So perhaps after all there is a case for being repetitive, of pushing the point in the hope that all can share in the wonders of what golf offers to the true believers.
When time and health release us from our daily chores, we should aim high, test our own character by embracing courses like the 119 year old Askernish where the game has relatively remained unchanged more due to the site of the course than ignoring modern equipment.
I will continue to remind my fellow members of the pleasure and inward rewards we get from playing golf on old traditional courses with both Hickory and more modern equipment. Having said that these older courses deserve a sprinkling of respect for their architectural merit begging the golfer to play either utilising the equipment they were originally designed to accommodate.
Before you walk off the 18th Green at any of these old Courses, I ask that you look to the faces of all the golfers and note how many are not smiling. I would wager very few would not have enjoyed their experience, proving that the game is far more important than the travelling.
Ralph, you and your team have yet again done wonders. Your new web site is really, really great but I do believe that a comments page should be added allowing golfers and their family the opportunity to comment, not just on the course but the travel – which seems to be this biggest barrier. If other golfers report their travel experience against a round or two, perhaps this may not seem such a big deal and attract more players.
Melvyn