David Blackburn

Golf in the Algarve

The Algarve: a risky place for occasional golfers [Getty Images] 
issue 25 January 2014

My second tee shot soared high and straight, then hurtled down towards the lake; a repeat of my first. I didn’t hear the disheartening plop this time because the breeze had shifted and now moved loudly through the pines that surrounded us. ‘Keep buggering on,’ said my old man, cheerfully.

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