The Open

The Open Career of Maurice Flitcroft

I can’t help but take an interest in the scores of Regional Open Qualifying at this time of year.  I’d love to tell you it’s because I’m keen to see who’s qualified, who’s played well and who’s a rising star, but in truth it’s in the vain hope of finding a modern day Gene Pacecki, Gerald Hoppy or a James Beau Jolley.  Sadly, it’s always a fruitless search.  Gate crashing The Open clearly isn’t what it used to be. If you’re familiar with these names already, you’ll  know they were all aliases of…Read more …

The Late Blossoming of an English Rose

Seventeen years is a long time in golf – more than the lifetime of Masters’ competitor, Guan Tianlang, in fact, and far more than the career-span of many tour golfers.  So, a Major title for an Englishman was long overdue (Lawrie, Clarke, McDowell and McIlroy have claimed them for Scotland and Northern Ireland more recently – or “Britain”, as we English would like to say). It was Nick Faldo at The Masters, back in 1996, that we last saw an English pair of hands on one of the four most coveted trophies in…Read more …
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