Articles by John Pargiter

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

Oh what bad luck

Almost every gambler I have met blames his bad luck: what has he done to deserve this(?) is a frequent cri de coeur. Conveniently they forget when Lady Luck is on their side as happened to me last weekend. Late goals in the Milan derby and Manchester United v Arsenal game provided a result when all [...]

November 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

US and European Tour

Both tour events were played in high class resorts last weekend. The OHL US PGA took place at the high end Mayakoba resort in Mexico on a Greg Norman-designed course and the Nedbank in Sun City on the Gary Player course. Pat Perez won in Mexico, Alex Noren his fourth European title this year in [...]

November 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Beating the market

There is always satisfaction in beating the market and that is as much my driver for a flutter as an enhancement of watching tv sport. The match between Liverpool and Manchester United had been hyped up all weekend . Klopp’s Liverpool were on the up with significant wins against the big [...]

October 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Ryder Cup Review

In sport competition format is vital. In some sports like cricket the authorities are forever tinkering with it and not always to the better. In football the intensity of the FIFA and UEFA competitions have been weakened by the number of competitors allowed to enter. Golf is a traditional, [...]

October 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Ryder Cup Review

The smart money is on the USA but I am not so sure. The optimism for a States victory seems to be based on home form and 6 rookies in the opponents. This fails to take into account that the States have lost 8 out of the last 10 Ryder Cups. Further whilst the Europeans seem a cohesive force under [...]

September 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Golfing weekend

Once again Jeremy Chapman brought joy to the Pargiter household with another winner, Franceso Molinari at the Italian Open at Monza. He narrowly beat Danny Willett by one stroke and it was good to see the Masters winner in form going into the Ryder Cup. There was no US PGA event this weekend . [...]

September 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Golfing Weekend

There was much joy in the Pargiter household when thanks to Jeremy Chapman in the Racing and Football Outlook I had both winners in the weekend tournies: Dustin Johnson in the BMW at Crooked Stick and Joost Luiten in the KLM Dutch Open. DJ is an impassive player who robotically hits greens in [...]

September 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Golf: tourneys and final Ryder Cup selection

Tom Pieters won his 3rd European event Made In Denmark to enhance his chances of wild card selection to the European team which Darren Clarke will announce tomorrow. The automatics are Rory McIlroy, Henrik Stensen, Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia, Rafa Cabrera Bello, Andy Sullivan, Matt Fitzpatrick, [...]

August 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Golden Streak

On Friday I backed Anthony Knockaert to be Brighton’s first goal scorer in Brighton v Nottingham Forrest, I would have had 6 successful soccer tickles on Saturday had I betted as intended against Middlesbrough v Stoke. I was back on track with the winner Ryan Moore in the John Deere. [...]

August 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Golfing weekend

When I was a kid my hero was Al Geiberger. Don’t ask me why. Perhaps it was his name. Then in 1967 in the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic he did an incredible thing: he shot a 59. He became forever known as Mr 59. Jim Furyk also shot a 59 and yesterday in the Travelers he bettered this with a [...]

August 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

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ITV COVERAGE OF CHELTENHAM

March 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

I am in the camp of watching on tv rather than attending for the 3 Cs: cost , convenience and comfort. With the cost of travelling and attending Cheltenham and last [...]
Max Schmelling/ The Good German

March 4, 2026 // 0 Comments

In the unlikely event that I would be asked to nominate a Great Life on Matthew Parris ‘ show my choice would be the Black Uhlan Max Schmelling. In the 1930s thee [...]
The Tanner Report : Fulham 2 spurs 1

March 3, 2026 // 0 Comments

Prior to Fulham ‘s comfortable win over Spurs (2-1) I watched the big match Revisited featuring Chelsea 1 Arsenal 2 i guess in the early 70s It would be foolish to [...]
The Six Nations

February 24, 2026 // 0 Comments

The Six Nations continues to throw up surprises. England could not bounce back against Ireland , a resurgent Wales gave Scotland à close game with the Millennium Stadium [...]
Brentford 0 Brighton 2

February 23, 2026 // 0 Comments

The heat is off Fabian Hürzeler with Brighton ‘s 1st win in 13 games. Club owner Tony Bloom was not at the G Tech stadium due to a long planned family engagement but had [...]