Beginner’s Diary: Paying penalty on the greens

Ronan Collins, PGA Professional at Fota Island, reckons he can make some kind of golfer out of our reporter, Larry Ryan, at Fota’s state-of- the-art Golf Academy. This week, the lottery of putting

“You can’t put 100,000 people behind the goal.”

The unavailability of dangerously overcrowded terracing at England’s training sessions meant there was no point, as far as Bobby Robson was concerned, in practising penalties.