In 1860, eight professional golfers gathered at Prestwick Golf Club to play three rounds of its 12-hole course and contest the very first Open Championship. The idea was simply to find out who the best golfer was, following the passing of Allan Robertson. The title of being The Champion Golfer [...]

Lahinch Golf Club is known as the St Andrews of Ireland — a County Clare links laid out by Old Tom Morris, redesigned by Dr Alister MacKenzie, and restored by Dr Martin Hawtree. In September 2026 it hosts the 51st Walker Cup. In this video, we celebrate it's story. Founded [...]

Tom visits the Titleist Performance Centre at Woburn Golf Club for a complete custom wedge fitting with Will Harvey, the Vokey Wedge Representative on the DP World Tour. The fitting explores the differences between wedge loft, bounce and grind, and demonstrates how the correct sole configuration can transform the shots [...]

Royal Birkdale has a unique architectural lineage. Founded in 1889, the course as we recognise it today did not take shape until 1932, when the club set out to create the first purpose-built championship links course. Three generations of the Hawtree family have since shaped and refined the links, followed [...]

100 years ago, one of the strongest sides ever assembled travelled across on the RMS Berengaria from New York to Southampton to play in the 4th Walker Cup. The trip would allow the likes of Jones, Ouimet, and Sweetser to play in the Open Championship and The Amateur; however, as [...]

Seaton Carew stands apart for a number of reasons. Some might think its because of the unique 22 holes on site, facilitating a number of layouts throughout the year, or the fact it's a pure links course shaped by Dr Alister MacKenzie, but most importantly it's serves as a beacon [...]

Much like the Sunningdale Foursomes or the Halford Hewitt, the Cookie Jar Spring Meeting has become something of a curtain raiser to the season for many of golf’s biggest nerds. This year, we were fortunate enough to stage it at Birkdale and Formby, just three months before The Open returns [...]

We’ve been drawn to the links of Wallasey Golf Club for quite some time. Situated on the rugged edge of the Wirral peninsula, it is a club steeped in the very fabric of golfing lore. Not only is it the proud birthplace of the Stableford scoring system - pioneered by [...]

Sam and Tom set the sat nav due east for two days of golf across East Anglia. First up is Sheringham, one of the Top 100 courses in England, where we sample some of the most dramatic coastline you can play alongside in British golf. After an overnight stay in [...]

In the swampy marshlands of North Florida, Pete Dye was tasked with the impossible: creating architectural theatre from a site once home only to alligators and rattlesnakes. The result was the Stadium Course, a modern temple of golf that felt entirely alien to the "pretty" aesthetic of its era. While [...]