Better to welsh than to wailProfessional golfers tend to plan their year in advanceTue Jun 13 2000 - 01:00
School designed to avoid hard knocksSergio Garcia burst onto the professional scene just over a year agoTue Jun 06 2000 - 01:00
Bad break causes Riley to make snap decisionThe scene could hardly have been less like the popular image conjured up by thoughts of BurmaTue May 30 2000 - 01:00
A true tale of planes, buses and automobilesThe Tournament Players Championship in Hamburg was sprinkled with stars from the US Tour last weekTue May 23 2000 - 01:00
A case of Wandalust gone sadly wrongTravelling has become considerably easier these days and most caddies can afford the luxury of flying to each eventTue May 09 2000 - 01:00
A German solution to a German problemMany of us part-time golfers will have given our clubs the first dusting down of the year during the holiday weekendTue May 02 2000 - 01:00
Getting the royal treatmentBack to America last week and the richest tournament on the US tour with $6 million in prize moneyTue Mar 28 2000 - 01:00
Nice work if you can get itWhen the US presidential elections were reaching a crucial stage, there was an important selection issue brewing in the European…Tue Mar 21 2000 - 00:00
Taking the desert by stormWe converged on the middle east central air exchange of Dubai early yesterday morning to board our red-eye overnight flight back…Tue Mar 14 2000 - 00:00
Clayton eyeing up optionsA man slips quietly into the driver seat of a Mercedes saloon in a leafy suburb of Melbourne with crime and his career on his…Tue Feb 22 2000 - 00:00
Golfers stumped at MCGThe Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), scene of so many big sporting occasions - from the Olympic Games of 1956, the yearly Australian…Tue Feb 15 2000 - 00:00
Sunday sport the Oz wayArriving in a country renowned for its outdoor lifestyle, it doesn't take long to find the source of this great sports culture…Tue Feb 01 2000 - 00:00
Gazing at faraway fairwaysThe Stuttgart Golf fair commenced on Thursday last in an annex to the Caravan Motor and Tourist Trade fairTue Jan 25 2000 - 00:00
All the plaudits go to Van de VeldeIn a year that witnessed conquests and collapses of magnitude its been a good year for the caddieTue Dec 28 1999 - 00:00
Break proves a wrong turnCaddying is little more than calculated gambling at this time of the yearTue Dec 14 1999 - 00:00
Garcia goes for luxury of reliabilityNOT so long ago the caddie, if mentioned at all in press or television coverage, was relatively anonymousTue Dec 07 1999 - 00:00
The fear of losing your card at schoolIf you play badly in a tournament, you miss the cut and you get the weekend offTue Nov 30 1999 - 00:00
A school of hard knocksMalaga airport in November is usually overloaded with Europe's "snow-birds" moving south to avoid the late autumn's inclement…Tue Nov 23 1999 - 00:00
Exit Danny, trailing clouds of incenseThere were plenty of old relics peering out of the bay window of the R & A boozer overlooking the Old CourseTue Oct 19 1999 - 01:00
Gamble in Dubai yields fairytale finishAlthough it's over seven months since Paddy and Gerry Byrne (who are not related) began life on Tour, it seems a lot shorter …Tue Oct 12 1999 - 01:00
Silent toter's revengeIt seems that caddies, as with people in all walks of life, develop reputations both good and bad within their professionTue Sept 14 1999 - 01:00
Return to planet earthAfter three weeks in the States, coming back to Europe in September is more than just a change of seasonTue Sept 07 1999 - 01:00
Caddies on the rack at MedinahON ENTERING the sacred grounds of the Medinah Country Club you could be forgiven for thinking that you had made a wrong turn …Tue Aug 17 1999 - 01:00
Light and shade in SwedenWith a Monday finish in Ireland, it was a quick change-over to the next venue in Malmo, SwedenTue Aug 10 1999 - 01:00
Getting the mind rightIt started like the opening scene of a road movie, but Jos's story is not one of an aimless wandererTue Aug 03 1999 - 01:00
Irish love life of wandererThe Irish have always been well represented in the European caddie-shack. This year there are more of us than everTue Jul 27 1999 - 01:00
The curse of the dreaded EuroburgerEver since my first sortie to Europe and being greeted at Calais with an "exotic" brie baguette, I have been a voracious consumer…Tue Jul 06 1999 - 01:00
Another shake-up in the caddie shackUntil recently caddying on the European Tour tended to be a British preserveTue Jun 22 1999 - 01:00
Hazards in carrying a pro bagThere are many ways to carry a golf bag. Some caddies look awkward, others less soTue Jun 15 1999 - 01:00
The Mystery of life on the fairwaysIf you were to ask every caddie if they have ever "given a mystery" and they were to give an honest answer, it would be a unanimous…Tue Jun 08 1999 - 01:00
The slings and arrows of outrageous employersIt's a bit like the Sony World Rankings: there will never be a general consensus about the accuracy of the Caddie Rankings either…Tue May 25 1999 - 01:00
Even the best golfers can be pessimistsBack to England for the first time this yearTue May 18 1999 - 01:00
A near miss but a vintage weekI arrived safely in Bordeaux last Monday after a circuitous route from TurinTue May 11 1999 - 01:00
Bags of caddies plug in `no win' trapThe duties of a caddie range from simply reciting the yardage to full-scale nannyingTue Apr 13 1999 - 01:00
