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Learn game's rules or pay a heavy price
Sports, Published on 03/09/2025
» Not knowing the basic rules of golf will hurt you sooner or later. I learnt the hard way when playing in a tournament on a rainy, very wet, day after finding my drive stuck in the fairway, and being young, naive and uneducated on the rules, I tried to play it -- only to realise later that I was entitled to a free drop. After an almighty swipe I managed to move the ball down the fairway but ultimately it cost me a bogey as opposed to an easy par or birdie chance. Although this experience cost me a stroke and money the real pain came from the considerable embarrassment I felt of not understanding the rules of a game I was playing for a living. How stupid and thick I felt, and this wonderful example of being a complete moron I wish to share, so nobody else has to go through the indignation of total stupidity. It still haunts me when I recall this failing to comprehend a basic rule.
Mastering spine angle: The secret to precision in swing
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 05/02/2025
» When setting up try to get the feeling that your hips are positioned so that there is a slight upward tilt in the direction of where you're trying to hit the ball. The feeling is that your left hip should feel that it's slightly higher than your right. Let's think about this for a minute as the overall feeling of your right side being set lower than your left comes because your right hand is positioned below your left on the club.
Roar no more: Thailand maul Lions
Sports, Tor Chittinand, Published on 19/12/2024
» Singapore coach Tsutomu Ogura described his team's 4-2 home defeat at the hands of defending Asean Mitsubishi Electric Cup champions Thailand as a "tale of two halves". Indeed, it was.
Spireites spur promotion season
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 30/03/2024
» As a result of the international break there has been little league football in England but that doesn't mean to say nothing has been happening. In fact last week witnessed the first promotion of the 2023/4 season with Chesterfield clinching the National League title to earn a return to League Two.
Bad shots are made before the club is swung
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 15/11/2023
» Originality does not consist of saying what has never been said before; it's a knowledgeable golf coach saying what they know to be the truth.
Sport battles back to find a sense of normality
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 25/12/2021
» It is the time of the year to acknowledge the sporting heroes of the past 12 months.
Let things take their own course
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 04/04/2021
» It's lovely to see Thai ladies -- Patty Tavatanakit and Moriya Jutanugarn -- at the top of the leaderboard at halfway of the ongoing ANA Inspiration, the LPGA Tour's first major of the year.
Things that could have been better said by commentators
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 11/04/2020
» Following last week's column on the verbal gems football commentators have treated us to in the past, it seems only fair to acknowledge other sports in which commentators have performed heroically over the years.
Solid 69 brings no relief to Kiradech
Sports, Published on 17/03/2019
» Ponte Vedra Beach: Kiradech Aphibarnrat redeemed himself with a second round three-under 69 at the Players Championship on Friday, a 15-shot improvement following a disastrous opening 84.
From Batman to the Galloping Major
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 17/03/2018
» When Chelsea loanee Michy Batshuayi, who calls himself 'Batsman', joined Borussia Dortmund recently, he was stepping into the shoes of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang who moved to Arsenal.