Golf with a trick-shot master
Tom Cox picks up a host of short-game secrets at the Jeremy Dale Scoring School
Pursuits
Resources
Winter Travel
Snow and ski special
From ski touring in the Alps to elk watching in the Rockies and dog sledding in Norway
Sporting Life
Emiratis throw cash around in quest for true love
In Abu Dhabi’s sport ‘strategy’, the F1 race is meant to be a tourist ad. Sport must help keep the emirate rich forever, writes Simon Kuper
Second opinion
The real deal
Margaret McCartney finds mixed evidence about the effectiveness of incentivising patients to lose weight, stop smoking and eat more vegetables
How thoroughbreds become winners
Racehorses are brought to peak performance at David Pipe’s Somerset stables. Bob Sherwood joins the trainer on his early morning gallops
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The Great Outdoors
Extreme sailing at the iShares Cup
Richard Donkin goes on a fast catamaran sprint with Mike Golding, better known for his round-the-world exploits, in the event that is becoming sailing’s Formula 1. For video footage of the sailors in action at the iShares Cup in Almeria click here
Red deer mating season at Exmoor
In autumn, the wooded coombs and farm pastures echo to one of the most thrilling sounds in nature: the roaring of the stags as they briefly join the hinds for the rut
Test Drive
Maserati’s Quattroporte Sport GTS
Colourful, vivacious - and not entirely respectful of the rules. John Griffiths revels in the Italianate flair of this luxury saloon
The Renaultsport Mégane hatchback
With its coupé-like stylishness and exceptionally large ventilated disc brakes that haul the speed down effortlessly, this model offers a good ride, writes John Griffiths
BMW’s 5 Series Gran Turismo
Innovative and genre-bending, this blend of SUV and saloon has exceptional legroom and can be converted into a luxurious hatchback, writes John Griffiths
Health & Fitness
Top swimming equipment
Goggles, snorkels, fins, kickboards and other gear that help you improve technique and add speed and strength to your strokes and kicks
The latest high-tech sports watches
Five of the best devices will measure your speed, heart rate and oxygen intake – not to mention tell you the temperature, barometric pressure and when the sun sets
Training with Britain’s leading pentathlete
While Heather Fell’s peers practise at Bath University, she rides at local stables, swims at her old school pool and shoots in her back garden
Ultimate Fighting in the UK
A common sight on pay-per-view television, mixed martial arts cherry-picks the best elements of individual styles and combines them into one adaptable technique
The Walk File
The walk file: Swinbrook, Oxfordshire
Leave the car by the green where the old post office stood in gentler days and climb the stone steps into the yard of St Mary the Virgin for an encounter with three vain knights and the Mitford sisters, writes Colin Tudge
The walk file: Dedham, Essex-Suffolk border
Start at the car park near Dedham Mill and cross the bridge to join the footpath along the banks of the Stour, where swans glide among the bulrushes
The walk file: Wivelsfield, Sussex
Set off on a trail through idyllic farmland, past rare-breed cattle and tall hedgerows, to follow a footpath leading to a field of friendly alpacas
The walk file: Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Cleveland
Start with a stroll along the Victorian holiday resort’s grand promenade down to the restored pier, and then head inland to beautifully preserved gardens and a riverside trail, writes Dominic Bates
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