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 ...
Golf De Roquebrune – French Riviera Golf At It’s Finest.
Golf de Roquebrune lies about 80 klms south of Nice and just under 20 klms north from Sainte Maxime.
The golf course and resort is surrounded by the vineyards of Provence and overlooked by the Massif des Maures hills inland from Saint Raphaël and blending harmoniously into the surroundings.
Many holes offer superb panoramic views over the bay of Fréjus and Saint-Raphaël, and the Lachens, Maures and Estérel mountains. ular Massif des Maures mountain range.
The golf course was designed by leading ...
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 ...
Beacon Woods A Shining Florida Golfing Light For Near On 50-Years.
Next year, 2021, marks the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Beacon Woods Golf Club located at Bayonet Point on Florida’s west coast.
Beacon Woods is just under 20-miles north of the Innisbrook resort near Tarpon Springs and venue each year for the Valspar Championship.
It was during the hosting of the 2018 Valspar Championship and won by England’s Paul Casey by a shot from Tiger Woods and Patrick Reed that I was fortunate to play Beacon Woods.
Woods was playing the event for ...
Dumbarnie Links Emerges From Darkness Of Uncertainty As A Shinning New Light In Scottish Golf.
In just six months Dumbarnie Links has emerged from the darkness of uncertainty as a brilliant shining new light in Scottish golf.
While businesses across Scotland and the UK were facing uncertainty, the UKs newest golf club located at Upper Largo in Fife opened on 29th May and on the first day in the lifting of the lockdown.
It was a soft opening given the restrictions still in place but in the intervening six months, Dumbarnie Links has established itself as a ‘must play’ venue.
Among those ...
Costa Navarino Awarded Clubhouse Of The Year.
Regarded as the Mediterranean’s prime, sustainable destination, Costa Navarino is celebrating a new international golf award after the clubhouse on its acclaimed Bay Course was voted ‘Clubhouse of the Year 2020’ by Golf Inc. magazine.
The striking earth-sheltered building, which has received global attention after being unveiled last summer, took first place in the ‘public clubhouse’ category of the prestigious annual awards.
The uniquely designed Bay Course clubhouse covers an area of ...
DeChambeau On How Bryson Would Go About ‘Bryson-Proofing’ Augusta National
For a second time in some 20-years Alister MacKenzie will be turning in his grave with talk again of toughening Augusta National.
MacKenzie designed the course in the early 1930s and for nearly 70 years the world’s best golfers peacefully competed without hardly any fuss at all when it came to the golf course.
And then in the late 1990s Tiger Woods came along and demonstrated a newer muscle-bound way to play the Georgia golfing gem.
It led to calls of the need to ‘Tiger-Proof’ Augusta but ...
