Sorry matey – I won’t be there but I’ve had a look at your site and I’m excited. Great stuff.

I’ll contact you by email.

John

I’m glad to have found your site, because I started my own 365 day challenge today in fact Looks like you beat me to it. I’m blogging over at maxmygolf.com

Anyway reason for the message (can’t find your email address) is to ask on the off-chance you’ll be making it to the British Masters next week?? I know it’s a long shot but it would be great to have a chat with you at some point and pick the brains of a guy who has been there and done it.

The fitness thing applies to so many sports and so many have been through this in a similar way.

I often draw the analogy with Grand Prix racing. In years gone past it was the same sort of gentleman’s sport that golf is. It was a real “have a fag a few drinks” type of sport.

At every stage the really big champions who have moved it forwards such as Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna and most recently Schumacher have all had one thing in common. Coupled with astonishing talent and hard work they have all taken the fitness thing to a new level so they could cope with the pressure.

These days you simply don’t have unfit F1 drivers. Juan Pablo Montoya ate a few too many burgers and singularly failed to live up to his, undoubtedly immense, talent. And right up to his last year racing Michael Schumacher was the fittest driver.

So if you take the three most dominant main stream sporing stars of the last few years you have Woods, Federer and Schumacher. And one of the big links between them is the huge levels of fitness they had.

It’s not everything and it certainly won’t make up for a lack of talent but it’s just taht little bit extra that helps them when the going gets really tough.

Thank you Scratch for making such a big deal about conditioning. It is really what seems to be deciding many of the close tournaments that Tiger wins. His psychology really seems to be following his physiology and that puts him in front of every other player on the back 9 and on the final holes.