Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday, 3 July 2014
After defending champion Andy Murray’s dramatic quarter-final defeat at Wimbledon, it’s a case of ‘new balls, please’ at Foxhills. You can swop those tennis balls for golf balls this summer and join the Surrey-based club for the Sizzling Summer Golf package and enjoy the resort’s two outstanding championship courses – the Longcross and the Bernard Hunt – for just £95pp. The Sizzling...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday, 3 July 2014
Sussex is a great golfing county with many outstanding coastal and inland layouts. Fortunately many belong to 2-FORE!-1 Golf and here are just some of the very best on offer… *Royal Ashdown Forest (West course) – Sits in the shadows of the majestic Old Course but is a classy heathland layout in its own right. The West started out as a...
Written by Kevin Brown on Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Slovakia-based English course architect Jonathan Davison, who has worked on courses in Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic, has been appointed by development firm Cameron Hall to design the golf course at Woolsington Hall outside Newcastle. Last year Davison opened the Heritage course at the Penati resort in Slovakia, his first design in his own name. The course has been widely...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday, 26 June 2014
More magical 2-FORE!-1 Golf gems where you and your best golfing buddy can experience a memorable golfing occasion and pay for only a single green fee! This week’s 2-FORE!-1 stars include a quality Cheshire venue, an outstanding pay-and-play track and an Irish cracker. *Okehampton, Devon – Classy parkland with great greens set out as a J.H. Taylor nine holer in 1913...
Written by Kevin Brown on Friday, 20 June 2014
Former world darts champion Bob Anderson (pictured) has joined the ranks of amateur golfers who have received a limited-edition BOSS watch in recognition for scoring a hole-in-one during a recent club competition. Anderson, 66, who was known in his pomp as the Limestone Cowboy, scored his ace on the 129-yard, par-three 14th at the Bristol GC, and the seven-handicapper, who lives...
Written by Kevin Brown on Wednesday, 18 June 2014
Top Co. Durham venue Ramside Hall Hotel and Golf Club will open England’s newest championship course next month. The new course is called the Ramside ‘Cathedral Course’ and is named in honour of nearby Durham Cathedral – a UNESCO World Heritage Site – which is clearly visible from hole three, the stretch between the eighth and the 11th and again when...
Written by Kevin Brown on Monday, 16 June 2014
This week’s pick of the 2-FORE!-1 crop are all outstanding inland layouts, including a classy Alister Mackenzie layout in the north east and an impressive Braid municipal track a short drive from the world-famous Scottish links of Turnberry. *Dorset G&CC (pictured), Dorset – Home of 27 holes of quality golf in the form of Lakeland, Woodland and Parkland nines, the latter...
Written by Kevin Brown on Monday, 16 June 2014
The Lady Taverners will be hosting their annual Charity Golf Open Day at Bedfordshire’s impressive Luton Hoo Hotel, Golf & Spa (pictured) venue on Thursday 3rd July. The Lady Taverners focuses on fundraising for specially adapted minibuses and sport, and recreation facilities for young people with special needs. From 8.00am competitors will be welcomed with tea, coffee and delicious bacon rolls, before...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday, 12 June 2014
It will almost certainly be your toughest – and most rewarding – golfing experience of this and, to be honest, any other year. Covering 72 holes, 20 miles and 300 shots in one day, the Longest Day Golf Challenge is the ultimate test for all golfers. Macmillan Cancer Support and partners adidas Golf are calling on golfers of all ages and...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday, 12 June 2014
To celebrate a summer of football and the start of the World Cup in Brazil, Leeds Golf Centre has launched a Footgolf course, the first of its kind in West Yorkshire. The part-golf, part-football phenomenon has been set up on the Par 3 Oaks Course, adapting the course to feature bespoke astro-turf tees and greens to create six challenging par 3...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday, 12 June 2014
De Vere’s fantastic £20.14 green fee special offer has been extended from June 15th until June 30th. To celebrate De Vere Ambassador Colin Montgomerie claiming his maiden major title at the recent US Senior PGA Championship, De Vere Golf decided to charge golfers just £20.14 golfers to tee it up at any of the nine premier golf resorts within the De...
Written by Kevin Brown on Monday, 9 June 2014
Hertfordshire, handily located just outside the many attractions and bright lights of London, boasts some of the best courses in the south and fortunately many of them belong to 2-FORE!-1 Golf. They include a World Golf Championship venue, the oldest layout in the county and the only course in England desgned by the late, great Seve Ballesteros. *The Grove (pictured) –...
Written by Kevin Brown on Monday, 9 June 2014
The Vale Resort is gearing up to welcome some of the greatest names in golf as official associate hotel of the Senior Open Championship – presented by Rolex – which takes place from July 24 to 27. A host of golfing icons including Ryder Cup stars and Major winners will be staying at the luxury South Wales resort for the duration...
Written by Kevin Brown on Friday, 6 June 2014
To celebrate De Vere Ambassador Colin Montgomerie claiming his maiden major title at the recent US Senior PGA Championship, De Vere Golf is offering golfers a cracking green fee deal. For just £20.14 golfers across the UK can play at any of the nine premier golf resorts within the De Vere Hotels & Resorts portfolio, from The Carrick on Loch Lomond,...
Written by Kevin Brown on Friday, 6 June 2014
Norfolk boasts some of the best courses in the country and De Vere Dunston Hall is a great base to experience them. It’s handily located on the outskirts of East Anglian capital Norwich and the grand Victorian mansion hotel provides excellent accommodation, dining options and facilities including, of course, a wonderful, fast maturing parkland golf course. The course was in excellent...
Written by Kevin Brown on Friday, 6 June 2014
Legendary Scotland resort Gleneagles is celebrating its 90th anniversary today. And staff at the luxury Perthshire hotel marked the occasion by channelling the glamour of the 1920s (pictured), when Gleneagles first opened its doors to high society on June 6th, 1924. It’s a huge year for the resort which of course stages the Ryder Cup which will be contested by Europe and...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday, 5 June 2014
Geoff Swain, the reigning World Golf Trick-Shot Champion, will perform his award winning ‘Golf Unplugged’ trick-shot show at the UK’s newest golf festival in July. Swain (pictured) will entertain competitors at the Thorpeness Festival of Golf, Britain’s newest golf festival, from July 28-31 at Thorpeness Hotel and Golf Club, Suffolk. A PGA qualified Golf Professional from Bedford, Swain combines rare levels of...
Written by Kevin Brown on Wednesday, 4 June 2014
This week’s pick of the 2-FORE!-1 Golf crop ranges from Saltash just outside Plymouth to the northern outpost of southern Scotland with a quartet of cracking 2-FORE!-1 courses in between… *Oulton Hall (pictured), West Yorks – Classy De Vere venue offering 27 holes of quality parkland golf in the form of the Calverley layout which boasts a decent variety of holes and...
Written by Kevin Brown on Wednesday, 4 June 2014
The county of Norfolk boasts some of the best courses in England and a great way of experiencing them is the top value North West Norfolk Golf Tour. The NWNGT is available for parties of two to 40 golfers and centres around Heacham Manor, the only on-course hotel in this outstanding neck of the golfing woods. Heacham Manor is handily located just...
Written by Kevin Brown on Friday, 30 May 2014
Colin Montgomerie is still on cloud nine after claiming his maiden major championship with a four stroke victory at the US Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores, Michigan. After a glittering career in which he topped the European Order of Merit eight times, Monty claimed the one prize that had so far eluded him, a major championship, after a stunning final...