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Creature discomforts

Caddie's Role/Nedbank Challenge: The speed and frequency with which a golfer can find himself on a different continent week …

Tue Nov 28 2006 - 00:00

Dragons' Goodwill hunting

Caddie's Role: You have definitely heard of the Ryder Cup. You might recollect the Presidents Cup

Tue Nov 21 2006 - 00:00

No trick or treat as Woods goes absent

Caddie's Role : Halloween is traditionally a holiday for children, unless you are in America that is, when the whole nation …

Tue Nov 07 2006 - 00:00

Getting into the swing of things on the Chinese fairways

Caddie's Role: They say that in China they ask for forgiveness first and then they ask for permission to build a golf course…

Tue Oct 17 2006 - 01:00

Big-name players enjoy Asia Tour's military precision

Caddie's Role: We have reached the time of year when you frequently get asked what your schedule is like for the last couple…

Tue Oct 10 2006 - 01:00

Time for the US to rethink Ryder Cup approach

Caddie's Role: As the sludge that had become The K Club by two Sundays ago began to get back to a squidgy, at-best-yielding …

Tue Oct 03 2006 - 01:00

Unique fans and ambience create new beautiful game

Caddie's View : They used to call the big round-balled game "the beautiful game"

Mon Sept 25 2006 - 01:00

Opening-day boo-boo helps break tension

Caddie's view: Starting a tournament on Friday is a day late for the habitual golf pro programming

Sat Sept 23 2006 - 01:00

Time to make the tough decisions

Caddie's Role : A week to go to the Ryder Cup and the heat is on the captains of Europe and America to provide the atmosphere…

Tue Sept 12 2006 - 01:00

My boy keeps his dignity intact at the 'People's Major'

Caddie's Role: Du Page regional airport in the western suburbs of Chicago at 6

Tue Aug 29 2006 - 01:00

Deja vu as Tiger and Sergio and I revisit old glories

Caddie's Role: Tuesday - I was here in 1999, the year of the famous battle for the PGA title between Tiger and Sergio

Tue Aug 22 2006 - 01:00

Els and the Shark soar above terrorised stratosphere

Caddie's Role: It's always a relief to land after a long haul across the Atlantic

Tue Aug 15 2006 - 01:00

Old pro who kneaded to make ends meet after the Tour

Caddie's Role: Where do all the old golf pros go to? For many, Sky TV gave a new lease of life to those golfers who couldn't…

Tue Aug 01 2006 - 01:00

Links with past prove tenuous as iron man prevails

Caddie's Role: The 135th Open Championship - and the much-talked-about Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake is finally revealed…

Tue Jul 25 2006 - 01:00

Code of the course is what keeps golfers clubbable

Caddie's Role: There are not many professional sports that are as congenial as the game of golf

Tue Jul 18 2006 - 01:00

K Club fans get to share errant Goosen's brolly

Caddie's Role: I couldn't quite figure out what the two spectators behind the sixth green were up to last Saturday on the Smurfit…

Tue Jul 11 2006 - 01:00

All you need is skill and the golfing gods on your side

Caddie's Role/Wednesday: I pulled into the caddie parking lot at the idyllic sounding location of Cherry Lawn

Tue Jun 20 2006 - 01:00

Nicklaus manages to rake up a whole new controversy

Caddie's Role: The Memorial Tournament falls on the week after the Memorial Day Weekend

Tue Jun 06 2006 - 01:00

Playing the waiting game proves difficult

Caddie's Role: Weather for Ducks, the Carton Regatta, I do hope that the Monty at Carton is not going to become synonymous with…

Tue May 23 2006 - 01:00

Balancing control and aggression key to winning

Caddie's Role: The captain of my home club's senior cup team was obviously at a loss in trying to dig up a person to provide…

Tue May 16 2006 - 01:00

Wachovia wet but still sunny

Caddie's Role: I understand I have been gushing a little bit about the way us toters are being taken heed of all of a sudden…

Tue May 09 2006 - 01:00

New Orleans gets into swing of things

Caddie's Role: Going to New Orleans

Tue May 02 2006 - 01:00

Oh how times have changed for us toters

Caddie's Role: Another trip loomed and I needed to focus on the "joys" of heading off to another time zone, on to another continent…

Tue Apr 25 2006 - 01:00

TPC bigger than Christmas for locals

Caddie's Role: Jacksonville Beach Florida was the venue for the Players Championship last week

Tue Mar 28 2006 - 01:00

The intrigue that is matchplay golf

The Caddie's Role: There was a sense of irony about the weather that greeted us in southern California last week for the seventh…

Tue Feb 28 2006 - 00:00

Big country, Big Dipper, big culture shock for old pros

Caddie's role: Western Australia has got a land mass greater than that of southern Europe and a population that would make it…

Tue Feb 14 2006 - 00:00

Big two do battle in the heat at Christmas

Caddie's Role : We arrived in George in the western cape province last week for the South African Open which was held at the…

Tue Dec 20 2005 - 00:00

Giraffes are just like golfers after all

Caddie's Role: My first introduction to wildlife on this trip to South Africa was a rather chilling speech by the artist who…

Tue Dec 13 2005 - 00:00

Even we caddies have caddies on Sun City gig

Caddie's Role: It's junket season again, when the world's top golfers go on a global cruise, hauling in as much of the jackpot…

Tue Dec 06 2005 - 00:00

Calm descends after the storm of questions

Caddie's Role: The Disney tournament was completed on time, despite the misgivings of the weather people and doomsayers that…

Tue Nov 01 2005 - 00:00

Days of etiquette in US are long gone

Caddie's Role: You would want to be fairly thick-skinned to play top competitive golf in America these days against an American…

Tue Sept 27 2005 - 01:00

All the work and preparation for tournaments pays off

Caddie's Role: Having won in China a couple of weeks ago, flown back home to England for a night and then reassembled himself…

Tue Sept 13 2005 - 01:00

Living the high life in the company of Mr Zhang

Caddie's Role : We came to Beijing 10 days ago to play the Buddah Cup

Tue Sept 06 2005 - 01:00

Terminal boredom of the jet-set porter

Caddie's Role: Let me tell you about international travel in the month of August in the year 2005

Tue Aug 30 2005 - 01:00

Affable Tiger has Cayeux eating out of his hand

Caddie's Role: For Marc Cayeux from Zimbabwe to get into the NEC Invitational at Firestone last week was a huge result.

Tue Aug 23 2005 - 01:00

History for the toters as a major whine does the trick

Caddie's Role: The 87th US PGA Championship turned out to be a milestone in caddie history.

Tue Aug 16 2005 - 01:00

Paying for dinner whets Goosen's appetite

When the bill arrived at Earl's restaurant south of Denver, Colorado, on Tuesday last week, there was a rush to take it

Wed Aug 10 2005 - 01:00

Modern golfers are getting all pumped up

Caddie's Role: Rain delays in the suburbs of Hamburg are great opportunities for idle banter amongst caddies, players and others…

Tue Jul 26 2005 - 01:00

Caddying in the Open has become an expensive pastime

Monday David Diaz, an Australian Tour player and something of a journeyman golfer from Down Under, showed up for his first practice…

Tue Jul 19 2005 - 01:00

Even the best have to slog it out at times

Caddie's Role: Not many games are a bag of laughs when things are not going your way

Tue Jul 12 2005 - 01:00

Ryder Cup set for battle of par golf

Caddie's Role: The Ryder Cup

Tue Jul 05 2005 - 01:00

Cambo and Sponge get the success they richly deserve

Caddie's Role: It was the early 1990s and Michael Campbell arrived on the European Tour.

Tue Jun 28 2005 - 01:00

Goosen gets bitten but he'll be back

Caddie's Role: On the 16th hole at Pinehurst No 2 golf course last Sunday, at around six o'clock in the evening, two golfers…

Tue Jun 21 2005 - 01:00

Classic courses survive the test of time

Caddie's Role: It may have been the Booz Allen tournament last week but that was not the main attraction

Tue Jun 14 2005 - 01:00

A small world is tailor-made for Howth dreamers

Caddie's Role: Back in my youth I used to go to play golf at the Deer Park public course in Howth

Tue Jun 07 2005 - 01:00

Alliss lives in the past but sure knows his etiquette

Caddie's Role: Last Friday was a pretty normal end of the working week for most people and for me, a golf caddie doing the best…

Tue May 31 2005 - 01:00

Is it a bird? . . is it a plane? . . no it's Carton

Caddie's Role: There is something about the Montgomerie Course at Carton House that has got people's attention

Tue May 24 2005 - 01:00

Swing in to action with tips from the top

Caddie's Role: The evenings are stretching to the point where you might fit in 18 holes after work

Tue May 10 2005 - 01:00

Yes it's golf in China, but not as we know it

Caddie's Role: To those of us without an eye for detail China can look pretty similar to Japan when it comes to buildings, people…

Tue May 03 2005 - 01:00

Playing out of their skins for Phuket tsunami charity

Caddie's Role: There was a water festival last week in Thailand, part of the lunar New Year celebrations called Songkran, so…

Tue Apr 19 2005 - 01:00
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