WE’RE PLAYING THE #1 GOLF COURSE IN THE WORLD
Fore Play
Barstool Sports
4.5 • 10.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Our Ireland trip rolls on as we head to Northern Ireland to play one of the best courses in the world: Royal County Down Golf Club. We’re joined by the club’s former head professional, Kevan Whitson, who gives us a detailed look at the course’s history, Irish golf culture, Rory McIlroy’s history at Royal County Down and much more. In the first half of the show we recap everything from our first 5 days on the Emerald Isle.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. |
| 0:06.8 | Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:10.0 | The Chevy Equinox is your do-it-all SUV from your daily drives, weekend trips, and last minute tea time. |
| 0:15.7 | Chevy presents this show, and they make all of this possible, including this excellent show. |
| 0:20.0 | We have a lovely interview with Kevin, who was the head pro at Royal County Down for, I think, 30-something years from 1991 and 2021. |
| 0:30.4 | He's got great stories about where he came from running the number one golf course in the world. |
| 0:37.9 | And then plus we do a lot of recapping of our Ireland trip thus far. |
| 0:42.2 | And we start with grievances, really. |
| 0:44.3 | Yeah, yeah, we're a negative group. |
| 0:46.0 | I think in general we are a negative group. |
| 0:48.7 | But we're having the time of our lives. |
| 0:50.0 | We are. |
| 0:50.5 | We are. |
| 0:51.4 | Ireland is awesome. |
| 0:52.3 | We've had such a great time. |
| 0:54.4 | And it's really all thanks to Chevrolet for being a presenting sponsor of the show and always being supporters of the guys and letting us kind of do what we want and showing off this great game that we love. |
| 1:06.6 | And we can go to all the corners of the earth to play this game, which is incredible. |
| 1:10.8 | I mean, we have gone to some remote places. |
| 1:14.0 | We're in Tasmania. |
| 1:14.7 | We're in a golf balls around trying to get them into a little hole. |
| 1:17.0 | True. |
| 1:17.5 | And that's all thanks to Chevy. |
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