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Pitchmarks #88 - "Penwings"
A few weeks ago, I was attempting to record an audio version of one of these missives - finally trying that medium out, though it isn’t my comfort zone.
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Pitchmarks #87 - “Something Like Blasphemy”
Tom Simpson's lost holes at Woking
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Pitchmarks #85 - "The Thing to Do"
A dear friend, Chip, is in London, so we grab the chance to play a bit of winter golf, and when the temperature plummets, we swap out our carry bags for…
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Pitchmarks #84 - "Dearly Preloved"
(Text reproduced with the kind permission of The Links Diary, in whose Number 10 Edition the original appears)
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Pitchmarks #83 - "You need to know this"
An explanation for the non-golfers in our lives…
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Pitchmarks #81 - "(Not) Only on Sundays"
The best part of forty years ago, my father gave me - keen to encourage my apparent desire to join what Bernard Darwin called “the bravest, stupidest…
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Pitchmarks #80 - "Bumps and all"
On well-worn paths...
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Pitchmarks #79 - "Baltray - Beyond Termonfeckin"
“The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished”
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Pitchmarks #78 - Dollymount
Royal Dublin Golf Club
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Pitchmarks #77 - "Like the provisional"
“How would you like to light a fire perfectly and have it burn for 3-7 hours without touching it or putting on more wood?
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Pitchmarks #76 - "Something to look forward to"
I usually start off a New Year with a whole raft of resolutions, but this time has been different, for one reason or another.
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Pitchmarks #75 - 29th December 2024 - "///natural.connection.joy"
I find myself with a few spare minutes before I am due at Royal Porthcawl, and slip off the main road to find a clifftop car park near Southerndown.
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Pitchmarks 2024 Christmas Card - "On the Word of Mouth Algorithm"
It is not clear which particular window our agency got hurled through, but it seems much of our life is run by algorithms these days, and I’m not quite…
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Pitchmarks #74 - 24th November 2024 - Thanksgiving
Pennard, South Wales
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ramblings on writing, playing golf in torrential rain, not having a handicap and, well, life…
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