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YOUR VIEW • The pick of the letters and emails to hit the Golf Monthly offices this month

Maiden win for Min Woo Lee at Houston Open

$8,458,072 • Amount won by LIV Golf money list leader Joaquin Niemann in the first four events of the 2025 schedule

SHORT GAME

McIlroy reaches another PGA Tour milestone

Stop pushing and pulling your putts

Have you been less inclined to play much winter golf in recent years because of the weather?

Min Woo Lee • Lee cooked up his first PGA Tour victory in Houston at the end of March

Grove of Narberth • Jeremy Ellwood heads down to Pembrokeshire to stay at this stunning independent hotel within striking distance of Wales’ oldest affiliated golf club at Tenby

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ROYAL WELLINGTON

Wayne Riley • A former member of the European Tour and two-time winner, Wayne is part of the Sky Sports golf team. He writes exclusively for Golf Monthly

Alison Root • Alison Root is Golf Monthly’s women’s golf editor. You can find her on Instagram@rootalison

Onwards & upwards • Prince’s Golf Club in Kent has seen significant investment both on and off the course in recent times…

“I’ve always thrived under the pressure of competition” • Linn Grant is one of European golf’s hottest prospects and she’s determined to give herself the best possible chance in the Majors this year…

TUNNEL VISION • Tyrrell Hatton has won three times in ten months after a three-year drought. He tells David Facey about his return to the winners’ circle and determination to make the Ryder Cup team

I BUILT BRYSON’S US OPEN-WINNING CLUBS AND ENTERED A PRO EVENT… • PGA pro and GM gear expert Joe Ferguson let his curiosity get the better of him and entered a pro event playing a full bag of Bryson DeChambeau’s actual clubs. He couldn’t win, could he?

A PEEK BEHIND THE CURTAIN • Dan Parker visits Adidas’ HQ in Bavaria to understand how golf has worked its way up the pecking order at this sporting giant…

YOUR GUIDE TO BETTER BUNKER PLAY • Learn how to master a variety of greenside shots from the sand

How to hit draws and fades

How do I play the flop shot?

Three greenside shots to add to your armoury

Thomas Bjorn • The 2018 Ryder Cup captain and 15-time DP World Tour winner on how you can get the most from your game

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EQUIPMENT

DRIVERS

THE COMFORT ZONE

IRONS

Ballybunion – Old course

North-east Donegal • As far north as Irish golf can venture, the Inishowen Peninsula boasts a 36-hole wild and wonderful masterpiece. Kevin Markham heads to beautiful Ballyliffin

No missing links • Sam Cooper’s madcap idea during the Covid years to tour the coast of Britain in a campervan and play every links course somehow turned from pipedream to reality. Here, he reflects on his adventure with his wife and their two cocker spaniels’

Drop holes • There’s nothing quite like the thrill of an elevated tee shot from way up high down to a receptive green. These five lovely par 3s offer just such thrills in abundance…

Bill Elliott • Golf Monthly’s editor-at-large and Golf Ambassador for Prostate Cancer UK

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