Rohit Brijnath

Writer at The Straits Times

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Articles

Does the world’s greatest female athlete live in water?

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Rohit Brijnath

Truly great things last a long while. Poetry. The Godfather. Blue whales. Trees. And Katie Ledecky in a pool. You’re a sports fan, so you know her, right? This woman who’s arguably the greatest female athlete of the past decade from a sport which doesn’t get the regular respect it’s owed. Not everyone swims but you don’t need to dance to admire Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Boy with a bat reminds us of the wonder of prodigies

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Rohit Brijnath

The world of Vaibhav Suryavanshi is out of control and it’s all his brilliant fault. Great players in cricket are fumbling for suitable adjectives to anoint him with. Newspapers in India reserve almost entire pages for him. Nothing is in proportion but then neither is the skill he displayed for his age. Under the bright lights of the big time, for one magical night, a kid with puppy fat didn’t blink.
For Singapore hurdler Ang, life is a brilliant battle with time

2 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Rohit Brijnath

0.01 is nothing to us. Just one-hundredth of a meaningless second. Faster than just another blink of the eye. But 0.01 is everything to Ang Chen Xiang, the record-setting 110m hurdler. So he’ll give all his time just to find this tiny piece of time.
For hurdler Ang, life is a brilliant battle with time

2 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Rohit Brijnath

0.01 is nothing to us. Just one-hundredth of a meaningless second. Faster than just another blink of the eye. But 0.01 is everything to Ang Chen Xiang, the record-setting 110m hurdler. So he’ll give all his time just to find this tiny piece of time.
HT Syndication: At the Masters, a unique view of a champion

2 weeks ago | htsyndication.com | Rohit Brijnath

New Delhi, April 26 -- If I rise on tiptoe, and crane my neck, and turn my shoulder slightly, and peek through the daylight between the heads of strangers, I can glimpse it. The fluttering yellow flag on the 18th green of the Masters. Then people shift and my view is blocked. It's a few Sundays ago in Augusta and Rory McIlroy is somewhere on this green trying to win the Masters with a four-foot putt in the play-off. Four feet is nothing, he'll do this blindfolded tomorrow.
At the Masters, a unique view of a champion

2 weeks ago | livemint.com | Rohit Brijnath

If I rise on tiptoe, and crane my neck, and turn my shoulder slightly, and peek through the daylight between the heads of strangers, I can glimpse it. The fluttering yellow flag on the 18th green of the Masters. Then people shift and my view is blocked. It’s a few Sundays ago in Augusta and Rory McIlroy is somewhere on this green trying to win the Masters with a four-foot putt in the play-off. Four feet is nothing, he’ll do this blindfolded tomorrow.
‘Rory, Rory, Rory’: On Sunday at the Masters a hero rises in the dusk

1 month ago | straitstimes.com | Rohit Brijnath

“Rory, Rory, Rory.” It’s past 6pm at the 18th hole at the Masters on April 13 and the scoreboard is being updated. A bellow emerges. It shows Rory McIlroy at 12-under. He’s just birdied the 17th hole and has a one-shot lead over Justin Rose. A ripple of expectation stirs the crowd. The 18th green is ringed by thousands of people and many of us can’t even see the green but no one will leave. Emotion and history have tied us to this place.
In an elegant arena, an electric McIlroy hunts his first Masters title

1 month ago | straitstimes.com | Rohit Brijnath

AUGUSTA – In the shadow of a mighty oak tree on April 12, in the kind light of a Saturday afternoon, the week’s best golfers began their chase for sporting immortality. Along the way they might have noticed that beside the greens at the Masters is often a small, roped-away space. Reserved for “movie crew” it says. It makes sense, for the unscripted drama of sport makes for the finest epics.
Hiroshi Tai misses the Masters cut but gains a Major education

1 month ago | straitstimes.com | Rohit Brijnath

AUGUSTA – At the par-three 16th hole named Redbud, the pines looming like lanky spectators, his iron shot floated in the air and settled gently near the pin. Just 11 feet away. Surely, now, a birdie. Surely, after hours of his putter misbehaving, something would fall. Surely, a round of tiny errors would be redeemed late in the day. The Masters promises nothing. The putt missed. Singapore’s Hiroshi Tai bent over in disbelief and frustration. “I had a couple of good looks at birdie,” he said later.
Singapore golfer Hiroshi Tai left grinning after sparkling Masters debut

1 month ago | straitstimes.com | Rohit Brijnath

AUGUSTA – Everything you wanted to know about Hiroshi Tai’s first day as a Masters golfer was written on his face later. He was grinning. Just couldn’t stop. It was a grin of relief, delight, pride. It was a grin he deserved after a first round in his inaugural Masters which had been long, hot, testing but sparkling. “I did a good job mentally,” he modestly told The Straits Times, but the scoreboard told a more persuasive tale. (A) for Amateur, it noted beside the Singaporean’s name.