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  • Two new destinations for ClubstoHire

    Written by Courses & Travel Editor Kevin Brown on Thursday 8 October 2015

    ClubstoHire.com is extending its popular service once again with the addition of two new destinations offering golf club sets more than 5,000km (3,000miles) apart across the Atlantic Ocean. Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic and the Portuguese island of Madeira become the 25th and 26th destinations in a growing list of popular golfing hotspots providing a service that has helped travelling...

  • Inside the ropes with American Golf at the British Masters

    Tuesday 6 October 2015

    American Golf will be exhibiting on site at the British Masters when the tournament makes a comeback at Woburn this week.  One of the event’s aims is to attract a new golf audience which American Golf will be supporting by offering free lessons with its PGA Pros and giving people the chance to try golf clubs.  Visitors will also be...

  • Greg Norman talks winning, losing, and his business career

    Written by Golf World on Tuesday 6 October 2015

    The Great White Shark recently celebrated his 60th birthday. He wanted to mark the occasion by doing something special and so he decided he would swim underneath the Antarctic ice cap. “The water is gin clear, and the sound of the whales and other marine life is extraordinary,” Norman says. “I’ve heard that if you look up at the 60...

  • Rules: What can you discuss during a competition round?

    Monday 5 October 2015

    Rule 8-1 states that “a player must not give advice to anyone in the competition playing on the course other than his partner or ask for advice from anyone other than his partner or either of their caddies”. This sounds pretty comprehensive, but if you’re playing a monthly medal with your mates, does that mean you’re limited to talking about...

  • Boardroom battle for Direct Golf

    Written by Today's Golfer on Monday 5 October 2015

    Direct Golf is in a battle with high street giant Sport Direct after the golf chain’s boss accused them of  ‘illegally’ trying to take over his business.   Andrew, who runs UK’s second largest golf retailer – is in the middle of a bitter row with Sports Direct and Newcastle FC owner Mike Ashley.   Sports Direct, which has a 25% share in Direct...

  • Your chance to play golf with Francesco Molinari

    Monday 5 October 2015

    CharityStars – Britain’s leading online charity auction site – is offering the opportunity for three lucky people to take to the golf course with Francesco Molinari. Molinari, aged just 32, has won three European Tour events and it Italy’s most successful exponent of the sport. The money-can’t-buy prize will take place at the renowned Wisley Golf Club in Surrey near London, one...

  • European Amateur Champion Ashley Chesters signs to Nike Golf

    Thursday 1 October 2015

    Shropshire-born Chesters, 26, posted an impressive record as an amateur, including two European Amateur Championship victories, firstly in 2013 which qualified him for the 2014 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool – a tournament eventually won by fellow Nike athlete Rory McIlroy. Chesters’ successful defence of the European Amateur Championship later that year again secured a place at the Open Championship in...

  • Bye bye BBC: The world reacts to the BBC dropping The Open a year early

    Thursday 1 October 2015

    What we’ll miss about the Open on the BBC… and what we won’t   With the news that the BBC will not host another Open, it brings to a close one of the longest relationships in sport. The Beeb has been responsible for broadcasting golf’s oldest major for 60 years, but from 2016 it’s moving to Sky Sports, completing its grand slam...

  • Sky to begin coverage for The Open a year early

    Written by Chris Jones on Wednesday 30 September 2015

    Sky Sports will broadcast the Open a year earlier than planned from 2016 after the BBC cancelled its deal with the R&A.  The satellite channel will have exclusive live coverage of next year’s event from Royal Troon. It follows the announcement in February that Sky Sports had secured the TV rights to golf’s oldest Major championship from 2017.   Barney Francis, Sky Sports Managing...

  • TIPS: Chris Wood gives you 10 rules for putting

    Wednesday 30 September 2015

    It was a case of the difficult second album for Chris Wood who, after winning his maiden European Tour title at the Qatar Masters in January 2013, had to wait until June of this year to back it up. Much has changed in the two-and-a-half years between Wood’s desert delight and victory in the Lyoness Open, but the key to...

  • TIPS: Training aids already in your golf bag

    Written by TG Top 50 Coach on Wednesday 23 September 2015

    Learning any new movement in a golf swing takes time and patience, with the first rehearsals often feeling awkward and unfamiliar. Training aids provide a useful tool to give my students an enhanced sense of what they are trying to achieve, either by presenting a visual picture, intensifying a specific feeling, or providing instant feedback on the success of a new move. While...

  • Win a world class golf break with European Tour Properties

    Tuesday 22 September 2015

    You’ve read the Top 100… now you can win a dream trip to a luxury European Tour Properties venue. Have you ever watched a European Tour tournament on television and dreamed of playing the pristine fairways, putting on perfect greens and enjoying the international lifestyle of a top Tour professional? If so, the tournament experience may be closer than you think. European...

  • Shane Lowry: Everything I know about the short game

    Tuesday 15 September 2015

    Can anyone become a great short game player? I’d say it’s quite possible to become a good short game player, but it may not be possible to become a great one. The course I grew up on, all the greens were raised, so you were always having to hit delicate chip shots. I used to play a lot on my...

  • Q&A with Miguel Angel Jiminez

    Tuesday 15 September 2015

    Miguel Angel Jimenez has been winning golf tournaments for longer than Jordan Spieth has been alive. He has finished inside the top 100 on the European Tour Order of Merit every year since 1989 (Spieth was born four years later). This is a man who has spent his life at the top tier of golf, and yet there are no...

  • Longest Day Challenge a massive hit

    Written by Courses & Travel Editor Kevin Brown on Monday 14 September 2015

    This summer’s Longest Golf Day challenge has raised a record-breaking £1m plus for Macmillan Cancer Support. Nearly 2,000 teams from across the UK took part in the stamina-sapping event and the grateful organisers are absolutely flabbergasted with the outcome. A delighted spokesperson said: “This means we can be there for more people affected by cancer than ever before. Amazing work by all...

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    Practice: Here’s how three stars prepare for a round

    Thursday 3 September 2015

    Tiger Woods Arrives 60 minutes before his tee time            5 minutes Starts with putting: Rolls two 30-footers and six four-footers with just his right hand.  10 minutes Short game: Hits 50-yard pitches, then full wedges to target greens.   35 minutes Long game: Hits 5-woods, teed 3-woods, then drivers. Goes back to seven 8-irons, then three full wedges.  10 minutes Putting before the start of his round.             Rory McIlroy Arrives 50 minutes...

  • David Leadbetter has some advice for you, the future of golf, and Tiger

    Tuesday 1 September 2015

    David Leadbetter is the Godfather of modern golf instruction. Now 63 and still going strong, it seems he’s been improving golfers’ skills and games – from hackers to superstars – for a lifetime.  Between them his students have celebrated 20 major titles, 100-plus individual worldwide tournament victories and there are now 23 full-time Leadbetter golf academies in 12 countries. “I was one...

  • Long drive champ crowned by American Golf

    Written by Today's Golfer on Wednesday 26 August 2015

    At the American Golf National Academy Dan Konyk became American Golf’s first ever Long Drive Champion.  Using a 9 deg Callaway Hyper X with Fujikura shaft and a Titleist Pro V1 ball, Konyk hit an incredible 333 yards despite torrential rain, beating off tough competition from the other finalists. The competition attracted more than a thousand golfers across the UK.  Only...

  • Changes to the handicap system

    Wednesday 26 August 2015

    There are certain topics that generate impassioned debate among golfers like no other. Slow play is one. Tiger Woods is another. But handicaps, perhaps more than any other subject, really get us going. When we posted on our Facebook page the news that CONGU and England Golf had agreed changes to the handicap system that would see the maximum men’s...

  • Scotland looking to stage 2019 Solheim Cup

    Written by Courses & Travel Editor Kevin Brown on Friday 14 August 2015

    Less than a year on from hosting the “best ever” Ryder Cup, Scotland has reiterated its desire to stage the world’s biggest golf events and to promote equality throughout the game by submitting a bid to host the 2019 Solheim Cup at The Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire. Pitting the best female professional golfers in Europe against their United States counterparts, in...

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