Golf

The most revered teams competition in the world is upon us with the staging of the 2025 Ryder Cup at the fabled Bethpage Black. Luke Donald’s European team are looking to defend their crown while Keegan Bradley’s United States side are looking to make it three straight wins on home soil.   Key Stats/Skill Set Required  Driving Distance  Birdie or Better  Bogey Avoidance  Strokes Gained: Approach  Bethpage Black is a beast of a course so length from the tee is a major advantage. Giving yourself birdie opportunities – and taking them – is obviously key in match play. Bethpage Black is…

The Open de France is one of the oldest and most prestigious events on the DP World Tour, an event that traces its roots back to 1906 and has been a European Tour/DP World Tour event since 1972. Walter Hagen, Bobby Locke, Byron Nelson, Seve Ballesteros, Nick Faldo and Tommy Fleetwood highlight the star-studded list of champions.   Key Stats/Skill Set Required  Driving Accuracy  GIR  Strokes Gained: Approach  Par 5 Scoring  Bogey Avoidance  The Open de France has been played at the famed Le Golf National since 2001 but this year heads to Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Breteche just west of Paris. The…

The new PGA Tour season kicks off in California with the Procore Championship, an event won by the likes of Max Homa, Mike Weir and Stewart Cink and given a boost this year by Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley’s preference his Ryder Cup team play at Silverado.   Key Stats/Skill Set Required  Strokes Gained Tee To Green  Scrambling  Strokes Gained: Off The Tee  Strokes Gained: Approach  Going For Green  Par 4 Scoring  Bogey Avoidance  Birdie or Better  Proximity 75-100 Yards  Silverado is a resort course that is low on the difficulty scale. Form from the tee is helpful but this is…

The jewel in the crown of the DP World Tour, the BMW PGA Championship has once again attracted an all-star field from across all three Tours and it is not surprising considering the list of winners that includes Nick Faldo, Seve Balleteros, Bernhard Langer, Colin Montgomerie, Rory McIlroy and Tyrell Hatton.   Key Stats/Skill Set Required  Driving Accuracy  GIR  Strokes Gained: Approach  Strokes Gained: Tee To Green  Scrambling  Putts Per GIR  Bogey Avoidance  Wentworth has hosted this event since 1984 and is widely regarded as England’s finest parkland course. It is claustrophobic in nature, putting a premium on finding fairways and…

The Irish Open has been one by a long list of the game’s greats from Bobby Locke and Ben Crenshaw to Seve and Langer and Faldo all the way through to Rory and Rahm. With The K Club hosting this year, another quality Irish Open is on the cards.   Key Stats/Skill Set Required  GIR  Strokes Gained: Approach  Par 5 Scoring  Bogey Avoidance  Birdie or Better  The Irish Open is a nomadic event but returns to a course used previously with The K Club hosting the event in 2016 and 2023. A relatively new course opened in 2005, it is very…

We are into the Back Nine portion of the DP World Tour with a cracking field lining up at the famed Crans-sur-Siere GC in Switzerland for the unique Omega European Masters.   Key Stats/Skill Set Required  GIR  Strokes Gained: Approach  Putts Per GIR  Strokes Gained: Putting  Scrambling  Strokes Gained: Tee To Green  Birdies  The Omega European Masters has been held at the famed Crans-sur-Siere GC since 1939, making it one of the longest-standing stops on the DP World Tour. It is a unique course that is claustrophobic with small greens that prizes a strong iron game, scrambling and an ability to…

The Back Nine of the DP World Tour kicks off at the famed Belfry this week with the British Masters with the added rub of this being the final tournament before the European Ryder Cup team is named, making for a fascinating event.   Key Stats/Skill Set Required  Scrambling  GIR  Strokes Gained: Approach  Strokes Gained: Tee To Green  Putts Per GIR  Strokes Gained: Putting  Par 5 Scoring  The Belfry is a course that is a strong all-round test. Form from tee to green is crucial while you cannot succeed without a strong short game. Nailing Par 5s is really critical to…

The 2025 PGA Tour season comes to a close at East Lake this week with a much-maligned format that had been in play in recent years finally scrapped with Scottie Scheffler strongly favoured to claim his second straight Tour Championship.   Key Stats/Skill Set Required  GIR  Ball Striking  Strokes Gained: Tee To Green  Birdie or Better  Putting Average  Par 4 Scoring  Strokes Gained: Off The Tee  Strokes Gained: Around The Green  Scrambling  East Lake is very much a second-shot course that rewards tremendous ball striking. Putting well is key, as is form around the green. Those with form on Donald Ross…

We’ve reached the penultimate week of the PGA Tour season with the 50 top golfers of the year vying for glory in the time-honoured BMW Championship, an event that traces its lineage back 125 years and has produced a stellar list of recent champions including last year’s champion Keegan Bradley. Key Stats/Skill Set Required  Driving Distance  Strokes Gained: Off The Tee  GIR  Approaches: 175-200 Yards  Putting Average  Strokes Gained: Putting   Birdie or Better  Caves Valley is a Fazio design that was opened in 1991 and renovated in 2020 before the staging of the 2021 BMW Championship won by Patrick Cantlay.…

LIV’s individual season wraps up this week in Indianapolis with Chatham Hills hosting this season’s finale with Joaquin Niemann and Jon Rahm the final two contenders for this year’s individual crown.   Key Stats/Skill Set Required  Driving Accuracy  GIR  Strokes Gained: Medium Approach  Scrambling  Putting Average  Bogey Avoidance  Chatham Hills is a Pete Dye design and holds plenty of his hallmarks. Key to success here will be a strong all-round game. Finding fairways will be important as will getting out of trouble around the difficult greens.   Key Correlation Courses  TPC Sawgrass  BEST BET Talor Gooch @ $15 Talor Gooch is back…