Recent content by D-S

All results in isolation are meaningless, however it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the difference between someone who beats every player by a considerable margin and someone who scrapes through every round. I fail to understand how repeated large victory margins tells you absolutely...

Gorgeous day here, cloudless blue skies and no wind. Course was remarkably firm given the rain this week, which kept quite a few worse draining local courses closed. Greens are a bit soft but conditions underfoot meant that I didn’t bother using the mat I bought as it was still very playable off...

Could one of the reasons for significant margins be that the player’s handicap does not reflect their ability? Would it be good to have as much information as possible when looking at evidence for handicap adjustment? I can’t see any reason why you wouldn’t seek and want as much objective...

Weird and extremely unusual things happen in tiny, fractional areas in every country - thre are odd unacceptable people across the world (many of whom are powerful in national institutions). I don’t know anyone who has heard of anyone they know having such things happen to them. To have this...

So there is absolutely no difference if someone wins all the rounds one up and someone who wins by pay a large margin (6&5, 5&4, 7&6j every time - really?

I do.

In IG, at least how we have it set up, it just gives winner and loser in matchplay rounds not the score. It would be far more informative for a Handicap Committee to have the score as well. Someone winning repeatedly 6&5 is far better evidence than just who won maybe by a lot, maybe on the last.

I guess it all depends how you describe great. - Headlines across the world? - Largest TV audience? - Largest attendance? - Most pivotal for the sport? - The only thing people are talking about at the club/range? - Transcending the sport? - The best of the best battling for the ultimate...

Love the sheer enthusiasm of the two guys commentating on the snowboarding. Fits exactly with the sport.

Beat me to it.

Peter Murrell (Nicola Sturgeons ex husband) charged with embezzling £459,000 from the SNP over 12 years to illicitly buy luxury goods. Quite tricky to hide in the normal family budget.

There is no obligation to mark the ball but it is advisable to do so.

Agreed, especially worrying if it is just for pure economic viability reasons. Normally (around here anyway) it is that it will be because the land can be sold for housing which if you are an owner (and it isn’t a passion project) is always a no brainer.

There were 5 in a row in 2002/3. 16 from 2001 to 2010 - that’s a high %.

There was a period when the majors had a lot of one time winners in the early 2000s with the likes of Shaun Micheel, Rich Beem, Todd Hamilton, Y E Yang, Ogilvy, Glover, Weir, Toms etc. that began to belie the ‘cream rising to the top’ in Majors, almost making them like ordinary tour stops, but...