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March 2024

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 #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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February 2024

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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January 2024

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