Reader question opportunity with former Ryder Cup captain, Mark James...

[JezzE]

Morning all,
Heading down to Porthcawl this week with some GM comp winners to play in the Speedy Services Wales Senior Open pro-am and am hoping to get some time with Mark James during the week. So if any of you have any questions for the former Ryder Cup player and captain, and multiple tour winner (indeed the first Brit to win a US Senior Major), then please fire away...

* Please include your real name and home town/county as we will need those to sit by your question in the mag

 

[richart]

What really went on at the Ryder Cup with Ken Brown ?

Richard Hart, Farnham.

 

[bladeplayer]

I appreciate nobody makes mistakes with hindsight but .. If it was 1999 again & you were having your picks would you still pick Andrew Coulthard over Faldo & Langer ..


Fairly sure i have these details correct Jezz , (feel free not to ask this if you think it may be inappropriate)

Bill Martin
Athy
Ireland

 

[HawkeyeMS]

With the way the game is changing, players generally spending more time on strength and fitness, technology allowing people to hit the ball further and more accurately and "average" players earning a small fortune before they reach the age of 30. How do you see the future of the Seniors tour? Do you envisage the younger players either giving up the game before they reach 50 or staying a few more years on the regular tour before retiring completely?

Mike Stannard, Bagshot, Surrey

 

[bladeplayer]

I WAS JUST CHATTING WITH MY MATE DARREN THE OTHER WEEK & WE WERE SAYING With the way the game is changing, players generally spending more time on strength and fitness, technology allowing people to hit the ball further and more accurately and "average" players earning a small fortune before they reach the age of 30. How do you see the future of the Seniors tour? Do you envisage the younger players either giving up the game before they reach 50 or staying a few more years on the regular tour before retiring completely?

Mike Stannard, Bagshot, Surrey

Altered that for you Mike :thup:

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Altered that for you Mike :thup:

:rofl:

 

[HawkeyeMS]

One more if you need it.

If you had the chance to Vito the R&A's decision to ban anchored putting strokes and replace it with another rule change, would you do it and what rule would you change?

Mike Stannard, Bagshot, Surrey

 

[sev112]

As a master of dry humour and the wonders of sarcasm, what is your favourite put down that still makes you proud ? Bonus marks for being to a world famous golfer. Double bonus for naming them

Steve Everton, Wokingham

 

[HomerJSimpson]

You will always be associated with the Battle at Brookline and the infamous incident on the green. Are you annoyed this has overshadowed your success as a golfer on both the main and senior tours and that a lot people only know you for this one chapter in your life and career


Martin Bedborough
Bracknell

 

[Deleted member 1147]

You played during the era of the best and most successful Europeans (Faldo, Seve, Langer, Lyle, Woosie, Oli to name a few).
Are you glad they were around, winning and helping to build the European tour into what it is today, or, would you rather they hadn't been there so you could have won more often?

James Robinson
Derby

 

[Doon frae Troon]

No real question but Mark James was a classic Poacher turned Gamekeeper.

 

[Paul_Stewart]

Why did you use your Ryder Cup captaincy to settle every personal score and vendetta you had against better players on the European tour?

How did you manage to upset and annoy every member of the Tampa sports radio and print media during an event on the Champions Tour a couple of years back?

OK maybe not but I'd ask them!

 

[virtuocity]

How did surviving your illness in 2000 change you as:

a) A person
b) A golfer

Dave Clarke, South Lanarkshire.