Something Fresh

A Springtime Surprise

Thank you for coming across.

Before explaining what I’ll be offering over here, I want to touch on why I wanted to start writing again, and sharing in detail my golf, my thoughts and insights at age 35. Starting my blog back in 2012 felt a daunting prospect at the time, and re-reading some of my early articles, I was taken aback at my openness and honesty. Over time people at golf tournaments would occasionally come up to me and not congratulate me on missing another five footer, but instead say how much they enjoyed my blog. It became a nice outlet for me and for some, a nice insight into what life as a professional golfer was all (mostly) about. As I moved onto Twitter and started to write less, the feedback again rarely related to on course performances but rather my Tweets, whether they be about Bryson, having conversations with Fred Couples at Augusta, or even masturbating into socks… that one caused a stir. Eventually however, I matured, and broke up with X sometime around the time Elon Musk entered the chat. Then came the Podcast. The Chipping Forecast with Andrew Cotter and Iain Carter has been and will continue to be a weekly highlight for me, and it has been amazing to see it grow and how many people listen and hear tales of my on course mischief and Big Ron routinely falling short of modern parenting standards.

I feel as though now I may have even more to give. I could be wrong, but I want to try nonetheless. I enjoyed writing in the past and would like to rekindle that fire. It will be for you to judge as to whether I am truly adding value to your life or whether I’m just another professional golfer looking to make more money. Ordinarily I would say you know how that story ends but I trust you know me well enough to at least read on…

The subscription fee will be £5 a month. Why £5? Because it’s the least I could charge. If it were up to me I’d do it for less, say £4.95, but I can’t. (worth mentioning subscription cost is £7 per month via the app due to Apple %… so subscribe via desktop website to get it for £5)

So what will you get for £5 a month? At a minimum I will write a weekly recap of each week I play tournament golf. In that I will provide you with my statistics, alongside more detailed thoughts on what the reasons were for my poor, or hopefully good performance! Plus any other stories/amusing anecdotes from the week.

Side (yet relevant and timely) note *this passage contains references to strong language* - back in 2019 I played the WGC Mexico event at Chapultepec and on the final day I was paired with Alex Noren and Bryson DeChambeau. It was Sunday, and we were in the last group. Off the 10th. Earlier in the week, Bryson went birdie free, and after his long and miserable Thursday round he was filmed practising on the putting green. I think from memory it was Nick Dougherty presenting on TV and the camera inadvertently caught Bryson smashing his putter into the practice putting green. Well shit me, didn’t Twitter explode and within hours he was being put up for incarceration in most countries. Anyway, having seen all the backlash myself on Twitter over the course of the days that followed, I knew exactly how stressed Bryson would probably be. So it didn’t take me long, 40 yards in fact walking just off the 10th tee, to ask him how his week had been (I’ve always been a shit stirrer really). He said it had been terrible for him. I asked if he had been on social media at all… he said he hadn’t. Which led me to my moment of opportunity. I said, “ah, that’s a shame, as you wouldn’t have seen what I said about you then”. He asked what I said, to which I replied, “I just said you were a c*nt.”

Now that is a true story. Lee Warne (Alex Noren’s caddie at the time) was beside us, so he can back me up.

Alongside the tournament feedback, and stories of me abusing my fellow playing partners, what else might you be signing up for? In addition to the above, I will of course be writing regular blogs on all things golf and life. There will likely be a sprinkling of finance, dogs, even food too as all of those things I am passionate about. And of course with the LIV Tour in the headlines again, I suspect I’ll be busy writing about that too…

There could be more. Video content! I have considered YouTube, but truth be told it’s pretty crowded over there and plus, Bryson is smashing it so it would be a waste of my time. However I do intend to put out occasional videos of my swing on here and talk about what I am working on… Plus tips and drills to hopefully help you improve. Live video content could well be an option but that’ll depend a bit on uptake and me improving my technological prowess..

Not to mention I will also have access to the comments section, and will look to correspond with comments that catch my attention/get me thinking! Ask anything you like…

If you want to read some or even all of my old blogs, they are on my page for free so help yourself. But future content from here on will be for subscribers only.

Thank you for your support and whether it be on here, at events, or via the podcast, I hope to keep you entertained and hopefully, dare I say it, even enlightened!

Eddie.