Golf

Prince’s Golf Club Course Review

80 years ago Gene Sarazen, indisputably one of the greatest figures in the game of golf, strode the fairways of Prince’s in Kent en route to winning the 1932 Open.  Over his career Sarazen won seven Major titles, achieved the first career ‘Grand Slam’, and represented the United States at six Ryder Cups.  As associations go, his name is a good one to have on a clubhouse board. And it’s the old clubhouse, perhaps the site of Sarazen’s celebrations, which now serves as the splendidly refurbished The Lodge at Prince’s.  Constructed inside the…Read more …

What’s the Hold Up?

If dress codes and slow play aren’t the two most exhausted topics of clubhouse conversation then I’d like to know what are. Everyone has an opinion on the pros and cons of relaxing dress codes, but it’s slow play that’s in the headlines at the moment and is the major bug bear for golfers the length and breadth of the country. Speed is something that blights even the highest echelons of the game, with Jack Nicklaus recently adding his weight to the argument that slow play is wrecking the game.  Nicklaus said "I…Read more …
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