The 149th running of the Open Championship starts on the 11th July at Royal St. Georges in Sandwich, Kent. The leading Irish golfers have been returning to form and have had some good showings so far in 2021. We take a closer look at Shane Lowrys credentials.

We take a look at the upcoming US Open at Torrey Pines. The San Diego course last hosted the US Open in 2008 where Tiger Woods famously won with a broken leg.

Regrooving your irons, particularly your wedges can increase grip and in turn improve control and feel around the green. To get those pitch shots spinning back with your wedges you need to keep those grooves well maintained.

Regripping your clubs is a useful skill to learn and not as difficult as many people think.  Also a lot of golfers tend to let their grips wear right down on all of their clubs before changing the grips on the full set.  Instead you can change the grip on an individual club or a number of clubs when required.  This is less time consuming and cheaper.

There is no doubt that 2020 has been a year like no other in recent history. We have seen challenges like never before, yet we have managed to overcome some of them thanks to technology and the Internet.

The recent lockdown had been very difficult for all of us. We are all clinging to the hope that some restrictions may be lifted or eased a little on the 5th May, particularly those of us from the golfing community. Golf was one of the last activities to stop when the full scale lockdown came into place and by logic we are hoping it will be one of the first activities to be lifted.

Izzo have launched their latest handheld GPS unit, the Swami 6000. The new 6000 is a simple to use GPS unit whilst maintaining its value for money price tag. There have also been a number of improvements on the GPS functionality. Izzo have a reputation for designing simple, straightforward, easy to use devices and they have built on that whilst adding some useful tools and info.

There are very few of us who naturally pick up a golf club for the first time and hit it miles down the fairway! Golf like any other pursuit takes a little bit of time and patience. If you think back to when you started learning how to drive a car you probably didn’t drive like you do today!

There is only one name that comes to mind when writing our latest instalment of the Legend Series and that is The King, Arnold Palmer. The word legend can sometimes be overused or referred to somebody in passing; however this cannot be said of Arnold Palmer who really is a true golfing legend.

As golf was part of the Olympics this year the golfing schedule was amended resulting in the Ryder Cup being played slightly later in the year and the British Open and USPGA being played within two weeks of each other in July.