Today's Golfer

Today’s Golfer is dedicated to helping you play and buy better... We'll lower your handicap. Each issue, the magazine's team of elite coaches gives you tips that will lower your handicap - proven drills to help your driving, iron play, putting and close approach work. And if you're looking to invest in new kit, our experienced testing team brings you the first independent reviews of the latest golf clubs & accessories every issue. If you want to play abroad, ensure you read our travel advice... we'll ensure you have the golfing holiday of a lifetime. Plus: don’t miss our exclusive green fee deals and course guides. You could save a lot of money!

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Today's Golfer

INSIDE TAYLORMADE’S NEW TOUR TRUCK • What the brand’s tour stars can expect when they rock up for the DP World Tour’s biggest events

‘I DREAM OF BEING THE BEST PLAYER IN THE WORLD’

6 OF THE BEST… GOLF COAST CLASSICS PART TWO

LUKE CLANTON • Meet the hotshot American amateur who has just secured his PGA Tour card

GARMIN APPROACH R50 • Feast your eyes on the world’s first all - in - one launch monitor and golf simulator

‘CONTENT CREATORS COULD BE CRUCIAL TO THE FUTURE OF GOLF’

SEE IT, PLAY IT, DO IT

‘MY BLUEPRINT FOR BRINGING GOLF BACK TOGETHER’

YOUR VIEW

TEE TIME TIPS • The former tour player turned TV broadcaster and Tee Time Tips host shares his best fixes

WALKING THE GREEN MILE • Why 1,246 yards of cruelty will go a long way to determining the winner of the Wanamaker trophy

THE NUMBERS TO KNOW ABOUT QUAIL HOLLOW

THE MAN FOR THE BIG OCCASION • The best player never to have won a Major put that right in spectacular fashion last year, but then injury struck and disrupted Xander Schauf fele’s preparations for 2025. Now, ahead of his PGA Championship defence, Michael Catling caught up with him to discuss injuries, expectations, and his hunt for a Grand Slam

WHAT IS IT ABOUT MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS THAT BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN YOU?

‘I sulked for two weeks after the ’95 Open – then went and won the PGA’ STEVE ELKINGTON

MY TIME WITH TIGER By Steve Williams • For more than 12 years, Steve Williams was Tiger Woods’ closest confidante. They travelled the world together. Won 13 Majors together. And formed the most successful partnership in the history of professional golf. Only it didn’t last. First came the sex scandal, then the betrayal, and the two ended up not speaking for the next 12 years. Here, in two separate extracts from his brilliant new book Together We Roared, co-authored by Evin Priest, Williams reveals all about his bizarre job inter view in 1999, and how going against Tiger’s wishes led to his brutal sacking…

A SWEARY BEGINNING • How a case of mistaken identity led to an awkward exchange

THE BREAK-UP • How selfishness and a favour led to bad blood and a devastating split

10 THINGS WE LEARNED FROM READING… • TOGETHER WE ROARED

PEG PUTTING PRIMER • Set your putter back in the groove with a little help from some small, wooden friends

THE CRACKDOWN ON SLOW PLAY • A new system has revolutionised golfers’ attitudes to pace of play. In some cases, it’s even had them running down fairways…

‘MY MOVE TO LIV LOST ME FANS. I WANT TO WIN THEM BACK’ • Rick Shiels is the most talked-about person in golf right now. Alex Perry sat down with the YouTuber to discuss his high-profile move to LIV Golf

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STRONG FAIRWAY WOODS

POOR ROTATION

THE TIGHT LIE CHIP

MANAGE YOUR ROUND

FACE-TO-PATH

THE RE TURN OF PING’S SCOTTSDALE PUTTERS • Some classic shapes are back, now with added forgiveness

TITLEIST JOINS THE MINI DRIVER MARKET • The GT280...