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Who will win the Open?

My guru Jeremy Chapman fancied Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Branden Grace, Chris Wood and Kyung Tae. Provided the weather stays clement DJ has the game most suited on a course where Americans have traditionally done well. Mickelson won two years ago and Lefty can never be written off. Branden [...]

July 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Way to go, Rory!

With the Rio Olympics opening ceremony now only a few weeks away, it would seem that the IOC – and some of the governing bodies of sports admitted to the ‘family’ – could do with more adverse advance publicity like a hole in the head. The IOC is a bit like FIFA is to football and maybe [...]

July 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

A delightful day of tv sport

I took my missus to IKEA early doors to clear the day for The  Murray /Raonic final, The Scottish  Open at Castle Stuart and the Euro final. I don’t follow tennis. For me there  is not enough variety.   In golf every shot is different , every course has its own challenges whereas in [...]

July 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

One of the interesting aspects of the post-Tiger Woods golfing world is who – if any- will succeed him. One might have thought that one of the Day/Fowler and McIlroy group might push through. Dustin Johnson had the best natural game but had to confront his demons. After Day bogeyed and double [...]

July 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Not all is lost

With the markets and main political parties in turmoil, I am nonetheless pleased to report that for the second successive weekend Pargie was on the up. Indeed my missus was even prepared to release more funds from the household budget to my burgeoning betting  war chest. In golf once again Jeremy [...]

June 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Golfing weekend

The US Open may not be remembered for Dustin Johnson’s first major but for some officiously unhelpful refereeing by the US PGA. The incident in question arose over a putt. Johnson took two practice strokes and as he shaped to take the actual stroke the ball moved. He summoned the referee who [...]

June 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Spieth, Wood and Chapman triumph

Its been a most satisfactory betting bank holiday with the accent on bank to date. A good pal of mine accompanied Ivan to the Brighton  races . He is big on analysing data to extract the formula to win on PGA courses. I did ask him how that caters for the ball flying into a woody copse which then [...]

May 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another staging post is reached

This week, some two years and seven months after suffering what appears to have been a self-inflicted catastrophic onset of osteoarthritis in my hip whilst playing golf, I went for a pre-op assessment in advance of my date with the knife for a hip replacement in July. By ‘self-inflicted’ I mean [...]

May 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

No big deal

Last week a stink blew up over the decision by members of Muirfield Golf Club to reject the admission of women as members. As I understand it, they needed a 75% majority to accept the change to their ‘men only’ rule – the senior executives supported the move and did everything they reasonably [...]

May 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Clear Day Light

Jason Day’s victory at Sawgrass, his 7th in 17th starts elevates him not just above his peers in age Rory McIlroy and Ricky Fowler but the rest of the world. Before Jordan Spieth messed up at Amen Corner one might have had him as a rival. As Sir Nick Faldo noted he is reminiscent of Ben Hogan [...]

May 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

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