According to an article in Australia’s The Age newspaper, Australasian PGA Tour chief executive Andrew Georgiou, a man from a legal background and an outsider to golf, said PGA touring professionals are boring and need to "sex up" their image to attract new viewers.

Georgiou said "We want to see people wear clothes like Aaron Baddeley wears. He's got his personality. Everyone (else) wears the Titleist cap or the Hogan shirt and it's all so homogenous that no one can relate to these blokes. You watch them on television and you as a person can't relate to them."

Until Tiger Woods came along, most people falsely believed that golf was a boring game, played by people with single-digit handicaps, double-digit IQ’s and six-digit incomes. However, looking back at some of the comments made by professionals over the years describe something different…namely that some of the pros back then had single-digit IQ’s as well.

Golf humour is special because most people can relate to it, even if they’ve never played the game. There’s something about a game in which people set out to destroy themselves that brings out the comedian in all of us.

Well, my short Tet holiday is over and it seems that the Year of the Monkey is starting off true to form….

Last year, Annika Sorenstam decided to mix it up with the Big Bag Guys, then 14-year-old Michelle Wie got in on the act and did an impressive job of it too. Even Phil Mickelson – the king of monkey wrenches – seems determined to get the monkey off his back by winning his first event of the year

New year, new look, new feel, new column name, new page…

I’ve gotta say it, even though I knew we were re-designing the look and feel of the Sunday Vietnam News, the first issue "Rock The Cat Ba" blew me away. While the new look and feel is a positive step forward in the development of the paper, the picture they used makes me look like some kind of maniac or someone who should have numbers across my chest. Hmm, maybe this explains why they keep making me take off my shoes in airports.

Appearance is everything.