You have to hand it to Augusta with their old-fashioned Bobby Jones values of integrity, respect and responsibility. They held their Masters in November 2020 their way, a safe way, in the midst of a global pandemic, just as their founder would have wanted them to. It...
I was lucky enough to have had the honour and pleasure of working for the BBC on the British Open where Peter was, as always, the Commander in Chief over all the other commentators. I was young at the time and had just given up playing on the European Tour and had...
I went to visit him before Christmas in Richmond Hospital – he told me it was not good. That was it. We spent the next couple of hours talking about the times we had spent together since we first met at the Munster Boys Golf Championship in Limerick back in 1967. I...
My first memories of Portrush were as a ten-year-old being driven by Sutton’s gentle giant Captain, Alex McNulty with my mother and brother Joe. D to watch my father play the final of the British Amateur Championship in 1960. My father told my mother privately before...
It is so good to see the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open going to one of Ireland’s great old golf courses that has been part of folklore in Ireland over the years. It’s a classic old links course on high dunes land by the Atlantic Ocean with its own quirky personality that...
