Journal

The Links Effect - Royal Liverpool Golf Club Magazine, 2023-24

This piece was published in the Royal Liverpool Golf Club Magazine, 2023-24. You can view it online here.    How vanlife changed Sam's life. By Mark Gorton.  As Tiger Woods plotted his way a...

Clubs Do Travel, Don't They? - Links Diary No.4

Words by Kenny Pallas Photography by Graeme McCubbin   Have you ever felt the urge to pack everything in and just play golf instead? Whilst the last couple of years have given many of us time an...

019/225 - Dunnerholme Golf Club

I should have pulled over and checked there and then, but carried on to our overnight stop an hour up the coast. Well, better late than never - I did finally check and promptly turned the van aroun...

018/225 - Furness Golf Club

The southern Lake District isn't a typical links destination. Driving through the heavily industrial Barrow-in-Furness, we wondered if we might have taken a wrong turn. However, crossing the Jubile...

005/225 - West Lancashire Golf Club

The links itself is a stern test. Often overlooked in favour of its better known neighbours, West Lancs is a classy links. Rumpled land between the sea and a railway track - a tried and tested form...

004/225 - The Warren (Municipal) Golf Course

This 9 hole municipal course is undoubtedly a links, and therefore an oversight from Campbell and Peper's book 'True Links'. There are a few courses in their list I disagree with - both inclusions ...

003/225 - Wallasey Golf Club

The dunes at Wallasey are rare in England. Only courses like Saunton, Birkdale and a handful of other can boast of such grand golfing land. Under the expert hand of John McLoughlin and my colleague...

002/225 - Leasowe Golf Club

Leasowe Golf Club was formed in 1891, the first Captain being a gentlemen called John Ball Jr. This is not an insignificant fact, as at the time of the club's inauguration, he happened to be defend...

001/225 - Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake

I’ve been fortunate enough to call Royal Liverpool home for my whole life. From my first ever lessons with my father to grudge matches with my closest friends - I’m exceptionally lucky to have grow...

Chapter 1: My Heart's in the Highlands

And so, as I silenced my alarm as the first chime rang out, jumped out of bed and pulled on my new club-adorned quarter zip – I had a smile on my face heading out into the semi darkness of a Septem...