Caldy Golf Club Course Review

Playing golf at Caldy Golf Club you’re reminded why you love the game. This is a course that refreshes your enthusiasm for the game by reminding you that golf should be a joy, a pastime played for fun with a smile on your face.  The mark of a good course doesn’t always have to be the regularity with which you find yourself waist high in gorse on the wrong side of the most ferocious examination of your game. That’s not to say the course is easy, indeed the stiff breeze that no doubt…Read more …

Stymied By The Old Stymie

Stymie (also stymy). n. 1. An obstacle or obstruction. 2. Sports A situation in golf in which an opponent's ball obstructs the line of play of one's own ball on the putting green. Despite having been officially banned by the rules of the game in 1952, you’ll still find it in the dictionary and in case you’ve ever heard someone light-heartedly suggest playing ‘stymies’ and you’ve been a bit flummoxed, I thought I’d share my potted history. Stymies evolved by accident really, simply because they hadn’t been anticipated by the original Rules of…Read more …