 Good morning to you. A band of rain is set to move across the country today before it is pretty cloudy, but yet again It is mild. This is the cloudy scene greeting us this morning, but here's the rain the west of Scotland The weather is horrendous. Yes again, but you know they say the show must go on This week I find myself on familiar grounds and some might suggest familiar weather conditions And for the first time in the series the weather is a potential threat to our ability to film Howling winds and driving rain are challenging enough to play golf, but to play golf and film it Well, that's a whole different story, and I'm absolutely gutted as this golf course is an absolute belter So this is Sillathon Solway golf club situated in Cumbria on the border between England and Scotland Davy Grant first laid this course in 1892 and since that day names such as McKenzie Park Vaarden and Braid have contributed to its evolution, which can only be described as a classic links Well, what you've seen so far is I don't know We know what hole we're on three or four holes of just absolute brutal conditions That flag isn't doing anywhere near because we're hunkered down a little bit here. It is Absolutely horrendous, and I just don't know how if we can actually get this one finished Slow down a bit These creams are still lively, you know, it's such a good quality track this and I just don't we do it justice today We're also gonna have a bit of a chat because YouTube sometimes looks like you know, you live in the dream and don't get me wrong It's fantastic. Well, maybe we started out with the weather. I did question out a little bit but also for my personal game and a few other things I'm gonna make some changes this year and I think that similar changes to what you might make in terms of your golf and your life So we'll have a little bit of a chat and hopefully we started to see a few blue skies I am hugely grateful to our new series sponsor PXG This long-term partnership and their support will help us take our off-the-beaten track series to another level And we have some big adventures planned in the months ahead Thank you PXG But I always like your involvement in these videos. So this is the first question for you bit of a mid-round snack And I've got to admit for me. It's always a Lucas 8 is generally in the bag I need a bit of a sugar rush But then chocolate bar of choice is always a star bar as well. So let me know What is your mid-round snack of choice? And I'm not even mid-round to be honest with you Well, we've just took an absolute battering. We have got some blue skies as I said, so Bit of a breather and then we'll go again And after several stops our persistence paid off the sun came out the rain stopped But I'm afraid the wind kept howling That wasn't a bad bunker shot first of all, but Before I finish doing that the first thing I want to do is I'm going to start to have lessons Would you believe and that's going to help me in two ways because I also want to play a lot more social golf golf this year Like I said everything's been work So it's all been filming to YouTube But I want to play more with friends and that includes Lewis Johnson So the benefit of that is you've seen him on the channel again recently is the benefit is I want to Yeah, bend his ear a little bit and try and eradicate these I've been watching videos back and a lot of my swing Deficiencies are slowly creeping back in and I'm gonna see if he can if he can help me out a bit So that's one of the things well, perhaps two of the things I'm gonna change this year The ninth holders of signature hole We're playing right into the sun which is a nice complaint to have but you can't see a great deal I'm also playing right into the wind as well So when I turn that way my audio gets hammered and hence the reason I'm just sheltered a little bit So gorgeous golf hole from where we're playing. I think it's about 140 But I reckon it's into about two maybe three clubs I'm just trying to keep something as low as I can That flag and somewhere on that green because this is Cellist version of the postage stamp and you can see why when we get down there And yet so far The sun's in my eyes. Can you believe it after the start we had? It's time to vote for folks with a week and they really do show a changing contrast in weather And I've got a feeling this one could go to Tracy yet again So I kind of want to do two things. I want to play I want to play social golf but I also want to play some competitive golf because Although I always advocate that, you know, you've got to enjoy this game first and foremost So a scorecard can often ruin that I sort of want to get the competitive juices flowing just a little bit and Test my game so if I can get a few lessons going I'm going to start entering a few medal comps on a Saturday morning and We'll see where that leads us So this is one of those courses where you will especially on a day today You're going to find you're going to use every club in the bag And you're gonna have to try and make a whole lot of different shots. You're not used to making It's just got a release Yeah, that's not bad again There's a howling wind coming from off the back of the camera woman. It's just so difficult right now Again, another sort of point to mention was I'm going to try and visit and all the things that this has allowed me to do This is is visit as many courses as I possibly can and it's been great because Play the same course week in week out It's nice to be a sort of member and that membership things good by also think it's good to test your game in Different venues different courses and different types of courses as well because you learn so much from doing that and It's just a whole different experience. I've got to say since we started this It's got me out every week to somewhere different and obviously something that I hope I can continue to do Well, we've got one down towards the mark most proud. What is that golf hole itself? It's the 11th And it's everything I love about links golf. We've got Gorse. We've got Heather And we've got this fairway that sort of rises and falls and sweeps its way around and somewhere at the end of all that There is a green and hopefully we'll find out very shortly, but oh my god. The light has gone terrific now It's the wind would die. I know you can't ever tell behind a camera, but seriously It's been it's been our draft and this is the first one. We've got a bit of down breeze a bit of help So yeah This week we've been staying in Glen Cable, which is on the other side of the Solway Firth This place is perfect for groups of golfers looking to discover golf either side of the Solway As you can see the interior is delightful as is the view from almost every room You can find more details on this property at Kalevrock.com. I think I said that right Even the flags are hard to get them stuck back into their hole I think for me as well that the the big thing for all this to happen It's about kind of organizing my life and again everybody has such hectic schedule schedules now And I'm not claiming to be any different than anybody else, but I'm gonna the one thing that the announcement helped with In terms of this year-round sponsorship It's just we're able to just plan a little bit a little bit more secure as you're there for I can plan a Bit of a social life around that and start enjoying the golf game a bit more and not just Sweating over how we make this whole thing work Do you know what what an absolute day we've had here the Sun is so nice I know keep going on but the back of me is literally soaking wet because I didn't put a waterproof on and didn't expect what was coming So I'm wet through I'll probably get pneumonia, but I've had such a good day. We're only on the 12th I know they're gonna get them all in but 191 yards down into that green there. Oh my word What another golf all that is Have a confidence here. I've got a camera zoomed in on the On the green just hold your line a bit get around that bunker. It has as well What you know what I think That that is pin I am looking over there because the camera that's on the green will tell us very very shortly But I managed to just leak that a tad it ran over on top of the bunker and came back in to pin I a little bit of luck there, right right We're gonna make this the final hole is the 16th the Sun has well and truly fell too low and we're gonna have to call It's one quit. I think all I can say is so it's been amazing You probably noticed there's no drone in this video, which I'm absolutely gutted about boy It's just been so windy it's not worth the kind of risk of losing it the drone that is so I'm a bit disappointed I'm not sure that we've done it justice today We'll find out when we look back at the footage, but I can tell you there's a top quality track It's ill of and if you ever get a chance then you should get yourself on over here, right? 16 Another stunning path three See me get one somewhere close Nah, just a bit weak. I think and is it? Yeah, it is Well, it's a wrong club. We'll finish it there and What I need to do now is get back in Get back into our little digs there and run that hot bath Thor out and hopefully I've not got pneumonia