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About Iain Carter

• Iain Carter - Radio Five Live golf correspondent
• 1 Sep 06, 09:21 AM

This will be my second Ryder Cup as ±«Óãtv Radio's Golf Correspondent.

All I can remember from was that the only time I relaxed in the entire week was playing table tennis of an evening with the rest of the Five Live team - and that commentator John Murray is the most negative ping ponger I've ever met.

If he's a blocker, I guess I'm now a blogger.

The Ryder Cup is all consuming - we seem to have talked about little else for the past year in golf. It's the magic of an individual sport being played in a team environment - a bit like the Davis Cup which was my favourite form of tennis when that was my reporting patch.

But that's all a bit in the dim and distant past now - this is my fourth year full time.

I love the game, play it whenever I can and struggle to maintain an .

My wife also plays and our mantlepiece groans under the weight of the trophies she wins. Our five-year-old son Ollie is a wizz at , signing off our recent holiday with two holes in one.

We're not as one dimensional as all this sounds - it's just that right now it's golf, golf, golf.