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The RSGB is organised in regions and there are volunteer Regional and District Representatives across the UK. To find out who is your nearest representative take a look at our Regional Team information. They will be very happy to answer questions or give you advice on your next steps. Two mismatched people – impulsive, gregarious, Wasp Pauline and methodical, quiet Polish Catholic Michael – get married, continually fight, move from one Baltimore neighbourhood to another, raise three children, experience loss and then… well, I don't want to spoil the plot, such as it is. There’s also an Appendix, “Monterrey and Cypress Point”, which contains most of the historical info that I’ve recounted here about the creation of the course. Also a very useful index.anyway, however it got there, I'm glad I found it. The time frame (run up to qualifying for 1984 Olympics in rowing) is from my heyday -- I even overlapped with a couple of the protagonists in college, though I don't know any of them. And I have little enough involvement in rowing (does maybe 10 indoor rower workouts in my whole life make me an insider?) that I don't remember what happened, so I was unspoiled. Gary Irvine is pretty happy in Ardgirvan, a small town on Scotland's west coast. Only two things would improve his life - children and a lower golf handicap. Both are unlikely. The former because Gary's wife Pauline is intent on leaving him as soon as she's snared Findlay Masterson, the self-made carpet millionaire she's set her sights on. And the latter because, frankly, Gary is an appalling golfer.

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The way the men's lives were intertwined was remarkable, and a reminder that the world of golf was very small in those days. Nelson and Hogan were caddies at the same Fort Worth, Texas, golf course at the same time, and Nelson (a few years older) beat Hogan in the caddie championship in a playoff. Then they shared cars and motel rooms as they tested the pro tour. They became good friends as each tried to make it, and even their wives became great friends. Only a falling out as Nelson reached the pinnacle first, and Hogan took a much more painful and arduous route, led their friendship astray. Crosby himself, one of the most famous entertainers of his time, was actually an extremely good golfer, carrying a handicap in the low single digits. [I either never knew this, or had forgot it. Thanks Mark Frost.] In these days of the Crosby Clambake, as it was known, it was an invitation-only event, with Crosby himself issuing the invitations, assigning the pairings of professional & amateur for the pro-am teams, and even assigning the handicaps to the amateur partner in each team. Even minor characters in the book's appendix get the hagiographic treatment. The course designer is the unheralded genius who finally got his due in the 1980s. The woman whose vision it was for Cypress Creek is a visionary. Etc. The heaps of praise get old.

There's not a better quote to summarize this great story of four men and their quest for an Olympic Medal. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body. But rather, to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow, what a ride!' " So, what brought them together? That's the subject of the 1st half of the book. Basically, what made it happen was the third big trend in golf at that time: Bing Crosby. Crosby created the pro-am almost singlehandedly with his bacchanal known as the Clambake. It was a drinkfest, skirt-chasing, celebrity golf tournament that he hosted at Pebble Beach and Cypress Creek each January, and it helped to bring pro golf into the limelight by attracting Hollywood stars and putting them together with pro golfers and big-time businessmen. It's a great book. It not only leads the reader through the entire match, hole by hole, but also tells the stories of the four men who were playing that day. It was incredibly well written and I found myself captivated throughout. If you have passed, you will also receive a certificate and your candidate number. The Examinations Department will upload your pass to the UK communications regulator Ofcom, which is responsible for issuing amateur radio licences.

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As the course is online, material is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can self-enrol at any time. The platform which hosts the course is a professional online course platform called Thinkific. The course is 100 percent free and is tailored to suit the current syllabus. This course can be accessed at gm6dx.thinkific.com I read another similar golf book, “Missing Links” (see my library), and it had a similar effect of rekindling my love of the game and of the 1950’s. I only wish reading golf books improved my feeble skill at playing the game. Tripp-Lite manufactures a wide range of ac surge protectors and line conditioners such as the 600 W 120 V panel-mountable LS604WM. Beginning a chapter, I had to brace myself in case I learned someone had died in the interim. I was eager to know how Pauline and Michael’s children turned out. Were they like their mom? Their dad? After a while it felt like I knew everybody, complete with their faults – a bad temper here, a bit of coldness there – and I wanted things to turn out well for them. There’s a scene with two middle-aged people on a date that had me quietly cheering them on; it’s contrasted later with a date scene that had me laughing at its awkwardness. Ward and Venturi were also both committed career amateurs, in the lineage of Ouimet and Jones, gentlemen who for two generations had dominated the sport, and still regulated it, a tradition now threatened by the emergence of the professional tour, where Byron and Ben had led the charge and made their fortunes. So what if Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson represented a living history of the game; the rules of life, and sport in particular, dictate with ruthless inevitability that the youth must be served. The game wasn't played in a museum, and someone had to come along and tear down those marble statues eventually."I loved the intro and general concept for this book. So when the bottom dropped out a third of the way through and it toddled off into oblivion with no conceivable development of any kind, it was a serious disappointment. The 2023 edition features new projects and tools, including 3D printing techniques for ham radio construction, battery selection for portable operation, analog-to-digital converter overload, solid-state amplifier linearity, an update on Solar Cycle 25, and more. The golf match which is told of was a best-ball match that occurred on Wednesday, January 11, 1956, at the (very) private Cypress Point golf course on the Monterrey Peninsula in California. Two two-person teams competed against each other. Details ->>> Each team’s score for each hole is the single score of their “best ball”. If one person scores a 3, and the other a 5, the 3 is the team’s score – the 5 matters not. Then, the hole by hole scores are compared in a “match play” (rather than a “medal play) manner – meaning that each hole is scored as a tie, or as a win for one team and a loss for the other – the margin of the win/loss makes no difference. A book for golf lovers everywhere. Following the early years of golf in the US (1920s & 1930s) through its history and changes including stories on games and players. Its predominate focus is a Match in 1956. It follows the creation of today's AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am known in the 30’s as the Bing Crosby Pro-Am (or Crosby Clambake), an annual weekend of partying and golf hosted by Crosby and attended by everybody who was anybody. Contest operator K4RO decided to install a large SPGP to improve his station's ability to deal with lightning and to minimize RF voltage differences throughout the antenna switching and filtering system. The panel is installed on an exterior garage wall under his station - which is effectively a second-floor station. The ground conductor is attached at the upper right to ground rods installed outside the wall.