Donald Trump Says PGA Tour Would Be Foolish To Drop Doral From Schedule.
Potential USA President Donald Trump said it would be foolish for the Federation of Golf Tour’s, as organisers of the World Golf Championships, to drop Trump Doral from its schedule.
Golf and politics, and more particularly the USA Presidential campaign, are set to clash head-on next week with the staging of the WGC – Cadillac Championship on Trump’s own Trump Doral.
And with Cadillac’s sponsorship of the event to end at the end of next week’s tournament, it is timely ...
Padraig Harrington Accepts Hazeltine Vice-Captaincy Role As Big Step To European Ryder Cup Captaincy.
Padraig Harrington believes he will take another huge step in becoming a future European Ryder Cup Captain after being approached by Darren Clarke to become one of this year’s Ryder Cup vice-captains.
Harrington, 44 is a veteran of six European Teams and got a very first taste of being part of the ‘back room’ team when Paul McGinley afforded him a vice-captaincy role for the 2014 Gleneagles showdown.
However ahead of defending this week’s Honda Classic at Palm Beach Gardens in Florida Harrington ...
Harrington Contesting Indian Open, Missing Bridgestone/French Open To Play Barracuda C’ship & Contesting Scottish Open.
Triple Major winning Padraig Harrington intends travelling next month for a first time to India to tee-up in the Hero India Open in New Delhi.
Organisers of the co-sanctioned European and Asia Tour event have been able entice Harrington to be staged on the Delhi Golf Club from March 17-20.
Pawan Munjal, Chairman, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Hero MotoCorp Ltd said,
“Indian golf is steadily finding its rightful place in the global golfing community. With the phenomenal success ...
Triple Major Winning Padraig Harrington Says Golf Lacks ‘Hustle’.
Padraig Harrington has won three Major Championship and this week defends his Honda Classic title at PGA National at Palm Beach Gardens in Florida.
However having turned pro more than 20 years ago the now 44-year old says golf lacks ‘hustle’.
By hustle, Harrington was referring to then 21-year old Daniel Berger who the Irishman had defeated a year ago here at PGA National to end a 7-year PGA Tour winless drought.
“If you want to be a professional golfer out here, really you’ve ...
Bathurst Golf Club Revisited Two Years On.
I had waited some two years firstly to revisit my younger brother and his family, including niece Nikki and nephew Jamie, but also to step back out onto Bathurst Golf Club.
The attraction to again tee-up at Bathurst Golf Club, and a course I had been present in the early 1990s to report on the New South Wales, was in every part down to John Payne.
I was very fortunate to bump into John and his son on Boxing Day 2013 and since then he and I have stayed in contact regularly.
In fact, John contributed ...
Rory McIlroy Not Impressed With Brandel Chamblee’s Weight-Lifting Assertions.
Just over two years ago Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee incurred the wrath of Tiger Woods after awarding him an ‘F’ grade in a series of 2013 end-0f-season report cards that yielded Woods five victories, but then also compared his own cheating in a school test with a number of rules violations committed by the 14-time major champion.
Chamblee was forced to soon left red-faced in having to humbly apologise to Woods.
Now Chamblee is clearly off-side with four-time Major winning Rory ...
Hoffman & Streelman Elected Co-Chairmen PGA Tour Player Advisory Council.
Charley Hoffman and Kevin Streelman have been elected Co-Chairmen of the Player Advisory Council (PAC) by the Tour’s membership for the 2016 calendar year.
The 16-member PAC advises and consults with the PGA Tour Policy Board (Board of Directors) and Commissioner Tim Finchem on issues affecting the TOUR.
Hoffman and Streelman will succeed Bo Van Pelt and Mark Wilson on the PGA TOUR Policy Board in 2017 and will a serve a three-year term (2017-2019) as Player Directors along with Jason Bohn ...
