Nick Rodger
Sports Writer at The Herald (Scotland)
Golf and Sports Writer at Freelance
Golf writer with The Herald and various other enterprises. Cottage industry.
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4 days ago |
heraldscotland.com | Nick Rodger
In theory, sleeping should be a relatively straightforward process. All you have to do is lie on your back and close your eyes. It’s so easy, even a corpse can do it. And presumably, that’s what I’ll become if I don’t change my bloomin’ sleeping position. Poor old Tommy Fleetwood will probably be having a couple of sleepless nights after his harrowing loss in the Travelers Championship on Sunday.
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5 days ago |
heraldscotland.com | Nick Rodger
In fact, some of the more technologically challenged entrants would probably view a successful navigation of The Open Qualifying Player Portal online log-in process as something of a rousing triumph. At the likes of Barassie and Craigielaw up here to Ferndown and Gog Magog down south, The Open dream will be alive and kicking. Well, until a nervy triple-bogey on the first.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Nick Rodger
“We have KPMG Performance Insights, which is our data and analytics platform that gives the women of the LPGA Tour shot-level data, just like the men have, integrated with the ChampCast system, so that they have real-time information to help evaluate, assess, and know how they're performing on the golf course through technology and Artificial Intelligence,” he said. At our humdrum level of golf, of course, we have no need for the assistance of Artificial Intelligence, do we?
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Nick Rodger
Given the wonderfully chaotic nature of the finish at storm-tossed Oakmont, even Rip Van Winkle would’ve staved off his nodding somnolence and stayed awake for the denouement. It was some old night, wasn’t it? J.J Spaun’s birdie putt on the last, to deny Robert MacIntyre at the death, was so outrageously long, I genuinely thought his ball would run out of room on the bloomin’ TV.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Nick Rodger
Presumably, everybody was scunnered by the arduous, futile guddles for the sports editor’s wayward hoiks during The Herald’s inaugural autumn outing and decided to put a limit on the hunt. But back to the US Open. In those formative years of the championship, there was plenty to write home about. Scottish golfers won 12 of the first 16 stagings. That was hardly surprising.
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Darth Vader and Davy the Stormtrooper oot on a Sunday session and trying ta find the last bus back ta Mustafar, the auld rascals... https://t.co/VB8bhliOct
Blimey. Looks like the returns queue at Burtons menswear...#uefachampionsleague https://t.co/KqM8IGdXLh
Funny auld game...#EuropaLeagueFinal
Scotland vs Switzerland. What a terrible terrible game it was. How can two teams play so bad? No idea going forward. Pele, immortals words: Football is the beautiful game... You must be joking. What an embarrassment. The comments in TV, if anything, even worse!
