Column called "discount": If golfers and tennis players fall in love

Tennis players have always had a special affinity for golf. In Germany, the continued for well over 20 years golf boom of the transfer of thousands of tennis enthusiastic people due to the game with an even smaller ball, and the enthusiasm of amateur tennis players for the new "In sports," has obviously made before the professionals do not stop. Former stars such as Boris Becker, Michael Stich, Bernd Karbacher Charly Steeb or are still good, but most of all golf fans.

Sometimes, however, this enthusiasm is driving strange flowers. The former world number in tennis, Ivan Lendl is the mid-90s, became a professional golfer with handicap 0. Thanks to an invitation in 1996, he played even on the European tour at the Czech Open in his homeland. Lack of success Lendl eventually focused more on building its golf academy in Florida, where he among other things his daughters and his former colleagues Tennis Petr Korda trained.

A few weeks ago we received the next odd message. Russia's former Davis Cup winner Yevgeny Kafelnikov has become a professional golfer and wants to qualify for the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. He appeared twice on the third-rate EPD Tour, but missed the cut both times. No problem for the winner of two Grand Slam tournaments: "Golf is a difficult sport, but I have a lot of time and to Rio, there are still five years."
 There are beautiful stories in the relationship between tennis and golf players in the world class course, it also interpersonally. Made the publicity in early 2002 Sergio Garcia with the former number one in tennis, Martina Hingis. The outspoken Spaniard got the equally reluctant Swiss woman standing in the spotlight during the Australian Open to know, and they used just under a year, a glamorous relationship.

Even better, however, were Greg Norman and Chris Evert to the gallery. The Australian golf star and the American tennis legend were married in June, even with 450 guests in the Bahamas. However, the marriage ended in divorce only 15 months later.

Now, golf and tennis world, a new dream team: U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy and the World No. Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark. What is the media is still handled with care, in McIlroys Northern Irish home course, the subject. The two met each other at the beginning of July, Vladimir Klitschko boxing match against David Haye in Hamburg. It seems to have sparked immediately, because they twitter and has since met during Wimbledon a couple of times in London. Currently, the injured McIlroy Wozniacki support for their tournament in Cincinnati. In the U.S., he will play this year but no more, but for the U.S. Open in late August he will be back at Caroline's New York side.