McIlroy’s Former Belfast Home Now Available For Weddings.
The old home of double Major winning Rory McIlroy on the outskirts of Belfast is now available for hire as a venue for corporate hospitality and upmarket weddings.
McIlroy’s former house sits on an expansive 14 acres and includes an extensive golf practice area.
It was bought in 2013 from McIlroy by property developer Gary McCausland who set up a company called Robinhall House Ltd.
The firm is aiming the property at golf tourists, businesses and the hospitality market.
Mr McCausland has also ...
Ernie Els … “I Don’t Like Snakes” As He Seeks To Take The Sting Out Of The Snake Pit.
Four-time Major winning Ernie Els confessed he doesn’t like snakes but then he’d be happy this week to take the sting out of the Snake Pit.
The Snake Pit is the affectionate name for the final three holes on the Copperhead Course at the superb Innisbrook Course and venue for the $US 5.8m Valspar Championship.
In fact, the three holes are made up of three different and dangerous snakes – 16th is named the Moccasin, the 17th Rattler and the last Copperhead.
Els is making his fifth ...
Valsapar Championship – Paint Cans For Tee Markers
It is very common around the globe for sponsors to personalise their golf tournaments with unique tee markers.
Congressional Golf Club in suburban Rockville, Maryland and host venue for the 2011 US Open uses miniature models of the Capital Building, and the seat of Government in the US.
You will find mini FedEx Cup trucks on display during the FedEx Cup Series while the Tiger Woods supported AT & T National to be staged at Congressional in June uses replicas of the famed Iwo Jima Memorial to ...
Jamie Donaldson Takes Up PGA Tour ‘Special Temporary Membership’.
In-form Welshman Jamie Donaldson has accepted ‘special temporary membership’ for the remainder of the 2013-14 PGA TOUR season.
Donaldson is the second player to join the Tour as a special temporary member in the last two weeks. France’s Victor Dubuisson, who was runner-up at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship, did the same last week.
And despite unnecessary criticism in one quarter over his play during last week’s WGC event in Doral, Donaldson became ...
MENA Tour Adds Spice With Added Cash & Gift Certificates In Each Event.
Organisers of the MENA Golf Tour have instituted the Shaikh Maktoum Golf Foundation Award to honour leading Arab professional and amateur players in a fresh move to spice up the competition and boost the presence of the region’s talent.
Open to MENA nationals, the awards, valued at $51,500 in cash and gift certificates, are in addition to the official prize money of $525,000 on the tour, and are aimed at recognizing the performance of the top three Arab professionals and amateurs from their respective ...
Florida Alligators With Big Bite & America’s Smallest Post Office.
As pointed out in an earlier Life on Tour story, Monday was spent travelling west from Miami along Florida Highway No. 14 and then north to Tampa Bay and the next stop on the 2014 PGA Tour.
However while our journey took us to the Miccosukee Indian Village we also stopped by at a Wildlife park where alligators were in plenty of abundance and just lazing in the hot sun right alongside the roadway at the Big Cypress Nature Preserve as you will see from the close-up photographs and video.
As well, ...
Miccosukee Indian Tribe Visit.
The day following the WGC – Cadillac Championship it was all roads to Tampa Bay and this week’s 2014 Valspar Championship at the superb Innisbrook Resort.
However the trip west from Miami on Florida Highway 41 took us right past the Missoscukee Indian Village.
The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida is a US Government recognised Native American tribe residing in Florida.
They were part of the Sweminole nation until the mid-20th century, when they organized as an independent tribe, ...
