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with an optimism that summer might be about to rear its head I thought it was time to leave the shores and set out on a journey of Discovery I set sail for pastures new traveled across land and sea to an island which offered all I ever yearned for golf and Guinness cue the Irish music we're off to the emerald aisle [Music] we invite people in we have a lovely little course H it's not a highend course it's not a an Open Championship on the road or anything but we are off the beat and track but it's well worth a visit any group it's a beautiful Town beautiful area we're a welcoming club and that's what we try to to portray the whole time that and I joined here because of its friendly nature uh you're just a stranger here but once uh you come here on your own to play few holes uh you somebody will join you you will never be left on your own unless you genuinely want to be left in your own right now I'm 85 I joined Boris in 1962 it's always been a friendly Club from the very first time that I joined had a good time here yeah I loved it here I still do still do and people who come here usually want to come back okay I'll tell you my name is Louie kgra if anyhow and um in my early 80s now still playing a bit of golf yeah I'm a member in this golf club for probably U 40 odd years and enjoyed it never being a member of another club and it's a brilliant Club even though it's nine hole God Club here one time it used to be the best nine hole in in Ireland what makes it so special is it's such a friendly Club I'd say and but still after a game of golf you can always come in and have a few drinks and a bit of a chat and uh basically that's what golf is about isn't it I arrived at the small town of Boris on Sunday the 12th of May as a stranger and I left as anything but my goal was simple play golf take some photos create a video but this was not to be an ordinary episode in fact the next four days were about to be quite surreal I'm not quite sure what happened but this was a story of far more than just a golf [Music] club so we're we're in the middle of enjoying our round this an impromptu I've just seen you on the other Fair we were met in a bar the other evening can you tell me what's so great about Boris Golf Club friendship uh laidback very welcoming that's that's a theme we've heard throughout and beautiful scenery absolutely I W enjoy your game so I won't interrupt you any longer and I'll see you later in the bar okay a lot of what you'll see in today's episode is as much about the people of Boris as it is about the golf club because although they don't know it it is them that make it so special but I suppose we better take a look around the golf course first after all that's why I was invited you'll see a lot of people in this episode you've not met before much like when I arrived in Boris but very soon you'll understand why these people are so special and how the community and The Golf Club of Boris are so important to one another one of the first things I'm learning at Boris golf club is uh you need to find a fairway cuz they're quite a few of them are quite tight off the tea and if you go where I've just been which is not too far off the Beaten Track then you're going to need to start to be able to shape the ball a little we've hooked one round there but uh not going to make it to the green right this uh is a little awkward one we'll probably demonstrate something I'll talk to you about uh very soon about Boris Golf Club right now watch his swing watch his swing I'm more than happy with that but yeah what I wanted to talk to you about was again just on this N9 old theme there this assumption that sometimes it can be uh you know easy golf it's certainly not one thing thing about this golf course is the targets are very very small so a long green but very narrow on the third is the pretty much the epitome of that I think I better get me put you're not giving me that are you again the seventh green that we're just waiting to play is uh small green 152 yard from the wh and as I understand I've spoke to a lot of members this can be a bit of a card record it's so tiny the Target that they just uh well glad to see the back of it and move on to whole eight I think we better see how we get on it's got a tiny bit I think oh yeah do you know what at the moment these things just spin so much they've got some new wedges give pxe a bit of a plug there but they're so spinny the wedge he was out with Brendan earlier today and he had a practice with them and believe it iser anyway the bit I want to talk about is this backdrop which is I think that is the black stairs mountains and it's the first time the sort of cloud has just lifted off it uh in the last hour or so so we can see that if I've got that bit wrong then apologies to anyone connected with the golf club but all around here whichever way you look and you'll have seen from the Drone footage it's uh pretty spectacular and it's again one of those golf coures where it's very much what you think of Island as being lush green very pitch pesque and no matter which Fairway you walk down loads of definition lush green on the greens themselves and uh it's just uh it's stunning to look at so much attention is paid to the big clubs in Ireland but there are plenty that are off the Beaten Track and Boris certainly falls into that category and I'd love nothing more than you to pay this place a visit and support support it the people really do deserve it play the big courses but add Boris into your next trip and stop by and say hello you'll love the place and if you don't I'll pay the green Fe myself right six hole and uh only what's it Place 37 yards or 317 M sorry that's important quite a bit different um but again you just it's not it's not super wide I mean I'm going with forward and I've chose to play that on a few occasions already once again just trying to find a fairway um because that's the kind of demand that uh the course puts on your game off the te you'll see a lot of very mature Treeline Fairways and uh leak it a little bit I think I've already mentioned and yeah a bit of problem anyway let's see how this goes yeah I'll be happy with that there's a lot I like about uh Boris Golf Club but the six green complex we'll call it is probably my favorite bit it's got great shaping it's got lots of subtle little uh uh swailes within the green itself and then it's well protected by a couple of uh fairly decent Siz bunkers so again bit of a demand on your short game o not bad now it wouldn't be an episode without folks of the week Andy or Tracy in the comments below [Music] can't believe how lucky we've been with the weather it's been incredible in the days you've been filming uh but I don't know whether you noticed from all the kind of interview little clips that you've seen so far I'm not sure how this been put together but there's uh a number of words that are quite prevalent in everybody's uh sort of words and that's about being welcoming friendly and uh honestly I can't believe just how well welcoming and friendly the people in general of Boris have been it seems like we've part of the furniture we've only been here a few days but it's so welcoming whether we're uh in a clubhouse at Boris or our other 19th Hole which is joyes just down the road anyway back to the golf yet again it's those Treeline Fairways to provide nice visually visual shape of where you're trying to go it's a little bit left is it oh no oh no that's okay that's okay we might have a decent angle in but you know what I'm uh I'm happy as Larry as they say stress free walking down these Fairways there's no noise apart from the birds in the background sun shining it's just this is stressfree golf I tell you no wonder the uh members are all walking around happy and jovial all the time so I'll have uh quick pain in the clubhouse and then I wander up the road to joyes for a few Guinness and uh I don't know what more can ask for in life I think as well sometimes we can be perhaps a little bit dismissive of 90 golf courses but uh this is a tough cookie I tell you I've already said about the t- shot it's narrow but there's a lot of uh long second shots in as well because I've been choosing to play forward try and get the ball on a fairway but clearly that leaves your longer second shot in so persuade you to it driver off the te but then again that's the sort of chance you take but it's also the one bit that I do really like is that there's a number of different tea boxes so that when you play two Loops of nine make up your 18 holes there's some holes that are significantly different in where they move the T boxes um so for example a ninth hole plays a par four first time round and when you play it again uh as 18 it's a very very different T position which makes it into a par five so I love the fact it almost feels in a number of them at least anyway that you are playing two very different holes well I'm going to end it there I could go on forever but I've been doing continual Loops I think I don't know how many HS I've played today but I've enjoyed every minute of it in the backrop there's another big mountain I'm not sure the name of that one but I'm sure it means uh something to the members of Boris and uh it's another great visual to end on but not quite end because I think you can guess where I'm going next and uh cue the music [Music] I [Music] [Music] [Music] so another late night and a good breakfast was needed we were stay at joyes in one of their eight rooms the breakfast was our belter and a perfect start to the day Joes have eight rooms all of which are superb and an absolute pleasure to stay in but once again it was our hosts John and Mary Joyce who made it extra special and clearly couldn't do enough for their guests I was off for one more round this time with Brendan Joyce who borrowed my pxg driver and showed me how to use it once again the Sun was shining on this picture perfect landscape [Music] now in an ordinary episode that would be me done but Boris and its people are far from ordinary later that evening I was asked if I'd like to visit the Stables of possibly the greatest National hunt trainer of all time Willie Mullins is Champion trainer of the Year trainer of the current Grand National and Gold Cup winners is a legend of the sport and was as welcoming as any other I met during The Surreal few days I'm still not sure if this really happened on the drive back to Joy's for one last evening if they told me a leprechaun would be playing live in the bar I'd probably believe him and so we end this episode where it all started over to you John Joyce what a wonderful the colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky are all on the faces of people passing by I see friend shaking saying how do you do when say I you where my [Laughter] [Music] what a [Music] wonderful oh [Applause] yeah Brennon Joyce asked for my help to give some love to Boris GF club and encourage others to visit what he didn't realize was it is them who helped me help me realize what life should be all about what golf is all about and how a golf club is such an integral part of a community and how important it is that they stay with us for many years ahead I want to thank all the people of Boris who made my wife and I so welcome during our visit and that final Parting Gift heartburn