Ian Wood: Stalked by Quasimodo the trolley

I FIRST became aware of the mobile phone's encroachment on the golf course during one of the European Opens held at Sunningdale in the early 1990s.

It was a lovely day, the course was ablaze in its summer livery and the birds trilled deafeningly on high. Suddenly, as a group of professionals went about the serious and generally silent business of putting, there came from a nearby bush a noise li...