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...
Written by TG Editor on Friday 19 December 2008
Christmas – a time for the giving and receiving of presents – is also a period of intense frustration for many golfers as terrible TV takes the place of rounds of golf. Well fear not as here at todaysgolfer.co.uk we have a full schedule of golf tips, unmissable tips of where to play and what to buy in 2009 and lots...
Written by TG Staff Writer on Friday 24 October 2008
Oliver Wilson golf tips coming soon…...
Written by TG staff writer on Wednesday 24 December 2008
Talk about celebrating golfing Christmas in style. Three golfers managed to achieve an amazing piece of golfing history, all bagging a hole-in-one in the same event at Kingsthorpe Golf Club, Northamptonshire. Amateurs Dick Spraughton (Collingtree Park) and Drew Russell (Farthingstone) and then Overstone Park pro Stuart Kier all succeeded in the deadly deed which apparently only happens once every 100 years! Competing...
Written by Kit Alexander on Tuesday 6 January 2009
Popular American John Daly has claimed that the PGA Tour have suspended him for six months for “conduct unbecoming” in recent months. The 42-year-old spent a night in jail last October after being found drunk outside a Hooters restaurant, the chain whose logo can often be seen emblazoned on Daly’s shirts. The PGA Tour do not comment on disciplinary issues and they have...
Written by TG staff writer on Tuesday 6 January 2009
The notorious 16th hole at the TPC Scottsdale, Arizona, will become the USPGA Tour’s first-ever true Stadium Golf Hole when the FBR Open tees off there on January 26th. Golf’s loudest golf hole – players are vehemently ‘booed’ if they fail to get anywhere near the flag – has just got louder. Tournament hosts The Thunderbirds have added close to 3,000 new general...
Written by TG staff writer on Wednesday 14 January 2009
The Berks Bucks and Oxon (BB&O) Golf Partnership has teamed up with Buckinghamshire New University to launch a unique Golf Ambassadors Programme. The aims of the programme are to provide students with real hands-on experience in the golf industry and to provide the BB&O Golf Partnership with high quality sports management volunteers. Four second year BA (Hons) Sports Management & Golf Studies...
Written by Kit Alexander on Thursday 15 January 2009
The London Golf Show will be taking place at London Docklands’ ExCeL Centre for its fifth outing from May 1-3 2009. The change of date is a result of maintenance works on the Docklands Light Railway that would have made it very difficult to reach on the original dates. The golfing bonanza will offer big brands, custom-fitting, a huge indoor driving range, a massive american golf store, celebrity...
Written by TG Courses editor on Tuesday 27 January 2009
Padraig Harrington has become the first professional golfer to conquer the world’s most amazing par three. The three-times major winner took the helicopter to the top of Hanglip Mountain at the Legend Golf & Safari Resort on the Big 5 Entabeni Safari Conservancy in Limpopo Province in South Africa for the challenge of the Extreme 19th. There he hit driver to the...
Written by Kit Alexander on Wednesday 28 January 2009
The Butch Harmon School of Golf has been opened at The Els Club in Dubai Sports City. A host of VIPs and special guests attended the opening of the school that will be run by Butch’s son Claude, one of the world’s leading golf coaches in his own right. “Today’s launch of The Butch Harmon School of Golf here in Dubai –...
Written by TG staff writer on Friday 30 January 2009
A new golfing holiday specialist has been launched, having secured exclusive rights to market holidays worldwide under the golf retail giant Nevada Bobs’ brand. Nevada Bob’s Golf Holidays is offering a concierge service, providing tailor-made itineraries based on high quality hotel, resort and privately-owned accommodation that has been carefully chosen for its proximity to golf courses. The tour operator has...