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The term “dew sweepers” in golf is normally reserved for the first group off the first tee on a cold morning. This video makes things a little more literal.
The Morning Read shared this “oddly satisfying” video of a couple of greenkeepers sweeping the dew off the green on some unnamed golf course.
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It’s bad enough that you’ve hit a golf ball into a nearby house, but what if you then you notice a man lying on the ground in his backyard, right next to your golf ball?
After this golfer hit his shot into the backyard of a house that backs on to a golf course, this dad decided to make sure he felt even worse about it.
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You’d think hitting a driver off the deck from 300 yards is hard enough. But can these European Tour golfers hit it to within 8-feet?
Another great challenge video from the marketing team at the European Tour. This time featuring four golfers trying to hit a driver off the deck from 270 metres at the 18th hole at Wentworth Golf Club.
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It looks like someone has lost their temper, but it’s really just a groundbreaking hole-in-one.
Bonnie Doon Golf Club posted this photo down their Twitter feed taken in the aftermath of a hole-in-one.
Club member Brendon Syder locked in a low tracer straight at the flagstick at the uphill par-3 15th hole and it smashed straight through the turf on its way to the bottom of the hole.
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The Open for the Ages is an incredible virtual Open Championship that will see the best golfers of the past 50 years face off against each other at The Home of Golf.
In light of the cancellation of the 2020 Open Championship due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the R&A will broadcast (July 16 – 19) an extraordinary virtual golf tournament featuring the best golfers of the last 50 years.
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Golfers playing the 18th hole at Hilton Head golf course in South Carolina got a nasty shock when they found two alligators locked in an almighty fight in the middle of the fairway.
The group of golfers told The Island Packet that they first noticed the sparring reptiles as they stepped on to the 18th tee.
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Construction of the new short course at Barnbougle is well underway with a few people involved sharing some exciting photos over the past few months.
Shaped into the ridge of dunes that surround 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th holes at Barnbougle Lost Farm, the new Coore & Crenshaw designed short course will have 13 or 14 par-3s and 4s when finished.
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Australian golfer James Nitties has had more time on his hands than usual but it hasn’t stopped him practising. Always up for a laugh, seemingly never serious, Nitties shared a video showing off some of his great indoor putting practice.
Seems legit.
https://twitter.com/JamesNitties23/status/1257716134553489409
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In a sign that people are starting to grow restless during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the golf trick shots are getting more dangerous.
It’s well known that golfers have two common dreams; one where you’re backed up against something and you have no room to play your shot, and the other is trying to play a shot, inside, through some narrow gap.
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Padraig Harrington has been spending his downtime sharing a stack of great golf tips down his Twitter feed, but one, in particular, got the attention of someone else with some time on their hands.
In Harrington’s original video, it does appear that he’s hitting golf balls into a (his?)
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