Thursday 4 April 2024
Iona Stephen believes her life would be very different were it not for a public golf course in Edinburgh – and wants potential golfers to have an easy and affordable route into the game. Accessibility is, by definition, the practice of making environments (and other things) useable for as many people as possible. In golf, this ultimately relates to...
Wednesday 13 March 2024
Speaking ahead of the 50th Players Championship, agent Chubby Chandler questions Rory’s love for the game and says the PGA Tour is “devoid of superstars.” Not known for holding back, Andrew ‘Chubby’ Chandler lived up to his reputation in a frank interview with BetIdeas in which he gave his two cents worth on McIlroy’s struggles, the personality-lacking PGA Tour, and the...
Tuesday 27 February 2024
Greg Norman targets nostalgia in his quest to win over golf’s middle-ground and here’s why it’s a strategic masterclass. To the ocean’s King carnivore, the opportunity to dine on a delicacy once dubbed ‘the next Tiger Woods’, was not going to be left to the competition. The Great White took the bait again – and this time without guarantee of feeling...
Tuesday 6 February 2024
Iona Stephen explains why she’s excited about the DP World Tour’s future despite Chief Executive Keith Pelley’s resignation and players departing for LIV and the PGA Tour. Understandably there is some concern about the future of the DP World Tour after a tough couple of months. Big names Jon Rahm, Adrian Meronk, Lucas Herbert, and Tyrrell Hatton have all gone...
Tuesday 6 February 2024
As we count down to the year’s first golf Major, Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston predicts who will lift the year’s biggest trophies, whether Tiger will win again, and who will be the breakout star. Two of the things I get asked the most are “Who’s going to win the Majors this year?” and “Who’s the next breakthrough star?”. So, to save me...
Wednesday 3 January 2024
Forget New Year’s resolutions, for golf fans January marks the countdown to the Majors and as you read this, it’s less than three months until the opening tee shots at the Masters! You’ll all have opinions on who will win the biggest events in 2024, and I’d love to hear them, but for now, I’ve looked into my crystal ball to...
Thursday 21 December 2023
In his latest column for Today’s Golfer, Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston argues why golf needs more honesty from those in charge for the sake of the most important thing of all…the fans. I love golf, but the men’s professional game is in a f*cking mess. No one knows what’s going on and no one is being honest. I’m not blaming everything on LIV...
Wednesday 6 December 2023
Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston weighs in on the golf ball rollback debate and wants to see more strategy and control back in the game with greater risk-reward for pulling out the driver. Any professional complaining about the golf ball rollback should’ve played my comeback event in South Africa. My caddie and I barely had to speak on the tees… the course was...
Wednesday 6 December 2023
When the AIG Women’s Open arrives at St Andrews in 2024, Iona Stephen is hoping to have swapped her microphone for her golf clubs and be teeing it up alongside the world’s best. As the new year hurtles towards us, we’ll all be setting golf goals for 2024. Mine? I want to play in the AIG Women’s Open at St Andrews! I...
Wednesday 6 December 2023
Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston says the PGA Tour went behind players’ backs, he’s not surprised to see the likes of Jon Rahm ending his loyalty. Jon Rahm has joined LIV Golf after weeks of rumors and social media chat, and it’s be a huge coup for Greg Norman and the Saudis. Jon has previously been vocal in saying that he wouldn’t join LIV,...
Wednesday 6 December 2023
Returning to competitive action on the DP World Tour, Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston is thankful for another shot on the game’s biggest stage and is determined to do more than ‘make up the numbers’. It was so good to finally tee it up on Tour again. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had a great time doing the podcast and getting my broadcasting...
Tuesday 14 November 2023
As he prepares to return to DP World Tour action this week in South Africa, Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston explains how he’d take men’s professional golf forwards if he was in charge of the proposed merger. With the merger of the men’s professional game seemingly up in the air, I’m putting myself in charge of the situation because I’ve had the perfect...
Tuesday 14 November 2023
Reading LET boss Alexandra Armas’ plans to merge her tour with the LPGA and create a “cohesive, single women’s organization,” is music to my ears. In an exclusive interview with Today’s Golfer, Armas called the move the “best thing for women’s golf,” and said she expects the merger to happen soon. I’m right behind it. It has been discussed in the...
Tuesday 17 October 2023
Should players be paid to play in the Ryder Cup? Not if Iona Stephen has her way. In her exclusive Today’s Golfer column, the broadcaster dives into the Patrick Cantlay cap and cash furore, calls for an end to tied matches, backs “two more years” of Luke, suggests a change to the singles that would create more drama, and hopes for...
Wednesday 11 October 2023
In the first of his guest columns, Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston tells us the impact of his long-term hand injury, how he feared for his career, and how he’ll be changing his approach when he returns to the DP World Tour in November. When John Robins beat me in a match on his YouTube channel last year, he and TG’s digital editor...
Monday 25 September 2023
TG columnist and Sky Sports golf broadcaster Iona Stephen shares her view on all the key talking points ahead of the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome. Straight after watching Team Europe retain the Solheim Cup, I’m hot-footing it to the airport in Spain and heading to Italy for my first Ryder Cup. It’s like a fortnight sent from the golfing gods! I’m...
Monday 18 September 2023
Before hopping on the plane to the Solheim Cup, TG columnist and Sky Sports golf broadcaster Iona Stephen gives her insight on the biennial match between Europe and the USA and how she sees the 2023 clash going. It’s going to be an epic couple of weeks for golf with the Solheim and Ryder Cups being played just days apart for...
Friday 15 September 2023
In her exclusive Today’s Golfer column, broadcaster and professional golfer Iona Stephen questions the social media trolls who criticize the quality of the LET and LPGA. I’d love to watch Charley Hull take apart the man who claimed he’d make every cut and be one of the best players on the LPGA. It would be outstanding entertainment. For those who haven’t seen...
Thursday 31 August 2023
Comedian John Robins ditched Fringe Festival beers for links golf and found something very special… This month I’m in Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival. I’ve been coming most years since 2005 and am a marginally better comedian than I am a golfer. Considering I am less than an hour’s drive from Scotland’s Golf Coast, it is nothing short of scandalous that in...
Thursday 20 July 2023
Bad Golf star and Beef’s Golf Club co-host John Robins ticks some things off his golfing bucket list… Ticking off items from my golfing bucket list shouldn’t be that difficult when you consider that one of the things on the list is “watch live golf”. But nothing could have prepared me for what would happen over a blissful four days at...