Recent Posts

All my tinkering has to be done in the set up, my brain refuses to work whilst the club is in motion. As soon as the swing starts the neurological pathways shut down and I become an observer waiting to see what will happen.

I shot a 95 yesterday. It would have been better but Tony deliberately and delightedly stayed silent as I played my ball to the wrong green, resulting in a blob for me and a win for him.

His shot, played on to the correct green finished about 5ft from the hole, at which point, with a straight face, he asked for a gimme.

Great shooting today Ralph, glad you turned it around. Golf is an addictive, frustrating bugger of a game. I'm playing tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday because next week I'm away for 7 days and need an extra fix to survive.

I was horrendous on Saturday in the medal. Lost my swing completely and played absolutely clueless almost embarrassing golf. I am a bit of a tinkerer with my golf swing in the endless search for something close to perfection and sometimes the new swing ideas seem to erase a basic fundamental, as there's only room in my skull for so many swing thoughts, and on Saturday I was topping fairway woods which are usually my favourite clubs, and smothering all of my iron shots, even short irons - it was the stuff of nightmares and I couldn't figure out how to fix it at the time. Returned a 95 net 80 with breaking 100 the only bright spot.

I remembered the fundamental that had temporarily slipped my mind today and shot a soothing 85 off the yellows which included a few 3putts, but it came as a great relief to dispel Saturday's horror-show as I feared I might play like that for evermore in some kind of Greek mythological golfer's Hades.

A couple of days off now to do chores etc. then it's the first Senior Medal on Thursday.

Media attention has totally changed. It is no longer led by journalists. Just by click-obsessed AI, which has little or no regard for what is traditionally newsworthy.

Man Utd are traditionally the biggest club in the UK. Right now, probably the 3rd or 4th best-funded. And achieving the sort of form that they should have had for the last 10 years is (in this new world order) not newsworthy. Whereas it really should be.

My Club is Spurs. I get the media interest in whether we might go down. What I cannot quite fathom is why a club that has always been popular (for a variety of reasons-we like to think it is because we play the game the "right" way, but coming close without winning much is a factor too) is suddenly reviled. The hate coming from people is something I have never previously experienced. Poking fun at our troubles? Fine. It is the hatred I don't get.

Meanwhile no-one seems to want to mention the £hundreds of millions of rule-bending (at the very least) of Man City or Chelsea. The brilliance of Unai Emery at Villa is not newsworthy. The Liverpool board spend £450 million making the Champions worse, but they seem to be held to a different standard to that of Spurs.

Strange world.

Finally we’re off the radar as the two North London clubs and the Toon battle it out for media attention.

Sema. Nooooooo!

Bring the Welsh woman back.

The corner pockets look massive this year compared to last when they were extremely tight.

I know I'm a grumpy old bugger, but where did they find this extremely annoying Welsh woman?

She makes Sima look and sound like a superstar!

Give me a break

Calm down lovely boy.

I know I'm a grumpy old bugger, but where did they find this extremely annoying Welsh woman?

She makes Sima look and sound like a superstar!

Give me a break

I had the first few hours of the Williams game on in the office, but had the volume off as I was working

I know I'm a grumpy old bugger, but where did they find this extremely annoying Welsh woman?

She makes Sima look and sound like a superstar!

Give me a break