TAKE CARE OF OUR GOLF COURSES…PLEASE?

Three clubs host Golf Leisure Breaks’ regular stableford com­pe­ti­tions; Sta. Maria (Mondays), El Chapar­ral (Wednes­days)  and Ca­lano­va (Fri­days). All three, and no doubt many oth­er of our local clubs, have gone to great lengths to present their cours­es in im­mac­culate con­di­tion. So im­agine how dis­ap­point­ing it must be to them, and to re­spon­sible golf­ers, to find greens pock-marked with un­re­paired pitch marks and bun­kers ru­in­ed with deep footprints. This de­spite the fact that most clubs pro­vide golf­ers with free pitch mark re­pairers and all bunkers have at least one rake. It takes just a few seconds for a player to re­pair a pitch mark, but many days for na­ture to do the job. So-called “golf­ers” who wreak this kind of hav­oc on a golf course are not dis­playing an ig­no­rance of golf et­i­quette; they are showing that they have a com­plete disregard for the wellbeing of anyone other than them­selves.  Golf can do without them.

EU­ROPEAN TO WIN AT TURN­BER­RY?

Pa­draig Harrington has twice prov­en that The Open is no long­er the pre­serve of Americans. His back-to-back wins could well be the start of a long run of non-U.S. cham­pi­ons, with a European Tour member likely to come out on top on Sun­day. My tip is Sergio Gar­cia, with Lee West­wood a close sec­ond.

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