 Right, day two of our inner-city golf. This one's Haggs Castle. It's literally across the road really from Pollock Golf Club that we played yesterday. It's 7 a.m. some will be up guaranteed within half an hour. Just playing into the first is a par 5. We're on in regulation. The sun will be with us in five minutes. Life couldn't be any better, or maybe if we hold this birdie, it will be. It's now the bunkers. It's going. But away on three. Finding fairways, you know. Fourth hole is a par 5. It plays 467 off the yellows, which is where you just see me tee off from. But it's a really interesting hole. I had a feeling it was a par 5, even though I'm on the white dot, which is 200 yards in, as the kind of crow flies. So it's, I don't think I've hit a drive 267, but what it means is you've got a real risk and reward situation where if you just move slightly to the right, you should be able to see the flag through the gap. So we've got two logics here. They go straight down, which in my case, I'm only hitting a wedge. But we're going to go over the angle of the dog leg and have a bit of a pop of it. The next dilemma we've got is I haven't got the iron in the bag. I've got pretty much half a bag with me. No more excuses. We've got to hit a bit of a cutty five, what I'm afraid. Because I don't think I'll get there with a six iron, which is the longest iron I've got in the bag. I pulled it left, not cut it at all. And we're going to see where that one is. I think it's safe. It bounced, but I didn't get any cut on it and not very committed in terms of that swing. But do you know what? We've played four holes, three and a half holes in. And again, I did it yesterday. First impressions. I machinally kept loads of green stuff out, busy beavering away around here. Greens have been really, really rich in color. They look superb. First of all, loads of patterns on them. Again, first cut, second cut on the roof. It really is a tidy looking parkland course. And again, bit similar to again, I'm going to refer to yesterday's strategy required to sort of weave your way around this place. So yeah, impressed again. Well, we might have seen it bounce, but bounced and finished into a bunker. And in terms of yardage, it wasn't too bad. Not the best of lighting a bunker. Well, as you can see, I've got that a little bit heavy. And I don't find it better than it should have done really. Right, one noticeable feature got ourselves to the eighth hole. And again, what I'm looking at is a dog leg from right to left. Hopefully a bit of drone footage to assist my interpretation of this hole. But like I said, only playing, we're going to play it off the whites of 320. And the diagram that I'm seeing is on the tee box, a sharp right to left, pin tucked away. Can't see any sort of green at this stage. And again, that's been a key feature on, I think probably four out of eight holes, we've played par fours with movement from right to left. I'm really all about positioning, as I say, 320, not overly long. I haven't lasered those bunkers, but I'm going to try and get something around 180. It's very tight off the tee. That's bang down the middle. And I think, yeah, pretty much what I played for. Looking at it, probably could have got a little bit more in terms of yardage out there, gone with a bit of a long round. Unfortunately, the longest time I've got to be back today is the sixth time. But again, really interesting shape. And it's all about, obviously with those dog legs, it's about positioning. And it's about positioning on the right side of the fairway. But more importantly, I suppose just finding the fairway to start with. I reckon we could have probably gotten another 20 yards out in terms of the club that I selected, but that would have meant it narrows up and the bunkers come into play. As it stands, we've got 140 in and the flag is tucked way left, as you'd have seen from the drone footage. So I reckon a decent play. A little bit right of target. That's quite a bit right of target, actually. And I'm not sure they're quite enough club there. We're in and around the fringe anyway. Yeah, I came up sure, as ever, lazy golfer that I am didn't get the range finder. And that pin is tucked way back, probably another, I don't know, 10-15 yards back from centre. We've got a long chip and rumble, a lovely little golf hole in there. I just said, sort of off camera that, you know, it's a 320 yard par for really well shaped in terms of, like I said, strategically where you need to be and asking questions of the club selection off the tee. And then when you're playing your iron in, you've got sort of three staggered bunkers in terms of distance. So yeah, really good, really good. 320 yards and I bet it causes all kinds of problem on a satin medal comp. Anyway, shut up and then chase out, chase out, go on ball, go on ball. Ah, that's quite decent, you know, let's go go. Well, we got there in the end, wasn't perfectly played, but what a great little golf hole that is. Again, you can pick up on the camera now, a bit more light coming in, but the greens are so lush in the colour. And I mentioned earlier, nicely cut, we've seen them being hand mowed throughout this early morning start and they look and play really well. Well done, Hags. Well, we just finished playing on eight, a real short par for dog leg. And I've put the camera back on because nine is another dog leg and you can see from the drone footage going on for you now. Quite severe, we've got a tree right in the middle of the fairway, that's our first thing we've got to overcome in terms of finding some short stuff and making sure we're not blocked out and you can see the movement in that, again, left to right in terms of where we're trying to get to, our end goal. I have measured the tree out at 213, I'm going to go for the tree with driver and pray. I think I've got that bang on just about kept me balanced. That is absolutely, oh, and that's pretty much position A, I reckon. You know, I reckon you do need to play Hags Castle to fully sort of understand your positioning because, again, that wasn't driver off the tee. Yeah, I sort of got away with it, but you also find there's a burn just whatever five yards away from where I finished up. So without doubt, the position is get something short of that tree, which should give you a fairly short ironing anyway. So like most courses, far better if you've played them before. But as it stands, we're in really good nick. See if we can make the most of it. That's right on it, you know. This could be good. Oh, no, on the clubbed. I say on the clubbed, it's sure as I take it all day long, but I thought that was literally going to drop down it. I took a pretty much easy half swing, clearly. I could have hit that thing. Do you know what? Look, it's unreal, you know. I have literally, I have hit pretty much centre stripe of the fairway all day long with my driver. And yet when I got an iron in my hand, I'm absolutely garbage. This game just cracks me up. I don't think it's a long time since I've actually drove the ball this good. I don't think I've hardly missed the fairway. And I mean in the middle of it and long everything's been working. And then you get there and the irons just ain't working today. This game's crazy. That's right on it, you know. I don't think there's enough legs from here. Go. Do you know what I'd almost got there? Part five finishes on 18. We started with a part five. Don't forget we're finished with one. And not far off in two there, I'll have a chip and hopefully a putt for Bernie to finish. I think if I was doing a kind of like overall summary of the course, you've seen it's extremely well kept. There's been great definition on fairways, first cut, second cut. Generosity in terms of the fairways. I will say it's tight in places in that. Again, without repeating it too much strategically, you've got to plot your way around a little bit more. Not overly long, I think from the yellows, it plays around 6,000 yards. So that tells you that it's more about strategy club selection rather than all out power, but really, really well kept. What you can hear just over in the distance is when you come back to the clubhouse, you hear a little bit of that traffic noise, which tells you just how close you are to the motorway. And as I say, just a couple of mile away from the city centre. So for in the city golf episode two, I think both here and Pollock really ideal. If you want to mix it up in terms of spending a little bit of time in the town centres, few nights out, and then some golf very nearby the following day. These two places are pretty much ideal for it. They really are. So we're going to see if I can chip and make a birdie to finish, I think.