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Hovland Tees-Up In Hawaii Looking To Join A Unique PGA Tour Club.
World No. 4 Viktor Hovland tees-up in this week’s The Sentry, and the opening event of the 2024 PGA Tour season, looking to join what would be a unique club of just four players.
Three players in the history of the Tour have captured three ‘regular’ events in succession – Tiger Woods (2008), Rory McIlroy (2014) and Dustin Johnson (2017).
Hovland ended the 2023 Tour season winning the back-to-back BMW Championship and then the Tour Championship. He was runner-up in the DP World ...
Anstruther Golf Club – Boasting One Of The Toughest Par-3s In Britain.
What is the toughest par-3 you’ve ever played?
Have you played the par-3 fifth hole at the unpretentious yet stunning Anstruther Golf Club course in the Kingdom of Fife is a decent test, playing 245-yards off the white tees.
It’s the No. 1 index hole on this nine-hole course laid-out along the Firth of Forth shoreline to the east of St. Andrews.
So, what makes this par-3, and known as ‘The Rockies’, one of the toughest par-3s in British golf.
Surely, there are other par-3s ...
Old Head – Memories From A First Visit To The Stunning Irish Golfing Gem
I’ve had to really test the ole ‘grey matter’ in posting this article of my first visit to the famed Old Head course located at the Old Head of Kinsale at the south-east corner of Ireland.
It was the Monday morning after the 2001 Murphy’s Irish Open at the Fota Island course in nearby Cork.
In a then super three Scottish newspaper coverage storyline for your golfing freelance author, Colin Montgomerie captured a third Irish Open title, storming to a five-shot success in defeating ...
Monahan’s Very Late New Year’s Eve Memo To PGA Tour Members
It was 5pm US east coast time on 31st December, 2023 and just seven hours ahead of last June’s promised deadline for full details of a landmark commercial deal that would end the war in men’s pro golf biggest controversy.
And with just seven hours to midnight Commissioner Jay Monahan thought it proper to update the Tour members with a memo.
Monahan’s memo assured the rank-and-file there has been “meaningful progress” with the Strategic Sports Group, a consortium of ...
Golf De La Bresse – Let The ‘Rooster’ In Your Game Crow.
The quintessential French town Bourg-en-Bresse lies in the eastern region of the country, north-east of Lyon and about a 100 kilometres west of Geneva in neighbouring Switzerland.
The town is known worldwide not for its golf but its poultry – Poulet de Bresse or Chicken of Bresse.
France has long enjoyed a strong association with the rooster. It’s one of the national emblems of France, the Coq Gaulois (the Gallic Rooster) decorated French flags during the Revolution. It is also the ...
D’Etretat Golf Club – A Take Your Breath Away Spectacular Normandy Clifftop Setting.
Spectacular, stunning, dramatic, breath-taking and any other ‘take your breath away’ adjective is how you can only describe sensational D’Etretat Golf Club in the Normandy region of northern France.
This 18-hole layout is laid out on relatively flat land but some 50-metres high above chalk-coloured cliffs,
overlooking the Bay of Etretat and the English Channel. It’s around a 3-hour drive north-west of Paris and some two-hours driving east along the same coastline as the ...
Orkney Golf Club – Scottish Islands Golf AGlow Amid Fields Of Heather.
If you’re not Scottish born but consider yourself a serious golfer, then you’ve no doubt visited the Home of Golf nation.
And if you’ve played many of the Scottish golfing gems then you probably are keen to savour some other of the not so well-known Scottish golf courses.
So, with this thought in mind can I recommend extending your next Scottish golfing adventure by heading to the top of the Scottish mainland, and then take the short 90-minute ferry trip to the stunning Orkney Islands.
The ...
