There’s no escaping that the Bracken Course at Woodhall Spa Golf Club is, like many other fabulous venues the world over, will always exist in the shadow of its more celebrated big brother. The New and The Old Course, St Andrews. The Cashen Course and The Old, Ballybunion. The Castle Course and The…
CLICK FOR MOREKnowledge is power, so the saying goes, and in golfing terms that has given rise to a new wave of distance measuring devices, or rangefinders, coming into the game. The PGA Championship at Kiawah Island in May was the first major where rangefinders were permitted. But it is not just the touring pros…
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You can’t visit Islay or write about this island without mentioning the peat. In days gone by it was the reason the water here ran a strange colour of brown. And for much longer it has given Islay’s many world-famous whiskies their distinctive aroma and taste, but peat is also behind the name…
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It feels almost disrespectful to describe The Petwood simply as one of the best hotels near Woodhall Spa Golf Club, because the truth is, it’s so much more. This is a place where the history of those who have walked these corridors and wiled away the hours in the stunning Edwardian gardens, lives…
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There’s a rare sense of stillness and tranquillity as you walk Woodhall Spa’s iconic Hotchkin Course. This secluded, unassuming corner…
There’s no escaping that the Bracken Course at Woodhall Spa Golf Club is, like many other fabulous venues the world…
“What day is it?” asked Pooh.“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.“My favourite day,” said Pooh.”― A.A. Milne We know better than most; the mind of a golfer is a wandering one. On the course, golfers have a unique ability to focus on things that aren’t happening now: the putt we missed on the last, the…
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The game of golf has long been associated with art. The great masters of our game are famed for their touch and finesse, while the acclaimed architects have created golf courses that are described as works of art. For Graeme Baxter that symbiotic relationship between the two is something altogether more literal. The…
CLICK FOR MOREFescue & Dunes exists to deliver discerning golfers with something a little less ordinary. Rather than focusing on creating their own products (although they do a bit of that too), they scour the globe for other boutique golf brands and bring them to golfers wanting to take their golf set-up to the next…
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Have you ever really thought about why you play the golf ball you do? It’s a question a new U.S golf ball company are determined to get golfers to ask themselves as they look to create something truly different in the golf world. Uncommon, based in Park City, Utah, is an enterprise made…
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Fescue & Dunes exists to deliver discerning golfers with something a little less ordinary. Rather than focusing on creating their…
Storytelling is at the heart of what makes us human. It helps us know who we are, it puts things…
To the guys at FlagBag Golf Co a golf bag is so much more than a functional piece of equipment…
To the guys at FlagBag Golf Co a golf bag is so much more than a functional piece of equipment in which to carry your clubs. It’s a canvas, a blank page, an opportunity for the golfer who throws it over their shoulder and heads out onto the links to say something about…
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When you think of the city of Liverpool, golf doesn’t immediately spring to mind. This, after all, is a city which lives and breathes football. It’s a city that is known across the world for its incredible music scene and it's a city with a rich, maritime history. But perhaps what golf is…
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A par-3 opener: 200 yards, into the wind, eight bunkers around the green, Walter Hagen looking on – Southport and…
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Laura Sayer-Hall, was looking for a way to make a big change to her 9-5 life. It began with a journey which took her to the remote Isle of Jura in Scotland and to Ardfin, one of the most exciting new golf resorts on earth. The Wandering Golfers tell her story…
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Storytelling is at the heart of what makes us human. It helps us know who we are, it puts things into context and add sentiment and emotion to places and possessions. It’s very much at the heart of what’s important to us at The Wandering Golfers, and it was that which drew our…
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Mythical Ballybunion in south-west Ireland is one of the world's great links courses. The Wandering Golfers travelled to County Kerry and discovered a place that would leave a lasting imprint and a golf course that was the stuff of dreams…
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Tradition and romance are synonymous with Prestwick. This is, after all, the birthplace of The Open Championship itself. It may…
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Augusta National Golf Club is, unquestionably, unique. The vibrant natural beauty, the stunningly manicured fairways and greens, the magic and the mystique of Magnolia Lane. A tradition unlike any other, as the saying goes. And yet if you look just beneath the surface, it’s clear that deep within its DNA, the ancestry of…
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Sean Connery stands in front of me having just emerged from his dressing room at Pinewood Studios after a heated phone call with executives at 20th Century Fox. The nexsht time I say the word American, remind me to put f**king in front of it.” He doesn’t mean it for a second, of…
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Tradition and romance are synonymous with Prestwick. This is, after all, the birthplace of The Open Championship itself. It may…
If Scotland is the home of golf, Ireland the luxury holiday villa you can’t wait to go back to, what of England? Scotland and Ireland are quite rightly lauded as mythical golf destinations the world over – St Andrews, Ballybunion, Royal Dornoch, Lahinch – the names trip off the tongue. But a new…
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Like Rome, Sheffield is built on seven hills. High on one of them, on the cusp of the Peak District National Park, you’ll find the beautiful Hallamshire Golf Club. Perhaps you haven’t heard of it before now – unlike Italy, this has never been a part of the world comfortable shouting too loudly…
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It was 3 in the morning and I was running towards the 1st tee of the Old Course, St Andrews.…
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The North Coast 500 explores some of the most beautiful wilderness on earth. The Wandering Golfers look at some of the best golf courses on the NC500…
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St Andrews and Chariots of Fire: the association immediately brings to mind the evocative opening moments of the celebrated Oscar-winning…
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There is an inescapable sense of class about everything at Formby Golf Club. You feel it from the moment you turn off Victoria Road, one of Merseyside’s most exclusive enclaves, and into Golf Road which wends its way towards the grand old clubhouse. You feel it in the warmth of the welcome, you…
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Alwoodley Golf Club is a place where loyalty is par for the course. Ever since the great Dr Alister MacKenzie – the man who would go on to design Augusta National – became a founder member here in 1907, there has been a sense that devotion has been sewn into the springy fairways…
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