Written by Michael Catling on 28 June 2018
It's going to take brains and brawn to overcome this year's Ryder Cup course. We played it to find out how just how tough it will be If golf courses were fit to feature in the Louvre, Le National's Albatros course would take pride of place among the Raphaels and Da Vincis. Situated 20 miles south west of Paris, the par-71...
05 October 2017
The Dunhill Diaries - an account of TG Collumist Nick Dougherty's final tournament as a professional in 2016 One year on from Nick Dougherty's final tournament appearance at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship - he gives us an insight into what it was like for him to play his last event as a professional golfer. Fittingly, it was 10 years since he'd...
05 October 2017
Scotland's Fraser Mann takes the title of The 2017 LinkedGolfers World Hickory Open Champion amongst strong international field - and the pictures are incredible In continued trying conditions, the players of the 13th LinkedGolfers World Hickory Open showed amazing patience, concentration and above all their sense of humour as they tee'd off yesterday morning at Kilspindie Golf Club on Scotland's Golf...
28 September 2017
If it were allowed, how would you try to put off another player on the golf course? We already saw Martin Kaymer try to put off players during the Hero Challenge by standing over Matthew Fitzpatrick's putts, but in this video - there are a lot more props involved. In this hilarious video, European Tour professionals Andy Sullivan, Thorbjorn Olesen, Paul Waring...
28 September 2017
Thomas Bjørn and Arjun Atwal have been announced as respective captains of Team Europe and Team Asia when the EurAsia Cup presented by DRB-HICOM returns to Glenmarie Golf and Country Club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from January 12-14, 2018. The third staging of the biennial tournament, which has been hosted at the Glenmarie Golf and Country Club in 2014 and 2016,...
28 September 2017
In the latest issue of Today's Golfer, we answer Golf's Biggest Questions Golf feels great when you do it well... so get that feeling more often with the help of a superb panel of experts we've assembled Golf is not easy. A lot of us play it, practise it and even become obsessed by it because it's so bloody dif cult... and...
27 September 2017
Ian Woosnam, Davis Love III, Lorena Ochoa and Meg Mallon were inducted in to the World Golf Hall of Fame on Tuesday, with broadcaster Henry Longhurst also being posthumously awarded the accolade. Just two days before the playing of the 12th annual Presidents Cup at nearby Liberty National Golf Club, the World Golf Hall of Fame & Museum kicked off a...
27 September 2017
Between them, these five men have won 48 major titles... But how could their experience help you? We recently sat down with Tom Watson, Gary Player, Bernhard Langer, Fred Couples and Tom Lehman to find out what you could learn from their experiences. Sitting in the plush restaurant at Wentworth Golf Club, the five golfers around me really know what they're talking...
27 September 2017
Help us decided our TG Travel Awards for 2018 and be in with a chance of winning a fabulous prize! HOW TO VOTE You can only pick one course and one hotel/resort per destination category (eg: one course and one hotel in Scotland, or one hotel & one course in each of the four English regions). Multiple choices will result in entries...
Written by Kevin Brown on 26 September 2017
Book a 2018 golf holiday during September or October with Your Golf Travel and you can get your hands on some free TaylorMade gear. The firm's Early Eagle promotion will reward golfers finalising next year's golf holidays with TaylorMade golf balls, irons, hybrids, fairway woods and even the M2 driver, as used by Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose and 2017 Masters champ...
21 September 2017
Golf's most exciting new showpiece event, Long Drive World Series, returns this weekend for the final leg of the 2017 competition. The event will take place on Sunday 24th September at the Oceanico Victoria Golf Course in Vilamoura, Portugal, the same venue which plays host to this week's European Tour hosted Portugal Masters. The event will see eight of the world's longest...
20 September 2017
Mind control advice on the course: How to let your performance matter... but don't make it matter too much This piece is written for Today's Golfer by Karl Morris, who has worked with major winners Louis Oosthuizen and Graeme McDowell. For more about him, go to http://www.themindfactor.com/ Golfing legend Sam Snead once said: "Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a...
Written by Michael Catling on 20 September 2017
Whether you play for 50p, a fiver or simply for bragging rights, there are dozens of games that can add a bit of competitive fun to a round of golf. For a game that is anything but predictable, it's ironic that that most golf competitions follow on of these formats. And whether it's strokeplay, stableford or matchplay, you can guarantee that...
20 September 2017
Mark Twain once said: "You get the idea that Mauritius was made first and then heaven, and that heaven was copied after Mauritius." The famous writer visited this Indian Ocean jewel some six years before golf arrived here – 1902's Gymkhana GC layout is the oldest in the Southern Hemisphere, and the island now boasts nine 18-hole courses. But given the utter...
Written by Tom Goodlad on 20 September 2017
Want to cut a dash in the golf club car park? If you have cash to splash and are in the market for a new upmarket motor, our colleagues at Parkers.co.uk have named the best luxury vehicles on sale in their New Car of the Year Awards 2018. Today’s Golfer has teamed up with Parkers to name the Best Luxury Car...
19 September 2017
After 25 years of pounding the fairways alongside Phil Mickelson, the world's most recognisable caddie decided to hang up his bag and become an on-course commentator. Here he tells our sister magazine Golf World about his new venture, about the perils of chewing gum, and why he fully expects his old boss to keep on winning well into his 50s. Obvious opener,...
Written by Kevin Brown on 19 September 2017
The former England and Newcastle legend on pro-am nerves, his annual trip to Augusta and playing with the 'angry' Ian Wright Alan Shearer is one of the best strikers this country has ever produced. He scored 283 league goals in a glittering career that included a record 260 in the Premier League, a record 11 top- flight hat- tricks and a...
07 September 2017
Watch as Luke Donald and Alex Levy surprise two young golf fans at the Omega European Masters! To celebrate the future of golf, the tournament invited talented young golfers Elliott Andrews, 7, from Northern Ireland and Amelia Wan, 10, from England, over to Crans-Montana for a tour of the golf-club and to watch some of the action. Little did they know...
Written by Camilla Tait on 06 September 2017
Speed Golf: What happened when our digital editor tried one of the latest forms of golf Thanks to Golf Sixes, the Zurich Classic and Super Sixes events on the European and PGA Tours this year, it’s clear there’s been a considerable shift away from golf’s originally purposed form in a bid to increase participation. Speedgolf is the latest version of golf to...
06 September 2017
You don't see this every day! The Volvik World Long Drive finals are currently underway in Oaklahoma, but while everyone was expecting some super-human drives - they weren't expecting competitor Wes Pettersen SNAP his driver and send it flying in to the crowd. Pettersen may be down a driver, but he IS through the quarter-finals against Mitch Grassing from Canada later this...