Babb invests in golf magazine

FORMER Sunderland and Republic of Ireland defender Phil Babb has stepped in to save the award-winning Golf Punk magazine from closure, taking control of the publication through his company, JF Media.

Babb was an early investor in the title along with his former Sunderland team-mates Michael Gray, Thomas Sorensen, Stephen Wright and Jason McAteer, and steps in with the magazine facing financial difficulties.

With the departure in the summer of the finance director, Jonathan Stobart, a freelance who had worked for the former investor the Ingrams Partnership, it became clear that the publication was facing financial problems.