Feb 27th, 2016 Article
The Staunchies 2015 Results!!!
The votes are in and have all been counted and verified... straps yourselves in and let the chapmagne flow!!!
The votes are in and have all been counted and verified... straps yourselves in and let the chapmagne flow!!!
“Whisky is liquid sunshine.” – George Bernard Shaw
Pace of play has at last risen up the agenda, and now even the R&A are rising to the challenge of how to fix this frustrating part of playing a round of golf. And here's what Stephen Gallagher has proposed.
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.
Invitee Dustin Johnson looks set to miss the cut after bogeying his last hole to finish +1 and one shot the wrong side of the weekend. You can't imagine this will go down well with the hosts but at least Dusty & Paulina will get to sample the delights of Hong Kong.
No one has been going really low today. The rain has made the rough that much more penal, and focused everyone’s attention on hitting fairways. There’s zero reward in being off-line, and that’s kept it conservative out there today. It’s frankly been a very quiet day indeed. Zzzzzzz.
In the middle of deepest darkest Connecticut – The Forest Moon of Endor, at the Foxwoods Resort – (Stop making me look up Star Wars references, grandad! – Ed), we’ve been privy to TaylorMade’s exclusive new driver launch. The M1 is coming, and we’ve got the scoop.
Jordan Spieth missed the cut this week at The Barclays. It happens. We got so used to Tiger Woods being seemingly infallible when he was World Number One that everyone panics that the end of the world is nigh when the official best player in the world misses the cut. A panic that Jordan will never play a good round again. Yet even the best don’t play the weekend every tournament.
Our friends at Luke Roper have just had their annual golf day at the Welcombe Golf Course in Stratford upon Avon. It’s always a great day, as these guys love putting on a big show.
It's not just the players who've been inconvenienced by the weather at the Open, as our Editor explains...
To quote Verne Lundquist, and the greatest piece of golf commentary of all time, “Oh, WOW! IN YOUR LIFE, have you seen anything like that?!”. And you know what Verne, we haven’t.
Mizuno might have the most adjustable driver on the market this year, with 50 different options if we did our maths right.