Talking Point: Carts vs Calves
Global Golfer’s Australia Editor, Danny Bowerin argues that we should all abandon the golf cart in favor of a good long walk… American writer Mark Twain famously said golf was a “good walk spoiled.” Too many golfers seem to have taken him literally because wherever I play these days more people are riding golf carts [...]
Miners to Majors: Journey to Augusta
How a golfer from the coalfields of Northern England hit a hole-in-one at Augusta National and played The Masters course back-to-front. Every April, I would lie on my back staring up at clouds. The short fragrant grass of the practice ground was a comfortable place to dream about the coming days, when pictures of the [...]
Pars and Cigars: Golf in Cuba
Cuba’s government is set to build 13 golf courses by 2020 as well as theme parks and hotels to attract more tourism to the communist island. Deputy Tourism Minister Alexis Trujillo announced the plans at a news conference in Havana this week. Trujillo said the island would need an additional 25,000 hotel rooms to meet [...]
Golfers wising up to danger of being uninsured
A recent court case in the UK has highlighted the importance of golf insurance. Scottish golfer Anthony Phee was awarded £400,000 after losing the sight in one eye when he was hit by another golfer at Niddry Castle golf course in West Lothian in 2007. The Judge ruled that the other golfer James Gordon was [...]
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