Bunker Mentality

The Tiger Woods roadshow has rolled into Australia amid much fanfare, but he's not there to catch a bit of sun in sweltering Melbourne. He arrived in a private jet and may well need a bigger one for the return to Florida, to carry him and the reported $3 million...More

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Well, well, well what have we here? A golfer has received a ban for taking a performance-enhancing drug for the first time.Now far be it for Bunker Mentality to sound overly cynical here but does it not seem just a little too convenient that the first drugs bust in the...More

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Bunker Mentality has been slow to jump on the Adam Scott-demise bandwagon because the hugely talented Australian deserved every chance to turn his fortunes around. But it simply has not happened, so bandwagon jump we will. The 29-year-old has made just nine cuts in 19 appearances on the PGA Tour in...More

Bunker Mentality is shocked by ill-informed criticism of the R&A's changes to the famous Road Hole, the 17th at St Andrews.In 1980 the Vatican began an enormous restoration project on one of the greatest masterpieces in the world of art: Michelangelo's ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.The restoration took 12 excruciating...More

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Bunker Mentality is disgusted at the way one of the world's richest sports ignored its own principles of fair play to muscle its way in to the Olympics.Golf has a reputation as a calm and gentlemanly sport - but there was nothing genteel about the way that it barged its...More

The focus in the golfing community shifts to the Presidents Cup this week and America are hot favourites to lift the crown again.Only once in the competition's history have the International team emerged victorious and the Americans have never been beaten on home soil.Past history, form this season and world...More

The IOC name the 2016 Olympic host city on Friday and the world's top golfers will have a keen eye on the announcement as they look to see whether Chicago, Tokyo, Madrid or Rio de Janeiro will host golf's first Olympic event.Seven years seems a long time away, but few...More

So here is a question for you: if you had to nominate one player (not named Tiger Woods) to take on the devil in a win-or-be-damned 18 hole shoot-out on your behalf, who would you choose?You might go for the naturally gifted Phil Mickelson? Or the mentally tough Padraig Harrington?...More

Bunker Mentality thinks it is high time the US Tour figured out what they want the FedEx Cup to be: a giant one-off bonanza or a reward for season-long brilliance.Well done, Tiger Woods - the great man has only gone and won another tournament!And having finished second, 11th and first...More