Augusta National Reassures Promise Honouring History Of ‘The Patch’.

As true golf fans will know, the chances of ever teeing-up to play Augusta National is impossible. Even attempting to approach anywhere near the Augusta National front gates facing Washington Road and you know you’re going to be ‘hassled’ by security personnel. Though there is one golf course in sleepy Augusta, Georgia where you are welcome and where you can play golf even on the Wednesday afternoon of Masters week when the famed Masters host course at Augusta National golf course ...

Spieth Favours McIlroy To Win A Masters Before He’s Handed The Rodman Wanamaker Trophy

For seven years now good friends Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth have shared something in common. That’s how long Northern Irishman and the Texan have waited to capture the one major in their career they require to join golf’s elite Grand Slam Club. Of course, it’s been nearly a decade since 2014 when McIlroy endeared himself to Open Championship fans by winning golf’s oldest major on the windswept Royal Liverpool course laid out along the Irish Sea. McIlroy’s triumph ...

Hollywood Superstar Backs Calls To Save Inner Sydney Golf Course

How many protest petitions would get the backing of a Hollywood superstar? Well, golf-loving Mark Wahlberg has thrown his voice behind the campaign to “save” Sydney’s Moore Park Golf Course. Wahlberg was out playing the golf course this week during a working visit ‘Down Under’ for a new movie and the 52-year-old star of such movies as The Perfect Storm, Italian Job, Ted and The Other Guys just loves his golf as the Boston-born competes annual in the PGA Tour’s AT & T ...

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 ...

Fortrose & Rosemarkie GC Set-Up GoFundMe Page To Fund Enormous Storm Erosion

The Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Club located in the Highlands of Scotland, unfortunately experienced some of the worst damage in the history of the club at the end of October 2023 brought on by Storm Ciaran. Of course, Fortrose and Rosemarkie was not alone as Scottish golf clubs up and down the east coast of the Home of Golf nation also suffered damage. Unfortunately, Storm Ciaran flexed its muscles menacingly at Fortrose and Rosemarkie Golf Links, as the accompanying photographs taken ...

Gallacher, Bjorn & Manassero Among Small Few Who Competed 13-Years Ago In Bahrain

Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher will have extra strong memories in teeing-up in this week’s inagurual Bahrain Championship. The DP World Tour was last in the Middle East Island kingdom early in 2011 when Gallacher brilliantaly finished just two shots behind England’s Paul Casey in the first hosting of the Volvo Champions event. However growing unrest in the region led to the Bahrain F1 Grand Prix, and set to he held some five weeks following the Volvo hosted event, to being cancelled while ...

Bernie McGuire – Hits First Golf Shot Of 2000 At Midnight On Tonga Golf Club Course.

At the stroke of midnight, Saturday 1st January, 2000 I officially hit the first golf shot on a golf course of the new millennium. This historic golfing achievement took place on the Tonga Golf Club course in the capital of Nuku‘alofa. The nine-hole Tonga Golf Club course, and also known as the Manamo’ui Golf Course, is the only golf course on this tiny Pacific Island nation. Tonga is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising island with a total surface area of about 750 square ...