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Pitchmarks #103 - “It’s Only Natural”
“La Natura è la fonte di tutta la vera conoscenza”
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Pitchmarks #102 - “Decision Fatigue”
The Old Tom One…
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Pitchmarks #101 - "I know just what you mean"
Of Milan Kundera’s masterpiece “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”, Ian McEwan wrote that “one is torn between profound pleasure in the novel’s…
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Pitchmarks #100 - “Not sure who's madder…”
A 4.30am alarm for a drive of four and a half hours ought to feel like a burden; a cruel awakening.
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Pitchmarks #99 - “Rule Number 6”
One morning in January…
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Pitchmarks #98 - "Guardians of Joy"
“Comparison is the thief of joy”
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Pitchmarks #97 - “The Heritageans”
In his opening speech to the inaugural Golf Club Heritage Conference, Jim McArthur set the tone for two wonderful days of reflection and investigation…
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Pitchmarks #96 - REISSUE "Hollinwell Halt"
You’d expect it to be dark at 4.30am in early February, and it is, but the waxing Snow Moon peers through an ethereal quiver of cloud high above…
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Pitchmarks #94 - REISSUE "The Piano Cover at the B Conference"
(reprinted courtesy of The Links Diary)
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Pitchmarks #93 - "Love is Blindness"
The delights of Cruit Island
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Pitchmarks #92 - "A Slowly Beckoning Beauty"
Or “the ravishing landscape” of Augusta National
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Pitchmarks #91 - "So Life Can't Get in the Way"
In September at Flempton, we fixed up March at New Zealand; “let’s just get a date in the diary”, Tim said, “so life can’t get in the way”.
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Pitchmarks #90 - REISSUE! "WD-40 for the Soul"
Or, "The World's Greatest Addiction"...
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Pitchmarks #89 - “Kilspindie with Twigs”
The date had been fixed for a month or so.
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