Posts in Category: England
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Royal Birkdale Hole by Hole
This is my fifth hole by hole post from our fall 2024 trip to England’s Golf Coast organized by Platinum Golf Scotland. Yesterday we played what has been my favourite course so far, Formby,which has a completely different look than most links courses. Today we will tackle our third Open venue, Royal Birkdale which has […]
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Formby Golf Club – Hole by Hole
This is my fifth post from the fall 2024 trip to England’s Golf Coast organized by Platinum Golf Scotland. In the last post I took a day off from golf and spent the time exploring Liverpool’s wonderful waterfront. Today we will return to the links at a course that has never hosted The Open, but […]
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Liverpool Waterfront – Walking Merseyside
It’s the middle of our fall 2024 golf trip to England’s Golf Coast and after playing Wallasey, Royal Liverpool and Royal Lytham & St. Annes we have a scheduled day off. Most of the others are going on a Beatles’ tour, but I did that on my last trip to Liverpool with private guide Paul […]
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Royal Lytham & St. Annes – Hole by Hole
This is my third post from a fall 2024 golf trip to northwest England organized by Platinum Golf Scotland. In the first post we struggled a bit with the up and down terrain at Wallasey, but all agreed that it is a fantastic course. Our second course was 13 time Open host Royal Liverpool which […]
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Royal Liverpool GC – Hole by Hole
This is my second post from a fall 2024 golf trip to northwest England organized by Platinum Golf Scotland. In the first post I gave a hole-by-hole description of the Wallasey Golf Club which was a terrific place to start. However, the main attraction in coming to this part of England was to play the […]
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Wallasey Golf Club – Hole by Hole
This is the first of six hole by hole descriptions of courses I and seven friends played on a recent trip to northwest England hosted by Platinum Golf Scotland. Two years ago we first used Platinum Golf to arrange a trip to northeast Scotland where we played six courses based out of Inverness and Aberdeen […]
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Bath – Britain’s Georgian Masterpiece
In the autumn of 2022 Alison and I decided to finally visit the English city of Bath, a place I had on my destination wish list for many decades. In this post I’ll describe the many reasons why you shouldn’t wait so long to visit this UNESCO World Heritage Site. In a previous post I […]
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Reading – Definitely Worth a Visit
Reading is usually not even close to the top 10 cities to visit in the United Kingdom when most tourist’s prepare their itinerary for this great country. It certainly wasn’t on mine as Alison and I prepared to spend a few days in Bath, a city that is definitely on the top 10 list. We […]
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Oxford Walking Tour with Andrew Parker
In my last post from England my friend Don Harding and I enjoyed travelling along the Thames by boat to Greenwich and back on what turned out to be a great day in London. The next morning we were driven to Oxford by private car which turned out to be much quicker and more efficient […]