McIlroy Admits He Needs To Smell Not The Roses But The Augusta Azaleas
Rory McIlroy was the last player to register for this year’s 88th hosting of the Masters but dmits if he’s to finally be fitted with an Augusta National members green jacket then he must smell not the roses but the azaleas.
McIlroy is contesting a 16th straight Masters since driving down Magnolia Lane for a first time since 2009 while he’s driven back out of the famed Georgia golf course with an impressive seven top-10s, including a best finish of second behind Scottie Scheffler ...
The Blue Monster Set To Test LIVs Best Ahead Of The Masters
The 2024 LIV Golf season resumes in Miami this week where a field boasting seven Masters Champions will tee-up on the famed ‘Blue Monster’ course.
The five Masters winners include Phil Mickelson, Charl Schwartzel, Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia, Patrick Reed, Bubba Watson and reigning Augusta National champion Jon Rahm.
Also in this week’s field is one of the more in-form players on the New Year in Torque GC Captain Joaquin Niemann — the season-long Individual Championship ...
Peter Malnati – Amid The Emotion & The Tears, The Joy Of A Humble New Tour Champion
Peter Malnati is not one of your ‘name’ players competing on the PGA Tour.
In fairness to the Tennessee-based golfer it was not till February 2022 when the PGA Tour announced that both Malnati and Webb Simpson had been elected by the PGA Tour’s membership to be co-chairmen of the 16-member Player Advisory Council (PAC) that many wondered who he was.
Closer observers of the game may recall October last year when Malnati ‘had a go’ at Lexi Thompson on social media when news ...
Rahm Draws On His Basque Roots In Revealing Masters Dinner Menu
Reigning Masters champ Jon Rahm has drawn on his proud Basque roots in revealing his Masters ‘Champions Dinner’ menu.
Rahm, 29, grew-up in the Spanish town of Barrika located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. It is considered one of the oldest municipalities of Biscay.
While he’s lived in the States for near on a decade, there’s no denying his proud Spanish heritage and this is borne out in this Masters menu.
And it would not surprise ...
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 ...
Laird Sees Top-20 Players Showing Sink With Two Balls Into The Drink At 17.
Scot Martin Laird saw a hopeful top-20 finish disappear into the drink after putting two balls into the water at the 71st hole of the Players Championship at Ponte Vedra in Florida.
Laird was lying at four-under for his round and six-under for the $25m flagship tournament when he doubled the par-5 11th but managed to regain the two dropped shots with birdies at 14 and the 16th.
Disaster then struck with the Denver-based Scot putting two balls into the water at the infamous par-3 island green 17th, ...
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 ...
