In the late 1960s, the chief reporter of the Shropshire Star (a local newspaper in a little-known English county on the Welsh border) began a new venture on the back, rather than the front, pages.
Bob Davies didn’t expect much from his new golf column, other than to share with readers his joy of the sport through local news and gossip.
It didn’t quite work out like that, however. In fact, it worked out much, much better than Davies could ever have hoped or dreamed of.
Because while it was true that the column took him to the county championship and to monthly medals, it also sent him way beyond the county boundary, from the green fields of England to the green jackets of Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia.
That column might be the best idea the Shropshire Star’s chief reporter ever had.