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Every golf tournament has defining moments and all players know when their defining moment has arrived. They know it is at that moment that they must stand and be counted, or risk fading away into the background.

Every multi-round golf tournament also has a moving day. While every round and every shot are of equal value, as George Orwell wrote in Animal Farm, some are more equal than others.

Moving day is the most equal day of all days in a golf tournament. It is the day when all good men and women come forward and show their intentions.

Winning golf tournaments requires more than just being able to hit good golf shots.

Adrenalin, nerves, fatigue, personal demons, all these and more come to haunt would-be winners. At the end of the day, winning sometimes simply boils down to desire, and you have to ask yourself, how badly do I want it?

Moving day, Day 3, brings with it the start of fatigue and the beginning of nerves. The tournament's end is in sight and, if you are in contention, the golf swing is starting to get a little shorter and feel a little quicker.

Daniel Augustus' 69 on Day 3 of the Bermuda Amateur Stroke Play Championships at Tucker's Point is a perfect example of what moving day is all about. On moving day, Daniel Augustus stepped up and separated himself from the rest of the field, and by doing so, built himself a five shot lead going into Day 4.

It is exactly what moving day is all about. Daniel threw down the gauntlet and said to the rest of the field, "I intend to win this tournament".

On Day 4, Daniel Augustus closed the deal with a very efficient round of 70, even par, and won by 12 shots. Daniel played his cards perfectly and he is to be congratulated on a very fine victory.

Congratulations also go out to Tariqah Walikraam, the winner of the Ladies Division. Regrettably, only eight women entered the tournament but that in no way lessens the achievement of Tariqah. Tariqah won easily, leading at the end of every round, and showed that she is in a class of her own.

It intrigues me how some golfers seem to get caught up in style. In golf, there are no points for style. Golf has only ever been about what you score on a hole, not what club you hit into it or what your swing looks like. The score-keeper doesn't care whether you hooked it off the tee or sliced it out of bounds, whether you holed from 20 feet or missed from 20 inches. The score-keeper is only ever going to be interested in how many times you hit the ball. How you made your score, or didn't make your score, is just fluff.

Golf is about how many times you hit the ball. Hit it ugly if you must, just hit it less frequently than everybody else if you want to win.

And remember moving day, the day when those who really want to win, when those who feel the desire to win burning away in the pit of their stomach, separate themselves from the rest of the pack.

Congratulations, Tariqah and Daniel. Keep up the good work.

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