Sporting Memories & Comment
Personal essays on great sporting occasions. Considered comment on the game as it stands today. Written by those who were there — or watched, and have never quite forgotten.
Memories of the 1976 Open and the dawn of the golden age of European golf At the foot of a bronze Hercules in Portmeirion — the statue Clough Williams-Ellis spotted
Write for the Armchair There is a particular kind of sports writing that almost doesn't exist any more. Not the match report. Not the pundit's take.
Memories of The 100th Open Championship 1971 — Royal Birkdale By Hugh Lee Every golf fan remembers their first Open. Mine was the ninety-eighth edition at Royal Lytham St Annes.
Views from the Armchair began with a memory — a boy at Royal Birkdale in 1971, watching Lee Trevino win the Open Championship, and a Taiwanese golfer called Mr Lu charm
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