TIME TO STAMP OUT SPITTING ON A GOLF COURSE

E-mail from Jim Hardie

I am in total agreement with your editorial regarding the conclusion of the US golf from the Riviera Club last night. Absolutely amazing viewing.
BUT, for me at least we have a growing problem in televised Pro Golf, and that is SPITTING !
More and more US players seem to engage in this filthy habit, and last night was about as bad as i have seen. Keegan Bradley spat virtually non stop, absolutely disgusting, especially on HD television.
He is not alone of course and others who readily spring to mind are Jerry Kelly and Tiger Woods!

Is it not time that the governing bodies got together to stamp this out?
I seem to recall a few years back that the great man himself, Arnold Palmer, circulated all participants in his Bay Hill tournament that spitting would be "frowned upon."
Surely it's time to put an end to this simply disgusting habit in golf.
We see far too much of it already from the overpaid prima donnas in football!

Jim Hardie

Pictured with two former Open champions who would never have been seen spitting on a golf course, Sir Bob Charles and Peter Thomson.