It’s one of the most important parts of any international camp.
No, not day one, rest day or even match day. It’s golf day.
After arriving in Florida on Sunday, the Scotland squad had a light session on Monday in the blistering heat and humidity to loosen up the muscles and recover following their flight from Glasgow.
While that was key, it wasn’t anywhere near as important as heading to one of the best courses around – the PGA National – for a round.
Highly anticipated, highly competitive and an ultimately highly disappointing end made for an interesting afternoon.
Play was well under way, and going fairly well for most – not Findlay Curtis and partner George Hirst, the less said on that the better it appears – before the fluctuating Florida weather wreaked havoc.
The players were on, off, on and off again for good as an almighty thunderstorm – which actually diverted our flight into Miami on Monday – brought proceedings to an abrupt end.
For some, it was a get out of free jail card – looking at you, Findlay and George – while seasoned campaigner and assistant coach Steven Naismith was not so pleased, apparently.
Jack Hendry was partnered with Andrew Smith, one of the team’s masseurs, and the defender admitted he would “have a sore back from carrying me”.
“I didn’t turn up and as I was just getting warm the thunderstorm struck so that was a bit of a shame,” the 31-year said.
“He’ll have a sore back from carrying me! We did well and I think when we got cut short we were one up so it was a good performance… from him.
“These things are very important for the group, the camaraderie, to come out here and enjoy ourselves, to relax a little bit, not get caught too much up in what’s around the corner and create that really good team environment which has always been there.
“The manager’s been great with us, letting us do these kind of things.”