Golf: a game that quickly calls in its debts

Not too long ago, Larry Ryan couldn't hold a club. But Ronan Collins, PGA Professional at Fota Island, knocked him into some kind of shape at Fota’s state-of-the-art Golf Academy. But is he dicing with danger?

They warned me, after the last diary. Saw the signs I was getting in too deep. That this game could drive me to the bad.

“The blindness of the addict to hard drugs like golf is the most shocking thing. Don’t they see the dangers of experimenting,” cautioned Terence Cosgrave on Twitter, summing up the worry out there from victims who have taken this perilous road.