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Better to welsh than to wail

Professional golfers tend to plan their year in advance

Tue Jun 13 2000 - 01:00

School designed to avoid hard knocks

Sergio Garcia burst onto the professional scene just over a year ago

Tue Jun 06 2000 - 01:00

Bad break causes Riley to make snap decision

The scene could hardly have been less like the popular image conjured up by thoughts of Burma

Tue May 30 2000 - 01:00

A true tale of planes, buses and automobiles

The Tournament Players Championship in Hamburg was sprinkled with stars from the US Tour last week

Tue May 23 2000 - 01:00

A case of Wandalust gone sadly wrong

Travelling has become considerably easier these days and most caddies can afford the luxury of flying to each event

Tue May 09 2000 - 01:00

A German solution to a German problem

Many of us part-time golfers will have given our clubs the first dusting down of the year during the holiday weekend

Tue May 02 2000 - 01:00

Getting the royal treatment

Back to America last week and the richest tournament on the US tour with $6 million in prize money

Tue Mar 28 2000 - 01:00

Nice work if you can get it

When 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 storm

We 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 options

A 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 MCG

The 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 way

Arriving 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 fairways

The Stuttgart Golf fair commenced on Thursday last in an annex to the Caravan Motor and Tourist Trade fair

Tue Jan 25 2000 - 00:00

All the plaudits go to Van de Velde

In a year that witnessed conquests and collapses of magnitude its been a good year for the caddie

Tue Dec 28 1999 - 00:00

Break proves a wrong turn

Caddying is little more than calculated gambling at this time of the year

Tue Dec 14 1999 - 00:00

Garcia goes for luxury of reliability

NOT so long ago the caddie, if mentioned at all in press or television coverage, was relatively anonymous

Tue Dec 07 1999 - 00:00

The fear of losing your card at school

If you play badly in a tournament, you miss the cut and you get the weekend off

Tue Nov 30 1999 - 00:00

A school of hard knocks

Malaga 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 incense

There were plenty of old relics peering out of the bay window of the R & A boozer overlooking the Old Course

Tue Oct 19 1999 - 01:00

Gamble in Dubai yields fairytale finish

Although 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 revenge

It seems that caddies, as with people in all walks of life, develop reputations both good and bad within their profession

Tue Sept 14 1999 - 01:00

Return to planet earth

After three weeks in the States, coming back to Europe in September is more than just a change of season

Tue Sept 07 1999 - 01:00

Caddies on the rack at Medinah

ON 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 Sweden

With a Monday finish in Ireland, it was a quick change-over to the next venue in Malmo, Sweden

Tue Aug 10 1999 - 01:00

Getting the mind right

It started like the opening scene of a road movie, but Jos's story is not one of an aimless wanderer

Tue Aug 03 1999 - 01:00

Irish love life of wanderer

The Irish have always been well represented in the European caddie-shack. This year there are more of us than ever

Tue Jul 27 1999 - 01:00

The curse of the dreaded Euroburger

Ever 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

Tour must accept pay for play

A few weeks ago Tiger mania gripped Germany

Tue Jun 29 1999 - 01:00

Another shake-up in the caddie shack

Until recently caddying on the European Tour tended to be a British preserve

Tue Jun 22 1999 - 01:00

Hazards in carrying a pro bag

There are many ways to carry a golf bag. Some caddies look awkward, others less so

Tue Jun 15 1999 - 01:00

The Mystery of life on the fairways

If 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 employers

It'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 pessimists

Back to England for the first time this year

Tue May 18 1999 - 01:00

A near miss but a vintage week

I arrived safely in Bordeaux last Monday after a circuitous route from Turin

Tue May 11 1999 - 01:00

Bags of caddies plug in `no win' trap

The duties of a caddie range from simply reciting the yardage to full-scale nannying

Tue Apr 13 1999 - 01:00
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