It’s one of the most important parts of any international camp.<\/p>\n
No, not day one, rest day or even match day. It’s golf day.<\/p>\n
After arriving in Florida on Sunday, the Scotland squad had a light session on Monday in the blistering heat and humidity to loosen up the muscles and recover following their flight from Glasgow.<\/p>\n
While that was key, it wasn’t anywhere near as important as heading to one of the best courses around – the PGA National – for a round.<\/p>\n
Highly anticipated, highly competitive and an ultimately highly disappointing end made for an interesting afternoon. <\/p>\n
Play was well under way, and going fairly well for most – not Findlay Curtis and partner George Hirst, the less said on that the better it appears – before the fluctuating Florida weather wreaked havoc.<\/p>\n
The players were on, off, on and off again for good as an almighty thunderstorm – which actually diverted our flight into Miami on Monday – brought proceedings to an abrupt end.<\/p>\n
For some, it was a get out of free jail card – looking at you, Findlay and George – while seasoned campaigner and assistant coach Steven Naismith was not so pleased, apparently. <\/p>\n
Jack Hendry was partnered with Andrew Smith, one of the team’s masseurs, and the defender admitted he would “have a sore back from carrying me”.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t turn up and as I was just getting warm the thunderstorm struck so that was a bit of a shame,” the 31-year said.<\/p>\n
“He’ll have a sore back from carrying me! We did well and I think when we got cut short we were one up so it was a good performance… from him.<\/p>\n
“These things are very important for the group, the camaraderie, to come out here and enjoy ourselves, to relax a little bit, not get caught too much up in what’s around the corner and create that really good team environment which has always been there. <\/p>\n
“The manager’s been great with us, letting us do these kind of things.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s one of the most important parts of any international camp. No, not day one, rest day or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-619949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}