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In the second episode of challenge accepted, Joel Tadman heads to Gog Magog in Cambridgeshire to try and break 80. Sounds relatively simple for a 3 handicap index golfer, but the white envelope has a HUGE surprise in store that makes the task an awful lot harder...
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00:00oh that's not ideal it's all going wrong oh my god it's gone that's not good
00:15hello everyone and welcome to the second episode of challenge accepted with me joel tadman and
00:20hopefully you saw the first episode uh that we've put out recently if you haven't do go and check
00:24that out but today we're at the beautiful gogmo gold golf club here in cambridge i think up there
00:29as one of the best if not the best golf course in cambridge i'm really excited to see what the
00:34white envelope has in store for me today so let's over to the clubhouse and see what's inside not
00:40there oh hello we're in business a poem again breaking 80 today in this challenge match will
00:52make you a winner but beware of the catch make a bogey or worse lose a club or two with
00:58a birdie
00:59you gain one and should see you through okay i think it's pretty self-explanatory gotta break 80
01:07but it sounds like if i make a bogey i lose a club make a double bogey i lose two
01:11clubs
01:12but if i make a birdie i get one black wow thinking about my round on sunday if i'd have
01:18done this
01:19challenge on sunday with my score i would have finished the round with three clubs i'm not confident
01:28no idea where it went but it felt like it went straight so because it's constrained to the sun
01:34didn't see it at all but let's have a look see if we can find it fairway found great start
01:43absolutely no idea where that's gone
01:48hit it way too hard stop stop stop stop i feel right to left for the path
02:02all right bogey at the first to be expected let's go and see what club i'm losing
02:08right so there here is this is the hat of doom that's been kindly prepared for me by the master
02:13of
02:13ceremonies as you can see every club apart from putter is written on a bit of paper
02:2254 degree wedge that's the wedge i chip with all the time
02:27hold on chip with just them that's not good all right so 54 degree going out any club that i
02:34lose
02:35i'll put to the side here just to avoid any confusion or temptation all right second tee got
02:41hit over this little kind of canyon little fade off those trees down the left is the is the plan
02:51one two eight up the hill perfect pitching wedge
02:59go go
03:03on the green just want to lag it close and hope it drops in don't give myself any stress
03:14oh i thought i was getting my wedge back then
03:20solid a par they're the order of the day i think hole three beautiful views around the countryside here in
03:28cambridgeshire
03:33okay so looking at the stats from real golfers about birdies and bogeys
03:37obviously got this from arcos who track an awful long number of shots and a five handicapped golfer
03:44will make a bogey or worse on 44 percent of holes so the stats are definitely against me here
03:50the stats would suggest i'm losing you know i'm going to be losing about seven or eight clubs during
03:55this round of golf it's not looking good but i've made a relatively positive start and hoped i can
04:00go against the tide and complete this challenge
04:04so 135 left just be a smooth nine iron
04:12go kick violently left i don't know if hit the pin but i think it's all right i think it's
04:16on the green
04:17i thought i saw it via violently left and it turns out look it's pitched six inches short hit the
04:24pin
04:24and gone over there absolutely gutted it's nearly a slam dunk eagle i've got two clubs back for that
04:34no
04:37i can't believe that's missed
04:42uh no harm done but i really wanted that 54 degree wedge back
04:48all right fourth hole beautiful views here elevated position on this path three 164
04:57that's a bit leaky
05:03sit sit sit sit sit sit sit really don't want to lose another club here i mean this is such
05:09an easy
05:17oh my god how is that even physically possible all right so after that filthy lift out something's got
05:26a go here's this one there anything but driver i'll be happy with oh three wood i'm okay with that
05:37fifth hole powerful just got to keep it up the left because it all kicks in down to that right
05:43hand side
05:47lost it completely you're right into the sun okay 114 yards
05:53just try and spin this little gap wedge up there
06:00go go well it must have got a big bounce because i'm putting
06:07relatively makeable up the hill quite a lot of swing left to right on this one
06:16not enough
06:21car
06:23on to the next 180
06:27a little bit of a rest just recompose myself think about what i'm going to do
06:34ie don't make bogeys make birdies
06:40quite a long way from the green i would normally chip this with my 54 but
06:44i haven't got one so i'm going to have to pull it i think through the dew it's the percentage
06:49play
06:54travel
06:57oh it's way short
07:03oh come off it
07:08oh bogey club gone from the hat of doom
07:16six iron that's the club i just used off that tee so yeah that's a bit disappointing but
07:23needs must six iron goes there
07:30oh that is money absolute money oh don't kick right that's just got the work did you see that
07:41i mean how is that even finished there
07:56what is going on par five absolutely making a total hash of it
08:17what's it going to be
08:17didn't come back at the end
08:20what's it going to be
08:25nine iron
08:28i can live with that or without that i should say
08:32nine iron it's gone so i'm four clubs down how many holes we play seven holes
08:36i've already lost four clubs it's not a good ratio
08:40eighth hole it's another par five um so just need to not make a complete mess of it like i
08:46did the
08:46last one um with a good tee shot
08:53that is absolute garbage
09:00well i found it that's the main thing we're still in the game
09:03it's not i've got no shot to the green so i'm just going to chip it out
09:08i'm just going to chip it out
09:08crikey 280 to the pin honestly no three wood
09:16no idea so we're up on the green here on the eighth and i thought i had 280 yards to
09:22the pin
09:23turns out my laser i zapped the wrong flag i was zapping the next green um and obviously this green
09:31is
09:31here and my ball is actually on the back fringe
09:38just swung away at the end
09:43well at least we're not losing clubs after the tee shot it was looking not good at all so uh
09:48eight
09:49holes in four clubs down could have been better 140 yards that would be a perfect nine iron but of
09:56course i don't have my nine eye so with it being a bit downwind i'm hoping i can get there
10:01with
10:01really hard pitching wedge so let's see if we can hit this close and make it two
10:10oh it's on a great line be the club be the club oh we're in business
10:31right back nine starts here start as mean to go on aggressive with a driver on this par four
10:41perfection
10:46oh that's big as well that is big
10:53sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit oh that's nice
11:02absolute pathetic
11:08too much all right so pushed it you want to hit a nine iron but i haven't got one so
11:15i'm gonna hit an eight
11:18good strike in the trap on the left not good okay so big slope to the left of the screen
11:27i'm gonna splash it in the left fringe and hope it just releases
11:32oh spin spin spin spin spin oh do it do it oh oh my god how's that not gone in
11:45oh what a shot it's like an inch
11:47behind the hole for the par no harm done got away with one there whoa what a shot right so
11:5612th hole here
11:57gog magog just got to cut it off those left hand trees
12:05stay there stay there it's very close to the out of bounds in play i'm about three yards in bounds
12:15wind oh yes be good could be making my first birdie
12:22it's just so poor
12:28putter is normally my strong club but it's absolutely let me down today more importantly on track to break
12:3580. so what's this 13th hole some four over three twelve this is 13th par three beautiful views
12:43of the countryside 190 yards
12:47oh it's right at it go go go i really want to get my 54 degree wedge back come on
13:12oh
13:13there it is birdie come on oh it's only taken 13 holes but there it is i get a club
13:22back big question is
13:24which one i'm going to choose i think i want to go my 54 degree wedge but i'm going to
13:27have to look at
13:27the scorecard to see if there's any par threes that kind of six iron distance that i might want to
13:32get
13:32get it back in the back oh come on i think i'm just going to get my 54 degree wedge
13:40back in case i need
13:42to do a chip from the rough around the green so out it comes from the the doldrums back into
13:47the bag
13:49so i'm now up to 11 clubs so i'm doing quite well i've got to say three over par
13:54on a par 70 course with five holes left i'm feeling confident i can do this come on
14:00right hole 14 the last par five here at gogba gog
14:04again 500 yards should be a makeable birdie chance i don't know who sets these challenges
14:10but i thought they could have given me a bit something a bit more difficult
14:17that is a humdinger down the middle
14:23oh
14:2860 yards left no 54 oh no i've got my 54 haven't i i forgot okay oh well i'll get
14:35that back out
14:36there won't i i was just uh resigned to the fact that i didn't have it but of course i
14:42earned it
14:43back oh that makes it a bit easy because i was worried about the log wedge going underneath that
14:49we're putting we're putting for a birdie
14:55it's gone that way i had a feeling it might do that
15:07i've 12 but it's cutting towards that bunker okay one three six beautiful views again
15:13on the on the 15th hole this is a perfect pitching wedge
15:20i'll be as good as you look
15:24oh it's moved so far to the left
15:29right so that's a par four on the 15th one under par for this nine which is definitely going to
15:35get
15:35it done 16th hole it's a par four a long one 4 47 yards so to sum up i am
15:43three over par gross
15:44with three holes left 11 clubs in the bag so i've got to play the last three holes
15:51in six over to complete the challenge
15:57that's going i don't know why that might be fine just just right on the cross bunkers
16:06oh oh it's in the bunker
16:10spin spin spin well this is absolutely lightning fast
16:20so i need to be careful
16:27i've been a bit too careful
16:36double two clubs need to go so i'm going to pick at random
16:41first one 60 degree wedge club i just used for that bunker shot it's gone
16:49i can't believe that so i've got no three wood and no driver now luckily there's only
16:56par three and then the par four to finish so are you going to be without a long club for
17:01one hole but
17:02that is not the club i wanted to to pick i'm absolutely gutted it's on let me tell you
17:07it's touch and go now hole 17. so i'm feeling a bit nervous now i thought it was going to
17:13be easy but
17:14that's just double bogus just completely thrown me
17:20oh please carry that bunker please begging or just
17:29that's got to go as well travel oh it's done all right oh it's done very well actually
17:38right here we are 18th hole beautiful backdrop to this finishing hole
17:42or shown without the driver and the three room some people you might think oh iron for safety
17:47that's a good thing but for me driver is probably the straightest club in my bag
17:51a five or a six is enough to complete the challenge so i am confident but you never know
18:01oh please don't go in that bunker please stop oh my days i didn't even see that bunker
18:14perfect hard hard get wedge
18:20go go hard go hard
18:25i think that's so hard
18:29went for glory oh dear went for glory
18:36there it is
18:38i bogey to finish but that's a 76 which means the challenge was accepted challenge complete
18:47guys thank you for watching big thank you to god my god golf club for hosting us today it's been
18:52absolutely incredible uh and look let me know in the comments what challenge do you want me to take on
18:58maybe going to test my skills even more than what we've done today i'd love to hear from you but
19:03that's all for me from god will god golf club i'll see you next time
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