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Most golfers will have their own idea of the world's best golf courses to play, of their best ever golf trip and of the players who would be in their dream foursome.

There are so many wonderful golf destinations in the world that if you put ten golfers in a room, you are likely to get ten very different answers. It's all part of the human element of there being different strokes for different folks.

Of course, we can only answer these questions from the limited information that we have available to us. I've played golf for a very long time, watched countless hours of it on TV, read about it, thought about and dreamt about it. Golf has been in my life longer than anything else in my life today and yet I know very little about it.

If I could choose four courses to play, I'd choose Bethpage Black, Pebble Beach, Augusta National and the Old Course at St Andrew's. I've never played any of them but I'm going to put them on my Bucket List. After all, the clock is ticking ever louder and it's time I paid that clock a bit more attention. I'd walk and carry my sticks and I'd want to play all four under tournament conditions to see if I could break one hundred.

Everybody has their best ever golf trip to remember and I've been fortunate enough to have been on some pretty good ones. There are all types of golf trips that one can go on. There are golf trips that involve playing in some pretty serious tournaments and others that involve playing just for fun. There are even golf trips where golf is the side attraction with the main attraction being other stuff, like shopping or sight-seeing.

Golf trips are not only for golf hacks. I gather even Tiger Woods goes on golf trips where he plays golf by day and does other stuff afterwards.

The question of who would be in our dream foursome brings up all sorts of possibilities. Some of us would think about historic players like Old Tom Morris, Harry Vardon and Ted Ray. Others would want to play golf with Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones or Francis Oiumet.

There would be Ben Hogan, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson to consider, as well as more current players like Palmer, Player and Nicklaus.

We would all have our own favourite combination and selection would be a wonderful problem to have.

My favourite foursome of all time is the one I had the pleasure of playing with every weekend a whole bunch of years ago. We would play two against two, best of seven, and the best of seven of the best of seven. No gimmes, no handicaps, play everything out, rain, blow or shine. Competitive as any event I've ever played in since which and, if you are reading this, you know who you are. As someone once said, thanks for the memories.

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