"Talk about sticky wickets."

Final mop-up of the Lyle-Monty row includes this tough take from Steve Elling on the timing of the story.

Two highly respected European golf writers interviewed Lyle last week at the Scottish Open. During the broad conversation, Lyle made his unflattering characterization of Monty. Afterward, since it was a busy sports week in the U.K., the writers agreed not to publish the story until the British Open began, because they knew it always causes a stir whenever the word "cheating" and golf are associated. Last week, during an important cricket test match, it would have gotten buried in the sports section.

Talk about sticky wickets.

For UK readers, Lawrence Donegan posts the Jakartagate video.

And there was this classic Peter Alliss quote as reported by Mark Reason:

"It's a fact that if you're known as a cheat in golf, golfers ostracise you. You can be a womaniser, you don't pay your taxes, a whiff of BO – but he cheats at golf, oh Colombus, we don't want him in the club."

Comments

[Aunt Blabbie]

Maybe not "a whiff of BO," Peter.

Or hairs in the nose and ears.