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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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Pitchmarks #73 - 17th November 2024 - "L Plates"
Royal Wimbledon Golf Club
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Pitchmarks #72 - 10th November 2024 - "the irregularities of the terrain"
Vallière Course, Golf de Morfontaine
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Pitchmarks #71 - 3rd November 2024 - (Very) Firm and Fast
Portmarnock, Ireland
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Pitchmarks #70 - 27th October 2024 - Back at the Coalface
During last week’s musings (here), I included among several quotes from Alistair Cooke the line “no man in his right mind would play golf”, an…
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Pitchmarks #68 - 13th October 2024 - Lost in Translation
The whole notion of a bucket list is interesting to me, for in casting certain future experiences into what - in my case at least - resembles something…
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Pitchmarks #67 - 6th October 2024 - Hayling
“We are asleep.
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Pitchmarks #66 - 29th September 2024 - Flempton
Two questions, close together.
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Pitchmarks #65 - 22nd September 2024 -Royal Worlington & Newmarket
“If I just had one golf club to call my own, and never have to play anywhere else, Worly might meet all of my needs better than any other"
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Guest Posts
"Hayling Island - Ancestral Footsteps" by Robin Down
"My Kiss Poster" - by Tom Dunne
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