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DOUBLE STANDARDS discovered a whole new world of
Your round up of 2019’s biggest opportunity. What other sport
villains piece served to remind us Q&AS allows you, as a newbie, to compete
what a prize pillock Sergio Garcia happily with players of all abilities?
was in the year just gone. Thank you, Karl Morris, for
In slamming his dr reminding me of how truly fortunate
the ground, destroyin we golfers are.
bunkers and making DidPatrickReeddeliberately Jakki Moxon, Email
rules up as he went, G provehislieinthebunkeratthe
dragged his and the HeroWorldChallenge? BLOWNAWAY
game’s reputation I have just finished reading your
through the gutter. NO: INNOCENT recent ranking of courses in
That he escaped MISTAKE 14% Wales and all I can say is go and
largely unpunished play Holyhead.
reflects very badly on It blows most of the courses
the game. With so ranked above it out of the water.
many people watching, many of The greens alone are the very, very
them impressionable young fans, the INNOCENT best. And frankly, there’s nothing
authorities had a duty to punish him ORGUILTY? more to be said.
appropriately. Instead, what an Gaz, Email
example they have set by allowing
him to act like a spoiled child and get MRPLAYER,NO
away with it. YES, Listening to Gary Player recently,
The fact you mentioned Sergio’s HE’S A I was surprised to hear him say that
CHEAT 86%
antics alongside the case of Bio Kim the ball should be reined in 50 yards
only highlighted the double for the professionals but that the
standards at play in the game. Here amateur should retain the existing
we have a player suspended from his ball! No, no, no Mr Player.
tour for 12 months for ‘flipping the GivenSaudiArabia’shumanrights As distance has increased in the
bird’ at a fan whose phone had gone record,wouldyoubewillingtoplay amateur game, so have winning
off during the downswing – and not intheSaudiInternational? scores. Stableford winning scores
for the first time. nowadays are obscene, with six under
No question Kim was wrong to YES: MONEY par and more being common! To my
react as he did, but his punishment TALKS 42% mind, the same rules should exist for
was on the very heavy side of heavy- both parties.
handed. If he has any sense, he should Mr Player also stated that
get himself onto the European Tour MONEY amateurs should use any putting
as soon as possible, because clearly method they wish, especially the
anything goes on that circuit. MATTERS broomhandle. To this I have to also
Terry Efford, Guildford disagree. In cricket, if you cannot face
NO: fast bowling, you cannot simply
I’VE A
A GLORIOUS GAME MORAL widen your bat! It’s just not cricket –
I loved The Lost Art of Putting, by COMPASS and neither is the broomhandle
Karl Morris, so I snapped up a 58% putter golf!
release-day copy of the sequel, The I have been a club member for 71
Lost Art of Playing Golf – and how years, most as a single-figure
pleased I am that I did! handicapper, and as we matured we
How it resonates with me, right 2020istheyearofBrooksversus endeavoured to match our best club
from the very first chapter, where he Rory. Who do you expect to players. Now, with the ‘false handicap
talks about gratitude. It is so true; the come out on top? system’, to assist the game to grow,
days when I savour the sheer pleasure BROOKS the new handicap system encourages
of my round are the days when I play 28% cheating, and is destroying the game
best. Some days I simply lap up the at club level.
beauty of my surroundings and the A way forward would be to
joy of being alive, out there in the introduce a Gold, Silver and Bronze
fresh air when others are at work, HEAD division system, as per the ladies.
unhappy or unwell. TO HEAD Golf prowess is being weakened!
On those days am truly grateful And to watch Langer and Scott
for the privilege of being able to play putt is appalling!
golf, meeting delightful people of Terrie E Gibbons, Email
all ages and from all walks of life. RORY
Above all, I am grateful that I, a self- 72%
proclaimed hater of all sports, took GolfWorld reservestherighttoeditall
letterssubmittedtoDialogueforstyle
up golf in my mid-sixties and andlengthpurposes.
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