Discovering Golf

There’s something special about golf.  Or at least, I think there is, and I am sure I’m not alone. Golf may not possess the energy or dynamism of some team sports but it challenges and obsesses in a way no other sport can.  This is a game that gets under your skin. You love it and hate it in equal measure. It’s hard to put your finger on exactly what it is that’s so special about the game – a game that can make world-leaders shake at the knees and turn octogenarians into…Read more …

Halfway Hut

On a recent golfing jaunt, I witnessed a gentleman stop at the halfway hut and order a “Bovril and Sherry” - in the same container I might add. When I put this to a reputable golfing partner of mine he replied with the immortal line of “Well, any self-respecting golfer knows that the drink of choice in a halfway hut on the Kent coast is Bovril and Sherry”. Quite, how ignorant of me, though one for the educated palate I would suggest. It might not catch on everywhere but it certainly reveals the miscellaneous…Read more …