Moonlight Cocktails & The Open

Golf Greece projects The Duels on the Clubhouse garden during The Open week

The tv broadcast of the 152nd Open transmitted rainy and windswept conditions from Royal Troon.

But in Athens, temperatures were persistently above 39 degrees. It was during the afternoon when a cooling breeze came to rescue and made conditions delightful. We couldn’t think of a better way to spend that evening, than to project the Duels back to back on a LED wall in the clubhouse garden of Glyfada Golf Course, along with the precious company of friends and fellow golfers who hadn’t yet left for summer vacations.

When the footage of R&A Films and North Ridge Films started rolling, great debates emerged:

The Duel In The Sun or The Duel of the ‘Sons?

Turnberry or Troon?

Mustard sweaters, hard-collared shirts, checkered pants and woods made of actual wood or post-2000 stripe shows and all-black outfits?

Equally important: pizza with cocktails during the first battle and burgers with beer during the second, or inversely?

Two golfing battles you can never put your finger on, on a night that rolled as smooth as the thin plumes from cigars from some tables dispersed in the night air. Some memory to keep for cold winter pillows.