Hello again everybody. It's been an age since I posted, but I can't resist a Painswick thread. I've already written enough guff praising this course (wanted to use the word eulogise, but I don't think I know how to spell it!) to write any more, but I thought you all might like to know that I have written an essay about it for Paul Daley's book, 'Golf Architecture-Volume 287', which will be richly endowed with pictures of the course taken during the GCA Ryder Cup week.
If I haven't mentioned it before, I must say that those three days at Painswick were the most fun I have had playing golf for a long, long time, excepting giving Mr. Goodale a right royal stuffing at Dornoch. Oops, did I write that out loud!
I second what Tom Doak said about our stellar fourball match. It was a veritable birdie fest, with Rich and Tom richly deserving their victory on the last green, damn them!
With a bit of luck I should also be available for next years match, having just moved down to the south of England to take up a position with European Golf Design. It is celeb central down here. As I look out of the window at this very second, I can see Darren Clarke sat in his black Ferrari, tipping fag ash onto the Sunningdale tarmac. Oh, and here comes Gary Lineker wearing a bobble hat. This is not made up, I promise you.
Now that I've got broadband connection, I hope to keep up with you fellas a bit more often. I hope everyone is well.