Thoughts from
Home
OUR GUEST WRITER, THE DAILY MAIL’S DEREK LAWRENSON, DESCRIBES HOW THE OPEN AT
HOYLAKE ALLOWS HIM – JUST ONCE IN A WHILE – TO WORK FROM HOME.
Abroad
THREE QUESTIONS GENERALLY FOLLOW when people learn I’m the golf correspondent of the Daily Mail. 1. Wow, is that as nice a job as it sounds? 2. What are Tiger and Rory really like? 3. Need any help carrying your suitcase? Now yes, for someone who left
Above: Arnold Palmer
Right: Rory McIlroy
More than seven months of my life spent walking round Augusta National!
grammar school with a hopelessly inadequate list of qualifications, I can have no complaints with how my professional life has turned out. OK, it certainly wouldn’t bother me if I never saw Manchester airport again, and I’ve missed rather more family occasions and football matches at Anfield than I would have liked. But spending most of your
career in shorts watching people play
golf and then scribbling a few thoughts at the end of each day before retiring to a decent restaurant comes closer than I deserve to a perfect working life. ‘Follow the Sun,’ the mantra of the
touring professional, always did sound a better ideal to me than being stuck in an office. Most weeks bring something to make
you feel grateful and privileged. I’m writing this, for example, while getting set for my 30th Masters. More than seven months of my life spent walking round Augusta National! That’s not bad, is it? In March we had a media dinner at
the Arnold Palmer Invitational and who should walk in halfway through but the tournament host himself. ‘I just wanted to say a few words to you all,’ said the King. ‘I started my career among the written press and I’m going to finish my career among the written press and I want to thank you all for all you have done for me.’ It’s not all gravy, of
course. I’ve lost count of the number of American majors that have finished either bang on our midnight final edition deadline or just after it, with the consequent rising levels of stress and angst. Then there was the Ryder Cup at Medinah in 2012. Most golfers regard it
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