Cruden Bay Golf Club – Historic Battleground, Castle Ruins, Bram Stoker, Dolly Parton & A Scottish Links Gem.
Cruden Bay Golf Club can boast so many interesting tales before beginning to touch on talking about this stunning Scottish golfing gem.
The course, located on the north-east Scottish coastline, is laid out on the site of 1012 Battle of Cruden.
Perched high on a cliff top overlooking the course is the ruins of a 16th Century castle that is believed helped inspire Bram Stoker to write his famed novel, Dracula.
And there’s one hole at Cruden Bay, the par five sixth, that has been likened to ...
Luke Donald Awarded MBE But No Medal For Oympic Showing.
World No. 1 Luke Donald has been an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours but there was no medal for the Englishman after he missed the cut in the U.S. Open at San Francisco.
Donald will attend Buckingham Palace in coming months to be presented with his MBE by the Queen for his services to golf.
Donald has now spent 48 weeks atop of World Rankings since defeating then World No. 1 Lee Westwood to win the 2011 BMW PGA Championship.
The 34 year old Englishman also achieved an unprecedented ...
Woods, Toms & Furyk At One Under Par – Olympic Golf Club 1,400 Over Par.
Just three players – former U.S. Open winners Jim Furyk and Tiger Woods along with past PGA champion, David Toms – completed the opening two rounds of this year’s U.S. Open with under par two totals.
In contrast, the host Olympic Golf Club course is 1,400 over par heading to the weekend rounds of the year’s second major.
The USGA have set up the San Francisco course in such a manner to make a complete mockery of the efforts of the world’s best players.
There is no ...
Olympic’s Graveyard Of Champions Grows As USGA Continue To Make Mockery Of Leading Golfers.
It was written that ‘Golf is a good walk spoilt’.
Well a walk around the Olympic Club for two days has turned to misery for the game’s best players and it’s the USGA and not the golf course the cause for such anguish.
Oympic has made the world’s top three players look like the Three Stooges. How else do you explain three birdies between Luke Donald, Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood but for a combined 19-over par on day one of the season’s second Major.
There was ...
Rory McIlroy Joins Unwanted U.S. Open Winning Club – Now Among Seven To Miss The Cut In Defence Of The Trophy.
Rory McIlroy has now joined an unwanted U.S. Open winning members club after scores of 77 and 73 for a shock 10-over par tally.
After missing the cut by two strokes McIlroy is now among just seven players to not play all four rounds in the defence of the title.
McIlroy trudged from Olympic’s torture chamber in a distant share of 123rd place and five shots adrift of the then halfway cut of five over par.
Two missed putts at the last and Rory McIlroy now looking likely to become the seventh ...
Presnell Puts Sends ‘Southern Cross’ Flag High In San Francisco.
Alistair Presnell put the Australian ‘Southern Cross’ flag high up on the leader board and in a share of seventh place on day one of the U.S. Open.
The Melbourne-born Presnell is competing in a Major Championship for a first time and easily upstaged his more fancied compatriots with two birdies and two bogeys in a round of 70.
Presnell, 33 is competing on the secondary Nationwide Tour and qualified for the season’s second Major at a sectional qualifier in Houston.
And it was an ...
Rory McIlroy Joins Olympic’s ‘Graveyard Of Champions’.
Rory McIlroy joined Olympic’s famed ‘Graveyard of Champions’ in bogeying four of his closing five holes for a shock seven over par 77 on day one of the U.S. Open.
McIlroy ended the first day of his defence of the U.S. Open to trail 11 shots behind unsung American Michael Thompson who carded a four under par 66 to lead the field by a surprise three strokes.
Rory McIlroy splashes out of a bunker at the 7th hole on route to a shock 77. (Photo – Eoin Clarke/www.golffile.ie)
McIlroy ...
