In the world of professional golf, payday is never a guarantee. When the opportunity came up a few years back to play in a corporate Pro-Am, you can bet that my greedy, grubby little hands were eager to get hold of the promised £100 check. Opportunity is a strange thing. I didn’t know it at [...]
Posts under ‘Postcards from Europe’
PCs FROM EUROPE- BEST OF (HEATHLAND)
Inquisitive minds always ask me one thing, “of all the courses and countries you have visited, which one was your favorite?” I don’t think that I’ve ever given a definitive answer. The locations I’ve encountered are so vastly different, it would be akin to comparing apples to oranges. But the more I pondered the question, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE- FINLAND
Fimnair Masters
Tali Golf Club, Helsinki, Finland
August 24th – 30th, 2009
Our luck with airport personnel and baggage-handlers had run out. The BA agent who had none too emphatically closed the gate, the breeze of the swinging door brushing my nose, was unwaveringly stubborn. I attempted to explain rationally that it was far more efficient (and much [...]
POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE- WALES
S4C Wales Ladies Championship of Europe
Royal St.David Golf Club,
Harlech, Wales
August 3rd – 9th, 2009
If I were the betting type, I may wager that Wales is in fact the most serene location on my itinerary all season. The majority of the countryside is largely left to pasture, the grasses being kept in check by the [...]
POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE-SPAIN
July 13th – 19th, 2009
Open de Espana Femenino, Panorámica Golf Club, Castellon, Spain,
It is market day in Barcelona. The steel roll-away cages have been pulled up and white aprons are being drawn around the waists of the young and old, skinny and pudgy. The fruits are piled high in a multitude of colors, textures, and [...]
POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE- NORWAY
SAS Ladies Masters, Lavrik Golf Club, Larvik, Norway
June 29th – July 4th, 2009
It was nearing the two-month mark of my travels and I was beginning to seriously reconsider the year’s packing. The cool weather gear had been largely left untouched as week after week of warm, sunny weather greeted us at the customs counter. [...]
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