Courses
Oakmont Country Club: The Course That Refuses to Be Modernised
There is a sentence the late Doc Giffin, who spent half a century answering Arnold Palmer’s mail, used to put to visiting writers when they asked him …
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PGA Tour
Truist Championship: A Round One Drowned by Weather, and a Quiet Tribute to Seve
Charlotte got close to two inches of rain by lunchtime on Thursday, which is the kind of weather number that does not so much delay a golf tournament as rewrite …
PGA Tour
Aronimink Returns: A Week Out from the PGA Championship
The 2026 PGA Championship begins on Thursday week at Aronimink Golf Club, in Newtown Square, just outside Philadelphia, and the second major of the year is …
Equipment
Golf Shoes: The Equipment Choice That Is Actually About Walking
There is a piece of equipment in the game that touches the player for every minute of the four hours they are on the course, and that almost no amateur thinks …
PGA Tour
Rory McIlroy Returns at Quail Hollow After the Back-to-Back Masters
The Truist Championship begins on Thursday at Quail Hollow, and the most interesting thing about the field is the part of it that has not played a competitive …
Tips and Instruction
The Forty-Yard Shot Nobody Practices
There is a yardage that decides more amateur rounds than any other, and almost no one practises it. It is the awkward in-between distance from the front edge of …
PGA Tour
Cameron Young Wins the Cadillac Championship Wire-to-Wire at Doral
The Cadillac Championship returned to Doral for the first time in a decade and produced the kind of week the Tour will not have dared hope for. Cameron Young …
Opinion
In Defence of the Layup
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 …
Courses
Riviera Country Club: A Course That Asks Different Questions
There is a particular sensation a player gets the first time they walk onto a Riviera fairway, which is the sensation of standing on something that does not …
PGA Tour
The Cadillac Championship Returns to Doral, Ten Years Late
The PGA Tour goes back to Doral on Thursday after a ten-year absence, and the tournament that opens at the Blue Monster bears almost no resemblance to the one …