
25 questions needing answers in 2025 Pt.1
A new golf year means intriguing possibilities, clear challenges and perilous possible pitfalls

What are the best links golf courses in the UK?
The UK has arguably the very best collection of real links courses in the world. UK golfers have the very best choices available to play…

What The Open Championship’s return to Portrush means to Northern Ireland
The return of The Open to Royal Portrush in July 2025 is a great testament to the success of the 2019 event and a compliment…

The R&A announces ticket ballot details for The 153rd Open
The Open will take place from 13-20 July 2025.

On the Causeway Coast
An autumnal escape to the Irish linkslands

UK golf spending jumps by 20% in just five years
Sheffield Hallam University report outlines how golf industry in the UK is worth more than £5bn

John Mclaughlin interview
CEO North and West Coast Links, Ireland

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

Martin Ebert weighs in on Royal Portrush
Looking back at the 148th Open Championship

Shane’s Road – Then & Now
Resilience brings home Claret Jug

Very much stranger than fiction
It’s not always the case that no one ever remembers who came second.

R&A finds its own “Shinnecock”
148th Open rousing success — Portrush to return in ’24?

Weight of Emerald Isle rests on Lowry’s shoulders
Irish eyes are smiling — for now

Five holes to watch at Royal Portrush
148th Open Championship Commences Thursday

How to pick a winner at the Open Championship
The only major to be held outside of the US has been dominated by experienced players for a long time

Christiaan Bezuidenhout craving revenge on return to Royal Portrush
Bezuidenhout failed a drugs test during the 2014 British Amateur Championship at the same course.

Koepka happy for caddie to steal spotlight at Royal Portrush
Ricky Elliott has been with the world number one for six years

The Open stands first among equals
Golf’s greatest Major?

Tiger Woods favours quality over quantity in bid to prolong career
Woods concedes his game is not as sharp as he would like ahead of the Open Championship at Royal Portrush

Nicklaus at The Open
The Golden Bear’s Indelible Legacy