Written by Michael Catling on Wednesday 13 July 2022
Few people realise the Old Course was originally played in reverse – or that you can still play it ‘backwards’ to this day. Today’s Golfer’s 2022 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. Golf has been played at St Andrews since the 15th century, but the routing we know today only came into existence in 1870. Before that year, the...
Written by Michael Catling on Tuesday 12 July 2022
BBC Radio 5 Live golf commentators Iain Carter and Alistair Bruce-Ball reveal their betting favourites and long shots to target ahead of The 150th Open Championship – and why you shouldn’t back Patrick Cantlay, Tiger Woods, or Phil Mickelson… Today’s Golfer’s 2022 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. Are you excited yet? The final major of the year is...
Written by Rob McGarr on Tuesday 12 July 2022
Shot Scope delved into the statistics to see how amateur golfers perform on the famous Old Course at St Andrews. Today’s Golfer’s 2022 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. In the lead up to the 150th Open at St. Andrews, there has already been lots of discussion about whether the Old Course is no longer capable of testing the...
Written by Rob Jerram on Friday 8 July 2022
How you can play the Old Course at St Andrews during the 150th Open Championship (and take on players from around the world!). Today’s Golfer’s 2022 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. Toptracer, the world’s leading driving range technology provider, is giving golfers across the globe a unique chance to take on The Old Course at St Andrews during...
Written by Kevin Brown on Tuesday 5 July 2022
2015 Open champion Zach Johnson talks about overcoming the game’s power hitters and taking the Claret Jug to a waffle house… Today’s Golfer’s 2022 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. Golfers don’t get much, if any, tougher or more determined than Iowa’s favourite son, Zachary Harris Johnson, a man who achieved golfing fame, fortune and glory against all...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 4 July 2022
Tom Watson won the Claret Jug five times – the most of any player in the modern era – before calling time on his Open career at St Andrews in 2015. We caught up with him to talk about his relationship with golf’s most venerable championship. Today’s Golfer’s 2022 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. For a man with...
Monday 4 July 2022
The six Majors amassed by Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo over a glittering career were split evenly between Augusta National and The Open Championship, three apiece spread across 10 glorious years. While many – mainly overseas – fans will pick Faldo reeling in Greg Norman at Augusta in ’96 as his finest hour, it’s hard to see beyond Muirfield in 1992,...
Written by Gary Player, three-time Open champion on Monday 4 July 2022
A three-time Open champion, Gary Player’s first taste of St Andrews left a bad taste in his mouth. Like so many others before and since, however, he soon fell in love with the Old Course and now places his role as an honorary member of the R&A as one of his proudest achievements. Here, he explains how The Open and...
Written by Nick Harper on Friday 1 July 2022
Seve was the greatest thing to happen to European golf and his relationship with The Open was cemented thanks to three truly memorable victories. His wins in 1979, 1984 and 1988 were all iconic in their own way and nobody, in golfing history, won with quite the panache of the Spanish legend. Today’s Golfer’s 2022 Major coverage is brought to you...
Written by Garrett Johnston on Wednesday 29 June 2022
Rory McIlroy returns to play his first Open Championship at St Andrews since 2010… and there’s no way he’s risking missing this one! Today’s Golfer’s 2022 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. Unless he’s watching his beloved Manchester United or Northern Ireland play, Rory McIlroy no longer seeks out a football. Having won the 2014 Open at Royal Liverpool, McIlroy...
Written by Michael Catling on Tuesday 28 June 2022
Collin Morikawa reveals why he’s better prepared for this year’s Open Championship and how he owes his victory at Royal St George’s to the Scottish Open and a major equipment change. Today’s Golfer’s 2022 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. By his own high standards, Collin Morikawa has hit a rocky patch of form. His signature fade has deserted...
Written by Duncan Lennard on Tuesday 28 June 2022
There are more formidable water hazards in golf, but none can claim to be as famous as the stream that crosses the 1st and 18th fairways of the Old Course at St Andrews. Today’s Golfer’s 2022 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. The great golf writer Bernard Darwin may have described the Swilcan Burn as “a paltry little streamlet”...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 27 June 2022
The 150th Open Championship is being played at the most famous golf venue of them all – The Old Course at St Andrews. We enlisted the help of a legendary caddie to compile our in-depth course guide ahead of the year’s final Major. Today’s Golfer’s 2022 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. The hallowed turf of the Old Course...
Written by Michael Catling on Wednesday 8 September 2021
The Open Championship is heading back to Northern Ireland with Royal Portrush confirmed as host for 2025. Northern Ireland won’t have to wait another 68 years for The Open to be played on its shores again– The R&A has confirmed the 153rd Championship will be heading back to Royal Portrush on the Antrim coast for a third time in 2025, just...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 19 July 2021
Collin Morikawa is the Champion Golfer of the Year and his Open victory will rightly grab the headlines. But there were plenty more stories, stats and fun moments that happened at Royal St George’s Golf Club. Today’s Golfer’s 2021 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. Here are some of the things you may already know from the year’s final...
Written by Michael Catling on Wednesday 30 June 2021
Our 18-hole course guide to Royal St George’s Golf Club, host of the 149th Open Championship and one of the toughest tests on the Major’s rota. Today’s Golfer’s 2021 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. The wait is almost over. Ten years after its last appearance in Kent, and a year later than originally billed, The Open Championship returns...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 12 July 2021
Ten things to know about Royal St George’s Golf Club ahead of the 149th Open Championship. Today’s Golfer’s 2021 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. The Open’s English No.1… This year marks the 15th time the Open Championship has been played at Royal St George’s in Sandwich, Kent. The first was way back in 1894 when it became the first...
Written by John Huggan and Kevin Brown on Wednesday 30 June 2021
As he prepares to defend The Open at Royal St George’s, reigning champion Shane Lowry talks about life with the Claret Jug, winning a Major at Royal Portrush, growing up in Rory McIlroy’s shadow and his determination to make the Ryder Cup team. Today’s Golfer’s 2021 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. Shane Lowry hasn’t minded waiting an extra...
Written by Kevin Brown on Wednesday 30 June 2021
Open Championship winners’ tales. We talk to the five living Royal St George’s winners to find out how they tamed the Kent links to lift the Claret Jug. There are four measures of success in professional golf – getting your card, making cuts, winning… and, the toughest of all, winning a Major championship. Since the first one at Prestwick in 1860,...
Written by John Huggan on Wednesday 30 June 2021
The inside story of the 2003 Open Championship at Royal St George’s Golf Club, one of the most dramatic Majors ever. Today’s Golfer’s 2021 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. Even more than usual for the world’s biggest and most important event, the 2003 Open Championship had a little bit of everything. You might even call it Shakespearian. There was...