Tag Archive for Golf

Kevin N-N-N-N-Na

May 13, 2012 Humour, Sport No comments

I find it dif­fi­cult to watch at times. All the fid­get­ing, wig­gles & wag­gles before the shot is struck. As I write this, he is lead­ing the Play­ers by 1, but seems to be fal­ter­ing. As as week­end golfer and a trader I feel for him. While I have never had a prob­lem pulling the trig­ger on the golf course, I cer­tainly have strug­gled with that as a trader. Dr. Brett Steen­barger talks about trad­ing as an elite per­for­mance field just like sports, and every­day I find sim­i­lar­i­ties between golf & trading.

Not being able to pull the trig­ger is one of those afflic­tions that many golfers & traders have to deal with. As an ama­teur golfer I don’t strug­gle with it, but it is sim­ply a hobby, not my only means of mak­ing as liv­ing and that is what makes it eas­ier for me. If I hit a bad shot I give myself a bol­lock­ing and move on.

As a trader, a bad trade really bugs me because it has far worse impli­ca­tions than an errant drive. I am very grate­ful that I don’t have to wres­tle with my trad­ing demons in pub­lic every day. Wrestling with them in pri­vate is dif­fi­cult enough. As Kevin Na strug­gles in front of mil­lions of peo­ple I can only feel for him, and at the same time applaud his courage.

Lets see how the rest of the after­noon plays out…

Accenture Matchplay 2012

February 23, 2012 Sport No comments

I have a bone to pick with the broad­cast­ers. Erine Els, who is forty some­thing years old, beat Luke Don­ald, num­ber one seed, num­ber one in the world, and defend­ing cham­pion, in the first round. Not only did he beat him, he ham­mered him 5 & 4. Was this the head­line from golfchannel.com or on ESPN in the morn­ing? No, the head­line was that Tiger got through, by beat­ing some unknown, unproven and unfor­get­table Spaniard. Do me a fuck­ing favor. Well done Tiger, you beat a dude who is prob­a­bly num­ber 266 in the world, specif­i­cally put there for you to look good to thump. Not exactly a thump­ing was it.

Now, as far as day two goes, thank God Jimenez beat Bradley (*yawn*) because pretty much every sin­gle excit­ing player is now out. Wat­ney (dou­ble *yawn*) beat Tiger, which will be on the news for 3 days, and Bae beat Schwartzel. Unfor­tu­nately all the excit­ing play­ers are in one group, so Jimenez now faces Mcil­roy. Hope­fully Kaymer & West­wood get through tomor­row, else the week­end is going to be one bor­ing affair.

 

I won­der how Nike can strong-arm ESPN into get­ting Tiger into the news over the week­end too now? Fuckers.

 

Golf trick shots

January 3, 2011 Humour No comments

Awe­some video. Tee­ing off with a put­ter, why didn’t I think of that!

Million Dollar Golf 2008

December 19, 2008 Personal No comments

The Gary Player Coun­try Club hosted the 2008 Ned­bank Mil­lion Dol­lar Golf chal­lenge from the 4th — 7th Decem­ber 2008, and what an event it was. The organ­i­sa­tion, as usual was excel­lent, the weather, as usual, was steam­ing, and the golf was red hot. Hen­rik Sten­son won by a mas­sive 9 strokes with a 21 under– a phe­nom­e­nal score on such a great course. A good time was had by all!

After a hard day on the course

After a hard day on the course

The next week (the 11th Decem­ber) I was for­tu­nate enough to play the course. I scored a respectable 84, though with a bit of luck it could eas­ily have been a sub 80 round. It was the first time I played the course, and it is fan­tas­tic! I def­i­nitely under­stand why it is the top course in South Africa, though per­son­aly I may be lean­ing towards Dur­ban CC as my favourite.