In the 372 years since it was established Old Saybrook in Connecticut has given the world a lot. It is where the first US submarine, the Turtle, was built. It was the site of the Collegiate School of Connecticut which was later named Yale University. And was the former home of habitual award winner and Spencer Tracey love interest Katherine Houghton Hepburn.

Now Old Saybrook have done something we hope will spread throughout the world, they have made it legal to drive golf buggies.

Forty residents unanimously passed a decree allowing buggies on town roads and sidewalks (known as pavements to our blighty based blog fans). However state roads are still a no go.


More fun than walking.

GOLFPUNK think this is good, but not great. Old Saybrook should take a leaf out of St Andrews book. For the 2005 British Open Championship GP somehow got permission to drive buggies around the historic town. All went well, but it is a good idea to have some sort of legislation in place or you will get more occasions like the last year when we saw some berk drive a golf buggy straight off Wentworth and down the pub at the BMW PGA Championship.

Now that’s just not cricket.

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5/31/2007 3:38:30 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

“The lazy man is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.” Says the Bible, I am not sure where I think it’s near the back, couldn’t be bovved to go through the whole thing.

Rather than see this as an indictment we look at this proverb as a challenge. When I get seven or more men, women and children to answer sensibly allowing me to be lazy that would be beyond wise, I’d say it’s bleeding genius. So it’s with this in mind that we have decided to open up blogging duties to you, our beloved interactive user.

All successful blogs will be credited and anyone who shows proficiency could join the GP team on a more regular basis.

Follow the link to our Forum and find out more..

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Here's the first submitted by myspace pal and forum stalwart Cheffo, the only skinny chef you should ever trust. Take it away Cheffo…

German ban at golf club repealed

A rule banning Germans and Austrians from being allowed to play at a golf course near Bristol is to be repealed.

Filton Golf Club introduced the rule in 1919 after nine of its members died serving during the First World War.
The restriction had been long-forgotten until files were unearthed by a researcher trawling through the club's history archives. Club members have since unanimously backed a motion to rescind the rule at their annual general meeting.
The rules, drawn up in 1919, state: "No person of German or Austrian extraction, whether naturalised or not should be allowed in the clubhouse or on the course


We're not suprised he was not allowed to play, where's your collar?

Cheffo says,
"This is the strangest and most unreal ruling, maybe they were offended by the costume??? It's hardly P.U.N.K!!! No bratwurst or lederhosen in the locker-room gentlemen!!

Should golf clubs be so stuffy?? Tradition has its place and I respect the whole etiquette, but who thinks that maybe the whole thing needs a shake up or at least a spring clean???"

To read more on this story click here…

Does anybodies clubs/societies have any prehistoric rules?
Let us know in the comments section, on the forum
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Golf Punks
5/30/2007 12:17:31 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

We make no secret of our love of stories showing people using golf to overcome adversity. With this in mind another uplifting tale has winged it’s way to GOLFPUNK Towers today.

Steve Evans got a twinge of jealousy when his pals were getting together for their fourballs. So he thought why not learn to play and he could get involved. So far nothing remarkable, that was the very reason I got into golf myself. However what does separate this story from most is that Steve is blind.

Steve Green the Club Pro at Bromley High Elms Golf Club had to adapt his teaching methods for Steve Evans demands, but by the sounds of things they have both learnt something from the experience.

Take it away…


To find out more about blind golfing in the UK click here…

5/29/2007 5:37:56 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

It is that time of year again when the sun is starting to go through his hat collection, and all your hard-earned is jumping out of your pockets yearning to be spent on new gear. But you don’t want to rock up to the first tee after your once a year shopping spree and find the rest of your fourball decked out in exactly the same clobber. Unlikely I know, but hear me out.

You can massively reduce the chance of this happening by having a look at www.subseventy.co.uk and choosing your bespoke shirt/trouser combo.

As the self-proclaimed ‘best dressed man in golf,’ I have taken it upon myself to show you what you could have won. Don’t be put off by my selection, have a look and choose your own get up.







Jumble it all up and it could look a little something like this.


Now that's gangsta.

It looked better in my head anyway.

See you at the 19th.

5/25/2007 8:32:15 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here at GOLFPUNK we have always seen it as our mission to give something back to the game we love. Over the last three years we have achieved this by mainly by asking the top pros, “What’s your favourite biscuit?”, having the odd lady in a bikini learn you the rules of golf and seeing how many points Shingo Katayama would earn at scrabble. And long may it continue.

However, now we have added a new club to the bag. GOLFPUNK are proud to announce we are the new sponsors of The Ladies English Open.

Now in it’s fourth year the LEO 2007 will have 17,000 revellers joined by BBC and Sky audiences to see the best players in Europe negotiate Chart Hills Golf Course in Biddenden for the chance to take the trophy from Cecilia Ekelundh last years winner.


Cecilia Ekelundh won last years Ladies English Open by one shot.

Cecillia will have stiff competition with 5 time European Order of Merit winner Laura Davis, six of the current top 10 in the money list and 16 unknown quantaties looking to make an impact in their rookie year, already confirmed.

Also being GOLFPUNK we will also be adding a little razmataz so you’d best get yourself down to Chart Hills, it’s going to be a blast.

Event: The Ladies English Open
Venue: Chart hills Golf Course, Biddenden
Date: 05th – 07th July 2007

To find out more about the tournament click here
To find out more about the venue click here

5/24/2007 12:13:05 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Sony have decided to make the PSP relevant for all those out there who don’t see the point of playing Parappa the Rapper on the train.

The handheld gaming device has been fitted with a Global Positioning System Receiver so, if you buy the map add-ons, you will never get lost again.

Thankfully Sony have applied the technology to golf and created a virtual caddy application to give you precise distance readings to the pin and on course hazards. In addition there’s also a scratchpad to make notes on each hole for future reference.


The people at PSP have mapped out 31 courses so far. However, unless you are Japanese, there is a catch. All the courses currently available are in the Chiba area east of Tokyo. We assume when the technology is more widely available Sony will add more courses to the roster.

In the meantime either move to Chiba or wait patiently and watch this space.

To find out more about this story click here.

5/23/2007 12:32:24 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

It looks like the weather could have finally turned for the better. The forecast has been checked and the next five days are going to be peachy.

“So why the long faces?” You may ask, if you could see us.

Because we are all in the office, that’s why. Now we know that there are bundles of people in the same boat and don’t for a second think we should get special dispensation. However when your flatmate who claims to be “working from home” sends you a picture like the one below it really sticks in your craw.


The reason everyone should work from home.

At least the sun is out, it could be worse.


It being worse.

It looks like it could be a scorcher. Check out the weather in your area and book yourself a tee time.

Weather Checker.

5/22/2007 1:58:13 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Kids huh, when they are not spending your hard earned tax on “education" and “healthcare” they are winning golf tournaments previously reserved for adults.

Ryo Ishikawa, who shares his name with the villain from first person shoot ‘em up Shogo: Mobile Armour Division, won the Munsingwear Open KSB Cup on Sunday. Ishikawa became the first teenager to win on the Japanese Men’s tour and the first amateur winner since Masahiro Kurmoto took the Chugoku-Shikoku Open title 27 years ago.

More impressively he beat the previous record held by a young Spaniard by the name of Severiano Ballesteros who won the Japan Open in 1977, fifteen years before Ishikawa was born.


Ryo Ishikawa, annoyingly good at golf.

Here’s hoping this talented dustbin lid goes on to emulate Seve’s carreer. Or at the very least keep his room tidy. Tut, Kids.

To find out more Ryo Ishikawa’s prodigious talents click here or here….

5/21/2007 3:34:32 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

News has reached us from our spars at trendhunter.com of a new game gripping the waterways, Underwater Golf.

Anybody who has golfed in the UK should be familiar with the concept of playing soaked through. However our Chinese brethren have taken it one step further by hosting what’s believed to be world’s first underwater golf tournament. Five aqua-golfers (a word we made up just now) competed in a 50 ft tank for the honour of winning golf’s first underwater major.


Fibber told me he won this four years on the bounce.

A spokesman from Zuohai Aquarium explains, “The rules are pretty much the same as for regular golf. Whoever gets the ball in the hole first wins the match.”

However players were judged on how long it took them to complete the hole rather than the number of strokes taken.

The aquarium bloke went on to say, “The water makes the match very interesting. Not only fish and mammals distract the players, but their buoyancy makes it hard for them to stabilise themselves.” Water currents also make the trajectory of the ball hard to predict, he added. The winner sunk the ball in just one minute and 20 seconds, while the one who came last took five minutes.

For more on this nonsense click here…

5/21/2007 1:08:40 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0]