Moving & Emotional Return Visit To Passchendaele.
It was my second visit to Passchendaele and it was no less emotional.
The first visit to the region had been in the early 2000s escorting my parents first to Normandy and the WW2 D-Day region of Northern France and then onto the WW1 sites in and around the Somme region of France and also into neighbouring and Belguim.
The second visit in September, 2013 was much the same and this time in the company of my brother, Steve and his wife, Sally (Sal to her friends).
To any Australian, towns such ...
‘Keep Up!’ … Faldo Comments On Sabitini’s ‘Bedroom Problems’.
Many will not recall the events of the 2006 Players Championship.
Just to refresh, Stephen Ames stormed his way to a six-shot success and on the occasion of the final event before the PGA Tour’s flagship event moved to May though, of course, back to a March date.
However, the 2006 Players Championship is remembered for a black t-shirt worn by the then wife of Rory Sabatini.
Sabitini was grouped or two rounds with Nick Faldo along with Columbian Camilo Villegas.
There was no issue with Villegas ...
The Magical Day We Played ‘Augusta’ For The Princely Sum Of $10.80.
It was around 4pm on the eve of the 2014 Masters and finally the last preview piece had been filed and confirmed as received.
Those afforded invitations to tee-up in the next day’s first round of the opening Major of the year were away either competing in the Par-3 Contest or elsewhere doing what they had to do to prepare themselves for the tournament proper.
Golf’s ‘Cathedral in the Pines’ as Augusta National is fondly referred was now closed to any further practice rounds ...
‘Hey Steve? Have You Many Calls You Received This Morning From Denver, Coloradao?’
The former International tournament on the PGA Tour was unique in many ways.
The tournament was on the schedule from 1986 to 2006 and unquie foremost as it was played under a ‘Modified Stableford’ points scoring system where an an Albatross was worth 8 points, an Eagle 5 points, a Birdie 2 points, a Par point but then a Bogey minuse 2 points and Double-bogey or more minus 3 points.
The event was founded by Jack Vickers who became very well-known and respected by the game’s leading ...
My Daughter’s Are Not Leaving This House Until That Warship Has Left Town.
Late June, 2001 and the Murphy’s Irish Open is taking place for a first time in Cork in the very south of Ireland.
It’s the eight different host venue since the relaunch in 1975, and after 22-year break, of Ireland’s premier event.
The first Irish Open I attended was in 1993 at Mt. Juliet and where Nick Faldo won a third straight Irish Open title after having finished first in both 1991 and 1992 at Killarney Golf and Fishing club.
The Fota Island club is to the east to east of Cork ...
Bernie’s Tales On Tour – Short Socks & Long Socks Golfing With 500cc World Champ Kevin Schwantz
Australia has always been and forever continue to be a great sport-loving and I discovered that even more getting involved in sports reporting.
Greg Norman was not only winning at home but he was enjoying enormous success around the world and so too were other Australians in their chosen sport whether it was cricket, rugby league and also a prior unknown Wayne ‘Wollongong Wizard’ Gardner who was bringing motor-cycle racing to the fore like never before.
Gardner capped his career capturing ...
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 ...
