GOLF: Tom Sloman has never doubted he has the game to compete at the highest level despite a frustrating start to his pro career but concedes he didn’t foresee a potential Asian Tour detour on his p
GOLF: If you took Tom Sloman’s recent results purely at face value you might wonder how he’s powered his way to a two-stroke lead heading into the final round of the Beautiful Thailand Swing’s L
The ball was sitting in a pot bunker. Hunter Stewart was standing outside of it.
It was a textbook example of the awkward lies that can occur on the links courses of Great Britain & Ireland. Stewart hadn’t hit the ball there, but it was his job to extricate it.
Maverick McNealy struck the tee shot that wound up in this trap. It was on the first hole of their first match of the Walker Cup, a competition that pits the United States’ best amateurs against their peers from GB&I.
“Brutal” is how McNealy described the lie Stewart faced.