Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

From the late 1950s to the end of his life he was BBC Television's senior golf commentator. Cooke referred to his writing as "the prose style which was as effortless as falling out of bed. In his memoirs My Life and Soft Times (1971) he defended St Cyprians the school he had arrived at in 1915 from critics like Gavin Maxwell and George Orwell who had attacked it in his polemic Such Such Were the Joys.

For 45 years he was golfing correspondent of the Sunday Times. Henry Carpenter Longhurst (18 March 1909 – 21 July 1978) was a renowned British golf writer and commentator. During World War II Longhurst was also a Member of Parliament (MP) for Acton in west London England.