Garcia’s Signature Helps Save Scottish Golf Course From Closure

It’s amazing how the power of the pen and in this ‘feel good’ story a signature on a petition has helped in save a Scottish golf club from closure. Masters champ and LIV Golf star Sergio Garcia penned his signature that eventually helped save Dalmuir Municipal Golf Course, an 18 hole municipal golf course, near Clydebank to the west of Glasgow It is  the only course currently open to the public in the area, and was at risk of being reduced from 18 holes to 12 or being closing down ...

Golf’s 59 Club – Now Just One Major Men’s Tour Still Looking To Join.

American John Catlin’s stunning score of 59 on day two of the Asian Tour’s International Series Macua leaves just one of the world’s leading men’s tours still to register a sub-60 round. Catlin, 33, had posted nine birdies coming to the last, the par-5 18th and knowing that he needed an eagle ‘3’ if he was to create a first in the 59-year history of the Asian Tour. The former triple European Tour winner and also a four-time Asian Tour champion, and also now LIV ...

Players Championship – Friday March 13th, 2020 – The Darkest Day In PGA Tour History As McIlroy Emerges A Shining Light

This week we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Players Championship, the PGA Tour’s flagship event. Four years ago, this same week you could argue the Tour’s flags were virtually at half mast and with Friday the March 13th, 2020 unfolding as the darkest day in the history of the PGA Tour. Four years on, it still lives as the day the global Covid virus brought an abrupt halt to men’s golf at its highest level and also was the harbinger for all major US sports to soon follow. And in ...

Greens Staff ‘Hopping’ Mad After Kangaroos Run Riot On Melbourne Course

Greens staff were ‘hopping’ mad after the sight of a large number of kangaroos stole the tee and run riot down the fairways at the Heritage Golf & Country Club outside Melbourne in Australia. Melbourne is well-known for its famed ‘Sandbelt’ courses and while the sight of kangaroos on ‘down under’ golf courses is not uncommon, as this Aussie-born golf journalist can testify, including the sight of two kanagoos standing toe-to-toe punching each other while ...

Magnifique Matthieu Pavon Becomes First Frenchman To Win On PGA Tour

Magnifique Matthieu Pavon brilliantly captured the Farmers Insurance Open to become the first French-born golfer to win on the PGA Tour proper with his one shot success over the Torrey Pines course. Pavon, 31, incredibly birdied the last in a round of 69 to win with a 13-under and in the process earn the Touluese-born golfer a whopping $1.5m first prize cheque, a full Tour exemption to the end of 2016 while a more immediate reward for Pavon is a maiden Masters invitation. Pavon headed into the final ...

Late Jack Burke Jr & The Day I Prouldy Met Him In His Houston Office – He Shared A Masters Locker With Tiger Woods

Very sad news in learning the passing of double-major winning American John ‘Jack’ Burke Jr, just 10 days shy of his 101st birthday, and a person I had the great pleasure of meeting in his Houston office five years ago just ahead of the 2018 Masters. Burke was the son of a professional golfer, Jack Burke Sr., and capped his career winning two major titles, both in 1956, the Masters and PGA Burke also won 16 PGA Tour events between 1950 and 1963. He won four times in 1950 and five times ...

Jack Burke Jr Passes Away Aged 100 – Woods shared A Masters Locker With The Texan

Very sad news in learning the passing of double-major winning American John ‘Jack’ Burke Jr at the age of 100, and a person I had the great pleasure of meeting in his Houston office five years ago just ahead of the 2018 Masters. Burke was the son of a professional golfer, Jack Burke Sr., and capped his career winning two major titles, both in 1956, the Masters and PGA Burke also won 16 PGA Tour events between 1950 and 1963. He won four times in 1950 and five times in 1952, including ...