Van Braak captures Carris Trophy

Spain’s Benjamin Van Braak Hammer produced a blistering 7-under-par 63 in the final round to win the Carris Trophy at Northamptonshire County Golf Club.
A bogey-free 18 holes including two eagles – one of which came on the final hole, ensured a fantastic victory ahead of England Golf Boys’ Squad star George Whitehead.
Scotsman Aidan Lawson led by a shot heading into the final round, but slipped away after dropping five shots through 11 holes, while Van Hammer Braak, in the grou

The Walton Heath Trophy delivered a landmark week for amateur golf as the prestigious championship celebrated record participation and record-breaking performances, with Isabella Kent and Walton Heath member Monty Holcombe producing outstanding displays to claim the women’s and men’s 2026 titles respectively.
Contested over 72 holes across Walton Heath Golf Club‘s renowned Old Course and New Course from July 21-23, this year’s championship attracted its strongest-ever dem

PRG Golf has launched its new officially licensed Guinness Collection, bringing together the world’s most iconic stout brand with one of golf’s most established accessory manufacturers.
The new collection features a range of premium headcovers, accessories and on-course essentials inspired by the heritage, character and unmistakable visual identity of Guinness, offering golfers a fresh way to celebrate the world’s most distinctive beer brand.
For PRG, the partnership carries p

Following the epic conclusion to the 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, where over 300,000 fans saw Ryan Fox’s victory with a brilliant birdie on the 72nd hole, golf fans now have just 24 hours left to enter the ticket ballot for The 155th Open at St Andrews.
The ticket ballot closes tomorrow, Friday 24 July at 3pm, and fans are being urged to enter now to avoid disappointment as the Championship prepares for its highly anticipated return to the home of golf from 11-18 July 2027.
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The Asian Tour has signed a deal with the DP World Tour and PGA Tour that will see form a new strategic alliance that will create pathways for players to compete on the DPWT through co-sanctioned events and end-of-season promotions.
The Asian Tour had been part of LIV’s ecosystem since before its first event in 2022, with the Saudi PIF funding both LIV and the Asian Tour-sanctioned International Series events. The Asian Tour served as an established ally for the controversial startup, rece

Golf Pride, a leading innovator in golf equipment and maker of the world’s most played golf grips, unveils CP, the newest addition to the ultra-soft CP collection that keeps players hands light and relaxed, even when the pressure is anything but.
As part of the trusted and beloved CP family, CP provides the tackiness and softness that players have come to love in the collection, with the addition of new enhanced features and tech for today’s modern golfer.
“For a lot of players

Golf Pride, a leading innovator in golf equipment and maker of the world’s most played golf grips, unveils CP, the newest addition to the ultra-soft CP collection that keeps players hands light and relaxed, even when the pressure is anything but.
As part of the trusted and beloved CP family, CP provides the tackiness and softness that players have come to love in the collection, with the addition of new enhanced features and tech for today’s modern golfer.
“For a lot of players

LIV Golf action returns to UK shores this week when the 11th tournament of the league’s 14-tournament schedule tees off at JCB Golf & Country Club in Staffordshire from July 23-26.
The league is making its fifth visit overall to England, having played its inaugural tournament at Centurion Club in 2022 and then again in 2023, before moving to JCB in 2023.
Last year’s LIV Golf UK event attracted over 43,000 spectators over the course of the three-day tournament, and with this year&

Ryan Fox reveals how he tamed Royal Birkdale’s fiery fairways and tricky greens to win the Open Championship
How does it feel to be Champion Golfer the Year?
Surreal, to be honest. It’s something you dream of. I used to get up in the middle of the night to watch this tournament when I was a kid back home. To even get a chance to play in it seemed like a pipe dream, so now to be an Open champion, to be the Champion Golfer of the Year, it’s unbelievable, crazy. I don’t have

Leading UK golf and leisure operator BGL is encouraging more families to discover golf this summer with the launch of a new Summer Pass designed to make the sport more accessible, engaging and affordable during the school holidays.
Available across five of BGL’s family golf venues  – Abbey Hill (Milton Keynes), Hoebridge (Woking), Ramsdale Park (Nottingham), Sidcup Family Golf (Kent) and GolfPlex (Bracknell) –the six-week pass combines unlimited adventure golf, a one-hour

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Ryan Fox ended over 60 years of hurt for New Zealand in The Open Championship when rallying from tied 56th after 36 holes to top the leaderboard at Royal Birkdale with a stunning last-gasp birdie.
Not since Bob Charles captured the Claret Jug at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 1963 has a New Zealander won golf’s greatest prize, but all those years have rolled away now that Fox, the son of All Blacks rugby legend Grant Fox, added his name to the roll call of Champion Golfers of the Year with

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

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

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

Lucas Herbert grabbed hold of a two-shot lead after an action-packed second round at The 154th Open Championship, which saw two players equal major history and Bryson DeChambeau being involved in a controversial rules decision.
DeChambeau had his strategy of playing the majors questioned before he arrived at Royal Birkdale after missing the cut at the Masters, The PGA Championship and the US Open, with the two-time major champion responding by following an opening-round 67 with a four-under 66.

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

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 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

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

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

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

Titleist’s new GTS300 mini driver, which goes on sale on July 23, features a larger, more forgiving design that the models it replaces, delivering exceptional distance, control and versatility off both the tee and turf.
The design of the new model, which has a 305cc sized clubhead, compared to the previous iterations 280cc, was heavily influenced by tour feedback, specifically from players like Justin Thomas and Cameron Young.
“We’re always looking for feedback from the best pl

The 154th Open begins at Royal Birkdale on Thursday 16 July, with the Claret Jug decided after four rounds on Sunday. It is the 11th time the Southport links has hosted the championship and the first since Jordan Spieth’s victory in 2017. Defending champion Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose and Spieth are all part of the field.
Fans checking the outright market at the best golf betting site will recognise most of the leading names, but results recorded at Birkda

Ahead of his third appearance in The Open, world no.20 Ludvig Åberg reflects on his form coming into the season’s final major, his expectations for the Championship and the unique challenges of links golf.
We’re heading into the final golf Major of the season, are you happy with your performance so far? What has been the defining moment of 2026 for you?
Yeah, I think so. Overall, it’s been a solid year. Obviously, as a competitor, you always want more. You want more good

Ask a British golfer to name a Spanish golf destination and the answers come quickly: Sotogrande, the Costa del Sol, perhaps Mallorca. All deserve their reputations. But there is a stretch of the Spanish coast that most UK players fly straight over on their way to the usual suspects, and it happens to be one of the most rewarding places in the country to swing a club. It is called the Costa Cálida, and it sits in the region of Murcia, in the south-east of Spain.
For years this has been Sp

England’s Joe Dean claimed the top spot in the inaugural Last-Chance Qualifier to secure the final place in the field for The 154th Open at Royal Birkdale.
The winner-takes-all qualifier, a new event introduced for this year’s championship, saw 12 players chase their dream of playing in The Open by competing over 18 holes of the iconic Southport links.
The 32-year-old from Sheffield held his nerve for a one-shot victory in the warm and breezy conditions to seal the final spot in the

Johan Edfors produced a bogey-free final-round 66 to overturn a three-shot overnight deficit and secure his maiden Staysure Legends Tour title at the OFX Irish Legends.
The 50-year-old, Swede finished on 17-under-par to claim victory by three shots at Carton House, with  Robert Coles finishing runner-up on 14-under-par. Emanuele Canonica, the first-round leader, completed the podium on 11-under-par.
Starting the final round three shots behind Coles, Edfors made an immediate statement with a

Tom Kim produced a links golf masterclass at The Renaissance Club to the east of Edinburgh to claim a convincing victory in the Genesis Scottish Open.
The South Korean was flawless, being the only one of the 71-strong field not to drop a single shot in the testing winds of the final round.
Six birdies in total saw him post a closing 64 for a 17 under par total, two shots clear of Min Woo Lee who carded a 67, and four clear of a group of four players, comprising Matt Fitzpatrick, Johnny Keefer, K

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