Change of direction

Regular readers may have noticed a slowdown in posts on The Golf Course as Art of late. This is down to the fact that I am planning a change of direction.

While I don't want to let these pages go, I have begun to wonder if the market for blogs that are of an observational or commentary nature may be diminishing.

From my own experience, I know that pressure of time provides decreasing opportunity to set time aside for reading. I snapped up a year's subscription to the digital version of that fine publication The Sporting News earlier this year for a ridiculously cheap price , yet just as I feared, I've hardly had time to read a single issue.

I sense that the blogs that tend to work best in this climate are those that provide specific information, designed not merely to enlighten readers or engage debate, but to offer practical assistance. This is a hard criterion to meet where golf architecture is concerned but I've hit on an idea that I am hoping to put into practice in the near future.

Because I want to start with a clean sheet, it will appear on a different platform that may, in time, take over completely from where The Golf Course as Art left off.

Much as I hate cliche, watch this space...