Around the Top 100 World – Day 91 to Day 100 and reflections

Click here for trip summary & overview Day 91  Drive Springfield/eastern Long Island                                           Play Maidstone At 6:30 am Dan and I headed out from Springfield and drove 142 miles to the eastern tip of Long Island. After two and one half hours we were at the Maidstone Club (rated 55, designed by W. and J. Park […]

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Wind farms and Scottish Golf

For some time Scotland has been slowly developing and positioning itself as a leader in the development of wind as a sustainable energy solution. By some estimate Scotland may eventually account for fully 25% of the harvestable wind in Europe. If you have travelled there in recent years you will have noticed tall windmill turbines […]

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Around the Top 100 World – Day 51 to Day 60 / Ayrshire to Ascot

Click here for trip summary & overview Day 51  Drive Turnberry/Gullane                                                                 Play Muirfield Instead of rising at the crack of dawn for the originally scheduled 7:30 am starting time we were able to have a relaxing breakfast in the hotel’s lovely dining room overlooking the golf course and out to the Irish Sea. It is one […]

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Around the Top 100 World – Day 31 to Day 40 / Tokyo to Adelaide

Click here for trip summary & overview Day 31  Play Kasumigaseki (East)                                                   Train Tokyo/Kobe At 7 am I took a 25-minute cab ride to Kasumigaseki (East Course rated 70, designed by Fujita and Alison 1929)(first played November 1988 and again July 1993/total two rounds) (26 miles northwest of Tokyo) where I was met by a lively […]

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