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 that we've put out recently if you haven't do go and check
00:24that out but today we're at the beautiful Gogma Gog Golf Club here in Cambridgeshire I think
00:29up there as one of the best if not the best golf course in Cambridgeshire I'm really excited to see
00:34what the white envelope has in store for me today so let's head over to the clubhouse
00:37and see what's inside not there oh hello we're in business a poem again breaking 80 today in this
00:50challenge match will make you a winner but beware of the catch make a bogey or worse lose a club or two
00:58with a birdie you gain one and should see you through okay I think it's pretty self-explanatory
01:05gotta break 80 but it sounds like if I make a bogey I lose a club make a double bogey I lose two clubs
01:12but if I make a birdie I get one black wow thinking about my round on Sunday if I'd have done this
01:19challenge on Sunday with my score I would have finished around with three clubs I'm not confident
01:29no idea where it went but it felt like it went straight
01:31so because it's constrained to the sun didn't see it at all but let's have a look see if we can find it
01:38fairway found great start
01:40absolutely no idea where that's going
01:48hit it way too hard stop stop stop stop stop
01:52uphill 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
02:09right so there here it is this is the hat of doom that's been kindly prepared for me by the master of
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
02:27when I chip with just them that's not good all right so 54 degree going out any club that I lose
02:35I'll put to the side here just to avoid any confusion or temptation all right second tee got hit over this
02:41little 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
03:04on the green
03:04just want to lag it close and hope it drops in don't give myself any stress
03:13oh
03:15i thought i was getting my wedge back then
03:20solid
03:21a 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 obviously got this from
03:38arcos who track an awful long number of shots and a five handicapped golfer will make a bogey or worse
03:45on 44 percent of holes so the stats are definitely against me here the stats would suggest i'm losing
03:52you know i'm going to be losing about seven or eight clubs during this round of goal it's not looking
03:56good but i've made a relatively positive start and hoped i can go against the tide and complete this challenge
04:04so 135 left just be a smooth nine iron
04:11go
04:12kick violently left i don't know if hit the pin but i think it's all right i think it's on the green
04:17i thought i saw it via violently left and it turns out look it's pitched six inches short hit the pin and
04:24gone 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
04:42ah no harm done i really wanted that 54 degree wedge back
04:47all right fourth hole beautiful views here elevated position on this path three 164
04:57oh that's a bit leaky
05:04sit sit sit sit sit sit really don't want to lose another club here i mean this is such an easy cut
05:10oh my god how is that even physically possible all right so after that filthy lift out something's
05:26got to go here's this one there anything but driver i'll be happy with oh three wood
05:34i'm okay with that fifth hole powerful just got to keep it up the left because it all kicks in
05:42down to that right hand side
05:47lost it completely you're right right into the sun okay 114 yards
05:54just try and spin this little gap wedge up there
05:56go go go well it must have got a big bounce because i'm putting relatively makeable up the hill
06:09quite a lot of swing left to right on this one
06:16not enough
06:16car
06:24on to the next 180
06:28a little bit of a rest just recompose myself think about what i'm going to do i.e
06:35don'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 gonna have to pull it i think through the dew it's the percentage play
06:54travel
06:57oh it's way short
07:04come off it
07:05oh bogey club gone from the hat of doom
07:16hmm six iron that's the club i just used off that tee so
07:21yeah that's a bit disappointing but needs must six iron goes there
07:27oh 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
07:43what is going on par five absolutely making a total hash of it
08:11oh
08:17didn't come back at the end
08:21what's it gonna be
08:25nine iron
08:28if i can live with that or without that i should say
08:31eight nine nine it's gone so i'm four clubs down how many holes we've played seven holes
08:37i'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 did
08:46the last one um with a good tee shot
08:49that 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
09:06oh
09:08crikey 280 to the pin honestly no three would
09:16no idea so we're up on the green here on the eighth and
09:20i thought i had 280 yards to the pin
09:23turns out my laser i zapped the wrong flag
09:26i was zapping the next green um and obviously this green is here 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
09:47uh eight holes in four clubs down could have been better 140 yards that would be a perfect nine
09:55iron but of course i don't have my nine eye so with it being a bit downwind i'm hoping i can get
10:00there with a really 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
10:14oh 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
10:44oh that's big as well that is big
10:53sit sit sit sit sit sit sit oh that's nice
11:02absolute pathetic
11:08too much
11:08all right so pushed it you want to hit a nine iron but i haven't got one so i'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
11:27got to splash it in the left fringe and hope it just releases
11:30oh spin spin spin spin spin spin oh do it do it oh oh my god how's that not gone in oh what a shot it's like
11:47an inch behind the hole for the par no harm done got away with one there whoa what a shot right so 12th hole here
11:57gog magog just got to cut it off those left hand trees
12:05stay there stay there stay there it's very close to the out of bounds
12:09in play i'm about three yards in bounds
12:14wind oh yes big it could be making my first birdie
12:19it's just so poor
12:29putter 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
13:12yes there it is birdie come on oh it's only taken 13 holes but there it is i get a club back big
13:23question is which one i'm going to choose i think i want to go my 54 degree wedge but i'm going to have
13:27to look at the scorecard to see if there's any par threes that kind of six iron distance that i might
13:32want to get get it back in the bag oh come on i think i'm just going to get my 54 degree wedge back
13:41in case i need to do a chip from the rough around the green so out it comes from the
13:46the doldrums back into the bag so i'm now up to 11 clubs so i'm doing quite well i've got to say
13:52three over par on 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 again 500 yards should be a makeable birdie
14:08chance i don't know who sets these challenges but i feel like they could have given me a bit
14:11something a bit more difficult
14:12that is a humdinger down the middle
14:19of course i earned it back oh that makes it a bit easy because i was worried about the log
14:44wedge going underneath that we're putting we're putting for a birdie
14:55it's gone that way i had a feeling it might do that
14:58i'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
15:21oh it's moved so far to the left
15:29right so that's a par four on the 15th one under par for this ninth which is definitely going to get
15:35it done 16th hole it's a par four a long one for 47 yards so to sum up i am three over par gross
15:45with 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
15:59i don't know why that might be fine just just right on the cross bunkers
16:06oh oh it's in the bunker
16:11spin spin spin
16:14well this is absolutely lightning fast
16:20i need to be careful
16:27i've been a bit too careful
16:35double 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
16:47i 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 i'm going to be without a long club for one hole but
17:02that is not the club i wanted to to pick i'm absolutely gutted it's on let me tell you it's touch
17:08and go now hole 17 because i'm feeling a bit nervous now i thought it was going to be easy but that's
17:14just double bogus just completely thrown me
17:17i'll please carry that bunker please begging or just
17:29that's got to go as well travel
17:32oh it's done all right oh it's done very well actually
17:34right here we are 18th hole beautiful backdrop to this finishing hole
17:42i'll show him 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
17:56oh 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
18:23i think that's so hard
18:30went for glory oh dear went for glory
18:36there it is
18:39i bogey to finish but that's a 76 which means the challenge was accepted challenge complete
18:48guys thank you for watching big thank you to god my god golf club for hosting us today
18:52it's been absolutely incredible uh and look let me know in the comments what challenge do you want
18:57me to take on maybe going to test my skills even more than what we've done today i'd love to hear
19:02from you but that's all for me from god will god golf club i'll see you next time