A long awaited local golf club I first went to in July 2021 was the sublime Nottinghamshire Golf & Country Club where I reviewed the Championship Course and back then, which you can read in full here, I stated I would be returning, but this time most likely, to play at the Signature Course, so…
I’m not denying I’m a fair-weather golfer. I played once in December and scrapped January off completely, a couple of pleasantly dry days in Feb meant I dusted off the clubs again but after the rain I wasn’t prepared to get my feet wet, or muddy… It’s not me… Give me sunshine and hard ground,…
It’s been a while I know… Every so often I’ve been hacking around at my local course at Edwalton, trying to find my balls in the leaves fallen from the trees, but post October I admit I rarely get out, too cold, too wet, too muddy, too dark, too damn hard to find my balls…
At 48 years young, Worksop born golfer Lee Westwood will appear in a record equalling eleventh Ryder Cup this weekend, matching the feat of fellow Englishman Sir Nick Faldo in becoming only the second European player ever to reach the milestone. After missing out in 2018 when Europe regained the trophy in Paris to win…
I have always wanted to play here, a long-term listener to those that have walked the course and who always seem to swear by it, I trudged the Grantham Canal path with wife and dog, taking a look over the hedge on my midweek hike to see what looked a place in extremely good nick,…
Quintessentially English golf (a Scottish founded sport of course) is something to behold. Nothing better than making your way into a proper old golf club to see a stunning manor house or stately styled home which is still used as the clubhouse. Beeston Fields is in the heart of the city, a stone’s throw from…
Following last months borderline crossing to play the fabulous Morley Hayes Golf Club in Derbyshire (which you can read all about here), we are back in blighty for this month’s review as I fine tune one of Nottinghamshire’s most popular venues and one I myself have not been to for quite a few years. I…
Since I last reviewed a local course in November of 2020 (which you can find here), we UK citizens endured some of the most restrictive enforcements imposed in a lifetime. No pubs, No shops, No golf. The wife wasn’t so happy with the middle one, whilst I had already resigned myself to drinking at home…
Lee Westwood came agonisingly close to winning what would have been his most lucrative tour win yet, as the Nottinghamshire golfer who lead going into the final round of the Players Championship at Sawgrass yesterday, was finally pipped at the post by the American Justin Thomas. Worksop golfer Westwood was 13 under par, a shot…
Woksop’s own Lee Westwood has ended 2020 as European Number one after winning the race to Dubai ahead of Matthew Fitzpatrick who actually won the DP World Tour Championship in the United Arab Emirates, the last competition of the season, yesterday. The Notts born golfer needed to finish in the top two to take the…
At 12:33 tomorrow afternoon (GMT), Lee Westwood after two years absence will make his 19th start at arguably the greatest golf tournament of them all, the Masters. Now aged 47 years old, having first played in 1997 and having had six top ten finishes and twice being runner-up since, he goes into Thursday’s first round…
My dad never liked playing Mapperley… “Too hilly” for him… Lee Westwood ‘apparently’ said ‘It’s one of the hardest courses he’s ever played’… My uncle Rick always liked it though, my mate Coops too… Both decent single handicap golfers… They say if you can get round Mapperley level par, you can get round almost anywhere…
So what exercise or sport did you take up during lockdown? I started doing weights and stretches around the house and a bit of jogging within my five mile radius but it all felt like hard work for a forty-something year old who’s long past caring about six pack potential. I needed a competitive target…
Oakmere Park near Oxton is to host September’s Coca Cola PGA Assistants’ Championship. The resumption of the PGA’s national tournament schedule later this year will see Nottingham’s impressive Oakmere Park play host to the Coca Cola PGA Assistants’ Championship over three rounds in a strokeplay format. Beginning with a qualifying round on September 21st the…
As soon as the green light was switched back on to play golf this summer, courses across the county of Nottinghamshire have majestically gone about their business in setting up safe and attractive facilities for members and guests to enjoy. With many more people taking to the course in recent weeks the socially distant joy…
Wednesday was the first day of the Governments ‘relaxing’ of the lockdown rules in England and with it came unlimited outdoor activity for all (just as long as you keep your social distance) which also included the opening of Tennis and Golf Centres in the county. Nottinghamshire Golf Club at Hollinwell near Ravenshead was one…
Springwater Golf Course have proposed temporary new rules and advice for members & participants which can be helpful to anyone hoping to play golf in the county this weekend and beyond (or at least until told otherwise). The club have updated their members and visitors with some new safe and easy rules to follow as…
Lavished with greenery, bestowed with fresh air and away from the crowds it seems that one way of getting your sporting fix during these hard and quiet times might be to play golf? OK an elder persons sport true, we might be concerned that by not self-isolating we could be doing more harm than good…
Worksop born golfer Lee Westwood beat a World Class field to win the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship by two shots this weekend, a 25th European Tour Title for the 46 year old who has now astonishingly won on the tour in each of the last four different decades. Westwood, five under for the final day…
