Nick Rodger

Golf Correspondent

A son of the Muckle Toon of Langholm, with a penchant for classic rock and honest howffs, years of reporting on the Royal & Ancient game has kept me on the straight and narrow despite my own wild attempts at this infuriating pursuit.

A son of the Muckle Toon of Langholm, with a penchant for classic rock and honest howffs, years of reporting on the Royal & Ancient game has kept me on the straight and narrow despite my own wild attempts at this infuriating pursuit.

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Nick Rodger: Time goes by but same old golf issues remain in the game's cradle

You’ll not be interested in the slightest to know that it’s my birthday tomorrow. To save you the bother of forensically examining that picture byline and counting the crow’s feet to work out my age, in the same kind of way you’d tot up the rings on the trunk of a felled tree, I’ll just tell you. I’m going to be, whisper it, 48.