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AND ON THE EIGHTH DAY, HE RESTED (AND THE NINTH)

AND ON THE EIGHTH DAY, HE RESTED (AND THE NINTH)

Walter Iman

TD played seven rounds in seven days to complete a whirlwind of links golf in Ayrshire.  All this was arranged by Callum of LomondGolfTours.com. This was truly a great experience...

AND ON THE EIGHTH DAY, HE RESTED (AND THE NINTH)

Walter Iman

TD played seven rounds in seven days to complete a whirlwind of links golf in Ayrshire.  All this was arranged by Callum of LomondGolfTours.com. This was truly a great experience...

CAN YOU SPOT THE DUFFER IN THIS PICTURE?

CAN YOU SPOT THE DUFFER IN THIS PICTURE?

Walter Iman

TD had a great (well a fun) day at Belleisle on Wednesday seeing buddy Andy, whom he had met at Crail a couple of years ago and meeting (an unsuspecting)...

CAN YOU SPOT THE DUFFER IN THIS PICTURE?

Walter Iman

TD had a great (well a fun) day at Belleisle on Wednesday seeing buddy Andy, whom he had met at Crail a couple of years ago and meeting (an unsuspecting)...

SCENES & SIGNS AROUND AYR

SCENES & SIGNS AROUND AYR

Walter Iman

TD ENCOUNTERS RABBIE BURNS. TD swore he could hear “Auld Lang Syne” being recited up the street from his hotel and, sure enough, as he walked in a southerly direction,...

SCENES & SIGNS AROUND AYR

Walter Iman

TD ENCOUNTERS RABBIE BURNS. TD swore he could hear “Auld Lang Syne” being recited up the street from his hotel and, sure enough, as he walked in a southerly direction,...

DUNDONALD LINKS – DUN FOR DONALD’S ILK

DUNDONALD LINKS – DUN FOR DONALD’S ILK

Walter Iman

One of the newer golfing offerings in this part of the world is Dundonald Links.  The goal of this course was to “impress”.  TD is not sure whom or how,...

DUNDONALD LINKS – DUN FOR DONALD’S ILK

Walter Iman

One of the newer golfing offerings in this part of the world is Dundonald Links.  The goal of this course was to “impress”.  TD is not sure whom or how,...

MORE FROM THE ISLE OF ARRAN

MORE FROM THE ISLE OF ARRAN

Walter Iman

Later, TD found out that Goat Fell was a mountain on the Isle of Arran.  Originally, he surmised that someone was pleading for persons to help retrieve a goat that...

MORE FROM THE ISLE OF ARRAN

Walter Iman

Later, TD found out that Goat Fell was a mountain on the Isle of Arran.  Originally, he surmised that someone was pleading for persons to help retrieve a goat that...

DAYS ON THE ISLAND (ARRAN THAT IS)

DAYS ON THE ISLAND (ARRAN THAT IS)

Walter Iman

The Traveling Duffer’s packager for the first portion of “Scotland 2025”, (LomondGolfTours.com), sent him across the pond, across the pond (repeated for effect), to the Isle of Arran for golf...

DAYS ON THE ISLAND (ARRAN THAT IS)

Walter Iman

The Traveling Duffer’s packager for the first portion of “Scotland 2025”, (LomondGolfTours.com), sent him across the pond, across the pond (repeated for effect), to the Isle of Arran for golf...

Duffer Update

THE TRAVELING DUFFER KEEPS ON "DUFFING" TOWARD 2026 with E-Commerce

Now in its sixth year, the Traveling Duffer (TD) website and blog, once again reinvents itself as not only a historical account of years of hope for the aging, but also as a site where like-minded old (and maybe even a few young) people can learn not only about quality links golf offerings, but also experience new signs of toward life lessons...or something like that.  

TD started posting just after a trip to The Presidents Cup in Melbourne, Australia in 2019.  Covid was knocking at The World's door and Australia was on fire.  Yet, the TD felt there was a brighter story to be told.  Now, some 200 blog posts and (maybe) tens of thousands of view later, the TD site is taking on a new look, a new angle, a new life, as everyone needs to reinvent themselves to allay stagnation...and possible deportation.    

Going forward, you'll be able to wear the TD close to your head and heart with a significant array of apparel, travel suggestions, hacks, facks and quacks in a medium which only an aging duffer can conjure.  

TD began his golf travel experiences in the late 1980's with a group of already aging golfers, many who have gone to that great driving range in the sky.  He prided himself as someone who could hang these serious duffers while maintaining his youthful stature in the group.  Today, he is one of the older statesmen of a group which, even with substantial attrition, has grown to nearly 50 golfers.  That's how popular duffing actually is.  

Perpetuating an image built out of the right to play  mediocre golf in significant locations around the world seems to be  the ongoing  charge of The Traveling Duffer.  Age and mediocrity, levity and now increasing brevity, are all soldiers in a battle being fought within a very tough sport and playing thousands of rounds with hundreds of new and old friends is the true gift of a full (golfing) life.                                 

"... right at the end we'll put a flat piece with a flag to give you xxxxing hope"

                                                                                                                            Robin Williams