Do you know your Fulford from your Fulford Heath from your Frilford Heath? Or your Libbaton from your Liberton, St Mellion from St Mellons or Dooks from Dukes?
These, along with many others, are examples of UK&I golf clubs with similar-sounding names that could trip up the unsuspecting golfer. But does it really happen?
Not often, of course, but someone once told me of a mutual acquaintance who turned up for a golf day at the wrong, similar-sounding club 100 miles away, thus missing out on all the fun.
And back in 1937, the great Walter Hagen rolled into town for an exhibition match with Australian Joe Kirkwood on an island off the west coast of Scotland… but it was the wrong island!
The course they had been recommended by Tommy Armour was The Machrie on Islay; instead, Hagen and Kirkwood, for reasons undisclosed, showed up on Arran at the delightful, but somewhat more
