Almanacker Michael Pardy has released a poetry collection ‘Only Golfers Can Understand’. You have the chance to win one of three copies Michael is giving away to Almanac readers. [Congratulations Pards, and thank you for your generous giveaway – Eds]
Amanac Travel: Citrus Bob’s Sporting Odyssey
June 30, 2025 by 1 Comment
Citrus Bob Utber is heading overseas in 2026 to witness a number of major sporting events in Europe and the UK – and he invites you to join him.
Almanac Poetry: Shakespeare Takes a Turn
June 27, 2025 by 3 Comments
‘To be or not to be’ – ‘is a shank still a shank?’ With club in hand, golf has become somewhat Shakespearian for Pards.
Almanac Golf: The Last Golf Game
June 12, 2025 by 17 Comments
Smokie reveals that he has not played golf in thirty years, and that his last game was at Oakmont in Pittsburgh, home of numerous US Opens, and one of the toughest golf courses on the planet. [The Footy Almanac reprises Smokie’s cracking golf piece playing the course the US Open will be played on this week. – Ed]
Almanac Golf: Golf – it can give you the shits!
March 19, 2025 by 6 Comments
Bernard Whimpress recalls his attempts to break par off the stick at the North Adelaide golf course. Whenever one did look likely, Bernard was thwarted by shit luck, and in more ways than one!
Almanac Golf: Dream Holes
March 11, 2025 by 2 Comments
If we could play the golf of our dreams what a game we’d play suggests Pards channelling the inner thoughts of Fydor Dogski.
Almanac Golf – Golf Tips: 3
February 3, 2025 by 2 Comments
Pards is back with more golfing tips of the trade.
Almanac Golf – Golf Tips: 2
January 2, 2025 by 8 Comments
Pards returns to his Golf Tips series with Part 2. It’s all about taking aim in a variety of situations. (Now let’s hope that Part 4 appears at some stage!)
Almanac Golf: Golf Tips: 1
October 25, 2024 by 5 Comments
Pards offers some subtle putting hints to assist your golfing game.
Almanac Golf: A love of golf
August 31, 2024 by 9 Comments
Bernard Whimpress remembers ‘Pud’, and his love of golf. A golfer with ‘one of the ugliest golf swings’ you’d ever see, a man whose livelihood during the Depression was golf who became a long time caddie at the The Royal Adelaide Golf Club – with many stories to tell. [Language warning – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: Golf – 6
July 31, 2024 by 2 Comments
In this sixth of his poems about golf, Pards questions a friend’s priorities in life. Just where does golf fit into a new reality?
Almanac Golf – Unearthing another world champion: Nadene Gole
July 15, 2024 by 2 Comments
If you haven’t heard of Nadene Gole, then do yourself a favour and find out – Ian Wilson can help bring you up to speed on a great golfer making waves in the second phase of her time in the sport.
Almanac Golf: Another day
April 16, 2024 by 8 Comments
In Masters week, Bernard Whimpress thought a visit to his first golf club was in order but he found some things have changed as he explains.
Almanac Poetry: Golf – 4
April 12, 2024 by 3 Comments
A golf poem written by Michael Pardy while listening to Mr James Brown who grew up in Parkway Drive about 3 miles from the course.
Almanac Poetry: Golf – 3
March 20, 2024 by 5 Comments
After almost getting a birdie, Pards ponders the difficulties of becoming Tiger Woods as expressed in his latest golfing poem.
Almanac Poetry: Golf 2
March 7, 2024 by 5 Comments
Michael Pardy is back on the golf course and pens an ode to his Dunlop Hot Spot Number 2 which survived a complete round of golf without being lost.
Almanac Poetry: Golf 1
February 27, 2024 by 7 Comments
Michael Pardy has returned to golf after a break of 20 years. Beautiful game he says, and as a result, he has neglected his writing, so Michael has remedied that by writing golf poems. Here is his first golf poem.
Almanac Golf: The Pings aren’t gone
January 30, 2024 by 4 Comments
Gerard Cashill tells the tale of stolen golf clubs, good fortune and interesting playing partners. [Chuckle, chuckle – Ed]
Almanac Golf: The Brown Slipper
January 4, 2024 by 20 Comments
This was published in 2012.
It tells the story of The Harms Family’s Brown Slipper in 2012.
The 2023 Brown Slipper is in Hamilton and Port Fairy next week.
Almanac Books: Best Sports Books I Read This Year
January 1, 2024 by 8 Comments
Peter Baulderstone nominates and reviews the best sports books he read in 2023. Add your own suggestions for Almanacker’s reading lists.
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