MENA Tour – Historic Step Forward With World Rankings Status – Darren Clarke Sings Praise.

Crail, Scotland  …. The MENA Tour (Middle East and North Africa) has taken an historic big step forward with confirmation of Official Golf World Ranking (OGWR) status. Coinciding with golf’s return to the Olympic Games this year after more than a century, the landmark decision, taken during a governing board’s meeting held on the sidelines of the 2016 Masters Tournament in Augusta, will provide a fresh energy boost for the development of sport across the board in the region. With the ...

Shane Lowry Ties The Knot In The Big Apple.

“This will make a nice wedding gift” was Shane Lowry’s comments to the media after learning he earned a Masters logo crystal bowl for his hole-in-one at the par three 16th on the final day at Augusta. However nobody picked-up on the fact Lowry’s wedding was sooner rather than later. Well, Lowry is married and he tied the knot earlier today to compatriot Wendy Honner in New York as you can see from his tweet below. And his wedding comes 11 days after he celebrated his 29th ...

Spieth Will ‘Never Get Over’ Losing Masters Says Love 111.

US Ryder Cup Captain Davis Love 111 believes Jordan Spieth will ‘never get over’ losing the 2016 Masters. Spieth left Augusta National looking very much a broken man letting slip a five shot leading cushion and then having to bear the clear agony of slipping the Masters green jacket onto England’s Danny Willett. Spieth’s Augusta meltdown immediately drew memories, and strangely on the occasion of the 20th anniversary, of Greg Norman’s similar demise in the 1996 Masters when the Great White ...

Masters Champion Danny Willett Will Stay Loyal To Europe Before Full-Time PGA Tour Move In 2017.

New Masters champion Danny Willett is not about to change his season schedule confirming he will contest the events on the European Tour schedule he had penned earlier this year. One of those events is next month’s Irish Open. Confirmation of Willett’s appearance at the K. Club was forthcoming within an hour of the Sheffield-born player being fitted with an Augusta green jacket. And Willett will become the first reigning Augusta National winning hero to compete in an Irish Open since 1994 when ...

Spotted In Driving Interstate 20 As We Headed To The Masters.

Augusta, GA … Interstate 20 or I-20, as it is more well-known, runs from a town called Kent in eastern Texas to Florence in South Carolina. The highway was opened in the 1960s and runs for a length of 1,539 miles also through northern Louisiana, central Mississippi, western and north-central Alabama, and north-central Georgia. Included in I-20s route through Georgia is cutting right through Augusta, Georgia and less than a mile from the front gates at Augusta National. As well, I‑20 intersects ...

Langer 20/1 To Become Golf’s Oldest Winner Of A Major, McIlroy Blows Out To 20/1 & Spieth Now 5/4.

Augusta, GA … The Master – Can Langer Come To Bookies Rescue? That’s a question to be answered later today as the 58-year old German looks not only to capture a third Masters but become the oldest-ever winner, by some 10 years, of a Major Championship. Despite dropping a few shots late on, Jordan Spieth is in a stronger position after 54 holes than he was after 36. His odds of winning have reduced from 2/1 to 5/4. Jason Day is the 11/2 second favourite with Dustin Johnson 9/1 and ...

Visiting Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Vicksburg Military Park …. A must see in Vicksburg is a visit to the Vicksburg Military Park located in the north-eastern portion portion of the city of Vicksburg. Mississippi. I had first visited the Park early in 1980 in the company of long-time good friend Joe Sroba, and in my first ‘big’ journey to the U.S. The main area of the park shows the four detached units of Louisiana, site of the Confederate fortifications, South Fort, another Confederate defense work; Navy Circle, ...