Written by Robert Green


Trump and Turnberry continue to wait their turn
Trump acquired the property and pretty much everybody agrees the golf course is now superior

There will still be stars for European Ryder Cup team
There will be golfers from non-EU countries on the European Ryder Cup team in September

This has gone too far…
The R&A, USGA and ever-increasing hitting distances

Image-polishing role for golf in the Gulf
“Yes, 100% there’s a morality to it.”

Golf & numbers: from Wodehouse’s day to Westwood’s era
“Sport is all about setting targets for everybody else to follow”

Hong Kong Phooey
Did you see that Wade Ormsby won the Hong Kong Open yesterday?

The long putter has helped Langer linger longer
Went to the broomhandle putter in the 90s and hasn’t looked back

Portrush Revisited: the good, the bad and the multi-ugly
For Lowry the Open brought memories that will never be forgotten

Plastic tees a bad tease for the birds
Royal North Devon Golf Club prohibits plastic tees

Rahming home the message
Rahm is only the second Spaniard to have won the Race to Dubai

Getting the politics into sport
‘Death to Golf… Save the Spearmint Rhino’?

Of course the course matters
Good-looking courses make for better TV

The I of the Tiger
Woods is going to write a book about himself. Wow! Or not?

Middling through
To many people, this is what golf represents. Ageing and stuffiness. Middle class and white…

TV times
Free-to-view television can benefit everyone

The Past Master
José Maria Olazábal – The greatest gentleman of them all

Rory roars on with more awards
McIlroy was voted Player of the Year by the golfers of the PGA Tour

A private paradise in Provence
Robert Trent Jones’ Vidauban Golf Club

A genuine change of pace?
The European Tour announced last month that any player getting two bad times in one round would be given a one-shot penalty

Crazy Cathedral
Amid some controversy, a 9-hole crazy golf course has been laid out in the central aisle of the medieval Rochester cathedral