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GOLF: Local Clubs Boom Despite Covid-19 Restrictions
Golf is a sport that could have been invented for social ; So, it’s no coincidence that up and down the country it has been booming in the plague year…
GOLF: Out Of The Rough
In Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Lysander complains that “the course of true love never did run smooth.” Roger Hyder, director of Beauport Park Golf Club since September 2018, could be…
GOLF: Maximising Your Distance
When, leafing through your golfing manual, you reach the chapter on driving off the tee, you may well find tips on “maximising your distance”. The phrase recognises the desire of…
GOLF “A Club Close To My Heart”
Former Pro Returns to Manage Beauport It didn’t take too long after all. We reported in these columns two weeks ago that the disastrous tenure of Chris and Kellie Hawes…
GOLF CLOSURE: Par for the Course
A public footpath between Whatlington and Netherfield runs between fairways of what used, until three or four years ago, to be Battle Golf Club. These days occasional walkers make their…
GOLF – Equality of Opportunity
The sport of golf has long been associated with social snobbery, with patriarchal attitudes and other reactionary values. The fact that US President Donald Trump is reputed to have played…