• Elite Ellise wins incredible final

    Elite Ellise wins incredible final
    Ellise Rymer was crowned English Women’s Amateur Champion at Moor Park Golf Club, after a thrilling final against Isabella Kent.
    It marks an incredible week for Lincoln golfer Rymer, who qualified for AIG Women’s Open Final Qualifying on Monday, before four days of golf in Hertfordshire in which she became a national champion, joining a list of former winners including Bronte Law and Trish Johnson.
    She said: “It’s unbelievable. I feel like I’ve worked so hard on my
  • The Phone in Your Golf Bag: What It Is Good For, and Where It Is Not

    The Phone in Your Golf Bag: What It Is Good For, and Where It Is Not
    Somewhere in the last fifteen years the mobile phone quietly became the most-used piece of equipment most amateurs carry. It is the yardage book, the scorecard, the handicap record, the tee sheet, the halfway house tab and, on the bad days, the swing camera. Nobody planned this. It happened one app at a time, and the result is that a great many golfers now rely on a device that the Rules of Golf treat with rather more caution than the average fourball does. It is worth knowing where the lines ac
  • Burns in the hot seat for the race to Claret Jug glory

    Burns in the hot seat for the race to Claret Jug glory
    After one of the more heated 24 hours in Open Championship history, it was somewhat apposite that a golfer named Sam Burns leads going into the final round at Royal Birkdale.
    On a Saturday afternoon where just 12 of the final 40 players broke par, and every one of the 78 scorecards handed in featured at least one bogey, Burns shot a five-under 65 to finish on 10 under, taking him two shots clear of Ryan Fox and Si-woo Kim.
    Second round leader Lucas Herbert scrambled a closing par to post a one-o