As part of Ballantine’s campaign about the importance of character in golf, we interviewed some of the biggest names in the game about the moments when true character has been revealed on the golf course.
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Written by The Editors
Photography by Courtesy of the Ballantine’s Championship
It was prior to the 2010 Open Championship at St Andrews that Seve Ballesteros did an interview with the BBC’s Peter Alliss, during the course of which he quoted his old friend, Roberto De...
David Cannon has had an affinity with sports photography for as long as he can remember. When at boarding school during the early 1970s, his walls weren't plastered with magazine cut outs of scantily...
The Pro V1 is seen as a tour ball, a ball that's played by extremely good golfers. But you'd argue that it's just as well suited to the average golfer...
I'll tell you a story. Back in the early...
Congratulations on your excellent performance at the Ageas HKPGA Championship. What was it like playing with the pros – including eventual champion Jean Van de Velde – and what did you...
Graeme McDowell, Rory McIlroy, Padraig Harrington, Martin Kaymer, Lee Westwood and the rest all said much the same in that January week when Jose Maria Olazabal was announced as captain of the 2012...
Chinese Crackers in Hong Kong
With a sob in the pen, I must record that Hong Kong is worse off, golfwise, than it was thirty years ago. I mean for facilities. And this, in one of the fastest-growing...
As refreshing as it is to witness the emergence of an exciting new kid on the block, it’s even more pleasing when the player in question has risen from a challenging background or a country...
This will be the thirtieth time I've teed it up at the Masters and I'm really looking forward to returning to the challenge of Augusta. Although it's over 20 years since my win in 1988, I've played...
Your first golfing memory was watching the 1971 Masters as a 13-year-old. Eight years later you made your debut at Augusta. What are your memories of that experience?
It was very intimidating, it...
Tiger: The Awakening
The score-line of 40-30 smacked of Wimbledon rather than the Masters but that was how the then 21-year-old Tiger Woods compiled his first-round 70 in 1997. To this correspondent...