Tiger Woods – The Stress & Drama In Reporting On His First Visit To India.
Those of us who report full-time on golf seemingly take it for granted the access we are granted to the greats of the game such as Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Phil Mickelson, Greg Norman and others.
We are afforded media credentials to walk inside the ropes, wander onto the practice range, enter the locker room and dine in the some of the grandest cluhouses of the world.
However hereunder is the tale of a India-born sports journalist and the stress and trouble he endured in seeking to cover Woods ...
Rory McIlroy Opens Up On Tweeter To His 1.8m Followers.
Double Major winning Rory McIlroy has revealed a unique insight into his private life and what he likes and dislikes.
It seems the 24-year old had some time on his hands before leaving Dubai recently and got onto Twitter to answer the tweets from some of his 1.8m followers.
Here’s how McIlroy kick-started the exercise.
Rory Mcilroy @McIlroyRory: Delayed flight… Let’s do a quick Q&A before I board, I’ll try to answer as many as I can!
And after the success of ...
2013 Ricoh Women’s British Open Worth £13.53m To Scotland.
Impressive results of an economic impact study of hosting the 2013 Ricoh Women’s British Open at St Andrews in Scotland were revealed today.
The report shows that the global media exposure for Scotland over the four days of the Championship reached £8.33m and the net total impact (on Scotland) of the 2013 Championship was estimated at £5.2m, up £0.5m, when compared with the 2011 edition at Carnoustie.
The study, undertaken by the Sport Industry Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University ...
Trump International Scotland Gazumped By Wind Farm Court Ruling.
US billionaire Donald Trump has lost a legal challenge for an offshore wind farm project within sight of his Scottish golf resort.
The businessman’s legal team went to court in November to oppose the 11-turbine European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) off the Aberdeenshire coast, claiming it would spoil the view from his luxury golf course.
A petition lodged by Trump International Golf Club Scotland and the Trump Organisation asked the Court of Session in Edinburgh to rule that the ...
Watson Continues To Gamble With Ryder Cup ‘Old Brigade Buddies’ As Vice-Captains Choosing Floyd.
USA Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson has continued to gamble in announcing a second ‘old brigade buddie’ in Raymond Floyd to join Andy North as his Gleneagles vice-captains.
A day after www.golfbytourmiss.com reported the 64-year old Watson would have trouble even identifying the majority of players currently among the top-10 on the USA Team points table and Watson has picked a 71-year old vice captain who also would be unknown to all but two in the current 1o on the points table.
Watson’s ...
Couples Says Watson Start ‘Texting’ To Better Know Likely USA Team Members.
Triple winning Presidents Cup captain Fred Couples suggests US Ryder Cup Captain Tom Watson should start ‘texting’ to get to better know his likely Gleneagles players.
Watson is already the oldest-ever Ryder Cup captain and two years senior than the great J H Taylor who captained the 1933 GB & I side to victory.
The eight-time Major winning Watson will also be 65 when he leads his team out onto Gleneagles and eight years older than the previous oldest US captain Sam Snead who was ...
Bernie’s Monthly Medal Winners – January 2014.
Well here we are and the first month of 2014 already behind us and leaving just 11 months to Christmas.
We’ve seen the staging of three European Tour events and four on the PGA Tour.
In Europe it has been the Spanish dominating with Pablo Larrazabal and Sergio Garcia winning back-to-back while in the States Jimmy Walker won for a second time in capturing the Sony Open.
We had rules controversy in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and a week earlier Charl Schwartzel played one of the most remarkable ...
