David ‘Double D’ Dyrsdale Deserving Of Honorary South African Citizenship
Scotland’s David Drysdale has travelled to South Africa so many times in his career the Rainbow Nation could consider affording him honorary citizenship.
This week’s co-sanctioned Joburg Open marks Drysdale’s 56th tournament in South Africa since first travelling to the country in 2002 to compete in the Dunhill Championship at Houghton Park in Joburg.
That’s near 11% of his now 511 Tour events have been in South Africa.
Drysdale had first visited the African continent both ...
USS New Jersey & Seated In The Captain’s Chair.
In the many years I’ve been travelling the States since a first visit in late 1980/early 1981 I have enjoyed inspecting some of the most famous battleships and aircraft carriers in the world.
This interest was first fostered in sight of the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea moored in Sydney harbour in 1970 and then stepping aboard the USS Missouri (BB 63) when it visited Sydney in 1986 and also the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CVB-41) that sailed through Sydney Heads a year later.
I inspected ...
Munich To Paris – There’s Just One Way To Travel.
Working on the European Tour in Germany and France.
For a number of the years the Tour scheduled listed on the schedule the BMW International Open in Germany and the following week would be the French Open.
The German event would alternate with either Munich or Cologne but in 2015,and when these snaps were taken, the event was hosted by the Nord-Eichenreid course in the north of the Bavarian capital.
It was customary on the Monday following the German event to travel by train to Paris and boy, didn’t ...
Moving & Emotional Return Visit To Passchendaele.
It was my second visit to Passchendaele and it was no less emotional.
The first visit to the region had been in the early 2000s escorting my parents first to Normandy and the WW2 D-Day region of Northern France and then onto the WW1 sites in and around the Somme region of France and also into neighbouring and Belguim.
The second visit in September, 2013 was much the same and this time in the company of my brother, Steve and his wife, Sally (Sal to her friends).
To any Australian, towns such ...
‘Keep Up!’ … Faldo Comments On Sabitini’s ‘Bedroom Problems’.
Many will not recall the events of the 2006 Players Championship.
Just to refresh, Stephen Ames stormed his way to a six-shot success and on the occasion of the final event before the PGA Tour’s flagship event moved to May though, of course, back to a March date.
However, the 2006 Players Championship is remembered for a black t-shirt worn by the then wife of Rory Sabatini.
Sabitini was grouped or two rounds with Nick Faldo along with Columbian Camilo Villegas.
There was no issue with Villegas ...
The Magical Day We Played ‘Augusta’ For The Princely Sum Of $10.80.
It was around 4pm on the eve of the 2014 Masters and finally the last preview piece had been filed and confirmed as received.
Those afforded invitations to tee-up in the next day’s first round of the opening Major of the year were away either competing in the Par-3 Contest or elsewhere doing what they had to do to prepare themselves for the tournament proper.
Golf’s ‘Cathedral in the Pines’ as Augusta National is fondly referred was now closed to any further practice rounds ...
‘Hey Steve? Have You Many Calls You Received This Morning From Denver, Coloradao?’
The former International tournament on the PGA Tour was unique in many ways.
The tournament was on the schedule from 1986 to 2006 and unquie foremost as it was played under a ‘Modified Stableford’ points scoring system where an an Albatross was worth 8 points, an Eagle 5 points, a Birdie 2 points, a Par point but then a Bogey minuse 2 points and Double-bogey or more minus 3 points.
The event was founded by Jack Vickers who became very well-known and respected by the game’s leading ...
