It's sad to see lame excuses doing rounds

It's sad to see lame excuses doing rounds

Rory Mcllroy has played in the Masters 13 times, so together with practice rounds he must have had around 90 rounds on the Augusta course.

Therefore, imagine how much I was cringing when I heard his interview after missing the Masters cut last week. Surely, he must know the course by now like the back of his hand yet the difficulties of the holes sill come up as excuses.

For a golf coach to hear a player say that he's still doesn't understand his swing is hard to take, especially when you consider that the player concerned has had around 30 years of playing and practice to get it right.

Prince Philip would just say "get on with it" instead of looking so pathetic and that the end of the world must be nigh.

"I'm working on something new on my swing, I have a new coach, just moved houses, having a baby, and getting used to new clubs or wife" are excuses you'll hear time and time again.

How refreshing it would be for just one journalist to stand up and ask some straightforward hard questions instead of the same old sympathetic chummy dialogue.

"I putted great but they all just slid by the lip" is another popular quote that most also know by heart.

Whatever happened to "I played terrible, no excuses, my grandmother could have played better."

Out of Bounds: I was asked this week by a reader who I would like most to join me in a foursome, and these would be my favourites -- Nigel Farage, Katie Hopkins and Piers Morgan.

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