Courses
Muirfield: The Course That Asks for Every Wind
The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, which is the formal name of the members’ club that has owned the course at Muirfield since the late …
Links Golf
Opinion
In Praise of the Bad-Weather Round
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 …
Tips and Instruction
The Bump-and-Run Most Amateurs Never Try, and Why Their Scores Suffer for It
The shot the touring professional plays from twenty yards short of the green, on a tight lie, with thirty feet of fairway between the ball and the front edge, …
Courses
Royal County Down: The Course at the Top of Most Lists Nobody Has Played
The course rankings that the magazines publish every other year do not usually settle on a single answer for very long. Augusta moves up and down. Pine Valley …
Courses
Shinnecock Hills: The American Course That Never Pretends to Be Anywhere Else
There is a tendency, when American golfers talk about links courses, to use the word as shorthand for treeless, or windy, or firm. None of those descriptions …
Courses
The Old Course at St Andrews: Golf's Most Important Eighteen Holes
There is no course in the world that divides opinion on first sight quite like the Old Course at St Andrews. Players who arrive expecting the manicured …