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Golf’s fifth major cops a LIV Golf uppercut
The story, like it or not, is the same each and every week. Of course it is.
7 Mar 2023
The Thing About Golf Podcast #85 – Sir Michael Bonallack OBE
There are few in golf whose contribution to the game could be compared to that of Sir Michael Bonallack.
1 Mar 2023
Peter Kostis uncut
With more than 30 years in TV commentary as a lead analyst, swing coach Peter Kostis has been an eyewitness to the biggest changes in modern professional golf. Here, he speaks candidly about the decline in golf broadcasting, the state of men’s professional golf and the future of LIV Golf.
9 Feb 2023
The Thing About Golf Podcast #83 – Ewen Murray
Like many TV analysts it’s easy to forget Sky Sports’ Ewen Murray was a player long before he ever sat behind a microphone.
1 Feb 2023
The Thing About Golf Podcast #81 – Rich Lerner
The voice will be familiar but there is much more to Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner than most golf fans would ever guess.
14 Dec 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #78 – Nicolas Colsaerts
From an early age Nicolas Colsaerts knew he was good. Not in a cocky way, just an acknowledgement he could do things with a golf ball others couldn’t.
2 Nov 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #76 – Lindsey Garden
Women and caddies – two perspectives we don’t hear enough of in golf media and both bundled up in one interview.
5 Oct 2022
Huggan: Sergio’s departure disappoints but doesn’t surprise
As these words are written, qualifying for the European Ryder Cup team that will attempt to recover the trophy from American hands in Italy a year from now is less than four days old.
11 Sep 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #74 – Paul McGinley
If not for a knee injury sustained playing Gaelic football as a teenager, Paul McGinley’s life may have turned out very different.
7 Sep 2022
Weiskopf ... an important voice lost – Huggan
Things were getting desperate. The column for the Sunday newspaper hadn’t been written and ideas were short. So, a phone call was made to the Rusacks Hotel that sits on the right side of the 18th fairway on the Old Course at St. Andrews.
22 Aug 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #72 – Eddie Pepperell
Eddie Pepperell is a two-time European Tour winner and owner of some of the game’s most unusual swing drills.
10 Aug 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #71 – Jose Maria Olazabal
Jose Maria Olazabal was one of the best of his generation – a dual Masters winner with one of the most admired short games in history.
27 Jul 2022
Huggan: My Open journey
No one ever forgets their first time at The Open.
11 Jul 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #69 – Jaime Diaz
Technically, writing is just the putting together of words to form sentences. However, like golf, that undersells by quite a margin the gift some have for it.
29 Jun 2022
Huggan: My U.S Open takeaway (and it’s not fish & chips)
In America, they call a column like this “takeaways.” Where I come from that means a fish supper. But no matter.
20 Jun 2022
Huggan: The U.S. Open displays what LIV can’t buy
Before the 122nd U.S. Open began, much of the chatter around The Country Club was devoted to the first LIV event. No surprise there, of course, the evolution of the Saudi-backed Tour/circuit/series has been the talk of the other Tours for months now.
19 Jun 2022
Huggan: Scheffler and Daffue – opposite sides of Kipling's coin
Rudyard Kipling might have been a golfer. Then again, maybe not. But even if he never teed-up anywhere, you get the feeling the Englishman born in India knew a thing or two about the endless vagaries of the stick-and-ball game Scotland gave to the world.
18 Jun 2022
Huggan: Tarren continues multiple U.S. Open traditions
Amongst many, one of the great traditions at the U.S. Open is that the men who shoot some of the lowest scores on day one are often enough household names. But only in their own households.
17 Jun 2022
Huggan: Major force Zalatoris keen on tough test
This week at The Country Club, Will Zalatoris will compete for only the ninth time in one of golf’s four most important events. He and they are already a more than snug fit.
16 Jun 2022
Huggan: Rahm’s (briefly interrupted) Brookline love in
He’s the defending champion. He’s been to No.1 in the world. But not that many people are talking about Jon Rahm as a possible winner of this 122nd U.S. Open. Which is surprising, but then again, not.
15 Jun 2022
Huggan: LIV Golf v the PGA Tour – the battle, pro golf needs to have
Like all the best precedents, it came early. Long before Old Tom Morris – never mind his more illustrious off-spring – strode the links of St. Andrews, the diminutive David, in a shock result of some resonance, saw-off the big, bad Goliath. So, it is with all bullies.
14 Jun 2022
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