Nicklaus Backing McIlroy To Finish On Top In Fall’s Rescheduled Masters.
One of Rory McIlroy’s biggest supporters is still the greatest name in golf – Jack Nicklaus.
McIlroy first met Nicklaus in March 2009 in a Palm Beach Gardens, Florida shopping centre car park. It was two months after McIlroy had captured a maiden European our title at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic and McIlroy, and acommpanied by his father, was competing in his very first ‘regular’ PGA Tour event having accepted an invitation to tee-up that week in the Honda Classic.
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What’s Happening With Augusta’s Other Green Jacket Ceremony?
What happening with Augusta’s other ‘Green Jacket’ other ceremony everyone is now demanding.
The Masters has been rescheduled for November but what about that other ‘Major’ – then one just a mile down Washington Road in Augusta, Georgia.
It’s a major that needs no formal invitation, there’s former champions dinner, no roped-off areas while you’re allowed to use your mobile phones without of fear of being pounced upon by over-zealous Pinkerton’s National Security ...
Restoring Laguna Golf Lăng Co To Its Former Golfing Pride.
In meeting Adam Calver, it’s impossible to miss his naturally sunny disposition. Talking ‘ten-to-the-dozen’, the Director of Golf at Laguna Golf Lang Co, a Faldo design ranked among the best golf courses in Vietnam, will wax lyrical on any number of subjects related to the Royal and Ancient game.
Adam’s favourite topics include his rapport with Faldo, his stints at superstar clubs such as Cabot Links & Cabot Cliffs in Nova Scotia, Nirwana Bali Golf Club and Jumeirah Golf ...
Scottish Golf Cancel Entire 2020 Competition Schedule
The news not surprisingly only gets worst with Scottish Golf now cancelling its entire 2020 schedule.
Scottish Golf has been in lock-down mode now for some weeks with some of the amateur game’s leading men’s and women’s events already postponed.
The administrators of the game in the Home of Golf nation have led the way in keeping all those playing and administering golf abreast of an ever-changing COVID-19 affected climate but now feel the best move forward is to cancel the 2020 season and ...
Sandy Lyle Fearing Augusta’s Billy Payne Waving His Finger At The Scot
Sandy Lyle this week was to have marked a 40-year anniversary since then then 22-year old made his maiden Masters appearance.
Just eight years later in 1988 the Scot bravely countered everything to proudly to become just the second European behind the late, great Seve Ballesteros to win at Augusta National.
In his 38 appearances and 112 rounds Lyle has had little cause to fear anything.
Well everything except the beckoning index finger of Augusta National Chairman, Billy Payne.
If was at the 2017 ...
The Day We Played Augusta On The Eve Of The Masters For Just $10.80.
It was around 4pm on the eve of the 2014 Masters and the final preview pieces had been filed.
Those afforded invitations to tee-up in the next day’s first round of the opening Major of the year were away either competing in the Par-3 Contest or elsewhere doing what they had to do to prepare themselves for the tournament proper.
Golf’s ‘Cathedral in the Pines’, as Augusta National is fondly called, was now closed to any further practice rounds and aside for a few green-staff ...
Masters Honour March 30th Top-50 Ranking & McDowell’s Kids Are Chuffed.
Graeme McDowell’s young children are delighted with official confirmation their father will now contest November’s rescheduled Masters.
Four players – McDowell, South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout and the American duo of Scotty Scheffler and Collin Morikawa – have now been added to the field for the 43rd hosting of the Masters and qualifying by virtue of being inside the top-50 on the World Rankings as at Monday, 30th March.
The four were contacted by Augusta National shortly after ...
