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We're two sisters from Northern Ireland who learned the game in Portstewart and Portrush, arguably the centre of the golfing universe in this era of McIlroy, Clarke and McDowell. We've earned our living from golf, travelling far and wide playing, writing, commentating, coaching and making friends. This blog is our way of continuing the chat and the craic.
Madill Golf
5h ago
That’s the first full Masters tournament I’ve been involved with since Tiger’s win in 2019 – I only managed the weekend last year so it was joyous to be back for the whole nine yards. Actually, I learned the origin of that expression *the whole nine yards” from Sirius XM Director Jeremy Davis this week. [...]
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Madill Golf
5h ago
The other week a friend was pondering what advice she should give her grandchildren to help them navigate their way through life, an area way beyond my area of expertise. I suspect that drink had been taken because I’m not even sure that one of the children is in double figures, so who knows what [...]
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Madill Golf
1w ago
Great is a word that’s bandied about far too much, especially when it comes to sport. Admittedly, performances can be great even when the person or people doing the performing have yet to achieve greatness – or may never achieve it, unless you downgrade the meaning to “very good” or “nearly great” or something similar. [...]
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Madill Golf
2w ago
In ten days’ time we’ll know who is having to make room in the wardrobe for a jacket of a particular shade of green and we’ll no doubt be oohing and aahing over the towering tee shots, the laser-like irons, the deft chips and the nerveless putting of the latest Masters champion. I’d like it [...]
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Madill Golf
2w ago
For once, the blog is starting with a vaguely serious golfing topic – although admittedly there will be those who say that there’s nothing remotely serious about golf. However, at the highest level it is biggish business, with quite a lot of noughts at the end of the numbers. Probably not as big as Elon [...]
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Madill Golf
3w ago
“Let the train take the strain” is an advertising slogan from a wee while back and it’s one that has remained lodged in my brain even though I’ve never been a prolific train user. I am, however, finding that the purchase of a senior railcard has been one of my smarter moves recently and after [...]
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Madill Golf
3w ago
First of all, a bit of a disclaimer, in an attempt to prevent the non-golfers from running off somewhere else without giving me a chance to persuade you that the WHS (world handicap system) is something worth knowing about and can, in the right hands, be really, REALLY interesting. That’s a lie of course. Even [...]
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Madill Golf
1M ago
Inspiration for this week’s blog has been rather thin on the ground, I’m afraid. Patricia, who is rather good at coming up with topics for me, has failed to light any sort of touchpaper, blue or otherwise, and I once again find myself being very thankful that writing was not how I had to earn [...]
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Madill Golf
1M ago
Where on earth does a week go? Hurtling into the abyss, leaving us with barely time to think. Ireland were back to winning ways against Scotland after the hurt of Twickenham, England lost narrowly to France in lovely Lyon and Wales, woeful but ever hopeful, lost at home to Italy. I didn’t dare ask any [...]
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Madill Golf
1M ago
I was looking forward to a record-breaking and record-equalling sporting bonanza last weekend, but, as is inevitably the way with sport, things didn’t quite pan out as I had hoped. First on the menu was the Six Nations rugby which I have loved all my life – right from the time it was just the [...]
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