Opinion
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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Opinion
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 …
Opinion
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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The Quiet Case for the Half Set
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 …
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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 …
Opinion
Pace of Play Is Not the Problem Most Golfers Think It Is
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 …
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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 …
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In Defence of the Short Golf Course
A confession up front. The best round of tournament golf I have watched in years was the 2024 Open at Royal Troon, which measured 7,385 yards on the card, which …
Opinion
Gary Woodland's Win Is the Reason We Still Watch Sport
Modern professional golf has spent the last several years trying very hard to make us cynical. The endless LIV negotiations, the lawyer-led press releases, the …
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Why Fitzpatrick's Valspar Win Matters More Than the Trophy
There is a particular kind of professional golf heartbreak that the rest of us cannot quite imagine. It’s the missed putt at the 18th to win, watched by …