Golf in London

I know, sounds like a skiffle band.
But just when football and rugby are taking over the sports news to the exclusion of all else, up pops Monty on the early evening news. All smiles and knitwear, encouraging young children to play golf on a sunny Monday at Dukes Meadows.
Although from the look of two of […]

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I just came across this map put together by a guy called Charlie Seligman on a website called the Docklands Sports and Social Club. It’s not a bad effort at all, and is accompanied by a table with approximate green fees, contact details, and links to websites, reviews and multimap.

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The newsletter (August, 2006) of the Federation of International Pitch and Putt Associations has an interesting article about William Parker, who died in 2005.
According to the article, William played a key role in the development and promotion of Pitch and Putt as an amateur sport, separate from golf. Parker helped the Pitch and Putt Union of Ireland with […]

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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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In response to a recent request by way of a comment on this site and in no particular order, here are my top ten courses in Greater London.
From a choice of around 100 courses, these are the courses I most want to play.
There’s a much wider choice of courses within 30 miles of London (a further 200 courses at […]

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Some golf clubs have been remodelling the holes on their golf course by introducing ‘contouring’ and ’landscaping’ techniques to improve the look and playability of their courses - with the same unwarranted vigour as The Donald’s barber sculpts The World’s Greatest Quiff.
They cut back tees to lengthen their courses, create humps and dips around greens, deepen bunkers or dig out yet more bunkers, create water hazards and drainage ditches, and pile up mounds of […]

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The League of Gentleman, a documentary series on life in an English village broadcast on television and radio, has taken the extraordinary step of sponsoring a hole of golf.
 
The series, which began life as a fly-on-the-wall documentary, has developed into a multi-million pound project. The original residents of the village and participants of the radio […]

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News reports have been coming in of docile commuters twisted into frothing fountains of bile, hunched over their PC, spewing forth streams of the worst kind of filth. They’re disgusted in Dagenham, pissed in Penge, and getting ugly in Uxbridge. Spilling spleen and green ink everywhere. 
Their target is Transport for London. But this time it’s not the prices that are […]

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I didn’t think that writing a list of golf courses in London would be such a confusing business. Tedious yes, but not confusing.
First and foremost among the clues that a golf club is located in London I thought, would be the word ‘London’ in a golf club’s address. I don’t stray too far from the realm of […]

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I very much admire this article on London’s Public Golf Courses I read recently on the Time Out website. If you’re a golfer living in London I urge you to read it.
The piece was written by Timothy O’Grady, who has written several books, including ‘On Golf’ published by Yellow Jersey, the same publisher who recently released Bring me the Head of Sergio Garia by […]

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