In 20 years of covering golf, I’ve played at, and visited, some of the most incredible golf facilities and destinations: from Canada to Singapore and from European classics to modern masterpieces of the Middle East. My wife will confirm that I’ve been on quite a number of ‘investigatory’ trips. Sorry darling. I’m going to put my neck on the line and suggest that this September, I took the most surprising, most enjoyable and quite simply the best golfing trip of my career to date.
It had been a busy 2023 and I’d almost forgotten that I’d been booked in to join a press trip at the end of summer to visit Apes Hill and play the Ron Kirby renovated course there. But I was very pleasantly reminded of it when I received an email confirming a rather exciting looking itinerary, including some golf and an awful lot more. As the UK was in the last days of summer… “Woah, I was going to Barbados” (younger readers