How Many Different Countries Have You Played Golf ? – I Count 47 & Looking To Make 50.
Not for a moment in looking back over the past 30-years when I lost my then full-time job working for a politican following the government’s defeat in an election and two days later winning a golf tournament promotion, would I have thought in then becoming a golf journalist it would have led to me now having played golf in 47 different countries (As of 1st January, 2024).
My first round of golf in growing up in northern Sydney suburb of Willoughby was at the nine-hole Castlecove Country Club ...
McIlroy To Make His Fort Worth Debut In Confirming First Three ‘No Spectator’ Events.
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy confirmed he will make his Charles Schwab Challenge debut mid next month when the PGA Tour returns to full competition at Fort Worth in Texas.
In fact, McIlroy indicated he will contest the opening three ‘no spectator’ events meaning he will tee-up in the following week’s RBC Heritage at Hilton Head, and an event he played just once in 2009 (T58th), and along with the following week’s Travelers Championship in Connecticut, and an event he has also ...
Big Sur – No Billboards, No Ads & Sheer Scenic Driving Pleasure
Big Sur – The name always conjures-up thoughts of stunning cliff top Pacific Ocean lined scenery.
We took the drive along portion of Highway 1 earlier this year.
The State of California realising the worth of the region in 1965 designated the 72-mile (116 klm) long section of the highway as the first ‘California Scenic Highway’.
A year later in 1966, Ladybird Johnson and the wife of President Johnson led the official designation ceremony at Bixby Creek Bridge.
The same year, the ...
Royal Blue Golf Club – A Crown Jewel In Bahamas Golf.
In less than two years the stunning and immaculately presented Royal Blue Golf Club has become a crown jewel in Bahamas golf.
Royal Blue is the first Jack Nicklaus ‘Signature’ golf course in the Bahamas and officially opened for play in May 2017.
Those of us who reported on the 2015 Hero World Challenge, and the first time the Tiger Woods hosted event moved to the Bahamas, we would drive past each day seeing the sad sight of a golf course but with no golfers.
The course was named TPC ...
John F. Kennedy … Timely Visit To Dallas 54-Years After The Events Of 1963.
It was a Saturday morning in Australia – November 23rd, 1963 – and I can still recall to this very day what I was doing that morning.
Of course, I am now showing my age but I was headed to a schoolboy game of cricket at Willoughby Park in northern Sydney and close to the family home.
I also recall, and now 54-years on, asking someone why all the flags were flying at half-mast and the reason being the events of Friday, 22nd November, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
Having never been to Dallas ...
Meeting Tommie Brown & The Mayor Of Alligator, Mississippi.
It was of those chance encounters but in a town boasting around just 200 citizens.
The four of us, including my brother, Steve and his wife Sally who were visiting from Sydney, were making our way north from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee.
I had observed a sign saying ‘Welcome to Alligator’ when we travelled to this part of the States earlier this year in reporting on the PGA Tour’s FedEx St. Jude Classic some 90-minutes drive north in Memphis.
Now my first thought, ...
Moonlight Brilliantly Lights Up Belle Of Cincinnati On The Ohio River.
We were lucky to be in the right place at the right time when a full moon lit-up the Belle of Cincinnati that was at berth on the Ohio River.
