Author: Dan Murphy

Dan is a lifelong golfer since having the great fortune to grow up within 200 yards of the 5th fairway of his local 9-holer, Rawdon, in Leeds.

He attended his first Open Championship in 1988 at Royal Lytham, peering through the crowds behind the 8th green just in time to see Paul Broadhurst hole out from the fairway below for an eagle, which seemed perfectly normal at the time.

Since then, he has attended a further 27 Opens and, perhaps unsurprisingly, can recite a phenomenal number of arcane statistics about The Open – whether you ask him to or not.

Dan has a post-graduate diploma in print journalism and is an experienced writer and editor, as well being a director of NCG’s parent company.

He specialises in the golf courses of the British Isles and heads up NCG Top 100s course rankings. He is not unacquainted with links golf and is closing in on a lifetime tally of 700 courses played.

In a former life, Dan was NCG’s equipment editor. Currently in his bag are a Ping G440 Max driver, Ping G440 Thriver, Ping G440 4-wood, Ping iDi 3-iron, Ping Blueprint-S irons, Ping S259 wedges and a Ping Scottsdale Tec Ketsch Onset putter.