If you’re serious about golf then having a comfortable, quality set of clubs to play with is an absolute must. There are choices in the marketplace to suit every budget; irons make up the vast majority of many golfers’ bags, but what areas other than price should you consider when looking to buy new golf clubs?
With winter around the corner and the nights drawing in, it’s hard to overcome the golfing blues, especially when the golf courses are so wet, windy and closed by the time you finish work.
There are many symptoms to the golfing blues, the need to hold a club in your hands and practice your swing indoors, the need to clean your clubs to make them all spick and span for the next round, the need to watch re-runs of all the Golf Opens and of course evaluating your own game records in order to perfect your next round.
Golf is one of those rare sports that require you to spend a good few hours in the fresh air, come rain or shine, disregarding the elements and being at one with nature, and of course fitness plays a key part here too. The challenges of beating your opponent, or playing your best round yet are just too much for some but sometimes getting an opportunity to play during the forthcoming Autumn months proves difficult as weather conditions don’t always permit a decent round due to conditions of the course. Sadly for some, wet conditions and poor drainage spells the end of the golfing season until the more clement weather conditions of early Spring.
Many people find that eighteen holes of golf is the perfect antidote to a stressful and packed work day, or just a great excuse to get out in the refreshing open air for a few hours, enjoying the company of a couple of friends or colleagues. And once the golf is concluded, there is also the opportunity to further unwind at the nineteenth hole in the clubhouse.
Women’s golf is extremely popular in the UK, illustrated by the fact that there are over 220,000 registered members of the 115-year-old Ladies’ Golf Union.
Formed in 1893, the Ladies’ Golf Union (LGU) is the overall governing body for all ladies amateur golf played throughout Great Britain and Ireland. An amalgamation of all the separate ladies’ national unions from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, it also incorporates the ladies’ section from around 2,750 registered golf clubs throughout the UK.
Scotland is the home of many things – whisky, tartan and shortbread to name a few – but it is perhaps the Scots’ contribution to the world of sport that has had the biggest affect on the world.
From 1456, when the first recorded game of golf (for which records survive) took place at Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh, Scotland has been seen the world over as the main destination for golfing holidays. While St Andrews has become the focus point for the game for many years, with the Old Course being seen as the mecca for golfers, Aberdeen is soon to be in the limelight now that Donald Trump’s billion pound proposal has been granted permission from the Scottish government.