A Wine Maker’s Passion for Golf

“My first golfing experience occurred some 25 years ago in South Australia when to celebrate the end of harvest we were all taken out to the local course. I was provided with some clubs and a few balls. I tried to make the most of it but found the coordination very difficult … until I tried a left handed club … and it all came together.
 
Today my game has somewhat improved … I am not quite as tempered as I use to and I can still enjoy the game on a bad day.

My favorite club is my DRIVER. I practice it a lot and get enormous satisfaction from a perfectly straight and long shot. I know everyone else will say differently but, for me, it is the most important shot in Golf as it positively or negatively affects the rest of my game. 

My home course is in Margaux (www.relais-margaux.fr), just a few miles north of Bordeaux and surrounded by some of the greatest wine producing properties in the world such as Château Palmer (www.chateau-Palmer.com) and our family property Château d’Angludet (www.chateau-angludet.fr)

I play the Relais, as we call it, regularly. Not only do I enjoy the course which is beautifully designed along the Garonne River but it also gives me another chance to find my lost balls.

When I’ve played a great game I do like to reward myself with a great bottle of Château d’Angludet 1998 or Alter Ego 1999 on the patio of the Relais’s club house overlooking the 18th hole. If I’ve played poorly … I do exactly the same … and thinking back on my game, what I’ve done right and wrong I always think how similar great golf and great wines are ... It’s all about coordination and balance!”