by Mike Wilson | Jun 5, 2022 | Columns, Latest News
Intro For the first two decades of the 21st century, the prognosis for grass roots golf, the recreational side of the royal and ancient game built around established clubs and an increasing number of pay-to-play facilities had offered a gloomy outlook as time and...
by Mike Wilson | Apr 30, 2022 | Columns, Latest News
Ever since the game of golf was first played over 250-years-ago, and throughout the years, decades and centuries through which the sport has travelled, there has always been two distinct versions of the royal and ancient game and change has been, for the most time,...
by Mike Wilson | Feb 2, 2022 | Columns, Latest News
This article featured in the January print edition of Irish Golfer Magazine. For a nation boasting all of 14 golf courses, seven on grass and seven on sand, Saudi Arabia can scarcely lay claim to be one of the royal and ancient game’s natural homes or even a...
by Mike Wilson | May 2, 2021 | Columns, Latest News
Great Britain eventually left the European Union at 11pm on 31st December last year, severing over 50-years of political, economic and cultural co-operation having joined the year after the European Tour – the primary professional golfing vehicle for the...
by Mike Wilson | Oct 14, 2020 | Columns, Latest News
The Long and Short of It There are no fewer than 10 holes played on the regular PGA TOUR season that are in excess of 600-yards in length; the longest of them all is the 16th hole on the Firestone CC (South) course in Ohio, USA where the WGC Bridgestone is...