Written by Meghan MacLaren on Monday, 12 April 2021
Meghan MacLaren explains the key part of 'golf IQ' is knowing what works for you and sticking to it. There is an old cliché in golf that to be truly successful, you must be one of two things: extremely intelligent or extremely not-intelligent. The truth, like most things in life, is more likely that we all lie somewhere in the middle,...
Written by Meghan MacLaren on Monday, 15 March 2021
Every one of us is capable of playing bad shots, even the game's Major-winning greats. But as Ladies European Tour star Meg MacLaren explains in her exclusive column, it's how you react to them that determines so much. Like a lot of people, particularly over the last year, I’ve been through more than my fair share of Netflix. Whether I’m rewatching...
Written by Meghan MacLaren on Monday, 15 February 2021
Amid the uncertainty of lockdown, LET star Meghan MacLaren is still in the dark over when the new season will begin again – or how it will look. I vividly remember the December/January off-season that preceded 2020. I’d spent many winter breaks wrestling with the same dilemma – spend the following season on the Symetra Tour, the feeder tour to the...
Written by Meghan MacLaren on Monday, 1 February 2021
Ladies European Tour golfer Meghan MacLaren is unimpressed that the LPGA failed to find space for Major champions Sophia Popov and A. Lim Kim in their season-ending tour championship. If you are more productive with your time than I am, you might miss the various instances of outrage on ‘Golf Twitter’. The...
Written by Meghan MacLaren on Friday, 18 December 2020
Meghan MacLaren ponders why, as both golfers and humans, experience gradually erodes the fearlessness of youth. I played a pro-am in the UK recently. My three playing partners were a club captain, a self-made businessman, and the businessman’s 14-year-old son. They were all decent golfers and lovely people, but four hours with the 14-year-old caused me a mixture of intrigue and mild...
Written by Meghan MacLaren on Thursday, 5 November 2020
Today's Golfer columnist and LET star Meghan MacLaren admires sports stars who are honest – both with themselves and with fans. I played a practice round recently for an event on the Symetra Tour in Florida. One of my playing partners asked the other to video one of her tee shots. There’s nothing unusual about that. When we are caddie-less, we...
Written by Meghan MacLaren on Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Today's Golfer columnist and LET star Meghan MacLaren explains why Sophia Popov's AIG Women's Open win at Royal Troon answered her own demons and gave hope to golfers everywhere. This year’s Women’s Open was the classic rags-to-riches Cinderella story. The kind that brings a tear to the eye of even the most hardened, storied golf journalist. RELATED: Breaking down golf's stereotypes It was...
Written by Meghan MacLaren on Thursday, 27 August 2020
LET star and Today's Golfer columnist Meghan MacLaren loves a golf course that tests your mental game as much as your shotmaking. Is it just professional golfers who always find something to complain about? Or is it golfers, as a breed? RELATED: Tested - This Year's Best Drivers Since Covid-19 hit the world and we all had our beautiful game taken away from us,...
Written by Meghan MacLaren on Thursday, 30 July 2020
Ladies European Tour star and new Today's Golfer columnist Meghan MacLaren reveals she has learnt a lot about herself during the Coronavirus lockdowns. When the pandemic hit properly and my purpose got taken away from me, I felt a little lost. Lockdown made me realise how much I need competitive golf for my overall happiness. RELATED: Andrew Cotter - "I don't understand why...