Huge undulating, sloped greens are lightning fast. Another legend, Sam Snead, joked: “I put a dime down to mark my ball and the dime slipped away.” It was seeing a Sarazen putt run off an Oakmont green at the 1935 championship that inspired Edward Stimpson to invent the measuring device known as a “Stimpmeter” to...
There are 722,000 golfers affiliated to England Golf through clubs and the number is continuing to rise. Since November 2020, 38m handicap scores have been submitted to the federation’s central database, with 10m in the last year alone. Players do not have to be a member of a club to gain a handicap, and the...
Peel L&P A bid has been made for the 2035 Ryder Cup to be held at Hulton Park “If you build it, he will come.” Those famous whispered words inspired Kevin Costner’s farmer character in the film Field of Dreams to turn a cornfield in rural Iowa into a baseball field. But can a similar...
But the final group of McIlroy, Shane Lowry and Sepp Straka were regularly held up by the group in front, with Tom Kim particularly culpable. The young Korean – regarded as one of the game’s exciting prospects – took so long over so many shots, including his second to the sixth which he sprayed into...