New Studs Please…

After the England team’s debacle in South Africa many footy fans may be thinking it was high time some of the England team hung up their boots and called it a day. Instead, why don’t they take it a step further and put those idle afternoons on the golf course to good use and try to excel with a smaller ball between their feet? For swerve read power fade….
Here is a list of some of the better football golfers around. Jimmy Bullard enjoys the distinction of holding the lowest handicap (1) of a current footballer. Must be all that free time not playing for Hull? Indeed, he is quoted as saying,” I’d like to become a serious player in the future.” The jury is still out on your footballing skills Jimmy.
My back four would be the BBC punditry team of Shearer, Dixon, Lineker and Hansen playing off a combined handicap of 18; a real ‘Texas’ scramble in the goal mouth. Hansen’s first love was actually golf and he made the Scottish Boys squad in 1972 playing against a certain Sandy Lyle in the England team. This, before the latter ‘found’ a Scottish grandmother.
Ex-footballers who tried to join the professional golfing ranks include Roy Wegerle and Julian Dicks. The ‘Terminator’ actually took up golf to recover from a long-term knee injury whilst at West Ham. However, reverting to type admitted, ”I tended to lose my rag when I fluffed a shot…ended up smashing lots of my clubs. That’s me though. I like to do things properly.” Quite.
Seen a footballer playing golf on the Costa del Sol? Taken a fiver off him? Let the EWN Golf Page know.

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