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

Matsuyama makes history at Riviera

Talor Gooch’s Masters ‘asterisk’ comment sparks backlash

STATS: MASTERS SPECIAL

Are the Rules of Golf too complicated?

How does the Official World Golf Ranking work? • There has been a lot of talk of late about LIV players not receiving world ranking points, but how does the current system actually function?

SHORT GAME: MASTERS SPECIAL

Dornoch Station • Jeremy Ellwood heads way north to get an early peek at the newly renovated Marine & Lawn hotel right beside one of the most highly regarded links courses in the world

Rethink your pitching

Hideki Matsuyama • The Japanese star won The Genesis Invitational with a final round of 62

Callum Tarren

Adidas Tour360 24 shoe £160

TaylorMade TP5 and TP5x balls from £44.99 per dozen

TORREMIRONA

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

All eyeson Augusta • For one week in April the focus of the sporting world will once again be on the year’s first Major. Bill Elliott predicts how it may all unfold…

Master of his own destiny • Ludvig Aberg only turned pro last June but he has already won twice and starred at the Ryder Cup. Will he continue to to rewrite the history books on his Major debut at Augusta?

“IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE I’VE MADE IT THIS FAR” • Sepp Straka, Austria’s first PGA Tour winner, talks about his rise to the top and why he likes to ‘expect the unexpected’ in golf

HOGAN’S LAST HURRAH • At Augusta National in 1967, 54-year-old Ben Hogan rolled back the years with an incredible back nine of 30 in the third round of his final Masters

7 WAYS TO GET OUT OF TROUBLE • Save shots by increasing your repertoire from tricky spots

Are you leaking power off the tee?

ASK THE EXPERTS

Which putting grip should I use?

Denny McCarthy • The American, who has been one of the best putters on the PGA Tour since he joined in 2017, shares his top putting tips

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Equipment

THE FIVE SIGNS YOU NEED NEW GOLF CLUBS

BEST 2024 DRIVERS

“This classic putter still gets the ball in the hole as efficiently as a modern equivalent” • Joe Ferguson rewinds the clock to test the putter that changed the course of history

BALLS

Effingham

Sweet Carolinas • With more than 1,000 courses in North and South Carolina, you will never run out of new places to explore

Split personalities • Despite their shared location, each of these clubs has two very pleasingly different courses to choose from

SIBLING RIVALRY • Kevin Markham takes a close-up look at a selection of Irish and Northern Irish golf clubs with two courses, contrasting and comparing each pair…

Suffolk • Rob Smith returns to Suffolk, a beautifully peaceful county not especially famed for its golf but where there is variety and value in abundance

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

The dream ticket

The gift that keeps on giving • Two of our intrepid writers get to savour the golf, cuisine and luxury accommodation on...