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Nick Rodger

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Nick Rodger: The price of Ryder Cup admission does golf no favours in money-mad age

Nothing is cheap these days. In fact, even the word ‘cheap’ is now about five per cent more expensive in this sentence than it was in the previous...

22.10.2024 1

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Nick Rodger: Alex Salmond understood and appreciated the value of golf to Scotland

It’s the October holidays, so what do you do to kick back and re-energise on a family jaunt with a five-year-old and a one-year-old? Yes, that’s...

15.10.2024 2

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Nick Rodger: A bonfire of the profanities but golf has always been a four letter word

This week, we’re going to talk about swearing. So, instead of my usual rambling, meandering introduction to the column, which often leaves readers...

08.10.2024 1

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Nick Rodger: Dunhill deluge reminds us that a greenkeeper's work is never done

Have you ever dabbled in that Artificial Intelligence thingamabob, ChatGPT? Of course you haven’t. If you’re anything like me – and by that, I...

01.10.2024 1

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Nick Rodger: Clouds gathering again with course closures after Covid silver lining

According to our good friends in the behaviour and health research unit at the University of Cambridge, the British pint in the pub is officially...

24.09.2024 1

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Nick Rodger: Chaos and crass antics but women's golf wins again at Solheim Cup Nick Rodger: Chaos and crass antics but women's golf wins again at Solheim Cup

No matter what you do in life, there’s always someone telling you how you should be doing it. And I’m not talking about hectoring SNP ministers...

17.09.2024 1

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Nick Rodger: Win, lose or draw? There's no need to tinker with team golf format

You have to be pretty flexible in this writing business. There have been occasions down the seasons, for instance, when circumstances have led to...

10.09.2024 1

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Nick Rodger: Women’s Open is rising up but needs big crowds to be big-time sport I tell you what, The R&A are a funky old lot these days. This week’s AIG Women’s Open at St Andrews, for instance, will be so infused with youthful energy and ‘get down with the kidz’ engagement, this increasingly decrepit correspondent will probably get turned away at the gates and laughed out of the Auld Grey Toun.

I tell you what, The R&A are a funky old lot these days. This week’s AIG Women’s Open at St Andrews, for instance, will be so infused with youthful...

20.08.2024 1

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Nick Rodger: Olympic golf provides a Sunday showdown that money can't buy Nick Rodger: Olympic golf provides a Sunday showdown that money can't buy

Loyal readers of this column – I continue to be in awe of your enduring powers of stoicism by the way – will know that I do like a national...

06.08.2024 1

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Nick Rodger: Plenty of naysayers but Olympic golf can be worth its weight in gold Nick Rodger: Plenty of naysayers but Olympic golf can be worth its weight in gold

There’s just no escaping those five, interlocking Olympic rings is there? In fact, thanks to big companies having outrageously lucrative...

30.07.2024 1

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Nick Rodger: Blink and you'll miss it schedule does men's majors no favours Nick Rodger: Blink and you'll miss it schedule does men's majors no favours

I’m not sure where the time goes but I’ve just racked up my 25th Open Championship. I thought the R&A would’ve commissioned a limited-edition...

23.07.2024 1

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