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A Brisk Legal gimmie as a Backstop Score A unique legal gimmie of a Net Bogey score (in formal terms, a Given-Net-Bogey score), provides a time-saving Backstop score for all BriskerGolfers. In Briskergolf the only significant gross scores to be actively posted are those that equate to potentially winning scores as below: Net Par scores Net Birdie scores Net Eagle…

BriskerGolf is an abbreviated but very pure golf game, designed with the positive intention of educating golfers in the art of playing golf more Briskly! Golfers learn that BriskerGolf means that there’s no going back, other than using the benign Five Strides Rule! Playing a provisional ball is never an option! Equally, it is a game structured to enable Charitable Causes to benefit from its competitions, whether they…

Multiple copies of the beautiful and historic links and parkland courses have been used to bookmark the position of forthcoming new and equally stunning aerial photos by Scoop Watmough. Scoop’s photographic books, Seven of Clubs, and Heavy Air, neither related to golf, have been published recently. In fact Scoop has never shown any interest in golf. He’s more…

Post-BriskerGolf, the resolution of a common yet atypical situation, such as duck-hooking into a cherished family pet, as previously outlined, becomes simplicity itself. In BriskerGolf there is no turning back! Playing a provisional ball is not allowed under any circumstance. Thus there need be no hesitation in the event of a distant direct hit on…

Occasionally non-military lethal incidents occur on a golf course, for example when the general public unwittingly interact with your golf game. Public footpaths or cycleways that border or criss cross courses have the potential to disrupt play, as in the following incident. From the first tee, a normally competent golfer duck-hooks a powerful drive, completely…

The legendary Harry Bradshaw’s story of a wartime golf game in Ireland, with a particularly inept and eccentric golfer/soldier comes to mind. After flailing at the ball and missing it several times, the warrior suddenly drew a pistol and shot the ball twice! In a BriskerGolf game, rather than making the observation, ‘I think you’ll…

Having survived the fiercest of storms and reached the relative safety of the bar, still with a thorn crown on my head, I was pondering on the waste of delivering my line, ‘Played like God today’, to the deadpan Steward. I began looking around for a more appreciative audience, to enlighten with the revelation that…

When the elements conspire to interrupt your brisk game, be heartened by this uplifting story. As a last resort from a fierce lightning storm we had taken shelter in a wooden hut. Sitting in the hut I noticed a very spikey bramble that had grown through the overlapping boarding. Before I could reach for my…

I have never met a more friendly, generous, enthusiastic and optimistic person than Andrew. After an extremely spartan upbringing, (to which he never referred), his adult life was a complete joy! He came to golf in the latter part of his life, and unsurprisingly it became one of his passions! He was unconcerned about his…