We write and design journals for places that deserve attention: a walking golf course, a historic hotel, a property with a story worth keeping. Each is produced by a fine book printer on paper made for writing, with a cover designed to be held.
A keepsake for the people who paid attention.
For links-style courses, and the golfers who want to remember them.
Each edition carries the course's landscape, history and traditions, with a hole-by-hole scorecard and room to record the round as you played it.
For properties with a sense of place, and the travelers who inhabit them.
For historic hotels and exceptional properties. Available as universal editions for any trip, or commissioned for a single property and placed in its rooms and shop.
A walking course on the edge of Lookout Mountain, above the clouds of northwest Georgia. The journal opens with the land's Cherokee, Scottish and Civil War history, then walks the front and back nines hole by hole.
History of the land and the course, and how it came to be walked.
Three pages for the morning: weather, company, what you hope for.
Each hole introduced in prose, followed by two ruled pages of your own.
Four pages to pause between nines.
Written to the same depth as the front, hole by hole.
Four pages for the clubhouse and the stories told there.
Four pages to write down what stayed with you.
Two pages for the round you'll come back for.
“Trust yourself to know the difference.”
A nineteenth-century manor house at the foot of the Alpilles, reached by an avenue of plane trees just outside Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. The journal opens with the history of the château and its park, then follows your stay from arrival to departure.
History of the house and the people who made it what it is.
First impressions: the drive in, the front door, the room.
The park, the plane-tree avenue and the views worth finding.
Meals worth remembering, and who you shared them with.
Saint-Rémy, Les Baux and the villages of the Alpilles, and what you found there.
Pages for the slow afternoon and the late evening.
Room to write down what stayed with you.
The room, the season and the company for next time.
“Some places stay with you long after you leave.”
We work with one club, hotel or estate at a time and write the journal from the ground up. Your guests take home something that could only have come from you.
We walk the course or stay on the property, and gather its history from the people who know it best.
Every introduction, hole note and prompt is written for your place alone, in a voice that suits it.
Covers, scorecards and interior pages are set in the house style and approved by you.
Each edition is produced by a specialist book printer to a luxury standard, with careful choices of paper, cover and finish. Finished journals arrive ready for the pro shop, the front desk or the guest room.
Golf clubs, historic hotels and distinctive properties are welcome. Minimum orders and wholesale terms are shared on request.
Or write to us at hello@penandfairway.com
Author of The Walk. Alan writes the way he plays: plainly, warmly, and with patience for the ground under his feet. His journals honor the walking game and leave the reader to find their own way around it.
A writer of literary nonfiction, Kim is at work on The Cultivated Traveler, a travel memoir. A Cultivated Journey grew out of her writing process for the book. Her journals are for the places people remember long after they leave, made to be kept.
