Irish Success

I hadn’t heard of James Sugrue until Twitter was filled with his exploits at the 124th British Amateur championship at the end of last week. Making it through the strokeplay qualifying and then matchplay, the 22-year-old plus-four handicapper from Mallow, Co...

The benefits of golf

The Benefits of Golf Golf is a great game.  I love it, but a recent conversation with a colleague made me realise that a lot of people have an outdated view of this wonderful sport and don’t realise the wide range of mental and physical benefits that it offers....

Match Play Strategy

As I played my Traders’ Cup match on Friday evening, I remembered how much fun match play can be.  Match play and stroke play are two completely different games. Match play allows for more aggressive play, no worry over a blow-up hole, or four, and arguably the...

Driving down the first!

Well, it was Captain’s Day on Saturday and what a great day that was!  I was down at the first tee for a few hours and must have seen about 80 or 90 men drive off, some more stylishly than others and some more successfully than the rest!  I think they were all...