Glenmuir's Golf Journal

Navy anchors almost everything. The rest is a question of which direction to push it. A few well-chosen colour shifts will refresh a golf wardrobe far more efficiently than replacing it.

Golf is growing faster than at any point in living memory. The more interesting story is where the new golfers are coming from, because most of them did not start on a golf course at all.

In 1920 Walter Hagen and Jim Barnes treated Deal, Sandwich and Prince's as though they were a single golf course. Once a year the Hagen 54 does the same thing on purpose, starting at twenty to six in the morning. We went along, and made the mistake of playing with hickories.

Yes, at most UK clubs, and the evidence is stronger than most golfers assume. The R&A licenses a hooded midlayer bearing the Claret Jug. The question worth asking is not whether hoodies are allowed, but which hoodie, and at which club.

It comes round every Open, Ryder Cup or Masters week. Someone points a camera at the galleries, notes that a good number of spectators are dressed much like the players, and asks why anyone would turn up to watch golf dressed to play it. The answer is more practical, and considerably warmer, than the joke allows.

Three Open venues sit within half an hour of Formby, and every visiting golfer books them first. Formby has never staged The Open and very likely never will. It is also, for a great many who make the trip, the round they talk about afterwards. Pine trees, revetted sand, a course wrapped entirely around another golf club, and a hippopotamus with a steel tooth.

The 154th Open Championship returns to Royal Birkdale from Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 July, the eleventh time the Southport links has staged golf’s oldest championship. The course the players meet this week is not quite the one Jordan Spieth won on. Here is what has changed, what happens across the eight days, and how to dress for a long day on an exposed stretch of the Merseyside coast.

A first-hand round at Sunningdale Old, the 1901 Willie Park Jr heathland design where Bobby Jones shot his perfect 66 in Open qualifying, Harry Colt made his name as an architect, and the great oak still stands watch behind the eighteenth green. A hot summer visit to the course Bernard Darwin called “incredible and indecent” and Bobby Jones simply wanted to take home.

A round at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, the Pete and Alice Dye design that hosted the 1991 Ryder Cup, the 2012 and 2021 PGA Championships, and which will host its third PGA in 2031. The course carries the highest slope rating in the United States, and on a 30mph day it earns every point of it.

A first-hand round at Harbour Town, the Pete Dye and Jack Nicklaus collaboration that opened in November 1969 with Arnold Palmer winning the inaugural Heritage. The course set among the live oaks and the Spanish moss, finishing beside the lighthouse on Calibogue Sound, that taught American golf course architecture how to think small again.

A first-hand round at Royal County Down, ranked the world’s number one course by Golf Digest for the sixth consecutive edition, paired with a closing round at neighbouring Ardglass and its fifteenth-century clubhouse. Twenty-four hours in Newcastle, County Down, and the question every golfer eventually asks: does the course live up to the ranking?

A journey along Japan’s Golden Route during cherry blossom season, from Tokyo’s astonishing golf retail to the famous Fuji Course at Kawana. A first-person account of the country where precision, patience and the acceptance of fleeting perfection define both the game and the culture.

Glenmuir and Sunderland of Scotland are pleased to announce the appointment of James Cornish as Sales Agent for South East England.

The Lanark-based golfing brand, founded in 1891, returns to fine knitwear, Scottish craftsmanship and the traditions that bring families back to the fairway.

Scotland’s oldest golf brand brings fine knitwear and quiet craftsmanship to golf's most historic championship, beginning with a curated collection for The 154th Open at Royal Birkdale.

The 131st Amateur Championship comes to Royal Liverpool and West Lancashire from 15 to 20 June 2026, with 288 players from 41 countries chasing exemptions into The Open, The Masters and the US Open. This is the championship’s record 19th staging at Hoylake. The word “amateur” is the smallest word on the trophy.

The best golfers in history weren’t just brilliant players, they were unmistakable ones. Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Seve Ballesteros, Tiger Woods, John Daly: five completely different identities, one shared instinct. They understood that what you wear on a course tells the story of who you are. This is what golf’s greatest characters can teach us about personal style.

Open Licensee Day at Royal Birkdale, weeks before the championship returns to Southport. Thirty-eight miles per hour of Irish Sea wind, a brand new par five, a new par three, the Arnold Palmer plaque, the halfway-house sausage rolls, and a caddie called Andy who promised that a well struck ball does not move in the wind.

Two of Scotland’s most significant cultural exports, born a generation apart and intertwined ever since. The history, the hip flask tradition, the distillery trails worth a detour, and what makes a good dram for the course.

Master winter golf with Glenmuir and Sunderland of Scotland’s three-layer system. This proven approach keeps you warm and mobile whilst maintaining full swing freedom, ensuring comfort and performance in cold weather.