Scottish Golf News – The Herald

SCOTLAND captain Andy Robertson was pleased to finally meet golfer Robert MacIntyre in the United Arab Emirates ahead of the Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic.

WE all have our little rituals and habits. Before sitting down to winkle out this column, for instance, I gaze at my own fizzog in the mirror and perform a weekly pep-talk which tends to start with soaring Churchillian oratory before swiftly descending into the glum-faced defeatism of a Les Dawson soliloquy.

Gusts of up to 35mph made for challenging conditions in Abu Dhabi.

SCOTT Jamieson reaped the benefits of avoiding an annual winter overhaul to claim a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.

COMPETITIVE golf, as the great Bobby Jones used to say about the psychology of this mind-mangling game, is played “mainly on a five-and-a-half inch course, the space between your ears.”

HIGH-PROFILE names in Scottish sport, business, charity campaigns and military veterans have received honours from the Princess Royal at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

DAVID DRYSDALE knows a thing or two about acts of escapology. The way the Scot clung on to his DP World Tour card at the end of 2021, for instance, was as nail-nibbling as watching Harry Houdini trying to shoogle out of a straitjacket while plunged in a tank of water.

The two-time major winner squandered a five-shot lead on the final day at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas last month.

THESE are farcical times. In fact, things are so farcical, everyday life on these isles should be accompanied by the Yakety Sax music from The Benny Hill Show and piped in through industrial-sized speakers strategically positioned at various points throughout the land.

LEITH is one of Edinburgh’s swankier postcodes, as many of our readers will know. Writer Deedee Cuddihy discovered this for herself on a recent visit to friends in the district’s Constitution Street, where a bottle of bubbly was opened, immediately followed by the appearance of Mitzi, the normally shy resident cat, who had been hiding in the kitchen.