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Neil White
I am a listaoholic and keen golfer so, in June 2020, I set about the challenge of taking on England's top 100 courses with a notion to be followed by the British Isles, Europe and even The World. The collected warblings about my travels can be found at www.thegolfpilgrim.com and I can be followed on Instagram under The Golf Pilgrim tag.
Is there any other sport in which you can play on the same turf as champions and even play a better shot?Thankfully, there were no off-putting ‘farting noises’ when I str...
“Well, they say life’s a beach…” That bit of good old-fashioned northern humour accompanied yet another full-bloodied shot of mine which appeared to be on target only to...
In 1954, Peter Thomson’s Open win was assured with a splash-out from a greenside bunker on the 16th at Royal Birkdale.Thomson admitted that the trap “scared” him but he l...
My eight-iron approach drifted away as I conjured wistful thoughts of Henry VIII, accompanied by trumpeters and outriders, emerging from the gates of Knole House to hunt...
“Situated on the North Norfolk coast twixt pine and sea, Sheringham Golf Course encompasses everything that is beautiful about the game,” claims the professionally produc...
What do I have in common with Ryder Cup pioneer and one of the greats of golf, Walter Hagen?We both discovered what it is like to lose at Moortown.A letter from the first...
Greek philosopher Plato said: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and, although he lived centuries before golf was invented, it is as if his words were intended for Se...
The ferry did, indeed, go across the Mersey and to paraphrase Gerry Marsden, this land was a place I loved.West Lancashire Golf Club looks out upon one of the most sung a...
“I hope you have a lot of balls in your bag,” quipped the club member out walking his dog. It took us just one hole to realise that he wasn’t joking but giving us a well-...
There’s nothing like chipping into the hole on the Sunday at the Open – even if it’s the Sandiway Golf Club mixed open.Yes, as Collin Morikawa was lifting the claret jug,...
“Shall we make it a shilling, a hole?” I couldn’t resist a Bond reference as we warmed up in front of the Stoke Park hotel, made famous by 007’s classic game with Goldfin...
If you want to play championship-quality golf and simultaneously feel as if you are an extra in the latest instalment of Top Gun, Moray cannot be bettered.The splendid ho...
The Covid pandemic has been a misery for everyone but offered us one tiny slither of solace because we were able to postpone our golf trek to Scotland from April until Ju...
The welcome was warm, the tees, fairways and greens were pristine and the views across the Moray Firth were stunning.But both Mrs W and I found Nairn easily the toughest...
There was a haar and a bit of a hoolie but Royal Dornoch still offered the greatest golfing experience of my life so far.The mist may have hung over the edge of the Dorno...
“Go on, go on, go on!” I shouted and realised that, to non-golfers, I must have sounded like a cross between Mrs Doyle from Father Ted and a contestant in One Man And His...
“This is just like millionaire’s golf,” we often say at Chilwell Manor, my home course, when we are the only ones playing. Today we actually meant it.At Skibo Castle’s ex...
Understated brilliance and one of the heartiest welcomes we have received so far on the top100 quest.Indeed, Muirfield’s team were as delightful as its course, from the m...
Can there be anything better in our great sport than a beautiful day on a championship links?The opening round of our two-week 2021 summer holiday was on the Northumberla...
What happened next? One of Question of Sport’s most famous captains and rugby union legend Sir Bill Beaumont began chatting to me on the driving range of his home course....
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