Avian golf hazard
In the first round of the Egyptian Open, I played with John Jacobs. The fairways were nice and lush but the greens were made from very coarse-bladed grass and were very grainy. Your ball made […]
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Shall we have a split Jim?
In match play tournaments it quite often happens that the finalists, if they know each other well and are evenly matched, will agree to split the prize money between them. Although they will still play […]
Improvement in the lot of the professional golfer
In 1949 I reckoned I had a good chance of achieving my main golfing ambition – winning the Open. It was being held at Royal St George’s at Sandwich and to give myself every chance […]
The lost breed of Cockney caddie
Although pros today are playing fine golf, the fun seems to have gone out of the game. The huge prize money they are playing for seems to be grinding them down. It is such a […]
In the days of hickory shafts
I am often asked about the old players I saw as a boy; what kind of men they were and how they swung. The most important point to get straight is that everybody was playing […]
Ordeal at Royal Portrush for 1951 Open triumph
I had a premonition about the Open in 1951. As soon as I arrived in Portrush I knew that something big was about to happen for me and for the whole of that fortnight I […]
Take care shaking hands with one of the old pros
My father, Gus Faulkner, began his career at the age of 17 in 1910, when be became 7th assistant to the great James Braid at Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey. Although he would find […]
The curse of slow play
I have been watching the professional game into the millennium and one of its biggest curses is slow play. People say the root cause is the much bigger prize money but I think it is […]
The secret behind the 1957 Ryder Cup victory
British and Irish golf professionals spent most of their lives in the decades following WWII playing tournaments on inland courses which were totally different to the links courses used for the Open and for many […]
Golf can get to us all
Amateurs and professionals are united in the fact that we both find golf an exasperating game. When things start to go wrong and our scores begin to fall badly below our expectations, then it is […]
Max Faulkner 