Home Of Golf Nation Issues The Ancient Game’s Toughest-Ever Notice.
It is a notice you thought you never read but then the Home of Golf nation – Scotland – is now no different to the rest of the world struggling with the Coronavirus pandemic.
While it’s not yet a law, Scottish Golf has released its latest measures (outlined below) to contain the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), following the UK Government’s late Monday night that everyone must now stay at home except in exceptional circumstances.
“The new measures announced state that ...
Harmon Backing McIlroy To Capture Masters … When & If Augusta Reschedule For Later This Year.
Renowned coach and now respected analyst Butch Harmon believes Rory McIlroy will win the Masters whenever the Augusta National organisers decide to reschedule the postponed major.
The Masters was set to tee off on April 9th but the Coronavirus pandemic has pushed it back to much later in the year and with the 8th to 11th October being singled out by many observers for the hosting of the 2020 Masters.
McIlroy was due to contest the back-to-back WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship and next week’s ...
The Cactus Tour Dealing With A Prickly Situation.
All major tours around the globe may be lock-down mode but there’s is a handful of mini-tour’s still operating despite the global Coronavirus pandemic.
The Cactus Tour is a western USA tour founded in 2005 for women professionals with the charter “to present a competitive environment, as well as an affordable one, for women golf professionals to use in developing or re-developing their game in preparation for competing on the Symetra and LPGA tours.
Elite amateur women players are ...
Legendary Coach Pete Cowen Dealing With Coronavirus Challenge
When it comes coaching those who play the ancient club-and-ball game there’s none bigger and no-one more affable than Pete Cowen.
Cowen has coached nine Major Champions including the likes of Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell, Brooks Koepka, Louis Oosthuizen, Danny Willett, Darren Clarke, Sergio Garcia, Henrik Stenson and Gary Woodland along with fine-tuning the game of so many others to have accumulated more than 250 victories on the major tour’s of the world.
Cowen is to be found on the ...
Sugrue’s Meeting With Five-Times Masters Winning Woods Remains On Hold.
It is an envelope that every golfer dreams of receiving.
Imagine then the excitement for James Sugrue when a letter arrived a week prior to Christmas last year that was post-marked ‘Augusta, GA’?
Whether you’re Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott or a young amateur from Co. Cork a formal invitation to attend The Masters remains unique in a world too consumed with the digital age.
Sugrue, as the reigning Amateur champion, wasted little time getting onto Twitter to show the ...
McIlroy ‘Frozen’ As World No. 1 As World Rankings Shut Down.
Rory McIlroy will remain World No. 1 for the foreseeable future with the men’s and women’s ranking bodies advising there’ll be no movement in both the men’s and women’s rankings till it’s safe to resume competition.
The Wentworth-based body issued a statement Friday indicating:
“The Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) and Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking (WWGR) will be paused until further notice with professional golf currently inactive due to the global threat posed by Coronavirus ...
Fowler Posts 94, Thomas Fails To Break 100 & Mickelson, Weir, Chalmers & MacIntyre Smiling.
Lefty Major champs Bob Charles, Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson and Mike Weir plus the Aussie trio of Richard Green, Greg Chalmers and Nick O’Hern along with last year’s European Tour ‘Rookie of the Year’ Robert MacIntyre will be smiling broadly.
This is after Rickie Fowler posted a score of 94 and good friend Justin Thomas failed to break 100.
On Sunday, Fowler ‘smacked’ Thomas by five shots in shooting a round of 60 at Jupiter in Florida and then on Wednesday Fowler posted ...
