Opinion
In Praise of the Course That Never Asks Who You Are
There is a nine-hole course a short drive from most towns of any size, the kind of place with a pro shop the size of a garden shed, a cart barn that has not …
Opinion
Opinion
In Defense of Golf's Most Hated Format
By the time this week’s BMW Championship finishes at Bellerive, the field will have shrunk from 70 to 50 to 30, and the survivors will head to East Lake …
Opinion
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 …
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, …
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 …
Opinion
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …