Tag: golf

I am a golf course. Like thousands of my sisters across the world, I have been deserted, basically left alone for some time now.

The T20 matches against New Zealand may have gone down to the wire, but India prevailed each time, and in differing circumstances.

My mother, Meera Phookan was the only woman in Digboi, Assam who played golf in a sari. Her cotton sari often brought home bonguti that needed to be removed meticulously by hand, by our nanny.

The year gone by has been one in golfing history that almost every single fan of the sport will remember for a long time including a landmark for Tiger Woods.

Gone are the days when golf was talked of as the game for old people. Modern day golf games are a lot more exciting and full of passion besides being an international attraction.

A Sunday evening gathering at the Civil Services Officers Institute in Delhi turned out to be a heady mish-mash of nostalgia, reunions, entertaining yarns, and a few sobering home truths.

The Internet is a monster, sometimes benign, often overpowering. Traversing the electronic universe can be an overwhelming experience. Very rarely, it can also be an enriching one.

Have there been moments on a golf course that you felt later needed to be shared? If you do,we would love to hear about it too.

This is a golfing horror story, repeated almost endlessly around the world. It is mostly mine, but also a safe bet that many others wake up sweating too..

It seems in the best interest of the various stakeholders in golf to broad-base it, make it easy, or at least easier than it is now, for a first-timer.

Have always wondered why India lags as a golf destination? It cannot be for lack of opportunity, or availability. A round of golf on most Indian courses is among the cheapest in the world. And yet the gap in terms of demand and supply seems to be ever-growing.

On August 7, 2018, I launched teetimetales.com after 35 years of writing for newspapers. It was the start of a journey that is still a very new one, with new horizons opening up all the time. Time for the next step.