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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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Pitchmarks #64 - 15th September 2024 - Highland Games
We are sat in the Links Clubhouse, Pam and I, having a spot of breakfast and peering through the vast windows at a dense haar that has engulfed the…
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Pitchmarks #63 - 8th September 2024 - "Dreaming of Darwin"
Once again, that familiar motion from childhood, of pressing the metal rail to slide down the window then reaching through to open the carriage door…
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Pitchmarks #62 - 1st September 2024 - "Borth picks up where nature ends"
The relentless flapping of the tent canvas carries on through the night, like some ambient symphony of the coastal wind, but it is the clatter of the…
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Pitchmarks #61 - 25th August 2024 - "I Can't Quite Remember"
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary”
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Pitchmarks #60 - 18th August 2024 - "just torn flags in the breeze"
Those who fall under golf’s beguiling spell have various rabbit scrapes down which they can disappear.
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Podcast Appearances
Duffers Literary Companion - Episode 13
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ramblings on writing, playing golf in torrential rain, not having a handicap and, well, life…
Book Reviews
"The Marvellous Mania" - Alistair Cooke
Golfing Letters from America, revisited…
Playing for Laughs
In praise of Charles Price
Guest Posts
"Hayling Island - Ancestral Footsteps" by Robin Down
"My Kiss Poster" - by Tom Dunne
"Old Love" by Michael Estorick
"My Favourite Club" by Stephen Proctor
"The Silver Club" by Aubyn Stewart-Wilson
"A Club Like no Other"
"Warkworth in a Winter Light" - by Robin Down
"The Linchpin" by Dan Miller
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