back down we're not a lot of green to work with it's a pitching wedge back at a stance and sort of shove it up the green and you know I can't tell you them kind of shots I just love because yeah it's a bit of you've got to make something happen with it and yeah you guessed it yeah I'm almost feel guilty watching these back because I'm rolling a lot of putts I'm saving par that was an up and down don't forget and we are still level par through eight holes I'm not really aware of that at the moment because we are filming some other bits and pieces as we go hence my wife being out so but on this one I love this golf hole and alone I hit the ball a long way I did tweak it a bit to the left the big thing about this time of year is that the the rough isn't up I don't think you'd be playing this kind of shot in a month or two's time but again what's nice to see is just that shot out of there was at me irons were really good today pin high anywhere on the green I would have taken from back there and we've got it's an outside chance of a birdie I suppose but we've got the pace by now rolling the putter quite nice and freely and it's a fairly straightforward par and at this stage I'm level through eight we've got one hole to go I don't think I've ever certainly not broken par I'm not sure even whether I've managed to get par on nine holes on the channel as yet so it's a par four it's 360 yards and what we got with the driver first of all just a real solid drive again it's just it's broke really well they still two HD at the moment really favorable drive it went a long way down trust me into what is that's the new clubhouse on the right you can see which is incredible got more for that in the next few days had a picture imagine and I only had 106 it was a lovely controlled shot there's a burn that runs right in front of the green so you can't be short but you also can't be long because of some big runoffs as you'd expect from all these greens on these well designed Scottish golf courses and yeah it's just about getting the yardage right and being somewhere on it's a relatively big green mind this one's downhill which we've not had too many of them whilst it'd be nice to finish with a birdie there's perhaps a little bit bold in terms of where I'd liked to have been and that one truly fell in the back door and could have ended I don't think I perhaps realized like I said quite what was going on in terms of the finish of the round there I didn't realize at the time that was to finish level par through nine holes which is an absolute blinding result for me on a personal level and because of that I carried on filming on the back nine in what is going to be part two of this video and the big question is is can I continue to play this golf will the short game keep on saving me and can I get somewhere near level par for 18 holes at Dundon links well there's only one way to find out and let's make sure you tune into part two right thank you for watching this one we've got some positive feedback on these videos so far it basically allows me to play nine holes with not too great interference from the camera and I'm not holding groups up and stopping and chatting and whatnot and you get to see me play a little bit of real golf I suppose right as ever thank you for watching leave me some comments and feedback down below and I will see you all tomorrow night for part two