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Golf. Although I had sworn never to play it, I took it up somewhere in 2001 or 2002, during the last two years when I was living in Belgium. In 2003 I moved to the Algarve, one of the best and most famous regions in the world to play the game. Obviously, my golf clubs came with me, as I had really started to like the game. I played a couple of games, mostly together with my Irish neighbour, who is really addicted to golf. Well, he’s a Brit, so that’s pretty easy to understand. But, starting up a business in Portugal was not easy, and I stopped playing the game for some time. Until a couple of weeks ago.

A Belgian friend was visiting, and he wanted to try to hit some balls. I had to find my bag with golf clubs and off we went, to a local golf club’s drivers range. Although I hadn’t touched the clubs in more than five years, I was surprised to still be able to hit some balls perfect (ok, I am honest, some balls, not all of them). We spent a nice Saturday afternoon on that drivers range, and had a lot of fun. And obviously, we found the 19th hole on a little roof terrace in Cacela Velha, so that went just perfect as well.

Since then, I have left my golf clubs next to the front door, so everytime I walk in or out, I see them. I might take them today, and go and shoot some balls again. As I have been invited to go and play a game on one of the new golf courses we have in our neighbourhood. But I told the people who have invited me that I needed a bit more practise before meeting them on the golfcourse.

I have always wondered how the Brits have been able to invent a game like this. Yesterday, I found the answer to that question. The answer was given by Robin Williams…

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