 Adam got this little gerbil stuffed and we have a four ball, which I have included in it, every Sunday morning against three very good friends of mine, I'll name them, Nicky Sharp is my partner and Jim Boyce and Les Hodges and we play for this little fella every Sunday morning. It's just a kind of a laugh, but you'll swear we were playing for the British Open. London has a population of close to 10 million people making it one of the largest cities in the world. The chaotic pace of life in the capital is a far cry from the tranquility that can be found just eight miles from the centre at the third oldest golf club in England. And you're about to find out that this is no ordinary golf club. We'll be taking a look around the London Scottish Golf Club speaking with some of its members and I'll be joined for a conversation about friendship and golf by my friend of over 20 years who happens to be celebrating his 60th birthday. Mr Damien Rocker. Sorry, I mean Locker. I'll explain later. Before we go any further, there is an unusual dress code that needs to be adhered to and I'm not too sure Damien's going to be too happy. You know why I promise you a few surprises this weekend? Yeah. Well, it's the first one. Can you just for the audience's sake, what team do you support? Everton. Well, afraid me. You've got to wear red, so get that on. So Damien, friendship and golf. We've been mates for over 20 years due to a meeting when we joined the golf club at similar times. Two other mates that we still hang around with again met at that golf club. Your 60th this weekend. Don't you mind me? Steve's 50th few weeks ago, mine a few years back and all of it has been, it's sort of almost like golf is the glue that holds it all together. You know, it's always something that you can... Because we're not my mates that club anymore, are we? No, no, we're not there. Yeah, yeah, so... But we still meet up and it's always golf that brings us back together. Yeah, which is great. And the friendship, you know, the friendships are constant, which is important, you know, join your high points, but by arranging games of golf on a regular basis, just to have a chat, you always feel better. You know, to share what's been happening and what's affecting your families and your businesses, etc. And it never really matters how well we play either, does it? No, not at all, mate, absolutely. We do a bit of winging, though. Oh, we do. It would be rude not to. My name is Tommy Tye. I come from the west of Ireland. I've been a member here since 1985. I was captain in 93 and also captain in 2018. Friendship is second to none and anybody who comes here, societies and guests, they always come back. When a single golfer comes up, we have a policy here that nobody is ever left in the club. And even if we have to split up our four balls, we always bring in that new member or a guest who might come to play. It's such a friendly club and we never leave anybody else, whoever comes in here, is treated the same as a member. I think one of the strengths of the golf club is kind of the uniqueness of it. Any golf club I've kind of ever been involved with is there's always a certain element of clique or people who always play with the same people or they've come here because they're friends and member. It just doesn't exist here. In fact, it's frowned upon. So every week you'll play with somebody different. You could be playing with a scratch handicap golfer. You could be playing with somebody of 54. And that's kind of the beauty of it because you end up speaking to people who you wouldn't normally speak to from every possible walk of life. There's kind of weird, unwritten things that kind of happen within the golf club. They're people, die classes. Really good friends of mine. And I don't know what they do for a living. I have no idea. I've never asked. But I can tell you where they went on holiday. I can tell you what football team they support. I can certainly tell you who they want to win the open. And that's kind of what makes this place kind of different. It has the feel of... I liken it to a rugby club where the fact that you feel as if you're all in it together. The red probably helps with that as well because we all wear the same stuff. We all feel part of a team, if you like. And that's what it feels like. It's not comparable to other golf clubs. I think a testament to our friendship make the fact that I've got you wearing red. I can have it on you. I think it's your colour. No one's going to see it, are they? I think... I'm going to get slaughtered for that. What a loyal friend. Right, a beautiful golf hole, this, you know. Really is. Again, 285 par 4, that was just about being super tight, isn't it? Yeah. Here you go, three-wood. Well, a mini-driver, mate. Which should be a lovely shot. Well done. Yeah, still doing well, this thing. Yeah. Very consistent, isn't it? Oh, good shot. The lad's warmed up. You're flying, you are. Nicely played hand. Oh, oh. Majestic. Well done. Thank you. It's a reward of yours, not mine. Yeah, well, in terms of golf, mate, just... We're looking at not just creating memories on the golf course, but obviously creating life-long memories. As opposed to, yeah, when we're celebrating birthdays, going back to my 50th. Yeah. Went to Dublin. Which was... Well, that'll lead me into sort of the... I've suggested they called you Damien Rocker or Damon. But the whole rocker thing came from a night out in Dublin, yeah, on your 50th, and then again, that whole trip was based around some great golf. Yeah. But I don't know whether unfortunately or fortunately, you know, we got a little bit worse for wear in Dublin one night, and I requested a song which was Mr Brightside. I don't see the guy who was on the guitar couldn't hear what I was saying. And although I tried several occasions to correct him and say, you know, it's Looker, he insisted on calling you Damien Rocker. Which I actually prefer that, to be honest with you mate. And it's stuck. I think you should... perhaps look to get that changed by Deedpole. Oh, that was a bit heavy. Who might still get there? The thing is, the rocker thing certainly suits your lifestyle, mate. If only. If only. Dream on, Damien. End of November. Yeah, yeah. No wind. No rain. Just absolutely perfect condition. Worth pointing out as well, dry on the foot. Yeah. There, dude. Did you organise this as well? I organised everything for you mate. It's this Thursday. One-house standards. So, 230, 240, par 3-hand. Yeah. Some really challenging par 3's on the early stage of this. Yeah, of course. That's the second one we've played at way over 220. Yeah. Well, I would struggle to think of a sport other than golf, where you get such a mixture of different people. Here we've got all different ages. We've got plumbers, we've got scaffolders, we've got taxi drivers, we've got teachers, we've got middle managers, we've got accounts, we've got QCs. And we have a roll-up almost every single day. So golfers know they can come up here at a particular time, come into the clubhouse and then everyone will walk round to the tee. We don't have tee-tons. You'll put balls out of the hat and you've got a game whenever you want any day of the week. And I think that's quite a special thing. The golf's important here, but so is the social side. And it means that over the years people firstly get to know a lot of people, but then they get really quite deep friendships as well as the laughter and the camaraderie. It's very much a place where you can belong. There's a little kind of oasis where people can come they know they can have a conversation. And people are supported here and I think that's something that's really quite special. What do you mean you're being 60? I thought we better have a sit down after five every five holes and make sure that you know... Thanks mate, yeah. I need it. We were both like competitive sports people, I think that's fair to say. Yeah. I mean I will point out at this stage, you've played a Wembley twice. You know, we can't miss that bit out. I didn't get there unfortunately. Yeah. But I think again golf what interests me as you know, we've talked about friendships, we've talked about memories and it's that bit about being able to stay competitive. I don't know if that's even the right word, but as a sports person you've always got that little bit of something on here. That little bit of edge that you want to. You want to do your best. But as an age thing, we're knackered in terms of most sports. I might get at snooker, I could probably squeeze a game. With golf you can carry on. Of course, yeah. Some of the guys, you know, at my club, you know, it's playing into 80s and 90s I think, wouldn't it be great to still be active and have that bond and a friendship. But on the competitive sports, if we could just correct you on something, you mentioned earlier about we met 20 years ago. We didn't actually meet 20 years ago. No. We actually met over 30 years ago. We did, yeah. Because many people might realise, but Andy was an extremely competitive sportsman. He was actually a first-year professional footballer and I had dealings with our local club. And he was a first-year pro there. So just to clarify that, for our... Yeah, yeah. You're a soccer player. Soccer player. But I recognised you when you invited me to your home just 20 years ago. Your hairstyle was slightly different. Yeah, I had some. I thought we were both doing very good in the air. It just happened to be fair. But yeah. Yeah, but I wasn't expecting a blonde curly. No, no. Yeah. No. Many wouldn't either. But I mean, I think, again, it just... That was purely coincidence, that chance meeting and then, like I said, 10 years on. And here we are, mate, sat on a park bench reminiscing. I don't know if that's good or bad. Of what might have been. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And like the season, we are very much in the autumn of our lives, but perhaps see ourselves as a couple of evergreens. This week's video was very different than not having my camera woman, meant it wasn't its usual high quality in the last conversation being out of focus. But in many ways, it didn't matter because hopefully the message was loud and clear. The true importance that a golf club plays in the community is very different than that the Barclays have lived golf and the PGA. And it's a million miles from the recent release and vulgarity of PIF payments. It really does annoy me as to how detached from reality these organizations are. Thankfully, we play golf for very different reasons. See you next week.