Wednesday 16 July 2025
We all want to hear from players, writes TG columnist Andrew Johnston, but obligations from the golf media cannot be made compulsory. This is why… Golf’s a brilliant job, and we’re lucky to play it for a living – but we’re still human. We feel pressure, emotions, and sometimes we just need space. When we go quiet, the fans miss out,...
Written by Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston on Friday 7 March 2025
In his latest column for TG, Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston updates us on his problematic thumb injury. I’ve not been in a great place recently. I’m facing the very realistic prospect that my season is over before it’s even begun. I’m currently in Singapore where I finally received a diagnosis on the thumb injury that’s been impacting me again for months. I have...
Written by Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston on Wednesday 11 October 2023
In the first of his guest columns, Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston tells us the impact of his long-term hand injury, how he feared for his career, and how he’ll be changing his approach when he returns to the DP World Tour in November. When John Robins beat me in a match on his YouTube channel last year, he and TG’s digital editor...
Written by Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston on Tuesday 6 February 2024
As we count down to the year’s first golf Major, Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston predicts who will lift the year’s biggest trophies, whether Tiger will win again, and who will be the breakout star. Two of the things I get asked the most are “Who’s going to win the Majors this year?” and “Who’s the next breakthrough star?”. So, to save me...
Written by Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston on Wednesday 6 December 2023
Returning to competitive action on the DP World Tour, Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston is thankful for another shot on the game’s biggest stage and is determined to do more than ‘make up the numbers’. It was so good to finally tee it up on Tour again. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had a great time doing the podcast and getting my broadcasting...
Written by Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston on Wednesday 6 December 2023
Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston weighs in on the golf ball rollback debate and wants to see more strategy and control back in the game with greater risk-reward for pulling out the driver. Any professional complaining about the golf ball rollback should’ve played my comeback event in South Africa. My caddie and I barely had to speak on the tees… the course was...
Written by Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston on Tuesday 14 November 2023
As he prepares to return to DP World Tour action this week in South Africa, Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston explains how he’d take men’s professional golf forwards if he was in charge of the proposed merger. With the merger of the men’s professional game seemingly up in the air, I’m putting myself in charge of the situation because I’ve had the perfect...
Written by Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston on Thursday 30 May 2024
Perspective. It’s something golf has desperately needed over the last couple of years. It’s heartbreaking that it’s taken the death of one of our own to highlight that truly. Grayson Murray’s passing is a tragedy. Not because he was a golfer, but because he was a human being. A young man who was trying to fight his demons. The fact taking...
Written by Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston on Thursday 2 May 2024
As TV audiences continue to dwindle, Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston blames golf’s obsession with making the ‘rich richer’ and questions whether a divided sport can ever provide the drama fans once craved. I’m starting to wonder how the PGA Tour differs from LIV Golf. I remember when LIV arrived on the scene and Jay Monahan said his Tour prided itself on being...
Written by Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston on Wednesday 16 October 2024
Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston is anxiously awaiting a scan on the injury that ended his DP World Tour season prematurely and has called on golf’s powers to create a more balanced schedule. The Englishman was forced to withdraw from the French Open in Paris after feeling soreness in the same thumb that ruled him out of golf for much of the last...
Written by Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston on Wednesday 28 August 2024
In a revealing column, Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston delves into the highs, lows and anxiety a professional golfer can face across four rounds at a tournament when your battling for your future. I set the course record, had my best finish since coming back from injury and there were so many positives. Yet when I walked off the 72nd hole at the...
Written by Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston on Monday 16 December 2024
Tour pro and TG columnist Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston talks about golfers being caught swearing on the course. Potty-mouthed tour golfers have made plenty of headlines recently, with Tyrrell Hatton and Bob MacIntyre drawing ire for their repeated profanities at the Dunhill Links Championship. The presence of hot mics at every tour event means most golfers have been captured cursing on the course...
Written by Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston on Thursday 21 December 2023
In his latest column for Today’s Golfer, Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston argues why golf needs more honesty from those in charge for the sake of the most important thing of all…the fans. I love golf, but the men’s professional game is in a f*cking mess. No one knows what’s going on and no one is being honest. I’m not blaming everything on LIV...
Written by Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston on Wednesday 6 December 2023
Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston says the PGA Tour went behind players’ backs, he’s not surprised to see the likes of Jon Rahm ending his loyalty. Jon Rahm has joined LIV Golf after weeks of rumors and social media chat, and it’s be a huge coup for Greg Norman and the Saudis. Jon has previously been vocal in saying that he wouldn’t join LIV,...