Peter dobereiner biography
Peter Dobereiner studied law at Oxford before following a career as a golf writer he was golf correspondent for The Guardian and The Observer....
Dobereiner was a much-loved personality throughout the golf world and was widely recognised as one of the greatest golf writers.
I never really had an all time hero golfer. My hero was the writer Peter Dobereiner, gone by the time I discovered him. Here’s one of my favourite pieces of his work
I wish that he was still here, because no one can ever write about golf as well as him, Here is one of his pieces.
“How do you feel when you hear a professional golfer announce that he simply must take a break for a month or so because he has played for three straight weeks?
“I can scarce forebear to burst into tears of sympathy for the poor incredibly sad in this age of enlightenment that any human being should have to endure three solid weeks of living in five star hotels, being ferried about in courtesy limousines, playing a leisurely eighteen holes a day and getting paid obscenely extravagant amounts of money for it all.
“Just imagine the scene 2,000 feet below ground in the Welsh valleys where Taffy Jones, cramped in a two foot seam, is hacking at the coal face with his pick, soaked in his own