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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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