O ethos inglês e a identidade local: o cricket e o golfe em Cabo Verde / The English ethos and the local identity: the cricket and the golf in Cape Verde

Em Cabo Verde, podemos identificar que precocemente se estabeleceram as bases da organização do campo esportivo: foi significativo o número de agremiações fundadas entre o quartel final do século XIX e as décadas iniciais do século XX. Partindo do princípio de que a experiência do arquipélago constitui-se em tema interessante para refletir sobre a difusão do esporte pelo mundo, esse artigo tem por objetivo discutir a conformação do campo esportivo em Cabo Verde, especificamente do cricket e do golfe, relacionando-os tanto à influência estrangeira/britânica quanto a movimentos identitários locais.

In Cape Verde, we can identify early the organization of the sports field: there was a significant number of associations founded between the end of 19th century and 20th century beginning. Assuming that the experience of the archipelago is an interesting topic to think about spreading the sport around the world, this article aims to discuss the conformation of the sports field in Cape Verde, especially cricket and golf, relating it both to foreign/British influence as the local identity movements.

The early evolution of modern sport in Latin America: a mainly English middle-class inspiration.

In any consideration of cultural diffusion, what matters is not only what happens to a cultural form when it arrives, but that it arrives. In the twentieth century, Latin America, like too many other areas of the world, has been a place of diplomatic turmoil, social inequality, political paranoia, capitalist exploitation and class conflict. However, despite all this, and through all this, it may be stated factually and without sentimentality, that it has also been a place where people have survived and thrived, worked, loved and played. Modern sport has brought to their play both unhappy moments of disillusion and disappointment and marvellous opportunities for illusion and pleasure. Modern sport, with its beauty spots and warts, is the reality and while there are things to criticize, there are also many things to applaud. Along with others, the English middle class played a not insignificant part in the arrival of modern sport in Latin America.

Cary Middlecoff (1921-1998): dentistry's top golfer.

Between the late 1930s and mid-1950s, Dr. E. Cary Middlecoff, a one-time dentist from Memphis, Tennessee, and later, professional golfer, set the golf world on fire. His prestigious 16-year amateur and professional record became legendary. During his career, he won 40 professional tournaments, including the 1955 Masters and two U.S. National Open titles (1949 and 1956). Overall, in 91 tournaments, Middlecoff never placed lower than third. Fellow golf professionals acknowledged him as a talented and formidable competitor. He was a long, straight driver and an accomplished long-iron player who possessed an unorthodox, but accurate, putting style. Although he sometimes commented that he became a "bale of nerves" before competing, he was known to perform admirably while under extreme pressure. Cary concentrated on each hole with "exasperating deliberation," and paid compulsive attention to every detail of his game. In spite of his slow and intense play, he refused to dwell on a poor shot, an unproductive hole or a disappointing round. After leaving the tour circuit in 1963, Middlecoff spent the following 18 years working as a TV golf analyst. In 1986, he was elected as a PGA Hall of Fame member.

A good walk spoiled. Golf's links to medicine.

This article explores the game of golf as it appears in the medical literature. Included are sections on the historical interaction of golf and medicine, the physiology and performance of golf, illness and injury related to golf, environmental concerns involving golf course management, physical disabilities, medical research and golf, and specific medical specialty references to golf.