The worst thing that can happen to you is, that you might have to remove your shoes to play out of a water hazard.Golfers, Vijay Singh for example, can make fortunes on the regular tour in their forties. A golfer’s idea of trauma is a scalped lie or a downhill putt. You don’t have to run fast, tackle back, or knock anybody down. When a golfer says, “Something terrible happened to me yesterday,” he means two over par A “cut” is not a 20-stitcher over the eye or in a leg wound. The game is played at a walk and the most terrifying thing a golfer ever sees is a ball buried in deep rough He doesn’t need a gumshield or face cage.

Hardly anyone needs crutches and the bleeding is all internal. Drummond, emerging from hitherto unrewarded struggles to establish himself as a golfer of substance, suddenly broke through to the sunlight of heady prospect.Of course, golf is a vastly different game from most others Nobody is aiming a ball at your head or your rib cage. The age gap isn’t great but they were looking at life from a different perspective.
Hussain who had achieved most of his aims, including the captaincy of England, signed off with the flourish of a match-winning century against New Zealand. Last week, shortly after Nasser Hussain brought down the curtain on his cricketing career, citing impaired reflexes and deteriorating eyesight as reasons for retirement, Scott Drummond came bursting out of nowhere to win the PGA Championship Hussain is 36, hardly old, Drummond is 30.

One week I play half decent, then I play shocking the next week.”I know what to do but it just looks odd to change my address position and what it needs is hours and hours of practice.”. “If I can’t make changes I am going to have to say forget it for a while Take six months off until I get it correct. Not at all,” Woosnam said before hinting that he, like the recently-retired Seve Ballesteros, might consider walking away from the game, albeit temporarily.”When you are struggling out there after 27 years.. well, what’s the point of being here?” he said. The 1991 Masters champion has missed six cuts out of the 10 tournaments he played so far this season, a miserable run of form that was compounded by a horrendous, card-ripping 82 at Wentworth last week.”I’m not enjoying it No. “I’m playing well enough, I just need to hole a few putts.”One Welshman who was not feeling particularly welcome in the hillsides is Ian Woosnam, the principality’s only major winner to date but whose game recently has been jammed in minor. “A smart bet really,” said a typically confident Poulter, who confessed he, too, would be investing some of his hard-earned.