Bernhard Langer’s ability to consistently overcome his career struggles with the putting yips are so well documented, that the smart money would always have been on him finding yet another technical solution to this year’s changes in the laws surrounding anchoring — but it is not as simple as that.

Last year, Jordan Spieth posted one of the best seasons in the entire history of golf when winning five times.

This week, the final major of the year, the PGA Championship returns to one of America’s most famous venues, the Lower Course at Baltusrol.

All sports have their great days and after the recent debacle surrounding the Olympics, the world of golf needed something positive this week.

In a sport with many big egos, tunnel visions and platitudes, it will be wonderful today to witness two of the “good guys” in the game, Phil Mickelson and Henrik Stenson, going head to head at the Open Championship.

IT’S HARD to imagine a better opportunity for the players to ease their way into the Open Championship than yesterday, writes John McHenry.

The drama of knowing a particular game like Ireland’s famous victory over Italy will be remembered forever only adds to the occasion, writes John McHenry.

While it was a statement I suspected was coming for some time, there is no doubt that yesterday’s decision by Rory McIlroy to pull out of the Olympic Games has greatly undermined the efforts of the world’s golfing organisations to re-introduce golf into the games after a 112-year absence.