Fore Play's Ireland trip ends with a near-beheading at Ardglass

The Fore Play crew's Ireland trip has been a scenery tour as much as a golf show, and stop 4 at Ardglass Golf Club in Northern Ireland might be the best backdrop yet. Presented by adidas, the travel series has been rolling out coastal course after coastal course, but Ardglass — a links track built into rocky shoreline with a stone hotel looming over the first tee — looks like it belongs in a different category entirely.

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The Fore Play crew made a stop at what could be the best kept secret in Northern Ireland. Stop 4 on their trip: Ardglass. Presented by @adidas

Riggs summed up the vibe with an all-timer of a description, and honestly the footage backs it up. An elevated tee box with stone retaining walls, ocean stretching out behind the golfers, rugged terrain everywhere you look — it's the kind of setup that makes you forget anyone's actually trying to keep score.

But the scenery isn't what's trending. That's thanks to a clip of Frankie nearly turning a TaylorMade rep into a highlight-reel casualty. The caption calls it an almost-decapitation, and while nobody's actually hurt, the cart-cam angle of Frankie reaching toward the guy's neck mid-swing is exactly the kind of chaos that makes these Fore Play travel episodes worth watching over a straight golf broadcast.

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Frankie almost decapitated our guy @b_jones39_ at Ardglass 💀 @TaylorMadeGolf

It's a good problem for the pod to have — a legitimately great episode about a legitimately beautiful golf course, and the internet still zeroes in on the 2 seconds of near-carnage. That's the Fore Play formula though: gorgeous courses, good golf, and somebody almost getting hurt on camera. Episode 4 is out now, and if the Ardglass stop is any indication, the rest of this Ireland series is going to be appointment viewing.