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Find more fairways
Golf Monthly Top 50 Coach Keith Wood shares his thoughts on how best to find the short grass more often from the tee
2 min |
July 2025
Golf Monthly
Toughen up your practice
If you really want to see improvements on the course and reap the full benefits of all your hard labour, you need to challenge yourself during your practice sessions. PGA professional Joe Ferguson explains how...
3 min |
July 2025
Golf Monthly
TRIUMPHANT RETURN
Bill Elliott looks ahead to the third Open Championship at Royal Portrush in his homeland and wonders who, if anyone, can stop Scottie Scheffler adding the Claret Jug to his bulging trophy cabinet
10 min |
July 2025
Golf Monthly
HOMETOWN HERO
Fred Daly, the first Northern Irishman to win a Major, was born and bred and died in Portrush. Robin Barwick looks back on the life of a local legend
9 min |
July 2025
Golf Monthly
TIME TO SHINE
With strong recent form on the PGA Tour and a runnerup finish to his name last time at Portrush, could Tommy Fleetwood finally add the Claret Jug to his CV this July?
9 min |
July 2025
Golf Monthly
DINGLE LINKS
The long journey west, across the Dingle Peninsula, feels like it can only end with you driving into the Atlantic Ocean. But there is a final, glorious stop before you get that far.
1 min |
July 2025
Golf Monthly
Odyssey Square 2 Square Max putters £349
• The Ping Anser and the TaylorMade Spider are two of the most reinterpreted putter designs in modern golf. With the success of L.A.B. Golf's DF3 putter and the introduction of Odyssey’s newest Square 2 Square putters, perhaps the DF3 is about to join that list.
1 min |
July 2025
Golf Monthly
8 COMMON FAULTS...FIXED!
Play better golf with these simple tips and drills...
5 min |
July 2025
Golf Monthly
Adjust your set-up to drive it straighter
This is the driver set-up position that has been coached for years. Okay, I've exaggerated it a bit, but most golfers will have been taught to set the ball just inside the lead heel and lean back as here, the idea being that you must hit up on the ball with the driver. What if I told you to try something different?
1 min |
July 2025
Golf Monthly
PXG Bat Attack ZT putter £429
The second model in PXG’s Zero Torque putter collection, the Bat Attack ZT, will look to build on the momentum of the PXG Allan putter, released last year.
2 min |
July 2025
Golf Monthly
Everyone should have this club in their bag... (but very few do)
Deputy editor Joel Tadman, who plays off 2, puts the rarely used 4-hybrid up against its long-iron equivalent. Could this be just the club for you?
3 min |
July 2025
Golf Monthly
Luffenham Heath
Rutland's claim to fame is that it is England's smallest county, wedged into a triangular area just 18 miles long and up to 17 miles wide between Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Although small in size, the county does boast a very fine Harry Colt/Charles Alison heathland course that is big in stature, where golf has a real middle-of-nowhere feel to it.
1 min |
July 2025
Golf Monthly
Hilton Puckrup Hall
Jeremy Ellwood ventures down to Gloucestershire with Golf Monthly courses colleague Rob Smith for a night and round at this Hilton hotel close to Tewkesbury
1 min |
July 2025
Golf Monthly
Rhodes in dreamland after third LET win
Former Curtis Cup star Mimi Rhodes continued her extraordinary start to the 2025 Ladies European Tour season after claiming her third win in four starts at the Dutch Ladies Open.
1 min |
July 2025
Golf Monthly
Lincolnshire
Jeremy Ellwood bases himself in Skegness for three nights to mix the seaside courses close to town with the inland layout at Blankney an hour or so to the west
3 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
Time files
Oliver Wilson turned pro in 2003 and has experienced many highs and lows in his eventful career. Here, he reflects on that and the 2008 Ryder Cup, and assesses Europe's chances in New York
5 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
RIDING THE CREST OF A WAVE
Joe Ferguson sits down with Rick Shiels in Singapore to discuss YouTube golf, his partnership with LIV and what the future holds...
8 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
NIPPING AT THE HEELS
Jeremy Ellwood chooses ten of his favourites from our 'Next 100', the courses that sit just outside the Top 100 in our biennial UK&I rankings
6 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
DOUBLE DROP FORTUNE
For many of us, watching the Players Championship at Sawgrass signifies the start of spring and means the golf season is well and truly underway.
1 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
La dolce vita
Alison Root heads to beautiful Lake Garda and the magnificent QC Villa Arzaga Garda to play 27 holes of golf and enjoy some off-course pursuits...
3 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
Military connections
Five welcoming golf clubs whose roots are intertwined with the armed forces
2 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
Grand master
Rory won it, lost it, won it, lost it and finally actually won it at Augusta. Bill Elliott reflects on the sheer drama of his history-making final round
8 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
MATCH PLAY DIFFERENCES
In match play, a player and opponent compete against one another based on holes won, lost or tied.
1 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
SHOES
I love testing golf shoes.
6 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
Dromoland Castle
This plush resort has been enhancing its pristine parkland course of late. Kevin Markham returns to County Clare, on Ireland's west coast, to see how much the course has evolved
1 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
Coombe Hill
Not long after designing Worplesdon, JF Abercromby turned his attention to a beautiful plot just south of Richmond Park in London.
1 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
OITAVOS DUNES
Portugal is, quite rightly, a strong magnet for the holidaying golfer. While much of the attention is focused on the Algarve, the area around Lisbon has more than its fair share of golfing delights.
1 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
LEARN FROM SWEET- SWINGING FREDDIE
Torque is a measure of how much a shaft twists as you swing.
2 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
Long-iron versus hybrid
I recently wrote an article for the Golf Monthly website in which I picked the three best clubs I've ever owned.
2 min |
June 2025
Golf Monthly
The six-year-old iron set that won a tour player $4 million
As an equipment writer, when I'm watching golf on TV, I can't help but have one eye on the players' golf bags to see what they are plying their trade with.
4 min |