19th Hole

Although I don’t especially like him, I always treat my rather mean and extremely boring father-in-law to a game of golf.

A language all its own, including many old Scottish words and some real oddities

When picking Ryder Cup pairings, it can be tempting for a captain to turn to what worked in the past.

The first match was played in 1927, when America beat GB & I 9½ – 2½

The flamboyant Dutch entrepreneur who saved Duca del Cosma from bankruptcy, has global ambitions for this luxury Italian sports label.

Game on!

The genius of Seve: Ryder Cup maverick & legend

For the last seven or eight years I have regularly played golf with an old friend of mine on the third Wednesday of every month.

How preposterous it was of me to be even thinking about getting a stupid little ball into that distant hole in just four shots.

Telling someone that they smell is possibly even more difficult than they are incorrectly aligned at address.

Now my weekends aren’t wasted on the golf course I have time to explore other activities. Golf had taken over my life and I now…

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…

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…

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.

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…

… and other things you may not know about golf’s greatest match-play event

Golf’s ultimate showdown

The rarest shot in golf

We did not invent the following names, but we have heard or seen them used by our fellow golfers.

Holed out at last…