I am not a blogger

'Golf,' said Mark Twain, 'is a terrible way to ruin a good walk,' and many still agree. Whether you enjoy getting into your tweeds and hobnobbing with the local Johns and Marys at the ball washing machine, or you just fly off the handle when your ball goes into the lake (again), there's nothing stopping you from sitting down and enjoying the action from your own home. Now that sports betting has gone cyber, golf is as prominent in the world of online betting as any of its more active rivals. Don't be fooled by the slow moving nature of this game, it's one of the most competitive and dynamic sports around, it just doesn't want to let everyone know. With an ever more youthful and varied rote of professionals, and a broader ranger of the populous taking up the club, the days of stuffy exclusivity are well and truly over. The degree gadgetry and club technology that has risen around golf in recent decades has rendered the links more like a subtle, green machine rather than a glorified piece of mowed lawn. However, with over thirty two thousand of such 'machines' worldwide, and a rapidly rising figure at that, golf has never been more popular. The famous PGA Tour features forty-nine events every year, offering some the world's best golfers a first prize of eight hundred thousand dollars. Only second in prestige comes its sister organisation, the PGA European tour, itself offering fifty annual tournaments. Other events of note are The (US) Masters and the US PGA championship, both in August; the US Open and British Open in June and July respectively, and of course the bicentennial Ryder Cup which will be held in September this year. With such a rich and varied calander, we simply can't afford to let this game ruin a good walk; after all, the best of us use a golf buggy…