Lee Slattery – Top Of Ryder Cup Rankings For Second Week In Succession.
England’s Lee Slattery is top of the European Ryder Cup rankings for a second week in succession despite letting slip a chance for a second straight Race to Dubai success.
Last week’s M2M Russian Open winner missed a four foot par putt at the 72nd green to miss out by a shot in forcing a play-off in the KLM Open.
Instead victory went to 23-year old Belgium sensation Thomas Pieters who is managed by the same management company as Tiger Woods, Justin Rose, Gary Woodland, Matt Kuchar and ...
Thomas Pieters Following In Tiger’s Footsteps – Two Wins In Two Euro Events.
Belgium’s Thomas Pieters is managed by the same company that looks after the business affairs of Tiger Woods and now last fortnight’s Czech Masters winner is following in the same vein in capturing the KLM Open at Zandvoort.
Pieters made it two wins from two starts on the Race To Dubai tour when he was virtually gifted victory when England’s Lee Slattery missed a four foot par putt at the last to end at 18-under par one one adrift of Pieters.
Slattery, winner of last week’s ...
GB & I Rule The Waves Humbling USA Walker Cup Team With Record Victory.
Great Britain and Ireland inflicted an embarrassing record seven point victory in defeating their star-studded USA rivals winning 16½-9½ to claim the 45th Walker Cup Match at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club with what was the greatest winning margin in the match since it was first played in 1922.
Leading 7-5 going into the final day, GB&I secured the victory with a dominant final day performance that saw them win the final morning foursomes 3-1 to take a four point lead going into the ...
Aussies Ormsby & Green On The Grid & Ready To Swoop In KLM Open.
Aussie golfers Wade Ormsby and Richard Green have good reason to feel right at home contesting this week’s KLM Open at Zandvoort.
Ormsby added a second round two under par 68 to his opening 61 to slip back to a share of second place behind Dane Soren Kjeldsen on a day of ‘preferred lies’ on the Kennemer Golf Club course.
Kjeldsen continues to display the form that earned the 40-year old success earlier this year in the Irish Open in posting a second straight score of 64 to move ...
Fortrose & Rosemarkie GC – 95 Years Older Than You Thought You Were.
Rccently, and in the space of 40 minutes, two previously unknown newspaper notices for Earlsferry Golf Society in 1787 and Fortrose Golf Society in 1793 were discovered.
They were found in one search of the British Newspaper Archive at the National Library of Scotland in the Caledonian Mercury which published three times a week from 1720 to 1867.
They bring to 18 the number of golf clubs which have a continuous or non-continuous history dating back to the 18th century.
However, not only are these ...
Jason Day Asks Australian Golf Fans To Understand Why He Can’t Contest 2015 Australian Open.
Newly crowned US PGA champion Jason Day has asked Aussie fans to understand why he’s not returning home to contest the Australian Open.
Day became just the 11th Australian male to win a major with his two-shot victory last month at Whistling Straits.
And with interest in the 27-year-old Queenslander at an all-time high, he hopes Aussie golf fans will accept his decision to remain in the United States as he and wife Ellie prepare for their second child due in November.
“I don’t feel as though ...
Graeme McDowell’s PGA Tour Exemption Status Extended By A Year.
Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell’s 2016 PGA Tour status is secure with the Tour revealing they have added a one-year exemption onto the two years in winning the 2013 RBC Heritage Classic.
McDowell contested the minimum of 15 events in a season capped by a best of T3rd in the very first event of his 2014/15 season at the WGC – HSBC Champions but then spoilt by six missed cuts to eventually also miss the FedEx Cup Play-Off Series by finishing 160th on the money list.
And as both McDowell’s ...
