Hola from sunny Spain. Technically, you shouldn’t really be reading ‘Nick Rodger on Golf’ because technically, ‘Nick Rodger on Golf’ is on holiday but, such is my sense of duty to you dear readers, I said I’d get my ‘Nick Rodger on Golf’ column over to the sports editor before I was officially on holiday. Are you still following?
Anyway, what happened to that particular plan? Yes, that’s right. It went belly up and I didn’t get it out of the way before I left so I spent yesterday by the pool at our hotel, fighting off a deadline with my bare fists while everybody else lay around sizzling and burning like hog roasts birling on a spit.