Taba’s Stories
About her travels, golf, art, life in Ireland and cows
Tipping Point
St Patrick’s on the Edge of the Picturesque Sheephaven Bay In 2018, when my partner, Kevin McGrath, and I were in France we heard rumors about a new golf course that Tom Doak was designing in...
Perfect Peninsula
Discovering the Perfect Peninsula The Dublin part of our journey with the panelists concluded at Portmarnock Golf Club. Although formally “founded” in 1894, the book entitled A Centenary History by...
Monkey Puzzle Tree
The Vandeleur Walled Garden At long last we are going to the Vandeleur Walled Garden. We see the signs for it when passing through Kilrush (Cill Rois, meaning “Church of the Woods”) on the way to...
Roses Galore
Sunday Morning in Liscannor There are few things nicer than to get out for a walk on a Sunday morning in brilliant sunshine before Liscannor fills up with church-goers. In fact, with very few people...
A Sticky at the End
The oldest recorded golf club in the world Most people would be delighted to be playing at Muirfield. I was far above delighted, I was ecstatic. Playing golf at the home course of The Honourable...
Birthplace of The Open – Part 1
Prestwick - Birthplace of The Open Created in the days when golf professionals were also ball and club makers and greenkeepers like Old Tom Morris, The Open Championship was first played in 1860 at...