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 predicted a narrow Lions victory.
Only Austin Healey predicted a margin of 21 points to the Kiwis.
These guys are paid well to assess and predict, the media are the first to criticise any errors, so how comes they get it so wrong?
Rest assured the 2-1 I got for a 13 point plus All Black win will be less for the second test at Wellington.
Ascot is notoriously hard to win, even worse if you lay out for morning coat, lunch, champagne, ticket and travel.
So I was pleased that John Gosden, whom I have known for some 40 years, did not let me down with Coronet at 9-1.
A few lays against favourites and I just about broke even in the week.
So to the golf: the BMW in Munich and Travelers on the Highlands Course, Cromwell, Connecticut.
I fancied Sergio Garcia for the BMW and he went into the final round one ahead of Richard Bland and Joachim Lagergren.
To cover the waterside I had small bets on Lagergen and Bland but bless me Andrea Romero sneaked in with a birdie on the last to win.
I had better fortune at the Travelers where my picks Charley Hofffman and Paul Casey had top 5 finishes.
Jordan Spieth beat the up and coming Daniel Berger in the play off but the former did not seem comfortable in his skin.
Incredible but at it may be at 24 he may over the hill as a new generation of Berger and Joe Rahm are the new kids in the clubhouse.
There is always the tendency to hoover up the dough with top ten finishes particularly if you already have a few Majors under your belt. Aside of that you can have crises of confidence or in your personal life, a divorce, a change of location that does not work out, sponsored clubs that do not suit, your caddy leaving and injury all contribute to the variables of continued success.
