Mull Of Kintyre – The Southern Tip Of Scotland
Mention Mull of Kintyre and first thoughts is the ex-Beatles Paul McCartney’s hit tune of the same name.
The Mull of Kintyre is located on the southern tip of Kintyre peninsula, and the most southerly point of Home of Golf nation.
The word ‘Mull’ is Gaelic and means a rounded hill, a summit, and a mountain that is bare of trees.
There is certainly no trees on this mostly windswept, rocky and very steep location, and certainly no sandy beach where a full Scottish pipe band could ...
Sainte-Mère-Église – Visiting The First Town To Be Liberated On D-Day.
Sainte-Mere-Eglise is a lovely French village located around 12 kilometres straight inland from the famed D-Day beaches at Normandy.
Some 80-years ago, Sainte-Mere-Eglise and its surroundings was a strategic area along the national road connecting Cherbourg to Paris, at a key road junction between five departmental roads.
Early on the morning of June 6th, 1944 Saint-Mere-Eglise would become the first town in Europe to be liberated from more than four years of German occupation.
Welcome to Saint-Mere-Eglise
On ...
Whiting Bay Golf Club – Three Centuries Of Isle of Arran Golf
The late 1890s was a great time for the birth of golf on the Scotland island of Arran.
Arran remarkably boasts six golf courses founded within 11 years of each other, and up to the dawn of the 20th century.
They include – Lamlash (1889), the 9-hole Corrie (1892), Whiting Bay (1895), Shiskine (1896), Brodick (1897) and the 9-hole Machrie Bay (1900).
Six years later in 1906 the six clubs got together to form the Arran Golfers Association.
Our first introduction to golf in Arran was visiting The ...
Double-D Proud & Excited Ahead Confirmation 2024 Asian Tour Card At PIF Saudi Open.
Scot David Drysdale has shaken off a niggling neck injury, admitting he’s now proud and also excited ahead of confirmation of retaining his Asian Tour card at this week’s season-ending PIF Saudi Open in Riyadh.
Drysdale, 48, tees-up lying a comfortable 43rd on the money list and with the leading 65 season money-earners exempt for their 2024 Tour card at the close of play this Sunday on the host Riyadh Club course in the Saudi capital.
A recurring neck injury forced the golfer affectionately ...
Arran – A First Visit To This Unique Scottish Isle.
A first visit to the isle of Arran.
Yes, after many visits to Kintyre and the Outer Herbrides we are heading to Arran, an island off the west coast of Scotland.
It is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde and the seventh-largest Scottish island, at 432 square kilometres (167 sq mi) and located just 90-minutes by ferry from the mainland at Ardrossan to Brodick.
Though culturally and physically similar to the Hebrides, it is separated from them by the Kintyre peninsula and where we were headed after ...
Knox Hoping A Visit To His ‘Golf Room’ Will Lead To Re-Gaining A Full 2024 PGA Tour Card
If Russell Knox needs any reminder of his golfing talent ahead of this week’s PGA Tour Final Qualifier, he has only to open the door of his affectionately named ‘The Knox Golf Room’.
The room is a small extension to his Ponte Vedra abode where he stores everything golf related … bags, photographs, posters, tournament flags, clubs, gloves, caps, clothing, balls, shoes, commemorative glasses, everything.
Anytime Knox and his wife, Andrea along with their beloved Cavapoo Rusty, and now aged ...
A Wee Dram At The ‘Am Politican’ On The Isle Of Eriskay
One of the most well known, and also somewhat amusing events in the recent history of the Western Isles was the wreck of the SS Politician on the 5th February 1941.
It was the story used by Compton Mackenzie for his book Whisky Galore, and later for the Ealing Studio in turning the story in a hit-winning comedy by the same name.
The SS Politician was an 8000-tonne cargo ship which had left Liverpool laden with amongst other things 260,000 bottles of whisky, bound for Kingston in Jamaica and New Orleans. ...
