Thursday 1 October 2015
What we’ll miss about the Open on the BBC… and what we won’t With the news that the BBC will not host another Open, it brings to a close one of the longest relationships in sport. The Beeb has been responsible for broadcasting golf’s oldest major for 60 years, but from 2016 it’s moving to Sky Sports, completing its grand slam...
Written by Chris Jones on Wednesday 30 September 2015
Sky Sports will broadcast the Open a year earlier than planned from 2016 after the BBC cancelled its deal with the R&A. The satellite channel will have exclusive live coverage of next year’s event from Royal Troon. It follows the announcement in February that Sky Sports had secured the TV rights to golf’s oldest Major championship from 2017. Barney Francis, Sky Sports Managing...
Wednesday 30 September 2015
It was a case of the difficult second album for Chris Wood who, after winning his maiden European Tour title at the Qatar Masters in January 2013, had to wait until June of this year to back it up. Much has changed in the two-and-a-half years between Wood’s desert delight and victory in the Lyoness Open, but the key to...
Written by TG Top 50 Coach on Wednesday 23 September 2015
Learning any new movement in a golf swing takes time and patience, with the first rehearsals often feeling awkward and unfamiliar. Training aids provide a useful tool to give my students an enhanced sense of what they are trying to achieve, either by presenting a visual picture, intensifying a specific feeling, or providing instant feedback on the success of a new move. While...
Tuesday 22 September 2015
You’ve read the Top 100… now you can win a dream trip to a luxury European Tour Properties venue. Have you ever watched a European Tour tournament on television and dreamed of playing the pristine fairways, putting on perfect greens and enjoying the international lifestyle of a top Tour professional? If so, the tournament experience may be closer than you think. European...
Tuesday 15 September 2015
Can anyone become a great short game player? I’d say it’s quite possible to become a good short game player, but it may not be possible to become a great one. The course I grew up on, all the greens were raised, so you were always having to hit delicate chip shots. I used to play a lot on my...
Tuesday 15 September 2015
Miguel Angel Jimenez has been winning golf tournaments for longer than Jordan Spieth has been alive. He has finished inside the top 100 on the European Tour Order of Merit every year since 1989 (Spieth was born four years later). This is a man who has spent his life at the top tier of golf, and yet there are no...
Written by Courses & Travel Editor Kevin Brown on Monday 14 September 2015
This summer’s Longest Golf Day challenge has raised a record-breaking £1m plus for Macmillan Cancer Support. Nearly 2,000 teams from across the UK took part in the stamina-sapping event and the grateful organisers are absolutely flabbergasted with the outcome. A delighted spokesperson said: “This means we can be there for more people affected by cancer than ever before. Amazing work by all...
Thursday 3 September 2015
Tiger Woods Arrives 60 minutes before his tee time 5 minutes Starts with putting: Rolls two 30-footers and six four-footers with just his right hand. 10 minutes Short game: Hits 50-yard pitches, then full wedges to target greens. 35 minutes Long game: Hits 5-woods, teed 3-woods, then drivers. Goes back to seven 8-irons, then three full wedges. 10 minutes Putting before the start of his round. Rory McIlroy Arrives 50 minutes...
Tuesday 1 September 2015
David Leadbetter is the Godfather of modern golf instruction. Now 63 and still going strong, it seems he’s been improving golfers’ skills and games – from hackers to superstars – for a lifetime. Between them his students have celebrated 20 major titles, 100-plus individual worldwide tournament victories and there are now 23 full-time Leadbetter golf academies in 12 countries. “I was one...
Written by Today's Golfer on Wednesday 26 August 2015
At the American Golf National Academy Dan Konyk became American Golf’s first ever Long Drive Champion. Using a 9 deg Callaway Hyper X with Fujikura shaft and a Titleist Pro V1 ball, Konyk hit an incredible 333 yards despite torrential rain, beating off tough competition from the other finalists. The competition attracted more than a thousand golfers across the UK. Only...
Wednesday 26 August 2015
There are certain topics that generate impassioned debate among golfers like no other. Slow play is one. Tiger Woods is another. But handicaps, perhaps more than any other subject, really get us going. When we posted on our Facebook page the news that CONGU and England Golf had agreed changes to the handicap system that would see the maximum men’s...
Written by Courses & Travel Editor Kevin Brown on Friday 14 August 2015
Less than a year on from hosting the “best ever” Ryder Cup, Scotland has reiterated its desire to stage the world’s biggest golf events and to promote equality throughout the game by submitting a bid to host the 2019 Solheim Cup at The Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire. Pitting the best female professional golfers in Europe against their United States counterparts, in...
Written by 888sport on Wednesday 12 August 2015
Billy Foster spoke exclusively to 888sport at the start of the season. As the players prepare for the US PGA Championship, we see what he had to say. On Tiger never dominating again, what it’s like caddying for the former World Number One and the advice he would give him now “He’s been a great champion and he’s a fantastic golfer...
Written by Courses & Travel Editor Kevin Brown on Wednesday 12 August 2015
After a great day of golf at Nailcote Hall, Alan McInally, secured Tuesday’s Celeb-Am title with a score of 3 over par, despite a late charge from fellow soccer TV pundit Don Goodman. The leading professional was Gary Wolstenholme who finished with a score of -2, while the leading team was Social Golfer with -9. Stars out on the course included Ashes-winning...
Monday 10 August 2015
Callaway’s Great Big Bertha is back! It’s almost 25 years since the original Great Big Bertha was launched. At the time the driver changed the game and was quickly adopted as the #1 on Tour. With such pedigree its no surprise Callaway have decided to redesign and relaunch this legendary model for 2015. Find out more about the new Big Bertha >> TG...
Friday 7 August 2015
• 100,000 Your Race to Dubai challenge rounds played by golf fans around the world • More than 4,000 golf courses played on Your Race to Dubai across 25 countries • European Tour professionals have won 60% of Your Race to Dubai challenges, halved just 9% and lost 31% In just 80 days, golf fans around the globe have notched up...
Written by Courses & Travel Editor Kevin Brown on Wednesday 5 August 2015
IOC President Thomas Bach reveals his hopes and dreams for golf’s long-awaited return to the Olympics in Brazil in 2016… *Why was it important for you and the IOC to bring back to the Olympic Games in 2016? THOMAS BACH: As for bringing golf back, I think it was an important step because the growing worldwide representation of golf, the attractivity...
Written by Courses & Travel Editor Kevin Brown on Wednesday 5 August 2015
The Olympics gets underway exactly a year today and that’s great news for golf which makes a welcome return to the world’s biggest sporting arena – it last featured in 1904! Sixty players will be battling to strike gold, along with silver and bronze, over 72 holes of strokeplay, with no team component, for both men and women. The 60 players will...
Monday 3 August 2015
Nick Faldo talked us through his top 10 golf courses in the UK When Britain’s most-decorated golfer selects his favourite UK courses, you had better sit up and take notice. Sir Nick Faldo’s illustrious career saw him win six Majors, while playing virtually all of the world’s leading courses. Since retiring he has moved into course architecture and has created outstanding...