Hitting A Shot Out Of The Maid’s Bedroom At The Royal Malta Golf Club
There is some really great names when it comes to naming golf holes.
Famed holes that feature on the Open Championship rota while each April the focus of the golf world is the Masters at Augusta National and golf hole names that most fans of the ancient club-and-ball game are very familiar.
Here is a small selection of famed golf holes and some not that well known.
* The Road Hole – 17th on the Old Course at St. Andrews (Long been one of the hardest holes in golf)
* Calamity Corner – ...
European Club – The Day Breakfast Was Served On The Bonnet Of A Car At The Back Of 13.
When is the last time, and if there ever was a first occasion, when your game of golf was warmly interrupted when the son of the owner of the golf course you were in the process of tackling had the full Irish breakfast laid out for you on the bonnet of his car parked at the back of one of the golf holes?
It happened one day when legendary golf journalist Dai Davies and myself were playing the famed European Club in Ireland.
Dai, who wrote The Guardian newpaper and sadly passed away in 2008, and ...
Tackling Bethpage Park Black – Battered, Brusied & Beaten But A Breath-Taking Experience.
Recent headlines of spectator price rises for the hosting of the 2025 Ryder Cup took my mind back a good few years and the day we were extended the invitation to tee-up on the famed host Bethpage Park Black course.
Actually, it was just over six years ago the PGA of America generously arranged a media outing in August 2018 ahead of the 2019 PGA Championship, and when Brooks Koepka was handed the Rodman Wanamaker trophy for a second straight year.
I had taken photographs from the outing that I found ...
Segregansett Golf Club – 130-Years Young, Home Club To US Open Winning Francis Ouimet
….. by Bernie McGuire
In visiting Segregansett Country Club for a first time, and seeing the sign indicating the club was founded in 1893 had me immediatately thinking this must be one of the oldest golf clubs in the United States.
Though what took me to Segregansett was its connection with Francis Ouimet, the then 20-year-old amateur who remarkably captured the 1913 US Open by defeating two of the greats of the game.
The Segregansett club is located some 45 miles south of Boston and close ...
Augusta National Reassures Promise Honouring History Of ‘The Patch’.
As true golf fans will know, the chances of ever teeing-up to play Augusta National is impossible.
Even attempting to approach anywhere near the Augusta National front gates facing Washington Road and you know you’re going to be ‘hassled’ by security personnel.
Though there is one golf course in sleepy Augusta, Georgia where you are welcome and where you can play golf even on the Wednesday afternoon of Masters week when the famed Masters host course at Augusta National golf course ...
Spieth Favours McIlroy To Win A Masters Before He’s Handed The Rodman Wanamaker Trophy
For seven years now good friends Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth have shared something in common.
That’s how long Northern Irishman and the Texan have waited to capture the one major in their career they require to join golf’s elite Grand Slam Club.
Of course, it’s been nearly a decade since 2014 when McIlroy endeared himself to Open Championship fans by winning golf’s oldest major on the windswept Royal Liverpool course laid out along the Irish Sea.
McIlroy’s triumph ...
Hollywood Superstar Backs Calls To Save Inner Sydney Golf Course
How many protest petitions would get the backing of a Hollywood superstar?
Well, golf-loving Mark Wahlberg has thrown his voice behind the campaign to “save” Sydney’s Moore Park Golf Course.
Wahlberg was out playing the golf course this week during a working visit ‘Down Under’ for a new movie and the 52-year-old star of such movies as The Perfect Storm, Italian Job, Ted and The Other Guys just loves his golf as the Boston-born competes annual in the PGA Tour’s AT & T ...
