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Huggan: Is McIlroy the best European golfer of all time?
Greetings from sunny Scotland. Which is my way of justifying – or at least explaining what follows – a shameless descent into what might be termed “parochialism”.
16 Jul 2025
Column: Rory will grab the headlines but Portrush will steal the show
Rory McIlroy arrives at Royal Portrush as the reigning Masters champion and Northern Ireland’s favourite son.
16 Jul 2025
Column: Spread the Scottish Open’s wings once again
The Genesis Scottish Open is on the horizon later this week and has become synonymous with the new Renaissance Club. In all fairness, the last two years have delivered drama.
7 Jul 2025
Ogilvy: U.S Open's toughness means testing limits
It has forever been the most controversial of the four major championships. Especially when the topic of conversation is course set-up.
12 Jun 2025
Column: The Hard Way Pays
Players breaking through in their 30s used to be as common as rain in spring.
12 Jun 2025
Ogilvy: All that really matters is what the ball does
Like just about every golfer, I suspect, I have spent my life searching for a better golf swing. It all started when I was very young, at a time when I was lucky enough to receive some vital lessons from great club professionals.
14 May 2025
Huggan: Before too long, Augusta’s mildly amusing rules gravitate to irritating
Especially for the millions of golf fans around the world who have never been fortunate enough to attend a Masters Tournament, this column has the potential to sound a bit weird, but here goes.
10 Apr 2025
Morikawa primed to pounce at the majors again
It happens in sports all over the globe.
9 Apr 2025
Ogilvy: The one time I played well enough at Augusta to actually win
“Eight times” is the response I give to a question I’m often asked: how many times did you play in the Masters? I wish it was more often, because I always felt the Augusta National course and my game were a pretty good fit.
8 Apr 2025
Huggan: Adding-up majors should never be the sole measure of ultimate worth
As recent events in the male professional game have done nothing but escalate an already tasteless emphasis on money, the suspicion here is that the historical significance of golf’s four major championships is only going to increase.
19 Mar 2025
Huggan: Confident tours wouldn't be bothered by LIV Golf
Timing, as someone once said in a moment of clarity, is everything. And rarely has that been more glaringly obvious than at the recent Dubai Desert Classic.
5 Mar 2025
Column: A stint at the Watering Hole
LIV Golf prides itself on being "Golf. But louder" and offering a party-type atmosphere for all punters rolling through the gates at The Grange in Adelaide.
15 Feb 2025
Rise of LIV Adelaide and the positive impact on a city
Punters from all corners of the globe have descended on The Grange in Adelaide for the third instalment of the event, with over 100,000 people expected through the gates this weekend.
14 Feb 2025
Ogilvy: I’d like to see a series of global swings
This is the time of year when I get asked what I’d like to see happen in golf over the next 12 months.
5 Feb 2025
Hill: Golf’s Biggest Events and Stars Delivered in 2024… thankfully
The 2024 golfing year produced some fantastic moments and some pandemonium in the most significant events.
20 Jan 2025
Column: You never tire of watching excellence in the flesh
On a bleak Melbourne afternoon, your resident writer saw a gap in the torrential downpour attempting to drown a resilient Kingston Heath on moving day at the Australian Open.
30 Nov 2024
Cleary: Moore Park fires salvo in War on Golf
The Save Moore Park Movement has fired its first salvo in the War On Golf, and come up with a plan to assuage the NSW government's desire for "green space" while still maintaining Moore Park as an 18-holer. Our man Matt Cleary nods along but reckons the movement needs bolder, grander, shorter-form vision...
11 Nov 2024
Cleary: Giving it a Nudgee. The players who brought "It" at Queensland PGA
Nudgee GC was a worthy championship venue and produced a worthy champion. Yet it was the eyes of those gunning for the title that proved the compelling entertainment in the Queensland PGA, according to Matt Cleary.
4 Nov 2024
CLEARY: PGA or LIV, major or minor, every pro golf tournament is an exhibition
One of the sledges about LIV Golf is that it’s nothing more than an exhibition of highly-paid players, out there, playing for nothing, writhing in money, what else could possibly be their motivation, it’s meaningless, an aberration, something-something, and so on. And people, in manifold ways, can make a case.
16 Sep 2024
Column: Cinderella Ko scripting her own epilogue
New Zealand's Lydia Ko has always said she won't play much high-level golf past the age of 30 and wants to go out on her own terms while loving what she is doing.
26 Aug 2024
Opinion: Creativity and chance make the Open great
There are too many fantastic aspects of the Open Championship to pen in one column.
18 Jul 2024
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