Most people have a misconception. They feel the main difference between a PGA or European tour pro and themselves is the ability to crush the ball 300 yards off the tee and shape their irons at will. While this is a significant difference between a tour pro and the average golfer, to their scores, this is not the main difference. Of course, the ability to hit long drives and shape shots helps. However, it is certainly not the main differentiating …
Most of us know from first-hand experience that if you rock up to the golf course without any kind of strategy, things can become very wrong very quickly. Poor planning leads to poor golf, which leads to frustration in its purest form. As Raymond Floyd said, “they call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.” But there’s really no need to pepper the golf course with expletives and terrible shots. Whether you’re a near scratch golfer or …
South African Ernie Els is one of the undisputed all time greats. With 70 career victories – including four major championships – and a World Golf Hall of Fame spot – there’s a lot to learn from the man they call “the Big Easy.” From his famous smooth swing to his incredible short game, let’s take a look at what makes Els such an great golfer and see if we can pick up some tips from the big man. Your …
It’s US Open time! The third major championship of the year tees off on the 17th of June and is set to be a thriller. With defending champion Bryson DeChambeau, Spanish maestro Jon Rahm, world No.1 Dustin Johnson, four-time major champ Brooks Koepka, three-time major winner Jordan Spieth, and of course the most recent major winner of them all, 50 year old Phil Mickelson, all tipped to be in the running to lift the US Open trophy, this could go …
We’ve all been there before. You’re halfway through a round of golf, and quite frankly you are NOT playing your best. You’re leaking drives left and right. Every last approach is finding the sand, and when you finally did hit a green in regulation, you promptly three-putted. Suddenly your relaxing golf trip is turning into an 18-hole marathon of living hell. The only thing keeping you sane is the thought of an ice-cold beer at the end of the round. …
From shepherds and stones to state of the art balls flying hundreds of yards down immaculate fairways, the golf ball has changed beyond recognition over hundreds of years. How did we arrive at the little dimpled beauty that we know and love today? Let’s take a journey back to a surprising origin story and explore the different types of balls to have graced greens throughout the history of golf. Sticks and stones Legend has it that golf’s “eureka” moment came …
One of the greatest golfers of all time, Bobby Jones had an influence on the game of golf that’s hard to overestimate. A naturally gifted sportsman with a swing as smooth as silk, he also had a great depth of knowledge about the game, as well as a great ability to articulate his theories. Amazingly for the modern-day but not unsurprising for his time, Bobby Jones never turned pro, retaining an amateur status throughout the whole of his career. Indeed, …
Up until this year, Golf in Japan had been in steady decline since the 1990s, with a massive 40% drop in those playing the game. Then Hideki Matsuyama won the Masters. The impact of Matsuyama’s astounding win will be felt across the whole of Japan for many years to come, injecting new life into Japanese golf and inspiring an entire generation to wake up and take up the game. And in the year that Japan hosts the Olympics… well, the …
There’s something so uniquely exciting about match play golf. While golf is and will always be a stroke play game, just once in a while we all need a bit of match play in our lives. We’ve just had the World Match Play Championship, where Billy Horschel took the trophy, and later in the year match play fans have the Ryder Cup to get excited about. And while watching the pros duke it out one on one is always entertaining, …
The opening men’s major of the year, The Masters, tees off every year at the start of April. To celebrate this years tournament, we’ve dug through the history books to pull out ten fascinating facts about this prestigious tournament. From the green jacket that sold for $5 to the time the Augusta National was used to raise cows and turkeys, here are 10 interesting facts about the masters that you may or may not have known. Course architect, Alister MacKenzie, …