Inside Scoop On The Next Triviality
Friday, February 25, 2005 at 11:11 AM The Scotsman's John Huggan writes that when the R&A’s Peter Dawson “decided to let slip that the specification "male" might just be disappearing from the 2006 Open Championship entry form, he will have known that a media obsessed with trivia would run and run with it.”
Huggan goes on to write:
“Sadly, that is today’s broad reality within golf’s media, where the good of the game counts for less than the inside scoop on the next triviality. Consider the generally easy ride Dawson and his organisation get from too many compliant and obsequious journalists (some might as well write, ‘make me a member, make me a member’ at the top of every piece) over really important matters like how much modern balls and clubs have done to ruin the same Open Championship as a true golfing spectacle.
“And one cannot really blame Dawson for taking advantage of those journalists who wish to be part of the establishment rather than comment upon it. Better, he’ll have been thinking this past week, to let the papers and the telly make a fuss about something that matters not a jot in the broad scheme of things rather than see them delving into areas where the R&A is vulnerable to real criticism."