Reece Witters ✏️

Golf Creative × Tech Tinkerer × Storyteller

[Reece Witters ✏️ @auldmanpar]

@jamierkennedy Sims

[Jamie Kennedy @jamierkennedy]

It's here...

It's officially Ryder Cup week.

What better why to get hyped than watch the video the Euro team watched the night before the 2018 Ryder Cup in Paris.

(Was only meant to be seen by the players but was later made public after they won)

[Reece Witters ✏️ @auldmanpar]

@jamierkennedy That is CRAZY!

[The Golfer's Journal @GolfersJournal]

Tairāwhiti/Gisborne sits within Poverty Bay on the far eastern point of New Zealand’s North Island. Its unique location means that our city is the first in the world to see the sun each day. As such, our links at Awapuni—not any of the much more well-known links of Scotland—is the first to greet each new dawn. First to see the light, first to celebrate with sausages.

We don’t claim to have a Picasso, but we know we have a true golf course—not some highly manufactured, over-groomed operation with posh members and bougie entry gates, but something raw and real. Farm-style fences, likely remnants of a time when they were needed to keep the livestock out, continue to mark the land. The course is part of the community, a place where dogs are walked, roosters crow their persistent anthem, chainsaws harmonize with the neighboring airport runway, and the thunderous rumble of logging trucks drifts over the dunes. It’s chaotic and unpolished, but get me out with a single strap and enough bats to get the job done, and I’m right at home.

Words by @auldmanpar in TGJ No. 33
Photos by Ricky Robinson

[Reece Witters ✏️ @auldmanpar]

@myklgolf @GolfersJournal I'll host you. Easy

[Reece Witters ✏️ @auldmanpar]

@jamierkennedy Golf doesn't need fixing.

[Reece Witters ✏️ @auldmanpar]

@jamierkennedy Young Kenny Brown would have been doing some seducing by the looks of that old photo.

[Reece Witters ✏️ @auldmanpar]

Recent assignment of mine showcasing the innovative Hyperscapes Golf Club venture for @thelinksdiary

[The Links Diary @thelinksdiary]

“Selecting the terrain for the project was a process marked by both imagination and caffeine-fuelled late nights. In their quest to create an unparalleled digital golfing experience, the team went on a golf design Easter Egg Hunt, seeking a real-world piece of land that not only offered the natural beauty and strategic complexity worthy of a top-tier golf course, but also held the potential for a profound historical narrative.

The search zeroed in on locations featuring evidence of an ancient Caledonian pinewood patch; of which there were 84 across Scotland. Goetz made the magical discovery of the ‘fertile land’ for this endeavor, a place once home to an enchanted, thriving forest 6,000 years ago. Now a rocky, exposed peninsula, with huge elevation drops combined with golf-friedly shelves and jaw-dropping vistas, Tankovics and his team dropped a pin and labeled it Roccabara Cliffs.”

4000BC Tee Time | TLD No.9

Words by @auldmanpar
Photography by @cubgolf

Available to read in full in The Links Diary No.9.

https://t.co/NrlNpsFrKO

[Reece Witters ✏️ @auldmanpar]

@jamierkennedy Would make a good openside for Scotland Rugby.

[The Links Diary @thelinksdiary]

“A quarter-century later, and making the turn in 40, like many before me, I fell into a period of struggle. My golfing identity was in question, and my self-confidence on shaky ground. Once, a club-level, confident, accomplished player, I had become frustrated with a stagnant golf game and was seeking a new purpose. My scores were ballooning, my swing felt foreign, and I couldn’t keep the big dawg on the property thanks to a dreaded two-way-horror-show. The raw truth was, I wasn’t loving golf, and it wasn’t loving me back. All the signs of a midlife golf crisis.”

Midlife Golf Crisis by @auldmanpar

Read it in No.8 - https://t.co/3BnZegDCMF

[Reece Witters ✏️ @auldmanpar]

@ColtKnost Future? It's happening right now.

[Reece Witters ✏️ @auldmanpar]

@jamierkennedy Telling stats.

[Reece Witters ✏️ @auldmanpar]

@JoshACarpenter Personally think this is pretty rad.

[Josh Carpenter @JoshACarpenter]

Why LIV Golf turns to sci-fi creative to attract more fans: https://t.co/LHadgQjE24

[Reece Witters ✏️ @auldmanpar]

Surely Charlie signed up already?

[Jamie Kennedy @jamierkennedy]

Who do we reckon will be the first player not named Tiger Woods to wear S̶u̶n̶d̶a̶y̶ Sun Day Red?

◻️ Justin Thomas
◻️ Rose Zhang
◻️ Rory McIlroy
◻️ Charlie Woods
◻️ Scottie Scheffler
◻️ Will Zalatoris

[Jamie Kennedy @jamierkennedy]

This image hits hard.

A 14-year-old Tiger Woods sits in his bedroom reading a "St Andrews Opens" book in his house in California.

He would go on to win two Opens at St Andrews.

[Jamie Kennedy @jamierkennedy]

Some of the coolest golfing land 😍

2nd, 16th and 17th holes at North Berwick.

[Reece Witters ✏️ @auldmanpar]

@jamierkennedy Is that Sam Torrance?

[Reece Witters ✏️ @auldmanpar]

@jamierkennedy Hard to argue with the 2nd at RD. Especially when your swing is cold and you've been waiting for morning frost to clear.

[Reece Witters ✏️ @auldmanpar]

@jamierkennedy New desktop background, sorted. The Himalayas, the scene of my greatest golf triumph - The Pat Furlong Trophy. What a place.