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Skibo Castle - The Carnegie Club

“This is just like millionaire’s golf,” we often say at Chilwell Manor, my home course, when we are the only ones playing. Today we...

Goswick

Can there be anything better in our great sport than a beautiful day on a championship links? The opening round of our two-week 2021...

Royal Lytham & St Anne's

What happened next? One of Question of Sport’s most famous captains and rugby union legend Sir Bill Beaumont began chatting to me on the...

Isle Of Purbeck

By the ‘flaming sword of Haile Selassie’, I declare the fifth hole at Isle of Purbeck the most dramatic I have played in the top 100...

Ferndown

“It’s the first birdie of the day!” proclaimed our playing partner as Mrs W’s ball zipped down the second hole of Ferndown’s Old Course...

Broadstone

“We’ve been coming here 50 years,” said the old-timer after his group had teed off ahead of us and we wished them an enjoyable round....

Hindhead

Hindhead golf club review

Swinley Forest

Fun? Golf is meant to be fun? I have long believed that most golfers are masochists – they enjoy the torture of shanks, hooks and missed...

Woburn - Duke's

What was my take home from the Duke's at Woburn? The aroma of the towering pines, the immaculate tee boxes, the stunning clubhouse or the...

Ganton

“Is that Chapel St Leonard’s, Mablethorpe or Sutton on Sea?”, quipped our resident wag and north-east beach expert as one of our...

Blackmoor

At last! The quest to play the top 100 courses in England has resumed post-Covid lockdown. Thus, fizz flowed from the balcony of the...

The Grove

Perhaps we should ask Gareth Bale which is his number one course in Hertfordshire. In a framed photo at The Grove, he has written that it...

The Addington

"For some time, my wife's had this ridiculous idea that I'm playing too much golf. Actually, it came to a head at about 11.30 last night....

Lindrick

Everything about our competition at Lindrick was a cut above

Northamptonshire County

Northamptonshire County is so well manicured it is easy to forget to give the big hits which winter golf demands

Delamere Forest

This beautiful Cheshire course is deceptive.

The Berkshire - Red

"This is my favourite place on earth." Buoyed by the endorsement of a 4-handicap society colleague, I played the best round of my life on...

Bearwood Lakes

If the kite which blessed the skies over Bearwood Lakes was whistling in appreciation at my tee-shot on the 8th, it was crying in dismay...

Alwoodley

The ball arched towards the fifth green - followed at frenetic pace by the head of my seven iron! I mused that I have loved my...

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