If you’re not going to make it in sport then the next best thing is to have a ringside seat as the drama unfolds.
That was certainly true of Phil Harison, one of the most famous voices in golf. Harison, who has died at the age of 82, was the starter at The Masters for 60 [...]
Annika Sorenstam is the veteran past-master who many believe has already passed the torch to her younger rivals. Adam Scott is the rising youngster who many believe cannot rise any higher.
Both players proved over the weekend that they are neither willing to go away nor set a limit to high they can go with thrilling [...]
This year’s Ryder Cup competition could have a Gallic flavour if Raphael Jacquelin and his French legion have something to do with it.
Frenchmen have won two of the past three European Tour events and Jacquelin is hoping the country can have a strong presence in the European squad who are defending the Cup at the [...]
In an era before Tiger Woods, there was Greg Norman. Sure, he didn’t win as many majors – two British Open titles to be exact – but that never stopped the Great White Shark from being one of the golfing world’s best drawcards.
That was more than a decade ago, though, and the former world number [...]
I have spent the last few weeks on the road with some of my students at Futures Tour Events in Florida. These were the first events of the season and as expected, I learned a lot about my student’s games. I always say a golfer has four games or swings: They have their practice range [...]
Lorena Ochoa made LPGA history over the weekend when she became the first female pro in 45 years to win four tournaments in four straight weeks.
Ochoa shot a three-under-par 69 in the final round to win the Ginn Open by three strokes from rookie Yani Tseng. It was four straight for the Mexican magician and [...]
Recently I received this question referring to Rule 13-4a, and thought it would be useful to share my reply with everyone:
RULES OF GOLF QUESTION:
“My ball is laying in the centre and to one end of a bunker.The bunker rake is the other end of the bunker. The sand in the middle of the bunker has [...]
If Tiger Woods is still as competitive in eight years time as he is now, he may be looking to go where neither Jack, Arnold, Gary, Snead, Jones nor any of the other greats of the past century have been – Olympic gold.
That’s right. Golf is making another push to be part of the 2016 [...]
Only days after finishing second at the US Masters, Tiger Woods was having surgery on his knee. Now he is expected to be out for up to one month, or even longer.
The world number one, who finished second to South African Trevor Immelman at August over the weekend, underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee [...]
South Africa has a new golfing superstar. With many wondering if Ernie Els’ time as force in the majors is now in terminal decline, with Retief Goosen perhaps not the player he was a few years ago, Trevor Immelman’s Masters victory has delivered a new force.
Yet one star continues to transcend them all. Immelman’s [...]
Goodnight and goodbye. The Grand Slam year is over before it even began. This will please some people: already a trawl through the UK press sees Tiger being written off, called an elder statesmen and generally mocked for ever claiming he could win the Grand Slam.
The facts are that Tiger didn’t play well. I doubt [...]
Like all budding golfers, Trevor Immelman had a hero to look up to. And like only a handful of budding golfers, Immelman emulated his hero.
Being South African, there could be no other inspiration for Immelman than Gary Player, a three-time US Masters champion. And while Player was missing the cut in his 51st Masters appearance, [...]
Discounting Tiger Woods’ Thai heritage and Vijay Singh’s Fijian-ness, no Asian has ever won a major tournament.
However, there are at least three golfers from different parts of the continent in the field for this week’s US Masters in Augusta hoping to break that duck.
From the sub-continent, we have Jeev Milkha Singh, son of former Indian [...]
Lorena Ochoa is getting to be as predictable as the world’s number one men’s player, who shall remain nameless so as not to hog the limelight.
Ochoa stormed to a five-stroke victory at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, a major tournament on the LPGA Tour, to confirm her status as the world’s leading women’s player.
After her victory [...]
With so much talk about Tiger Woods – whether we love him or hate him, whether or not swearing on the fairways is okay because athletes in other sports do it, whether or not he will win the Grand Slam in 2008 – it’s good to sometimes sit back, collect our thoughts and consider why [...]