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The Qatar Masters

My late father, a keen club golfer of modest talent but much philosophising, used to say that golf was the only sport in the world where you were obliged through the handicap system to explain to your opponent how bad you are before the game began. He often compared golf to tennis a sport my mother [...]

January 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

Jason Dufner won his first tourney since the 2013 USA PGA in the Career Builder at La Quinta. Over in Abu Dhabi Ricky Fowler held off the challenge of Thomas Pieters to win. Steve Palmer in the Racing Post is in a rich vein of winning tickles. In his column he was boasting – and  why not ? [...]

January 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

Two winners of whom you may not have heard on the European Tour and US PGA and a boost to the European Ryder team when Europe thrashed Asia were the features of the weekend … not to mention a massive win for Pargie. The European Tour is still in South Africa in Johannesburg. Last year I was [...]

January 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

Both the Hero Challenge in Bermuda  and the Nedbank at Sun City had associations with iconic golfers Tiger Woods and Gary Player. Tiger Woods and his foundation were mine host at Bermuda in an invitational  shorter numbered tourney won by Bubba Watson. He only entered at the last moment when [...]

December 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Hail Jeremy Chapman

We are going to construct a statue to Jeremy Chapman the golf analyst of the Racing and Football Outlook in our garden for services to our household budget at its time of greatest need, Black Friday and Xmas shopping. He successfully tipped Matt Jones to win the Australian Open and Charl Schwartzel [...]

November 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

Rory Mcilroy won both the DP world Championship and Race to Dubai after an exciting back nine tussle with Andy Sullivan. Rory hit the water on the 17th, sunk a 30 foot putt to make a bogey and recovered on the 18th to win by two shots. This is his third Race to Dubai victory in four seasons. Andy [...]

November 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

BMW Masters/Shanghai

There was an incident right at the end of the BMW Masters that I found a disturbing breach of golf etiquette and one of the reasons why golf does not televise well. Kristoleff Broberg and Patrick Reed were the club house leaders at -17. The remaining three on the course were playing the 18th, [...]

November 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rosie and Smylie

It was a good weekend for Justin Rose who won the UBS Hong Kong Open and Smylie Kaufman who took the Shriners US PGA. It was a good weekend for me as I backed Rose, Matthew Fitzpatrick who finished 3rd and Yang who finished in the top ten, plus Jason Bohn in the top 5 in the Shriners and the 0-0 [...]

October 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

The coach potato speaks

Yesterday I was on the couch to watch both rugby quarter finals, the Portuguese  Open won by Andy Sullivan at a canter and Fiorentina lose to Napoli. Like many on the Rust, and not just the rugby section, I’m totally enthralled by the World Cup and watched every quarter final with some [...]

October 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

It proved an enthralling weekend with a new young British champion at a British event and a palpitating contest in the Presidents Cup,  Matthew Fitzpatrick aged 21. Sheffield born, but educated in a North West US university he kept his cool in a final round to fight off the challenge of Shane [...]

October 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

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