I spent much of last week writing about Wales, Terry Matthews and the Ryder Cup. You’ll find it all at Sympatico whenever my fine editor gets back from some company-mandated sojurn...
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To Ireland I Will Go
Starting Monday, G4G is going overseas — to the western coast of Ireland for a lot of golf and a fair bit of driving. In...
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Olé, Olé…Olé, Olé…
Having successfully managed to get the program taping, the next huge obstacle to overcome, naturally, was staying ignorant for...
Read More Ryder Cup Teams: American Advantage
Apparently I’m in the minority of sports writers who think the Americans will prevail this weekend. Anyway, the Ryder Cup...
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Croeso i Gymru!
Other than the prestige and the history and the money, the one great thing about the Majors and the other big tournaments like the Tour Championship is that the pure, evil pressure of the...
Wetting Your Whistle For Wisconsin
This might sound strange for me to say, but if you’ve been following this column for more than a week, I supposed you’ve come to expect strange in this little corner of cyberspace;...
Sympatico Column: Ryder Cup for Sale
A column that came out of my recent travels to Wales is up at Sympatico. And Southerdown Golf Club, which I wrote about in a post here, has linked to G4G, which I admit was pretty cool...
Thompson: Golf in Wales
Fresh from a 7-day jaunt across Wales that included 10 rounds, some narrow streets and a truck or two, our very own Robert Thompson runs down the best and worst from his Wales golf trip, a...
Wales Days 4, 5: Darwin's Aberdovey, St...
Aberdovey is Bernard Darwin country. The London-based golf writer from the last century loved Aberdovey, a rustic, rugged links on the North-West Welsh coast so much that he often called...
Wales Day Four: Wonderful Porthcawl, Peculiar Pennard
I’m rushing to leave the wonderful Fairyhill Hotel this morning on a three-hour drive to Aberdovey, up the Welsh coastline, so this is more photo-oriented than written. Yesterday we...
Day Three: Celtic Manor 2010 Course and Southerndown
Our day started at the Celtic Manor’s main hotel, a relatively new, decidedly comfortable and quite North American facility that is long on convenience. Owner Terry Matthews, who has...
Wales Day Two — Celtic Manor
Not much to say yet, other than the hotel is really swish. And, interestingly, there is a clock on the wall that has the time in Ottawa, which, I suppose, isn’t all that surprising...