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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Here we are again at Wentworth. Thursday morning. 16 players, matchplay, £1m prize. An all-star line up of the top…of some of the top…Ok, one of the top five players in the world who doesn’t happen to be American….Ernest Els.
So. No Tiger. No Lefty. No Furyk.
Never mind. Cabrera’s turning up. Monty’s here. The Goose, Justin Rose, and Popeye Casey are all […]

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Last Sunday night, More4 broadcasted ‘The Club, a documentary first shown by Channel 4 in 1994. Part of a fly-on-the-wall documentary series called “Cutting Edge”, made before everyone wanted to be a reality TV star. The makers pointed their cameras at the elderly membership of Northwood Golf Club. A course laid out in 1891, making it one of the older courses […]

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