Tag: Golf
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Hate to say we told you so!
“We asked you not to hold onto the hand rail; We told you not to spit over the side”. Just then, the stairway to Heaven was retracted and Bart Simpson slips down the greasy pole to the warm place. Hardly surprising. Now read on… After the first day’s action at the most recent incarnation of…
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Do Not Poke The Bear
There’s episode of what I think was the Tom & Jerry Kids spin off of the beloved cat and mouse cartoon in which the two feature characters were on an outing to the zoo. Wherein Tyke the lovable but disaster prone dog was on security duty. For which his simple mantra was DO NOT FEED…
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Dour Donald gambles with Garcia gaffe
The Ryder Cup is a curious concept. Golf, the most individual of sports. Morphed into a team event. Most likely out of a sense of tribalism. Americans think they’re the greatest in the world at everything. Naturally, when someone adopts that stance, instinct is to challenge it. Hence the inception of the biennial team-based event…
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The former Meath footballer and the fashion discussion can finally stand down
The biggest problem I had was grasping that it was all of 11 years ago. Probably because with the amount of column inches and airtime devoted to it in the interim, it never really left public discourse. ‘IT’ in this instance wasn’t what my dearly beloved assures me is a terrifying horror movie. Though it…
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Whatever about anything else, you can’t doubt Rory’s character
Even for people to whom sport is a triviality, there will be happenings therein which, consciously or otherwise, ends up ingrained on their minds and, as a result of same, leave them linked in some way to the protagonists career thereafter. The Wells Fargo Championship. A golf tournament on the PGA Tour. Prior to 2010,…
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Mrs Anne Moran (nee Watters) RIP
At the outset here I will admit to feeling wholly unqualified to be writing the following but, for a person and families of such status and repute in our locality and community, I feel compelled to record her passing… It was with profound sadness that I this morning learned of the passing of Anne Moran.…
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When Irish eyes are smiling everything else takes care of itself
When a loved one passes away, apart from the heartache and grief of losing them from your life, personally speaking, the most difficult bit is the clear out when the dust has settled. Of their possessions and/or special effects. Yes, this corner would be extremely sentimental to the point of being a hoarder, but sometimes…
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Rory’s view mightn’t be popular but he’s on the money
When something happens that we don’t like, there’s an inevitability that wild and whirling words will start blowing around like chaff in the winds. Of course, common sense would be to take a step back, pause and not jump into judgement. But what do I always say about common sense? On rare occasions, mind you,…
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Last of the sporting bastions falls to common greed
The year cannot be recalled, but the image will be forever etched in the memory bank. Wild-eyed, manic looking Ian Poulter in that zone that only the Ryder Cup could put the colourful Englishman. From memory, Europe were well adrift of their American adversaries in the biennial team golfing event when ‘Poults’ almost single-handedly set…
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