Texas Charity Event Featuring Spieth & Other PGA Pros Quickly Slammed On Social Media.
News of a Texas golf fund-raising event next, and set to host the likes of three-time Majors winning Jordan Spieth and his fellow PGA Tour pros, was immediately slammed on social media.
The Maridoe Samaritan Fund Invitational, a 54-hole event to help out-of-work club caddies, will be played over three days from April 28th to 30th at the Maridoe course in north Dallas area at Carrollton, and this news according to the Golf Channel.
The club is ‘home’ to the likes of Spieth and fellow PGA Tour ...
What Lowry Learnt After Being Left Intimidated By ‘Lefty’.
For someone who won an Irish Open as an amateur and then went onto to win golf’s oldest major it seems strange Shane Lowry has ever felt ‘intimidated’.
That’s just how Lowry felt during the course of the third round of the 2018 Wells Fargo Championship in suburban Charlotte.
Lowry posted opening scores of 74 and 70 for a two-over par tally and found himself group in the third round alongside Phil Mickelson who’d shot a pair of 72s.
Mickelson whipped the crowd into a frenzy posting an ealge and ...
Cambrian Ridge .. Riding High On Alabama’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail.
Scotland’s historic Home of Golf region, Ireland’s North and North-West links gems, Melbourne’s famed Sandbelt, Mytle Beach, the Costa del Sol, the Algarve, Mission Hills, Bulgaria’s Black Sea and Turkish delights in the Belek region.
Golfer’s around the world are spoilt for a choice of global golfing destinations.
This journalist has been very fortunate to travel to all of the above and more-recently I happened across another – the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail.
Located ...
Harrington Overlooked For Golf Hall Of Fame ‘Class Of 2021’
European Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington has been overlooked for 2021 induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame (WGHOF).
Harrington had been among 10 finalists including three others among the ‘Male’ nominees – Tiger Woods, Tom Weiskopf and Johnny Farrell.
The WGHOF selection committee met at the body’s Florida offices early in the week of the now cancelled Players
Championship and electing as their ‘Class of ‘21’ – Woods, Marion Hollins, former PGA Tour Commissioner, ...
McIlroy Not Forgetting Hazeltine Ugliness – Prefers 2020 Ryder Cup Put Back A Year.
It’s just 150 days to the Ryder Cup and nearly four years on from the ugliness of the 2016 Ryder Cup but then Rory McIlroy is calling for the 2020 Ryder Cup to be put back a year.
No doubt, the current World No. 1 is hoping that after five-years he would have got over the personal attacks he endured at Hazeltine.
American spectator behaviour, and just a few days following the passing of Arnold Palmer, was at its ugliest worst in rural Minnesota.
McIlroy, and also winner the Sunday before of the ...
The 43rd Ryder Cup – 150 Days Away Yet Light Years From Any Certainty.
It’s exactly 150 days (June 22nd) to the hosting of the 43rd Ryder Cup.
In this current Coronavirus uncertain world that would seem light years away.
All we know that for the past 41 days, and since the cancellation of the Players Championship, is talk of now the third largest sporting event on the globe has focussed on three aspects of the USA versus European showdown:
Ban spectators completely from Whistling Straits.
Allow the Ryder Cup to go ahead with spectators or
Postpone the Ryder ...
Lost Balls – Brooks Koepka’s Concern In A ‘No Spectators’ Return
‘Lost Balls’ .. That’s the biggest concern for all golfer’s amateurs or major champions.Of course, amateurs on the whole are used to playing without spectators and thus need to be ever-watchful on any errant shot given there is no spectators to help out in searching for a ball which is not always the case at the PGA Tour or European Tour level of the game.
So, you can understand four-time major winning Brooks Koepka slight concern when the PGA Tour returns to competition mid-June ...
