Hamish Macfie

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@ClarksonsFarm1 Never close doors! I once had a customer that I had to part ways with & i did in a respectful way even though it would have been easier to sever ties immediately. Turns out that customer pivoted & placed a £1.5million order with me 3 years later!

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received that changed your perspective?

@joshuaberry2005 @de_alcanada @HPlanner_Tour @DPWorldTour Massive congratulations, Josh. Well done & good luck

What a week @de_alcanada @HPlanner_Tour Thats the season done . Couple of weeks off and then the next one starts on the @DPWorldTour ! 🇦🇺 🦘 Thank you to all my support this week ❤️

@Phillwalker7 @AbbeydaleGolf @YUGCUK @SheffGolfUnion @Albie7Walker @SandburnGolf @EnglandGolf Many, many congratulations @Albie7Walker on your selection. They are great days, you’ll learn loads from Robbo & enjoy some great inter regional matches. Well done - great times ahead

Congratulations to our eldest grandson @AbbeydaleGolf @YUGCUK @SheffGolfUnion junior @Albie7Walker who has been selected and joined up today with the England under 18 regional squad @SandburnGolf York @EnglandGolf .

@Albie7Walker @SheffGolfUnion @Hillsborough_GC Nice one @Albie7Walker 👊

Thanks @SheffGolfUnion and @Hillsborough_GC for a nice event in the stroke play championships ⛳️ finished 2nd overall in the u18’s and managed to retain the U14 trophy 🏆 - Thanks @SheffGolfUnion 👍

@Albie7Walker @YUGCUK @GDaviesGolf @craig_fricker @Wooders13 @Phillwalker7 Yorkshire shorgame 👊

@HamishKMac @YUGCUK @GDaviesGolf @craig_fricker @Wooders13 @Phillwalker7 Cheers Hamish, was a great day. Pitched/chipped in for birdie on 17th which made the last interesting ⛳️

Huge thank you to the @YUGCUK especially @GDaviesGolf @craig_fricker @Wooders13 & Frank for all your help and support. I won the U14 championship today playing alongside a fab bunch of lads. Special thanks to all my family for everything you do @Phillwalker7

@Albie7Walker @EnglandGolf @Phillwalker7 @Feary4 @GDaviesGolf @Wooders13 @YUGCUK No, I’m not going to Cleveland. I might be around for SUGC at Hillsborough as I see it’s both Junior & Men’s Open on the same day. Callum hasn’t entered just yet, he is planning to, just depends on how his back is really. Good luck to @Albie7Walker in @YUGCUK U14/16.

@HamishKMac @EnglandGolf @Phillwalker7 @Feary4 @GDaviesGolf @Wooders13 @YUGCUK Thanks Hamish, I’ll put in for U16 & Douglas event next year. well… we have a midweek off together in August and we entered the YUGC amateur. I see Callum is playing. Will you be there..? I’ll pop over and watch a few holes with you?

Reid trophy 🏆 Day 3 complete! Genuinely chuffed, 3 days good golf and a T29th position. Back at home, thank you to my family, the organisers @EnglandGolf @Phillwalker7 @Feary4 @GDaviesGolf @Wooders13 for supporting me. Well done my @YUGCUK buddies! 👏

@Albie7Walker @EnglandGolf @Phillwalker7 @Feary4 @GDaviesGolf @Wooders13 @YUGCUK The Reid, McGregor & Carris are all great events to play in. Strong European & sometimes worldwide competition. NOE U16 next? Douglas Johns is another good U15 event.

@HamishKMac @EnglandGolf @Phillwalker7 @Feary4 @GDaviesGolf @Wooders13 @YUGCUK Cheers Hamish!!! Awesome day 💪💪

@Albie7Walker @EnglandGolf Excellent start @Albie7Walker, 👍

Day one Reid trophy @EnglandGolf U14’s - 💪💪💪

@Albie7Walker @England Great event, @Albie7Walker, enjoy it & good luck

Made it to the @england.golf Reid trophy U14 championships 🏆- A privilege to have got here and now a great challenge to go up against the seasons of weather and carve out some good golf ⛳️

@Albie7Walker @YUGCUK @beamishpark_gc The Reid is great - I see it’s in the North again this year! Good luck

@HamishKMac @YUGCUK @beamishpark_gc Try for the Reid and north of England 💪💪

@Albie7Walker @YUGCUK @beamishpark_gc OMG - that’s a fee years ago!! What’s next this year?

@HamishKMac @YUGCUK @beamishpark_gc Cheers Hamish, showed Albie a pic of young Callum winning the NOE a few years back. ‘Hasn’t he grown’ 😂

@Phillwalker7 @Albie7Walker @YUGCUK @beamishpark_gc @GDaviesGolf @craig_fricker Nice one @Albie7Walker well done. Enjoy

Congratulations to our eldest grandson @Albie7Walker who has been selected and will proudly represent the @YUGCUK under 16s in their junior match against Durham under 16s @beamishpark_gc June 26th. Thanks to the coaching staff @GDaviesGolf & @craig_fricker for coaching Albie

@swash_craig Great to see, Craig. Hope you’re all well?

Great 1st Comp of the year for James. Good signs that the hard work through the winter is starting to pay off & still plenty more to come. #APTTOUR

@joshuaberry2005 Massive congratulations Josh from Callum & me. The first of many buddy.

Unreal feeling , thank you to all my sponsors and coaches for making this possible . My 1st win as a professional golfer . It’s something I’ve dreamed about for a long time . Thank you to everyone for the messages . ❤️🏆

@Phillwalker7 @Albie7Walker @robrockgolftour @grandhyattLMC @AbbeydaleGolf @YUGCUK @GDaviesGolf Massive congratulations @Albie7Walker - great start to your year

Huge congratulations to our eldest grandson @Albie7Walker who today won the 2025 European Masters @robrockgolftour under 14s championship @grandhyattLMC by 8 Shots . Big thanks to his coach @AbbeydaleGolf & @YUGCUK @GDaviesGolf for all his work with Albie

My monologue on today’s The Times at One @TimesRadio 1pm, live from New York: It’s only the start of the third full day of the new Trump administration but already we can see what an economic and business threat it poses to an ailing Europe, including the UK.  And it’s about much more than tariffs. Trump aims to consolidate America’s economic supremacy with lower taxes, cheaper energy, much less regulation.  It’s worth noting that taxes in Europe and the UK are already much higher than in America, energy is much more expensive and business far more highly regulated. That explains why America has come out of the pandemic downturn far more robustly than Europe.  Trump now wants to go faster on all three fronts, so that America pulls even further ahead of Europe than it already is.  As Europe continues to stagnate, America is poised to grow more. Multi-billion dollar investments in AI and other cutting edge technologies are being announced, reinforcing America’s clear technological lead.  It’s often thought high-tech business doesn’t consume as much power as the old heavy industries. You couldn’t be more wrong.  Data centres are fierce consumers of electricity, which is why Trump wants even cheaper energy — and why Europe and the UK, which has the highest electricity costs in the world, are struggling to attract these data centres.  Heavy industry in Europe and the UK is still being hollowed out. Not enough new stuff is replacing it.  In the UK alone chemical production is down 38% in just the past three years, cement production down 40%, electrical equipment down 50%. Either they close down because energy costs mean they can’t compete or they flee across the Atlantic, where energy costs are far cheaper.  It’s happening all across Europe.  Yet nobody in Europe is doing anything about it.  Far from cutting red tape, Brussels boasts, absurdly, that the EU is a regulatory superpower. Good luck with getting rich on that.  Far from cutting taxes, almost everywhere in Europe they are being increased, even though they’re already at record levels.  And far from reducing energy prices they continue to rise as Europe puts the huge cost of going for green energy generation onto everybody’s fuel bills.  It’s a hat trick of self-harm which Trump has spotted and intends to exploit.  In Britain Keir Starmer manfully struggles against all the legal constraints on growth and development, many exploited by his legal friends who’ve grown rich on lawfare.  He’s for the builders not the blockers, he claims. Which is good news. But I’d put my money on the blockers winning.  In Davos Rachel Reeves says she’ll look again at the tax regime for non-doms now that 11,000 millionaires and multi-millionaires left Britain in the past year alone to escape her high taxes. I suspect it’s too late to woo them back.  The punk left will say good riddance to them. They don't realise it’s Britain’s tax base walking out the door. Contrary to populist belief, our revenue base is hugely dependent on high earners. The top 1% of earners account for 30% of income tax revenues. The top 0.1% pay over 10% of income tax revenues.  If they go, everybody else will have to pay more tax.  Few in Britain realise this which is why wealth-destroying policies are so popular. It’s not a mistake made here in America, which is prepared to welcome companies escaping Europe’s anti-business climate and the high-earning, tax paying wealth creators that come with them.  By the end of this decade US business will likely be more dominant than ever. And Europe, Britain included, even more of a backwater. For the moment at least, there is nothing on the horizon to change that gloomy prognosis.