After his best-ever season there is more celebration ahead for red hot Chilean golfer Joaquin Niemann will ‘tie the knot’ on December 21st.
Nieman’s future wife is Christina Hellema Puga, a fellow Chilean who is into architecture, art, photography and traveling, and is studying architecture at the University de Desarrollo in Santiago, the capital of Chile.
The couple will marry after Niemann captured a 15th pro career win and third victory of this year at the PIF Saudi International ...
Graeme McDowell’s place on next year’s 2025 LIV Tour will be formally confirmed mid this week.
McDowell, who has struggled in his two seasons with the breakaway body, will again be a member of the Smash GC under the captaincy of Brooks Koepka and with fellow team members being Talor Gooch and Jason Kokrak.
It is understood the formal contract ensuring McDowell’s membership of the team will be signed on Wednesday.
“I’m super excited, all being well, to play under Brooks ...
…. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Champion Aussie golfer ended his 2024 not only revealing the pain from an aching wisdom tooth but also suffering a fourth event in his closing five tournaments where he’s had victories door slammed shut in his face at the PIF Saudi International Open in Riyadh.
Smith had written off his chances for victory despite posting a sizzling final round 62 for a 21-under-par tally on the host Riyadh.
The former Open Champion was in the clubhouse while the leading two players ...
Asian Tour Commissioner Cho Minn Thant is quietly-confident the main trio of bodies hosting men’s professional will soon return to being each on the same page.
Thant has been at the helm of golf’s third biggest tour since 2018 and having worked prior to that as the Tour’s Chief Operating Officer.
And is a hopeful sign of better times ahead, it has been the Asian Tour first to welcome members of the breakaway LIV Golf on the Asian Tour and in a move through the highly-successful International ...
It was 25th July, 2019 when it was announced Ireland and the famed Adare Manor club outside of Limerick had been chosen to play host to the 2027 Ryder Cup.
One of the first thoughts following this news was that Ireland’s own Graeme McDowell would be an ideal European Team Captain for the 46th staging of the biennial competition.
McDowell is a US Open winner, he made his Ryder Cup debut in 2008, he was a veteran of four European Ryder Cup sides, including three victorious sides in succession from ...
Double major winning Bubba Watson has ended his season missing the cut in the PIF Saudi International but as a LIV Golf team ‘owner’ he joked he’d love to see Rory McIlroy apply for a spot in his team.
Watson, 46 looks likely to be relegated from LIV competition for next year after an indifferent season for the Range Goats team leader though that has yet to be formally confirmed.
But in a bizarre scenario the double major winner is now charged with finding a ‘playing’ replacement
“My ...
…… Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Knowing him as well as I do, it was nice to shake the hand of Steve Lewton earlier this week and for a first time since the English-born golfer captured last September’s Mandiri Indonesia Open.
It had been 10 years and a month since his inaugural taste of Asian Tour success when he broke through to claim the 2014 Mercuries Taiwan Masters while Lewton’s win in Jakarta was a seventh pro tour triumph since making his pro debut in 2008.
And after posting a second ...