“I felt like Lucky Jim when he woke up with a particularly nasty hangover: as if I had been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by the secret police.”
“I burst out, gasping for breath, and immediately found myself overwhelmed by sellers of fruit and spice.”
“Golf balls are uncooperative at the best of times. Now, imagine having to chase one around with only 6% of your eyesight.”
“If disasters are one constant of life at Mount Edgecombe, coming out stronger at the other end is another.”
“For the longest time, each federation had its own system. This made it difficult for golfers from different federations to compete on equal footing—or even simply to assert their superiority over their brother-in-law in Auckland.”
“Tumelo Molloyi had no idea the swing he was about to make would harass him for years.”