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M L Wadsworth wrote:
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Seems like he doesn't buy into the hype.




Mind you, it was after lunch.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/05/26/sgmair226.xml





Its not often I stick up for Peter Alliss but I found his comments quite reasonable. His remarks were made in the context of the players having complained because they had not been told a particular green or greens had been watered.

Peter was berating the modern day pro who expects the whole course to be carefully manicured so that he never gets mud on his ball nor has to play it off the fairway with a blade of grass behind it (my words not his).

Peter had a distiguished playing career and probably knows far more about the game than most - except when it comes to the Rules :-)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/sport/peteralliss.shtml
He is a great believer in "Play your ball as it lies; Play the course as you find it And if you can't do either, do what is fair"
In fact one would have thought Peter might have written those words had it not been for the fact that they go on to say: "But to do what is fair, you need to know the Rules of Golf."

No prizes for knowing where you can read those words, but does anyone know who wrote them and if they originally appeared somewhere else first?

On the Rules we had from Peter Alliss, after a player played from a bunker and caught the lip: "had the ball come back and hit him that would have been a stroke or two."
and when Paul McGinlay was seeking advice from a Rules Official as to how to take his stance in a bush: "If you bend a branch that's a penalty."

Malcolm



I was reminded, when I was spectating the last time The Open Championship was at Birkdale, I spent some time following Howard Clark and Paul McGinlay at West Lancs GC, during final qualifying.

The rain was started falling over central Wales and was landing over the course and those two golfers showed amazing skill and improvisation during the harsh, blustery conditions. Some of the time they played a sort of 'sideways' golf aiming a good 40º off line, keeping the ball low and making innovative use of the terrain and still coming off with what I thought were near impossible pars. Absolutely brilliant to watch at the time, very inspirational. They both qualified for the Open whereas much of the rest of the participants struggled just to finish on the exposed course.

It must be said though they were playing on a links style course which gives at least some predictability whilst a tree lined course like Wentworth suffers from turbulence and buffeting from the surrounding trees sometimes offering shelter and sometimes creating a tunneling effect - very difficult to judge what is going to happen next. How often have you experienced feeing the wind directly in your face on the tee but to see the flag showing it coming off back right, what to do? You don't get that on a links course with a hickory stick in your hand.

I think, as usual in recent times, Peter Allis took the easy way out and pandered to our prejudices about the good ol'e days, improved equipment, not like it used to be sort of nonsense that just keeps golf being perceived in a fuddy duddy past time by the general public.

He didn't, in my opinion, make any attempt to help explain how tricky the conditions were, he just plugged safely into being critical and his back lash on the young golfer that criticised him (Dougherty?) was definitely less than helpful to one of our Ryder Cup hopefuls. His pearls of wisdom are now far jaded and commentary didn't help a bit, offered nothing new and encouraged nobody else to take up the challenge of the wonderful game.

Time he was on his way!
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Durram
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