Unorthodox in every aspect of his professional life, Miguel Ángel Jiménez is the man of the hour almost anywhere he goes, especially in golf circles. The 53-year-old Spaniard enjoys cigars, wine and winning golf tournaments, not necessarily in that order. Louie talks to the world’s most interesting golfer
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Written by Louie Chan
Photography by Daniel Wong
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Golf isn’t just a game – it is also an industry that generates billions of dollars worldwide annually through the millions of golfers who regularly tread their favourite fairways and...
When did you start playing?
I started playing at the age of nine. We lived a few miles from a par-3 course and I used to follow my older brother, Steve, there. Steve got a summer job at the course...
About a year and a half ago, I went to TaylorMade’s 2012 product launch at the La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California. I’d been to the company’s previous six launches and...
Last October, an hour before Tim Haddon began interviewing prospective caddies for the new Laguna Lang Co Golf Club on Vietnam’s Central Coast, he knew his hiring strategy had paid off.
The...
Geoff Ogilvy is a man on a mission. The 2006 US Open champion is without a win in over two years and has, at the time of press, yet to receive an invitation to the Masters Tournament in April....
When did you start playing?
I started playing seriously – sometimes four or five times a week – in 1996 after a friend took me to the now closed driving range in Pokfulam. He had lain...
When the R&A and the USGA announced before Christmas that they were planning to ban the anchoring of putters from January 2016, not too many of the long-putter men were as philosophical as...
The golf industry hasn’t been immune to the recent economic downturn. Numerous courses and resorts have been shuttered or filed for bankruptcy and prize money on the professional tours has...
A new honours degree aimed at international students eager for a career in the golf industry has been launched by The Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) and the University of Birmingham...
Driving through the gates of Hungjao Golf Club in war-ravaged Shanghai in April 1938, Walter Hagen had a bad feeling.
Months of conflict between the occupying Japanese forces and the Chinese militia...