Golf’s Major Meltdowns – Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

We all know the pressures golf can pile on your shoulders, especially when you have a good score going when you reach the 18^th tee! Imagine how you would feel if you were in a similar situation but with the added distractions of thousands of people watching from the side of the fairways, hundreds of thousands of dollars in the balance and a whole nation watching from the comfort of their arm chairs! Not many of us would be able to cope with such scrutiny but the pros seem to have the knack for doing so…well most of the time anyway! Following Kyle Stanley’s meltdown on the final hole of last week’s Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines we thought we would take a look at five of the biggest meltdowns golf has ever seen. You wouldn’t wish a meltdown on anyone but they do make for good TV! Read more

2012 Major Championships – Ready for Launch

Who will be heading up the leaderboards at this year’s Major Championships? Let’s have a look into our dimpled crystal ball… Read more

A look back at the 2011 Golf Season

Despite the absence of the man who has defined golf over the last decade and a half, 2011 was a barnstorming year of golf. We were treated to some of the finest displays by the top guys on tour throughout the year as well as an unprecedented number of breakthrough wins. Despite infinite highs during the season the golfing world also experienced a terrible loss, following the tragic passing of the legendary Seve Ballesteros.

One could argue that Tiger’s absence made the game more exciting as rookies one left, right and centre and the battle for the world number one spot raged on right through the year with not just two, but four or five guys scrapping it out to reach the summit of the golfing world. However potentially the greatest golfer to ever play the game was never far from the headlines and typically he had to have the last laugh by winning his first event in two years at the Chevron World Challenge.

As golf fans look forward to 2012 where we will hopefully see a resurgent Tiger take on the ‘new breed’ for the first time, we take a look back at the good, the bad and the ugly from 2011. Read more

McIlroy heads for the Horizon

US Open Champion Rory McIlroy has announced that he has officially parted company with Andrew ‘Chubby’ Chandler and ISM in favour of a move to the Dublin-based Horizon Sports Management.

McIlroy had been with ISM ever since turning pro four years ago. Since that day the young Ulsterman has shot to the forefront of world golf and is now one of the leading lights in the game, especially after his memorable win at this year’s US Open. Read more

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

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