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April 16, 2024
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Bermuda’s Amazing Golf Courses | Adventures in Golf Season 8 [Video]

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Bermuda has more golf courses per capital than anywhere else in the world. Erik Anders Lang visits two fundamentally different courses that share something special on this Adventures in Golf, presented by United and @RandomGolfClubFilms.

A groundbreaking muni takes on a powerhouse private club in a 1-v-1 match every year in Bermuda. Historic Ocean View GC members go up against the iconic Mid Ocean Club in what’s called the “Friendship Cup.” Erik and Ocean View’s former president, Quinton, join forces and tee it up against Mid Ocean on their legendary home soil.

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  • 0:00 | hi I’m Eric and this is adventures and golf and for this episode we’ve been
  • 0:05 | Shipwrecked just off the coast of an island that’s been unknown to man for a hundred million years Bermuda was first
  • 0:14 | visited by the Spanish who left behind some pigs and then the English who left behind some cannons and some rum but as
  • 0:22 | always we’re here for the golf
  • 0:33 | [Music]
  • 0:44 | welcome aboard the Shipwreck capital of the
  • 0:50 | Atlantic Bermuda has been a waypoint for Sailors Rum Runners and Pirates traveling the new world for half a
  • 0:57 | millennia the island territory is full of beautiful beaches pristine Blue Water and more golf courses per capita than
  • 1:04 | anywhere else on Earth it was only a matter of time before I made this trip
  • 1:10 | of the seven courses on the island there’s one that I’ve wanted to visit since I first fell in love with Golf Course architecture Mid Ocean Club it
  • 1:17 | was first laid out by CB McDonald with assistants from Seth rer and Charles Banks mid ocean is considered to be one
  • 1:23 | of the most historic and exclusive golf clubs in the Western Hemisphere it’s also thought to be the only only course
  • 1:30 | where these three Legends of golden age architecture collaborated mid ocean has been on my
  • 1:37 | bucket list for a long time but today it’s going to wait a little bit longer because I want to stop at a local mun
  • 1:43 | first that is if the weather cooperates you know we’re here for a couple days L how’s the weather going to
  • 1:50 | be uh not too good after today tomorrow’s going to be rainy and windy
  • 1:55 | there actually a small craft warning starting tonight which our driver for this trip is Lloyd Roberts Lloyd tells
  • 2:02 | us about the island that he grew up on so why do people come here what is everyone doing right now why are they
  • 2:08 | all going to work like what’s what’s what’s going on we got to work to make sure that you guys keep coming but it
  • 2:13 | seems like there’s an industry here that’s not tourism it is correct that’s the insurance industry Insurance yep
  • 2:19 | insurance and reinsurance that accounts for about 80% of our GDP 80% of the GDP is Insurance
  • 2:26 | correct for a place mostly associated with to ISM there’s much more to Bermuda than retirees and flipflops and so
  • 2:34 | begins my Bermuda education which continues here at Ocean View Golf Course
  • 2:40 | to meet you yeah hey Eric nice to meet you how are you I’m well and yourself dude we’re so excited to be here yeah
  • 2:45 | welcome to oce view yeah this is great and congratulations ah thank you thank you thank you this is the newly elected
  • 2:51 | president of the Bermuda PGA Quinton Sherlock Quinton is a local golf pro
  • 2:56 | whose relationship with golf started at a young age great up one of the great things is that as a kid we had the most
  • 3:02 | golf courses per capita so we had nine golf courses two of them have hosted a PJ tour events Port wary and mid ocean
  • 3:09 | and then some other you know fantastic uh tracks with some lovely views so I was fortunate enough to kind of get some early exposure and just kind of hung in
  • 3:16 | there yeah yeah man he’s also a past president of Ocean View Golf Club a position he remembers with pride one
  • 3:23 | thing I’ll tell you about Ocean View Ocean View is the first Golf Course um that was really opened up to blacks on
  • 3:28 | the island if you know a little bit about bm’s history that we did have a period of our segregation and blacks
  • 3:33 | weren’t allowed to play except for what they called the Great crack of dor golfers we had to play before the sun came up then the DU was on the ground
  • 3:40 | and then go and caddy but uh in the 1950s I think Ocean View was established as the first golf course that was not
  • 3:46 | just for blacks let me say it right but for everybody and so this was a place where everyone could come and play so if you don’t mind I just like to take you
  • 3:53 | through and kind of see some of our pictures and just see a little bit of our history which is very rich and we’re very proud of our history at Ocean View
  • 3:58 | I’d be honored yeah go so these are three founding members Mr Simons Mr pit and also Mr Lou the
  • 4:07 | course itself dates back as far as the late 1920s when it was then known as Devonshire Golf Links ocean View’s
  • 4:14 | history is murky Quinton tells me it was a part of the British Army’s Garrison that expanded to the center of Bermuda
  • 4:21 | In 1855 sometime after World War II the Army course which had fallen into
  • 4:26 | disrepair was leased to a local businessman named Frank Wilson in 1953 Wilson agreed to rent the
  • 4:34 | course to a group of black golfers who in turn took it upon themselves to make the course playable and playable for
  • 4:42 | all tell me a little bit about the course it’s it’s how many holes so it’s a nine-hole public course and we have
  • 4:47 | our four sets of te’s so the ladies would play their first nine from the yellow second nine from the red the men
  • 4:53 | play their first nine from the whites second nine from the blue public yeah public course yeah right but it’s also a
  • 4:58 | club yeah it’s also a club that kind of operates and functions somewhat independent yeah so at one point in time
  • 5:04 | it was the club that had managed the course and it was handed over to the government ah okay so it’s so it’s also
  • 5:10 | IM mun yes yes yes in essence the sun begins to show its face
  • 5:15 | so we head to the first tea to take full advantage of the fair weather wow what a beautiful tea
  • 5:23 | box and joining us is Javon Roberts for the last two years he’s been the
  • 5:29 | assistant tournament director for the Butterfield Bermuda championship this is a PJ Tour event held every November at
  • 5:35 | Port Royal Golf Club but this morning we discovered something else about Javon sorry what’s your last name
  • 5:42 | Roberts like Javon yes it’s my son so we’re hanging out with javon’s Dad all day my dad is driving you around today
  • 5:50 | yeah you own that company yeah so that’s the family business um so that was my job before essentially before Co struck
  • 5:58 | so I went kind of looking for another job and the tournament was like hey we want you to come and help out so did he
  • 6:04 | ask you to please drive us around he did what did you say what am I supposed to
  • 6:09 | say he’s the
  • 6:14 | [Music] boss this is my first first golf swing on Bermuda I don’t really count a
  • 6:21 | country has visited until I’ve hit a golf shot
  • 6:26 | there that’s a good one well done welcome welcome one of the things that we are
  • 6:33 | credited to that was recently discovered by our professor uh Dr Jeff Simmons was that a former head pro actually helped
  • 6:40 | to break the color barrier in the US Gulf in the professional ranks his name was Lewis kid
  • 6:45 | Corbin Corbin developed his craft at Devonshire links reportedly working as the head pro back in
  • 6:52 | 1933 throughout the 30s and 40s he would travel abroad with the sole purpose of
  • 6:58 | playing in golf tournaments he would call in to uh enter an event
  • 7:03 | with the last name Corbin and with an accent from Bermuda so they didn’t know any difference about who he was he shows
  • 7:10 | up and in this time as a black guy and they’re like are you who you cading for
  • 7:16 | right that’s exactly he’s like no I’m here to play and then what happened um sometimes I think he’s even got into play hence why they say he was one of
  • 7:22 | those that helped to break the color barrier so he’s kind of the Rosa Parks of golf yes yes yes and one of his other
  • 7:28 | claims to fame is that he taught Joe Lewis how to play golf so we have the image here with um Corbin Lewis and
  • 7:35 | three other Ocean View members Lewis like so many of us became Addicted to Golf and alongside Corbin became a
  • 7:42 | leading advocate for golf integration which brings us right back to Ocean View
  • 7:47 | Ocean View is the co-host of what we call the annual Governor’s Cup and so what happened from the establishment of
  • 7:52 | Ocean View we had an ocean view team that would be pitched against a team
  • 7:57 | that the governor got to select and pick and nine times out of 10 the governor ended up picking players from mid ocean
  • 8:04 | balmont and riddles Bay so a lot of these images on the bottom row here would be old Governor’s Cup images so
  • 8:10 | you can see the governor there in the middle that’s his team and that’s the ocean view team oh wow and that would
  • 8:15 | have been back in the 50s at the old Clubhouse over the other side um behind number seven T box so you’re saying this
  • 8:22 | is basically a a rer Cup match between two races there you go yeah wow but again using the wonderful game of golf
  • 8:28 | to to bring us together in a very positive way and I’ll will tell you until this day this event is still being
  • 8:34 | uh hosted and held the Governor’s Cup yeah the Governor’s Cup this is awesome like I feel like if
  • 8:43 | you just came here and played here without even any of the stories that you were telling me that make this golf club
  • 8:50 | really important I mean this course is awesome yeah you’ll enjoy it yeah this is just like stunning you still got to
  • 8:56 | golf your ball you know yeah exactly and then you can take in the scene me along with it yeah just avoid the
  • 9:04 | [Music] bunkers I feel like a lot of times I
  • 9:11 | travel around to places and you see golf is primarily a you know magnet for
  • 9:17 | tourists or an amenity for tourists not not really part of the local culture I
  • 9:23 | would say nine times out of 10 is that true here no I mean this this is a course the people’s course 90% of the
  • 9:30 | play that you’ll find Ocean we going to be locals 10% 15% might be tourists during the heavy tourist season we get a
  • 9:36 | few come of the tour the cruise ship business but the majority are bread and butter if you will are
  • 9:42 | locals locals Like Richard what brought you to the island well it was what drove me out of Scotland which was the rain I
  • 9:49 | got off the plane and I got this blast like opening a door and I went and
  • 9:55 | they’ll never get rid of me and that was 49 years ago tell me about you know we’re here for the golf right and
  • 10:00 | Scotland’s the home of golf so can you tell me about the uh similarities perhaps between Scotland and Bermuda oh
  • 10:07 | the similarities uh very very few very few well when I came here um
  • 10:16 | all the rich pardon my swearing all the rich Americans would take 5 and 1 half
  • 10:22 | hours to go around the game of golf and I would go well you’re making too much of this you know they all thought they
  • 10:28 | were Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicholas back in those days whereas in Scotland
  • 10:33 | you oftenest not you have your bag under your arm and you just run like hell and
  • 10:39 | get done in 2 and 1 half maybe 3
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  • 11:07 | destinations than any other on united.com this is members of Ocean View versus
  • 11:14 | members of midocean playing in something called the Friendship cup yes what what is that so this is more of just an
  • 11:20 | interclub match okay separate and different from the Governor’s Cup so the Governor’s Cup could have mid ocean could have other clubs but this is
  • 11:27 | strictly mid ocean team first is an ocean view team playing it out in the Friendship cup here at Ocean View and we
  • 11:34 | can see the Carnage that had taken place 19 to 70 well what’s really interesting
  • 11:40 | is that there’s I don’t know of that many places in the world where a top 100 golf course goes up against you know a
  • 11:46 | nine-hole municipal golf course right I’m not I’m not making a comment on the relevance of ocean view in terms of the
  • 11:53 | history of golf on the island but when you zoom out into for example United States where we have 18,000 golf cours
  • 12:00 | that that just wouldn’t happen but it’s cool that it does here that’s the uniqueness of the island and being in
  • 12:05 | such a small space yeah we we’re we we have to engage and we have to interact so we just try to make the most of
  • 12:16 | that so they’re trying to get out early Friday morning to play a few holes down there match a little a little a little
  • 12:23 | match two man match inspired by the Friendship cup we asked Quinton to set up a match between us and Mid Ocean Club
  • 12:30 | for 2 days from now thanks buddy thank you for having me out yeah my pleasure I can’t wait to uh take him down we got a
  • 12:37 | match on our hands all right let’s get them got some work to do yeah so these are all members of mid ocean here I’m a
  • 12:43 | I’m a big fan of this is is this the that’s him Malcolm golin that’s the dark rum black rum and also the ginger beer
  • 12:49 | and ginger okay if you want to do non-alcoholic yeah well I don’t drink but but I love I love Gosling Ginger
  • 12:55 | that’s that’s an island uh product yeah yeah it’s one of our one of our local
  • 13:05 | products here we age all the gosin family reserve Old Rum the papa seal which is a single barrel rum we also
  • 13:12 | have a Ry Barrel finish rum as well so all that you know small bat rum ages here on island this is Andrew Holmes
  • 13:18 | brand director for Gosling’s Rum bermuda’s most famous export what’s the volume in here um it’s close to 800
  • 13:26 | barrels that we have aging down here which is actually only a fraction of what we have aged in an oak but we can’t
  • 13:32 | age it all here on the island cuz we don’t have the space so we do age a lot of rum down in the West Indies okay and Shi it here to
  • 13:39 | Bermuda the history of the Gosling family um how did they end up here so
  • 13:44 | the goslins are originally from England and in 1806 a gentleman by the name of William gosin chared a ship called the
  • 13:50 | Mercury and loaded the boat up with 10,000 lound Sterling with for wines and spirits which is basically you know a
  • 13:55 | pirate ship for the booze and he decided it was Battle for him remain in England where he could oversee the business and
  • 14:01 | asked his eldest son James to get on the boat and make the voyage across the Atlantic so obviously you know James pretty excited be getting on a boat with
  • 14:07 | that much of his father’s alcohol and the world’s first booze crew set sail and they never made it to the new
  • 14:12 | colonies so the goal was to set up the the wi and spirit merchant business there but they were becalmed at Sea and
  • 14:18 | the what at Sea becalmed like not a lot of wind you know so they were just out there drifting around and their Charter
  • 14:25 | was running out so the captain said look we got two choices we’re either going back to England or will drop you in Bermuda which was the closest British
  • 14:31 | Port okay and they they set up a business here selling all the wines and spirits they had from England and then 1808 his brother Ambrose arrived and
  • 14:38 | it’s actually from Ambrose that nine generations of golins have descended on the island and then uh they realized
  • 14:45 | there was demand for rum cuz 1809 the British Navy started construction on the Royal Naval dockyard oh so they were
  • 14:51 | coming into town and the Godin like we need to get some rum so they began sourcing rums from all over the West
  • 14:56 | Indies because there was not enough raw material here to start distilling really so just like the British Navy does
  • 15:02 | sourcing rums from Jamaica Barbados British Guyana Trinidad so they began sourcing those rums shipping them here
  • 15:08 | to Bermuda and then experimenting with blending them together to create their own style so this is a bottle of our Old
  • 15:14 | Rum so we started bottling that in 2003 okay so this is uh you know a nod to how they would have bottled it way back in
  • 15:20 | the day but it would have had no label so if you just imagine the bottle on the Shelf No Label di with black wax so it’s
  • 15:26 | you know so it’s kind of ominous yeah yeah and then it was a gentleman by the name of Francis gosin he was one of the
  • 15:32 | sixth generation of the gosin family okay so his brothers were Malcolm and Edmund Francis Illustrated the barrel
  • 15:38 | juggling seal as a play on words for the wax SE right so the seal is actually yeah it’s a play on words it’s not
  • 15:43 | actually an animal it’s yeah the only seals here in Bermuda at the
  • 15:52 | aquarium as far as the Gosling family and the relationship to golf what’s there so Malcolm ly Goslin who would
  • 16:00 | have been the sixth generation um was an avid Sportsman and Malcolm was in the Golf and Tennis and so Malcolm’s kids uh
  • 16:07 | are working in the business here Nancy Goslin who’s our president CEO of gosin limited and then her youngest brother
  • 16:13 | Malcolm Goslin so yeah they’re both very passionate about it I mean Nancy plays every weekend Malcolm plays as much as
  • 16:18 | he can as well he’s a member of mid ocean as the whole family were it’s in their blood we say our goodbyes to
  • 16:24 | Andrew and his rum and make our way to Billionaire’s row yes that’s what they call it to see the famous course with
  • 16:31 | our own eyes on the pristine putting green by mid ocean pink Clubhouse we
  • 16:37 | meet Kenton Brunson director of agronomy that’s an exciting job how is this agronomically speaking special it is
  • 16:44 | definitely special it’s very difficult it’s very windy we had over 80 in of rain last year which was a record it’s a
  • 16:52 | lot uh so it’s a lot of wind a lot of rain the supply chain is really difficult it’s tough to get sand it’s
  • 16:57 | tough to get fertilizer we’re limited with certain pesticides We can spray so it’s it’s hard it’s a tough environment
  • 17:03 | for sure do you buy any chance to use Bermuda grass here yes on all the puding surfaces we have Tiff Eagle ver and
  • 17:11 | those were planted 24 years ago and then we’re looking at other grasses in the future so I know you guys were at cabitt
  • 17:17 | a couple days ago so I’ve been talking with Damon there they have they pass palum right yeah so since we can’t bring
  • 17:24 | in vegetative material that’s what you would typically do for a to grass green we have to bring
  • 17:30 | in seed and so pass balum is a seatable option that we could we could do to regrasp all right should we go look at
  • 17:37 | the golf course joining us at the first te is golf professional Chaka D Silva this was
  • 17:44 | uh rated one year I believe best opening hle for golf by Golf Digest I would have a hard time putting that above spy
  • 17:49 | glass’s opening hole and this is above spy glass and how do you know because I worked at spy
  • 17:54 | glass this is a better first shot okay why walk us through what’s going on here yeah I mean your Landing zone is so
  • 18:00 | small um if you can drive it long you can take take it over 17 green which is
  • 18:07 | a potential which is down there okay the ideal t-shot is really that middle pot bunker but if you’re long then you want
  • 18:13 | to go over that that longest bunker on the
  • 18:19 | left oh just like that that’s a 300 yard line gentlemen that’s my that’s my partner or were you trying to cut that I
  • 18:26 | wanted to cut it a little more that’s perfect be fine that’s perfect shot wall that was the line
  • 18:35 | that’s a great shot position that’s in the faway too come on come on good stuff
  • 18:41 | I’m never leaving this CB McDonald course dates back to 1921 and it boasts a rich
  • 18:48 | history since asking around for the club historian our conversation leads to a name that I’m actually familiar with so
  • 18:55 | I decided to borrow chaka’s phone and surprise him with a call so this is a member of David Woodcock who I’ve never
  • 19:01 | met but we’ve know followed each other on Instagram for
  • 19:07 | years David what’s up man [Applause]
  • 19:15 | who you’re in Bermuda yeah we’re at mid ocean dude we just got here oh for [ __ ]
  • 19:20 | sake I mean it’s only you’re only about three years late past my invitation but
  • 19:25 | which you did kindly respond to so uh um you know one of the things we were just talking about actually David is um is
  • 19:33 | going through the clubhouse and kind of getting a members tour that uh really
  • 19:38 | dives into the history of you know the pedigree of the course sure you want to do that yeah yeah I could do
  • 19:45 | [Music] that the course was built for a
  • 19:53 | steamship company the withy furnace steamline they were looking for offer to
  • 19:59 | I think provide to their their customers as an incentive to get down to Bermuda and in the early 1920s they engaged CBM
  • 20:07 | to uh come and come down here and and design a course I mean I think you know prohibition had something to do with it
  • 20:13 | as well in America at the time it was the early 1920s prohibition had just started so uh maybe they were looking
  • 20:18 | for an option to go somewhere else to have a drink um and uh that’s something we do well here uh so they came down the
  • 20:26 | course was I think ultimately open in 1923 forly uh but 1921 is the is the
  • 20:31 | sort of the date that we run our uh Inception from um and then in
  • 20:37 | 1951 um with the furnace you know post World War II they were I think restructuring and they eventually they
  • 20:43 | they said you know we want to sell the we want to sell the course um and so they sold the course and a collective of
  • 20:49 | uh local bedian families got together bought the course and turned it into the mid ocean Club um oh so what was it
  • 20:56 | called before I I think it was just mid ocean golf course but uh I don’t uh so
  • 21:01 | it wasn’t really private no interesting no and you know there’s still this air
  • 21:06 | of we are a members Club but like the UK model here we have the opportunity for
  • 21:12 | people to come pay and play on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays so you can you can still do that here that’s fantastic
  • 21:19 | yeah which I I love it look at this just that is that is not a
  • 21:25 | inviting approach
  • 21:31 | easy game little left of the pin oh I think one of the things that’s
  • 21:37 | interesting about mid ocean specifically too is it’s like the echelon of guests
  • 21:43 | not even members yeah and this kind of presidential lineage of I mean the the Winston Churchill room is right over
  • 21:49 | here winon Church room Eisenhower uh yeah we’ve got we got a few named um so
  • 21:55 | yeah it’s been it’s been a a place for Summit meetings for a long time we had
  • 22:01 | uh Churchill Eisenhower and Joseph LEL the uh French prime minister get
  • 22:06 | together uh and then there was a subsequent one I think four years later with Harold McMillan and Eisenhower and
  • 22:13 | then over over the years yeah so John Swan former Premier here has hosted um many uh dignitaries here and George H W
  • 22:20 | bush when he was president came down uh and the US uh residents at the time was
  • 22:28 | in the middle of the island and um for whatever reason it was felt that the most appropriate way of getting him here
  • 22:34 | was on Marine One to land on the uh the 18th green so that’s certainly one way
  • 22:39 | of uh getting around the island so this is my favorite spot on the golf course why number one green two t box I think
  • 22:47 | it’s just an amazing view if you come up here with a bad attitude or having a bad day or not in a great mood this kind of
  • 22:54 | changes it all for you describe the golf course to someone who can’t see
  • 23:01 | it a lot of pushed up greens um so you got to have your Arial game with you uh
  • 23:08 | and Bermuda grass you got to be able to handle Bermuda grass particularly when it comes to around the greens I would
  • 23:15 | just say actually commit quit yeah don’t quit that time we just kind of stopped at at the ground I sure did so would I
  • 23:20 | just take it there you go you got to follow through so far but at least kind to get that club room packed okay I
  • 23:25 | think it’s a very thick thick grass uh and it it you know if you don’t quite if you don’t quite get that Leading Edge
  • 23:32 | right then it’s going to grab a hold of it real quick oh you’re you’re speaking of this grass in comparison to the
  • 23:37 | Scottish Fescue which is concrete ex yeah [Music]
  • 23:43 | exactly there you go good stuff 2024 is starting off strong there
  • 23:50 | we go the best is yet to come look at that what about the speed though Chaka what about the speed these are your
  • 23:56 | greens yeah but what kind of a I played him yesterday he’s the one that
  • 24:01 | you chose the speed you’re you’re the only person responsible for mother a little further right than that mother
  • 24:08 | nature chooses the speed that’s good well you’re and her family
  • 24:14 | did oh here you go he’s just doing that to lur us into a false sense of security
  • 24:19 | yeah but uh you guys are away this is like my worst nightmare all right oh Paul let’s take a
  • 24:26 | four it’s not bad done we had a chipping lesson so this is also for a four
  • 24:33 | but there we go Bingo good half the wooden the wooden flag stick is always a
  • 24:40 | sign Classic golf course yeah you’re in a classic Place yeah yeah the decision to come to Bermuda is that like an easy
  • 24:47 | one or what is that like I had a I had a friend who was already working out here and he said hey you know you want to
  • 24:52 | come do some auditing for a couple of years I said sure where’s Bermuda so first Port call was to look at it on the
  • 24:59 | map uh and think okay yep that truly is nowhere near the rest of the Caribbean
  • 25:04 | um and uh then did a bit more research had a couple of telephone interviews with my future employers and they didn’t
  • 25:12 | see through me just then so they they took me on and and and and came out for for for a two-year contract and 11 years
  • 25:18 | later I’m I’m still here so yeah great place to be another you know cool thing about this golf course is it crosses
  • 25:25 | over a public road yeah on four on I
  • 25:30 | mean 12 you’re on a public road on 13 it crosses over 14 it crosses over 15 it
  • 25:36 | crosses over 16 it crosses over okay so there’s a lot of car
  • 25:43 | interaction yes get in the hole [Music] oh talking to her not
  • 25:50 | you as it turns out kenton’s actually been following our travels and has agreed to the challenge but we still
  • 25:56 | need a club member to join us in the match have you played the uh what about the Friendship cup the friend I I
  • 26:03 | haven’t played in that one but we are going to have a match tomorrow we are going to have a match tomorrow so maybe that can be all friendship
  • 26:09 | cup and just like that the match is set so I so I believe it’s me and Sherlock
  • 26:15 | playing against you and K I believe so yeah so he’ll he’ll show me where all the bad blades of grass are that I
  • 26:21 | shouldn’t be chipping off and then uh we’ll uh we’ll hopefully take you guys to uh to T
  • 26:27 | [Music] so there is a story of Babe Ruth stood
  • 26:33 | on this tea box what did they say like 12 times 11 or 12 times really hopefully
  • 26:39 | we’re not here that long get him out the way now not to
  • 26:45 | worry we need to go to the range Sherlock just sort some things out
  • 26:53 | yeah we used to think that golf was a game for stuffy old dudes with Argyle pants
  • 26:59 | or that golf courses were just a great place to make out but over the years we found that golf is actually an adventure
  • 27:05 | whether you play in your backyard or thousands of miles
  • 27:10 | away so when we set out to make a club we didn’t look around at what everyone else was doing we made it for us for
  • 27:20 | everyone join random golf club for events tournaments and Golf Course benefits in your area
  • 27:28 | [Music]
  • 27:39 | from our first moments with Lloyd to quinton’s Clubhouse full of photographs to the infamous greens of mid ocean it’s
  • 27:46 | become clear to me just how special Bermuda truly is putting the beauty in the golf aside there is an air of
  • 27:53 | familiarity here maybe it’s because the island is only 21 square miles
  • 27:58 | but it feels as if we are all neighbors or perhaps Shipwrecked passengers making
  • 28:03 | the most of a waylay voyage on our first day Lloyd told us about rock fever it’s the sensation one
  • 28:11 | gets from living in an isolated Community far away from a larger civilization it can be easy to feel
  • 28:17 | alone but even over just the past few days I’ve rarely felt so
  • 28:23 | connected sure it’s easy to point out the differences in our match today private be public presidents and
  • 28:29 | helicopters versus local caddies stealing rounds on do soaked greens but
  • 28:34 | right now we’re for golfers chasing after four golf balls playing a game
  • 28:39 | that we love together so this is the final green unless we’re going to tie which
  • 28:47 | you know we’re dormy here Quinton and I but we’re both lion two and David and
  • 28:54 | Kenton are lion three so seems like the Friendship Cup’s going to
  • 29:00 | end up all square with everyone still friends which is the goal as we finish up our time here playing a match named
  • 29:06 | after the tournament that brings people together no matter their race Creed or
  • 29:11 | class maybe what makes Bermuda so special can be summed up in one word
  • 29:17 | friendship this is for the win this is for the win so it all comes down to one
  • 29:23 | putt for Mr David Woodcock is it go
  • 29:28 | you know we we don’t want to beat you guys up too B thank you very much play buy was excellent enjoy thanks
  • 29:37 | Ken thank you so much good stuff man he said it was going to be out confidence that’s it when did
  • 29:42 | you know the match was yours today well pretty much from the start we TR to give these guys a you know head lead
  • 29:50 | [Music]


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17 Comments

  1. @sebask8769

    Missing the Masters, love this series though!

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  2. @Lacrossgeek1

    If we can all be like Richard, the world would be a better place

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  3. @JumboFPS

    That guys voice at the goslings place is so weird. I have no clue why though

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  4. @vincentrominger5741

    If I'm not mistaken, around 4:20 you can actually hear underlaid audio of marching orders. These are the fine details that makes this series so good! Keep it up EAL and Crew!

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  5. @brianmurphy4925

    Cannot explain how happy I get when I see a new Adventures in Golf has been released. This series is part of what has helped really grow my interest in golf the past couple years. Thank you EAL and team!

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  6. @21Swayzee

    Oh man, you missed your chance to play the golf course that plays homage to the best 9 holes in golf, and the best 9 in Bermuda. "FUN GOLF"…HA! My old uni roomie was from Bermuda, and I thought he was the nicest guy in the world, and once I visited him in Bermuda, I realized he is from a country with the nicest people in the world! Mid Ocean is one of two courses I haven't played yet, maybe one day.

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  7. @guillaumelemay8889

    Please never stop doing these.
    It's hard to put into words the absolute state of relaxation and contemplation these videos put me in.
    Love it all !

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  8. @VonHanzee

    "were here for the virtual signal"

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  9. @thomasbowden7199

    Great way to showcase both sides of the island and how golf can bring people together. Awesome episode.

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  10. @stephenmuso9515

    You made it to Bermuda???????????????? I was wondering when you would do an episode here.

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  11. @jacobdesoto8916

    Another great golf video that takes you to a special place for awhile

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