Written by TG Staff Writer on Tuesday 4 November 2008
FREE David Leadbetter Faults & Fixes dvd worth £14.99!* * Simply pay £2.50 p&p to receive your dvd. Legendary coach David Leadbetter and Major champion Nick Price combine to offer a unique perspective on mastering the game of golf in Faults and Fixes. Part of Leadbetter’s eight-set DVD series -which is available for just £49.99 (so anyone ordering the series will get this DVD...
Written by TG Instruction Editor on Thursday 30 October 2008
Our TG Instruction Editor has hand picked out a few great golf tips to help improve your shot shaping skills…...
Written by Kit Alexander on Friday 31 October 2008
There’s less than a week to go until the first events of the TG winter fantasy league, the HSBC Champions. The Shaghai event, also the first of the money-spinning Race to Dubai, tees off on 6 November, but make sure you pick your team before 11.30pm on Wednesday 5 November to allow for the time difference. You’ll have a star-studded field to...
Written by TG Editor on Wednesday 12 November 2008
Today’s Golfer magazine fans stand by your beds as the new issue of Today’s Golfer has hit the shelves! It’s quite an issue too, even by our usual standards, as it’s brimming with features designed to improve your enjoyment of the game. And to add to the value the package offers we’ve also stuffed it with an exclusive 2009 Today’s Golfer calendar...
Written by Kit Alexander on Monday 3 November 2008
The Winter Fantasy League is finally upon us and everyone will be keen to get a fast start in the hunt for the £10,000 prize pool, but which players are going to be the big-performers at this week’s HSBC Champions? Each week I’m going to be picking out six stars with the potential to score big so without any more further ado...
Written by Kit Alexander on Wednesday 5 November 2008
Sign up for the Winter Fantasy League today and you’ll have a one in 500 chance of winning a shiny new fairway wood. Every 500th person that registers will bag themselves a new club recently tested by the TG Equipment Team. Click here to sign up for the free-to-play fantasy league.
Written by Kit Alexander on Monday 17 November 2008
Turkey’s PGA Sultan course, Antalya, will host the PGA National Pro-Am Championship for the second time from November 30 to December 4. 16 teams have qualified for the 36-hole final from more than 1,000 entries, making it the biggest Pro-Am in Europe. Each team is made up of the club professional and an amateur member, with the pros battling it out for a...
Written by Kit Alexander on Monday 24 November 2008
Christmas is all about giving generously and you can do your bit at a charity golf event this festive season. What better way to warm the cockles of your heart than by playing the game you love for the benefit of a worthy cause. The Saint Omer Golf Day on Wednesday 3 December in northern France gives you 18 holes on a...
Written by TG staff writer on Monday 24 November 2008
For nearly half a century, he’s wowed Hollywood and the world with his prolific directing, sublime writing and acting talent. But this New Year’s Eve, Woody Allen and his band will be setting their sights on winning over guests by playing New Orleans jazz at the opening of the InterContinental La Torre Golf Resort in Murcia. The event promises to be...
Written by TG Tour Editor on Tuesday 25 November 2008
Tiger Woods is facing a major hole in his future earnings after splitting from a big bucks deal with Buick cars in the wake of the Credit Crunch. In ending the nine year endorsement deal a year early Tiger will now find himself $7 millionshort in 2009 as they agreed to go their separate ways after Buick’s parent company General Motors...
Written by Kit Alexander on Wednesday 26 November 2008
Hundreds of people tried their luck on the Today’s Golfer Long Drive competition at the NEC Golf Show, Birmingham, last weekend and we can now reveal the winners. There were some great swings and some huge drives but it was the following people who were the longest and will be picking up the prizes of a Nike SQ Sumo 10.5 degree driver...
Written by TG Editor on Friday 28 November 2008
If you like your golf comps then you’re going to absolutely love us next week as we launch our monstrous £10,000 Christmas Golf Competition. Yep, read it and get very excited as this coming Thursday (December 4th) the comp will be published on this site and will be printed in the new issue of Today’s Golfer magazine. All you have to do...
Written by TG staff writer on Friday 28 November 2008
Sport England, through the National Sports Foundation (NSF), has awarded £88,000 to the Golf Foundation to enhance its Golf Roots inner city project for 2009. Golf Roots is the largest ever UK project to introduce urban youngsters to the game, offering golf to children in schools, community events and at golf facilities. The Golf Foundation, a charity committed to the sporting...
Written by Chris Jones, Editor, Golf World on Saturday 18 October 2008
A stunning one-over-par total after two rounds of Turnberry’s Ailsa Course saw Northumbria’s Sandy Twynholm crowned the 2008 HSBC Golf World Champion of Champions. Sandy – the 2007 club champion at Morpeth GC – shot 69-70 in some awful conditions at next year’s Open venue, to win by five from Mark Wharton. The 43-year-old, who won a Waterford Crystal trophy,...
Written by Kit Alexander on Monday 8 December 2008
Golf Factor is a new talent contest that is hoping to uncover the next Tiger Woods in Yorkshire. The competition is the brainchild of Class AA PGA Qualified Professional John Andrew and it will reward three lucky winners with £10,000 worth of help including elite equipment, coaching, and personal development at the highest level. This will give the three lucky 8-16 year...
Written by Kit Alexander on Tuesday 9 December 2008
Seve Ballesteros has been released from hospital following four seperate surgeries to remove a brain tumour. The Spanish legend had been in La Paz Hospital, Madrid, since he collapsed on 13 October, and underwent his fourth surgery to insert a valve to drain fluid from his brain just last week. “The patient Severiano Ballesteros has been discharged this morning by the Department of Neurosurgery and has already left...
Written by Kit Alexander on Tuesday 9 December 2008
Today’s special gift is Secrets of Successful Golf: How to Break 80, a great DVD that’ll have you shooting lower numbers in time for the new season. The DVD stars AJ Bonar, a charismatic and easy-to-understand coach, who is responsible for many innovative teaching techniques. This DVD is available for just £16.28 from TG Compare and the range also features DVDs helping...
Written by Kit Alexander on Thursday 11 December 2008
Today’s gift is possibly the best of them all. Drum roll please… it’s a subscription to the greatest golfing publication on the planet, Today’s Golfer. This great subscription offer includes the next 13 issues of the magazine delivered directly to your door for as little as £39.99 – a 20% saving. Not only will you get the magazine for a knock down price, but you’ll...
Written by TG staff writer on Monday 15 December 2008
The world’s greatest ever Olympian Sir Steve Redgrave has proved he can hold his nerve on the golf course too. The five-time gold medal-winning rower took to the fairways of Burhill, Surrey, with BBC Sport presenter John Inverdale and club member Bob Stratton. Sir Steve, who won gold in Los Angeles, Seoul, Barcelona, Sydney and Atlanta, showed his trademark grit...
Written by TG Editor on Monday 15 December 2008
The Winter Fantasy Golf League Knockout Cup is well under way now and we can now reveal the Third Round Draw for those that have yet to see whether they’re still in it. You can access your Knockout Cup via your personal Fantasy League team page, using the My Knockout Cup link in the menu in the left hand side, but for...