Dec 24th, 2017
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We've been looking back at some of our best read pieces of 2017, and this great story about Bob Parson's creation of his Bad Little Nine course from our travel section garnered a lot interest from you GolfPunks. Here it is to enjoy again.
We've all imagined designing our own golf course..., well, I have anyway, but it's a stretch to think anyone could come up with anything like this. Welcome to The Bad Little Nine, a wild golf tapestry spread out over 1,000 yards in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Jul 3rd, 2016
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We asked them if we could play at The Open.
They said “Don’t be ridiculous.”
“But we’re GolfPunk, the golf website for the re . . .”
“We know who you are,”they said,“but we’ve got the world’s biggest golf event to organise.”
“Fine,” we said,“be like that.”
Oct 5th, 2016
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We have come in search of the work of Robert Trent Jones, and Palmares Onyria is the third and final course we will play on this journey from Lisbon to Lagos.
May 31st, 2021
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Ally Ewing saw off the challenge of Germany's Sophia Popov in the final of the inaugural Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play Hosted by Shadow Creek to secure her second LPGA Tour title.
Feb 14th, 2016
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Lydia Ko didn’t let the small matter of an earthquake get in the way of her winning the New Zealand Women’s Open, her third victory at the event in four years. We guess that’s why she is the world’s number one woman golfer.
Apr 16th, 2019
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Seeing TaylorMade’ announcement (our coverage here) of its new mini driver got me thinking. What the hell is a mini driver? Surely, I need a Mahoosive big headed driver with a sweet spot the size of a tea plate which will launch the ball in to the stratosphere (Kaboom!). Did I not have a mini driver back in the 70s, it was made out of wood (persimmon if you were posh) and it had the propensity to fly all over the place.
Oct 17th, 2021
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Team Jessica Korda clinched victory at the Aramco Team Series – New York after they beat Team Popov in a two-hole playoff at Glen Oaks Club. After starting the day two strokes behind the overnight leaders, Jessica Korda, Karolin Lampert, Lina Boqvist and amateur Alexandra O’Laughlin produced another solid round to finish with a total of forty-one-under-par.
Mar 3rd, 2017
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Numbers 35-31. Who's made this cut? Some absolute corkers in here...
May 29th, 2023
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In his 11-year professional career, Harold Varner III has won individual trophies in Australia and Saudi Arabia. He also celebrated a LIV Golf League team trophy earlier this year in Singapore. But the 32-year-old resident of North Carolina had never won on American soil until Sunday, when he captured the LIV Golf DC trophy with a final-round 4-under 68 for a one-stroke victory.
Aug 20th, 2022
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Two players at different stages in their professional golf careers won tournaments last weekend while relying on SkyCaddie GPS for yardage information. Phillip Price, conqueror of Phil Mickelson in the 1983 Ryder Cup, and 25-year-old Jack Davidson, soon to make his first attempt at Q-School on the DP World Tour this October, both used SkyCaddie’s ground-mapped GPS data to lift a trophy.
Dec 25th, 2017
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It’s been quite a while since GolfPunk has been down to Piltdown Golf Club in Mid Sussex, and a return visit was long overdue. A lot has changed at the club over the past couple of years, and we needed to find out what was occurring.
May 1st, 2023
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Golf is a simple game - advance the ball in the least amount of strokes. Sounds easy right? It isn’t. With the introduction of annual equipment cycles from the biggest hardware brands in golf, how do you know which club to use? Let's dig into it and unravel the mystery.
