Tag: Golf
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Boylan Talks Sport Weekly Brain Workout – No. 17
A slightly more focused edition this week with the European Championships still ongoing and the GAA Championships taking off in earnest. But there are a few curve balls hidden as well. Enjoy!
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Boylan Talks Sport Weekly Brain Workout – No. 16
Due to the passing of my father there was no quiz last week, but normal service shall resume
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Sideline Cuts – 13
Back To Basics Approach Works Mention has often been made in this space on numerous occasions of how reading habits are sporadic at best. As if to underscore that fact, a sizable chunk of Davy Fitzgerald’s autobiography was ingested in a fairly quick time, only for the excellent collaboration with Vincent Hogan to be parked…
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Boylan Talks Sport Weekly Brain Workout – No. 10
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Boylan Talks Sport Weekly Brain Workout – No. 8
A real mixed bag this week, with plenty of topical subjects relating to what’s been going in the sporting world of late.
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Tiger Woods taken to hospital after car crash
Tiger Woods has been taken to hospital after being involved in a car crash in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning. The golfer was driving on his own near Rancho Palos Verdes when his vehicle flipped over, with firefighters later freeing him from the car using the jaws of life. No other vehicle is said to…
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Selections for Navan – Jan. 29th 2020
12.20: RIVIERE DETEL (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.50: FOLCANO (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.25: BARBARY MASTER (SEAN FLANAGAN/NOEL MEADE) 1.55: LIEUTENNANT COMMAND – EW – (EOIN WALSH (5)/NOEL MEADE) 2.30: SATIN SUN – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/JAMES DULLEA) 3.00: THE BIG DOG (KEVIN SEXTON/PETER FAHEY) 3.35: MIRACLE IN MEDINAH (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.05: THREE STRIPE LIFE (JAMIE…
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Selections for Navan – Jan. 23rd 2021
12.50: THEDEVILSCOACHMAN (MARK WALSH/NOEL MEADE) 1.22: MR INCREDIBLE (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 1.57: LIEUTENANT COMMAND – EW – (EOIN WALSH (5)/NOEL MEADE) 2.32: THUNDEROSA – EW – (DANNY HAND (7)/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 3.07: LORD ROYAL (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.42: MIRACLE IN MEDINAH (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.17: TUCSON TRAIN (CHARLIE MULLINS (7)/TOM MULLINS)
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Trump used sport for his own benefit
Roy Keane has had many famous utterances throughout his playing, management and subsequent media career. “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail” may be the most famous thereof, but, for me, his correct excoriation of the “Prawn Sandwich Brigade”. Those corrosive pests are in every sport. The suits in Croke Park on an All Ireland weekend…
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Augusta always pulls a rabbit out of a hat
Former Meath Gaelic football manager Sean Boylan always maintained that you needed to pull a rabbit from the hat to beat Dublin. In a similar situation, Augusta National is notorious for throwing curve balls at those chasing the Green Jacket in the US Masters. Yesterday was no different but those in whom a vested interest…