Monday 12 October 2015
Luke Donald owns one of the best short games in the world. Now he shares some of his skills in this new video from Mizuno. The PGA Tour player and former world No.1 demonstrates the risk and reward of three different executions around the green, highlighting the benefits of his new Mizuno S5 Blue IP wedges. For more info visit golf.mizunoeurope.com...
Written by Courses & Travel Editor Kevin Brown on Friday 9 October 2015
The 16th annual IAGTO Awards ceremony – which saw some of golf’s best-performing destinations celebrated – provided a fitting finale to the International Golf Travel Market (IGTM) held for the first time in Tenerife. The awards ceremony saw Michael Campbell, one of New Zealand’s most successful sportspeople and winner of the 2005 US Open Championship, presented with an honorary award for...
Written by Courses & Travel Editor Kevin Brown on Thursday 8 October 2015
The International Golf Travel Market (IGTM) has announced the 2016 edition of the world’s premier global event for golf tourism suppliers, buyers and media, will be hosted on the Mediterranean island of Majorca. Majorca will welcome IGTM 2016, organised by Reed Travel Exhibitions, to the Palau de Congressos in Palma, the island’s capital city, November 14-17. The popular holiday island, which...
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...
Friday 9 October 2015
Whether it was the move from featheries to gutta perchas, hickory shafts to steel or persimmon drivers to titanium, golf has always been a leader in technology. But we’ve never seen change at the pace it’s happening now. New equipment launches come faster than ever. Every day sees the advent of some new digital device that claims to change your game.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...