Written by Kevin Brown on Monday 12 August 2013
Thirteen-year-old Harry Fricker made history on Sunday as he became the youngest-ever winner of Suffolk’s Ufford Park Club Championship. Harry, who had to hole a 15-foot par putt to force a playoff, birdied the first extra hole to beat 17-year-old Joshua Robertson after two rounds of 79. Victory for the five handicapper also ended Joshua’s hopes of a third successive Championship; a...
Written by Kevin Brown on Monday 12 August 2013
Popular London pay and play course Richmond Park is celebrating its 90th anniversary year with a weekend of golfing activities on 17th & 18th August, including an irresistible ‘Round for a Pound’ offer. The 36-hole venue was opened in 1923 by HRH Prince of Wales and heralded a place where ‘artisans and royalty are equally welcome’. Ninety years later and the facilities...
Written by Kevin Brown on Friday 9 August 2013
The 2013 Westminster Wealth Golf Championship is taking place at Stoke Park Club in Buckinghamshire on September 3rd – and is free to enter for City Professionals, CEO’s, Managing Directors, Lawyers, Bankers, Brokers, Fund Managers and others employed in the financial and corporate sectors. This amazing complimentary golf day includes: morning refreshments, Fourball Betterball (Pairs) competition played over 18 holes, dinner,...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday 8 August 2013
Jodie Kidd will be bringing a touch of style and glamour to Brocket Hall Golf Club after agreeing to become the new ambassador for the historic venue’s ladies section. A self-confessed golf nut, the former supermodel has swapped the catwalk for the fairways and will be at the forefront of the future development of ladies and junior girls’ golf at the...
Written by Kevin Brown on Wednesday 7 August 2013
We check out the 2-FORE!-1 highlights of Fife and East Lothian in Scotland where you’re assured magical and memorable golfing experiences – without having to break the bank, specially if you tee it up thanks to 2-FORE!-1. *Musselburgh Old Links, East Lothian – Nine-hole courses are not everybody’s cup of tee but this one is well worth playing and adding to your...
Written by Kevin Brown on Tuesday 6 August 2013
Looking to improve your golf game and skills? Then you might want to check out the new Residential Golf Schools at leading North Yorkshire venue Rudding Park. The resort, just outside Harrogate, has just started golf tuition breaks and they’re already proving a big hit and a winner with all those have participated and taken full advantage of the top coaching...
Written by 2-Fore!-1 on Tuesday 6 August 2013
2-Fore!-1 isn’t just bringing you half price golf at almost 1,000 courses across the UK and Ireland with vouchers starting at only £3.50, we are also bringing you the opportunity to get your hands on a custom set of PING clubs. One lucky 2-Fore!-1 customer who buys 6 or more 2-Fore!-1 vouchers in August will win the ultimate experience of a...
Written by Kevin Brown on Tuesday 6 August 2013
Golf’s most prestigious team trophy, the Ryder Cup, will be in Essex next Monday (Aug 12) when it visits Channels Golf Club, in Little Waltham, Chelmsford. The trophy, which dates back to the very first contest between the USA and Great Britain in 1927 at Worcester Country Club, Massachusetts, will be on display for the president’s pro-am competition and visitors to...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Tuesday 6 August 2013
We have teamed up with the five star Luton Hoo Hotel to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a luxury golf package for two. The prize includes 36 holes of golf per person, dinner in the relaxed informality of the Adam’s Brasserie, accommodation in a Parkland or Flower Garden Deluxe room with complimentary newspaper, traditional English Breakfast and residential...
Written by Kevin Brown on Monday 5 August 2013
The presence of rare protected newts at Ramside Hall Hotel and Golf Club in County Durham has not stopped progress at its new £15m golf, hotel and leisure development planned to open in 2014. Parent company Ramside Estates Ltd, owners of three distinctive country hotels in County Durham, is currently building the only new golf course under construction in Northern England...
Written by Kevin Brown on Monday 5 August 2013
More great venues which provide a memorable round of 2-FORE!-1 golf. Get out there this weekend and enjoy the sunshine (hopefully!) with our 2-Fore!-1 scheme. Buy your vouchers now. *Gleneagles (PGA Centenary course), Perthshire, Scotland – The PGA Centenary will stage the first Ryder Cup in Scotland in 2014 and will almost certainly produce another memorable encounter. But the layout will have...
Written by Kevin Brown on Friday 2 August 2013
A Clydebank golfer invoked the memory of his late brother to score a hole-in-one during a recent competition at his club, receiving a limited-edition BOSS watch for his feat. Alex Hopkins, 55, scored his ace on the 240-yard, par-three 14th at his club, Dalmuir Municipal, and the 13-handicapper was rewarded with membership of the exclusive BOSS Watches H1 Club and a...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday 1 August 2013
There is still plenty of the 2013 golfing season left and some great bargains and golf to be had and enjoyed. These six belting 2-FORE!-1 venues will deliver the goods on all counts. *Okehampton, Devon – Classy layout with great greens set out as a J.H. Taylor nine holer in 1913 but became a ‘full’ course a decade later. Plotted on...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday 1 August 2013
With the introduction of several innovative golf-themed bar games, De Vere’s dynamic Après Golf promotion will challenge the archetypical clubhouse offering. With a roulette-wheel to decide the exclusive food and drink offers also available in the bar from 6.30pm (Sund-Thurs) De Vere is encouraging golfers to join in the fun at any of their 12 UK resorts, including world-class facilities such...