most natural sportsman

[richart]

Golf~ Tom Watson
Fitba~Jim Baxter
Cycling~Chris Hoy
Athletics~Herb Elliot
Rugby~Serge Blanco
Multi Skills~ Dennis Compton

I met Dennis Compton shortly before he died. Cricket for England, football for Arsenal, 6 handicap golfer, and he also was a top bowls player, and an absolute natural.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Oops~ forgot Babe Zaharis.

 

[Slime]

Sorry to rain on your parade, but, there is only one truly natural all round sportsman.
And he was English!
Quadruple boat race winner, scratch golfer, Olympic gold & silver medalist, captained England at football, played for Chelski & Man City, scored 144 at Lords, played table tennis with a butter knife, represented Cambridge Uni at cricket, tennis, real tennis & football, captain of the British Davis Cup team, set a course record at Sandiway Golf Club, never did ANY of this for money as he thought professionalism in sport was vulgar and in the middle of all this sport he fought with our boys on the Western Front & in the Galipoli campaign.
What a top bloke.
Oh...............................his name was Max Woosnam.

Slime.

 

[MashieNiblick]

Sorry to rain on your parade, but, there is only one truly natural all round sportsman.
And he was English!
Quadruple boat race winner, scratch golfer, Olympic gold & silver medalist, captained England at football, played for Chelski & Man City, scored 144 at Lords, played table tennis with a butter knife, represented Cambridge Uni at cricket, tennis, real tennis & football, captain of the British Davis Cup team, set a course record at Sandiway Golf Club, never did ANY of this for money as he thought professionalism in sport was vulgar and in the middle of all this sport he fought with our boys on the Western Front & in the Galipoli campaign.
What a top bloke.
Oh...............................his name was Max Woosnam.

Slime.

Just done a wiki search in case it was a wind up!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Woosnam

WOW what a guy.

Wonder how he managed to put in the 10,000 hours of practice in each of those sports that the so called experts say you need?

 

[birdieman]

The marvellous Eddie Edwards, self taught, fearless, legend!

 

[HughJars]

Difficult one, becasue where does coaching take away from 'natural'. Tiger for instance has been heavily coached from a very young age, whereas Seve was doing it all himself.

So

Golf - Seve, Walter Hagen, Trevino, Young Tom
M-sport - Clark, Stewart, Senna, McRae, Loeb, Joey Dunlop, and possibly Vettel but we'll wait and see with him
Cycling - Indurain, Cavendish
Football - Best, Maradonna, Messi, Okocha, Willie Miller

 

[Slime]

Quadruple boat race winner, scratch golfer, Olympic gold & silver medalist, captained England at football, played for Chelski & Man City, scored 144 at Lords, played table tennis with a butter knife, represented Cambridge Uni at cricket, tennis, real tennis & football, captain of the British Davis Cup team, set a course record at Sandiway Golf Club, never did ANY of this for money as he thought professionalism in sport was vulgar and in the middle of all this sport he fought with our boys on the Western Front & in the Galipoli campaign.
What a top bloke.
Oh...............................his name was Max Woosnam.

Slime.

Forgot to mention......................he also managed a 147 break at snooker & won a doubles title at Wimbledon as well as at the Olympics!

 

[MegaSteve]

Forgot to mention......................
he also managed a 147 break at snooker...

Doesn't count unless it was televised 'live' :whoo:....