Reward for a Great Day of Golf: Rioja and a Cuban Cigar
Or, what you can be sure is not happening at the Tour de France…
Among the summer’s most important sporting events, I’d have to say the British (Golf) Open, happening right now in Scotland, would be the one I could ever see myself taking part in as a participant.
I don’t play golf, but I very much like the fact that being at the top of one’s sport does not mean you have to live like a monk. From today’s Daily Mail of London:
As [American golfer Mark Calcavecchia] prepared to board the plane from America last Sunday night his back felt like it had gone into spasm. ‘I took a couple of tablets and a couple of beers and I was okay and got on the plane and several more beers were flowing down,’ he said. ‘The next thing you knew we were landing and I felt pretty good by then.’
[Spanish golfer and current Open leader Miguel Ángel] Jiménez would empathise with that approach to life. He celebrated his best ever start to an Open last night with a glass of Rioja and a large Cuban cigar [italics are mine].