Mak Lok-lin reveals the times when professionals used more than just their golf game to try to overcome their opponents
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Written by Mak Lok-lin
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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...
When Chinese golfer Huang Wenyi talks about building a career from the foundations up, he knows better than most what that means.
After leaving school with few qualifications, Huang toiled for years...
How much does a player’s character influence the way they play golf?
Golf reveals the character of the person. The way that he plays is totally linked to his DNA. You look at a guy like Seve [...
Almost everywhere Darren Clarke has played since winning last year’s Open, he has been invited to bring along one or both of Alison Campbell and the Claret Jug.
To have Alison at his side...
Rickie Fowler
It has taken a while but Rickie Fowler is now living up to the hype that greeted his arrival on the PGA Tour a little over two years ago. A first tour win came in fine style at the...
For decades, these images gathered dust in a shed while their owner gave pride of place to a set of hickory golf clubs she felt sure were more valuable.
It was only when she attempted to sell the...
Golf is as integral a part of Scotland today as it was as far back as the 15th century when, the game of ‘gowf’, as it was known in those days, was banned by Parliament under King James...
In the US Open’s first hundred years, there were so few overseas winners that anyone scanning the list of champions could very easily be left with the impression that the event was closed as...
What did it say about Tom Watson’s character the way he handled the press conference after coming so close to winning the Open at the age of 59 in 2009?
I think everybody who followed golf,...
You famously slept on the beach at St Andrews on your first Open Championship appearance in 1955 because you didn't have enough money for a hotel room. How much of that experience do you remember?...