MULLIGAN MULLIGAN
The Independent Voice Despite dropping down to 51st in the World
Golf Rankings, the mercurial Ian Poulter is still confident that he can make it into the 2016 European Ryder Cup team as an automatic pick. However, Poulter, without a win for three
years on the European Tour, is not alone in slipping down the rankings with Lee Westwood, Luke Donald and Graeme McDowell also going the wrong way. A Ryder Cup team without Poulter, Westwood, Donald and McDowell would have been unthinkable a year ago, but it is now very much a distinct possibility. Westwood, ranked 46th, has dropped 20 places since the end of 2014, Donald, ranked 70th, has dropped 37 places and McDowell, ranked 80th, has dropped a staggering 65 places. European Ryder Cup Captain, Darren Clarke, may well have some difficult decisions ahead of him before finalising his team to take on the USA at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota next autumn. The Royal and Ancient has announced
revisions to what were considered to be two of golf’s harshest rules, changes which will take effect in the professional game from 1 January 2016. Henceforth, players will no longer be disqualified if some eagle-eyed television viewer spots an infringement which results in penalty shots being applied aſter that player has signed his scorecard. Instead an additional two shot penalty will now be applied to a player's score over and above the penalties occurred for the breach. In addition to this, neither will an automatic one stroke penalty be applied if a ball moves
aſter a player has addressed it. This will now only happen if the facts show a player caused the ball to move. And here’s one for those of a statistical
persuasion - almost five million copies of the Rules of Golf are being published in English, with further copies distributed in no fewer than 36 different languages. The review takes place every four years following representations from 150 affiliated unions in 138 different countries. And finally, the golfing Gods were certainly smiling on England’s Ben Evans who thought he had lost his European Tour Card by finishing 111th in the Race to Dubai (formerly known as the Order of Merit). Only the top 110 get to keep their card for 2016. However, American Brooks Koepka informed European Tour officials that he was relinquishing his membership so he could focus on the PGA Tour in future and was therefore removed from the money list, moving Evans that one crucial place up the standings. Evans, who comes from Maidstone in Kent, posted on Twitter: "Well @EuropeanTour it's been a 24hr rollercoaster. Overwhelmed and so happy to be told I've moved to 110 on R2D Cant wait for 2016! #buzzing.”
I think I get what he is saying! Happy Hacking! Mulligan
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