Golf is more than a game.
For many of us, it’s a lifestyle. It’s how we challenge ourselves, connect with people, explore landscapes and intersect with fashion, food, culture, art and style.
Global Golfer
Is an independent golf media platform dedicated to the joy of travel.
Join us on a series of handpicked adventures, created by a collective of writers with deep passion for golf. Our storytelling is a counter point to traditional golf media and its formulaic diet of tour news, tips and equipment reviews.
We go in search of the soul of the game, freely sharing what we find. We aim to inspire: through curated recommendations, insights, profiles and advice on where to stay, play, eat and explore.
Founder – Matthew Moore
Global Golfer was founded and bootstrapped by British journalist Matthew Moore in 2011.
He began his media career at CNN and has reported extensively on travel, features, news and gear for Golf Monthly, the UK’s oldest golf magazine.
His wanderlust was inspired by experiences on a golf scholarship at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and as a Bobby Jones Memorial Scholar at Emory University, Atlanta, U.S.A.
This life-changing exchange program celebrates the achievements, legacy and life of Bobby Jones and encouraged Matthew to travel North America, learn and engage deeply with communities, individuals, organisations and ideas.
His year of discovery took him to 30 U.S. states – from Niagara Falls to Tinsel Town – came with membership of East Lake Golf Club, a gallery guard position at The Masters Tournament and a meeting, over English breakfast tea, with the 39th President of the United States, President Jimmy Carter.
Matthew has played over 500 golf courses, including Augusta National, Pine Valley, Shinnecock Hills, National Golf Links of America, Merion, Pinehurst #2, The Old Course, Muirfield, Prestwick, Birkdale, Lytham and Hoylake. He keeps these experiences alive by collecting yardage books and course guides.
He now lives in North East England, holds a scratch handicap and has won five club championships.
Many of the stories here are first-person journeys, travelogues and hand-picked adventures, including the time he holed-in-one at Augusta, slept under the stars at the 150th Open and had a close encounter with cobras in the rough on the Indian subcontinent.
“The idea for an alternative golf travel magazine came from an old, cracked leather chair, in the corner of the pro shop at my childhood club.
Matthew Moore
People sat for hours, talking golf, sharing stories – about courses they’d played, people they’d met and trips they had planned.
Listening quietly to these tales was an education and taught me that, deep down, golfers are a community of like-minded storytellers who love to roam.”
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