Haven't heard of a Kevin Catchpole - there was an Aussie player called Ken Catchpole, but he was a half back not a prop. This guy shares his surname with a media mogul.
That's the one. After the victory against Wales in his last game, he got into an altercation with a security guard at the team's hotel over beer - and the All Blacks coach decided to send him home to NZ. He got on the plane in London, but got off again before it arrived in Auckland - no-one knows for sure where, but it's thought that he swapped planes at Singapore and flew to West Australia - where he spent the next 40 years working in remote mines/remote farms, shunning the media. Over to you.
It's a decision by rulers of Golf to make golf balls travel shorter distances. 15 yards for pro's , 5 for amateurs ( I think).