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- Mar 1
- 3 min
BJP Interview with Hannah Burke
Hi Everyone, It certainly looks good for us to return to golf at the end of March and let us hope for only weather interruptions for the rest of this year and beyond. Lockdown has been tough for all of us, none more so than the players on the Ladies European Tour who had a truncated season in 2020 along with uncertainty as to whether the Tour would survive. Well, good news came last week with the announcement that a partnership with the LPGA had been finalised. The players ca
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Barney
- Feb 11
- 3 min
Lockdown Feb 2021 Newsletter
Hi Everyone, Looking out from my kitchen today it feels as if I am inside a snow globe. For those of you who do not remember this mainly Christmas ornament, when you shook it, you were treated to a snowy scene and back in the day this passed for entertainment! I have to say I am very glad TV viewing has moved on and I have been watching the rise and rise of World Number 1, Dustin Johnson. Since August when he won the Northern Trust event by an eyebrow raising 11 shots and bec
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Barney
- Sep 1, 2020
- 3 min
Barney's September 2020 Newsletter
Hi Everyone, For me July and August have passed by so quickly with my diary brimming with golf swings in need of a spot of fine tuning and something I didn't think I would be saying this year, some golf trips. The weather has certainly been interesting with record high temperatures, some high winds and then a Bank Holiday weekend which had me rummaging around for my woolly hat! With David Short Golf I have been to the well appointed Belton Woods in Grantham to deliver three
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Barney
- Jun 23, 2020
- 4 min
Barney's June 2020 Newsletter
Hi Everyone, Certainly levels of optimism in golf are completely different as we approach July than they were at the beginning of April. The pandemic had taken hold of the country and our economic future in golf and all areas looked bleak. Although I would be one of many saying as a society we must be careful, certainly there is some light at the end of the tunnel and it isn't a train! During our cautious return from lock down a curious phenomenon has taken place in golf an
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Barney
- Apr 2, 2020
- 3 min
Barney's April 2020 Newsletter
Hi Everyone, To say how things have changed for everyone in the last few weeks would be a slight understatement. For all sporting folk this is a hugely frustrating time, however we can see by following the government guidelines, we will take the pressure off the NHS and hopefully come through the virus. The only debate in golf is how the schedule will look when we are allowed back on the courses. Clearly for the Professional Tours regular flights will need to be in place an
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Barney
- Feb 17, 2020
- 3 min
Barney's February 2020 Newsletter
Hi Everyone, I thought I would put off my first Newsletter of the year until regular golf was on the menu in the UK. However, it looks like we are going to have to wait for our regular fix as the weather continues to disrupt play everywhere. We must count ourselves fortunate in our part of the world as at least some play has been possible, unlike parts of the Midlands and the North where regular closures have been ongoing since November. The Professional Tours have no real
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Barney
- Dec 19, 2019
- 2 min
Barney's Christmas 2019 Newsletter
Hi Everyone, Welcome to my last newsletter of the year, which has had some incredible sport played with golf, cricket, rugby and athletics to the fore. I have really enjoyed this year as I have met some great people and visited some super venues. My particular favourites were Biarritz, Perthshire and our recent trip to Mauritius which exceeded expectations in food, weather, golf and horse racing. With my own coaching I have been fortunate to work with some fabulous new stud
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Barney
- Sep 7, 2019
- 3 min
Barney's September 2019 Newsletter
Hi Everyone, All in all a good summer I feel this year. On a recent David Short Golf trip that my wife Jennie and I were hosting in Scotland, we had a first (certainly in my lifetime) of seven days wall to wall sunshine, which is unheard of north of the border! We played the wonderful Blairgowrie courses, which if you ever find yourself up there are well worth visiting along with Pitlochry and Creiff. The welcome we received was terrific and we had a member assigned to our
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Barney
- Jun 10, 2019
- 3 min
Barney's June 2019 Newsletter
Hi Everyone, Finally the green keepers prayers have been answered and this week looks great for giving our golf courses a good soaking. Everywhere I have been that does not have fairway watering, has been suffering, so allied to some nice heat next week we will have some nice growth. I have been fortunate with plenty of coaching opportunities and a couple of playing ones too. With some friends we played the excellent Burnham and Berrow near Bristol. A classic links test
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Barney
- May 13, 2019
- 3 min
Barney's May 2019 Newsletter
Hi Everyone, The recent welcome rain, and the projected warmer weather over the coming weeks will really help the golf course recover to their best. It’s been a tough start for our hard working greenkeepers, what with the grass enduring last year’s long hot summer, followed by a cold dry winter and early Spring. The prospect of anything growing was as likely as growth on the top of my head ! For the first time in the golfing calendar , we have a major in May with the PGA Cham
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Barney
- Apr 9, 2019
- 3 min
Barney's April 2019 Newsletter
Hi Everyone, Clocks have sprung forwards and officially summer time is here (with predictable cooler temperatures and for the golfing world the unofficial start to the season begins with this weeks Masters. The powers that be there are steadily turning The Masters into a festival of golf. A few years ago they brought in the great idea of Drive, Chip and Putt tournament for various age groups of boys and girls from age 7 upwards. There are regional heats and the winners head
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Barney
- Apr 9, 2019
- 3 min
Barney's March 2019 Newsletter
Hi Everyone, Whilst the new rule changes haven't eliminated Brexit as a topic of conversation and debate, they have made a pretty good fist of it! For most of us the new caddy rules don't affect us, however the rules faux pas with this on the Professional Tours have been big talking points. The ruling says "The Players caddy must not deliberately stand in a location on or close to an extension of the line of play, behind the ball for any reason", if they do it is a penalty.
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Barney
- Jan 28, 2019
- 3 min
Barney's January 2019 Newsletter
Hi Everyone, My wife Jennie and I had a wonderful festive break with our friends at David Short Golf. On Xmas day I decided to have a photo of myself on the most photographed hole in Europe, the 17th on the Royal Course at Vale do Lobo. We are now on our annual visit to Florida and flying here as snow is falling at home still brings a childlike joy to me, which agreed it shouldn't! In the news recently there has been a lot of activity in Parliament and a bit of chit chat arou
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Barney
- Dec 20, 2018
- 3 min
Barney's Xmas 2018 Newsletter
Hi Everyone, The year is drawing swiftly to a close and 2018 has been another excellent year of golf. So many highlights to look back on with my favourites being Georgia Hall's terrific win in the Ladies Open at Lytham and Europe's stress free Ryder Cup win and the joyful pairing of Tommy & Francesco aka Moliwood! The current World Number 1 (although this accolade is a bit of a revolving door at the moment), Brooks Koepka performed the amazing feat of winning 2 Majors in the
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Barney
- Nov 27, 2018
- 4 min
Barney's November Newsletter
Hi Everyone, November is doing what it's supposed to do and offering us grey, short days, so roll on Christmas I say. Although time for our golf in the UK is curtailed, the professional tours are still in full swing and the European Tour started its 2019 season last week! It has been the month of the comeback with the first wins for five years for forty somethings Lee Westwood and Matt Kucher. The "Kuch" as he is affectionately known, along with what sounds like booing from
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Barney
- Sep 7, 2018
- 5 min
Barney's September Newsletter
Hi Everyone, Finally the Ryder Cup is hoving into view and Captain Thomas Bjorn has made his picks to make up the Team of 12. He certainly opted for experience, the quartet of Casey, Poulter, Stenson & Garcia have played 20 Ryder Cup matches between them and the Captain felt for the balance of the team this battle hardened foursome would blend perfectly with the rookies. I have to say it is tough on Cabrera Bello and Matt Wallace with the latter winning three events this ye
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