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Golf Monthly “Play Your Best Challenge”
I’ve just entered the Golf Monthly “Play Your Best Challenge” sponsored by Ping. Looks like a really good competition. The two have joined forces to launch the competition with the aim of helping four golfers break through their personal scoring barriers this year. I’ve entered the “Break 70” category. In the second round of our Club […]
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Saunton West round today
I’ve been fed up with practicing in the freezing cold these last couple of weeks here in the UK and the courses all being frozen that today I went with a friend to Saunton (he’s a member there as well as our place) and we played the West Course (course plan below). Although it was […]
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A golf poem
If this is yours, or you know who’s it is, please let me know as I’d like to give you credit for it. A Golf Poem In my hand I hold a ball, White and dimpled, and rather small. Oh, how bland it does appear, This harmless looking little sphere. By its size I could […]
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Losing money whilst practicing
I had a lesson today with my coach, Paul Mitchell from Bristol & Clifton GC and we were doing some short game work. Now my technique is pretty good but I was not getting the ball really close, you know tap-in distance or obvious single putt range. So, Mitch decided that I was just not […]
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Gilroy wins the 2011 Gilroy/Taylor Tour (7½ : 2½)
Yesterday saw the end of the inaugural year of the Gilroy/Taylor Tour. This is an exclusive invitation only tour between my best friend Mark and myself. The rule is basically if we are on the course at the same time, in the same group, then it is in effect a “tour match”. The overall score […]
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Ooops, got Mrs G’s handicap wrong
Finally showed the new website to Mrs G today and the first thing she noticed under the About David page was that I’d got her handicap wrong. She said in that way that only a woman can “Are you sure you’ve got that right?” You know the voice, the one that says “I know I’m […]
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Book cover added to the site
Yep, that one there on the right. It’s not pretty, but it’s the best I’m going to try and do for the time being. If you click on the image you will see a larger version where you can see that the sub-heading text is :- The parallels between reducing your golf handicap and growing […]
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Golf & The Art of Business website now live!
Finally, I’ve got this website live. After some pfaffing around with software I’ve settled on WordPress as the platform. Easy on install, loads of available plugins and easy for someone with design skills up upgrade the “theme”. The aim of this website is to collect my thoughts in one place and collect some feedback, ideas, […]