Category: Golf feature

• January 7, 2026

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  Reflections on a year in local journalism on the Manhood Peninsula in England

  By HILARY GAVIN IF YOU’RE following me on social media, you’ll know that I’m fast approaching my WordPress blog site’s first anniversary. Of course, my regular blog readers know that I christened my site in February 2025 with a feature on my “big break” into journalism courtesy of the IRA Bognor Regis bike bombing in…

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  October 7, 2025

  Golf feature, Uncategorized, WSCC Highways

  Why golf matters: Exploring the game’s social impacts today through the medium of film

  By HILARY GAVIN FOR as long as I can remember I’ve been aware of Hollywood star Groucho Marx’s quip to a private-members’ club, when he allegedly said: “Please accept my resignation, I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.” If you’ve never heard of Groucho Marx and his…
• March 24, 2025

  Golf feature

  Discovering my addiction to golf as a teenager on Dornoch beach

  My Dad taught me to play the game on family holidays in Scotland I SUSPECT there aren’t many ladies my age who can say they got hooked on playing golf as a teenager in Britain in the Seventies. But I can – and here’s a photo of me, above, resplendent in Bay City Rollers trousers…

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  February 25, 2025

  Golf feature

  How I created a buzz at the 1979 British Girls’ Golf Open in Edgbaston

  FORTY-SIX years on and I’m still sore about a bumblebee sting on my wrist which scuppered my chances in the British Girls’ Open Championship at Edgbaston Golf Club in 1979