The pen will be mightier than any golf club that amateur qualifier Seb Cave will use during his practice rounds at The Open Championship early this week.
The 21-year-old from the Derbyshire market town of Melbourne is signed up to get on the Royal Portrush course for the first time on Monday, alongside World No 1 Scottie Scheffler and recently crowned US Open champion JJ Spaun.
Cave, who has honed his game in the United States playing for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is one of nine amateurs to have qualified for the event in Northern Ireland.
Tucked away in his luggage this week is a notebook where all his golfing thoughts and musings are stored.
“The thing I pride myself on is learning,” Cave told BBC East Midlands Today.
“I journal every night and try to write things down, so I’m sure my journal will be full.
“I’m signed up with Scottie Scheffler and JJ Spaun on the Monday, so fingers crossed they turn up and I can play with them and learn from them how they go about their practice round, and see if I can learn anything from what they do and I don’t.”
