Well here we are again - THE OPEN!
Jul 11 Posted in GoKart News, Golf News by GoKartAt the risk of sounding like our parents, hasn’t it come round quick? It only seems like last week that we were on temporary greens because of the frost and the Christmas cake still hadn’t been finished…we digress…THE OPEN! Birkdale bunkers, claret jug chasing, clammering crowds, let the madness commence…
Some people have been asking whether we’re exhibiting. Sadly we’re not (but we’ll be behind the ropes watching, so make sure to say nice things about GoKart very loud because we’ll be listening. And no, we’re not the wally that shouts “You da man!” every time anyone hits a ball vaguely forward). We do have a penchant for rainbow coloured afro wigs though, but that’s another story.
Everything you always wanted to know about the Open, but didn’t know who to ask.
Jul 10 Posted in Golf News by GoKartIn our constant search for the downright stupid, odd and generally beguiling, we stumbled across these little gems to get your golfing juices going. That just sounds wrong.
The oldest winner was Old Tom Morris in 1867 who was 46. The youngest was Young Tom Morris in 1868, who was 17. They were father and son. We could dedicate an entire website to the Toms (we’ll do a blog just on them soon, amazing men), but some little snippets to whet your appetite; in 1869 they finished father and son first and second in the Open. Young Tom has the first ever recorded hole-in-one. When Young Tom died, on Christmas Day aged 24, only months after his wife and baby died in childbirth, (more…)
Add a comment 2 CommentsThe other Lee - the Mexican one…
Jul 09 Posted in Golf News, Golf Quotes by GoKartYes we love Lee Westwood too, but it’ll take him a while to equal Mr. Trevino in terms of quips and general hell-lets-not-take-it-too-seriously-(but-win-anyway)-ness.
“I thought I’d blown it at the seventeenth green when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican” (after he won the Open at Muirfield in ’72)
“How do you do, Mr. Prime Minister – ever shake hands with a Mexican before?” (on meeting Edward Heath)
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