Richie Ramsay

Failing the grade

Published Date: 09 November 2008 TRULY, THESE are strange times for Scottish golf. Here we are, holders of both the World Cup and the World Amateur Team Championship yet simultaneously unable to provide even one representative...

Golf: I'm Looking Forward To A Chinese Takeaway

Nov 6 2008 Alastair Forsyth Hsbc Champions Shootout I WAS eating a club sandwich and chips at 3am yesterday in my Shanghai hotel, wide awake and bored out of my head. I'm in China for the HSBC Champions event, a Û5m tournament...

Where have all the Scots gone?

The latest world rankings make grim reading for Scottish golf fans. For a start we should not read too much into Scotland's status as World Cup holders. Yes, the victory enjoyed by Marc Warren and Montgomerie in China last year...

Absence of Scots from golf's top 100 provides genuine cause for concern

Published Date: 28 October 2008 WHEN the inaugural world golf ranking was issued in 1986 after Jack Nicklaus won the Masters at Augusta, the presence of Sandy Lyle at No3 behind Bernhard Langer and Seve Ballesteros was,...

Expect Tiger to get better yet

Published Date: 26 October 2008 ON JUNE 16 this year, Hank Haney lost his job. But not long after Tiger Woods holed out on the 18th green at Torrey Pines to win his third US Open title, the world number one's coach knew that he...