
Affordable Golf: 7 Ways to Cut Costs
A full set of new clubs can run you £800 or more at a retailer like American Golf, but plenty of golfers in the UK play solid rounds for under £20 a time. That gap…
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A full set of new clubs can run you £800 or more at a retailer like American Golf, but plenty of golfers in the UK play solid rounds for under £20 a time. That gap…

Two completely different things share the name "Druids golf", and mixing them up costs you either a wasted search or a missed bargain. One is Druids Glen, a championship parkland course in County Wicklow that's…

There are more than 40 recognised crazy golf courses stretched across the UK, from the Land's End coastline to Aberdeenshire. If you're crazy about golf and the mini-putt version of it in equal measure, that…

Luke Donald spent 56 weeks as the world's best golfer without ever lifting a major championship trophy. That single fact tells you almost everything you need to know about how he built his career: not…

A 460cc driver head sounds huge until you slice it 30 metres into the trees anyway. That's the trap most weekend golfers fall into: they buy the biggest, most expensive "forgiving" driver on the shelf…

Slice it 30 metres right, top it off the tee, or watch it balloon straight up into the wind — if that's your Saturday routine, the driver in your bag is probably fighting you. The…

Two balls sit on the same shelf at your local pro shop for £39.99 and £26.99, and most golfers grab one purely on reputation. That's the wrong way round. The callaway chrome soft vs supersoft…

Ernie Els has finished runner-up at a major nine times. Nine. That's more than plenty of Hall of Famers ever managed even once, and it's the number that tells you more about his career than…

Ask ten club golfers whether they'd rather hit a fade or a draw, and nine will say draw, chasing the extra 10-15 yards they think it buys them. That instinct is costing them strokes. The…

A round on a genuine Donald Ross-designed course for around £20 sounds like a typo. It isn't. The William J Devine Golf Course at Franklin Park, tucked into Boston's Dorchester and Roxbury borders, is one…

Slice a drive on the 5th at Boundary Oak Golf Course and you won't find it. The oaks swallow it whole, and that ball is gone for good. This is what surprises a lot of…

Tour pros carry wedges with 4 to 6 degrees of bounce and razor-thin soles because they strike the ball with a descending, precise blow every single time. Copy that setup as a 20-handicapper and you'll…

Here's the number that trips up most weekend golfers: a 90 mph swing speed and a 75 mph swing speed can both belong to "15-handicap golfers," yet one guy hits his 7-iron 150 yards and…

Titleist sells more golf balls than any other brand on the planet, and the Pro V1 is the one every pro shop assistant reaches for first when you ask "what should I be playing?" That's…

A $28 cabretta leather glove that sits in your bag for six months between rounds will dry out, crack, and lose its grip before it ever earns back its price. That's the trap most glove…

You can hit 100 balls at your local golf practice range and leave with worse habits than you started with. That's not a scare tactic — it's what happens when every shot has no target,…

Your elbow aches after every range session, and your shots still leak right. That's not a coincidence. Golf elbows — sore, achy joints from a faulty swing — are usually the same root problem as…

Anthony Kim once beat Sergio García 5&4 in Ryder Cup singles at Valhalla in 2008, then walked away from professional golf at the peak of his powers. That vanishing act made him one of golf's…

Slope rating 148. That's what Spyglass Hill Golf Course carries from the tips, a number that puts it ahead of Pebble Beach Golf Links on paper despite getting a fraction of the TV time. Say…

Your driver goes 180 yards left of where you aimed, and you've got no clue why. Sound familiar? Most golfers don't need another glossy photo of a tour pro mid-swing. They need to know why…