Ed’s View

The End of the Dream for the Q School Hopefuls

Q School, generally seen as the toughest test in professional golf, got under way this week with players taking to the fairways at, amongst others, The Roxburgh Hotel & Golf Course in the Scottish Borders, De Vere Wychwood Park in Cheshire, and Ribagolfe near Lisbon, Portugal.  It’s the first of three gruelling stages that sift through hundreds of aspiring professional golfers, spitting out those who aren’t up to it (or just had a bad round). With so many phases and rounds to contend, and so few Tour Cards on offer, the process is already…Read more …

For Glove or Money?

From a very early and impressionable age (or at least as soon as you took up the game), I’m sure you will have been handed a glove and told to put it on before swinging a club in anger. The virtues of wearing a golf glove didn’t have to be explained, their use is an integral (if a little odd to the outsider) part of the game. Soon you fall into one of two categories; the first, the player that justifies the expense by proclaiming a need for additional ‘grip’ or ‘feel’; and the second, those…Read more …
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