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Golf
As sporting stars strike it rich, professionals are no longer tradesmen
There was a day, not so long ago, when the ethos of sport was all about being an amateur – that is, not getting paid for winning your race, or whatever it was that you were especially good at. Well, that’s how I saw it as I was growing up in South Africa in the fifties and sixties.
Battling with desert bunkers for heroes
A Drax Golf Club member is training up for a 119-mile trek through the desert to raise money for our wounded soldiers – but he won’t be taking his clubs despite the preponderance of natural bunkers on his ‘course’.
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Weather for Selby
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 12 C to 25 C
Wind Speed: 12 mph
Wind direction: North
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: 10 C to 23 C
Wind Speed: 12 mph
Wind direction: North east
