McGuire: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Of Historic First Shot On A Golf Course Of 2000 Millennium
Today 1st January, 2025 marks the 25th aniversary of hitting a first golf shot on a golf course of the 2000 Millennium.
I undertook this history-making first on the stroke of midnight at the Manamo’ui Golf Club course on the Pacific Ocean island of Tonga.
Tonga boasts the most easterly golf course in the world and given the location of the golf course, and it also being midnight I had the great help of a couple of people who kindly offered to park their cars with their headlights turned on ...
Benbecula Golf Club – Forty-Years Young Promoting The Ancient Club-and-Ball Game
Those who like their Scottish golf may know how partial I am to the Askernish course located along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides.
If I have done my job well then you may be planning to visit this Old Tom Morris designed links gem and, if so, you may wish to make the small effort visiting a little-known nine-hole course around a 35-minute drive north named Benbecular.
Benbecular is around both a 12-kilometre long and also similar width wide island located ...
Omaha Beach Golf Club: Bunkers Abound & They’re Not All Sand.
In writing this article, I have been fortunate to play three golf courses boasting bunkers of a ‘different’ kind.
When I say a ‘different’ kind, I am not referring here to the traditional sand-filled bunkers but concrete bunkers.
“Concrete bunkers?”. Yes, concrete bunkers and defence bunkers built during World War 11.
There is the strong remnants of an anti-aircraft bunker still in position at the back of the seventh green on the Craighead Links course and my ...
Woods: Looking & Sounding Ripe For A Hopeful Return To Competition.
After the delight and thrill in watching and listening to Tiger Woods over the past three days, the 15-time major champion looks and sounds ready to return to formal PGA Tour competition.
Woods and 15-year-old son Charlie brilliantly teamed in going so close to securing a maiden PNC Championship victory, losing out to a Bernhard Langer eagle putt as the first extra play-off hole on the host Ritz Carlton course in Orlando.
While a Team Tiger maiden success would have been such a great storyline, Tiger ...
Prince’s Grant – A Majestic South African Golfing Jewel
I have spoken often of the great pleasure in travelling the world reporting on the ancient club-and-ball game and also equally teeing-up in so many different countries.
This includes also teeing-up along the shoreline of the world’s oceans and seas and to then have the good fortune to enjoy a round on the opposite shoreline of the same ocean or sea.
An example of what I am referring is Australia’s Crescent Head Golf Club course and recently featured on this website (See: http://www.golfbytourmiss.com/2024/12/crescent-head-country-club-a-stunning-6-hole-gem-overlooking-the-mighty-blue-pacific/ ...
Penge Admits ‘Genuine & Honest Mistake’ Over Betting Disqualification.
English golfer Marco Penge admits it was a ‘genuine and honest mistake’ after being fined £2,000 and suspended from DP World Tour competition for three months till 13th February, 2025.
Penge was found guilty for breaching the European Tour Integrity Programme after placing bets on golf though, as he says, not one bet on himself rather just sporting events, in general.
As he stated: “My bets were all for entertainment purposes to make watching golf more fun – just like most ...
Cotswold Downs – Tops In A Stunning South African Golfing Masterpiece
It’s timely in writing this golf course feature (late December 2024) as it is less than two weeks shy of the 25th anniversary of my historic ‘First Person To Hit a Golf Shot on a Golf Course In 2000‘ and also just a month away from 25-years when I played my first game of golf in South Africa.
My visits to the Rainbow Nation sadly have been just a few and each to be present at DP World Tour tournament venues in Joburg and Durban.
A maiden visit was to Joburg in the second week of ...
