Written by Michael Catling on Monday 28 November 2022
We are into the upper echelons of our 100 Most Influential People in Golf 2022, a brand-new ranking of the men and women who have made the biggest difference in the game in the last year. These are the people we ranked 25th-11th. Influence Noun; The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something,...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 28 November 2022
We enter the top half of our 100 Most Influential People in Golf 2022, a brand-new ranking of the men and women who have made the biggest difference in the game in the last year. These are the people we ranked 50th-26th. Influence Noun; The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or...
Wednesday 30 August 2023
2016 US PGA champion Jimmy Walker reveals all about his battle with Lyme disease, losing his PGA Tour card, and a possible career resurgence thanks to LIV Golf. It started in late 2016 at the World Cup in Australia. I got down there and I felt like I’d picked up a bug. It went away but then it came back again. I...
Written by Michael Catling on Tuesday 13 June 2023
2022 US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick reveals all about his injury-hit start to 2023, how Jack Nicklaus convinced him to change his irons, and why the big events need LIV golfers. Matt Fitzpatrick has come a long way since being mistaken for Tiger’s ball boy at the 2013 Open. The lad who chased Rickie Fowler for an autograph still retains the...
Written by Bill Fields on Thursday 20 April 2023
Others may have won more majors, but Arnold Palmer won the most hearts among golf fans. Bill Fields pays tribute to a sporting icon who was a champion and a pioneer. Click here to read the full article on the Today’s Golfer Members Site. When Arnold Palmer signed his name, the large ‘A’ and the ‘P’ were accompanied by neat lowercase letters...
Written by Scott Murray on Thursday 20 April 2023
Now in his 80s, Lee Trevino should never have made it to 37. Scott Murray celebrates one of the greatest golfers of all-time. Click here to read the full feature on the Today’s Golfer Members’ Site. To have reached your 80s is a fine innings by any metric – and an exceptional one for someone who, at the tender age of...
Written by Sir Nick Faldo on Thursday 20 April 2023
The six-time Major champion looks at the past and future of a game to which he’s dedicated his life. Click here to read the full feature on the Today’s Golfer Members’ Site. The six Majors amassed by Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo over a glittering career were split evenly between Augusta National and The Open Championship, three apiece spread across 10 glorious years.
Written by Jock Howard on Thursday 20 April 2023
Jack Nicklaus is revered across golf, especially at Augusta, but his relationship with the Masters patrons hasn’t always been so harmonious. In his early appearances, the Golden Bear was known by the less favourable moniker “Fat Jack”. Click here to read the full feature on the Today’s Golfer Members’ Website. I have never been to Jack Nicklaus’ house, but I’m willing...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday 20 April 2023
We went to Seve’s hometown Pedrena to meet his friends and family and discover the real ‘El Matador’. Click here to read the full feature on the Today’s Golfer Members’ Site. In April 1980, after being told it was “impossible to win in America”, a 23-year-old called Seve Ballesteros slipped on a Green Jacket at Augusta National. He became the first European golfer...
Written by Michael Catling on Thursday 9 March 2023
Exclusive: The two-time Masters winner on chasing records at 65 and why he still has what it takes to compete at Augusta National… Bernhard Langer would make a very compelling Netflix series. For the last hour, he has been speaking from his home in Florida, rattling through the key points in his life which saw him find God and pushed to...
Written by Michael Catling on Thursday 2 March 2023
The outspoken Englishman and DP World Tour star answers the big questions… What superpower would you have? The favourite one I’ve heard was when Karl Pilkington said he would be ‘Captain Bullsh*t’. We’ve all been around someone that’s clearly talking bullsh*t and I’d love to be able to fly in and call them out on it. What’s been your closest brush with death? A...
Written by Michael Catling on Thursday 2 March 2023
Long drive king Kyle Berkshire has set a new golf ball speed world record… and he has advice on how YOU can hit it further. Barely a day goes by without a discussion on how far the modern pro hits the golf ball breaking out, be it excited fans gasping at a 400-yard rocket or dismayed pundits bemoaning classic courses being...
Written by Michael Catling on Saturday 25 February 2023
In a wide-ranging interview, LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman hits back at Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, and reveals why his leadership has the PGA Tour “running scared”. If Greg Norman is feeling the pressure as the face of LIV Golf, he doesn’t appear to be showing it. A broad grin has already formed less than 30 seconds into our Zoom...
Written by Michael Catling on Saturday 25 February 2023
As he reaches 65, 1991 Masters champion Ian Woosnam reveals everything he’s learned from a life in golf. Three times Ian Woosnam has called time on his Masters career, only to go back on his word and test himself against AugustaNational. He’ll be there for the Champions dinner again in April, but he assures us that he won’t be playing. Much...
Written by Michael Catling on Thursday 16 February 2023
Rory McIlroy’s friends, contemporaries and competitors reveal what they really think about him as a golfer and a man. Justin Thomas “My first memory of seeing Rory up close was four years ago at the Bear’s Club, near where we both live in the Jupiter, Florida area. I was just 19 and not even on the PGA Tour at that point.
Written by Michael Catling on Thursday 16 February 2023
Rory McIlroy’s record-breaking end to 2022 has got everybody excited again. It feels like the start of something special… It’s been just over 15 years since a fresh-faced, floppy-haired Rory McIlroy burst onto the scene, taking home the Silver Medal as the leading amateur at the 2007 Open. He was just 18 at the time, living at home and bouncing between...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 28 November 2022
This is it. We reach the Top 10 of our 100 Most Influential People in Golf 2022, a brand-new ranking of the men and women who have made the biggest difference in the game in the last year. Influence Noun; The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself. JUMP TO:...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 24 October 2022
Everything you need to know about the Official World Golf Ranking, including all of the milestones and every player to have been No.1. Since the introduction of the men’s Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) in 1986, 25 different players have reached the pinnacle, from ten different countries. Scottie Scheffler became the latest new player to achieve the feat with his victory at...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 28 November 2022
Our countdown of the 100 Most Influential People in Golf 2022, a brand-new ranking of the men and women who have made the biggest difference in the game in the last year, continues. These are the people we ranked 75th-51st. Influence Noun; The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect...
Written by Lawrence Donegan on Thursday 10 March 2022
As Tiger Woods is inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, we look back at how racism and bigotry cast a shadow over the teenage life of the world’s most famous golfer. This story is taken from the October 2007 issue of Golf World magazine but, after Tiger Woods’ speech as he entered the World Golf Hall of Fame, we believe this...