Rory Mcilroy and Patrick Reed – Ryder Cup 2016

“There’s More Than One Way Of Saying I Love You” featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album “Uplifted” recorded by Bob Ross

I love seeing examples of sportsmanship. Not long ago I talked about the incident with cricketers Andrew “Freddie Flintoff” and Brett Lee and I wonder how many of you saw what happened in the Ryder Cup singles golf competition between Rory McIlroy of Europe and Patrick Reed of USA? The partisan American crowd were going too far and after Rory holed a monster 50 foot birdie putt on the 8th hole he mocked the crowd (fairly playfully- saying he could not hear them – he also put his finger to his lips as if to shut up his opponent who had been “stirring the crowd up”) Patrick then sunk his own 20 foot putt for birdie. Instead of storming off Rory smiled and waited just off the green for Patrick. They then shared a “fist pump” and went off to the next hole arm in arm – a great sporting moment.

At long last after countless hours sat at my computer the application for Arts Council funding has been submitted.

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Well we are asking for over £83,000 !!