Faldo gets some belated Ryder Cup advice…
As if the last few days hadn’t been bad enough for Europe’s beleaguered Ryder Cup Captain, Colin Montgomerie has dug the knife in further, criticising Faldo’s decision to send three of his biggest names out last in Sunday’s singles.
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In case you were wondering…
In the last week or so, we’ve come to know a new Nick Faldo. Gone is the icy egomaniac who prowled the fairways like a night time strangler, and in his place is a self-absorbed joke maker, who’s roughly as hilarious as an evening watching the rib-tickling Ian Botham and Alan [...]
Americans end Europe´s decade of domination
The United States recorded their first Ryder Cup victory over England since 1999 with an impressive 16½ to 11½ victory at Valhalla. Nick Faldo´s gamble of leaving his in-form players until later in the singles backfired as the US raced to victory with the likes of Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood [...]
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Europe take it down to the wire
Europe´s Ryder Cup team are back in touch with the USA after a pulsating second day at Valhalla. The US take a 9-7 lead into the final day´s action, but there is no doubting which side got the better of the second day.
Europe clawed back the USA´s three-point advantage [...]
He just gets better…
Right, this is getting silly. In his quest to become the funniest man on the planet (the great poses, the visual gags), Faldo took to the stage for last night’s opening ceremony, and let rip with an onslaught of majestic jokes. He quizzed Graeme McDowell which part of Ireland he was from [...]
Is this man the new Davro?
We’ve witnessed his rib-tickling antics during photo shoots, but the word on the street is that Nick Faldo (pictured probably telling a joke) isn’t only unbelievably funny when the cameras are about, he’s just funny all the time. A BBC insider has reported that when a rowdy member of the [...]
Iceman shows yet another emotion…
At last, the golf begins, and we can all move away from the mesmerising Faldo show. It’s been entertaining, but for all the wrong reasons.
Every single utterance has come from a similar bonkers part of the brain reserved only for David Brents or Alan Partridges , as he set about asserting [...]
Some might call these men a waste of space…
With the captaincy of the Ryder Cup comes a certain amount of prestige, but many argue that, really, the skipper counts for very little. Thus far, Nick Faldo has done nothing to endear himself with a bumbling display of gaffes, defensive interviews, and by picking just one [...]
Do you expect me to talk? Or shall I just write it on a bit of paper?
As well as bearing the slightest of passing resemblances to Pierce Brosnan, Nick Faldo has been playing a game of James Bond at Valhalla. “I think they have got a couple of spies following us - and that’s okay,” [...]
Oh, great days these…
Of course, everyone is judging Nick Faldo based on his recent interviews, during which he managed to get sarcasm all wrong - the idea is to make the interviewer look stupid, Faldo, not yourself. Thankfully, Polite Applause has since stumbled across this 1991 Faldo outing on kids TV show Going Live, and [...]