A Slice of Life: It's a Pain in the Grass When Your Best Form Deserts You
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IT WAS interesting the other day to hear the team on radio's Test Match Special programme discussing form and what happens to it. They couldn't understand how a batsman who had been rattling off runs one day as if he couldn't help it, could come out the next day and barely manage to apply bat to ball. They seemed mystified that the same man - still, presumably, endowed with the same talent and employing the same technique - could suddenly make such heavy going of a game at which he's obviously very skilled.
Club golfers, of course, have long ceased to be mystified by fluctuating form. They've no more idea why it fluctuates than have the TMS boys, but they've learned to live with it until it scarcely registers any more. They still feel the pain, but they've learned to ignore it. If they allowed matters of this nature to cause them grief, they'd pack the whole thing in and totter off to a monastery somewhere.See the full content of this document
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A Slice of Life: It's a Pain in the Grass When Your Best Form Deserts You
It is important to make the distinction between club golfers, who are real people, and tournament professionals, who are a bit freaky. Unlike their cricketing counterparts who can, from time to time, ...
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