The light is fading over Broadwater Lake; the only sounds are the rustle of weeping willows, the flap of a swan’s wings near the reeds and, right on cue, the crisp plop of a golf ball coming up a yard or two short of the 18th green at The Melbourne Course at Brocket…
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They say great teachers don’t just fill your pail, they light a fire: after an hour or so in the company of…
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It’s hard to imagine ever growing tired of long sultry, summer evenings at resplendent Rockliffe Hall. We’ve been watching the Oystercatchers dancing…
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It’s official, Hillside Golf Club when the wind blows will test even the very best golfers in the game. Reader, I am…
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I fell in love with Royal Liverpool Golf Club the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. I can still…
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The grandeur of Woodsome Hall Golf Club speaks for itself. From the moment you drive through the gates of this handsome 134-acre…
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You might think the sight of a deer scampering down the 5th fairway at Manchester Golf Club would be a surprise given…
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It’s a stiflingly hot summer’s day and our journey to Chart Hills Golf Club is nearing an end, as we negotiate Kent’s…
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There can be few places to rival Prince’s Golf Club as a place to watch the sun rise on a day like…
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It’s early on a glorious July morning as I turn left through the gates of Hillside Golf Club. The place is abuzz…
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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 of Lincolnshire…
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There’s no escaping that the Bracken Course at Woodhall Spa Golf Club is, like many other fabulous venues the world over, will…
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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…
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If Scotland is the home of golf, Ireland the luxury holiday villa you can’t wait to go back to, what of England? …
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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I remember the moment I realised my childhood dream of winning The Open was in tatters – it was all Luke Donald’s…
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In these parts, the story goes that during the 1950s Huddersfield was home to the highest number of Rolls-Royces per capita than…
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Very little about our world feels normal these days. Spending a few hours walking the fairways of your local golf club with…
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