16 October, 2012 5:13AM ACST  Cracks appear at the Alice Masters
golf  Fascinated by rivalries between elite sportspeople that
last several years? That's schoolboy stuff. Try 26 years' worth
of rivalry at the Masters.    • Print Print page   • Email Email
this   • Permalink Permalink   • Share  Rivalries at the Alice
Springs Masters Games can get pretty serious.  Take the long-
standing grudge match between golfers Brian Pepper and Dick
Grainger.  It's the end of Day One in the 36-hole Gross and the
54-hole Stableford competition for the over 60s, and players are
starting to think about where they sit in the overall standings.
But that sort of thing is completely irrelevant to Brian and
Dick.  All they're concerned about is which of them finishes the
tournament ahead of the other.  Every Masters it's the same.
Brian, an ex-resident of Alice Springs, flies in from his new
home of Ballina in northern NSW ... and it's back on.  According
to Dick, the competitiveness extends off the course to eating
and drinking