Roddy Carr Previews The 2024 Us Open
I remember distinctly my first experience playing on ‘browns’. It was in my early years, on tour in the Nigerian Open in the 1970s. It took me completely by surprise to play golf to flat greens, that were just oiled sand, that had been rolled early that morning. They didn’t take spin. The ball just plonked […]
Roddy Carr Previews the 2024 PGA Championship
The names of the holes on Valhalla this week give some insight into the DNA and personality of the course designed by Jack Nicklaus in 1986. The 3rd ‘Honest Abe’, 7th ‘Genuine Risk’, 8th ‘Float Like a Butterfly,’ 12th ‘Sting Like a Bee’ 14th ‘On The Rocks’ and 18th ‘Photo Finish’. The last two winners […]
The Father & Daughter World Invitational is Undefeated
Tucked into the Southwestern pocket of Ireland, golf is used to forge friendships between fathers and their daughters. The story goes, a man brought his daughter to play in a golf tournament in Ireland. She was new to the game, and after a brief session at the driving range, flanked by the water and the […]
AUGUSTA GREEN 2024
There is something very grounding about the deep rich hue that is known as Augusta Green. It’s actually Pantone 342. And it would be the kind of streak my father relished on any course he attacked. He loved 2’s on his card – because he reckoned they made up for a lot of mistakes in […]
Happy Birthday JB Carr
It is hard to believe ‘Pop’ as we called him left us 20 years ago at the age of 83. I often think of him when I look at where the game of professional golf is at present and the effect it is having on the image of the game worldwide. I can just hear […]
Ireland – Where Golf is the Most Natural Thing in the World
Roddy Carr December 2023 It’s great to see Christy and my father JB at the ages of 46 & 48 in the twilight of their careers promoting Irish golf in this 1970s Golf in Ireland video. They were the two most famous names in Irish golf for 25 years during a time when the Amateur […]