A report to be released today by the Demos think tank draws attention to the growth on the continent of extremist right wing political groups.
Golf
Tiger Woods, one year on…
So how does Tiger Woods rediscover repose? First, there are the things he must stop doing: Stop talking. Stop apologizing. Stop explaining. Stop promising. It’s creepy and defeating, writes Esquire’s Tom Chiarella.
A Tiger Woods exclusive on Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods writes exclusively today for Newsweek about his marriage break up, the car accident and how he is reinventing the art of winning golf tournaments.
The fitness guru behind Lee Westwood’s transformation
He’s the new Number One in golf, but Lee Westwood’s climb to the top — over-passing Tiger Woods — also came with a change in his waistline. The Independent’s James Corrigan interviews the man behind golf’s best player.
The five dumbest rules in golf (and how to fix them)
Mark Twain once famously said that “golf is a good walk spoiled”, but is it simply that some of the game’s complicated rules are the problem? Peter Kostis lists five of golf’s dumbest rules and ways to fix them.
One word to ask about golf: why?
What is the logic behind golf, the so-called sport that simply involves hitting a dimpled ball towards a tiny hole? What reason can mankind possibly provide to justify its existence? Glen Newey asks the big questions.
A fairytale victory for golf’s new kid on the block
Louis Oosthuizen may have been nicknamed Shrek because of his toothy grin, but the South African golfer who took out his first major championship at the British Open last weekend is anything but an ogre, writes Bill Dywre.
Getting Tiger Woods here again defies common sense
To go cap in hand and beg Tiger Woods’ management company for a second visit is a tawdry and faintly obscene move by the Victorian government, writes Charles Happell.
Where do all the golf balls go?
Like lost socks, it’s one of the world’s great environmental mysteries. Each year around 300 million golf balls go missing in the US alone. Where do they all go, since they take at least 50 years to breakdown?
US Masters: Does it live up to the hype?
Golf nut — and Augusta virgin — Paul Bassat gives his first impressions of attending the US Masters, from finally understanding the difficulties of the 13th hole to being impressed by the Southern charm of spectators.
Tiger still lost in the Woods
Tiger Woods may be on a self-flagellation mission, but it’s one embedded in denial and glossing over of difficult facts. What’s the real story behind the “normal rules didn’t apply” man? asks Golf.
Tiger Woods now needs to play the game like everyone else
Five-time British Open golfing champion Peter Thomson says for all his brilliance on the course, Tiger Woods paid little attention to the game’s finer points and was often inconsiderate and petulant.
US Masters: Get ready to tee off for golf in 3D
The US Masters is being shot in 3D — and it will look amazing, says the NYT. Too bad you don’t have a 3D TV to watch it on.
The littlest prize in sport: The Minigolf Masters
Past The Windmill and through the Loop-the-loop, The Independent looks at the greatest smallest golfing competition in the world.
Guy Rundle: Tiger’s trysts, no one saw this coming
Two weeks into the Tiger Woods scandal and anguished friends of the sports superstar are all asking the same thing: What is it about the tall, handsome, panther limbed champion billionaire that women find so attractive?
‘Hey it’s Tiger’ … the other voicemails
This Tiger Woods story just becomes more and more sordid. Few needs in life are as insatiable as the need to hear more Tiger Woods voicemails. Ben Pobjie dials in.
Chinese news’ CGI recreation of Tiger’s crash
Today I take my driver out of my bag and applaud what surely is the future of news.
The mysterious woman behind the Tiger
Even more perplexing than Tiger Woods’ strange behavior early Friday morning is that of his elegant and discreet wife, Elin Nordegren.
Tiger Woods’ crash: Airtime, innuendo and bad headlines
Tiger Woods’ car crash should be a goldmine for subeditors looking to make some cheap and easy golfing puns — rough, crash, drive: the headlines virtually write themselves. But subbies of the world have come in well over par on this one, says Leigh Josey.
Football codes bury hatchet to defend alcohol sponsorship
Football codes are uniting against a Health Task Force recommendation that would see advertising during live sport broadcasts phased out during high adolescent/child viewing times and the end of alcohol sponsorship of sport, writes Simon Chapman.
Taxpayers can’t separate Tiger Woods from its IMG fees
While the rest of the country slowly pulls itself out of recession, a full-scale Tiger Woods-led recovery will be raging down in a little suburban pocket of south-east Melbourne.
Tom Watson made everyone believe he could win the British Open
Watson made believers out of everyone. He wasn’t succumbing to the moment, crosswinds or age. He knew how to finish. Watson made us certain that the most fanciful sports story of the century was going to get every last edit and chapter heading and wind up in hardcover.
Cricket or golf: which is the least boring?
Stephen Moss pits cricket against golf for boringness, rating them on terminology, length of game, commentators and fans.
Elite golfers’ plus fours a feat of fashion planning
In the world of elite golf, fashion is never left to chance. Tiger Woods’ major championship fashion was scripted by Nike a year ago.
