Barra Island Golf Club – A Second Visit Was Truly Double The Pleasure
It was 2012 when I first visited the remote Isle of Barra golf course in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
Since then I’ve been fortunate enough to return to the islands in 2015, 2016, 2019 and last year in August 2022, and when making a third visit to Barra.
Five visits .. Now is that not a strong recommendation?
The Isle of Barra course lays claim to the most westerly golf course in the UK. You can’t go any further west or you would arrive on the shores of Canada.
The golf course is ...
Bernie – How It All Began – Part 2 & The Best Part.
Saturday night, 19th March, 1988 …
The NSW State Election is won by the Liberal/National coalition led by Nick Greiner winning 59 seats compared to 43 seats to the Labour Party headed by then Premier Barry Unsworth.
Twelve years of Labour rule had come to an abupt end. After six years savouring the best job I could have imagined, I am now technically out of work but alas, and sadly unlike a few on Treasurer Ken Booth’s staff, I was still an employee of the Premier’s Department ...
South Ronaldsay Golf Club – A Orkney Youngster Demanding Respect.
South Ronaldsay Golf Club is very much a youngster when it comes to golf in the Orkney Islands.
The course was open to play in June 2005 making it 90 years younger than Stromness and 110 years the junior to Orkney Golf Club in Kirkwall that recently celebrated its 125th anniversary.
But while South Ronaldsay may lack a strong historical background it certainly makes up in terms of youthful exuberance.
In fact, of the three golf courses now readily accessible by car the nine-hole layout that looks ...
Charlotte & Southpark Courtyard Marriott – Great Golfing Buddies.
It has been our first visit to Charlotte, North Carolina and this week’s Wells Fargo Championship.
The ‘Queen City’ as Charlotte is affectionately known is a sporting giant being home to a number of major sporting teams – the NFL Charlotte Panthers, the NBAs Charlotte Bobcats and later this month some 180,000 fans will pack into the Charlotte Motor Speedway for the running of the 55th running of the NASCAR Coca-Cola 600.
However what has become evident in our time here ...
Euroa Golf Club, Victoria, Australia … Monday Morning Delight.
It was the day after the 2013 World Cup of Golf and a lovely cloudless Monday morning as we headed north from Melbourne bound for Sydney and the Australian Open.
We were staring at a near 800 kilometre drive but were only about two hours into the journey when we decided to get off the Hume Highway to visit the Victorian rural town of Euroa.
The town was made famous by legendary Australian bush ranger Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang when on 10th December, 1878 they head up the staff of the National Bank ...
Donegal Golf Club – A Youthful Links Gem With An Ageless Appearance.
UPDATED .. January, 2025
In golfing years, the Donegal Golf Club at Murvagh on the north-west coast of Ireland is a relative new kid on the block.
Indeed the Donegal Golf Club that is overlooked by the Bluestack Mountains to the north and shaped by the might of the Atlantic Ocean to the west is a golf course that was designed in the ‘70s, the 1970s.
Though what Donegal Golf Club may lack in experience, the golf course boasts an ageless, classic links challenge making it one of those must play Irish ...
Ardglass Golf Club – An 18 Carat Irish Golfing Gem
* First published 2011 and updated December, 2024
Mention the word Ardglass and it conjures up thoughts of an exotic item of glassware or a gleaming gemstone.
Yes, that is true in golfing terms and with the word Ardglass originating from the Gaelic ‘Ard Ghlais‘ meaning ‘green height‘.
Ardglass is located less than an hour’s drive south of Belfast and just north of the world renowned Royal County Down course, and with this quaint seaside town boasting eight archaeological ...
