I was due to spend the early hours of this Friday morning finalising another Stymied piece, but with a forecast promising rain for the days ahead, the lure of the sun peering in through my blinds was too much to bear. So my beloved hickories were retrieved from the shed, and a swift loop over J.F. Abercromby’s magnificent West Byfleet was completed, in a little under ninety glorious minutes. The word “SPECIAL”, stamped on my Archie Compston Approaching Mashie, doesn’t come close to describing it…
More to follow on that when time permits, but in lieu of a new post, here’s a share of a recent piece on Alistair Cooke and the Masters, published on the excellent Golf Today platform.
https://golftoday.co.uk/letter-to-america-alistair-cooke-and-the-masters/
And if you enjoy this, I highly recommend making time to listen to the great man himself, via the BBC iPlayer “Letter From America” archive. Golf is a poorer place without him…
Thanks for all three links, Richard - thoroughly enjoyed them all. The 1997 Letter is particularly poignant. I will not be "going" to Augusta this year either - thanks to whichever blinkered individuals effectively closed down BBC coverage. That most significant harbinger of spring is no more on terrestrial TV. And so it goes - never mind, it wouldn't be the same without my "old friend" Peter A.