Graeme McDowell’s success in Saudi Arabia injects a dose of New Year momentum to Irish golf which bodes well for the rest of 2020, writes Liam Kelly
Columns
Doc’s Top-5 Best Bets – The AT&T Pro-am
Bubba Watson’s Tied-3rd kept Oracle followers afloat in Phoenix but Pebble Beach has washed up a message in a bottle capable of much more this week #ATTProAm
Phoenix and Saudi: Worlds Apart
The Waste Management Phoenix Open and the Saudi International; has there ever been a greater disparity in overlapping sporting events in recent memory? It’s highly unlikely
The media are all losers in the race to be first
The death of basketball legend, Kobe Bryant this week has highlighted a very serious issue of journalistic malpractice that shouldn’t go unpunished
Don’t feed me dog food and call it fillet steak
‘There is no amount of lipstick in the world that can disguise the pig that the European Tour is trying to present to the world this week from Saudi’
Doc’s top-5 best bets – Phoenix Open
The only thing louder and drunker than the crowd at this week’s Waste Management Phoenix Open will be me on my couch if Brendan Steele wins the thing
Money can’t buy me love
As the European Tours, both male and female, strengthen their ties with Saudi Arabia, it’s important to remember exactly who they’re going into business with
Chaos in the Middle East
The stage was set for some big name players to hog the spotlight at the Dubai Desert Classic before the multi-million dollar production’s script was torn to pieces
Ryder Cup keeping the European Tour afloat
Despite Keith Pelley’s best efforts, a biennial trump card is all that’s preventing a potential mass exodus from the world’s second best tour
Ryder Cup legends: Severiano Ballesteros
The first to feature in our series of Ryder Cup legends in the lead up to Whistling Straits, Seve’s mark on the tournament is set to last forever
You need a backbone, not a wishbone
As the old saying goes, you need a backbone, not a wishbone, and increasingly of late, the PGA Tour is showing very little of the former
The Seven Deadly Sins that cast golfers into outer darkness
The only way to true salvation for us golfers is to recognise and deal with the defects that ruin our game
We need to tweet about Lee
In 2013, Lee Westwood had Twitter talking for all the wrong reasons but his Abu Dhabi triumph has sparked a very different conversation
Pillow Talk for the Golfer’s Soul
As the new golf season draws ever closer for us amateurs, managing expectation may provide the key to unlocking a successful season #golfchat
The next big thing? Don’t bet on it
Footage of Tiger Woods’ son Charlie striping his irons at just 10 years of age sent the internet into freefall but people need to leave Big Cat’s cub alone
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