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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

Day One of the Masters.

As they say in conditions like these of blustery wind you cannot win ther Masters but you can lose them. The main thing was to stain your whih means anything better than -1. I have never been a great lover of statistics but having studied the chart of driving length, greens in regulation, putting, [...]

April 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Houston Open and Masters

Russell Henry won the Shell Houston Open, the last place in the Masters, me a nice few quid as Jeremy Chapman had recommended him and the Pargie tenner was on that at 40-1. He is always a golfer I have liked. A lovely putter but not one of the robotic output of collegiate golf, there is something [...]

April 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Pargie’s sporting weekend

Once again Jeremy Chapman in the Racing and Football Outlook came up trumps by predicting Dustin Johnson as winner and tipping young Jon Rahm who ran him close finishing third. He did not quite fare so well in South Africa where none of his picks featured, the Tshwane Open was won by Dean [...]

March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

SKY GOLF COMMENTATORS

Rust contributors like to work up a fair old head of steam on female sporting broadcasters, the view of some being that they are there not because of any indigenous talent but because they are women. To take a contrarian view I would like today to champion the cause of Henni Zuel, the youngest ever [...]

March 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

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Pargie’s betting philosophy and weekend

No contributor features in other columns more than me and our readers might think I am an addictive gambler. To draw an analogy I sometimes feel like the social drinker cast as an alcoholic – the type in denial that hides his booze around the home and talks of nothing else but getting drunk. [...]

February 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

Pargie’s sporting weekend

Alan Tanner invited me to Fulham v Wigan on Saturday. Bob Tickler’s godson Jamie now goes regularly with him. He (Jamie) advised that I should back Scott Malone to score any time as he always scores for Jamie. He duly did so but in his own net and had to explain why this does not count. I [...]

February 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Pargie’s sporting weekend

When I first started following golf it was America that dominated with Arnie Palmer and Jack Nicklaus followed by another generation of major winners, Lee Trevino, Johnny Miller, Tom Weiskopf. The Southern Hemisphere provided Roberto de Vincenzo, Peter Thomson, Kel Nagle and Bob Charles but only [...]

February 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

On longevity of sportsmen

There has been an interesting discussion on the Rust these past weeks on how you can measure the greatness of a sportsman by the length of time he/she achieves in their sport. However the converse to this is the sportsman whose best days are behind him but does not realise this. The best example of [...]

February 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Pargie’s sporting Sunday

It began at 7-30 with a serendipitous moment. I switched onto Sky Sports for the coverage of the Federer/Nadal final. In long haul television I prefer to avoid the build up, too much flannel, and I can only take the Ray Winstone betting advert so many times. However the station was profiling Tom [...]

January 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Pargie’s Sporting Weekend

I was let down in the golf where my two punts Rory Mcilroy and Jordan Spieth finished runners up and third respectively  in the BMW European event in Johannesburg and the Sony USPGA at Hawaii. The former was won by Graeme Storm who very nearly lost his European tour card. He was 100 euros light [...]

January 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

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