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 ...
David ‘Double D’ Dyrsdale Deserving Of Honorary South African Citizenship
Scotland’s David Drysdale has travelled to South Africa so many times in his career the Rainbow Nation could consider affording him honorary citizenship.
This week’s co-sanctioned Joburg Open marks Drysdale’s 56th tournament in South Africa since first travelling to the country in 2002 to compete in the Dunhill Championship at Houghton Park in Joburg.
That’s near 11% of his now 511 Tour events have been in South Africa.
Drysdale had first visited the African continent both ...
USS New Jersey & Seated In The Captain’s Chair.
In the many years I’ve been travelling the States since a first visit in late 1980/early 1981 I have enjoyed inspecting some of the most famous battleships and aircraft carriers in the world.
This interest was first fostered in sight of the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea moored in Sydney harbour in 1970 and then stepping aboard the USS Missouri (BB 63) when it visited Sydney in 1986 and also the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CVB-41) that sailed through Sydney Heads a year later.
I inspected ...
Munich To Paris – There’s Just One Way To Travel.
Working on the European Tour in Germany and France.
For a number of the years the Tour scheduled listed on the schedule the BMW International Open in Germany and the following week would be the French Open.
The German event would alternate with either Munich or Cologne but in 2015,and when these snaps were taken, the event was hosted by the Nord-Eichenreid course in the north of the Bavarian capital.
It was customary on the Monday following the German event to travel by train to Paris and boy, didn’t ...
