Over the past two months, Adam Scott has had four chances to become the world’s top golfer. And with the holy grail in sight, he has played some of his most ordinary golf. At the WGC Cadillac Championship in Miami, he tied for 25th place with Tiger Woods who, barely able to swing a golf…
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Fighting racism with dignity and bananas
On Monday, I had breakfast with Adam Goodes. Me and a couple of hundred other people he mostly doesn’t know. Listening to him in conversation with Adam Spencer, I was glad I hadn’t chosen a career in Aussie Rules, or any professional sport, with all the training and the injuries and the diet and the…
Why Aussies watch golf through their fingertips
Asked once what he had to shoot to win a particular tournament, US golfer Roger Maltbie answered: “The rest of the field.” It’s been a bit like that following Australian golf for about the last 20 years. Even when Greg Norman held the world number one position, you could never comfortably watch him play a…
Time to see women’s cricket
I had to read the women’s T20 World Cup final last night. That’s right, read. It’s not the most satisfying way to follow a game. Granted, the Twitter banter between Adam Gilchrist and Michael Vaughan was an entertaining alternative to the live action. @MichaelVaughan appreciating Meg Lannings work! #goaussiegirls pic.twitter.com/PxlRiBkEDM — Adam Gilchrist (@gilly381) April…
Are you a Sliding Doors fan, Tiger?
While I’m no fan of Gwyneth Paltrow, let’s for a moment apply the concept of one of her less nauseating movies to the life of Tiger Woods. Let’s assume in this Sliding Doors scenario that Tiger kept his 3-iron in his pants at the peak of his career. What would his career statistics look like…
Formula One tries its hand at farce
As dusk settled over Albert Park yesterday, Australians were celebrating. For the first time in 10 straight races, Sebastian Vettel hadn’t won. More importantly, after almost 30 years of watching the Formula One Grand Prix go round and round and round Down Under, Daniel Ricciardo had become the first Aussie to make the podium….
Be very quiet, we’re hunting Tiger
I’ve never written about golf before. It is, after all, a ridiculous sport, played by people with a masochistic streak and a toddler’s sense of fashion, who spend more time walking after the ball than actually playing it. Watching golf warps time. You switch on the telly on Friday and before you know it the…
Aussie cricketers prove they’re no one-series wonder
The Third Test between Australia and South Africa was always going to be a grudge match to put the Reinhart family tiff in the shade. These two sides aren’t exactly at the top of each other’s Christmas card lists at the best of times. But in the course of this series, their volatile relationship has…
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