Author - Matt Cooper

European Tour • Featured

Postcards from the European Tour: The Staysure Tour’s MCB Tour Championship-Seychelles

12/22/2018 at 9:54 am

When Gary Poupenneau was a small boy he was was intrigued by the nine-hole golf course near to his family home on the largest Seychelles island of Mahe.
The...

European Tour • Featured

Postcards from the European Tour: The Staysure Tour’s MCB Tour Championship

12/10/2018 at 12:40 pm

Clark Dennis was a little dubious about making the long-haul journey for the final fortnight of his 2018 golf season.
The 52-year-old Texan had enjoyed an...

European Tour • GolfGetaways

Postcards from the European Tour: Turkish Airlines Open

11/26/2018 at 11:06 am

Eight years ago I sat at a bar with Tony Martin, one-time European Tour pro and at that time the go-to man whenever questions of golf arose in the small...

Golf Culture

R&A and partner Mercedes-Benz promote short-form golf

06/06/2018 at 9:48 am

FRANKFURT, Germany -- The R&A is going back to the future in the quest to keep golf valid in the 21st century.
In adding its support to the...

European Tour • Featured • Ladies European Tour

Mixed competition: Morocco bringing golf together

04/19/2018 at 1:01 pm

One of Morocco's greatest charms is the beguiling call to prayer of the muezzin from the minaret; his alluring cry echoing through the air, summoning the...

European Tour • Featured

When finishing second (with a bogey) counts as a win

11/05/2017 at 3:00 pm

NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt was quoted as saying, "Second place is just the first place lose,r" and it's a sentiment sportsmen and women are fond of...

European Tour • Featured

How Chase Koepka won playing the long game

11/04/2017 at 8:27 am

Just like his brother Brooks, Chase Koepka is playing the long game - just not from the tee box.
"Yeah, the length's not quite there," he says. "In fact I'm...

European Tour • Featured

Adrian Meronk: Forging the Polish golf frontier

11/04/2017 at 8:17 am

There was a time, not too long ago, when East European golf was represented by Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
Yes, that Yevgeny Kafelnikov. The former world No. 1 ranked...

European Tour

The agony and ecstasy of the Challenge Tour opportunity

11/01/2017 at 11:29 am

If, at the start of 2017, 26-year-old Duke University grad Julian Suri was setting targets for himself ahead of his debut season on the Challenge Tour, the...

European Tour

Overcoming the challenge of the European Challenge Tour

05/20/2016 at 10:55 am

It is a curiosity that Americans have helped make the Challenge Tour - the European Tour’s equivalent to the Web.com Tour - what it is today.
Because...

Ryder Cup

Italy seeks to use 2022 Ryder Cup to bring golf into the country’s mainstream

05/17/2016 at 12:07 pm

It’s often said that the Ryder Cup is golf at its most gladiatorial, and in 2022 the metaphor will never seem more apt.
Last week, the Organizing Committee...