Ian Butcher Golf

16/04/2022

Here is a comparison of Tiger Woods’ swings from the 2022 Masters and around 20 years ago…

15/01/2022

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Ian Butcher is a PGA Professional and V1 Golf coach based at Kings Acre in Edinburgh. With a deep technical understanding of the golf swing, he teaches golfers at all levels.

11/12/2020

2015 after his win at Gullane, I got the job to take his formal suit to the Old Course hotel St Andrews because he had left it behind. The security there refused to let me in and wanted me to take it to G4 headquarters down on the beach to be tested for explosives. Hilarious. I eventually got hold of his manager and handed it over.

Oftentimes, the most revealing number in a professional golfer’s ledger isn’t one found among the many Strokes Gained categories, those statistics that speak to fairways, greens and putts, but not …

16/11/2020

Just thinking of my old pal Claude, he must be over the moon with DJ’s success. It is still hard to believe that the Scottish Golf Union ignored him whilst he was based in Scotland for a couple of years.

22/09/2020

https://www.scotsman.com/sport/golf/hamish-gorn-wins-150th-staging-gold-medal-leven-links-2978990

Aberdour player makes most of securing late entry in historic event

27/08/2020

https://www.morningread.com/news-opinion/feature/2020-08-24/lets-see-pga-tour-top-this-caper-at-olympia-fields

'Machine Gun’ Jack McGurn, a reputed hitman in Al Capone’s Chicago mob and a competitive golfer, missed the cut in the 1933 Western Open at Olympia Fields, site of this week's BMW Championship, but that was the least of his problems

21/06/2020

Reasons to like golf courses.

When it comes to golf courses, there are few people on earth who have walked more of them than Jim "Bones" Mackay. Here are his top 10 in the world.

03/05/2020

How or should you improve something in golf, and what does it mean?

10/04/2020

More thoughts on learning golf. Amusing. Both left and right.

08/04/2020

Something to think about.

07/04/2020

Jim Barnes at Temple Terrace in Florida. You can see why he could win a few things and was know as ‘long Jim’ with that action.

06/04/2020

Well this was written by an accomplished player. Bet we all can’t wait for a chance to golf and hit some balls with the tips we accumulated during the lockdown.