For all those pre-restart fears that golf’s resumption behind closed doors would lack a certain spark, the last of the doubters were surely dispelled by the scenes at the recent PGA Championship. 23-year old Collin Morikawa dominated the headlines after closing to...
Just 12 miles separates Torr Head in Antrim and the Mull of Kintyre in southern Scotland, and we are close to our nearest neighbour in more ways than one. We have a shared love of “the craic,” of whiskey (or whisky), and of beating the English in any kind of sporting...
The ongoing thirst for knowledge about golf improvement is astonishing, particularly via the internet. A search asking the question: “How many golf lessons are there on the internet?” revealed 93.3 million results. Similar searches asking the same question but for...
Over the past few days I have seen photos on Twitter of greens scalped by an angry golfer. A divot-sized chunk is torn through the putting surface, the flap of green folded over forlornly to one side. The most recent one is from North West Golf Club on the Inishowen...
Amid all the debate about ‘Ryder Cup – No Ryder Cup’ and “Ryder Cup yes, but without fans’ until a final decision was reached, my thoughts turned to Hazeltine 2016, the most recent staging of this event in the USA. The Yanks were licking their chops at the prospect...
