NOT the best of news to impart on the first day of the week, but Hong Kong's honour at the Carlsberg Media Golf Classic has been dashed.
Reigning champion Larry London failed to do the territory proud and was out of the reckoning quite early in the tournament held in the Philippines.
Here on Keeping Posted, where conspiracy theories are staple, we suspect sabotage. For last year there was somewhat mild embarrassment when FM Select channel director London, an avowed teetotaller, won the brewery's event.
This time around, so we are told, London promised the sponsors that he would join in with the lads for a pint or three - which is how the title came to be blown away.
For the Carlsberg roving beer wagon appeared to have been instructed to escort London on his opening round and replenish his thirst in the searing heat. By the time our golfing hero got to the fourth, he was, in his own words, ''a bit woozie''.
From then on it was downhill all the way. Although we understand his form picked up remarkably when he got to the 19th hole.
