Ben Coley's profile photo

Ben Coley

Loughborough

Editor at Sporting Life

Editor, https://t.co/rwaESFNBqd. Views my own. Golf writer and tipster. I only listen to the Mountain Goats, Modest Mouse, Broken Social Scene and The National.

Featured in: Favicon sportinglife.com

Articles

  • 1 week ago | sportinglife.com | Ben Coley

    Thorbjorn Olesen could prove the man to beat at the lesser lights of the PGA Tour head to the Dominican Republic. Ben Coley has the best bets.

  • 1 week ago | sportinglife.com | Ben Coley

    Course specialist Patrick Cantlay looks poised to go close again at Harbour Town according to Ben Coley, who previews the RBC Heritage.

  • 1 week ago | sportinglife.com | Ben Coley

    Ben Coley previews the Volvo China Open at Enhance Anting GC, where Wenyi Ding and Haotong Li are among the local favourites. Golf betting tips: Volvo China OpenNo recommended betsSky Bet odds | Paddy Power | Betfair SportsbookThe DP World Tour begins its two-week stay in China at Enhance Anting GC, which as far as I can tell appears not to have hosted a tournament of any significance since it first opened some 20 years ago.

  • 1 week ago | sportinglife.com | Ben Coley

    Scroll down for today's betting tipsRory McIlroy has had opportunities, golden opportunities, to win majors: Pinehurst, St Andrews, LA Country Club. But he hasn't actually led one of them going into the final round in more than 10 years. And he hasn't led this one, the final one, since 2011. Of the five chances he's had to tee off last and fend everyone off, that final round 80, his first ever crack at it, is the only time he's failed.

  • 1 week ago | sportinglife.com | Ben Coley

    Rory McIlroy leads the Masters, with history awaiting if he can see it through on Sunday and become a grand slam champion. Ben Coley reflects on day three. When people say, as they've often said, that Rory McIlroy's best golf is the best, it upsets some other people. That's not unreasonable. This is one of the rawest forms of recency bias we have in golf analysis. Nobody says it on one of those rare days that he's struggling.

Contact details

Socials & Sites

Try JournoFinder For Free

Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.

Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →

Coverage map

X (formerly Twitter)

Followers
40K
Tweets
111K
DMs Open
Yes
Ben Coley
Ben Coley @BenColeyGolf
10 Apr 25

Last player to lead by four after day one of the Masters? Justin Rose.

Ben Coley
Ben Coley @BenColeyGolf
10 Apr 25

Just to return to this... it's genuinely insane isn't it. This is Augusta! I don't care, in fact I think it's fantastic, but it's AUGUSTA. They might actually throw him out and tell him never to come back. Bloke took a piss on the course ffs. Of all the things to have happened.

Jack Milko
Jack Milko @jack_milko

While I was in the grandstands overlooking the 13th green and 14th tee, Jose Luis Ballester had to take relief... but not for what you think. Immediately after playing his 3rd shot, he sprinted toward the tributary and urinated about 60 yards short of the green and into the

Ben Coley
Ben Coley @BenColeyGolf
10 Apr 25

RT @KylePorterNS: I believe the U.S. Amateur champion is saying he peed in Rae's Creek today. https://t.co/QqGMkmk5d4