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2009
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Long Ball finally a legend! Congratulations!!!
October 30 2009 Bobby Wilson, the 53 year old Texan who worked with me at Mad River Golf Club late in the past century, was the first competitor to reach the Finals of all three long driving divisions, the Open (flat bellies all); the Senior (45 – 50) and Super Senior (over 50 -what’s super ... read more »
What the Boys are talking about…..
The biggest sip sip at the Thursday Club gathering was about the new tee being built on the Road Hole (17) of the Old Course. The tee will open in time for the 2010 Open next July and will “restore the shot values to allow the hole to be played like did years ago”. Well, ... read more »
Moved to CRAIL
After two years two months living in St Andrews we have now moved 10 miles away (south east) to the beautiful East Neuk village of Crail. The house we lived in while in St Andrews was built in 1862, now we live in a house built in 1718! Thankfully most of the original has been ... read more »
Two Years in Scotland
We are now starting our third year here in the Home of Golf and really looking forward to having both of our courses open and in fine shape. Right after I came in 2007 the resort’s owners decided to renovate the Torrance and last week’s Scottish Senior Open was our first test, and it was ... read more »
Notes from SCOTTISH SENIOR OPEN
We just finished hosting the SCOTTISH SENIOR OPEN, a premier event on the European Senior Tour sponsored by Cleveland/Srixon. It officially opened our Torrance Course and in spite of 6 days of rain the three pro ams and three day seniors tourney were great successes. The R&A had a tent at the side of the ... read more »
Busy Season
“the old pro gets a lesson from the older pro”][/caption] The picture of Old Tom Morris is actually actor/writer David Joy who does many Titleist ads and is available to speak to groups about almost any topic to do with golf, he is fantastic, and a member of the Thursday Club. It has become quite ... read more »
The TORRANCE COURSE
Yesterday, Sam Torrance and 72 top Scottish Tour Operators got the chance to play the Torrance Course, more than a month in advance of it’s opening July 13th. The course was already the favourite of local players and has been improved during the past year – 63 new revetted bunkers, all new tees, new routing, ... read more »
Royal Aberdeen One of the Best!
I’m a pretty lucky old pro – on Thursday I played the Old Course in St Andrews with the regular Thursday Club boys, and on Friday played the Royal Aberdeen Golf Club, with Carolyn and Ian Craig, a fine chap from Liverpool. And I had excellent weather both days, in fact today is the fifth ... read more »
UK golf news on Road to Dubai
This week at lot of press has been about the Ryder Cup, mainly about Monty winning the right to pick three of his team, the other nine automatically qualifying from World Rankings and European Tour standings. Monty will have a great team, should be interesting to see what the US team will do to distract ... read more »
Monty and the Kid
As Colin Montgomery and Rory McIlroy prepare to play the first two rounds of the Irish Open together, much of the press is more interested in Monty discussing his Captaincy of the Ryder Cup team which will face Cory Pavin’s US Squad in Wales in September. Yesterday’s press conference left me wondering how their game ... read more »
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