About Matt Slater
- 1 Sep 06, 09:55 AM
I (with lots of help from Rob) look after the golf coverage on the Â鶹Éç website, although I also sometimes update the baseball tables and speedway results on Ceefax so I'm something of a Renaissance-style all-rounder.
I wasn't really into golf as a nipper as none of my immediate family or friends were (although I do remember caddieing for my uncle once as a "present" from my mum on his birthday and then playing pitch and putt til the wee hours in The Greyhound in Chalfont St Peter) but the sport, like my hairline, has crept up on me to the point where I often talk about little else.
My first memory of the "Roider Cup" is Corey Pavin's ridiculous headgear at Kiawah Island. It spoilt my first night at university.
I can't, quite frankly, wait for this year's RC. I am looking forward to seeing how we handle being favourites for the first time since 1927, finding out from where , asking Ian Woosnam if he is wearing lipstick in those Glenmuir adverts and visiting a branch of famous Irish eaterie .
One thing I won't be writing about is anybody "choking" as I very obviously choked when favourite in the St Helens fourth-year breaststroke final and have a lot of sympathy for that kind of thing ever since.
But bad clothes, dodgy haircuts, lack of etiquette and Americans are very much fair game.
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