Many years ago, veteran New York Times columnist and occasional golf partner Dave Anderson told me he kept a list of all the courses he had played, so that one day he could think back on all the ways he had lucked into golf games in his life. So I began making my list, and it's up to 330 now, and of them a
ll, I had always ranked Augusta National as the prettiest, Northern Ireland's Royal County Down as my favourite, and Pebble Beach and Australia's New South Wales and Scotland's Kingsbarns as the most spectacularly situated. The most difficult? It's golf. They're all difficult. Then came 16 days in Ireland, in late June and early July, and revisions to the list were in order, on all fronts. With Tim Campbell of the Winnipeg Free Press as my navigator and our significant others along to make sure we didn't play every single day, we pretty much circumnavigated the island in a rented van, counter-clockwise, from Dublin -- and eight memorable golf courses and nine great hotels and dozens of fabulous pubs and restaurants and warm Irish encounters later, we agreed it had been the time of our lives.
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ll, I had always ranked Augusta National as the prettiest, Northern Ireland's Royal County Down as my favourite, and Pebble Beach and Australia's New South Wales and Scotland's Kingsbarns as the most spectacularly situated. The most difficult? It's golf. They're all difficult. Then came 16 days in Ireland, in late June and early July, and revisions to the list were in order, on all fronts. With Tim Campbell of the Winnipeg Free Press as my navigator and our significant others along to make sure we didn't play every single day, we pretty much circumnavigated the island in a rented van, counter-clockwise, from Dublin -- and eight memorable golf courses and nine great hotels and dozens of fabulous pubs and restaurants and warm Irish encounters later, we agreed it had been the time of our lives.For further : http://www.vancouversun.com/Nothing+like+time+Irish+links/1884038/story.html
