Missing Out Syndrome

That horrible, gut-wrenching, sense that something exciting and interesting is happening and, for whatever reason, you’re not part of it.

Lovely week for it...

What, if anything, have we learned from last week’s golf?

Firstly the Solheim Cup, the biennial, Ryder-Cup-but-without-the-press-coverage battle between the US and Europe. In short, Europe ended a sequence of successive defeats dating back to 2003 and took the cup in dramatic style, eventually winning 15-13 having threatened to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory earlier in the day. 

One week to go

Much like a cartoon prisoner scrawls a tally on the wall, I am eagerly anticipating my first round of golf for 38 days next Saturday.

I haven't yet chosen the venue for this round with Noel, but it will be somewhere within a deft lob wedge of my home.

My last round, as part of a golf society at Manor of Groves near Sawbridgeworth, saw me tee it up for the first time for nearly three weeks, so I was typically reticent about my chances of being in the mix at the end.

Why do this blog?

I've been asking myself that question for a couple of days now.

Along with 'Will anyone read it?', although that secondary question has slipped somewhat off the radar, given I have understood that this is merely a vehicle for me to express my thoughts, ramblings, opinions, etc about golf - if anyone reads it (enjoying it would be an added bonus) then so much the better.