Category: Blog
Gary Player: Technology is destroying golf
Martin Vousden at the 2017 Open
Thought for the Day It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company Back from the dead I was about to make a comparison between Jordan Spieth’s astonishing turnaround during the last nine holes of the Open Championship and Lazarus famously rising from the dead – but of course, every journalist in the… read more →
Martin Vousden on The US Open and Balls
Thought for the Day Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours a day that were given to Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein Six of one… This year’s US Open has divided opinion like few others before – and this for what is often the… read more →
Martin Vousden’s Column
Thought for the Day You cannot change what you refuse to confront New broom sweeps clean Keith Pelley took over as chief executive of the European Tour almost two years ago and had given the organisation exactly the shake-up it needed. But any successful chief exec, in addition to business acumen and flair, needs a… read more →
Martin Vousden on New Rules and Tiger’s Back
Thought for the Day Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them one day. Sanity breaks out It has, admittedly, taken a while but recently there has been clear, incontrovertible evidence that the R&A and USGA have finally started reacting to events at something other than a glacial… read more →