Suffolk Golf Club Uncovers Curious Connection To The Masters

Suffolk Golf Club Uncovers Curious Connection To The Masters

A Suffolk Golf Club has uncovered a curious connection it shares with The Masters Tournament – golf’s season opening Major Championship – which gets underway on Thursday. Thorpeness Golf Club and Hotel Head Professional Frank Hill was having a coffee and reading a magazine article about Augusta National Golf Club when he discovered the unusual link with the Suffolk holiday village where he’s worked for 19 years. “I was looking at a picture of the green jackets that Masters Champions wear with the famous badge and map of Georgia state with the golf…Read more …

Eisenhower Eventually Gets His Wish

With the weather that battered so much of the UK last week came the inevitable clear-up operation at golf clubs that found themselves submerged.  I’m sure there were plenty of fallen trees and damaged buildings to contend with as well. Across the Pond, our American cousins have been suffering too– weather it’s the Californian droughts or the Polar Vortex, they have taken quite a bashing. And alas, one of the most famous trees in the game of golf has fallen victim.  Augusta National’s ‘Eisenhower Tree’ succumbed to a particularly harsh ice-storm last weekend…Read more …