Original subtitles

Nice meeting you. Thanks so much.

I'm looking for your autograph.

You're looking for my autograph?

- Here. - I went because, you know,

you're famous because you were in the Ghostbusters.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

You see that woman there?

That's me, Margaret.

But, you know,

you were the best person

that was in the Ghostbusters.

Well, thank you. That's nice of you.

I met the actor Bill Murray

- when I was out shopping. - This is how we do it

- in America. - Oh, that's lovely.

Yeah. I don't mind.

He came to Ireland to see the most beautiful scenery,

have some fun...

...and play golf with his friend Tom.

- Thanks, everybody. - You know,

Tom once walked around the whole of Ireland playing golf

at every single links course.

56 courses,

900 holes,

more than a thousand miles.

Feckin' idiot.

Do you still do the acting or anything?

Anyway, Tom wrote a book about his travels.

- The end. It's fantastic. - And Bill,

whose ancestors came from Ireland, thought it sounded

- like a grand idea. - We're looking for

the fun, the craic.

The golf, the beauty.

Wow.

Yikes.

Ireland is

a special spot

bubbling out of the ocean, you know?

They weren't walking, of course.

That would be madness.

But they wanted

to meet up with some friends...

Whoa...

...some friends of friends...

Wow.

...and some family.

- Goddamn it. - All the while

trying to knock a tiny ball into a tiny hole

with a big stick.

Like I said, feckin' eejits.

Oh, God, I hit it way too hard.

Now, to be straight with you,

this is not a show about golf.

- Fore! - It's not even

really a show about Bill Murray.

Whoa.

And half the battle is just keeping up with the man.

- People. - Where is he?

He just took off.

Bill wants to go and have a two-hour massage.

Two hours?

It's sort of about the Irish-- the ones

who stayed and the ones who left.

But I don't want you to be getting hung up on all that.

Just try to enjoy yourselves.

I think it's a real treat, and that Bill Murray

seems like a charming sort

of man.

Isn't that lovely?

- What does it say? - "Margaret, call me."

♪ "Clap Your Hands" by Parov Stelar playing ♪

Let's ask for directions.

- Morning. - Morning.

Impressive.

Impressive.

- "Bill Cosby." - Huh?

- What's this for? - Bill Cosby.

- What's your name? - Erin. Are you going golfing?

Oh, yeah, we're going golfing.

- You just called me Bill Cosby. - I'm so sorry.

Oh, I have no phone with me. I'm disgusted.

You'll never go running without your phone again.

Fucking dying. Right. Go on.

- Cheers. - Enjoy your day.

- Enjoy your run. - I'm disgusted I don't have

- my camera. - You, too.

- Enjoy. Enjoy. - Bye-bye.

Bye. Bye.

Bill Cosby.

'Cause I've had people say, "Eddie Murphy."

- What? - Which I've... No.

I had someone say that once, and so I use that all the time.

So now when people go, "You're-you're, um..."

And I say, "Eddie Murphy."

And they go, "Yes!"

- But now I'm Bill Cosby. - Now you're Bill Cosby.

I can't wait to try it.

♪ "Breizh Anthem" by Antoine Rozé playing ♪

Bill Murray, he is.

I remember him from the Ghostbusters.

It's right here, Ray.

Plus he's been in loads of things, so he has.

Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation,

Caddyshack, which, as I think about it, is about golf anyway,

and all those Wes Anderson films.

Do you know his movies have taken over $2 billion dollars

in the cinema?

Wouldn't mind a bit of that.

Oh, God,

this touches my heart.

This is beautiful.

Tom decided to start the trip

at Old Head, right at the bottom of the country,

where I'm from, near Cork.

When I was a little girl,

this was all farmland.

People used to walk out here to the old lighthouse

and gaze out over the ocean to America.

They turned it into a course in the late '90s.

And Tom reckons its windy 18 holes

are the most dramatic anywhere in the world.

Wow.

The wind's out of the west.

The first time I came to Ireland, I felt

like I was at a family wake.

It looked like everyone was my cousin.

It was a shock. A pleasant one.

Just visually and physically, emotionally,

all of it at once, it hit me that,

oh, this is who I am, this is where I come from.

So I always look forward to coming back.

You know, it's just, I feel like these are my guys.

Feel at home.

All right, Bill. You ready?

Maybe.

Crazy pretty.

Good luck, golf ball.

The stage was set.

A gorgeous sunny day.

It doesn't get better...

...than this.

No. No, Lord.

No, Lord.

Ah. There you go.

Wow.

- Wind is off the left. - Oh, my God.

This is ridiculous, right?

It's tough without a warm-up.

Oh, that's crazy.

We're gonna need more golf balls, it looks like.

Yeah.

♪ "I Got the Rhythm" by Lack of Afro playing ♪

♪ I got the rhythm in my body ♪

♪ Make me groovy, make me hot now ♪

♪ Hey ♪

Look at these healthy worms.

Look at them.

They're our friends. Look how many.

Hardworking Irish worms.

They've got the spirit. Look at that.

That's Grandpa.

- Tom, tell me about Old Head. - All right.

"The Old Head of Kinsale was simply

the most spectacular golf course in the world.

Not the most classic, not the most historic.

Spectacular."

Tom and Bill have known each other

for donkey's years, they have.

And when Tom wrote his book about Ireland,

Bill put a nice little comment on the front.

Lovely.

"As we crested the hill on the road to Old Head

and we all glimpsed our green playground floating

in that big blue pond,

$425 felt like a value deal."

That was back then. How much is it now?

- Probably more. - Probably more. Yeah.

Oh, man.

What are you looking at, the rocks?

I was looking for your ball.

♪ gentle music

150 years ago,

Bill's ancestors headed across the ocean to America.

The man is Irish through and through.

98% Irish, if you look at his DNA,

which I haven't,

but it says so here in the script.

When we grew up, we...

we watched, uh, Bing Crosby and...

Jimmy Cagney.

In Chicago,

they dye the river green on St. Patrick's Day,

and that was always sort of a sense of pride.

We had an Irish mayor.

That was sort of like, "This is kind of who we are.

This is where we come from.

We sing and we laugh and we're tough."

And that's kind of what it was.

In America or anywhere else, probably the newest guy

is the worst, is the lowest, you know?

And when the Irish came, they were the lowest.

I remember

when I joined a golf course,

uh, I was playing with an elder member who said,

"You know, it wasn't so long ago,

we wouldn't have accepted someone like you,"

meaning an Irishman. Yeah.

Bill and Tom are just two

of 38 million Americans.

Their stories began in Ireland centuries ago.

Are the Irish Americans the same as us?

A little bit and a little bit not.

They like to think they are.

But I do know these Americans still come back in the droves

to stand on the same ground where their ancestors lived

and see the place where they came from.

Shit.

Give me a ball.

Goddamn it.

Fuck a duck. Oh, God.

Goddang it.

Great shot.

Okay, that's gonna come down, right?

Yeah. See that house right of the lighthouse there, Bill?

- Right of it. Yeah. - So back in 2017,

we had Storm Ophelia here.

- Yeah. - Did you ever hear about that?

And the whole country pretty much closed down

for at least three days.

But we had waves crashing up,

- coming up as high as that. - Up that high?

And broke that window.

- Wow. - Yeah.

During that storm...

Well, here. Come here.

Turn around, get behind me,

and show that window way over there.

See that white window with the frame?

Feature on that.

♪ dramatic music

Now start talking.

Walk with me.

Tell the story.

We had Storm Ophelia back here in 2017.

We had waves coming up that high, crashing into it,

and it actually broke that window.

And because the waves were so strong,

all the balls that golfers have hit into the water over the last

- few years came up. - They came up on the ground?

- Ah. - So this-this whole fairway

was absolutely covered in golf balls.

And the greenskeeper said there was about four or five balls

- in the cup. So there's... - In the cup?

...there's four or five people that have played the Old Head

who have a hole in one but don't know it.

♪ "Road to Errogie" by Jiggy playing ♪

The boys rounded the 18th in a light local storm.

- Fore right! Fore! - It's go... it's going right.

They're really going right.

That's a lot of wind.

And putted out for the day.

- Tom won. - That was great. That was fun.

Tom's good at golf. But like I say,

this is not really a show about golf.

- I grew into it. - You did, yeah.

And this is day one.

And you can only imagine what I'm gonna be like

in like another 19 days.

Hungover, I'd imagine.

We're going to the pub.

They were treated to the nearby pub

The Speckled Door,

a local pub where the caddies

hang around, getting a round after a round.

This is not a show about drinking, by the way.

Tom doesn't even drink anymore.

But him and Bill grew up caddying,

and they know the benefits of a good debrief

in the bar afterwards.

Brian, I don't think I'm giving you

too much credit for your reads.

You realize, instead of shooting 90 for six holes,

- I would've shot 86. - I know.

If you'd hit driver off the first, you would've shot 85.

God, if I'd hit driver off the first,

I might've shot in the 70s for six holes.

Uh, there was a few good shots.

There was a few good shots.

But, Bill, do you know how you said

you caddied when you were younger?

Do you think that helped you in life?

Or did it make you feel different,

comparing yourself to, like, other famous people

who wouldn't have been involved in the game?

Do you think it helped you in that sense?

Well, caddying

was the greatest formal education I ever had.

Yeah, you learned how to play cards, gamble, smoke cigarettes.

And I learned how to treat people and how

- you'd like to be treated. - Absolutely.

Brian, when I grew up caddying,

that taught me drama, that taught me hyperbole,

that taught me bullshitting.

You know, like, all important skills.

- Master of bullshit. - Right?

Life lessons. That's it.

- Life lessons. - Yeah.

When-when you're a young guy or girl,

like, to have that bit of structure

and that bit of training

in later life, you know, getting out of bed early

in the morning, wearing your uniform.

You know, I never thought of it as structure.

I always thought of it as, like, a...

you know, uh, some sort of a-a-a jour...

a-a path upwards, you know?

And I appreciate when people work.

I know what your job is. I had your job.

- Oh, yeah. - You know, I had the job.

When I began caddying, you got $1.50.

We had nine kids in a, in a house. You know?

I know what it's like to not have e-enough money.

It's not that far away, you know?

- Yeah. - It's not that far away.

So have you got a caddie story you'd like to tell?

Just one from four days ago.

- Four days ago? - Yeah.

- Give it to me, Brian. - Just raw. Very raw

- in your memory. - V-Very raw.

My golfer, who's a member here,

took a shit off the 16th tee there four days ago.

So when you know a lad on a personal level,

you really get to know him.

- Okay. - Yeah.

- That's a story for you. - So, there... That was

- blunt and to the point. - Yeah.

I-I-I can't do much more than that, boys.

Enough of that.

- Yeah. Enough of that. - Sorry. Jesus.

I thought we should've stopped

- a couple of minutes ago. - Yeah.

♪ "Monsieur Rouge" by Michael Blainey & Peter Blyth playing ♪

All right, let's drive.

Catch you guys later.

See you.

They'd lost him.

He's a spontaneous sort of fella, is Bill.

And just because the team hadn't got

all their shots didn't mean

that Bill was going to be standing around,

waiting for them to catch up.

Bill marched to his own beat.

That's very Irish.

I like that.

You know, we might have a slight advantage.

I don't know if I'm being too ambitious.

I often am.

For a man that doesn't claim to have any ambition.

We could, um...

Oh, shit.

Oh, shite.

The top came off.

I'm squeezing this thing out,

and the top popped off from the pressure.

- Bill got excited. - Well, that's gonna get worse.

What the fuck?

It's just one of those things, you know.

I have a towel on my golf bag back there.

I'm gonna get to work on this.

Anyway, this gives me a great amount of relief,

and I recommend this to people.

You don't feel the benefit of it while you're doing it,

but later you do.

♪ lively music

Bill and Tom were finally tracked down

to the nearby village of Kinsale.

This is nice.

Tom had booked the two of them in for dinner at a restaurant

called the Black Pig.

It was just around the corner.

Then again, Bill is easily distracted.

Look at that. Is that who I think it is?

We're going the wrong way.

Sorry, I think I blinked. Oh, I got it the second time.

- Thanks a million. - All right, bye.

You know where the Black Pig is?

I do. It's way down the other side.

All right. Let's go.

Do you see this?

I'm getting nothing,

- Catherine, I'm getting nothing. - Are you not?

Who wants an ice cream cone?

There's gonna be ten of 'em.

Someone's got to be delivery boy.

Mmm.

Great.

People.

- Is that the end of it? - I think so.

Okay. Thanks, Catherine.

We got to find the Black Pig.

Will you stand here for a picture, Bill?

- Look at you. - Good Dairy.

We'll never get... Will we ever get to the Pig?

We'll never get to the fucking Black Pig.

We should go to the Pig first.

Do you sell handkerchiefs?

- Can cut up something. - I could supposedly

cut up something. You got a piece of fabric we could cut up?

- Cut it into squares. - Squares.

Oh, look at you go.

- Handkerchief. All right. - Hold on. Let's see if it works.

That's pretty good.

- That's a good... - That is pretty good.

That's pretty good.

Come on.

All right, do you know where the Black Pig is?

Nope.

If you're not in the picture, you're not in the picture.

We got everybody?

"Bill Cosby."

- It's the woman who... - Oh, it's Mrs. C--

Yeah. But I have my phone now. So could I,

- could I prove this happened? - How are you?

- Okay. - You got all dressed up.

- There you go. - Mister... You didn't call--

"Mr. Cosby." Thanks for that.

They didn't believe it. This is the lady that said,

- "Bill Cosby." - I said, "Bill Cosby."

All right, we got to keep moving.

We're getting in trouble.

- The Black Pig. There it is. - There it is.

- Are you hungry, Tom? - Yeah.

♪ "Celtic Mists" by Andrew Lord, Ella Ryan & Gary Bishop plays ♪

The next morning, the lads headed into Cobh.

That's Cobh, spelled C-O-B-H.

Cobh.

Never you mind.

Now listen up.

This is an important place.

Hundreds of thousands of Irish Americans

return to Ireland every year,

and I hear them saying, "God Almighty, it's beautiful.

Why did my relations leave here in the first place?"

They left because they had to.

From the middle of the 19th century,

Ireland suffered the Great Hunger.

Millions of Irish men and women starved to death,

and a million more fled the country

bound on ships to America

in search of a better life.

The Irish today are a people separated,

split up around the world.

My great-grandmother was born on the boat.

That's as far back as we go.

That's, that's landing in America.

What must it have been like

to get on a boat

and to be really tossed and turned for days,

t-to go away to-to start a new life?

It must have been an-an amazing experience

to get all the way across.

They went anywhere where they-they could find work.

They wanted to have lives for their families.

It's a, it's a...

It's hard for-for me as an American,

right, to-to realize what it must have been to say,

"We've got to pick up and go.

We've got to try a whole nother continent."

To live in a place like this that's so beautiful

and so lovely and to have such pain

when you can see the water

and the sky and the clouds and the sun and...

realize all that's given to you,

uh, by God. And then...

what you get from your fellow man

can be so wicked,

so un... incomprehensible.

And what they left behind was, uh,

the history, the family history.

I feel like my family has, uh, survived and thrived

and that, when we come back, I've...

we feel a sense of pride that we, uh...

you know, our seed came from here

and that, you know, we did okay.

The effects of those times are still with us today.

Did you know the population of Ireland

is still lower than it was

in 1841?

It's true. Anyway, enough chatter.

It's my big moment.

I've seen you on the television.

- How are you? - I'm good, and yourself?

- I'm pretty good. - Are you visiting Cobh, you are?

- Yes, I am. - Very nice. Nice to see you.

- Nice to meet you. - Nice to see you.

- Is this your town? - This is my town, yeah.

Well, this is where my ancestors took off from.

- Oh, did they? - Yeah.

Are you here for the day

or just for a couple of hours?

We're staying over in Cork

and we're doing a little show

about travel and golf in Ireland.

Lovely, too. Very nice. Yes.

- Are you a golfer? - No.

Are you a caddie?

No.

I'll do it for you, though, if you want that.

I don't think I'll take you up on it, Margaret.

All right, we're going in the sweet shop. You need anything?

No, no, and thanks for asking me.

- Okay, you sure? - Yes.

All right, we'll be in there for a couple of minutes

if you change your mind. Maybe some licorice?

- Oh, thank you very much. - All right.

- See you later, Margaret. - See you.

So what's Dutch licorice like?

- Oh, that's really hard. - Yeah.

Rhubarb and custard.

The Haribo sours are really good.

Show me some sours, kiddo.

Hey, there's Margaret.

- Really? - Yep.

She's a doll.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thanks.

♪ It's hard work ♪

You feel like you need a shave, Tom?

I wouldn't be against it.

Hello there.

- I can take you, sir. - Okay.

I-I just want you to, um, shave me.

♪ "Hard Work" by Smoove & Turrell playing ♪

Can I have what he's doing?

Thank you.

It is really relaxing.

What do you see when you look in the mirror, Bill?

I have no idea who that person is.

♪ It's hard work ♪

♪ Whoa-whoa-oh... ♪

Oh, this is interesting.

- Ready? - Yeah, I'm ready.

It's kind of a small pain, okay?

A small pain? Fuck me.

That's-that's how small it was.

Small.

Wow.

♪ Hard work ♪

♪ It's hard work ♪

Hi, Margaret.

I'm looking for your autograph.

You're looking for my autograph? Here.

I went because, you know, you're famous

because you were in the Ghostbusters.

No need to see this bit again.

On with the show.

♪ "Man of Aran" by Jiggy playing ♪

In Ireland, you never know what's around the corner.

And as it happened, just around the corner,

near Ballincurrig that morning,

there was grand old

Irish entertainment to be had.

- Five hundred. - It's 500?

Five hundred. Are we on?

- Are we on? - Sure.

Come on, boy!

All right, then, hold your horses now.

Let me take you back a step.

Back in the pub there,

the lads were talking away, and one of the boys asked Bill

if he was into road bowling.

So what do you call the game?

Bowling.

I thought you called it "road building."

Bowling.

Basically throwing a ball down the road

and gambling on it. It's a, it's a metal ball.

- Ah. - But this...

there was a famous man called Mick Barry.

He was a famous bowler, and he lofted--

that's what they call it-- he lofted the ball,

or bowl, over the bridge.

How did he manage that?

- Whoa. - Over the top.

Anyway,

they put him in touch with some lads

who said Bill and Tom should come along and watch.

A simple game.

Basic rules is, you start at one line.

Every score is different

because you have different shots,

and if you pass your mark,

you're called and you're brought back.

Called means running past your tip.

If you pass your line to there, committee can bring you back.

And if you're called again on the second time,

you go back five more yards.

If the committee call you the third time...

Right, enough of this carry-on.

Basically, you take turns

throwing your ball along the road,

and the first to get to the end of the road wins.

Got it?

It's a bit of excitement.

Some people love golf, some people love horse racing,

some people take to road bowling.

This is really fun.

It feels like it's just safely above the level of criminality.

Where'd the game originate?

How long have you been playing it?

So the game began by British soldiers

- throwing cannonballs. - Yeah.

Well, they had to occupy themselves while occupying.

At the top of the road,

they all turned around, bowling downhill

for the women's game.

The favorite Sexton

against the local underdog Collins.

Total stop.

I'm betting on the Collins girl 'cause I'm a Collins.

My mother's a Collins.

Now, I don't want the Sexton girl

to be injured or hurt herself

- in the process. - Ah, they don't. No.

I'm not praying for an injury.

Is this Meg?

The Sexton girl had about 40,

50 yards of a lead.

Cart path distance.

And it progressed from that and was picked up.

Seven of the eight shots there, with Sexton winning

by three bowls of odds.

Well, if you get a bowl of odds, you continue.

That can change.

If you get two, probably not,

but if you have three bowls of odds

with six or seven shots to go, the Collins girl

had no chance of coming back and winning.

Come here, though.

All right.

- Congratulations. - Thanks.

- Thanks very much. - Thank you very much.

They gave me your championship ball here. Well done.

Go on, smile.

Well, they'd have to know about it first.

It may exist. It may already exist.

You know, there's counties in Georgia where people eat clay.

The fellas here take road bowling awful serious.

It gives them a connection

to each other and to the past.

♪ "Low Tide Walk" by Antoine Rozé playing ♪

Road bowling is just one of those little things

that's never made the journey across the Atlantic.

So, Bill, who do you reckon would win

between you and Tom?

Who would win this between me and Tom?

It's a match that people are waiting for,

that's for sure.

Maybe that's why so many people come back.

Not for the big things

they know about but for

the little things they never knew they were missing.

Isn't that lovely?

The good news is, road bowling

is not the only thing they can reconnect with.

Ireland has plenty of stories to tell yet.

Come on, Murray.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

♪ "Higher State of Consciousness" by Josh Wink ♪

Next time, the boys

got back to golfing.

Good morning. How are you?

And to make things even more fun,

they invited one of their friends to play with them.

Chris O'Dowd.

- On the course? - Yeah, of course.

Oh, my goodness.

♪ "Song of the Sun" by Roger John Webb playing ♪