100 up with a smile

Sunday's round at Worplesdon Golf Club, the scene of a heart-wrenching final-hole defeat by Moggers and Nick, took me to a personal milestone of 100 UK golf courses played.

Fred Couples - the can teetered, wobbled but didn't fall over

Prior to the start of last week's Presidents Cup, the Ryder-Cup-but-without-the-media-coverage-or-the-competitive-intensity, I wrote about how Fred Couples had risked dropping a massive clanger by taking Tiger Woods and Bill Haas as his captain's picks, leaving the in-form and luckless Keegan Bradley to watch the event unfold on TV at home.

Golfing goals for 2012

2011 seems to have flown by and there are now about seven weeks of the year left, so my mind started to wander towards the golfing goals I want to set myself for 2012.

Fred Couples and the can of worms

I can't really remember (not that it really matters) how long its been since US Presidents Cup skipper Fred Couples made his announcement that Tiger Woods would be one of his wildcard selections for the forthcoming match against Greg Norman's Australian, sorry International, team at Royal Melbourne.

The Right Frame of Mind

With the Race to Dubai entering its final furlong, there were a couple of occurrences which made me think about the mental side of golf and the impact that it has.

I wrote previously about misplaced confidence in my own golf game and the times that it has come back to bite me in the arse so it was extremely interesting to see two professional golfers at opposite ends of the 'Good Place Mentally' spectrum on the same course over the weekend.

A Comedy of (Golfing) Errors

With appropriate apologies to the Bard, my round of golf at Millbrook GC on Monday afternoon, with my brother-in-law Greg, didn't exactly light the high-quality fires or threaten the upper reaches of the OWGR.

5 things I love about golf

It is now under a week until Gribber and I will be playing golf which, coming a mere three weeks since I last played, puts me firmly into 'regular golfer' territory. With my anticipation building ahead of Monday afternoon, I thought I would pen a few things I love about the game of golf.

5 things learnt in golf this week

1. If at first you don't succeed... 

A pyrrhic victory

I had waited 38 days for the opportunity to play a round of golf, so I was loathe to let a dose of man-flu (or was it ebola?) rain on the parade.

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.