Tadhg Coakley: Often, at night, when I cannot sleep, I imagine myself playing golf

In praise of golf’s wonderful human flight

Paul Azinger watches his ball fly  

In his book The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, Robert McFarlane, the great chronicler of landscapes, says that he is an insomniac. 

And when he cannot sleep, he imagines himself walking the mighty old pathways he has travelled, until he nods off.