Written by Stephen F. Moloney Maggie could feel her mouth getting drier and drier the closer she and Mr. Duggart got to reaching Mr. Thackett’s cabin. To his credit, Mr. Duggart had attempted to keep things light as they walked by talking about how the driving range used to be...
Written by Stephen F. Moloney “Just mind your step when you come down the other side here – some of the roots can be a little slippery.” Knowing full well that the sneakers she was wearing offered little in the way of traction, Maggie was sure to heed Mr. Duggart’s...
Written by Stephen F. Moloney Maggie quickly buzzed her window back up as another cloud of rust-red dust came billowing towards her car – how right Mr. Duggart had been. “Now, while there is asphalt in parts on the drive in” he had warned rather ominously just before they left...
Written by Stephen F. Moloney Maggie Lawson pulled her car into the side of the road and turned off the engine. “This can’t be it” she said, utter disbelief colouring her voice as she alternated between peering out through her dust-covered windshield and down at the broken screen on...
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) In a final round where the lead changed hands more times than a juggler’s props over the course of the first nine holes, Adam Scott eventually grabbed the Genesis Invitational up by the lapels at the devilishly short par 4 10th and, save for a...
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) After his ice-cold, methodical performance during Sunday’s final round at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship – a round wherein he masterfully played the role of the battle-worn professional wholly accustomed to the exclusive surrounds of the winner’s circle – 46 year old Lee Westwood, thanks...