Golfing Herald welcomes back guest author Peter Shaerf. As with his previous article (Beware the Quicksands), ‘When the Golf Journalist had to Play’ is another true story, this time recalling the events surrounding the 1922 Walker Cup and the esteemed golf writer and journalist Bernard Darwin. There is no great mystery to the founding of the Walker Cup but the first … [Read more...] about When the Golf Journalist had to Play
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Beware the Quicksands
'Beware the Quicksands' is a short true story by guest author Peter Shaerf... 1925 was the last Open championship played at Prestwick and was perhaps more famous for the horrific collapse of native son Macdonald Smith than the victory of Jim Barnes, who with his win claimed his fourth of the modern majors. Born into a famous Scottish golfing family in 1890 (his two … [Read more...] about Beware the Quicksands