Bezuidenhout is an unusual name. There is only one Bezuidenhout in the world of golf and yet it is not a name that stands out. Christian Bezuidenhout is a player who’s been around for ages, amassing $11m in prize money in the US, but without ever winning. A brilliant golfer then but not a…
If you follow golf, then it is likely you will have your favourite players to cheer playing in the Open this week. Perhaps you have money on certain players and could use some good fortune. There are marquee players who will hog the TV coverage: McIlroy, Scheffler, De Chambeau… But as well as these greats,…
This is not any old photograph of any old amateur golfer on any old tee box… This is yours truly on the 16th tee at Royal Portrush Golf Club, Northern Ireland which will stage the 154th Open Championship staring tomorrow. Hosting the world’s best golfers to determine who is the ‘Champion Golfer’ of 2025. The…
What is a meme anyway? Anyone? I am hazy even though I happen to star in a viral meme which ranked No.1 worldwide on Reddit. I am also hazy on Reddit. I’m told it’s a powerful website, which can make people’s careers… Hmmm. After three decades of doing stand-up comedy, 9 books and…
Last year, I was at Wentworth for the pro-am on Wednesday ahead of the PGA Championship. Not playing myself, obviously. I have neither the game nor the fame to tee it up in such an august field, but I do have a famous son, and he needed a caddie. It was exciting to be within…
Timing is known to be critical for successful comedy. Indeed, timing is a vital ingredient to every success story in almost all fields of endeavour. Speaking of fields, I have wasted many thousands of hours in such places albeit these ‘fields’ are more manicured with fairways, greens and the rough of course which is impossible…
Given how much dogs can cost, I shouldn’t really complain. A friend of mine paid £3,000 for his ‘Bruno’, a cocker spaniel making our beloved Tessa a mere snip at £600. And to think that Rosie cost us nada! Well… I had been told that dog rescue charities welcome donations, but when Battersea Dogs Home,…
I was in Ireland last week, taking my mum home to see her two surviving sisters – Christina and Margaret, 89 and 94 respectively and both in care homes now. They are both Catholic nuns and have no family of their own to care for them. Kinder women you will never meet. Both nurses, Christina…
Cars are many things beyond merely a means of transport. Like a beautiful home is a mark of success, similarly a car can be a signifier of achievement. A mobile display of wealth, unlike a mobile home which ironically can have the opposite meaning. A Rolls Royce is perhaps the epitome of this success. To…
Last week’s blog focussed on my advancing years, and I continue in this varicose vein here now. You might recall that I swerved the paddle tennis match last week in New York – but it transpired that the Bero investor chap in question was not to be denied his time across the net from me….