Ten of Britain’s most picturesque and challenging amateur golf holes have been shortlisted to be crowned the UK’s best, as online voting now begins for golfers to choose their favourite.
The one thing you can’t accuse us of at GP is treading a well-worn path on your behalf. This is why we you’re just as likely to find us playing scratchy municipal courses as submerged in golf Jacuzzis filled with Dom Perignon.
It’s official. London's last inner city public golf course is to close — and this is mostly thanks to a £4.9m grant from the Lottery Heritage Fund. So what’s the thinking?
According to a report on the BBC local news site, a 105-year-old golf course in Leicester has closed as the city council looks to save £90m by 2018. The closure of Western Park municipal golf club will apparently save the authority a paltry £123,000 a year.
Steve Stricker has been named United States Ryder Cup Captsain as they try to reclaim the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits in 2020. Stricker knows what it's like to win being part of the 2008 side that won in Valhalla, but he also experienced defeat in 2010 and 2012.
Dust yourself down, and get back in the mix, and in the words of Michael Barrymore, I’ve got a bit of top, middle and bottom for you this week. Otherwise translated as shorty, middle of the pack, and a ‘buy a house’ outsider. So enough of the waffle and off to Whistling Straits, where Dustin knows how expensive those ‘bunkers’ can be!
Turnberry’s Ailsa course has officially re-opened as part of a £200m investment by Donald Trump’s the Trump Organization.
To be fair, he did say he was “half handy”, however, what a start for The Golfspiv…
PING has launched a new app that includes the Golf Workout, an Apple Watch feature engineered to capture and track fitness data, swing tempo and on-course statistics.
Deangate Ridge Golf Course has been closed by Medway Council, as another golf course is set to go under concrete.
After sleeping on a four-stroke lead heading into the final day at the DIO Implant LA Open, Nasa Hataoka could see a victory in sight, but still knew it was going to take a solid round of golf to bring the title home. And by day’s end, the City of Stars added the 23-year-old to a list of champions in the shadow of the Hollywood Sign at Wilshire Country Club as Hastaoka nabbed her sixth Tour win...
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.
