Kel Nagle – Fellow Open Champions Pay Tribute.
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy and reigning Open Champion has paid tribute to fellow Open winner Kel Nagle who passed away peacefully today in Sydney.
Nagle, 94 was golf’s oldest-living living Major winner having captured the 1960 Centenary Open Championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews where golf’s oldest Major will be staged later this year.
McIlroy has competed in just one Open at St. Andrews setting a course record 63 on the opening day of the 2010 championship and on route to sharing ...
Kel Nagle – Australian Golf Writers Association Mourn His Passing.
The Australian Golf Writers Association has joined those to mourn the passing of Kel Nagle and have arranged to place the following tribute into Friday’s edition of the Sydney Morning Herald.
KEL NAGLE
“His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in his that Nature must stand up and say to the world. This was a man.” – Australian Golf Writers Association.
The following also is a message from the Association:-
“It is with much sadness that we record the passing ...
Kel Nagle – Golf’s Oldest Major Winner – Sadly Passes Away.
Sadly Australian golfing great Kel Nagle and golf’s oldest living Major winner had died just weeks after celebrating his 94th birthday.
Nagle, winner of the 1960 Centenary British Open, was with his family when he died early Thursday morning in Sydney’s Mona Vale hospital.
“It’s a sad day for golf, we’ve lost a champion of our game,” chief executive of the Australian PGA, Brian Thorburn, said.
Nagle, born in North Sydney in 1920, secured a record 61 wins on the ...
Rory McIlroy Instrumental In Peter Lawrie Receiving Dubai Desert Classic Invitation.
It continues to speak volumes about the character and sincerity of the current World No. 1 Rory McIlroy.
Close to a time when McIlroy is staring at unwanted public scrutiny next Tuesday at the Dublin High Court it has come to light how McIlroy went out of his way to assist Peter Lawrie with an invitation into this week’s Omega Dubai Desert Classic.
Lawrie is among eight invitations contesting the third and final leg of the European Tour’s Desert Swing and in looking at the list of entrants ...
Gallacher Encouraging Warren In Making Masters Debut.
Top ranked Scot Stephen Gallacher is encouraging fellow Scot Marc Warren to follow in his Dubai Desert Classic victory footsteps all the way to making a Masters debut this season.
Despite the disappointment of a second place finish in last week’s Commercial Bank Qatar Masters, Warren jumped 23 spots to be the new World No. 56 and now just six places shy of boosting Scotland’s Augusta National entrants to four.
If successful in breaking into the top-50 by the last week in March then Warren ...
McDowell Matures Since Last Omega Dubai Desert Classic Appearance.
Graeme McDowell tees up in the Omega Dubai Desert Classic for the first time in five years believing he’s matured greatly both on and off the course in that time.
It was in Dubai and atop of the 700-foot high Burg Al Arab helipad McDowell proposed to his now wife Kristin who were married in 2013 while the couple welcomed their first child, Vale who is now three months old.
But rather than concerns that the challenges of a newborn could cause problems with his golfing form, the Northern Irishman ...
Former Emirates Club Captain Dies On Range – Dubai Desert Classic Pro-Am Cancelled.
Very sadly the afternoon Pro-Am in the Omega Dubai Desert Classic has been cancelled after a former Emirates Club captain collapsed of a heart attack on the practice range.
A police helicopter landed on the range to convey Mr. Ashok Bakshi to hospital however the 75-year old Indian-born tragically did not recover.
Bakshi was set to play the afternoon Pro-Am in the company of French golfer Romain Wattel.
The Pro-Am got underway with a shotgun start at 12.45pm without Mr. Bakshi and with most groups ...
