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The sporting weekend

The sporting weekend exposed many clichés and platitudes. In beating fancied Australia in the ICC Trophy South Africa proved that they are not chokers and the quota system has produced successful captains in the Springboks and Proteans. England rugby union’s Gallagher Premiership Final was a [...]

June 16, 2025 // 0 Comments

The US Open at Oakmont

They say that the US Open is the one of the four Majors that the pros want to win. A few well-known golfers have never done so (Sam Snead, Phil Mickelson, Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo to name 4). The Masters is a tad up itself – the British Open being a Links course is weather dependent [...]

June 13, 2025 // 0 Comments

The US PGA

It was not a great Major, though not without its talking points. In the first round the heavy hitters did not dominate – though Rory McIlroy did so in the press headlines. The two Ryder Cup captains, Luke Donald and Keegan Bradley, both scored well initially and made the cut and the [...]

May 20, 2025 // 0 Comments

Sporting Saturday

With the Cup Final and US PGA on ‘moving day’, I was embarrassed by riches and swerved a tight and exciting victory of Northampton Saints over Saracens. That the Cup Final has declined as “THE National Sporting Event”  is evidenced by it not even being the front page story in The [...]

May 18, 2025 // 0 Comments

US PGA

The US PGA takes place today at Quail Hollow, a course that demands length. Predictably Rory McIlroy is still the big story and favourite, particularly as he won his first Major at Quail Hollow in 2012. Accordingly my staking plan is for the better value Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele, Tommy [...]

May 15, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Masters

Since the media will be full of Rory’s Masters and joining the elite group of 4 Major winners, I feel free to give an independent view point on what was a magnificent sporting contest. By backing Xander Schauffe as one of my four “picks” it was not a betting disaster but – even [...]

April 15, 2025 // 0 Comments

Masters Preview

It’s that time of the year when the golf chatter is of the Azaleas in bloom, Amen Corner and Gene Sarazen’s albatross. Yes – we are talking the Masters at Augusta, the only major played every year on the same course. It’s invitational, so the circuit attaches greater  importance to the [...]

April 10, 2025 // 0 Comments

Schauffele’s Open

Xander Schauffele won his second Major of the year, seeing off the challenge of Trystan Lawrence and Justin Rose. Yorkshireman Dan Brown, who up to the tournament some might have thought wrote The Da Vinci Code, faded away as did West Ham supporter Billy Horshel who had led on the third day. He [...]

July 23, 2024 // 0 Comments

US Open

Having backed Bryson DeChambeau I must have been one of the few Britons not rooting for Rory McIlroy in the US Open. It was the stuff of great golf. Two guys fighting it out “mano v mano” like the epic struggles between Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson in Turnberry in 1976 (“The Duel [...]

June 17, 2024 // 0 Comments

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