Alfred Dunhill Links Championship – Photo Guide

The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship is underway in Scotland. Week in week out those lucky sods blessed with the skills required to make it as a professional golfer get to play the world’s best golf courses but during the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship they are spoiled even more than usual. This week they get to play not just one, but three of the finest golf courses in Scotland and even the world. The St Andrews Old Course needs no introduction and the pros and their amateur playing partners will also be heading to the devilish Carnoustie Championship Course and the mighty Kingsbarns. We wanted to take you closer to these fantastic golf courses so here is our Alfred Dunhill Links Championship photo guide. Read more

Interactive Magazine – going for golf

For golf course reviews, exclusive golf break package deals, prize give-aways and much, much more you can do much better than the going for golf magazine.

Among others this month’s going for golf featured golf courses from morocco, the Algarve and Ireland and on top of great reviews, stunning photographs and priceless advice fantastic golf holiday deals were also on offer. There was also an extensive feature on the Solheim Cup, golf equipment reviews and the chance to win fantastic golf holidays abroad to world class golf resorts including the stunning Sawgrass Resort in the USA.

Going for golf also produces an interactive magazine meaning you can browse the fairways and keep up to date with all things golf from the comfort of your desk and you can see it here at the 19^th hole.

Click here to access the going for golf interactive magazine!

Top 5 Golf Shots – Under Pressure

Virtually every player on tour these days is good enough to shoot the lights out on the majority of the golf courses they play but it is the ability to cope with the pressure of tournament play that determines how effectively they put their sublime skills to use. Needless to say that pressure grows the further into a tournament and the closer to the title the player in question gets. For avid golf fans there is nothing quite like watching two golfing heavyweights fighting it out down the stretch come Sunday in a big tournament. In many cases this situation produces a spectacular collapse which hands the tournament to another golfer or an amazing “clutch” shot to which wins the player in question the title. Recently we saw one of the finest clutch shots of recent years at the Tour Championship as Bill Haas splashed out of a water hazard to three feet to save par and win the tournament and of course the $10,000,000 FedEx Cup. This got us thinking about the best pressure shots in golf’s history and here are five of our favourites. Read more

Great Beards of Golf

The fairways on tour are pretty fuzzy these days. This isn’t down to any grassy growth spurts or lazy green keepers; it’s down to the players on tour sporting some impressive beards. If you think this is a style revolution think again as one of our great beards of golf dates back to the 1800′s. Without further ado here are golf’s great beards. Read more

Golf and Spa Breaks – Where to take your non-golfing partner

Your FootJoys are starting to get itchy again. That golf break bug inside of you is letting it be known it needs satiating, but the big problem is your other half is feeling neglected. Not everyone can love the Auld Game (although those of us who do really cannot understand why) so where can you go that offers world class golf but also plenty of luscious non-golfing entertainments to keep the non golfer in the midst happy? Read more

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