Recent content by federalexpress

QdL can prettymuch charge what it likes cos it is rammed pretty much every hour of every day. That said, depending on where you stay and when you go, better rates can be found. I'm just back form the Four Seasons Country Club and they had a packaged rate of EUR 297 for North, South and Laranjal...

It's not the clubs I need to change, it's the thing at the other end holding them... But since that is not possible, I might be in the market for a new driver, since I currently have an ancient R7. Unlikely to be this years models, maybe a stealth or paradym ai smoke at what I hope will be a...

I think to assume that private members clubs don't accept, let alone even welcome visitors is wrong. Obviously it will depend on circumstances, but the vast majority of members' clubs will need visitors' income to help keep membership fees down. The balance is to allow enough to be able to...

Sure, although I haven't played all that many truly signature courses, maybe Royal Liverpool for links and the other one that springs to mind is Yas Links which for an amateur, is almost as challenging as Monte Rei (albeit the pros seemed to eat it alive). I did Royal Liverpool on a fairly...

On Monte Rei, and setting aside the course condition which may or may not have been fixed, while it was a truly memorable experience when I played it, there is probably some truth that it is not for everyone. I am an ok golfer, off 12, but I agree with Billysboots, it can do your head in. In...

They demonstrate different things to me but everyone to their own...

Then one wonders how the Swedes managed. Maybe they don't have social scientists or their government and populace is mature not to need such input. Either way, it worked for them, hopefully we will remember that is and when there is a next time. But I think we are now miles off topic. This was...

I can't easily read and understand your post but if you are saying the media had a big part to play in the hysteria and some of the nonsense we saw, then I would wholeheartedly agree. Although that doesn't excuse the politicians or indeed other entities that might have been able to offer more...

You are more accepting of stupidity than I am which may or may not be a good thing but as I said in a subsequent post "What's done is done but hopefully for next time, we will have learned some hard lessons, one of which would be to be less hysterical in how we handle difficult events like this."

It wasn't a couple of weeks, it was much longer. There were two extended lockdowns after the first one. Yes people could go for a 4 hour walk but how many, without the incentive to play golf, would have done so, regularly? In any case, my point here is that this was all just so unnecessary...

What about? Lobbying? Evidence based decisions? People potentially being thick and prejudiced? I don't know but I suspect probably nothing terribly useful, although they might have something to say, even if not that productive, on the decline in mental health post pandemic and of course...

At the beginning, you had a point, it was panic stations, but by the time I'm talking about, much later in 2020, much, much more was known. The science had changed but the policymaking did not. Being outdoors massively reduced infection risk, especially if your activity had distancing built into...

Well that is cynical but if you are right, and you might be, it is down to those making policy to 'follow the science' not an interpretation of it to appease vested interest groups. And it is down to effective lobbying to make sure science based decisons are made.

I thought we followed the science during lockdown? Isn't that what they said and the public also wanted? So the science said, certainly after lockdown 1, walking outside whether swinging a golf club or not was next to no risk (and with the understanding clubhouses would have to be kept shut if...

Well for a start it was guilty of not making the case that golf is not actually especially elitist, outside a relatively small number of expensive, exclusive clubs. It needed to lobby to alter that perception which, as I think you correctly say, the London elite held of the game. They made...