Nov 13th, 2015 Article
Cruel School
Cruel School: The 40-Year History of Golf’s European Tour Q School is new book that’s going to be published next month to celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of golf’s most compelling tournaments.
Cruel School: The 40-Year History of Golf’s European Tour Q School is new book that’s going to be published next month to celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of golf’s most compelling tournaments.
The other day I had a new Twitter follower. This is always exciting for me (sad but true). What was more interesting was that he lives in Iceland – the land of fire and ice is a country of extremes. Glaziers on one hand with enough volcanic energy to produces tons of geothermal pools. But golf? Well, that's another story...
Gorgeous George & local pro Joe frequent the Oceana Old Course, par three sixth hole: 190 yards of pure filth...
Winter’s here and we’re having none of it. Do one, with your horrible wet weather and stupid cold temperatures, you make golf far more difficult than it needs to be. There’s golf to play and you’re getting in the way. Under Armour might be able to help you beat the blustery bugger, and help you stay golfing all year round.
It’s a blast from the past as Justin Leonard took the first round in the PGA Tour's OHL Classic. While he’s only 43, it feels like an age since we last saw former Open winner Leonard on the top of a leaderboard (it's been 2 years), but after a six under first round, that’s where he is sharing the lead with Aaron Baddeley, Shawn Stefani, and Derek Fathauer.
Danny Willettt did himself no favours in Shanghai in his chase for Rory McIlroy’s top spot in the Race to Dubai rankings.
Model Elizabeth Dickson has settled her court case with Playboy after she was hit in the butt with a golf club. Was it a case of mistaken identi-tee?
A nine hole Tri-Golf course has been installed in the playing field at Lyng Primary School, one of the first schools to add golf to it’s curriculum. The course was built after £1,500 funding from the Golf Foundation and HSBC.
Week in week out the majority of tour players putt with some variation of the classic Ping Anser putter. While the model has been refined in many small ways over the years, they are all modelled of Karsten Solheim's breakthrough 1966 Anser design.
There are certainly worse phone calls to receive on a Friday afternoon after recently coming to terms with the fact that your bank account clearly doesn’t shout ‘late summer holiday’. I was off to the Villamoura, to play in the Portugal Masters Pro-Am.
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The Squeeze is all about a young undiscovered golf talent dude who all of a sudden gets discovered and everything looks great for a bit and he meets a nice golf floozy who thinks he's great but then some bad dudes start exploiting the situation and... well, you get the picture.