Recent content by English golfer in Spain

Sorry guys, us lucky buggers in Spain have been playing non stop since our (real) lockdown back in March/May Wasn't allowed to leave our premises unless for food or chemists for 8 weeks. The good lady done the shopping, and I took the dog out once a day, and no further than 1 km from home. I...

About 10 years ago in the second round of our 2 day championship. Took an extra club 7 iron and got it over the front bunker. It rolled close but we didnt see it drop as the pin was just over a brow of a hill. But the guys on the next tee shouted back to us that it had gone in. Also I have...

Hi guys I managed my first round yesterday since the 13th March. The rules are slightly different here in Spain, we can play in 4 balls but we have to keep 2 meters apart at all times. Our driving range is open, but only every other slot, plus there was only about 5 flags on the putting green...

Good point about the javelin. I agree that they need to stop these beautiful old course becoming obsolete. I want them hitting 3 and 4 irons into par 4 holes, not a wedge from 145 yards.

Could someone please help me with a problem that happened yesterday in our Monthly Medal? It didn’t happen to me, but with a friend. Player A is playing hole 17 and drives his ball into a waste area. Which is like a sandy gritty area that we can play out of if you can find your ball because...

Its about time. We play in temperatures of over 35c very often during the summer and take my word for it, its bloody difficult even IN shorts, and we have the early tee times. Like all of these things, so long that it is managed correctly we should fine. They have just said that the...

If only it was 100 ! Something drastically wrong with our red ball cricket. When did they last score 400 runs in an innings. Relieve Root as captain, drop him to bat at No 4, and wheel out Gooch Boycott and Cook

Played today, was told we couldn't take buggies out because of the state of the course, after very heavy rains on Wednesday. Even staying on the buggy path. I normally walk with an electric trolley but during the silly season, very hot in July/August, we hire a buggy. So no buggy, but they did...

Yep, that's what we do. Surprisingly very nice, mainly due to the heat. However, all sorted now, another 12 bottles of red are snuggled up with the 15 bottles of white. Don't panic, there is plenty of room for the beer.

Only one bottle of Red wine in the fridge:(

We extended the handicap allowance at our Golf Society from 28 to 36 a few years ago, and this was to encourage people to play, as you can imagine many of our players are of the retirement age. I said it would be nice if these people look for their names on the result sheet and at least see...

I agree with the double par thing, but in our golf society in Spain we are using maximums of 7 8 and 9. That's for our 36 h/c which then they can not score on par 3 4 and 5.

I don't understand your comment about completely different sports? In Tennis cricket and football surely the player (Captain) is asking the official to check his or assistants call, whether its a umpire, line judge or a linesman, ( you can see I am still old school) the sport doesn't matter what...

But the players have the review in Tennis and Cricket and they don't seem to have a problem with it. Women's World Cup match England V Cameroon, I believe there was more than 12 checks for VAR in the game, and the second half lasted over 60 minutes. Get used to 3.00pm games finishing after...

Wow some old favourites of mine here, Thunderbirds, Hill Street, NYPD, of course West Wing, we have the whole box set, quite brilliant writing. Allo Allo was great. Of the new stuff, I thought the two series of Killing Eve was brilliant, the second one was very funny. And I like Blacklist, James...