Golf Monthly August 2024

neil.tappin@futurenet.com As I’m sure you’re only too well aware, the British weather has served up a rather stop-start summer so far. Unreliable would be the politest way to put it and, of course, time marches on as mercilessly as ever. We already find ourselves in or approaching August 2024 depending on when you read this. For me, there are two distinct parts of the golfing season. I’m either just happy to be able to get out, play and enjoy the fresh air, or I’m trying to compete, play well and ultimately get my handicap down. Right now, it’s the latter. For those in the same frame of mind, we have a 28-page instruction supplement with this issue that’s a must-read. We’ve teamed up with Golf Monthly Top 50 Coach Ged…

Tiger’s free pass With June’s news that the PGA Tour is to allow Tiger Woods a free pass into the skewed signature events, isn’t it time that the moral high ground preposterously taken by Jay Monahan, Woods, Rory McIlroy et al is thrown out with the bath water? LIV was a pariah due to sporting integrity, they said. Well, the tour has killed that line by fiddling a way to allow a fading star – a big name but, sporting wise, an irrelevance – to play in limited-field events for however long he wants to continue picking up loose change. This does nothing to help golf and nothing to help Woods. It’s rather pathetic that the second-best golfer ever to live is accepting charity from the Tour due to the…

Congratulations on winning the Genesis Scottish Open. How much of a dream come true is that? I think I lost my voice after the scream on the 18th hole! I thought I was short. Look, I’ve put a lot into this. I’ve changed a lot within the team and I’ve worked hard. I wanted the Scottish Open badly. The crowd was unbelievable. I got a bit of luck on 16, but you need a bit of luck to win golf tournaments. I couldn’t believe it when I heard a clunk under my foot and I was standing on a sprinkler head. I got lucky with the drop; it was meant to be. Is it everything you hoped it would be? It is. I mean, the crowd support, the support of…

1,066 Weeks between Marcel Siem’s first and most recent (Italian Open) DP World Tour wins MOST LPGA TOUR WINS IN A SEASON THIS CENTURY NATIONS WITH MORE THAN ONE WIN IN CURRENT DPWT SEASON £267,609.81 Nelly Korda’s average earnings per LPGA Tour event to the end of June, including three missed cuts in 11 starts 59 Hayden Springer became the 13th PGA Tour player to shoot a 59 3.48 Scoring average on the par-3 12th at Lancaster CC in the US Women’s Open LONGEST COURSES EVER PLAYED ON THE DP WORLD TOUR (YARDS) 14 Age at which Justin Rose first tried to qualify for The Open at Scotscraig in 1995 50 Years between Bernhard Langer’s first and final DPWT events (1974-2024) 66 Years since an amateur posted back-to-back PGA Tour…

Ayaka Furue won the first Major title of her career at the Amundi Evian Championship after an eagle at the 72nd hole gave the Japanese player a one-stroke victory. Furue finished the event on 19-under following a closing 65 at Evian Resort, where she played her final five holes in five-under-par. After starting with three consecutive birdies from the 14th hole, Furue then burst past eventual runner-up Stephanie Kyriacou to clinch a dramatic and deserved success. The young Australian was in pole position to land her own first Major Championship with just a couple of holes to play, only for a costly chunked chip near the 17th green to drag her back into the pack heading down the last. With three players – including clubhouse leader Patty Tavatanakit, who had…

“I WAS HONEST AND UPFRONT ON WHY I JOINED LIV. IT WAS PURELY FOR THE MONEY”Richard Bland told Golf Monthly he is not ashamed to talk about the reasons for his switch “I’M TRYING TO CHANGE MY ATTITUDE BY BEING A BIT MORE POSITIVE. I JUST LACK A LOAD OF SELF-CONFIDENCE AT THE MOMENT… YEAH, IT’S HARD”Matt Wallace opens up on how tough pro golf can be “I THINK IT WAS QUITE RIGHT TO GO ABSOLUTELY WILD. WE DID A GOOD JOB OF THAT!”Robert MacIntyre looks back on the celebrations after his thrilling Scottish Open win “I’M GOING TO HAVE THE 12 BEST PLAYERS ON THE TEAM. I DON’T CARE WHERE THEY PLAY”New US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley hints there will be space for LIV Golf players in his team for…