Category: Journal
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The Road to Hoylake – Tales of Open Qualifying
Some childhood dreams never die. ‘Road to Hoylake’ is Matthew Moore’s attempt to lift the Claret Jug…
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Asia’s Top-10 Play and Stay Golf Resorts
Paul Myers is an Asia travel expert based in Bangkok, Thailand and publishes Asian Travel Media News. Myers shares his Top-10 play and stay golf resorts in Asia, from the world’s biggest super club at Mission Hills China – home to 10 golf courses – to Laguna Lang, the new must-visit Vietnamese resort. “For most…
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Merion Golf Club | Rubber snakes| 1-irons and Wicker Baskets
Matthew Moore takes a look at the history of Merion Golf Club, from British influences and wicker basket pins to heroic 1-irons and rubber snakes
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Inside the Guy Ropes: Glamping at The Open
In the shadow of St Andrews most expensive hotel, a vast tent city popped up for the 150th Open – I glamped at the ‘Home of Golf’
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Top 5 All Inclusive Golf Resorts in Turkey
Turkey is an excellent destination for travelers seeking an All Inclusive golf break. Here are our Top-5 golf resorts to get bang for your buck
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Classic Golf Drinks for the 19th Hole
Golf is a sport with the power to make you the hero of your own story or send you into the depths of despair. Lucky for us then that it’s quite acceptable to finish off a day’s golf with a stiff drink in the clubhouse bar – or the 19th hole as it’s best known.…
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A Love Letter to St Andrews
A love letter to St Andrews, ‘The Home of Golf’ and the Old Course. Read it, it helps with the heartbreak when you leave the ‘Auld Grey Toon’ behind.
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Why Bubba Watson is good for golf
In a sport dominated by technology, innovation, science and statistics what a refreshing change to see Bubba Watson slip on his second Green Jacket and become a double Masters Champion last night. There’s no doubt, Bubba is different to almost every modern professional golfer playing the world tours. He uses a pink driver with a…
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5 Winter Warmer Golf Breaks
If you can’t face pulling on mittens, base layers, woolly hats and a full-set of waterproofs to play winter golf on temporary greens and frosty fairways, then you need Global Golfer’s handy guide to Winter Warmer Golf Breaks. TENERIFE This volcanic Spanish isle is one of the Canary Islands and is popular holiday destination because…
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Obituary: Dave Thomas Golf Course Designer
The golfing world lost a truly brilliant son with the passing of golf course designer and former Ryder Cup player Dave Thomas this week. The Welshman died on Tuesday at home in Marbella, Spain. He was 79 and leaves behind wife Carol and sons Michael and Paul. Twice a runner-up in The Open Championship, once…
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Has Trump International Golf Links failed Scotland?
Donald Trump’s project to build the “world’s greatest golf course” on Scotland’s Aberdeenshire Coast has hit the headlines again, this time for allegedly failing to create the jobs which helped convince the government to grant planning approval. Trump Golf Links opened in July 2012, amid a whirlwind of controversy, and possibly the biggest media hype…
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Golf Over-Ruled – Masters 2013 Review
Every April, I get excited and stay up late for four nights watching every second of The Masters golf tournament. This year, after 74 holes of golf, that ebbed and flowed from downright dull to unbelievably exhilarating, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the rules of golf – not Adam Scott – were the biggest…
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Top-5 Free Golf Apps for Android and IPhone
If you own an IPhone, Android smartphone or a tablet then there are a wealth of free apps (software applications) to save you shots, improve your golf game or even give you a rules decision. Here are 5 of our favourite free golf apps. Golf Game Apps Golf has to be the ultimate sport for…
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How to play golf across an area the size of the Atlantic Ocean
Ed Butler is an Englishman obsessed with chronicling his golfing adventures using stats and data. He reached peak ‘golf nerd’ during his University years at St Andrews, the ‘Home of Golf.’ Read more to find out how he maps out his golfing miles. Is it possible to hit a golf ball across the Atlantic Ocean?…
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FORE MORE YEARS – Obama trumps Hawtree in game of golf mud-slinging
One of the fun things about following a U.S Presidential Election using social media is that you get an insight into the smear tactics and hoopla employed by some aggressive campaigners. Here at Global Golfer Magazine, we were more than tickled to hear that President Obama’s love of vacation and golf courses was a sore…
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Why changing The Old Course St Andrews is a Valley of Sin
The Global Golfer office was a dangerous place to work this week. There was a moment when hot tea spluttered and lurched through the air swiftly followed by loud banging and a torrent of rage. Nobody was hurt. I simply had an outburst. The calm of my day had been interrupted by the arrival of…
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Love it or hate it, TripAdvisor is damn big these days | Tnooz
We reported earlier on the latest research surrounding what are the top “deal breakers” for golfers when it comes to booking golf holidays and golf resort breaks. Turns out social media isn’t that big, it comes way down the list after what your friends say! Wait a minute though – there is one kind of…
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5 to play before you die – U.S.A Golf Bucket List
You’ve got weeks to live. Where are you going to tee it up before your final hole? We pick 5 of the best for our USA golf bucket list.
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Book Review: Pat Ruddy’s “The Perfect Golf Links”
Guest Blog written by Barry Ward, Editor, Posh Golf Travel – a leading guide to luxury golf resorts and destinations Those golfers aspiring to a deeper knowledge of course architecture should read what will probably become the Golf Book of The Year for 2012. It’s a visual and intellectual delight that will open the eyes, lift…
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5 Winter Warmer Golf Breaks
If you can’t face pulling on mittens, base layers, woolly hats and a full-set of waterproofs to play winter golf on temporary greens and frosty fairways, then you need Global Golfer’s handy guide to Winter Warmer getaways. TENERIFE This volcanic Spanish isle is one of the Canary Islands and is popular holiday destination because of…
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Why Tour Operators buddied up to offer bargain golf holidays
On a recent trip to Crete, Greece, I was impressed by the way local business people mucked in and worked together – especially in the middle of the country’s worst economic crisis since World War II. The Olive Oil producers ran a cooperative and so did the boat captains who ferried tourists across to Spinalonga…
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Why Portugal is still Europe’s #1 golf destination
There were no surprises at last week’s World Travel Awards when Europe’s Leading Golf Destination for 2012 was announced. Hosted at the swanky new Conrad Algarve Resort in Portugal the evening turned out to be as golden as the cliffs that line Portugal’s coastline on the Atlantic Ocean seaboard. Portugal scooped seven awards, including Europe’s…
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Golf Caddies vs Apps: Technology vs Tradition
Technology and tradition are two powerful fault lines in golf today. Battles rage between distance and shotmaking and course designers vs club engineers – but one of the most fascinating for us is the unlikely conflict brewing between career caddies and digital apps. There’s something romantic and mystical about the wizened, weather beaten face and…
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S.O.S for Scorecard Bob
Scotsman Bob Davies is, by his own admission, no world beater on the golf course. A Glaswegian by birth, Bob took to his local 9-holer to keep him busy during retirement in Melbourne, Australia. One day after finishing his round a playing partner handed him an old scorecard from New Zealand and something clicked in…
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Severiano Ballesteros | The Final Hole | Golf Poem
The “Final Hole” is a poem in honour of Seve Ballesteros (1957-2011).
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Design for Life
Jonathan Gaunt talks about his life as a golf course architect and his latest course design overlooking one of the world’s most famous Cathedrals Yorkshireman Jonathan Gaunt has been designing golf courses for over a quarter of a century. His golf footprint can be found on four continents and his portfolio includes renovating classic courses,…
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Trump full of wind in Scotland
“They may take our lives but they will not build their wind farms.” That may as well have been Donald Trump’s war cry today as he stormed into the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh claiming to have been duped by Alex Salmond. Mr. Trump, who has Scottish ancestry, has been in dispute with the Scottish government…
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Measuring a life in golf: Strokesaver CEO dies suddenly
I was saddened to read recently that Peter Schindler, CEO of Strokesaver International Management AG, died suddenly while on holiday in Dubai on March 25th. Strokesaver is the “brand” in the world of golf course guides, a name so fixed in golfers brains that it is the term used to describe yardage books and course…
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Masters Blog: Weir is Mike?
Amid the hullabaloo of this year’s Masters golf : “Tiger’s back and better than ever” Rory’s “Rites of Passages – facing up to his demons” …..the fortunes of one deserving Green Jacket owner have been cruelly overlooked by everyone except Cam Cole, the golf scribe of the Calgary Herald. The question is Weir is Mike?…
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All hail the Black Knight
If ever there was someone who physically embodied the label Global Golfer, it’s Gary Player, the small and charismatic South African. This week he was named the 10th recipient of the PGA Tour Hall of Fame lifetime achievement award. The praise and plaudits have been flowing this week and rightly so. Mr. Player has travelled…
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Historic golf photography returns to St Andrews
A rare collection of photographs owned by Old Tom Morris are to go on display for the first time this month as part of the inaugural St Andrews Golf Festival. Old Tom Morris was born in St Andrews in 1821 and is widely regarded as a pioneer of professional golf. The winner of four Open…
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Happy Birthday Bobby Jones – Greatest of them All
Personal reflections on the American Golfer Bobby Jones, the man universally considered to have accomplished the greatest feat in golf. Read on..
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Curious case of the missing Caddies
Ever since I first watched Caddyshack, a seminal 1980’s golf movie about the caddies and members of Bushwood Country Club – a typical American Private golf club – I’ve loved the idea of having my bag carried by a wily local who knows the humps, hollows, nooks and crannies of the courses I’m playing. Sadly…
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Great Scott: Talking Course Design
Global Golfer talks to course designer and author Scott Macpherson about golf course architecture and his high profile UK design at Close House in Northumberland… Scott Macpherson may be from New Zealand but he loves classic British golf courses, and has a special passion for The Old Course at St Andrews. That passion led him…
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Cobras in the Rough: an Indian Odyssey
When the European Tour landed in India last week for the Avantha Masters it beamed pictures around the world of golf in a mysterious and humid corner of Asia. If you found J.B Kruger’s win around a track with coarse grasses and burnt brownish greens compelling viewing, then you will like a new book about…
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“You always come back to what you love”
Welcome, I’m bursting with excitement writing my first blog as the Editor of Global Golfer, a brand new internet golf travel magazine I had an idea seven years ago. I would publish a golf magazine on the internet for people who shared a passion for travelling the world and playing golf. Writing prose that captures…