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The vagaries of golf are such that most players don't win most of the time, so every victory needs to be savoured.

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It’s only Sunday and, uncharacteristically, I’m already pondering my blog topic for the Friday that this missive will be posted.  I have a busy week coming up, you see, and a wee trip to Norn Iron to fit in, so time for blogging will be very short indeed. I can hardly believe that next week [...]

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Well done Viktor Hovland – a winner for the eighth time on the PGA tour. Mind you, it took a Monday morning play-off against Scottie Scheffler before he could claim the Travelers Championship title and judging by the number of folk who turned up at TPC River Highlands for the 9am start there weren’t too [...]

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Many, many years ago, probably decades, when the Dinah Shore was still at Mission Hills and a very big deal indeed, an American journalist did that oh-so-dangerous thing:  she made an assumption.  She took it for granted that a Scottish friend and I were professional golfers manquées, that we’d have given our eye teeth to [...]

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The “Activity Rings” on my fitness app aren’t registering too highly at the moment, most of my activity being of the thumb-exercising variety while changing channel from one sport to the other on the remote control.  And, of course, temperatures in the mid to high thirties aren’t conducive to much more than staying indoors, out [...]

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