Rory McIlroy Archives - Hal Phillips

Irish Golf Tidbits: Stouts, Control, Separated at Birth

Hal Phillips — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:37:56 +0000

Still emptying the suitcase of the golfing mind, fresh off the Golf Road Warriors’ late-July tour of Ireland. Several matters remain unaddressed, and so they are tackled here. I reserve the right to keep this tab running indefinitely. Even so… • Guinness Lite. Honestly — We had wonderful couple of days (less than 24 hours, […]

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Tralee: Canny Punctuation to an Irish Golf Smorgasbord

Hal Phillips — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:54:19 +0000

The odyssey is complete, our nine-courses-in-nine-days schedule has been dispatched, and it’s all over but the ibuprofen withdrawals. Eight links, one parkland track. Three venues in the very north, four in the west of Ireland, and three more in the southwest. I arrived with a bag full of balls and 24 new ones […]

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Of Blackthorns and Pro-Ams: Three Days in Killarney

Hal Phillips — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:59:43 +0000

After five manic days on the road, wielding golf clubs in Ireland’s furthest northern and western reaches, we have come to rest in the Killarney, Cill Airne, meaning “church of sloes”. (What’s a sloe, you might well ask? It’s a blackthorn). This is County Kerry, in the southwest, and here we’ve continued our Golf Road […]

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