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 …