Nick Rodger

Here in 2023, Arizona-based McAlpine has regained his amateur status and is using a holiday in his homeland to dip his toe back into the competitive waters.

The young ’uns do not hang about these days. Rose Zhang, for instance, is only 20 but in an all-conquering amateur career, the American has obliterated her rivals and the record books in the same kind of way that the mega-meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.

From reaching a career high of 25th, Manassero would descend into the kind of bleak depths usually reserved for the humpback angler fish.

Unless you’ve been mummified and locked in a sarcophagus for the past few days – and who am I to judge what you get up to when you’re not reading The Herald? – then you’re probably aware of Michael Block.

LORNA McCLYMONT has hit such a rich vein of form over the last year or so, she just about needs a tourniquet to cope with the spurts of success.

I once got an email from a student asking for advice about getting into this writing lark. I presumed that they’d perhaps caught a glimpse

Who said you need to find the fairways to thrive at Oak Hill? Well, just about everybody to be honest. But what

The decision by Lee Westwood, Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter and Henrik Stenson to resign from the DP World Tour has ended their involvement with the Ryder Cup.

You have to make sacrifices when you play this game. Many of us, for instance, often forfeit our dignity by the time we’ve taken six to reach the apron of the first green.

YOU can’t beat our friends from across the Atlantic for declarations of unbridled enthusiasm. When Max Homa made his debut in the Genesis Scottish Open at The Renaissance last year, he thought the host venue was “awesome”.