Ryder Cup boo-boo
Aug 30 2010 Posted in Golf News by GoKartCasey should be playing. Total madness; world Number 8 and not in our squad. If we lose by a slim margin we will personally hold Monty to blame for a thoroughly bad decision. And if we win we would have won by a mile with Casey on board. We don’t often get cross about stuff but this is just plain annoying.
Do we have a fight on our hands, Mr Vousden? Discuss.
Aug 26 2010 Posted in Golf News, Martin Vousden by GoKartThought of the Day
It’s not an optical illusion. It just looks like one
A week is a long time…
Supposedly in politics, at least – but the same could also be said of golf. Virtually all season whenever I have thought about the Ryder Cup, and I try not to do that too much until the event is almost upon us, it has been with a quiet, almost smug sense of confidence that Europe is going to bring Samuel Ryder’s small but perfectly formed trophy back where it belongs. We have, after all, 49 of the world’s top-50 players – or so it seems – and Europeans have won seven times on the US Tour this year (including Majors, and Justin Rose’s two victories). It is necessary to remind ourselves, perhaps, that a British or European winner in America, until comparatively recently, was as rare as Monty congratulating an on-course photographer for a job well done. (more…)
USPGA brings us two winners (apart from Kaymer)
Aug 26 2010 Posted in GoKart News, Golf News by GoKartThe last major of the year brought two GoKart winners – Carsten O. from Germany (neat result!) who predicted Kaymer’s score perfectly, and in a play off for the second GoKart, Stephen L from Whitley Bay, narrowly beating Steve Tusz and Ged Coffey.
The truth is out there…
Aug 14 2010 Posted in Golf News by GoKartWe know this isn’t strictly about golf (although the rough at our track is ripe for the odd alien fiddle), we thought you might still be interested in the definitive explanation for all those funny shaped flattened bits in your local corn field…
Martin V. being q. nice about Tiger. Really.
Aug 13 2010 Posted in Golf News, Martin Vousden by GoKartThought for the Day
Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it
Going Low 1
Unless you’re the sort of person who slows down to look at the scene of an accident in the hope of seeing a bit of blood, or still enjoy pulling the wings off butterflies, you will take no pleasure at the sight of Tiger Woods hacking it round like a high-handicapper, and being unable to find a fairway with GPS a compass and several guide dogs. Whenever great champions go into decline, no matter where they fit into your own list of personal favourites, it should arouse sympathy and I find myself averting my eyes, so as not to share the anguish a moment longer than necessary. The problems faced by Woods are too well-known to be regurgitated here but whatever your opinion on the circumstances that have led him to this nadir, you would need the heart of a stone, or banker, to not feel just a smidgeon of concern for his plight. He is clearly desperately unhappy and his one place of refuge, the only part of his life where he previously felt not only unassailable but where, perversely, he could exclude all outside influences and get on with what he does best, is now denied him. Being inside the ropes with his caddy was always his sanctuary and now even that, it seems, offers no solace. Let’s face it, his form is such that he couldn’t beat a fat man in a race to the bus stop. (more…)
Still time for a sneaky bet!
Aug 12 2010 Posted in Golf News by GoKartWell they should have teed off by now, in which case we’d be shouting “stop the betting!”, but the start has been delayed by fog. So until the first ball is struck, get on in there and have a go in the USPGA comp here
