https://pinhighpress.com/tags/winter-golf/ Recent content in Winter Golf on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/in-praise-of-the-bad-weather-round/ Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/in-praise-of-the-bad-weather-round/ <p>There is a moment that arrives at the first tee of every cold, wet, badly-windy round that begins the same way for everyone who has signed up to play it. The player looks at the sky. They look at the wind sock above the clubhouse. They look at the second hole, which they cannot quite see for the spray coming off the eighth green. They consider, for the third time since they parked, the small, sensible, entirely reasonable decision to pack the bag back into the car, go home, and play another day. They do not. They tee it up. They top the first one twenty yards into the gorse and walk after it, and three hours later, with their hands the colour of a putter grip and their socks fully through the lining of their shoes, they sign for a card that, in places, is the best round of their year. This piece is in praise of that round. The bad-weather round is the round most amateurs will not play and is, for almost all of them, the round they would learn the most from playing.</p>