There is a particular sound that tells you a round has gone wrong, and it is not the splash of a ball finding water. It is the silence of a group standing on a …
Somewhere on the first tee this weekend, someone will hook one into the trees, sigh, and reach into their pocket for another ball without a word being said. The …
There is a quiet decision made on the first tee of almost every amateur round, and it is usually the wrong one. A group arrives, looks at the markers, and walks …
There is a particular look a certain kind of golfer gives you when you tell them you only played nine. It is somewhere between sympathy and suspicion, as though …
The provisional ball is the one shot in golf the rules of the game have explicitly designed to save the player from themselves, and it is the one shot in golf …
There is a small experiment that almost every amateur should perform, in the off-season or on a slow evening at the home course, and that almost no amateur ever …
There is a moment that arrives at the first tee of every cold, wet, badly-windy round that begins the same way for everyone who has signed up to play it. The …
The recreational golfer who has, over the course of the last decade, slowly worked his handicap from the high twenties down to the mid teens, and who plays, on …
The pace-of-play conversation, in the modern amateur game, has reached the kind of saturation point at which it has stopped being a conversation about a problem …
There is a moment that happens on a par-five at every level of the amateur game, and that I am increasingly convinced has been getting talked about wrongly for …
