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Column: If you look in the right places you can find good

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

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

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

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: The old boys speak

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

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

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

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

Morri: Thoughts from left field

Aaah the Phoenix Open. What more can be said. 12 Feb 2024
Ogilvy: The players that impressed me the most

Ogilvy: The players that impressed me the most

Like everyone else in golf, I’ve been captivated recently by the emergence and somewhat meteoric rise of Ludvig Aberg. 21 Nov 2023
Morri: The devil is in the details

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
Morri: Good for the body, great for the brain

Morri: Good for the body, great for the brain

We talk a lot about golf being great walking exercise and that’s true. But it’s more than just the body that gets a workout when you play a round. 6 Nov 2023
Ogilvy: "We cared more about the money-list than world ranking"

Ogilvy: "We cared more about the money-list than world ranking"

If there is one thing that I have never really cared about in my career it is my world ranking at any particular moment in time. 10 Oct 2023
Morri: The next wave of golf podcasters

Morri: The next wave of golf podcasters

It’s not often your two favourite pursuits meet in one project but if you live long enough and you’re a little bit lucky it can happen – as it has for me this past week. 17 Jul 2023
Ogilvy: What I've learnt returning to the Tour

Ogilvy: What I've learnt returning to the Tour

As we speak, I have had 405 starts on the PGA Tour over the course of my career. Of those, only 10 have taken place since August 2018. 12 Jul 2023
Morri: Great Expectations

Morri: Great Expectations

Fair or not fans (and by extension sponsors and media) latch on to personalities in sport and golf being a solo pursuit is more prone to hype than others. 26 Jun 2023
Morri: Distance and golf’s footprint issue

Morri: Distance and golf’s footprint issue

The potential for changes to equipment will understandably grab the limelight in discussions about the Distance Insights Report but it is elsewhere within the study that the most important work is being done. 15 Feb 2021
Why is everyone on the road so angry?

Why is everyone on the road so angry?

Why do we have such rage? And I do mean we, myself included. Why do we get so angry in situations where a resolution is very unlikely? 1 Sep 2017