By Peter Jackson - The man truly in the know

So America’s golfers will be paid £400,000-a-man at the Ryder Cup next year for what amounts to, at the very most, five rounds of golf in three days.
The surviving few from the most unsung of British World Cup victories will have seen that as further confirmation that the game’s gone mad.
When Welshman Clive Sullivan led a hard-nosed bunch of English northerners to the Rugby League World Cup on neutral ground in France in 1972, the bonus turned out to be just enough for his wife to buy a washing machine.
“It cost about £80,” Rosalyn Sullivan ...