Golf

At the age of 27, and just six years into a professional career, a sportsman should not be considered an all-time great in their chosen profession. But Scottie Scheffler is no ordinary golfer. And, in fact, there’s an argument to say that he’s one of the greatest players ever to pick up a club – […]

The traditional curtain-raiser each year on the PGA TOUR is the Tournament of Champions (since rebranded as The Sentry), which brings together all of the players that had won an event the prior season. It’s supposed to be an attention-grabbing way to start the new calendar year, with the best in the business heading to […]

If you thought the Ryder Cup was feisty, wait until you get a load of the Solheim Cup. The biennial tournament, which pits the best female golfers from Europe and the United States against one another, has enjoyed its fair share of controversies over the years – who could forget the 2015 debacle when Alison […]

Golf is, by its very nature, a sport for individuals. But put those guys and gals into a team-based environment, and these typically deftly-spoken and PR trained golfers become roaring, impassioned warriors battling ‘til the last putt drops. No event better typifies that than the Ryder Cup, the biennial contest that is so fierce that […]

It was the civil war that threatened the very future of golf as a professional sport. On the one hand, there were the traditionalists who wanted to protect the integrity of the PGA TOUR, which has been considered the sport’s blue riband circuit for decades. And then there were those players who simply wanted to […]

In many non-team sports, the pinnacle is winning the various major tournaments that take place each year. Pub quiz fans may know already that 18 individuals (eight men, ten women) have completed the career grand slam of majors in tennis: that is, winning the Australian Open, French Open, U.S. Open and Wimbledon singles titles (there […]

A number of golf’s key organisational bodies have come together in a bid to ‘fix’ their sport and prevent it being overpowered by modern equipment. The R&A and the USGA, who oversee the Open Championship and U.S. Open respectively, want to ‘rollback’ the manufacturing of golf balls to try and bring an end to gym-honed […]

It’s amazing that a golf course constructed nearly 180 years ago can still be relevant to the point that it hosts one of the most prestigious tournaments in the sport to this day. St Andrews was built in 1843 and has been integral to golf ever since – largely because it is one of the […]

A misadventure with a Tipp-Ex pen is something that Hideki Matsuyama will want to erase from his memory after he was disqualified from the Memorial Tournament. The former Masters champion had scrawled on the face of his 3-wood club with the correction fluid, and officials at the Muirfield Village course believe the Japanese ace was […]

Those that know their golf will have been eyeing the leaderboard at the 2022 PGA Championship after 54 holes and stroking their chin with interest. The top five players had, at the time, just one PGA TOUR title between them, and given how hard it is to win at golf’s top table, the quintet would […]

One of the worst kept secrets in golf appears to be taking a step closer to reality. There have long been rumours of a so-called Saudi Golf League, financed by the country’s aristocracy in their latest attempt at ‘sportswashing’. Various details have emerged in a Chinese whispers style in recent months, but now long-time PGA […]

Without the perks of a time machine, we have no idea of what Collin Morikawa will go on to achieve in golf. But even now, at the age of 24, he could retire a happy man after achieving a number of impressive feats in the sport. In 51 starts worldwide, Morikawa has already won five […]

Some of the greatest names in the history of golf have been engraved on the Claret Jug, which is handed to the winner of the Open Championship each year. Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo, Seve Ballesteros, Tom Watson, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer….the list goes on. There are, of course, dozens of tournaments played each and every […]

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer…. Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau, golf’s warring powerhouses, don’t really have much choice on that front given that playing on the PGA TOUR means they are in the same place – at the same time – for many weeks of the year. When the two muscle-bound pros […]

Punters that backed Jon Rahm to successfully defend his Memorial Tournament title on the PGA TOUR in 2021 would have been feeling pretty smug about matters. The Spaniard got off to a cracking start at the Muirfield Village, and he carried that into the weekend as a hole-in-one in his delayed second round on the […]

As anyone that has played 72 holes of golf in the space of four days will tell you, this is a sport that requires immense conditioning and physicality – particularly at the elite level. Golf is, in many ways, a ‘young man’s game’, and yet that didn’t stop Phil Mickelson from claiming the spoils from […]

Jack Nicklaus once said that ‘Donald Trump loves the game of golf more than he loves money.’ That’s quite a bold statement given the former US President’s love of the green stuff, made famous by his multiple successful (and many failed) business interests, and so you know that Trump really does enjoy his golf. Indeed, […]

The civil war at the heart of golf has been threatening to derail the sport for years. In the blue corner we have the European Tour, a breeding ground for the finest stars from the continent who get to hone their craft in a variety of different conditions and climates. And in the red corner […]

All of the pre-event talk at the 2020 edition of The Masters was about Bryson DeChambeau….would his power game be enough to overpower Augusta National? In the end, talk of the beefed-up ball-striker let others fly under the radar, and that included Dustin Johnson, the world number one and a prolific winner on the PGA […]

It’s golfing perfection – the sport’s 147 break, its nine dart finish, it’s full card of 10s from the judges. But there’s holes in one….and then there’s Jon Rahm’s ridiculous hole-in-one in practice for the 2020 edition of The Masters. The Spaniard completed a pre-tournament tradition at the sixteenth hole by skipping his iron shot […]

There’s that old saying in life that if you stand still for too you’ll eventually get left behind. The top sporting stars in the world not only hear these words but act upon, ensuring they are making exponential gains all the time in their training and approach to their chosen discipline. Bryson DeChambeau has, potentially, […]

There are some sports stars who transcend their chosen discipline – those individuals who people see and say ‘I know that guy’ without quite being able to place him or her. John Daly firmly belongs in that camp. The bleach blonde, techno trousered golf ace just has one of those faces which 0people – even […]

Despite the global health crisis and everything else that is going on right now, the show goes on for the PGA Tour, who returned in early June with their Charles Schwab Challenge event. It’s a chance for their tour card holders to earn some world ranking points, generate some money and generally get their game […]

If you head back to September 2017, in the archives you can find an interview with Rory McIlroy published by the BBC. In it, the Irishman was asked about the possibility of golf’s leading competitions – the PGA Tour and the European Tour – merging. “The World Tour….it’s going to happen one day and I […]

Does size matter? That probably depends on who you are talking to, but in golf it is fair to conclude that length and girth are crucial to an individual’s success. Length refers to the ridiculous distances that the modern player is able to hit the ball off the tee, and that is changing the way […]

Golf is, by its very nature, a solitary pursuit: no matter whether it’s strokeplay or matchplay, the onus is on the individual to get the job done. That’s perhaps why, at the elite level, the team-based tournaments are so well-anticipated. Indeed, the Ryder Cup is arguably the most exciting competition that the sport has to […]

In essence, golf is a simple sport. If you can get your ball in the 72 holes across the four days of tournament play in fewer shots than the rest of the field, you’ll be rewarded with a shiny trophy and a handsome paycheque for your troubles. But sometimes golf, and sport in general, transcends […]