I bet you weren't actually wondering why we've removed it. Because you probably never went there... You see, the news section, if I'm being honest, was an attempt to get the search engines to love us more, and it didn't work. The problem is there were two types of article on there. Those written purely by me, and those written largely by Claude. You can tell the difference. The ones I wrote were short (a bit like this blog), and to the point, with perhaps a slightly amateurish look about them. The ones that Claude wrote were eloquent, good looking, flowed well, classy layout etc.

Google's search engine looked at the articles I wrote, and thought, "too short, not enough words", so didn't think much of them. It then looked at the ones written by Claude and thought, "AI wrote that" so didn't think much of them either.

As for the humans, well we all do a lot less reading these days anyway - we are more likely to ask AI to go find the answers by reading things for us and summarising so we can carry on with our doom-scrolling.

So, I've taken the executive decision to stick to our roots and our principles and provide a useful tool for golfers. If google want to index us, or AI want to cite us and send the occasional user our way, then great! In the meantime, if you've read this far, you're in the minority, so well done, and please tell your golfing buddies all about us.