Beatrice Martin’s guide to Luxury French Golf Tours
Local Knowledge is a brand new feature on Global Golfer Magazine. We talk to local travel experts in some of the world’s leading golf destinations and bring you the inside track on where to play, stay and eat out. For the first in the series, we talk to Beatrice Martin, owner La Haute Couture du [...]
Put some trickery in your tee-time: Jeremy Dale Scoring Schools
Playing better golf is big business. We all know it. Look at the number of swing training aids on the market, from clubhead speed measurement devices to the perfect pendulum putting stroke, or the latest invention – the alignment sticks – which are nothing more than two straight pieces of coloured plastic which the pros [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
5 Secrets to Great Greens
Tim Lobb is a partner at Thomson Perrett & Lobb, the golf course design business of five-time Open Champion Peter Thomson. With the attention of the golfing world on the greens at Augusta National this week for the U.S Masters, Tim reveals his 5 secrets to creating great greens. Greens are top priority Creating outstanding [...]
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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