PORT-OF-SPAIN, March 20: A score of 97 would have been acceptable to Vivian Richards in the days when he was the scourge of the cricket world’s bowlers.

But on the golf course last weekend it was not enough to put him among the best, even in the senior section of the 95th Trinidad and Tobago Men’s Amateur Open Golf Championship.

Richards, who turned 50 March 7 to make him eligible to play among the seniors, was at the St Andrew’s Golf Course, Moka last Friday and struggled all day, coming in three short of a century.

“It was a good day, but not as far as my golf was concerned,” he said. “I hit 46 on the front nine and 51 on the back so that did not go too great, but it is good to be here.”

The former West Indies cricket captain, known as ‘Sir Viv’ after being knighted by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, took up golf in the mid 1990s.

“It certainly is not the same as cricket, although you do have your good and bad days, like I had today. But you know it’s kinda something to which I can direct my competitive spirit now, you know,” he added.

In later rounds, Saturday and Sunday, Richards improved his scores, carding 92 and 95, to end with an aggregate score 284 — still half a century of strokes more than the winner.

Sehwag ruled out of Windies Tests: Explosive middle-order batsman Virender Sehwag has been ruled out of India’s upcoming Test tour of West Indies due to his slow recovery from a shoulder injury, an official said Wednesday.

“Sehwag will not be considered for the Tests,” Indian board secretary Niranjan Shah said, a day ahead of the announcement of a 16-player squad for a five-Test series starting on April 11.—Reuters