Watching his playing partner, the then US vice-president Spiro T Agnew, hacking his way down the first fairway, the three-times Masters champion Jimmy Demaret offered judgement: “Mr Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.” Or as the former pro turned TV analyst David Feherty said of Jim Furyk’s idiosyncratic swing: “He looks like an octopus falling out of a tree.” Nor are the fair sex reluctant to come out swinging. "I’m not the next Anna Kournikova" smiled Maria Sharapova, “I want to win matches.” While on the subject of women’s tennis, the 1996 Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek gave his thoughts on the equal pay debate: “Eighty per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs who don’t deserve equal pay.” He later recanted: “What I meant to say was that only 75 per cent are fat pigs.” In cricket, such barbs are known as sledging. Full Article at The National Newspaper