Spitting Image

For a game such as golf so tied-up by rules and hamstrung with etiquette, spitting is a blight on the game. As the professionals - mostly of the PGA TOUR variety - empty to contents of their mouth with impunity, impressionable youngsters inevitably mimic their heroes in what is at best, inelegant and, at worst, vulgar and distasteful

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Written by Mike Wilson

Photography by AFP

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