Tag: golf blog
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It’s time to park the golf cart and walk the course. Why? It’s good for you!
Golf courses were made for walking says Danny Bowerin, who passionately believes that parking golf carts makes us healthier, happier golfers… American writer Mark Twain famously said golf was a “good walk spoiled.” Too many golfers seem to have taken him literally, because wherever I play these days, more people are riding golf carts than…
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Pebble Beach – why it’s #1 on my Bucket List
Pebble Beach has been #1 on my golf bucket list ever since I visited Monterey’s 17-mile drive as a guest of Jim Griggs, former PGA Tour Director.
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Why Portugal is still Europe’s #1 golf destination
There were no surprises at last week’s World Travel Awards when Europe’s Leading Golf Destination for 2012 was announced. Hosted at the swanky new Conrad Algarve Resort in Portugal the evening turned out to be as golden as the cliffs that line Portugal’s coastline on the Atlantic Ocean seaboard. Portugal scooped seven awards, including Europe’s…
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Golf Caddies vs Apps: Technology vs Tradition
Technology and tradition are two powerful fault lines in golf today. Battles rage between distance and shotmaking and course designers vs club engineers – but one of the most fascinating for us is the unlikely conflict brewing between career caddies and digital apps. There’s something romantic and mystical about the wizened, weather beaten face and…
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Happy Birthday Bobby Jones – Greatest of them All
Personal reflections on the American Golfer Bobby Jones, the man universally considered to have accomplished the greatest feat in golf. Read on..
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Curious case of the missing Caddies
Ever since I first watched Caddyshack, a seminal 1980’s golf movie about the caddies and members of Bushwood Country Club – a typical American Private golf club – I’ve loved the idea of having my bag carried by a wily local who knows the humps, hollows, nooks and crannies of the courses I’m playing. Sadly…
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Great Scott: Talking Course Design
Global Golfer talks to course designer and author Scott Macpherson about golf course architecture and his high profile UK design at Close House in Northumberland… Scott Macpherson may be from New Zealand but he loves classic British golf courses, and has a special passion for The Old Course at St Andrews. That passion led him…
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Cobras in the Rough: an Indian Odyssey
When the European Tour landed in India last week for the Avantha Masters it beamed pictures around the world of golf in a mysterious and humid corner of Asia. If you found J.B Kruger’s win around a track with coarse grasses and burnt brownish greens compelling viewing, then you will like a new book about…
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Reader Photo: Pebble Beach Golf Links
Reader Martin Parry, a 5-handicap golfer living in Singapore, says: “My favourite course by a long way. I was -1 after 1, but sadly that didn’t last long and with 2 nights in the lodge and a spa treatment for the wife whilst I played this was the most expensive round of golf ever.”
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“You always come back to what you love”
Welcome, I’m bursting with excitement writing my first blog as the Editor of Global Golfer, a brand new internet golf travel magazine I had an idea seven years ago. I would publish a golf magazine on the internet for people who shared a passion for travelling the world and playing golf. Writing prose that captures…