Un leopardo nunca cambia sus manchas.

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "Read this. And weep..."

Another round round-up. Less than a foot away from my first eagle in YEARS.

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "...But as I breathed in my post-round lager, I couldn't help thinking about THIS shot below, the result of my third shot to the par 5 3rd hole..."

Value Man. No tips now until mid August.

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "...there will be a temporary hiatus in Value Man tips. Perhaps until mid August, when the European Tour begins again with the Czech Masters. Or perhaps not even then. Value Man will be back later in the season, though, of that you can be sure...."

Value Man tips 30 and 31. THE Open at Royal Portrush.

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "Just two tips this week, at the greatest tournament of them all...."

The 148th Open at Portrush – a sentence on each of the market’s top 50.

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "Just a sentence from me on each of the top 50 in the market for this week's Open at Portrush - and you'll see I've also shortlisted SIX and predicted the winner too...."

Another round round-up – ALMOST PERFECT DRIVING.

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "I may have only hit one fairway last night, but I was CRUNCHING my driver (my old, short Snake Eyes Viper) and only missed the fairways I did miss by a foot or two, or by running through them - the stats won't suggest this... but last night was my best driving 9 holes... perhaps EVER..."

Another round round-up. ALL four par 5s and all four par 3s, PARRED!

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "...I thiiiink it's my first full round EVER.... (in about 35 years of playing this game) where I parred ALL the par 3s (all four of them) AND ALL the par 5s (all four of them too!).."

JD Thwarts.

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "...to say you've been bitten by a "brown recluse" spider in England (and cite that as one of the reasons you'll not be fulfilling your invitation (as past champion) to The Open) would be rather like me returning home from the States and telling everyone I'd been mauled by a Snow Leopard whilst there. Possible (I suppposssse) but ridiculously-unlikely. I'd be more likely to win the lottery twice. In one week. (I don't play the lottery)..."

Value Man Tips 27,28 and 29! The Scottish Open at Renaissance Club, N.Berwick.

Excerpt(s) (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "Three tips this week as we're off to a "new" course (well... new to the tour Anyhoo), and it's a links course (of course!) where the luck of the bounce is as important as anything, even if you hit the middle of the fairways all week - AND it's the week before the big one (THE Open), so focus from players is often elsewhere (and surprise winners at big odds can suddenly happen from nowhere... AND (finally!) there's a weather warning for Scotland and the course itself for the first day (lightning etc), and that may upset a few applecarts. Yes.... (draw breath)… if ever a week existed (other than THE Open) to get on a few horses at crazy prices... THIS is that week.... By the way, it has been noted by some that my tips aren't always very successful - and why aren't I tipping better players at lower odds who are much more likely to win?.... Laydeez and gennelmen, that is the WHOLE POINT of "Value Man". It would be very easy of me to have tipped Jon Rahm and Rafa last week. Likewise it would have been very easy for me to tip perhaps... oh... I dunno… Rory and Kevin Kisner and Rickie Fowler and Matt Kuchar this week. But at THEIR ODDS? No thanks!..."

More notes to my aching, tired, self. A bit of a crossroads…

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "WAAAAAAIIIIIIT (whilst moving mass forwards at top of backswing, or even BEFORE top of backswing) and then.... Get the club through the ball quickly and try to hit the ball with the end of the club (not even the face, the actual toe!) rather than hold it off -which risks a shank if I waaaaiiiitttt too long!..."