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HUGGAN: “Reed is a great player, but he’ll never be a great golfer.”
That it is a game for all ages, shapes and sizes is one of golf’s proudest boasts. It is also a sport that can be played with distinction in so many different ways. And in that respect, there is much to admire about Patrick Reed.
3 Feb 2021
The Huggan Interview: Padraig Harrington
The European Ryder Cup Captain turns 50 in August and has reserved aspirations to play the Champions Tour. Here, he reveals his dream of inspiring Tour pros of his generation by winning a fourth major and what it will take to win the Ryder Cup on US soil later this year.
25 Jan 2021
Huggan: Art vs Science
Picture the scene. In weather that was a wee bit windy and damp (okay, it was blowing a gale and the rain was coming down sideways) Tommy Fleetwood is on the par-3 14th tee at the Renaissance Club during the third round of last year's Scottish Open.
19 Jan 2021
The Huggan Interview: Michael Campbell
It is nearly 16 years since Kiwi Michael Campbell shocked the golfing world by staring down Tiger Woods to win the US Open Championship. Here, the 51-year-old reflects on the highs and lows of a much underrated career.
14 Jan 2021
The Thing About Golf Podcast #33 - Author, Tom Callahan
Tom Callahan is one of the best all-round sports writers in the world.
16 Dec 2020
Huggan: Wasted talent
Whenever I bang on about the increasingly one-dimensional nature of the play at (male) golf’s elite level, I have first to make myself clear.
4 Nov 2020
Huggan: US Open? More like “US Ajar”
Just in case you haven’t heard, the major championship we all think of as the US Open won’t be happening this year. Not really. Which, I hasten to add, is understandable in these unprecedented times.
7 Sep 2020
The Huggan Interview: Ian Poulter
One of the last Tour players to emerge from the ranks of pro-shop assistant, Ryder Cup hero and 17-time Tour winner Ian Poulter has exceeded the expectations of many, except his own. Here, he reflects on a career … not quite done yet.
25 Mar 2020
The Huggan Interview: R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers
The R&A chief sits down to talk about the biggest issues facing golf, from grass roots participation numbers to the distance debate, gender equality, slow play and the Home of Golf, St Andrews.
11 Mar 2020
Huggan: “This is a lad who has never forgotten where he came from”
As was clear for all to see in the immediate aftermath of his victory at the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa last November, Tommy Fleetwood is an emotional wee soul. Almost two years had passed since his previous win in Abu Dhabi – a near-eternity for one of golf’s top-10 players – and he was, at least briefly, quite overcome by it all.
25 Feb 2020
The Huggan Interview: Keith Pelley
The European Tour CEO is an ‘ideas man’. Here, he discusses a wide range of topics including the distance debate, the inevitability of a World Tour, appearance money and his wish to add the Australian Open to the European schedule.
24 Feb 2020
The Huggan Interview: Pete Cowen
John Huggan sits down with world-renowned coach Pete Cowen – whose clients have included Rory McIlroy, Henrik Stenson and Sergio Garcia – to talk everything golf.
10 Dec 2019
Profile: Meet “Bob from Oban”
Robert MacIntyre is not a name you might readily recognise. But this down-to-earth greenkeeper’s son might just be Scotland’s next golfing superstar.
20 Nov 2019
Exclusive: “I can still be a great player,” says Adam Scott
In this exclusive interview with Golf Australia columnist-at-large, John Huggan, Adam Scott speaks candidly about playing at home, the Presidents Cup, juggling Tour and family commitments as well as the drive to still be competitive, very competitive, beyond 40.
14 Nov 2019
Huggan: The real cost of ‘show me the money’
If you are anything like me – and if you are, get immediate psychological and psychiatric help, especially with your pitching from 75-yards or so – you have derived an enormous amount of enjoyment from the social media output of the European Tour.
17 Apr 2019
Huggan: A wager too far?
Golf and gambling have always been comfortable bedfellows, both on and off the record.
22 Feb 2019
HUGGAN: Now for something completely different
It always raises a wee smile when, during the prolonged and typically over-the-top build-ups to a Ryder Cup or a Presidents Cup – take your pick – the matches are hailed as gladiatorial contests between the “best players in the world.” They’re not. Of course they’re not. Neither of them.
4 Jan 2019
Exclusive: Bjørn Again
Thomas Bjørn committed all of his energy and focus to capturing the Ryder Cup at Le Golf National during his near two-year tenure as Europe’s captain. Now, with that mission accomplished, the Dane is back to thinking about his own game and future for the first time in a long while, as we found out from the man himself.
8 Nov 2018
Huggan: Why the Hall needs a proper home
Greetings from St. Andrews and the Senior Open Championship. Looking out from the media centre to the right of the 1st fairway on the Old Course, I can see a small tent. On the front it reads “World Golf Hall of Fame.” The actual hall is nowhere near the East Neuk of Fife of course. It is in St. Augustine, Florida, not coincidentally close to the headquarters of the PGA Tour along the road in Ponte Vedra.
1 Nov 2018
HUGGAN: Why Bjorn was right to go with Cup ‘old guard’
In the 35 years or so that have passed since the Ryder Cup began to matter to this outside the world inhabited only by golf nerds, many things have changed and emerged.
6 Sep 2018
THE BIG INTERVIEW: Ernie Els
The Internationals captain for the 2019 Presidents Cup in Melbourne talks candidly about his career – the major wins and losses, the impact of Tiger Woods, his charity work, the distance debate and the belief he has in winning again before he turns 50.
2 Jun 2018
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