Golf in London

Choosing a golf magazine is a matter of personal taste. Many (perhaps as many as 80% of all golfers) will find none to their taste and not bother at all. Others will find their urge to consume unsatisfied with just one mag, and yet another might subscribe to the same magazine for years without so much as sniffing the […]

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I love playing golf, but never gave much thought to why. Even when prodded, I can’t latch on to and something immediately and say, ‘That’s it, that’s why I love it.’ And most times someone asks you about golf -  they don’t really want an answer. Its just some smart arse remark they had in store. Something about walks being spoiled, pimps, snobs and little white […]

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Journalists have remembered sports writer Dudley Doust in obituaries published this week. Doust was an American who moved to London and wrote well-regarded and detailed profiles of leading figures in sport. He took over from Henry Longhurst as the golf correspondent for The Times, and wrote on a freelance basis for many papers. 
Dudley also wrote several books on famous sportsman, including Ian […]

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Having read Dom Joly’s recent book, Letters to my Golf Club, I went on to read Robin Cooper’s splendid badgering of obscure associations in his Timewaster Letters, which is highly recommended.
But for those of you whose liking for letters remains unsatisfied and who have a hankering for rare and dusty hardbacks on golf, maybe you should hunt down the trilogy […]

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Golf in a Nutshell: The flight of the ball tells it all was written by John Jacobs and Peter Dobereiner and first published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1995, a year before Dobereiner’s death in 1996.
As you can see there’s something old fashioned in the presentation of this little jacketed hardback book. It’s in the image of the golfer […]

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If you haven’t already seen them, can I recommend to you the course guides of Virtual Caddy.
The guides are made from photographs of a course from the tee, the approach to the green and the back of the green. These photographs are overlaid with flash animations showing:

the flight of the ball as it would appear if played […]

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Letters to My Golf Club is Dom Joly’s second book recently published by Bantam Press. It follows his spoof autobiography Look at Me, Look at Me. He has written forty or so letters to golf clubs under the pseudonyms: Colonel Arthur J. Lindsay-Bird, his wife Julia, and their sons Randy and Dave. The letters are compiled in this book and printed […]

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‘Bring me the head of Sergio Garcia: My year of swinging dangerously on the pro golf tour‘ tells the story of one man’s voluntary slide into a year long mid-life crisis. The milky brew with rich-tea of mental illness, which usually involves fast cars and young women, manifests itself on this occasion as the desire to be a golf […]

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