The Lost Art of Shot Making

Perhaps I’m showing my age here, but when I reminisce about my first set of golf clubs, I am faced with rather horrible images of a perished green leather golf bag (weighing an absolute tonne), a handful of different coloured TopFlites, a collection of useless gadgets I’d been given for Christmas including that circular blue rubber ball-cleaner filled with sponge – remember those? – and an assortment of antique golf clubs. “That’s what my bag looks like now!” I hear you cry, but I know you’re joking because no self-respecting golfer would be…Read more …

Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness

For the fair weather golfer, the window of golfing opportunity is beginning to close as the misty mornings set in and the clubs get packed away until the spring.  For the rest of us, though, the autumn can promise some of the best playing opportunities of the year. You might just need an extra layer. For me, as I’ve said a number of times before in my blog, golf on a links course on a cold, crisp winter’s morning can be fabulous. But before that, October and November seem to get overlooked, and…Read more …