Raving Shanker

I was born in the valleys. The big theme park is still there at Porthcawl.

Richard Kaufman elicits homicidal thoughts in me. He is a bottomless font of verbal effluent. I'll be watching the Open with sound off, to get through the European swing...alive. Amy Boulden's northern Welsh lilt was quite pleasant though, and Sophie Walker was OK. The Woad is a phenomenon, isn't she? She has an air of calm intent about her, and the contrast between her and Madsen couldn't be (Maja?) starker. She wields the 15th club, as Sophie Walker put it. Very Scheffleresque, indeed. Some other players on tour are intriguing me. Takeda, Yamashita and Yoon all seem capable of frequent birdie barrages interspersed with runs of total disintegration. Are they too aggressive? It is difficult to tell with Yoon because the broadcasters don't show her enough. I think her world ranking warrants more. Anyway, onward to Porthcawl, butty bachs! Or more formally, ffrindiau bach,