Opinion
In Praise of the Nineteenth Hole
Ask most golfers what they remember about a round played three years ago and the scorecard rarely comes up first. What comes up is the conversation afterwards, …
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In Defence of the 36-Hole Cut
There is a particular Friday afternoon feeling that only exists in professional golf, the one where a player standing over a six-footer on the 18th green is not …
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Sam Burns Shot the Two Lowest Consecutive Rounds in Major History and Still Didn't Win
Sam Burns opened his week at Royal Birkdale with a one-over 73, the kind of round that gets a player talked about as a missed-cut candidate rather than a …
Opinion
In Praise of the Major Winner Who Made You Wait
There is a particular kind of golf story that gets less attention than it deserves, and Ryan Fox supplied a fresh copy of it on Sunday. Not the prodigy who wins …
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Slow Play Isn't a Player Problem, It's a Setup Problem
The PGA Tour has decided, again, to try to fix slow play with punishment. Starting on the Korn Ferry Tour, pace-of-play data is being made public for the first …
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Golf Doesn't Need You to Break 80
There is a particular kind of golfer who cannot enjoy a round until the maths has been settled. Somewhere around the twelfth hole, usually after a three-putt …
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The Best Golf Is Played in Weather Nobody Wanted
There is a particular kind of golf broadcast that shows up every few weeks: blue sky, no wind worth mentioning, greens rolling at a fair and predictable speed, …
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Final Qualifying Is the Most Honest Day Left in Golf
This week twenty places in the year’s final major were handed out on the back of a single day’s golf, played across four courses by club …
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In Defence of the Ugly Swing
There is a particular kind of golfer who plays off eight, breaks 80 most weekends, and is quietly miserable about it. He is miserable because his swing does not …
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Six Hours Is Not Golf: A Modest Case for Getting On With It
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 …