• Fantasy, Pick-Ems, and the New Way We Follow Sport

    Fantasy, Pick-Ems, and the New Way We Follow Sport
    Not so long ago, following sport meant watching, cheering, and arguing about it in the pub afterwards. Today, for millions of fans, it means playing along. Fantasy leagues, player props, and pick-em games have turned the passive viewer into an active participant, someone with a stake in a substitute’s cameo or a journeyman’s quiet afternoon. It is one of the biggest shifts in modern sport, and golf is quietly part of it.
    The engine of that change is the pick-em boom, and platforms ha
  • The Beautiful Chaos of a Golf Major

    The Beautiful Chaos of a Golf Major
    Sunday afternoon, back nine, a major on the line. A player who has looked untouchable for three days suddenly cannot find a fairway. A four-shot lead becomes two, then one, then nothing, and a leaderboard that felt settled at lunch is a riot of red numbers by tea. There is nothing else in sport quite like it, and it is why, year after year, we cannot look away.
    Part of the pull is that you can feel the swings coming before they land, and plenty of fans like to sharpen that edge-of-the-seat feeli
  • Golf and the Great American Sporting Summer

    Golf and the Great American Sporting Summer
    Golf has always belonged to the American summer. The US Open, the long swing of the PGA Tour season, and those endless light evenings on the range make it the time of year when the game feels most alive across the Atlantic. And in 2026, golf is sharing that summer with the biggest sporting show the continent has ever staged.
    For the millions of US fans who follow more than one game, it is a gloriously crowded few months. Plenty like to add a little extra to the occasion, and for those who do, th
  • Beyond the 18th: The Quiet Art of the Golfer’s Wind-Down

    Beyond the 18th: The Quiet Art of the Golfer’s Wind-Down
    Ask any regular what golf is really about and few will start with the swing. They will talk about the walk, the company, and the hour spent in the clubhouse afterwards, pint in hand, reliving a round that was probably better in the retelling. Golf is a game, but it is also a ritual, and a big part of that ritual is how we switch off once the card is signed.
    That instinct to unwind takes many forms. Some read, some tinker with their gear, and some enjoy a spot of low-key entertainment in the even
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  • How Data Quietly Rewired Professional Golf

    How Data Quietly Rewired Professional Golf
    For a game that treasures its traditions, golf has taken to the analytics age with startling ease. The sport that once ran on a caddie’s gut and a player’s feel now runs on numbers too: strokes gained, launch angles, spin rates, and shot maps that would have baffled the greats of a generation ago. The soul of the game is untouched. The way we understand it has been rebuilt from the ground up.
    That change belongs to the fan as much as the professional. Anyone who enjoys testing their
  • Open Championship Round 1: Suber surges to early lead

    Open Championship Round 1: Suber surges to early lead
    An American took the first-round lead at The 154th Open, but it wasn’t a major champion such as Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffle, Wyndham Clark or Collin Morikawa who got off to a fast start, it was world no.122 Jackson Suber, who marked his first ever trip to England to lead field at Royal Birkdale after day one thanks to a superb five-under-par 65.
    The 26-year-old from Florida, who had never played a links course before this week, went out in a very unremarkable level-par 34, making t