A strong wind puffed through Dublin yesterday, echoing the gusts of joy blowing out of Wales. Ireland hasn’t had much to cheer about lately, awakening every day to more gloomy headlines about the consequences of the country’s economic collapse. Services cut, taxes lifted, prospects bleak. The Irish national identity has been hijacked by a nasty […]
Haversham & Baker
Ryder in the Rain
We’ve had the kind of rain here is Wales that Bob Dylan predicted—a hard rain’s gonna fall, he sang, anticipating the weather at the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor. The long delay from the deluge on Friday, day one, left the players and the rain-soaked galleries a bit subdued, but the energy was back […]
An Irish Sojourn
The best golf resort in the world is Bandon Dunes in Oregon, but the best region in the world for a golfing holiday is the west of Ireland. Bandon has borrowed some of the Irish spirit to make the resort a welcoming place, just as the designers of its courses drew inspiration from the great […]
Chairman Mao, May I Introduce Tom Morris?
While American real estate developers hunker down and try to figure out when if ever their forlorn industry will revive, the Chinese real estate market is booming, fueled in part by high-end golf communities that celebrate a luxurious life style. China’s transformation from a predominately rural society with a command economy dominated by state-run heavy […]