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PLANET GOLF THE ART OF GOLF We talk to French artist Hubert Prive on his golf inspired sculptures CHRISTMAS GIFTS ISSUE 5 We’ve got you covered REVIE including the ultimate Christmas gift idea TRAVEL Iceland & Luxury Scotland EQUIPMENT Srixon, Mizuno & Bettinardi HOTELS & SPAS Tenby & Alsace APPAREL VIEW.COM Travis Mathew & Stuburt WELCOME Well it’s that time of year again, the clocks go back, darkness descends early and golf courses look a sorry state. But despair ye not the latest issue of planetgolfreview magazine is here giving you a glimpse into what you could be up to next summer. Christmas is a wonderful time of year and it gives you an excuse to over indulge, knowing you will be hitting the gym for about two weeks after new year even though you have purchased a years gym membership – or do you still Plus equipment reviews from Srixon, Mizuno REVIE have the direct debt coming out of your account from and Bettinardi, apparel and luggage reviews last year!! from Travis Mathew Stuburt and Mizuno. The one downside about Christmas is what gift to buy Hotel and Spa breaks in Wales and France and for your loved ones, but don’t worry PGR magazine has destination features to Iceland and Scotland. got you covered over a variety of price points. There is So snuggle up next to the fire with your also the ultimate Christmas Gift. Fancy a drive round mince pie, port and tablet and let us take care Scotland in a Ferrari or Lamborghini staying at the best of the rest. 5 star hotels? Well that is in there too. Wishing you all a happy festive season and may the new year be one full of love, laughter and happy travels. James Mason, Editor MEET THE TEAM Editor James Mason Art Director Joe Hetzel Hotel and Spa Editor Charmaine Hibbert Contributing travel writers Larry Berle Stephanie Mason General enquiries [email protected] .COM EDITORIAL VIEW2 PLANETGOLFREVIEW | CONTENTS p 4 The Art of Golf James Mason talks to French artist Hubert Prive on his golfing obsession p 8 Christmas gifts Wondering what gifts to buy this year, no problem check out our great ideas, plus the ultimate Christmas gift p 11 Equipment review This issue we have reviews of Srixon’s new Z565 driver, Mizuno’s JPX Tour irons and REVIE Bettinardi’s Studio Stock #2 putter p 22 The next It destination Larry Berle, hikes, drives, ferries, buses, climbs and dives his way around Iceland to bring you the lowdown on the next it destination p 27 Connoisseur Scotland 4 Michelin star cooking, five star hotels, chauffer driven Mercedes and five of the best golf courses Scotland has to offer. James Mason 22 takes an indulging trip to the home of golf p 36 Hotel & Spas Charmaine Hibbert travels to Tenby and Alsace to bring you two perfect getaways p 42 Apparel & Luggage This issue reviews Travis Mathew apparel, 11 Stuburt golf shoes and Mizuno luggage 27 36 .COM CONTENTS VIEW3 PLANETGOLFREVIEW | CONTENTS Q&A to Hubert Privé Translation by CLAUDE GRANVEAUD-VALLAT You were 35 years old when you took up golf, what made you decide to play? Discovering golf was pure chance when the Center Parcs golf course was built close to my home in Normandy. I knew nothing about golf, I had played rugby at a good level and especially handball in my youth. I very quickly had good feelings with my first swings and golf became essential to me and an integral part of my life. At the time you had your own advertising agency, so what was the inspiration to become a sculptor and then using golf as the basis of your art? I was already an amateur sculptor, I had studied industrial design and metallurgy which helped me to make volumes out of stone, marble, steel. Combining golf and art saved my life when I had to close my advertising agency. This passion for modern art and golf related to the FRANCAIS Vous aviez 35 ans lorsque vous avez découvert le golf, qu’est-ce qui vous a séduit et décidé à jouer ? La découverte du golf s’est faite par hasard lorsque le parcours de Center Parcs est sorti de terre à côté de chez moi en Normandie. Je n’y connaissais rien, j’avais joué à bon niveau au rugby et surtout au handball dans ma jeunesse. J’ai très vite eu de bonnes sensations lors de mes premiers swings et le golf s’est imposé de lui- même comme une partie intégrante de ma vie. talks to Huburt Prive find out A cette époque, vous aviez votre propre agence de pub, qu’est-ce qui vous a amené à la sculpture en utilisant le golf comme base de votre art ? J’étais déjà un sculpteur amateur, j’avais fait des études de dessin industriel et de métallurgie ce qui m’a aidé à réaliser des volumes en pierre, What makes a sane man who runs successful marketing company give it all up to create sculptures of a game that drives him frustration? James Mason THE ART OF GOLF THE ART OF GOLF en marbre, en acier. La fusion du golf et de complexity of the rules, the ethical meaning of over the planet, it is there the influence of this Right: The the game, offered me a second life at 50. work, perhaps utopian, the alchemy of the artist in brilliantly his vision of the world. As for its manufacturing, illustrated Cliché One of your pieces of work is the X-Ray allow me to keep my little secrets… image of a putter inside a head and I think every golfer can relate to that image, The Golf tees in the French tricolour but what is the story behind that piece? have also become synonymous with I wake up, I hear a noise, I perceive a movement, your work and we have seen that this everything is source of inspiration. I live golf has been used for the inspiration behind every day, saturday, sunday, all day, all night… the Ryder Cup tees and also the Olympic All golfers have a putter grafted in the brain, Flame, do you plan any other adventures this game is a catch of the head, permanent and using tees as your medium? obsessional. One puts one’s life in danger for The tee is the symbol of the tee-off, a new life this game, the emotion is as strong on a drive of at each hole, a new chance each time. I created 250 yards as on a putt of 10 inches. Especially them in monumental works in order to give a when you miss it ! better account of the presence of golf in life, to enhance the senses. I can decline these tees One of the pieces of work that is also ad infinitum; I had created one of them when eye catching is the ball of irons, which Evian became a major tournament. It was you call Gravitation Golf, what was your pink and all the girls had signed it. It is a very inspiration behind that and how did you beautiful medium to promote a sport, its shape go about constructing the sculpture? is nice. It challenges the lay persons by its This sculpture, it is the symbol of the earth, the design, everyone can interpret it with his own I WAKE UP, HEAR A NOISE, I PERCEIVE A MOVEMENT, EVERYTHING IS SOURCE OF INSPIRATION. I LIVE GOLF EVERY DAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, ALL DAY, ALL NIGHT… attraction of golf on earth. There are golfers all approach, with his reading codes. Left: Huburt l’art m’a sauvé la vie lorsque j’ai dû fermer Cette sculpture, c’est la symbolique de la terre, indulges in his mon agence de pub. Cette passion pour l’art l’attirance du golf sur la terre. Il y a des golfeurs passion, pain and contemporain et le golf liée à la complexité des partout sur la planète, c’est là le rayonnement souce of inspiration règles, le sens éthique du jeu, m’a offert une de cette oeuvre, peut-être utopiste, l’alchimie seconde vie à 50 ans. de l’artiste dans sa vision du monde. Quant à sa fabrication, permettez-moi de garder mes petits Une de vos pièces maîtresses est la secrets... radio avec un putter dans la tête. Tous les joueurs peuvent se reconnaître dans Les tees bleu, blanc, rouge sont devenus cette image, comment est née cette synonymes de votre travail. Vous les avez oeuvre ? déclinés pour la Ryder Cup et la flamme Je me réveille, j’entends un bruit, je perçois un olympique. Avez-vous d’autres projets geste, tout est source d’inspiration. Je vis golf autour de ces tees ? tous les jours, le samedi, le dimanche, le jour, Le tee, c’est le symbole du départ, d’une nouvelle la nuit... Tous les golfeurs ont un putter greffé vie à chaque trou, d’une nouvelle chance à chaque dans le cerveau, ce jeu est une prise de tête fois. Je les ai créés en oeuvres monumentales permanente, obsessionnelle. On met sa vie en pour mieux rendre compte de la présence du danger pour ce jeu, l’émotion est aussi forte sur golf dans la vie, pour faire grandir les esprits. Je un drive de 250 mètres que sur un putt de 15 cm. peux décliner ces tees à l’infini, j’en avais créé Surtout si on le rate ! un lorsque Evian est devenu un tournoi majeur. Il était rose et toutes les filles l’avaient signé.