Written by Rob Jerram on Monday, 20 June 2022
Matt Fitzpatrick is a Major champion, Ryder Cup player and world top-10 golfer. But back in 2014 a then 19-year-old Fitzpatrick had only just turned pro when he sat down with TG for his first interview after leaving golf’s amateur ranks. While a lot has changed in the eight years since this interview, the Sheffield native’s victory at The Country Club...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday, 20 June 2022
Millions across the world watched as Billy Foster broke down in tears following Matt Fitzpatrick’s US Open victory at Brookline. Not only was it a first Major title for the 27-year-old golfer, but a first Major title for his caddie and fellow Yorkshireman. While Fitzpatrick had only been waiting the eight years since turning pro for the victory, it had been...
Written by Michael Catling on Friday, 18 December 2020
Meet the inspirational men and women who are smashing golf’s stereotypes and making the game more inclusive and representative. We might not like to admit it, but golf has had – and still does have – an image problem. Lee Westwood goes as far as to say that the game is “still perceived as a white activity”, while you only have to...
Thursday, 12 March 2020
Tiger Woods’ swing is ready to win more majors Before his 2019 Masters victory, Tiger Woods hadn’t won a Major since 2008. That year, he started just seven events, winning five of them (including the US Open) and finishing second at the Masters. His worst finish was a fifth-place. He’d been the world’s No.1 player almost uninterrupted for a decade. His...
Written by Kevin Brown on Tuesday, 8 February 2022
The first Irishwoman to win on the LPGA and the best Solheim Cup rookie ever, Leona Maguire won’t stop in her drive to be golf’s best. Everything Leona Maguire touches turns to gold. At least, that’s how it seems, and it’s been that way ever since she first picked up a club in her native Cavan, Ireland, 27 years ago. A stellar...
Written by Duncan Lennard on Sunday, 26 September 2021
Dustin Johnson and his team explain what you can learn from the Ryder Cup star and two-time Major champion to maximise your own potential, reduce your handicap and shoot your lowest ever golf scores. There are few golfers with more natural ability than Dustin Johnson. But after he finished 2015 ranked eighth in the world, it was beginning to look as...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday, 5 August 2021
For too long overlooked and undervalued, women’s golf is now growing at an unprecedented speed with Europe’s incredible Solheim Cup victory on US soil expected to boost it further. Georgia Hall, Catriona Matthew, Amy Boulden and Annika Sorrenstam discuss how the game builds on its recent success. It wasn’t all that long ago that a sign stood outside the clubhouse of...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday, 21 September 2020
LPGA winner, Major champion and Solheim Cup star Georgia Hall answers quick-fire questions about golf, life and plenty in-between. Georgia Hall returned to the LPGA winner’s circle for the first time since the 2018 AIG Women’s British Open as she defeated Ashleigh Buhai in a play-off to lift the Portland Classic trophy at Columbia Edgewater Country Club on Sunday. RELATED: Why women’s golf will...
Written by John Huggan on Friday, 10 July 2020
In the week he was due to defend The Open at Royal St George’s, we sat down with Shane Lowry to talk about his year with The Claret Jug, winning at Royal Portrush, growing up in Rory McIlroy’s shadow and his determination to make Padraig Harrington’s Ryder cup team for Whistling Straits. Shane Lowry doesn’t mind waiting another 12 months to...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday, 24 October 2019
After more than 25 years at golf’s top table, Lee Westwood has adopted a new relaxed approach to golf. Here the 2020 Race to Dubai champion, 25-time European Tour winner and Ryder Cup legend explains the reasons behind the change, how he sees the game’s future and reveals his one remaining goal. Lee Westwood seems a lot more relaxed these days.
Written by Michael Catling on Monday, 5 October 2020
Shoprite LPGA Classic champion, six-time Ladies European Tour winner and Solheim Cup golfer Mel Reid tackles the TG Golf Test. England’s Mel Reid won her maiden LPGA title at the ShopRite LPGA Classic, her 19-under par total enough to beat Jennifer Kupcho by two shots around the Bay Course at the Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club (watch final round highlights below). RELATED: Best Women’s...
Written by Rob McGarr on Friday, 10 July 2020
Babe Zaharias is one of the most remarkable golfers ever to play the game On July 3 1954, the great Babe Zaharias won her 10th and final career major by 12 shots at the US Women’s Open, in spite of an ongoing battle against colon cancer. Born in Texas on June 26, 1911, Zaharias would become one of the greatest athletes of...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday, 12 October 2020
BMW PGA Championship winner Tyrrell Hatton talks superpowers, golfing regrets, his love of Liverpool FC and being robbed at gunpoint… Tyrrell Hatton has had quite the year, winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational on the PGA Tour before victory at the European Tour’s flagship BMW PGA Championship made him one of the top-10 golfers in the world. We grabbed the Englishman for a...
Written by Kevin Brown on Monday, 19 October 2020
Adrian Otaegui produced a sensational final round to win the Scottish Championship at Fairmont St Andrews for his third European Tour title and first strokeplay crown. We grabbed the 27-year-old Spaniard for a quick 18 (questions) about his life and career. What is your biggest achievement in golf so far? My three European Tour victories to date – they are steps towards...
Written by Rob Jerram on Friday, 13 November 2020
Masters first round leader and Ryder Cup star Paul Casey talks golf highs and lows, fears, trantrums and crying while watching E.T! What was the lowest moment in your golf career? When I dislocated my shoulder snowboarding at the end of 2011. I didn’t think it was going to be that bad, but it ended up costing me a year’s worth of...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday, 12 October 2020
Tyrrell Hatton is enjoying the best year of his golf career, winning his maiden PGA Tour title at the Arnold Palmer invitaional and the European Tour’s flasghip BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth to move into the world’s top 10. But little over a year ago the Ryder Cup star was struggling with injury and mental demons. We sat down with...
Written by Nick Wright on Friday, 10 November 2017
Jon Rahm became World No.1 with his victory at The Memorial Tournament. In 2017, and just a year into his professional career, the Spaniard talked us through his rise and career goals. Rewind little more than a year and Spain’s Jon Rahm was just another top amateur with huge potential. Now he’s become the World no.4 with three Tour titles to...
Sunday, 21 July 2019
How much do you have in common with the world’s best golfers? On the tee this month… The Open champion Shane Lowry Have you ever rushed to the first tee? Yeah, my first year on tour at the French Open. I got my tee time wrong and made it by 30 seconds. I birdied the 1st which was quite good. Have you ever...
Written by Justin Rose on Monday, 11 May 2020
“There is an opportunity to play golf sooner than other sports. If it’s safe to do so, we have to be proactive and take that chance.” I think the penny dropped as to how serious things were becoming in March, just after they cancelled The Players. Cancelling that seemed reactive and surreal, but everyone knew it was coming and, in hindsight, shutting...
Written by TG Staff Writer on Thursday, 16 April 2020
Bryson DeChambeau is a self-confessed “golf scientist” who since making his US PGA Tour debut as an amateur at the FedEx St. Jude Classic in 2015, has developed into one of the world’s leading players. Now 26 and a five-time PGA Tour winner ranked 13 in the world rankings, DeChambeau has the golfing world at his feet and in the coming...