Golf & The Art of Business

Finally, some good weather coincided with my availability over the Easter weekend to have a quick flit to Saunton.  It’s one of the advantages of having a Country Membership down there and living in Bristol.  In just over two hours you can be on the first tee cracking one away down the 470 yard, par […]

Well I’m looking forward to it in May this year.  MrsG and are taking a holiday to the US West Coast and are thinking of driving from San Francisco to Scottsdale and along the way stopping at the Furnace Creek Resort to experience playing golf in Death Valley. The course is 214ft below sea level […]

There was going to be no repeat of my collapse in the 2012 tournament.  Last year I got 8:2 up and then managed to lose all 8 of the next 8 games and lose 8:10. This year I got ahead just as early on in the year but Mark could not catch up .  He […]

Today my friend Mark Taylor and I went to Bristol & Clifton Golf Club for a practice round ahead of the regional final of the NikeGolf Matchplay Championship. We’ve already won our way through four matchplay rounds and now it’s a betterball regional final.  The top two from 12 pairs go through to an all […]

So on Thursday I drove down to Saunton to attempt to play golf with some friends who were driving down from Surrey.  I say “attempt to play” as the weather forecast was awful, with it possibly clearing by around 3 or 4pm. I left Bristol at 11am and as soon as I was just past […]

Last year I decided to join Saunton Golf Club as a Country Member. It’s a course I’d played a few times before and one of the first golf clubs I went to in the year that I took up golf. So this year MrsG and I decided to go down to Saunton for the whole […]

I had a great day out at St Pierre on Thursday 4 July 2013 playing in the William Hunt Trilby Tour for the third time. The first two times I played at Trevose, scoring 28 & then 32 points (off 8, with 3/4 handicap so given 6 shots). Nice progression in the my game. My […]

I seem to have had/about to have a bit of a run in playing golf in some lovely places.  Here’s what’s been and what’s coming. Played here last week :- http://bellemareplagehotel.constancehotels.com/legend-golf-course-bellemare.html http://bellemareplagehotel.constancehotels.com/links-golf-course-bellemare.html Playing here next week 13-Jun – http://www.trumpgolfscotland.com/ 14-Jun – http://www.crudenbaygolfclub.co.uk/ Here the week after 18-Jun – http://www.tyrrellswoodgolfclub.com/ Here the week after 25-Jun – http://www.salisburygolf.co.uk/ 30-Jun – http://www.hillside-golfclub.co.uk/ Then […]