
My Golfing Year
Writing as I do about courses for Golf Monthly in print and on the website, many assume that I am out playing Top 100 courses all day every day. They're wrong, of course... there are some days when I don’t play any golf at all! Also, I do need to sit down from time to time in order to write. And far from playing only the finest courses, I delight in visiting and experiencing designs of every style, shape and magnitude. An odd confession, but sometimes I think I love golf courses - their design and setting - more than the game itself. And whereas my wife will tell you I am a grumpy old man with a glass-half-empty attitude to life, when it comes to courses, I see only the best in them and enjoy each for its own unique characteristics. This, then, is how my 2024 golfing year unfolded.