The ‘Promise’ Of Two Million Mangrove Seedings For Every Abu Dhabi HSBC Ace.
Fans of professional golf are so used to seeing either a gleaming new car, jewellery, watches or cash on offer for a hole-in-one during competition.
And the par-3 seventh on the National course in Abu Dhabi there is not a prize but a ‘promise’ on offer, the like that has never before been offered in major tournament golf.
When I first travelled to Abu Dhabi for the inaugural 2006 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship the prize, and usually at the par-3 15th, was a few nights, all expenses paid ...
Bernie Hits First Golf Course Shot Of 2000 In Tonga – Original Article Located 21-Years Later
The 21st anniversary of my historic first golf shot of 2000 on a golf course has been located. No sooner had I posted a reminder of my efforts 21-years ago and I went ‘surfing’ on the web and found my story.
The following 427-word article appeared in the Tuesday, 5th January, 2000 edition of the Daily Record.
Here is the link to the article and hereunder is the story.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Golf%3a+Record+writer+hits+the+first+golf+shot
+of+2000%3b+BERNIE+IN…-a060846340
BERNIE ...
Twenty-One Years Ago Bernie’s Historic First New ‘Millenium’ Tee Shot On A Golf Course In Tonga
Twenty-one years ago today, and in the spirit of a new Millennium, I hit the first golf shot on a golf course of this millenium at midnight on the 1st January, 2000 on the tiny Pacific Ocean island of Tonga.
I flew from Sydney via Auckland to the Tongan capital of Nuku ‘alofa.
Tonga encompasses around 170 islands of which 36 are inhabited while some 70% of the now 100,000 total population of the islands live on the main island.
So why go to Tonga to golf?
Tonga is located two-thirds of the way ...
Monte Carlo Golf Club – Thirty Years On & The Memories Return.
Thirty-years after my first and only prior visit the memories naturally came flooding back in returning the Monte Carlo Golf Club.
It was July 1990 and just two over years since my ‘career-changing’ moment in winning an all-expenses paid trip to the 1988 Players Championship in Florida.
A year later in 1989 I attended the first of now over 80 Major Championships in reporting that year on the Open Championship at Royal Troon. I then returned to Europe in 1990 for my first European Tour ...
Fowler Drops Outside Top-50 First Time In A Decade – Loses Automatic Augusta Tee Time.
American golfing heartthrob Rickie Fowler will end a remarkable run of 42 automatic straight in the Majors at the release of tomorrow’s updated World Rankings.
Fowler has qualified for every major since the 2010 but now has dipped to World No. 52 having missed the halfway cut in the Mayakoba Championship and the closing event of PGA Tour year.
Fowler, and who turns 32 on December 13th, went into the event ranked 49th in the world and now being outside of the 50 means he will forfeit a Deceember ...
The Late Peter Alliss & My Memory Thanks To The GM At Castlerock Golf Club.
The golf world is in mourning at the passing of Peter Alliss.
The eight-time Ryder Cup player, 31-time tournament winner, golf course designer, author and legendary golf commentator known universally as the ‘Voice of Golf’, passed away earlier today (Sunday, 6th December) suddenly but peacefully at home at age 89.
In 1958, Alliss won three National Opens in a row, in the Italian Open, Spanish Open and Portugal Open, while in 1961, he worked his first tournament as a broadcaster for the BBC – ...
Stunning Pacific Ocean Sunset At Torrey Pines.
Growing-up in Sydney meant the stunning sight of seeing the sun rise over the Pacific Ocean.
Then in moving to live in Scotland I chose to live on the eastern shoreline of the country and enjoyed now seeing the sun rise up over the North Sea.
And then in recent years, and in reporting on the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, we would spend the Christmas/New Year festive period in Florida and we found our way to places like West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and more recently, Port St. Lucie and ...
