Exploring Turnberry Ailsa: A Gem in Golf's Crown in Scotland

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00:00Then play Turnberry Ailsa in the afternoon and golly, man, like, here's the best way.

00:09And this is, I also started giving shout outs to the caddies along the way. So Derek was

00:12on the bag. Derek had to watch me make a mess of this place. To me, this place reminded

00:17me in terms of feel when you're playing it to Pine Valley. And let me describe why this

00:22is where, sorry, this is Turnberry Ailsa. Oh, so dual in the side. So Turnberry, what

00:28are you calling it? Turnberry what? Ailsa. Is that is that different from another? Yes.

00:33Turnberry Trump one. That's that's correct. So it's Trump Turnberry is the whole resort.

00:39And then there's Turnberry Ailsa. And then there the second course, I think it's called

00:42King Robert the Bruce. Oh, it used to be called Kintyre. Is Ailsa the the main? Ailsa is the

00:48main that's hosted numerous open championships, dual in the sun. Stewart Sink and Tom Watson

00:542009. Like it was in all these places. You go to these incredible. It is gorgeous. I'll

01:00share. I'll share this photo I have up with you right now. The ninth hole is like their

01:03version of Cyprus, right? There you go. Ninth hole right in front of you. Oh, my gosh. Is

01:08the wind off the left that way? So this was a wind off the left a smiley. I had so many

01:15space balls. I I took I was aiming off this T like almost left of the lighthouse and still

01:22ended up right of the green. The last open they had there was oh, six. Is that right?

01:27Oh, nine. Oh, nine. That was the Stewart Sink. Tom Watson. So tell me, is it a shame that

01:33they'll never go back? Is it's the Trump thing. Is that why? It is the Trump thing. And here

01:39here is let me just be very shame, right? Because let me be such a it looks amazing.

01:45Let me be very clear about this. I have there's no political assignment to this. In fact,

01:50I am the furthest you'll find from someone who is politically inclined. Like, I just

01:55want to enjoy good golf, talk about good golf, play good golf. For all the of the the grief

02:00that Trump catches, like I'll say pros and cons here. Cons are I think this place, the

02:06sort of infrastructure around it has grown a little too ornate for a course that has

02:10such a rich and deep open championship history, right? Like it's a little bit too fancy compared

02:15to some of the nicer or the the other history steeped clubs you go to and you see the cool

02:20clubhouses and Prestwick is such a great example of just you walk and you're like, wow, this

02:24feels like history. Now, the pros, your field, probably same way. Well, your feels probably

02:30same way. What Trump has done with this course, you know, whether it's him or an extension

02:34of who's got working for him is so brilliant in terms of taking it back. They got a bunch

02:38of 1950s era aerial photos and took it back to that sort of version of the course. And

02:44it's brilliant. I mean, it's just it's where they moved greens out for some of these sort

02:48of scenic positions, you know, over the water away from like a lot of the greens were pulled

02:53further back. And now they're in these more dramatic locations. It's it's a it's a brilliantly

02:59designed a routed golf course. And I think that that sometimes it gets lost in the ownership

03:05whose names on it, you know, it to me, I don't think that's fair. It's like, I'm just trying

03:09to evaluate a golf course on its merits. And I'd say yes, it is a shame the opens not come

03:13back. Now, part of that might be, you know, travel and location, how do you get there?

03:19And what's the infrastructure and all that sort of stuff? It is a little bit out of the

03:22way. But I'd say in terms of just a sheer evaluating a golf course in a vacuum, this

03:28place is unbelievable. And so I'd say it looks unbelievable.