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Pitchmarks #42 - 21st April 2024 - "In love with Liverpool, again"
There are places I'll remember All my life, though some have changed Some forever, not for better Some have gone and some remain “In My Life”, The…
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Pitchmarks #41 - 14th April 2024 - On Days Like These
On the second Sunday in April, things appear to change. The false starts seem behind us, for spring is most definitely here. The grass almost grows…
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Pitchmarks #40 - 7th April 2024 - Trevose
We’re in Trehuel Number Five, one of many luxurious apartments at Trevose Golf & Country Club, and a serious upgrade on my normal camper van slumber…
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Pitchmarks #39 - 31st March 2024 - "Ah, St Enodoc"
It is hard to judge just how long I have been meaning to get to St Enodoc. It could be fifteen years, or twenty even; an unexplained desire that just…
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Pitchmarks #38 - 24th March 2024 - NO NONSENSE
On the simple pleasures of Perranporth
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Pitchmarks #36 - 10th March 2024 - In the Vale of Pickering
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Pitchmarks #37 - 17th March 2024 - "Petrichor"
“Do you know that smell that you get after rain, outside on the golf course? How would you describe that?” Shane Derby’s unanswered question; The Firm …
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Pitchmarks #36 - 10th March 2024 - In the Vale of Pickering
From memory, my Saturday morning golf lessons petered out in about 1989, or thereabouts. So the sound “Ganton” must have first landed on my eardrums at…
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Pitchmarks #35 - 3rd March 2024 - Mid-Herts
“We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or…
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Pitchmarks #34 - 25th February 2024 - Winter Foursomes
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy Anton Chekhov Let’s face it, to even consider scheduling golf in the bleak…
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Pitchmarks #33 - 18th February 2024 - Litost
“Litost is an untranslatable Czech word…I have looked in vain in other languages for an equivalent, though I find it hard to imagine how anyone can…
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Pitchmarks #32 - 11th February 2024 - Valentine's Day
“The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love” Hafez Of all the kind reviews of Grass Routes, each of which is humbling…
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Pitchmarks #31 - 4th February 2024 - "A Charm That Belongs to Itself"
“Sandwich has a charm that belongs to itself…[on[ a fine spring day with the larks singing as they seem to sing nowhere else; the sun shining on the…
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Pitchmarks #30 - 28th January 2024 - "An Invincible Summer"
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world…
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Pitchmarks #29 - 21st January 2024 - Building Bridges
"Anyone wishing to write to the author should address all correspondence to: P.G. Wodehouse, c/o The 6th Bunker, The Addington Golf Club, Croydon…
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Guest Posts
"Hayling Island - Ancestral Footsteps" by Robin Down
"My Kiss Poster" - by Tom Dunne
"Old Love" by Michael Estorick
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