Get the beers on ice – Tiger’s coming

Just a few short weeks after welcoming Tiger Woods back to the game, golf has found itself embroiled in a bitter controversy surrounding the world’s greatest player.
The biggest stooshie in world golf at the moment seems to be that a bunch of Australians trying to run a golf tournament have dared to dangle a brown [...]

Slow play is killing golf – but what’s the rush?

With Tiger Woods and Adam Scott recently adding to the growing voices of discontent about slow play in the professional ranks, it has never been more of an issue in world golf.
Amateur and weekend golfers do not escape the criticism either with slow players taking the blame for the increasing number of golfers giving up [...]

Poults happy for second best – but is the media to blame for furore?

It seems I made a gross misjudgement about Ian Poulter in a previous post.
Following his now infamous interview with Golf World where he was quoted as saying he was the only player who, on his game, could compete with Tiger Woods, I actually gave him credit for being one of the few golfers with the self-confidence [...]

Poulter’s hairspray goes to his head

Poor old Ian Poulter. Either he’s become delusional from sniffing the chemicals in his hair products or a tongue-in-cheek comment to make a dull magazine interview seem more interesting has gone badly wrong. 
 The English golfer - yes, the one with the funny trousers and the cockatiel hairdo – has been much derided for commenting in an interview [...]

Tiger’s Grand Slam bid a good bet – well who’s going to stop him?

It would seem that every golf journalist, blogger, columnist, analyst, pundit and golf fan is talking about just how good Tiger Woods is and whether this is the year he will complete the Grand Slam of all four ‘Majors’.
To be fair, it is a debate that surfaces at the start of every year because the [...]

Is Scott ready to tame the Tiger?

Anyone following the weekend’s golfing action and the subsequent media coverage could be forgiven for thinking they had stepped into a time warp taking them back a few years.
The Buick Invitational in San Diego saw Tiger Woods continue to dominate the sport, leaving others trailing in his wake and scratching their heads trying to come up [...]

Golf Industry Blossoms at Azalea

In a previous post I touched on the fact that I spent last week working in the rolling countryside of Hampshire – just minutes from the scene of Havant & Waterlooville’s remarkable FA Cup triumph against Swansea.
But it wasn’t the chance of an historic cup upset that enticed me to spend a week so far [...]

Raising a glass to a true golfing great

I’m delighted to see the resurgence in the golf game of Darren Clarke after the Northern Irishman finished fourth in the Joburg Open in South Africa at the weekend.

The impressive finish follows his third-placed finish at the South African Open just before Christmas and represents a huge improvement for the golfer who many believe to [...]