My sporting weekend

When you hit a winning streak – as I did after Plumpton Races and on Adam Scott – you think it will last forever … and the same applies to a losing one.

So it was a great relief that Tyrell Hatton and Marc Leishman as runners up in the Bay Hill Arnold Palmer invitational did the business for me.

I had a measly triple-shared  seventh each way with fragmented winnings on George Coetzee at the Qatar Masters, but with Rory McIlroy backed at Bay Hill too I felt confident on the final round.

The only real danger to Tyrell Hatton was himself as he has a self-combustive personality.

I feared on the back nine, as he dropped shots, that his course management was unsound but Im, the young South Korean who won last week, was slipping away.

In windy conditions the Bay Hill course played tough and suited a gritty old pro like Marc Leishman. Tyrell finally played the 18th sensibly to win his first PGA victory and nice few quid for me.

Tyrell has a fine all round game but he lacks that icy determination to close out a tourney that the great players and serial major winners possess.

I always look for skinny odds to back against in football. Ivan Conway felt Brighton might get a result at Wolves, who were firm favourites, and Manchester City were 5-8  in the derby against their not so noisy neighbours.

Both were results for me.

Next week is the tourney known as the fifth major, the Players Championship at Sawgrass.

It has the iconic 17th. It’s funny that all iconic holes are short ones but the 17th over water is a true test of accuracy.

Finally I secured a ticket at £85 for the Open at Royal St George’s. I know a former captain of the club who can get me in the club house.

When it comes to majors and the Ryder Cup I am a fully-paid-up member of the ‘watch it on TV’ brigade.

Yet one of my greatest memories was following Greg Norman with my late dad to his victory there in 1993.