WONDER WOMAN

To my left the original Wonder Woman played by US actor Lynda Carter in the hit 70’s TV series.
And to my right Melissa Reid, will she be the Europeans wonder woman at this months Solheim Cup?

That reminds me I must nip down to Marks & Spencer and get myself some new undies and a string vest.

Pic: Golf Punk

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AUDREY HEPBURN

Tops are getting tighter and shorts are becoming shorter. 

Do today's lady tour players need to look back at fashion icons such as Audrey Hepburn to discover their own golf style?

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READ IT AND WEEP

Golf Refugees recently took the opportunity to sample the new pro shop at Woburn Golf & Country Club, part of their multimillion pound clubhouse re-fit.

Delving deeper into the apparel labels we came across a ‘100% British’ claim for a pair of IJP’s tartan pants.

They say the devil's in the detail and there in the small print were the words ‘Made in Morocco’.

How can you claim a garment is 100% British when it’s made in Morocco?

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NEW BALLS PLEASE

What’s the future for golf balls?

More rules to curtail performance? More layers?
 

Well one thing's for sure, each one of these NON-biodegradable gems of engineering will be with us for next 100 – 1,000 years. Whether they are being played with or not.

Not a great legacy for the game of golf.

With a little directive from the governing bodies of golf and by utilising the huge depth of the world's talented material scientists and engineers, the next generation of performance golf balls, fit for the 21st Century, could be developed.

Wouldn’t you all like to see a Pro B1 golf ball? B for ‘Bio’.

Golf Refugees intend to develop a biodegradable ‘performance’ golf ball.
 

We have already identified a suitable bio material for the core and are relatively confident it will perform well compared to its ‘longer lasting’ siblings. The cover material is a different matter, though we are hoping to find a good solution. A local University will be using Finite Element Analysis software to provide comparative performance data.

What’s the point in the golf industry continuing to produce millions of toxic golf balls?

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SENIOR MOMENT

Whilst wondering around last weekend at the European Senior Tour, we started to think of potential sponsors for future events.
How about The Werther’s Original Masters, Stannah Stairlift Open or The Steradent Cup?

The car parks were chocker, full to the brim.

We followed Sam Torrance and Barry Lane, who both smoked their way through the pine-tree-lined fairways. Luckily it was a bit damp on the final day, otherwise it could have turned into a mass cremation.

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ONE LEG TOO FEW

‘One leg too few’ is the famous comedy sketch by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.With Cooke as the casting agent who interviews Moore as a one-legged man auditioning for the role of Tarzan.

None of us know what lies ahead. I can imagine if I lost a leg that my days of playing competitive sport would be over and I would just mope about feeling sorry for myself.

But then there are people like double amputee Oscar Pistorius who made history this week by reaching the men’s 400m semi final at the World Athletic Championships.

Pictured here is Swedish golfer Caroline Larsson who played at the Pre-Qualifying School for the Ladies European Tour.

Fellow professional golfer Carin Koch said “She’s unbelievable; she hits it so good. She’s such a great person and very inspiring, positive and just a lot of fun. She doesn’t say anything bad about what has happened to her; she just takes all the positives and tries to do everything as good as she can with a new situation in her life and it’s just very inspiring.”

A one-legged Tarzan. Why not?

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JAMES GARNER

You normally associate beach golf with bikini clad girls, but here we have the equally dashing US Film & TV star James Garner. 

I remember Garner from the excellent 70’s TV show ‘The Rockford Files’, where James plays an ex-con-turned-private-investigator called Jim Rockford. Though my eyes were usually focused on his hot lawyer friend Beth Davenport.

Apparently Garner took up golf in the late 50’s to try and beat his elder brother Jack, a retired golf pro. "Took me about 30 years" said James.

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