The Flagstick Is Here. Issue 1, Spring 2026.

We said we'd do it. Here it is.

The Flagstick is ChippedIn's seasonal dispatch — golf, the game, the industry, and the stories that sit somewhere in between. Four times a year. No corporate gloss. No filler. Just honest writing about a sport worth talking about properly. Issue 1 is eleven pages. Here's what's inside.

• The Women's Game Nobody's Talking About (But Should Be)

  Women are the fastest-growing segment of new golfers in the UK. The game is finally starting to notice. We look at what's changing, what isn't, and why the clubs that get this right now will be the ones that matter in ten years.

• We Got The Masters Field Right. We Got The Champion Spectacularly Wrong.

  We published our predictions. Rory McIlroy won by a shot at twelve under. We are choosing to move on. We did, however, get almost everything else right, and we will be leaning on that for some time.

  
  

• Open Qualifying. June. My Son on the Bag.

  A year and a half ago I was a 25 handicapper. In June I tee it up at Fulford Golf Club in York for Open Championship Regional Qualifying, with my son carrying the bag. This one means something.

  
  

• 1,000 Courses. 1,000 Days. One Ridiculous Idea.

  Something has been quietly building at ChippedIn. 1,000 different UK mainland golf courses in 1,000 consecutive days. Public launch early 2027. This is your first look.

  
  

• The Smartest Thing To Happen To Beginner Golf In Years

  Operation 36 flips the way people learn this sport completely. We explain why it works, and why we're bringing it to Stoke Rochford Golf Club.

  
  

• My Home Course. I Am Completely Unbiased. Obviously.

  A course review of Stoke Rochford Golf Club, Lincolnshire. Declared interest: I am a member. I marshal there on weekend mornings. I wrote it anyway.

  
  

• The Nineteenth Hole Is Letting The Other Eighteen Down

  Golf club food and drink is stuck in 1987. The scampi basket has been on that menu since the second Thatcher government. It does not have to be this way.

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Golf, the game, the industry. Four times a year from ChippedIn.