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7 Things...

3 Jun, 08 | Tags: 10 Things We've Learned From Golf This Week | 7 things we've learned from golf this week | Golf Central

Neil Armstrong: Sod that, I'm getting the clubs out of the boot...

Everyone knows that you can't mess with solid scientific facts, so bearing that in mind, we can now safely say that golf saves lives. We’ve also learned that Vijay Singh’s not the guy to pick a fight with, that Britain actually houses talented individuals and golf’s quest for world domination knows no bounds…

1.) The price is right for Forsyth
We're talking about 32-year-old Scot Alastair Forsyth,- not the gigantically-chinned, tap-dancing Bruce Forsyth- who, along with Ross Fisher, Robert Dinwiddie, Philip Archer, Ross McGowan, Thomas Levet and Johan Edfors, snuck into next week's US Open after the European qualifier at Walton Heath. Our very own Bet Detective is contemplating putting his money on Ross Fisher, who once shot a 56 at Torrey Pines.. on the Tiger Woods computer game. Still, impressive stuff.

2.) Golf is just what the doctor ordered
Health practitioners have discovered that golfers are 40% less likely to die than people who don’t play, and, get this, you’re 47% likely to hit the grave if you’ve got a low handicap. We’ve just given you the perfect excuse to bunk off work or leave the kids at home, so what are you waiting for?

3.) Britain has got talent
And we’re not talking about 14-year-old boys who breakdance in the rain or dodgy Michael Jackson wannabes, rather Danny Willett. The 20-year-old Yorkshireman produced a solid professional debut performance at the Wales Open at Celtic Manor, and despite finishing down the pecking order tied for 64th, we’ve already put our mortgage on him winning a major.

4.) Surely everyone is bored by this Donald Trump golf stuff by now?
If film producers are looking for a script for golf’s equivalent of “The Neverending Story”, then they needn’t look further than Trump’s planned golf resort in Aberdeenshire. The US tycoon flies to Scotland next week to give evidence at a public hearing after Aberdeenshire Council rejected his plans. Yaaaaaawn…

5.) Pontypridd is not a nice place
It’s hard to know how to tell this story in a light-hearted manner, so we’ll just tell it like it is; a 30-year-old unemployed bloke from Pontypridd has been banned from keeping animals for 10 years for hitting his dog with a sand wedge. All because the dog had eaten his shopping and ‘messed’ on the kitchen floor.

6.) Vijay Singh is quite good at golf (and throwing drunks out of nightclubs)
Believe it or not, Singh spent some time on the door of an Edinburgh nightclub in 1987 as he prepared for qualification at the Open at Muirfield. Singh admits that Scots were pretty rough with a few drinks inside them; tell us something we don’t know mate.

7.) Golf is slowly taking over the world (part 472)
With plans firmly in place for a £275 million golf development in Cuba and the strong possibility of golf being a part of the 2016 Olympics, where next? Mars? The moon?

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