TG TBT #1: When Westwood was number one, Spieth was just a prospect, and golf balls cost £329

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Today’s Golfer has been around for aaaaaages. The magazine is so old it used to offer tips to help velociraptors eliminate their slice. 

We’ve decided to celebrate that history by taking a weekly look back to the past. As the kids are always talking about “throwback Thursday”, which, as far as we understand, is where you reminisce about something lovely that happened in the past – but only on a Thursday – you must NEVER remember the past on another day of the week – we’ve decided to do it on a Thursday.  

So often, in golf, we’re obsessed with the latest thing, assuming that newer must mean better. “Look at my new TaylorMade M11 supercharged power blaster with parking assist,” we boast proudly to our mates, as we return from American Golf, bursting with pride.

“There’s a M11 super-duper-charger double-power master-blaster with parking assist and built-in SatNav now,” they snigger back, as your face falls.  

But golf has been around for a long time. And during that time, a lot of great stuff has happened. So we hope you enjoy our weekly look back to a specific moment in time. This week, we’re taking a journey back to December 2010, a time when Bruno Mars was number one with Just The Way You Are (Amazing). Okay, that hasn’t really backed up our assertion that the past is great, but things are about to get A WHOLE lot better…

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