The Masters Starts Tomorrow Morning, The Invitees Are Off Playing The Par-3 Contest & We Tee-Up In Augusta.
It was around 4pm on the eve of the Masters and the final preview pieces ahead of the year’s maiden major had been filed.
Those afforded invitations to tee-up in the next day’s opening round of the years maiden Major were away either competing in the Par-3 Contest or elsewhere doing what they had to do to prepare themselves for the tournament proper.
Golf’s ‘Cathedral in the Pines’, as Augusta National is fondly called, was now closed to any further practice rounds ...
MacIntyre Jokes ‘You Wouldn’t See Me For A While’ If He Won A Major.
It’s been another of top-Scot Bob MacIntyre’s enjoyable Question and Answer sessions with a host of weird and wonderful topics he shaed among his fans via his ‘X’ account.
The new World No. 14 responded close to 50 questions he answered in a Q & A session via his ‘X’ account during the course of his long-haul flight from the States to Singapore.
Questions starting with his favourite golf course in Scotland, other than the Renaissance Golf Club where he captured last ...
Scottish Golfers Declare They’re Had Enough Of Golf Balls Winding Up In Cow S***.
When they talk about sheep and/or cows being on the tees or fairways of some Scottish golf course, I know first-hand what you’re talking about.
I’ve made a couple of visits to Brora Golf Club in Scotland’s Highlands and where there is electric fencing around all the greens to keep the grazing sheep and cattle off the putting surfaces.
It’s the same also at Barra Golf Club and the UK most westerly course in the Outer Hebrides.
Though it seems those who play Brora have had enough with members ...
Council Facing Second Backlash After Blatantly Ignoring Petition & Will Cut Dalmuir Golf Club Funding
Scotland’s West Dumbartonshire Council is facing further backlash after indicating a second ‘budget meeting’ has voted to close Dalmuir Golf Club while all may not be lost.
The council had initially voted last year to close the public access golf course, located to the north of Glasgow on Scotland’s west coast however a petition disagreeing with the decision nipped that move in the bud.
However with matters seemingly sorted not to close the course and the immediate future ...
Some 60,000 Packed Into Kings Stadium Where Outside Monty Was Hitting Shots Between The Goal Posts.
This week’s Investec South African Open has returned for a first time in 15-years to the stunning Durban County Club course laid out close to the Indian Open shoreline.
Though it was 11 years ago when the now-named DP World Tour was last in South Africa’s third largest city and that was for the third and final hosting of the ‘winners only’ Volvo Champions event on this week’s host venue.
I had attended the opening Volvo Champions in 2011 in Bahrain before it was then ...
Cape Fear National – If You Love Your Golf, There’s Nothing To Fear.
There is plenty of golf courses around the globe when you mention their names, straightaway has you are thinking ‘how did the course attract that name?”
Courses such as the famed Crooked Strick where John Daly won a PGA Championship while there is host of the not-so-knowns such as the Purgatory Golf Club in Indiana, Kissing Camels in Colorado and reminding me of that photo of Michelle Wie kissing a camel, Mad Russian Golf Club and also in Colorado and Devils Knob in Virginna.
What about ...
Bushfoot GC – Terrific Irish Nine-Holes But Don’t Dare Park In Darren’s Parking Spot.
I have been asked often during the course of so many decades reporting on men’s pro golf: ‘Who is the toughest golfer you’ve ever had to work with?”.
The answer to that question is unquestionably Darren Clarke.
You see, as a freelancer I was writing for a number Irish-based outlets including the Irish Independent, the Irish Star, the Irish Examiner and Irish Golfer Magazine, so if Clarke was playing well I needed to speak with him.
Though Clarke was not always obliging, including ...
