But how many of these can you easily gain access to, either to play regularly or simply just to have a go to see if it's for you? Certainly when "I were a lad" growing up on the fringes of a Midlands town, your choice was fairly limited to the mainstream soccer in winter and cricket in summer, with a trip to the local swimming pool occasionally thrown in - sometimes literally. Rugby, of course, and a spot of caddying at the local golf course to earn some pocket money pretty much completed the picture - apart from two days following each Wimbledon when you believed you could be the next great hope of British tennis. Then you lost the ball, and the will, in someone's garden.
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