With Australia’s central bank being the first globally to muster some audacity and raise interest rates since the credit crisis began, perhaps the Antipodeans can also be the leaders in recapitalizing some of the world’s wonderful golf terrain. In Australia, that is first and foremost greater Melbourne, where the quality of the Sand Belt [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2009’
STUART GREENWOOD- NORTH BERWICK
One of my favorite rounds this year was at North Berwick, a course I would be content to play the rest of my life. While there, I caught up with course manager Stuart Greenwood, the course manger. The interview can be seen after the jump. I am on the road so I will keep this [...]
POSTSCARDS FROM EUROPE- TENERIFE
Tenerife Ladies Open, Golf Costa Adeje, Tenerife, Spain
September 21st – 28th, 2009
After hours in the air, the first sight of landfall brings a sigh of relief. The passage to the island of Tenerife is a bumpy one even on the best of days. Its perch off the west coast of Africa brings ocean winds to [...]
THE OLD COURSE
I was fortunate to play a round at the Old Course in St. Andrews this year and while I don’t have a lot to say about it (nothing too original at least), I did capture a little video which can be found after the jump.
This was only my third to time around with my sticks, [...]
POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE- FRANCE
Randstad Open de France, Golf d’Arras, France
September 14th – 20th, 2009
The return trips to sites already visited are difficult. My expectations are more defined, the sexiness of an unexplored landscape lost. My former impressions of France aren’t clear to me, the edges more befitting a blurred Renoir landscape than the fine edge of the guillotine. [...]
LIVESTOCK & GOLF
Tom Dunne over at Out-and-Back has put together this great short video about livestock and golf in Wales. Please go there and check out his thoughtful write-up on the subject. I am all in favor of allowing grazing on course as I think it establishes a great sense of place and more importantly is a [...]
CH’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK- HIGHLAND GL
Highland Golf Links has but nine holes situated out on the farthest reaches of Cape Cod headland, and would surely be more serviceable from the perspective of economic utility if it were a seaside resort or subdivided with vacation villas. Despite this oversight that capitalism will no doubt rectify in the coming era, the course [...]
SUNDAY DRIVE ON 17 MILE
A quick video of a Sunday drive on one of the prettiest roads in the world.
POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE- AUSTRIA
UNIQA Ladies Golf Open presented by Raiffeisen
Golfclub Föhrenwald,
Wiener Neustadt, Austria
September 7th – 13th
The tour was heading into the finishing stretch. With three weeks to go on the itinerary I will admit that I was counting down the number of travel days we had left. As far as journeys are concerned, our trip to [...]
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