Behind The Boards

Guest contributor, Peter Kemp, offers a scorer's view of The Open Championship. Every year the public scoreboards at The Open are manned by schools from around the country. As former Boarding Master at Cranleigh School, Peter accompanied a group of pupils to perform just this task at The Open on several occasions. Always a particularly memorable week, it provided a unique insight into the ebb and flow of a major tournament as it unfolds... Gary Evans will forever be remembered for a round that remains one of the most memorable and thrilling I…Read more …

Most Memorable Hole

Guest Author: The Colonel Reading the recent ‘Horror Hole’ blog, in which Ed confessed to his worst ever score on any one particular hole, it struck me that the exact opposite – the once-in-a-lifetime most memorable hole was a similarly suitable topic for consideration. Watching Sergio Garcia clamber up a tree recently, and hit an extraordinary one-handed backhand chop straight back into the middle of the fairway was, for me, confirmation that the spirit of Seve Ballesteros will live on forever in the hearts and minds of those golfers for whom the swashbuckling…Read more …