K Club

real addictiveness to sales, actually.

In the K Club, look, I love when there's a big site visit and people will often say to me when it's a big one, listen, any chance you could try and pop your head in and bump into this gang.

And then...

A few weeks or a month down the line then, like, John will send a message into the senior team going, we landed that, it got over the line.

Yeah.

I never thought I'd see it again.

I was lucky enough to go to the one in the K Club, and I just thought, this is just mind-boggling.

And here it is in Adair.

In this game, you have got to celebrate the victories when they come along.

Great Britain and Ireland's club professionals had not won the PGA Cup since 2017, but a record-busting triumph for the USA at the K Club earlier this month just about prompted a ticker tape parade at the association's Belfort HQ.

The dust may have settled, but the buzz continues, said the Great Britain and Ireland captain, David Scott.

of a feel-good factor that's gone on longer than the Lemieux Carnival.

So this was a huge win for us and it gives PGA Golf on this side of the Atlantic a real shot in the arm.

Scott, a PGA stalwart and the general manager of Dunbarney Lynx approached his captaincy with the kind of attention to detail you would get with a high resolution CT scan.

A reconnaissance mission and team bonding session at the k club in july was so thorough scott already had his pairings for foursomes and four balls locked in well in advance i went into it expecting to win he added of the confidence that had been festered and fostered throughout this meticulous preparation i wrote two speeches for the week for the opening and closing ceremonies And in my closing speech, it was about winning.

I did not contemplate writing a losing one.

Just interested to see to what, where the Irish Open would be next year as well, as we look at advance of the Ryder Cup.

The K Club, which is another Ryder Cup venue, correct?

Indeed.

Yeah.

Yep.

And, you know, it's for all the talk we do about the glories of Lynx Golf.

Both Adair Manor and the K Club are inland, but are of such superior quality in terms of facilities, the entire experience.

You're like, OK, I'm going to sprinkle that in with the Lynx Golf I play because you can't miss those places.

Now, I wanted to talk about the golf course briefly, Dan.

Or actually, I wanted to ask you first, I don't know the answer to this, did you go to the K Club in 2006?

I did, yeah.

So what would be your, what were your sort of lasting memories of that? Because that was before my sort of interest in golf started.

And then there was this really a new golf course that Tom Fazio created.

And the reason people compare it to Augusta is that the way it's presented is on a different level to anything I've seen over here, and I don't say that lightly, I just think that the resource and the attention to detail and the commitment to every blade of grasping, as it should be, that is Augusta-like.

So in terms of whether the Americans will relish it, I mean, they absolutely will, because it will feel like a course that they play on the pga tour but there is a massive caveat um and that is the the irish weather and um i know that for for real um golf perverts like us and we were paying very close attention to the pga cup a couple of weeks ago at the k club and so that's the the club pro version of the rider cup um gb and i secured a famous win um against the americans fantastic performance um But one of the factors in that was that the weather, particularly on the first day, was absolutely horrific.

Wet, wild, windy kind of thing.

But my wine story relates back to my wedding.

So I was lucky enough to get married in the K Club.

And as part of the wine tasting and wine selection process, myself and my wife both adored a wine that was called Big Oak Red, so a South African wine from Franschhoek.

And that actually inspired us to have our honeymoon a few months later in South Africa, where we went to the traditional tourist routes and the wine routes through Stellenbosch and Franschhoek.

It's an amazing field.

When they go to, like, County Down or, you know, places like that, you're like, this is – even when they – like, I've got such great memories of watching Rory hit that – was it a – Three-wood or five-wood to, like, two feet at the K Club to win it there.

I mean, there's been some really cool Irish Open stuff that's happened.

You know, Shane Lowry winning as an amateur.

Um, I think just for a lot of the reasons like you said already, and I know like the course pieces for you was why it wasn't number one.

It should be.

I don't know, even when the event is at like the K Club or one of the lesser known, not lesser known, but like non-Lynx courses.

Like for me, it's still like a must-see or like must-watch event.