Westwood Wins AGW ‘Golfer Of The Year’ For Record Fourth Time
England’s Lee Westwood has been voted for a record fourth time the Association of Golf Writers (AGW) ‘Golfer of the Year’.
Westwood polled 53% of the votes of Association members to secure the 2020 ‘Golfer of the Year’ title from Germany’s and AIG Women’s Open winner, Sophia Popov who was second favourite among members with 20% of the votes.
The prestigious AGW Golfer Writers Trophy, and initially awarded in 1951, recognises the team, person or persons, resident or born in Europe, ...
Rahm Celebrates Callaway Signing With New Course Record 59.
Spaniard Jon Rahm revealed he celebrated his first outing as a Callaway staff player in shooting a new course record 59 at his home club in Arizona.
The World No. 2 will tee-off in this week’s PGA Tour Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii using Callaway clubs.
Rahm, who spent years with TaylorMade, signed a 14-club deal with Callaway that includes using an Odyssey putter and using Callaway’s Chrome Soft X golf ball.
Rahm celebrated his signing with a tweet saying:
I’m excited for 2021 ...
DJ To Head Record Field Teeing-Up In Hawaii.
World No. 1 and reigning Masters champion Dustin Johnson will lead a record field of 42 starters for this week’s first PGA Tour event of 2021 – the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii.
The event was founded in 1953 but since 1999 has been played on the Plantation Course at Kapalua on the island of Maui.
It is traditionally the PGA TOUR’s winners-only event where players qualify courtesy of their victories during the previous calendar year, however, an additional eligibility criteria was ...
Bernie Hits First Golf Course Shot Of 2000 In Tonga – Original Article Located 21-Years Later
The 21st anniversary of my historic first golf shot of 2000 on a golf course has been located. No sooner had I posted a reminder of my efforts 21-years ago and I went ‘surfing’ on the web and found my story.
The following 427-word article appeared in the Tuesday, 5th January, 2000 edition of the Daily Record.
Here is the link to the article and hereunder is the story.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Golf%3a+Record+writer+hits+the+first+golf+shot
+of+2000%3b+BERNIE+IN…-a060846340
BERNIE ...
Twenty-One Years Ago Bernie’s Historic First New ‘Millenium’ Tee Shot On A Golf Course In Tonga
Twenty-one years ago today, and in the spirit of a new Millennium, I hit the first golf shot on a golf course of this millenium at midnight on the 1st January, 2000 on the tiny Pacific Ocean island of Tonga.
I flew from Sydney via Auckland to the Tongan capital of Nuku ‘alofa.
Tonga encompasses around 170 islands of which 36 are inhabited while some 70% of the now 100,000 total population of the islands live on the main island.
So why go to Tonga to golf?
Tonga is located two-thirds of the way ...
Monte Carlo Golf Club – Thirty Years On & The Memories Return.
Thirty-years after my first and only prior visit the memories naturally came flooding back in returning the Monte Carlo Golf Club.
It was July 1990 and just two over years since my ‘career-changing’ moment in winning an all-expenses paid trip to the 1988 Players Championship in Florida.
A year later in 1989 I attended the first of now over 80 Major Championships in reporting that year on the Open Championship at Royal Troon. I then returned to Europe in 1990 for my first European Tour ...
Past Champ Lowry To Kick Start 2021 Season At Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship
Past champ Shane Lowry has confirmed he will tee-up in next month’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and the opening event of the 2021 Race to Dubai schedule.
Lowry’s 2019 victory on the National course in Abu Dhabi was the harbinger five months later when the Irishman stormed to a six-shot success in the 148th Open Championship at Royal Portrush.
“Winning in Abu Dhabi in 2019 started the best year of my career,” said Lowry.
“So, again looking forward to starting my 2021 season @ADGolfChamps ...
