Somewhere between the closing holes of the Open Championship and the practice range at TPC Twin Cities, professional golf’s plumbing shifted again. On …
Ask a mid-handicap golfer what goes wrong with their chipping and you will get a long list: they thin it across the green, they chunk it three feet, they scoop …
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 …
Most amateurs who go looking for a fitting are chasing distance. They want to know if a stronger loft or a stiffer shaft will add ten yards, and those are …
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 …
Ryan Fox stood over an eleven-foot putt on the 72nd hole at Royal Birkdale knowing that making it won the Open Championship outright and missing it left the …
For sixty-eight years, Royal Portrush was the Open Championship venue that existed mostly in the imagination of people who had read about it. It hosted the …
Royal Birkdale has spent three days quietly rewriting how firm and fast a links course can play in a heatwave. On Friday, Lucas Herbert and Sam Burns both shot …
Royal Birkdale has form for this sort of thing. Nine years after Branden Grace shot the first sub-63 round in major championship history on this same Southport …
Most club golfers have a routine for a flat lie that works reasonably well, built up over years of range balls sat on perfectly level mats. Put the same player …
