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No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

264 - Playing the Top 100 Courses in the World w/ Simon Holt

No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

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Sports, Golf

4.77.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

We've all seen Top 100 lists. We've all dreamed of playing them all. Simon Holt has actually done, and he's here to tell us about traveling to the ends of the Earth to become the first Brit to play the Top 100 golf courses in the world. He explains to us how he got on all of the courses, his personal rankings, how the Golf Magazine Top 100 comes together, courses he believe should be on the list, and a ton more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That's better than

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be the right club today.

0:09.0

That's better than most.

0:15.0

How about in?

0:18.0

That is better than most.

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Better than most. The most.

0:24.0

Expect anything different.

0:29.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Laying Up podcast, different episode for you today. We're going to get to a conversation

0:35.4

with Simon Holt here in a little bit. Simon is one of the few people in the world who has played

0:41.4

all 100 courses on golf.

0:44.4

I believe he goes off the golf magazine top 100 list.

0:47.6

His list that he follows is the 2013 list.

0:50.4

I figured with the recent publication of the new top 100 list the golf

0:54.8

magazine list it would be interesting to talk with someone who is on that

0:58.3

panel understands how the rankings work and has played every single golf course not on the current list but on

1:04.4

the 2013 one and we talk about some of those differences between the list

1:08.0

what's changed from year over year and he's about as unpretentious of a guy that I can imagine that you can find to speak on this

1:18.4

topic plus he's got a Scottish accent so it's gonna be you guys are gonna love it

1:22.0

he's a awesome dude we're gonna be catching up with him here in April, hopefully in Scotland.

1:26.0

And he has some great insights on playing golf around the world, how he's managed to get on these golf courses and some of the top experiences.

1:33.0

Also some of the parts that are less glamorous about it.

1:35.0

I found really interesting when I talked to him a few months ago about doing this about some of the trips he was getting ready to take that he wasn't looking forward to

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