 in amongst the high dunes and helix lyongelating fairways that provide the uneven pathway to pure greens built into a landscape that has been shaped by mother nature long may your long reek that was going to say that to you i've been learning it for the past 10 minutes let's hear it long may your long reek long say it again long long may your long reek long may your long long like an alien long long so long may your long reek long may your long reek your long reek your long reek reek long may your long reek hi how was that that's beautiful whilst it's day three in Aberdeenshire we are very much up north we're at Fraserborough right on the coastline some big dunes behind you that you can't see right now we can see a flag that's bent sideways Scottish flag is waving there in the wind it's a wee bit windy to say the least come on here we go I'm just drifting over to that left hand side there's a burn all the way down there we shall see right a chance for a par on a brutal opening all oh no missed down the left missed down the left still going still going chance for a par and in the end a bogie start which probably expected from the first tee that win is brutal it's what I like to call proper golf all your skill guile and imagination is required to navigate your way from tee to green you're now answerable to the course and the elements and I gotta say I love it and I'll go on a lot about views when I play golf because it's a mega important part of my enjoyment anyway so uh but you're a brutal first two holes a real battle there and you get on the top of the third tee and the hole itself looks fantastic but just looking at views across the the bay the harbour over there on the left huge fishing pause as they understand that Fraser and Peter had a bit further up the coast there make a solid drive here on three and but I've let you where that pin position is I've got not much of a shot to be honest with you I don't fancy throwing it up and over the bunker because uh chances are that'll end up in it so I'm just going to go around the side if I can yeah do you know what it was a safe option but probably the right one I think that chip was the right shot you know or chip and run was the right shot it's got me to pin on and I don't think I could have realized he got any closer by throwing it over the top of that and all the birdie chance oh you do you know what I don't think I've owned a pot all week well I've just met sandy brown and uh you remember here sandy that's correct how long have you been a member uh but 14 years 14 years and what do you reckon of this place fantastic it is isn't it it's uh it's a challenge yeah especially in days like this yeah yeah there's a bit of a breeze isn't there a bit of a breeze and uh not two days the same no no so even for me is what's considered a lightweight southerner uh up in these parts I'm I'm allowed to say this is windy am I right I'm on to hole number seven just take uh took a little bit of a shielded position because I've not been able to speak too much it is brutal the conditions are really tough stepping out the car this morning you do think oh wow that is uh that's a little bit too much but I've got to say the course has been amazing um it requires a lot of sort of creativity another wind is adding to that and that ability to fly that ball down a bit is needed more than ever but usually you can see coming into greens in particular uh creativity imagination is very much needed and a great part three uh that we've come to on the on the seventh um see a bit further back when you feel a bit more brave from uh based on the conditions we're off the yellows it's only 130 tiny little green the wind is really howling all the time off the right so it's judging club is difficult really it's always nice to either have the wind sort of uh either with you or a geisha this is quite tough all right come on wind do your stuff do your stuff wind oh hasn't done a thing hasn't done a thing is it staying up oh it's just short of that pot bunker which was the line I aimed at and I can't believe it stayed there but I love the little part three that is why is it the wind never helps you it needed literally this camber off this slope the tee shot looked perfect anyway come on up and down it's got to sit on that backstop a bit of a backstop there yeah it was over a bit of a ridge here down the slope and then I knew I had a bit of a you won't be able to see from the camera there but there's a severe uh backstop here so I knew it could be a tad uh more aggressive but still leaves a lot for par and when you think this was just 130 yards it just shows how difficult her par three can be if it's designed properly swing swing swing oh again you won't be able to see from back there just how much that did swing but uh believe me it was a lot and uh it was nice to see it go in the hole can we birdie the helix Jesus the answer is no oh that looked in all the way but yet again the putter lets me down come on and I sometimes wondered when we uh title this series Scotland's less obvious was it uh well somewhere he's a little unfair what we try to do is obviously highlight courses that very much like I'm filming out this morning but uh less obvious might be the title but in terms of their quality they're absolutely superb and uh stick this one on your list phrase of a Fraser borough sorry has been fantastic this is the 14th of a super par three and there's been a few of them that could be good and there's the club right is the club right sit down oh yeah heart of the green take that any day of the week it's a bit of a ridge in it but uh I think that's the safest bet pin right at the very back today well yeah another great golf hole three putt and uh yeah still smiling that was our long way short you know that flag was another and then I was just 20 yards on it was at least a club short and uh yeah three stab at it there you go great hole on 16 really sort of uh framed really nicely bad adunze and uh and bunkers either side bravely going with uh with driver that's a decent ball and you know what that could be the best driver of it today that is right down the middle that's a long way down that's uh that is a good drive well driver was a bold choice just worked out really well for me and go again with that low one feed it in come on ball do something decent and go in well it's the next best that's uh that's nicely played drive and a little eight iron chip and run leading up to 16 and I haven't mentioned is the riveted bunkers and the condition of everything around the course has been superb again condition of the greens and fringes immaculate that whole thing and I talk about them all the time where these runoffs have been apparent throughout and again that same old statement if we do the filming if we do it any justice then hopefully you can pick that up from what we uh what we've achieved what we're trying to achieve but this is probably the best all I've played in terms of tea to green and the easiest or shortest birdie chance I've had I've failed miserably on each attempt so far oh come on and he failed again well everything was good apart from the course I think it's golf course a dramatic setting backdrop dunes riveted bunkers great greens I don't know it's just it is a real top top track and I've enjoyed every minute of it and it finishes off my Aberdeenshire series so as ever thank you all for watching and if you get a chance then never turn it down to come and play Fraser because yeah again I can promise you you won't be disappointed you're missing a lesson in life Laura give it to me yeah just come and see me you've gone fantastic thank you I've been around the horn a few times I'll give you all your help yeah very welcome dad right I'm Satie with Eddie who describes himself I asked him what his job role was and he said just a committee member but so it's fair to say you do you do a fair bit up here Eddie put a few hours in yeah put a few hours in and I've actually got a day job but sometimes I do say you're here more than you're actually at your yeah it's a lot a lot of commitment that you're putting in effort yeah it's worth it though you see things progressing it is yeah yeah well I spoke to a few members out on the course because this is sort of post round and they're all saying what a fantastic job the committee are doing so that's off to you but I want to get back to first of all their history uh behind Fraser we're the seventh oldest golf club in the world exactly it is yeah I mean it was constituted in April 1777 all right and it was actually in the town the golf was played in the actual in the town to start with and then we relocated out here in 1891 okay when our local pier Lord Sultan he gifted the land that the course was currently sat on he gifted the land back in 1891 that's where you've been here since yeah so but that's where we can lay claim to being the seventh oldest club in the world yeah yeah sure of course yeah yeah fifth oldest in Scotland and we believe to be the oldest in the world that still operate under its original name fantastic yeah yeah well one of the things are some great holes which we will have shown and we'll show throughout this video but uh the 13th hole the hillocks yeah I've played that hole fantastic hole but again there's a bit of a bit of a story behind that one as well yeah the Kyle Frans who was the sort of course designer for the Olympic course in Rio yes he spent a winter in Fraserborough in the model the ninth hole in the Rio Olympic course on the on the hillocks claimed to fame yeah it's a great little golf hole as well isn't it I can imagine against all kinds of trouble yeah well I only learned the world helix a few days back and it appeared in the name of the hole that's the last thing I want to ask you about is a few days ago I was introduced to a language Doric yeah and that's what so what's the region would you say that would it's spoken it's probably sort of Aberdeen that is like northeast nuke yes it's a local accent or dialect the term Doric yes and there's some weird and wonderful sort of words well again a message gentlemen fit like is a kind of greeting isn't it yeah so I've got that one in the bag fit like it's like how you do any you keep them well yes it's like fuja dues fuja dues is that similar sort of so I want even even to game of golf some people that I've been tempted to game of golf it's like gf right it's great to see that language still spoke oh yeah boys and girls as loons and queens right I've met a few loons of me times is that a boy or a girl loon is a boy right and queen is a girl right oh there's actually a Doric dictionary it's the really Doric dictionary it's yeah isn't it is a many Doric swear words because I could have done with a few of them is it not no we'll don't repeat them anyway no definitely not but no other it's just heritage is it yes fantastic I love it yeah yeah what a good thing yeah and actually you teach it in the schools did they as well all right with the Scottish for a while but they actually encourage it how good is that poems and stuff in Doric right well you're doing a fantastic job it's a great golf course and I hope we can out this video can show it off and encourage a few more people to get up here because a nice friendly bunch of thanks for your hospitality anyway thank you we can't shake hands mate how about that cheers bud my trip to Aberdeen ended in another fantastic hotel this time it was Meldrum house a 13th century mansion with its own golf course this place is pure luxury but there was only one way to end this trip and it was a visit to the cave bar good night