Callum Reid
Writes the destination guides — links and bucket-list courses, how to get there and what it costs — plus the travel gear that survives baggage handlers.
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Explained
Le Golf National hosts the Open de France this week, and its water-lined finish decides what goes in your bag
The DP World Tour is at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines from Thursday, on a course built out of flat farmland into an amphitheatre with water down the closing stretch. It is also one of the very few Ryder Cup venues the public can simply book — which makes what the Albatros asks of a visiting golfer worth spelling out.
By Callum Reid

Opinion
August is the worst month to play links golf and the best month to book it
Peak season sells you the calmest, busiest, priciest version of a course built entirely around wind. The golf those places were designed for arrives in the 6 weeks after the schools go back — and the tee times are being handed out right now.
By Callum Reid

