Somewhat than doing a standard 18-hole spherical, 36 or 54-hole day, we determined to do one thing totally different – driving spherical to 18 totally different programs in North London and Hertfordshire to play 1 HOLE AT EACH COURSE!
Mike and Genelle will likely be teaming up in July
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It is a bit of a loopy schedule that can begin one the first tee at Hampstead in North London at 5.00am and can end (hopefully) round 9pm at Genelle’s residence course Mill Hill the place we’ll putt out on the first inexperienced.
In between we’ll be stopping in on the following golf equipment (fingers crossed) on the instances listed…
05:45 – Highgate
06:30 – Muswell Hill
07:30 – North Middlesex
08:40 – Bush Hill Park
09:40 – Enfield
10:30 – Crews Hill
11:30 – Hadley Wooden
12:20 – Previous Fold Manor
13:15 – The Shire London
14:10 – Dyrham Park
15:15 – Brookmans Park
16:15 – Essendon (Previous)
16:45 – Essendon (New)
17.45 – Mill Inexperienced
18.45 – Welwyn Backyard Metropolis
19.40 – Mid Herts
We’ll have to play rapidly and hope the visitors behaves!
If you wish to assist our problem by making a donation then here’s our fundraising page.
Here is a bit background on how the day took place….
Golf has a humorous knack of connecting folks. A couple of weeks in the past an e-mail dropped into my inbox from my pal Ray Nayabola, the founding father of Black British Golfers
Hello Mike and Genelle
I wished to ship this e-mail out to introduce and join you each as I imagine there are loads of nice issues that may come from connecting you with one another. Genelle, Mike is the Editor of Golf Month-to-month Journal, and extra considerably an indispensable ally to loads of the work we’re doing as a platform. Mike, Genelle Aldred is a passionate golfer and in addition a implausible Writer and journalist with a guide revealed and quite a few op-eds too. I’m certain I can write up on each your accolades and why I feel that is nicely suited and overdue however I hope that the introduction in and of itself will fulfill. I look ahead to seeing the place this journey will lead.
Birdies
Ray
I knew of Genelle as I observe her on instagram @chasingthecut and had learn her brilliant piece for The Guardian earlier this yr about moving into golf.
Broadcaster, writer and really eager golfer, Genelle Aldred
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As we acquired chatting, Genelle requested if Golf Month-to-month may assist promote a golf problem for a charity she was an envoy for: SANDS. It stopped me in my tracks.
SANDS is a charity I do know quite a bit about as a result of my spouse and I misplaced two infants in late being pregnant – Christopher in 2007, and three years later in 2010, Rohaise.
Shedding Christopher and Rohaise has solid an enormous shadow over our lives, greater than we even realised on the time. Like lots of people who’ve skilled loss, we made some pretty main life selections within the quick aftermath that appeared like a good suggestion on the time and had been pushed by a want to inject some positivity and have a contemporary begin.
There have been some good issues to have come out of these selections, however loads of unhealthy too, and we’re nonetheless feeling the affect of them in methods we by no means thought potential. The fact is that 13 years on from shedding Rohaise, we’re, as a household, nonetheless selecting up the items.
Shedding the infants will not be one thing I’ve ever written about earlier than; however as a part of her function as an envoy for SANDS, Genelle has written about her loss and appeared on quite a few podcasts speaking about how shedding her daughter Sade has impacted her life.
As Genelle mentioned in an e-mail, “Shedding a child is a membership that nobody needs to be a member of”. However whereas the unhappiness of our losses is one thing that unites us, it’s additionally given us a standard objective – to attempt to make a constructive distinction with SANDS to assist different households who’re going via what now we have.
Golf has at all times been a lot greater than a recreation for me; it’s given me an outlet when emotions of unhappiness or stress bubble up in my life. The golf course is a spot to suppose and mirror and my time taking part in at all times helps me course of no matter it’s that’s going round in my thoughts, and final yr I wrote about how golf helped me with some psychological well being challenges I used to be experiencing.
The first gap at Mill Hill Golf Membership the place the 18-hole charity problem will conclude
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If you wish to assist our problem by making a donation then here’s our fundraising page.
You’ll be capable to observe the day on social media through @GolfMonthly on Twitter and Instagram and our personal channels @genellealdred on Twitter and @chasingthecut on instagram for Genelle and @MikeHarrisGolf (Twitter) and @mickyh_1970 (Instagram) for me.
