At the start of 2024 I was invited to my first Dorset County squad training session. On a wet and windy Sunday morning, with the course closed, we sat in the clubhouse and were asked to write down our golfing goals for 2024. My list was pretty comprehensive, at the top of it was: get down to scratch.
For as long as I can remember (probably since I got my first handicap) my golfing ambition has always been to achieve that elusive scratch handicap. In my thirty years of playing golf I’ve come tantalisingly close, getting to 0.6 whilst living in Surrey and playing for the county first team in my late twenties.
