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About John Pargiter

John Pargiter’s biggest claim to fame is his first-ever work experience job, as ‘legs’ (or runner) for Henry Longhurst. For many years he worked in insurance at Lloyds. After retiring he has returned to his favourite sport of golf and is a keen recreational sailor and grandparent. More Posts

My sporting week

I totally agree wiht Tom Hollingsworth that in calling the first Test between the British Lions and the All Blacks the so called experts got it spectacularly wrong. Of the 10 experts consulted in the Telegraph special supplement , Sir Ian McGeechan, Brian Moore and rugby correspondent Mick Cleary [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

I get a lot of stick inside and outside The Rust as a closet gambler . I reply that just as a regular drinker is not an alcoholic so a flutterer is not a gambling addict. One of the reasons for this is that I hate ” if only”. Gamblers are unhappy people as even if they win they wished [...]

June 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

There are many fine European golfers in the up and coming generation and two did well over the weekend. Renato Paratore aged 20 won the Nordea Masters whilst Matt Fitzpatrick who won the tourney last year finished a respectable second. Alexandre Levy of France recently won a tournament too. It was [...]

June 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Election betting

When it comes to a flutter I like it to be on a live sports event . However I became rather engrossed in the 24 page General Election betting guide in the Racing Post last Thursday. I was amazed how many markets there were and to see hose football tipsters once advising you to buy Dumbarton’s [...]

June 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Golfing weekend

Jeremy Chapman refound his touch by tipping Kevin Kisner who won the Dean and Deluca invitational at Colonial and his pick Jordan Spieth finishing second. He also recommended Francesco Molinari who finished second to Alex Noren in the flagship event of the European PGA the BMW at Wentworth. The [...]

May 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend.

Both European and US PGA events were determined by play offs. Alvaro Quiros whose recent form was so bad he nearly lost his card squandered a 7 shot lead largely through nerves to Zander Lombard but beat the South African in a play off. Over at Texas, the Byron Nelson played out on the Four Seasons [...]

May 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Golfsixes

A new format was presented yesterday on the European Tour namely internationally paired four balls played over 6 holes over 2 days. It’s marketed as golf’s attempt at T20: quicker, more razzmatazz for the younger audience who in our compressed accelerated age has they say no time for 4 [...]

May 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend and other matters

Once again Jeremy Chapman came up trumps with his third consecutive winner, Alexandre Levy in the Volvo European event in Beijing. I have a bit of Jewish blood in me so I found myself rooting for the swarthy young Frenchman for reasons beyond lucre. France has produced some exciting golfers [...]

May 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

Golfing update

With our pages dominated by those cavorting on the Riviera I have had less opportunity to boast about my golf betting. Last weekend was the best ever with Jeremy Chapman picking the winner at the Heritage (Kevin Chappell) and Shenzhen (Bernard Wieberger in a play off with another Chappers pick [...]

April 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

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