Monday 24 October 2022
Everything you need to know about the Official World Golf Ranking, including all of the milestones and every player to have been No.1. Since the introduction of the men’s Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) in 1986, 25 different players have reached the pinnacle, from ten different countries. Scottie Scheffler became the latest new player to achieve the feat with his victory at...
Wednesday 17 August 2022
Exclusive: Solheim Cup star Bronte Law on mental strength, equality and what golf can learn from tennis Bronte Law is one of the most opinionated and eloquent golfers in the women’s game right now. Her words pack a real punch whenever she feels strongly about something – and there are a lot of things she wants to get off her chest.
Friday 29 July 2022
World No.1 Jin Young Ko reflects on her elite mentality, the importance of YouTube, comparisons with Tiger Woods, and her obsession with Brooks Koepka and Brad Faxon. 1. What’s been your biggest achievement so far? Winning so many awards in a single year. I received the Player of the Year, the Vare [lowest scoring average for the season], the Annika Major [best...
Monday 27 June 2022
At the age of 50, Padraig Harrington continues to add new achievements to his incredible golf CV. Making his debut at the US Senior Open, the Irishman held his nerve to seal a one-shot victory at Saucon Valley – his first win on any Tour in more than six years. Having been heavily defeated as European Ryder Cup Captain by Steve Stricker’s...
Monday 20 June 2022
Matt Fitzpatrick is a Major champion, Ryder Cup player and world top-10 golfer. But back in 2014 a then 19-year-old Fitzpatrick had only just turned pro when he sat down with TG for his first interview after leaving golf’s amateur ranks. While a lot has changed in the eight years since this interview, the Sheffield native’s victory at The Country Club...
Monday 20 June 2022
Millions across the world watched as Billy Foster broke down in tears following Matt Fitzpatrick’s US Open victory at Brookline. Not only was it a first Major title for the 27-year-old golfer, but a first Major title for his caddie and fellow Yorkshireman. While Fitzpatrick had only been waiting the eight years since turning pro for the victory, it had been...
Monday 20 June 2022
Matt Fitzpatrick was fed-up with being known as the PGA Tour’s nearly man. Now the 27-year-old US Open Champion is known as a history maker. In late 2021 we sat down with the Englishman to talk statistics, Billy Foster, Bryson-proofing golf courses, the problem with slow play, and find out how he was going to conquer America. Matt Fitzpatrick has come a...
Monday 9 May 2022
Soccer AM star Tubes and brother Ange have taken YouTube by storm with their hilarious Golf Life channel. During Mental Health Awareness Week, the popular pair explain how the game has changed their lives. If you spent your Saturday mornings watching Soccer AM on Sky Sports in the early-to-mid noughties, you’ll remember Tubes (real name Peter Dale) for his hilariously awkward...
Thursday 5 May 2022
Everything you need to know about big-hitting DP World Tour winner Adria Arnaus. Arnaus won his first title with a victory over Oliver Bekker after a mammoth six-hole play-off at the Catalunya Championship at PGA Catalunya. It was a case of third time lucky for the Spaniard, who had lost his two previous play-offs, beaten on both occasions by fellow countrymen...
Written by Lawrence Donegan on Thursday 10 March 2022
As Tiger Woods is inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, we look back at how racism and bigotry cast a shadow over the teenage life of the world’s most famous golfer. This story is taken from the October 2007 issue of Golf World magazine but, after Tiger Woods’ speech as he entered the World Golf Hall of Fame, we believe this...
Written by Michael Catling on Thursday 10 March 2022
Maurice Flitcroft was not a golfer, but that didn’t stop him trying to qualify for golf’s most famous tournament. Fitting then that Sir Mark Rylance had only played a handful of rounds himself when he was cast to play ‘the world’s worst golfer’ in new film The Phantom of The Open. We’ve long been fans of Maurice Flitcroft’s extraordinary story here...
Thursday 10 March 2022
Maurice Flitcroft was not a golfer. But that didn’t stop him making multiple disatrous attempts to qualify for The Open. Now the ‘world’s worst golfer’ is the subject of a star-studded movie. 15 years after Maurice Flitcroft’s passing, a new British film will tell the extraordinary true story of how the chain-smoking crane driver from Barrow-on-Furness, attempted to qualify for The...
Written by Kevin Brown on Tuesday 8 February 2022
The first Irishwoman to win on the LPGA and the best Solheim Cup rookie ever, Leona Maguire won’t stop in her drive to be golf’s best. Everything Leona Maguire touches turns to gold. At least, that’s how it seems, and it’s been that way ever since she first picked up a club in her native Cavan, Ireland, 27 years ago. A stellar...
Wednesday 17 November 2021
From Ryder Cup player and to the PGA Tour’s resident raconteur, David Feherty is one of the most fascinating men in golf. Here he reflects on his life in the game. It’s easy to forget that David Feherty played in perhaps the most famous Ryder Cup of all time. The 63-year-old has spent nearly 25 years entertaining fans from behind the...
Tuesday 16 November 2021
For golf impressionist Conor Moore, it doesn’t matter if you’re Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau or Gary Player. No one is off limits when it comes to being mimicked. Fred Couples once said of Conor Moore that “if you close your eyes, you would think Ian Poulter is right next to you”. The likeness is uncanny and part of a...
Tuesday 2 November 2021
‘I hit rock bottom. I didn’t pick up a club for a month until I rediscovered my love for the game’ In the wake of his momentous first PGA Tour win at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, we take a look back at our exclusive interview with the big-hitting Australian, Lucas Herbert. During our conversation, Herbert spoke candidly about his mental health issues,...
Written by Duncan Lennard on Sunday 26 September 2021
Dustin Johnson and his team explain what you can learn from the Ryder Cup star and two-time Major champion to maximise your own potential, reduce your handicap and shoot your lowest ever golf scores. There are few golfers with more natural ability than Dustin Johnson. But after he finished 2015 ranked eighth in the world, it was beginning to look as...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday 5 August 2021
For too long overlooked and undervalued, women’s golf is now growing at an unprecedented speed with Europe’s incredible Solheim Cup victory on US soil expected to boost it further. Georgia Hall, Catriona Matthew, Amy Boulden and Annika Sorrenstam discuss how the game builds on its recent success. It wasn’t all that long ago that a sign stood outside the clubhouse of...
Friday 12 March 2021
Niall Horan, the founder of Modest! Golf tells Today’s Golfer how he’s gone from being part of the world’s most powerful pop group to being considered one of the most influential figures in golf. Niall Horan may not be Tiger Woods, Bryson DeChambeau or Rory McIlroy, but the 27-year-old pop idol is a seriously big player in the sport, ranking in...
Written by Michael Catling on Friday 18 December 2020
Meet the inspirational men and women who are smashing golf’s stereotypes and making the game more inclusive and representative. We might not like to admit it, but golf has had – and still does have – an image problem. Lee Westwood goes as far as to say that the game is “still perceived as a white activity”, while you only have to...