Across opposite sides of the world last weekend, Ryan Fox and Lydia Ko showed emphatically why they are our two most successful and celebrated golfers. Competing against most of the world’s best, each produced golf of the highest quality. It would not have come as a great surprise if either had kicked on for a victory. Each was in the hunt for a title but neither could go low enough on the last day to notch up a win. However both finished comfortably inside the top 10 of thei

When you’re one of the world’s best golfers with two Majors to your name, going 848 days without a win of any kind would, you’d expect, prompt a raft of pessimistic thoughts to rattle around in your head. Not so said Collin Morikawa after breaking that two-and-a-half-year drought with victory in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am on the Monterey Peninsula in California. He was always sure he would win again and was good enough to believe he could, even against the best. The Pebble Beach

Some 6 or 7 years ago Patrick Reed, after one of his wins on the USPGA Tour, casually dopped into a post-round interview that he was now “One of the world’s top 5 golfers”. The problem was that the Official World Golf rankings said otherwise and had him ranked just inside the top 20. Call it ignorance or arrogance but it’s just the way Reed has always operated. Love him or leave him Patrick Reed has a unique way of making his mark on international golf. After winning the 2018