Whiteout Golfing / Magazine #2 / 2011

out of the bunker, into the rough… 

You can feel it coming. Subtle as it may be. But the iron grip of summer is starting to give way to a little chill in the evening. Days shortening, ever so slightly, as the season drifts gently towards autumn. Yes, change is in the air, invisible yet perceivable all at the same time. But never fear. Change is change, neither good nor bad, and in terms of golf the ‘Indian Summer’ months of September and October are the best for golfing all round. Unlike the spring, when courses are often recovering from their winter hardships, and your swing needs the cobwebs brushed off it, Autumn provides the culmination of perfect conditions and the peak of your game after a gruelling summer season. A time of rich colours before the pale shades of winter grey and plunging temperatures force a cessation of plastic-bashing hostilities, or a flight to southern climes. Change is constant.