Golf Monthly Open 2025

neil.tappin@futurenet.com Now we are midway through the summer, it feels like a good time to hit the pause button and reflect on the progress of your golfing season so far. While we all want to shoot lower scores, I think the more insightful question for a lot of amateurs to ask is: are you enjoying your golf? A simple question but, for me, the answer is complicated. The truth is that so far this year I’ve played some of the worst golf I can remember. It all started with a bout of the unmentionables in the spring. It turns out that standing over a mid-iron with a card in your pocket knowing there’s a chance you’ll send your ball at right angles into an adjacent farmer’s field (I can picture…

Bandits at three o’clock In response to the letter from Stuart Mather (Your View, June issue) on bloated handicaps, I couldn’t agree more. My son (handicap 4) and I (12) were having a break in Scotland recently and played Troon’s Old course on a windy day. We were paired with two strangers who suggested we “play for a little something”. So, a tenner per player was the agreed stake. They announced their handicaps as 18 and 25, and the 18-handicapper then knocked it 30 yards past me down the middle on most holes! His playing partner off 25 really excelled, parring three or four holes in succession, including the famous 11th – ‘The Railway’ – meaning we needed birdie on each of those holes for a half! Just a good…

Congratulations on winning the US Open at Oakmont. How were you able to get the job done? I just tried to commit to every shot and continue to dig deep. I’ve been doing it my whole life. I think that’s been the biggest difference this year. Fortunately, I dug very deep on the back nine and things went my way. It’s just perseverance. This is a pretty all-time high for me. Can you talk us through that amazing putt on 18? I didn’t look at the scoreboard. Based on the crowd, I felt like if I two-putted, I would probably win, but I didn’t want to look because I didn’t want to play defensive. I didn’t want to do anything dumb. At my first PGA Tour win in Texas, Scott…

2,200 World ranking of Palmer Jackson when he won the HotelPlanner Tour’s Raiffeisenbank Golf Challenge by six in the Czech Republic TOP TEN EUROPEANS ON THE ROLEX WOMEN’S WORLD GOLF RANKING AS AT MID-JUNE 4 Play-off holes to separate Ryan Fox and Sam Burns in the RBC Canadian Open 182 DP World Tour events for Connor Syme to finally win in June’s KLM Open $1,243,034 Most PGA Tour prize money per event in 2025 up to Travelers Championship (Rory McIlroy) 286 Length of Patrick Reed’s albatross hole-out on the 4th in round one of the US Open 291 Kristoffer Reitan’s world ranking climb after a fine run in the spring – 392nd to 101st 232 Average yardage of Oakmont’s four par 3s in round four of the US Open WORLD…

After a gruelling four days of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Minjee Lee emerged the winner at Fields Ranch East in Texas to claim her third Major title. The Australian began the day with a commanding four-shot lead following a bogey-free 69 on Saturday. Jeeno Thitikul, who led at the halfway stage, endured a far more difficult day with a damaging 76. However, she still entered the final round as Lee’s nearest rival, with Hye-Jin Choi, Miyu Yamashita and Lexi Thompson seven back of Lee. While that appeared to leave Lee with one hand on the trophy, within six holes she was three-over-par for her round after bogeys at the 3rd, 5th and 6th. That allowed the chasing pack the chance to drag themselves into contention, and one of them,…

“I CERTAINLY HAVE TO TAKE A PRETTY HARD LOOK AT WHAT’S BEST FOR THE TEAM”Keegan Bradley still says he is undecided on being a Ryder Cup playing captain, but his win at the Travelers ‘changes the story’ “WE’RE TRYING TO GET MORE PEOPLE TO WATCH WOMEN’S GOLF AND SET-UPS LIKE THIS DON’T HELP US”Stacy Lewis said the conditions at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship made the world’s best ‘look silly’ “I THINK ANYONE ELSE WOULD TURN UP TO WORK SICK IF THEY COULD MAKE A QUARTER OF A MILLION”Harry Hall had to fight illness at the Travelers, where he ended up finishing T9th “THE SEARCH GOES ON, I GUESS. WHEN IT HAPPENS, IT WILL BE VERY, VERY SWEET”Tommy Fleetwood was philosophical after his heartbreaking PGA Tour near-miss in Connecticut…