Like Patrick Reed and Sergio Garcia, John Catlin can also be your man to watch at the Hong Kong Golf Club later this month
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Written by Calvin Koh
Photography by AFP
In mid-August, I travelled to the Titleist Performance Institute in Oceanside, California to test the company’s two new 913 drivers. After a two-hour debrief with Titleist engineers, I joined...
With Augusta, the most famous of the all-male golfing bastions in the United States, having admitted two lady members in Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore, kindred establishments in Europe will...
Rory McIlroy has now won two majors and is the World No 1. What are your thoughts on the character he showed to bounce back from last year's Masters collapse?
Rory suffered a major setback at the...
No one needs to tell José María Olazábal, the European captain at the forthcoming Ryder Cup, that Graeme McDowell is a team man through and through. It even shows when he is in...
How much does a player’s character influence the way they play golf?
Massively, I think. Obviously it’s pretty clear when they’re in the heat of battle how their character comes...
What is your favourite tournament to work at?
The Dubai Desert Classic, with the Hong Kong Open being a close second. The course in Dubai [the Majlis at the Emirates Golf Club] is manicured for the...
The Asian Tour’s Order of Merit crown has never been won by a South African but James Barry "Jbe" Kruger is in the driver’s seat. The slightly built Kruger may seem like a kid...
He may not be the finest golfer that Hong Kong has ever produced, but Peter O'Neill's story is right up there with the best of them.
Connecticut-born O'Neill, now in his eighties, arrived in Hong...
How much does a player’s character influence the way they play golf?
I think it’s quite evident. You can read a lot from a player by watching the way he plays golf, read a lot about his...
Some people are lucky enough to take to golf like a duck to water but even so, Sunny Kang's rise is by anyone's reckoning little short of amazing.
Setting foot on a course for the first time in 2006...