19th Hole

Duca del Cosma

Duca del Cosma – The Italian Job

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

Game on! The Ryder Cup Killer Quiz

The Ryder Cup Killer Quiz

Game on!

The genius of Seve: Ryder Cup maverick & legend, © Matthew Harris/TGPL

Behind the Ryder Cup – The Players’ Stories

The genius of Seve: Ryder Cup maverick & legend

Dr Felix Shank

Dr Felix Shank 95

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.

Dr Felix Shank

Dr Felix Shank 94

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

Dr Felix Shank

Dr Felix Shank 93

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

Dr Felix Shank

Dr Felix Shank 92

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…

Dr Felix Shank

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

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

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

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. Credit: Peter Fry

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 Player's Stories

Behind the Ryder Cup – The Players’ Stories

Golf’s ultimate showdown

Albatross - A to Z

Golf A to Z – The Albatross

The rarest shot in golf

Nicknames for golf shots, good & bad

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 - Holed out at last... (Golf-themed coffins)

Golf A to Z – Coffins

Holed out at last…

Golfers' nicknames - past & present

Nicknames of golfers, past & present

From Aquaman to Zinger

The Condor - Golf A-Z. Rarest event in golf

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

Dormie – meaning and origin

We know of two possible origins for the word,