Written by Michael Catling on Monday 12 October 2020
Tyrrell Hatton is enjoying the best year of his golf career, winning his maiden PGA Tour title at the Arnold Palmer invitaional and the European Tour’s flasghip BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth to move into the world’s top 10. But little over a year ago the Ryder Cup star was struggling with injury and mental demons. We sat down with...
Wednesday 7 October 2020
Bad Golf, the YouTube channel created by TaskMaster’s Alex Horne and BBC Radio 5Live’s John Robins, has proved a huge hit. We joined the award-winning comedians at The Shire to find out why they broadcast their lack of ability on the golf course to the world… Watching comedian Alex Horne hole a 90-yard wedge shot, it would be easy to think the ‘Bad...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 5 October 2020
Shoprite LPGA Classic champion, six-time Ladies European Tour winner and Solheim Cup golfer Mel Reid tackles the TG Golf Test. England’s Mel Reid won her maiden LPGA title at the ShopRite LPGA Classic, her 19-under par total enough to beat Jennifer Kupcho by two shots around the Bay Course at the Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club (watch final round highlights below). RELATED: Best Women’s...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 21 September 2020
LPGA winner, Major champion and Solheim Cup star Georgia Hall answers quick-fire questions about golf, life and plenty in-between. Georgia Hall returned to the LPGA winner’s circle for the first time since the 2018 AIG Women’s British Open as she defeated Ashleigh Buhai in a play-off to lift the Portland Classic trophy at Columbia Edgewater Country Club on Sunday. RELATED: Why women’s golf will...
Written by Rob McGarr on Friday 10 July 2020
Babe Zaharias is one of the most remarkable golfers ever to play the game On July 3 1954, the great Babe Zaharias won her 10th and final career major by 12 shots at the US Women’s Open, in spite of an ongoing battle against colon cancer. Born in Texas on June 26, 1911, Zaharias would become one of the greatest athletes of...
Written by John Huggan on Friday 10 July 2020
In the week he was due to defend The Open at Royal St George’s, we sat down with Shane Lowry to talk about his year with The Claret Jug, winning at Royal Portrush, growing up in Rory McIlroy’s shadow and his determination to make Padraig Harrington’s Ryder cup team for Whistling Straits. Shane Lowry doesn’t mind waiting another 12 months to...
Written by Justin Rose on Monday 11 May 2020
“There is an opportunity to play golf sooner than other sports. If it’s safe to do so, we have to be proactive and take that chance.” I think the penny dropped as to how serious things were becoming in March, just after they cancelled The Players. Cancelling that seemed reactive and surreal, but everyone knew it was coming and, in hindsight, shutting...
Monday 27 April 2020
Tiger Woods talks to Golf Digest’s Henni Zuel about getting punched by Muhammad Ali, his love of darts, and trash-talking Phil Mickelson. Henni Zuel (Golf Digest): You’re a huge sports fan and everyone is dearly missing live sports right now. It just has this wonderful way of connecting everyone. Bringing us together, so good for you mentally and physically. So all about...
Written by TG Staff Writer on Thursday 16 April 2020
Bryson DeChambeau is a self-confessed “golf scientist” who since making his US PGA Tour debut as an amateur at the FedEx St. Jude Classic in 2015, has developed into one of the world’s leading players. Now 26 and a five-time PGA Tour winner ranked 13 in the world rankings, DeChambeau has the golfing world at his feet and in the coming...
Thursday 12 March 2020
Tiger Woods’ swing is ready to win more majors Before his 2019 Masters victory, Tiger Woods hadn’t won a Major since 2008. That year, he started just seven events, winning five of them (including the US Open) and finishing second at the Masters. His worst finish was a fifth-place. He’d been the world’s No.1 player almost uninterrupted for a decade. His...
Thursday 5 March 2020
Next week will mark 11 years since Henrik Stenson won the Players Championship. The Swede can still remember the victory celebration even now, though not for the reason you might expect. He was given a speeding ticket on his way back to Orlando. “I think 90 [mph] is enough to get attention, I guess,” he says with a smile. The laughter which...
Monday 27 January 2020
Just how similar are you are the world’s best golfers? On the tee this month… big-hitting Aussie and European Tour star Lucas Herbert From breaking clubs in anger and his best ever round of golf to a great story behindhis favourite hole in one, get to know new Omega Dubai Desert Classic winner Lucas Herbert. Have you ever broken a club in...
Written by Kit Alexander on Wednesday 8 January 2020
Success hasn’t come fast or come easy for Xander Schauffele, the 26-year-old American. But as Kit Alexander explains, he’s now ready to make the big jump from PGA Star to major winner. Xander Schauffele didn’t arrive onto the PGA Tour with any fanfare. There was no Walker Cup appearance, no eye-catching performance in a major or PGA Tour event as an...
Written by Michael Catling on Tuesday 7 January 2020
With nine months to go until the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits, Padraig Harrington has already started trying to predict his team of 12. But, as Michael Catling found out, there’s a lot more to his job as European captain than you might think… When Padraig Harrington agreed to succeed Thomas Bjorn as European Ryder Cup captain, he didn’t expect it...
Written by Michael Catling on Sunday 24 November 2019
Robert MacIntyre might be the European Tour’s hottest star right now. He was just named European Tour Rookie of the Year award, and produced the best finish by a Scot in an Open for 14 years. The only thing missing now is a victory, and he intends to get it by remaining faithful to the European Tour… TG’s Michael Catling caught...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday 24 October 2019
After more than 25 years at golf’s top table, Lee Westwood has adopted a new relaxed approach to golf. Here the 2020 Race to Dubai champion, 25-time European Tour winner and Ryder Cup legend explains the reasons behind the change, how he sees the game’s future and reveals his one remaining goal. Lee Westwood seems a lot more relaxed these days.
Sunday 21 July 2019
How much do you have in common with the world’s best golfers? On the tee this month… The Open champion Shane Lowry Have you ever rushed to the first tee? Yeah, my first year on tour at the French Open. I got my tee time wrong and made it by 30 seconds. I birdied the 1st which was quite good. Have you ever...
Written by Michael Catling on Thursday 21 March 2019
In his most candid interview yet, two-time Major champ Martin Kaymer opens up about the mental and physical battles that have left him winless since 2014, and battling to prove his critics wrong… Despite being the defending US Open champion and a serial European Tour winner, Martin Kaymer never felt like golf’s top dog. Even when the rankings said he was. The...
Written by Michael Catling on Thursday 7 March 2019
Georgia Hall’s rags to riches tale is one of sacrifice and money troubles which threatened to end her golf career before it had even begun. The fact she’s now the poster girl of ladies golf, at just 22*, makes her journey all the more remarkable. [ Update: Georgia turned 23 on the 12th April ] Georgia Hall has always been different from...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 10 December 2018
Just how much do you have in common with the world’s top golfers? On the tee this month… nine time European Tour winner Louis Oosthuizen Have you ever come close to missing your tee time? I nearly missed one at the Players three or four years ago, because my caddie went to the wrong tee. He got mixed up, thinking we were...