Tiger Aspect Productions: Out of the Rough

Out of the Rough is a comedy pilot from Simon Carlyle (Two Doors Down) for BBC Radio Scotland which is set in one of the oldest Golf Clubs in Scotland. Whilst it’s one of the oldest, it’s most definitely not one of the finest having endured mismanagement at the hands of a series of drunken committees and various staff who have come and gone raiding the bar and restaurants on the way.

But all that’s about to change – or not – with the arrival of new hospitality team Peter and Maggie Hughes. Peter’s a proper old school businessman who started out running the family fruit & veg business and ended up bankrupt. His long suffering wife Maggie is over the moon that they’ve got this new chance. Some of the previous sentence may not, in fact, be true.

When they arrive at St. Angus Golf Club their first job is to meet the team: Callum, who’s been released from the youth detention centre in time for the summer season; Fiona, who has emotional problems, and Hugh who heads the committee and may not have had the best interests of the club in mind when he appointed Peter to turn things on their head. As he said, “the aim for this place is to be unrecognisable within the space of a year”, and as Maggie pithily points out to Peter, “if anyone can do that it’s you”.