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.
Fair play to them, lake ball divers have to deal – not only with murky waters and stinky fish – but also dodge sunken golf carts, dead bird skulls, alligators and – occasionally – dead bodies in pursuit of diving for lake balls. Glenn Berger has turned it into an entrepreneurial art form.
Our intrepid hero Monty clashes with John 'Jaws' Daly atop a cable car in Rio, and needs all the help he can get from his seven iron to save the day...
Justin Bieber likes to play a bit of golf when he's not getting his bits out...
Our no nonsense Aussie Golf Pro Sandy Jamieson has been back at it again, making some sense out of this stupid game we all play. He’s not using beer and boobs this time, but making sure you’ve parked that car properly...
Here's a look at what the tour players have been up to this week, as seen on Instagram.
At last, a European Tour event in England!! And a really, really, good line up: The British Masters is hosted by Ryder Cup legend Ian Poulter and will see a star studded field take to the Woburn course on 8th October.
GP favourite Bernd Wiesberger took the lead at the Porsche European Open, shooting a flawless first round 64. The world number 30, and top ranked player in the field shares top spot with Benjamin Hebert at Bad Griesbach Golf Resort.
As Alan Partridge once said, "Smash, bang, wallop! What a video". A new Mercedes owner in South Korea, got incredibly upset when the dealer refused to exchange his malfunctioning £150,000 car.
Golfer's Gaffs: And by that we mean their incredible houses that we are insanely jealous of... No1: Hunter Mahan's overblown man cave which we are thinking about buying, converting into GP office space and putting a ferris wheel through the middle of it so we don't have to walk up stairs...
The every day stuff that's been floating and sinking our boats this week...
We love carrying a golf bag. Even though we're constantly told carrying is bad for our backs, and that everyone should use a trolley, you don't feel like a real man if you're not carrying your golf bag. It's generally quicker too, not having to go down out of the way paths, and maneuver around greens. And we support anything that keeps the game quick. So hat's off to Ogio for their Shoxx X4 Suspension straps that take the strain off when carrying.
