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It is amazing to think that such wonderful golf is so close to us and so few people take the time to play these great golf courses. Many of Europe’s popular holiday destinations have good golf courses, restaurants and places of interest but there is nowhere else that packs so many great courses into such […]

Cancer sucks. Golf is great. Therefore, with the help of Macmillan Cancer Support and vlogger Craig Salter, we’re using Golf to take the fight to cancer. Based on the Longest Day of Golf event that Macmillan is hosting on the 21st of June, where around the UK people get together and play 4 rounds of […]

Tiger Isn’t Back The furore surrounding Tiger Woods appearance at Augusta last week generated an expectation that would have been hard to live up to. As it happens despite the predictable failure of Woods to be competitive it turned out to be pretty good watching with the outcome in doubt until the final few minutes. […]

The Costa Del Sol was one of the first European areas to recognise the importance of golf tourism and quite rightly it markets itself as the Costa Del Golf. For years it has been the top spot for UK golfers to take a golfing holiday and it provided the model for many other regions of […]

Belgium Isn’t an obvious choice to take a golfing holiday but for those who have already discovered it its proved a worthwhile experience and is a destination that they regularly return to. If you Google ‘What is Belgium famous for?’ then Waffles, Chocolate and Beer are at the forefront of virtually every list. There are […]

Here’s the brutal truth about playing golf in the UK: There are WAY too many incredible golf courses to play and too little time to play them all! We all know how unreliable the weather can be, so it’s important to take advantage of those rays when we can and play only the best courses […]

Glencor Golf has yet again won the Feefo Gold Service award, an independent seal of excellence that recognises businesses for delivering exceptional experiences, as rated by real customers. Created by Feefo, Trusted Service is awarded only to those businesses that use Feefo to collect genuine ratings and reviews. Those that meet the high standard, based […]

After 54 holes of the AT&T event at the magnificent Pebble Beach Course very few people would have picked Ted Potter Jr as the winner. Ranked 246 in the world Potter hardly looked like a potential champion. He didn’t have the athletic physique of his rivals, nor did his golf swing look a thing of […]

The last two weeks have been good for European golf with European players winning tournaments or being in contention all over the world. Last Weekend Tommy Fleetwood won in Abu Dhabi, Jon Rahm won on the PGA Tour and Sergio Garcia won in Hong Kong. This weekend saw Rory McIlroy finish runner up in Dubai […]

All golfers are different, and they will have a preference for playing a certain type of golf course or even playing golf in a certain part of the world. Our opinions of golf courses are very often shaped by the way we have played them, the better we play the better the golf course! We […]

To most people the Masters or other Majors or the Ryder Cup are the most important golf events of 2018 and the Farmers Insurance Open starting on the 25th January at Torrey Pines would be just another tournament on the PGA Tour. That would normally be the case, but the 25th January sees the return […]

  The recent YouGov poll made the headlines when it named golf as the most boring sport to watch. Like all polls the results are based on the way the questions are framed and to whom the questions were put.  In this instance there doesn’t appear to be a distinction between watching the sport live […]