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The parallel decision to once again annul all the scores posted on that rain-interrupted opening round should never be repeated if the game in general and women’s golf, in particular, is to...
What is the meaning of golf?
It’s a disappointment, rarely entirely gratifying. It always sees us hit imperfect shots and we believe we have let ourselves down. In all accounts of the greatest...
I am not a huge fan of the automatic levying of service charges on restaurant bills. It doesn’t sit well that I’m expected and obliged to pay for service. Surely that’s up to me. But I suppose I’...
When did you start playing - and where?
1970 in Hong Kong as my father was a member of the then Royal Hong Kong Golf Club. I learnt to play golf on the verandah at home, hitting balls into...
When Hideki Matsuyama began to play at the 2016 World Golf Championship-HSBC Champions, he was just another good, young player, a talented 20-something on the brink of stardom. By the end of the...
Now we are officially in autumn. It’s time to air that hoary old chestnut that is a firm favourite of Bunker Mentality, namely the vast, iniquitous and outdated differential in prize money earned...
International superstars led by world No. 1 Dustin Johnson, third-ranked Hideki Matsuyama, world No. 4 Justin Thomas and Major champions Jason Day and Adam Scott are amongst the big names headed...
This is basically the philosopher’s stone of golf. It is as desired as Dragon’s gold, but highly elusive and hovers high. It is the eagle, the albatross, the condor miracle.
Some people...
During the Masters Tournament in 2008, Arnold Palmer’s eyes glistened after learning that China’s Liang Wen-chong was in the elite field at Augusta National.
The American golf legend took...
When did you start playing and where?
That takes me back. I must have been about six years old when my dad pulled out his old canvas golf bag and gave me a hickory shafted mashie and a putter...