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Column: Remember who we are dealing with
You see it far too often and at far too many junior golf tournaments, practice facilities and in other sports as well. This means it is probably happening in the car ride home or at the dinner table, which is even more concerning.
17 Jul 2024
Ogilvy: Holes that have always struck a positive chord with me
We all have favourites. I know I do when it comes to golf holes. They are not necessarily the best par-3s, par-4s and par-5s — although I would argue that they are right up there.
16 Jul 2024
Column: If you look in the right places you can find good
Amongst the ever-changing nature of the sport this writer covers, plenty of aspects – especially in the professional game – make you shake your head.
3 Jul 2024
Opinion: Absolute mayhem at a U.S Open is long gone, so get on with it
Ah, the U.S Open.
13 Jun 2024
Opinion: Brooks the man to catch at Valhalla, not Scottie
We are a tick over a week out from the year's second men's major – The PGA Championship at Valhalla Country Club in Kentucky.
8 May 2024
Huggan: José María Olazábal – all that is best about the Masters
Understandably, he won’t feature in too many headlines at this 88th playing of the Masters Tournament.
14 Apr 2024
Huggan: LIV update… or downdate
The proud “father” that is Greg Norman came to watch his 13-strong LIV clan in action at the Masters Tournament.
13 Apr 2024
Huggan: The old boys speak
Plugging a brief gap between traditions here at the Masters, three legends of the game took their places in the interview room on Thursday morning. Having just hit their traditional tee-shots to officially open the 88th playing of golf’s so-called “rite of spring”, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson were primed to answer all the usual questions from the assembled journalists. Hey, it’s tradition...
12 Apr 2024
Huggan: State of the Augusta National nation
It really should begin with a member of the Monty Python team announcing “and now for something completely different”. But it doesn’t, of course. Instead, “Chairman Fred Ridley” does the opening honours at his own annual eve-of-Masters press conference.
11 Apr 2024
Huggan: Same old story for Augusta's Aussies
“There is no present or future – only the past, happening over and over again – now.” – Eugene O’Neill
9 Apr 2024
Morri: Golf at Riviera is golf worth watching
Watching the play at Riviera this past week once again brought the role of the golf course in tournament play sharply into focus.
19 Feb 2024
Morri: Thoughts from left field
Aaah the Phoenix Open. What more can be said.
12 Feb 2024
Morri: Please applaud Shina Kanizawa for ‘not robbing the bank’
It struck while watching the third round of the Vic Open at the weekend that there is more to ‘the quality of the golf’ at a tournament than ‘ball hitting and putt holing’.
5 Feb 2024
Hayes: For compelling golf, matchplay is the answer
For all the magic of golf, it’s often lost on those not already converts to its charms and nuances.
3 Feb 2024
Morri: Social media done right
For all its faults (and there are many, as we know) social media does at least one thing better than ‘traditional’ media ever has and that is offer direct access to the thoughts of some of the game’s best proponents.
29 Jan 2024
Morri: Does driver hold the key?
It was a throwaway line from DP World Tour player Andy Sullivan in Dubai, but it was telling about the distance debate on many levels.
22 Jan 2024
Morri: Out of the mouths of babes …
With Christmas fast approaching the temptation when one writes a regular column is to cast one’s mind back over the 12 months just passed and run through some highlights and lowlights.
18 Dec 2023
Morri: Great golf for all
There will be a time and place to continue the debate about the merits of the mixed format of the Australian Opens. But now is not that time.
4 Dec 2023
Morri: Why we adore artists like Min Woo
The brilliant win by Min Woo Lee in Brisbane at the weekend reminded me of something often said by former touring pro turned course architect and fellow magazine columnist Mike Clayton.
27 Nov 2023
Morri: If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em
Some people apparently aren’t familiar with the saying ‘if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em’.
20 Nov 2023
Morri: The devil is in the details
More than once I’ve heard golf described as chess to other sports’ chequers and if you’ve ever tried to explain the game to a non-golfer the concept will resonate.
13 Nov 2023
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