KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY

Not exactly enthralling!!

Ok..Let's give Stenson his due:

He beats Geoff Ogilvy in the final of the Accenture World Matchplay Championship 2 and 1, goes top of the European Order Of Merit and pockets $1.25m in the process - not bad for 5 days work (120 holes!).

He wasn't even at the top of his game (nor was Geoff) yet he did enough and 2 back to back birdies guaranteed him the trophy.

Now is it just us or was the tournament yet again, a bit of an anti-climax.

A wee bit like looking forward to Chrstmas as a child for weeks on end and when it arrives, that top of the range BMX you fancied is not there- only a dodgy looking push bike.

It sort of happened Fridayish when loads of the big names went out.

A Sergio Vs Mickelson final would have kept us watching.

Even if someone like Casey had got to the final against Tiger, we would have sat back and enjoyed the ride.

But Stenson Vs Ogilvy???

Anyway, as if that wasn't bad enough, charismatic Fred Funk claimed 1st prize at Mayakoba Golf Classic in Mexico.

$630,000 in his back pocket - thank you very much.

Good grief, no wonder there are so many journey men on the scene with crazy money for events that no one seems bothered about.

It was not an easy day for me out there today at all," Funk said. "I owe it to my putter and I think my intestinal fortitude."

What the heck does that mean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But forget all that.

Us ponderers at talesfromthelinks have been more interested in what happened at the ACE Group Classic in Naples, Fla.

Lanny Wadkin's brother "Bobby" won and it has us asking...

Why do some families have all the luck?Is it in the genes?

The sporting world is littered with examples from The Williams Sisters of the tennis world to the Charltons of the football world and to be honest...it personally pi*ses me off!

Even Craig Stadler's son Kevin came 13th in that shi**y event Funk won!!

We like to think Bobby Wadkins has had to practice endlessly at his game to be as good as his brother but for some reason, we have a suspicion that he picked up a club one day, swung it a few times and shot 77!!

Having said all that, it won't stop me, a proven hacker and a fairly poor all round sportsperson becoming the mad over competitive parent, secretly hoping that his son will be the next "Tiger".

One lives in hope!!!!