Archive for July, 2008


Late Mayo’s Amputee Golf Event Still Going Strong

A unique golfing event is taking place in the Welsh valleys. If you take a close look at each of the more than 50 golfers taking part at the Bryn Meadows resort near Ystrad Mynach, you will see that every one is missing some part of their bodies. That’s because it is the annual Amputee […]

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Woods Offers No Clue On Comeback Date

Tiger Woods has said that he has no idea when he will return to the circuit and also revealed that last month’s US Open would have been his final tournament of the year, whatever the outcome. In his first live interview since undergoing surgery on his knee, the world number one and US Open champion […]

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99 Reminders of Maurice Flitcroft

We’ve all dreamed of playing in the Open. For most of us those dreams remain safely in our imaginations. A lucky few live the dream. Others drive themselves demented trying. And the regional qualifying for the Open is a step on the road to those dreams. An obstacle to be overcome as you strive to […]

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Time to Phil his Boots

I’m not a sports psychologist. So, I suppose, my opinion on this isn’t worth a damn. But here goes. I would argue that Tiger’s enforced absence (the rehabilitation of the knee has begun – could the superman of world sport return quicker than we expected?) represents an opportunity for the rest of the field. An […]

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Open Returns To Thompson’s Great Stage

Success in sport can be a fickle mistress. Whatever the record books say there is very rarely an undisputed champion. Allan Wells won the 1980 100m gold at the Olympics. But the Americans weren’t there so, for some, it is an achievement forever diminished (that Wells went on to beat them all weeks later is […]

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