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 …

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 …