Thursday 5 May 2022
Everything you need to know about big-hitting DP World Tour winner Adria Arnaus. Arnaus won his first title with a victory over Oliver Bekker after a mammoth six-hole play-off at the Catalunya Championship at PGA Catalunya. It was a case of third time lucky for the Spaniard, who had lost his two previous play-offs, beaten on both occasions by fellow countrymen...
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...
Written by Michael Catling on Thursday 10 March 2022
Maurice Flitcroft was not a golfer, but that didn’t stop him trying to qualify for golf’s most famous tournament. Fitting then that Sir Mark Rylance had only played a handful of rounds himself when he was cast to play ‘the world’s worst golfer’ in new film The Phantom of The Open. We’ve long been fans of Maurice Flitcroft’s extraordinary story here...
Written by Rob Jerram on Thursday 10 March 2022
Maurice Flitcroft was not a golfer. But that didn’t stop him making multiple disatrous attempts to qualify for The Open. Now the ‘world’s worst golfer’ is the subject of a star-studded movie. 15 years after Maurice Flitcroft’s passing, a new British film will tell the extraordinary true story of how the chain-smoking crane driver from Barrow-on-Furness, attempted to qualify for The...
Written by Kevin Brown on Tuesday 8 February 2022
The first Irishwoman to win on the LPGA and the best Solheim Cup rookie ever, Leona Maguire won’t stop in her drive to be golf’s best. Everything Leona Maguire touches turns to gold. At least, that’s how it seems, and it’s been that way ever since she first picked up a club in her native Cavan, Ireland, 27 years ago. A stellar...
Wednesday 17 November 2021
From Ryder Cup player and to the PGA Tour’s resident raconteur, David Feherty is one of the most fascinating men in golf. Here he reflects on his life in the game. It’s easy to forget that David Feherty played in perhaps the most famous Ryder Cup of all time. The 63-year-old has spent nearly 25 years entertaining fans from behind the...
Tuesday 16 November 2021
For golf impressionist Conor Moore, it doesn’t matter if you’re Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau or Gary Player. No one is off limits when it comes to being mimicked. Fred Couples once said of Conor Moore that “if you close your eyes, you would think Ian Poulter is right next to you”. The likeness is uncanny and part of a...
Tuesday 2 November 2021
‘I hit rock bottom. I didn’t pick up a club for a month until I rediscovered my love for the game’ In the wake of his momentous first PGA Tour win at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, we take a look back at our exclusive interview with the big-hitting Australian, Lucas Herbert. During our conversation, Herbert spoke candidly about his mental health issues,...
Written by Duncan Lennard on Sunday 26 September 2021
Dustin Johnson and his team explain what you can learn from the Ryder Cup star and two-time Major champion to maximise your own potential, reduce your handicap and shoot your lowest ever golf scores. There are few golfers with more natural ability than Dustin Johnson. But after he finished 2015 ranked eighth in the world, it was beginning to look as...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday 5 August 2021
For too long overlooked and undervalued, women’s golf is now growing at an unprecedented speed with Europe’s incredible Solheim Cup victory on US soil expected to boost it further. Georgia Hall, Catriona Matthew, Amy Boulden and Annika Sorrenstam discuss how the game builds on its recent success. It wasn’t all that long ago that a sign stood outside the clubhouse of...
Friday 12 March 2021
Niall Horan, the founder of Modest! Golf tells Today’s Golfer how he’s gone from being part of the world’s most powerful pop group to being considered one of the most influential figures in golf. Niall Horan may not be Tiger Woods, Bryson DeChambeau or Rory McIlroy, but the 27-year-old pop idol is a seriously big player in the sport, ranking in...
Written by Michael Catling on Friday 18 December 2020
Meet the inspirational men and women who are smashing golf’s stereotypes and making the game more inclusive and representative. We might not like to admit it, but golf has had – and still does have – an image problem. Lee Westwood goes as far as to say that the game is “still perceived as a white activity”, while you only have to...
Monday 7 December 2020
Peter Alliss, the voice of golf and an incredible golfer in his own right, passed away on Sunday, December 6, 2020 at the age of 89. We were lucky enough to spend a lot of time with Peter over the years but the interview you’ll read below is, perhaps, our favourite and one of the most fascinating golf pieces you’ll...
Written by Rob Jerram on Friday 13 November 2020
Masters first round leader and Ryder Cup star Paul Casey talks golf highs and lows, fears, trantrums and crying while watching E.T! What was the lowest moment in your golf career? When I dislocated my shoulder snowboarding at the end of 2011. I didn’t think it was going to be that bad, but it ended up costing me a year’s worth of...
Written by Kevin Brown on Monday 19 October 2020
Adrian Otaegui produced a sensational final round to win the Scottish Championship at Fairmont St Andrews for his third European Tour title and first strokeplay crown. We grabbed the 27-year-old Spaniard for a quick 18 (questions) about his life and career. What is your biggest achievement in golf so far? My three European Tour victories to date – they are steps towards...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 12 October 2020
BMW PGA Championship winner Tyrrell Hatton talks superpowers, golfing regrets, his love of Liverpool FC and being robbed at gunpoint… Tyrrell Hatton has had quite the year, winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational on the PGA Tour before victory at the European Tour’s flagship BMW PGA Championship made him one of the top-10 golfers in the world. We grabbed the Englishman for a...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 12 October 2020
Tyrrell Hatton is enjoying the best year of his golf career, winning his maiden PGA Tour title at the Arnold Palmer invitaional and the European Tour’s flasghip BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth to move into the world’s top 10. But little over a year ago the Ryder Cup star was struggling with injury and mental demons. We sat down with...
Wednesday 7 October 2020
Bad Golf, the YouTube channel created by TaskMaster’s Alex Horne and BBC Radio 5Live’s John Robins, has proved a huge hit. We joined the award-winning comedians at The Shire to find out why they broadcast their lack of ability on the golf course to the world… Watching comedian Alex Horne hole a 90-yard wedge shot, it would be easy to think the ‘Bad...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 5 October 2020
Shoprite LPGA Classic champion, six-time Ladies European Tour winner and Solheim Cup golfer Mel Reid tackles the TG Golf Test. England’s Mel Reid won her maiden LPGA title at the ShopRite LPGA Classic, her 19-under par total enough to beat Jennifer Kupcho by two shots around the Bay Course at the Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club (watch final round highlights below). RELATED: Best Women’s...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 21 September 2020
LPGA winner, Major champion and Solheim Cup star Georgia Hall answers quick-fire questions about golf, life and plenty in-between. Georgia Hall returned to the LPGA winner’s circle for the first time since the 2018 AIG Women’s British Open as she defeated Ashleigh Buhai in a play-off to lift the Portland Classic trophy at Columbia Edgewater Country Club on Sunday. RELATED: Why women’s golf will...