I’m still in a state of mild euphoria this morning because of the wonderful opportunity I was presented with yesterday. The way the action panned out in the second round of the Latin America Amateur Championship (LAAC) facilitated the stuff of headline writers’ dreams. I am by no means a headline writer. In fact I’ve always been terrible at it, but even I couldn’t miss that open goal. If you’d like to know more then you’ll have to check out the Friday round-up article. Or I could just tell you now. I’m that pleased about it, I just might… The two overnight leaders were Justin Hastings of the Cayman Island and Patrick Sparks of Peru. “Sparks Flying and Hastings in Battle…” Back of the net!
I wish I was good at writing headlines, it’s such an art. The one that’s often remembered in Scottish sport is from when Celtic were dumped out of the Scottish Cup by Inverness Caledonian Thistle – Paul Hickson in the Sun wrote – “Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious.” He never claimed full credit because he remembered a headline from the 1960s. Liverpool striker Ian Callaghan scored three goals against QPR and the headline was along the lines of, “Super Calli Scores a Hat Trick, QPR Atrocious.” All art is borrowed from somewhere.
Aberdeen’s Press & Journal has always been amusing for a headline. There’s the headline that never was – “Aberdeen man lost at sea” – when the Titanic went down… I wish that had been real. I do remember one from what must have been a very slow news day.. “A90 Car Smash… None Hurt.”
My favourite though was, “Macduff Man Loses Bet.” The story was of Davie Bruce of Macduff Golf Club who had bet fellow drinkers in the clubhouse £2 that he could swim around the headland to Banff harbour – a pretty decent distance. He went for it in his Y-fronts but was picked up by the coastguard (much to his chagrin) after being spotted out at sea by a worried dog walker. I remember his picture – Teddy boy style hair do, stone washed jeans, ice white T-shirt. Two pound notes were splayed between his fingers. His quote was captioned below – “I could have f****ng made it.” Brilliant stuff.
A view of Pilar Golf Club
(Image credit: LAAC)
I’ve mentioned in previous articles that a trip to the LAAC would make for an exceptional holiday for golf lovers and I’d like to expand on that because upon re-reading my earlier missives, I realised I’d actually said something for once that was…
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