Bernard Darwin, the soldier, from his April 1916 column in Golf Illustrated entitled “Our Foreign Letter” and written from the military base at Aldershot during the Great War.
06.08.2025 14:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Breaking news: My third work of narrative golf history — Matchless — is now available for pre-order. It’s available everywhere on Amazon, but I prefer you order in the U.S. from Barnes and Noble online or in the U.K. from bookshop.org, as I am a big fan of bookstores.
22.07.2025 10:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Back to my favorite pastime — rummaging through wartime issues of Golf Illustrated in preparation for writing an article for @thelinksdiary — when what should I stumble across but a full page print of one of my heroes, John Henry Taylor, golf’s Indispensable Man!
15.07.2025 15:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s a faded old photo — but still a treasure. My father, my son and me playing farm golf at Wittsend. I miss my dad terribly, but am proud to see that my son has become a wonderful father himself. Happy Father’s Day everyone!
15.06.2025 11:34 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chris was a truly wonderful guest.
07.06.2025 15:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here’s mad. An actual phone call from my boss days after a blizzard covered our region in 2 feet of snow: “Hey I found a place to play” Where? “Virginia Beach.” That’s 4 hours drive one way! “I know. I’ll pick you up at six, we tee off at 11, you’ll be kissing your wife at 9!”
01.06.2025 14:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quotable: Wyatt Earp on his friend Doc Holliday.
24.05.2025 14:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What a way to wake up — finding a gift of two sporty flat caps from my pal @JimHHartsell — the Bard of Western Scotland!
01.05.2025 12:38 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quotable: Prescient words from the great Jimmy Demaret in Charles Price’s Golfer-at-Large, up next on The Duffer’s Literary Companion.
29.04.2025 16:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Announcement: The release of the next episode of The Duffer’s Literary Companion is being delayed a week — until Friday May 9 — as @JimHHartsell has been traveling in Scotland and I’ve been hosting pals from The Sun. Charles Price will be worth waiting for, I promise.
28.04.2025 10:11 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I’m preparing to host old golf pals from The Baltimore Sun. One was the photo editor, and thus a sly dog with technology. He just sent this photoshopped image, which I could not resist sharing. 😂
09.04.2025 16:43 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bravo Sandra!!
22.03.2025 19:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Teacher of The Great Glenna.
18.03.2025 14:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Isn’t that always so! A third of the way through, Kidnapped now. What a thrill ride!
11.03.2025 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Indeed it is a shame!
09.03.2025 19:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One more wee wander down the rabbit hole and I will have experienced the bulk of this man’s literary genius. One thing is certain even before I begin. A new name has been added to the list of my favorite writers. ✍️
09.03.2025 15:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
This one was a ton of fun!
08.03.2025 19:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The complete absence of having to search for your ball. 👌
25.02.2025 21:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And further down the rabbit hole I go . . .
24.02.2025 16:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I see golf in your future!
22.02.2025 12:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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20.02.2025 16:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My editor at Birlinn has now read Matchless, and I’ve addressed his queries, so it’s on to publication later this year. Fun facts: Only one golfer — John Ball Jr — has won more Amateurs than Glenna Collett. Joyce Wethered played 166 matches lifetime and won 152 of them. 🤯
20.02.2025 13:02 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’m a bit down the rabbit hole on Mr Stevenson, I freely admit, but I’ve come to realize that the most brilliant thing he’s ever done might well be thus children’s classic.
16.02.2025 20:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I love the way The Fried Egg and others are reinventing golf media, so I always enjoy a chance to join in their conversation. Give this a listen.
11.02.2025 16:22 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Tom was a great interview and we are grateful to him for joining us on the podcast. Stay tuned!
11.02.2025 12:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Writer. Latest Book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024). Teach 19thc Lit & Culture at Uni of St Andrews. Writing for a greener world.
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Freelance thinker from the West of Scotland.
Golf. Arkansas football nihilism. Cutco knives.
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Michael Green.
Golf writer, blogger, founder of Teepster Golf.
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Fanatical Golfer. Editor of http://golfblogger.com, the net's oldest independent golf blog. Est. 2004. member, Golf Writers Assn of America. Playing tabletop games when I'm not playing golf.
