There is nobody happier than ‘Pop’, as we called him, not to be around to celebrate his 100th birthday. He didn’t like growing old just as he didn’t like playing golf anymore after his heart attack at 52 took away the magical power in his huge hands that won him 40...
I remember it well, it was 2008. I had been asked by the then ILGU, (Irish Ladies Golf Union) to host a mentoring session for a group of aspiring girl amateur golfers when I was the promoter of the AIB Ladies Irish Open at Portmarnock Links. Among that group were the...
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...
