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Dr Felix Shank 91
I have only one outstanding ambition, to have a hole in one. Desperate to know whether or not I would ever achieve it, I went…
Dr Felix Shank 90
I was wearing a green shirt when I won my first ever medal, believing it to be lucky, I have worn a green shirt for…
Dr Felix Shank 89
One of the remarkable things about Jim is that, although he almost invariably finds his own ball, he never seems to find anyone else’s.
Dr Felix Shank 88
Is there some aspect of your game that you simply can’t sort out? Dr Felix Shank, a more or less genuine expert on all aspects…
The Origin of the Ryder Cup
… and other things you may not know about golf’s greatest match-play event
Behind the Ryder Cup – The Players’ Stories
Golf’s ultimate showdown
Golf A to Z – The Albatross
The rarest shot in golf
Nicknames for golf shots, good & bad
We did not invent the following names, but we have heard or seen them used by our fellow golfers.
Golf A to Z – Coffins
Holed out at last…
Nicknames of golfers, past & present
From Aquaman to Zinger
Golf A to Z – The ‘Condor’
Scoring a condor represents one of the rarest of events in golf
The Pro’s Pro – Interview with caddie Billy Foster
There can be few jobs more satisfying than that of a caddie to a world-class player
Dormie – meaning and origin
We know of two possible origins for the word,
Golf A to Z – (Really) Bad luck
Friday 13th
Nightmare Among the mighty – Ian Fleming
The author recounts the personal drama of playing in the Bowmaker Invitation Amateur/Professional Tournament at the Berkshire Golf Club, in June 1957.
Live and Let Fly – Ian Fleming
Fleming’s golfing exploits go well beyond a few rounds at Royal St George’s to research Goldfinger
Tales of the unexpected
Carnoustie may have staged just seven Open Championships but such is the pedigree of this fearsome links that each and every one has produced a…
Polished Performer
A three-time winner on the European Tour, Nick Dougherty has proved himself equally adept in front of the cameras in a second career…
Ted Baker Golf
Returning to the fairway for a third season, Ted Baker Golf is a considered menswear collection for the most gentlemanly of pursuits.
Names of old golf clubs and their closest modern equivalents
The practice of giving numbers to irons only began in the mid-1920s