Geoff Ogilvy has just won the US Open golf tournament at Winged Foot (sounds painful). Although he lacks a 'b', his name can now at last be added to the pantheon of great Australian golfing "ees": Appleby, Allenby, Ogilvy. Tas, if you're out there, this one's for you. In the meantime, if I were a talent scout, golf groupie or corporate megasponsor, I would be scouring the ranks of local golfers with similar sounding names.
In other news, I am considering calling my firstborn Dugong. Or Doogie Dickens.
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This just in - Jeff Ogilvy has been forced by pro-active deed poll to change his name to Ogilby. Non-compliance will not be tolerated by the Royal Australian Golf Battalion. While the RAGB is not recognised as any sort of official golfing body in Australia, it is membered by several powerful business groups, including Brambles, Dodo Internet and the Australian Wheat Board.
Time, and time only, will tell how Ogilvy - granted a stay in enforcement for two moons hence, will respond to this bold encroachment upon his family name.
To date, the only recorded instance of a sporting association changing an individual's name was in 1423, Peru, where the great Incan hoopball player named Huatl, was forced by several high priests to change his name to Hhuatl, in light of the Inca fondness for exhaling loudly.
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