Written by Meghan MacLaren on Friday 17 June 2022
In her exclusive Today’s Golfer Column, LET star Meghan MacLaren discusses why winning a Major isn’t necessarily the best barometer of success. From the moment I started taking my future in golf seriously, the ultimate, overarching goal has always been to be the best player in the world. Hopefully, it goes without saying that winning a Major would be a dream,...
Written by Anthony Harwood on Friday 13 November 2020
Professional women’s golf was played in Saudi Arabia for the first time with the LET’s Saudi Ladies International at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club. But should professional golf tours play in a country which has faced widespread criticism for its human rights record? Anthony Harwood, former Daily Mail Foreign Editor, doesn’t believe so and explains why those playing in the Ladies...
Written by Andrew Cotter on Monday 8 March 2021
Bryson DeChambeau distance drew headlines again as the US Open champion powered his way to his eighth PGA Tour victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. But, as our columnist Andrew Cotter muses here, golf must always be a game of skill over power. Tam Arte Quam Marte… I do like to start off with a bit of Latin – it creates an...
Written by Andrew Cotter on Monday 1 February 2021
Today’s Golfer columnist and BBC commentator Andrew reflects on his time working with the late, great Voice of Golf, Peter Alliss. “The thing is… if I died now it would really spoil the evening.” The delivery was as crisp and perfectly-timed as all of his lines...
Written by Andrew Cotter on Monday 23 November 2020
TG columnist and BBC commentator Andrew Cotter is struggling to understand why golf courses are closed during the latest coronavirus lockdown and believes a “tiresome perception” of the game is to blame. You catch me, dear reader, at a slightly low ebb. Yes, I realise, such is the way this year has gone, that I might have to readjust my mood-parameters,...
Written by Andrew Cotter on Monday 2 November 2020
As we head towards a second Covid-19 lockdown across England, TG columnist and BBC commentator Andrew Cotter explains why golf offers enormous relief and escape from Coronavirus. The champions dinner of hermetically-sealed takeaway food. The azaleas and magnolias lying dormant amidst light flurries of snow. And the sanitised Green Jacket being handed over by Tiger Woods – dangling it on a...