Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) Remember last week when I described the Honda Classic as having been “attritional”? Wasn’t that adorable? Because after the way Bay Hill played over the weekend just gone for the Arnold Palmer Invitational, it made what happened two and bit hours down the road at...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) The stage couldn’t have been set any better. The packed grandstands. The fading Florida light. The stakes perfectly poised. And a feeling of electricity that, even through a television screen an ocean away, felt so palpable you’d have been forgiven for thinking you were right...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) Like him or loathe him, for Patrick Reed – in the wake of comments made by Brooks Koepka & Peter Kostis regarding that incident in the Bahamas & his alleged conduct on the course – to go into the tricky Club de Golf Chapultepec and...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) Having spent the first three days being pillaged for low rounds by the field of marauding tour pros and their celebrity partners, strong winds – like those giant eagles in ‘The Hobbit’ films – arrived just in the nick of time for Sunday’s final round...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) After just about getting his third shot out of the greenside bunker and then knocking the resultant fourth from the fringe to about six or eight feet with his putter, I don’t think anyone who’d been watching the previous three days – or, in particular,...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) It’s not often you hear someone say, “Oh my God – that may be the worst shot I’ve ever hit in my life” in the middle of a playoff and still emerge victorious, yet, on Sunday at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic, Lucas Herbert –...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) Chances are if, at any point over the last few weeks, the Middle East crossed your mind, I’d be willing to wager that it probably wasn’t because you were eagerly anticipating the arrival of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and therefore the beginning of the...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) When Christmas finally gets done and dusted, and “Auld Lang Syne” inevitably gets replaced with “The Same Old Grind”, January often ends up being on the receiving end of some pretty vicious sideways glances from those disgruntled amongst us who actually enjoy the festive period...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) As the worst night of the year to go out is finally upon us in all it’s overcrowded, sure-to-disappoint splendour, that, in turn, means we’re but a few hours away from it officially being a Ryder Cup year – and, given I got quite a...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) Once the singles session last Sunday was followed up with the all-important drinking session to celebrate their comeback win against Ernie Els’ International side in the Presidents Cup, you’d wonder if, at some point between Tiger buying ‘libations’ for everyone and the seventh off-key rendition...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) From the second that image of Patrick Reed doing a bit of excavation work in that bunker at the Hero World Challenge was beamed around the world and the ensuing scorching hot takes began to roll in online, the task of competing in this week’s...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) One of the most popular articles I’ve ever done on here is where I looked at how a Ryder Cup-style match between a European team and an American team made up of each side’s top six ranked male golfers in the World Rankings and each...