ANDREW ‘BEEF’ JOHNSTON’S first rocky patch at Baltusrol brought an unexpected response from the American galleries – a loud yell of ‘Beef for President’! The ever-present smile was in danger of vanishing from Beef’s face as he walked off the eighth green. A double bogey meant he had ruined a good start to the third round […]
RORY McILROY has to take a long, hard look at the mirror he uses for putting practice – and admit it is time to get help. His putting at the USPGA Championship was nothing short of horrendous and it was no surprise that he missed the cut on three over par. He was staring at an early […]
JOHN DALY urged pal Andrew Johnston: “Don’t ever stop being cool.” Beef spoke of his friendship with Daly this week and how the 1991 USPGA champ had told him girlfriend Louise should travel with him because happy golfers are successful golfers. And, despite slumping to a first-round four-over-par 74, ‘Wild Thing’ was happy to talk […]
RORY MCILROY somehow managed to avoid giving his putter the same treatment his three wood suffered when he snapped it in half at the Open. Mind you, the way he was performing with the shortest club in the bag, he would probably have missed if he had tried to snap it over his knee! McIlroy endured […]
ANDREW JOHNSTON counts John Daly as one of his golfing heroes — and admits he is a modern version of the Wild Thing. The two larger-than-life golfers struck up a close friendship when Beef spotted the American at an event in Germany. Since then there have been several nights out — including one in which […]