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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I played in my first Open when I was 17 in 1934 and have had more than six decades of working with the golfing press. They always treated me very well and in my turn […]

Professional golf is probably squeaky clean nowadays, perhaps because there are TV cameras with zoom lenses everywhere and eagle-eyed commentators like Peter Alliss ready to pounce, but in the old days you had to keep […]

My golfing career was just beginning to get going in 1939, when I turned 23. But over the next six years I played only two rounds. It is difficult now to imagine the effect which […]