A Sad Day for Golf, No More Stableford
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From: Pat Williams on 26 Feb 2007 04:15 mike short wrote: > Pat Williams wrote: > >> Not true my self-characterisation as the archetypal Englishman (even >> inadvertently) for I speak one European language fluently, one quite >> passably and one reasonably. > > How can you say that when your self-effacing, modesty is just so > characteristically English (though with names like Pat and Williams > perhaps I should say British) Infantile! I can just picture a small boy running around a primary school playground calling out names and running away having the last word!
From: mike short on 26 Feb 2007 13:37 Pat Williams wrote: > mike short wrote: >> Pat Williams wrote: >> >>> Not true my self-characterisation as the archetypal Englishman (even >>> inadvertently) for I speak one European language fluently, one quite >>> passably and one reasonably. >> >> How can you say that when your self-effacing, modesty is just so >> characteristically English (though with names like Pat and Williams >> perhaps I should say British) > > Infantile! > > I can just picture a small boy running around a primary school > playground calling out names and running away having the last word! I will leave you in peace; recalling your childhood memories.
From: mike short on 26 Feb 2007 14:10
> mike short wrote: >> I missed the earlier post - was it from my hero Roberto de Vicenzo the >> great Argentinian who won our Open and blew the Masters? >> Pat Williams wrote: > > Never strictly "blew the Masters". He blew away what would have been a > tie with Bob Goalby at the Masters. The error by Tommy Aaron and himself > cost him a stroke and a play off place. Had there been a tie either > could have won. > > JPW > I think he blew a genuine chance at the masters; and so I feel happy to describe him as someone who blew the Masters.Unlike the mark roe Open where had he not have been dq'd he would have come back next day and probably not broken 80. You may have a stricter version in your head of what 'blew the masters' might mean to you - but that is a definition for your use and understanding , not a binding rule for everyone. But full marks for the most wonderful statement of the bleeding obvious ;'Had their been a tie either could have won'!!! Blimey the things you have to teach us. |