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Great sporting duels

The Tour de France duel between Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej  Pogacar – which the former is currently shading by a small lead – has made me recall and share great ones of the past. In boxing one thinks of Ali v Frazier – or before them – the brutal 3 bouts between Tony ‘Man [...]

July 7, 2023 // 0 Comments

The U S Open

The US Open was won by a relatively unknown Wyndham Clark – holding off the challenge of Rory McIlroy, who once again faltered in his final round and the in-form Scottie Scheffler. It was held at the prestigious Los Angeles Country Club but only had 4,000 spectators outside sponsors and club [...]

June 20, 2023 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on LIV/PGA/DP World Tour

They say God lives in the details but if so where is his Divine Presence in the above merger? No one seems to know how the ‘framework agreement’ will work in practice. Superficially, it’s about Saudi Arabia money and soft power versus greedy golfers. However, LIV is not just about lucre [...]

June 9, 2023 // 0 Comments

The US PGA

Brooks Koepka won his third PGA trophy – known as the Wanamaker – and therefore became the first LIV Player to win a Major. There are some, like Colin Mongomerie and Lee Westwood, that have never won a Major and others who are unlikely to win a further one (Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and [...]

May 22, 2023 // 0 Comments

Jon Rahm‘s Green Jacket

Jon Rahm was a worthy winner of the Masters. The weather played a big part – at one point trees were felled by a storm. Rahm’s game held and he easily overhauled Brooks Koepka in the final round. It was an intriguing contest, not least as Rahm has not signed up for LIV, for whom Koepka [...]

April 10, 2023 // 0 Comments

Gleneagles Hotel

Bob Tickler had it right. After the student accommodation, the Rust Group felt they were entitled to some pampering and where better to get it than the Gleneagles Hotel? It’s the place where the Gleneagles Agreement – effectively banning apartheid South Africa from sport – was [...]

July 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

Goodbye Gleneagles, hello Hotel Balmoral Edinburgh

We were all sad to leave the luxurious Gleneagles. No wonder it hosts so many events. In fact the Head of Events Charlotte is the niece of a friend of Bob Tickler and when we met her she explained that security – including detailed vetting of herself – was a vital feature of putting on [...]

July 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sporting this and that

On the way from St Andrews to Gleneagles I asked our driver to take us to Tannadice Road Dundee which houses not one but two football stadia 200 yards apart – these being the homes, respectively, of Dundee (Dens Park) and Dundee United (Tannadice). Dundee Utd under Jim McLean in the 1980s had [...]

July 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

Reflections on the 150th Open

I’m preparing this post some 3 hours after Cameron Smith’s victory so forgive any inaccuracies. Smith was a worthy winner in a wonderful final day – indeed Open. The story might be that it was Rory’s to lose but Smith won it well, carding a 66. Victor Novland – one of my picks [...]

July 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

Moving day

Yesterday St. Andrews showed its teeth and bit. All those predictions of the sluggers beating up a defenceless course proved as wayward as Dustin Johnson’s 17th hole pitch to the green. I took up a position in the 17th grandstand where you have a perfect view of the road hole, can see the players [...]

July 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

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