McGuire: Slumbers R & A Departure A Big Loss To Golf & One Of The Game’s Nice Guys
Martin Slumbers departure later this year as CEO of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews (R & A) will be a big loss as one of golf’s top administrators.
Slumbers, 63, indicated in an R & A news release he will oversee the hosting of this July’s 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon, the return of the AIG Women’s Open to St Andrews in August and also the 43rd Curtis Cup match at Sunningdale before relinquishing his role.
He also joins long-time R & A rules ...
MacIntyre: “America Is America .. Some Things Will Annoy Me, Some Things I’m Really Going To Love”
Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre has arrived in Hawaii for a third time in his career but with this latest visit the start of the most important chapter in his short pro golfing career.
MacIntyre is among five PGA Tour rookies, and in a first, to have secured 2024 season membership in finishing top-10, and not already exempt, on last year’s DP World Tour money list to be teeing up in this week’s $US 8.3m Sony Open in Honolulu.
For MacIntyre, it will be the first of three PGA Tour events in ...
Bahrain’s Royal Club – Rewarding Golf In This Oil-Rich Nation
Updated January, 2025 …
Have you ever played a golf course where you are afforded a ‘free’ drop from oil pipelines?
This is one of ‘local rules’ when tackling the Royal Golf Club course in Bahrain and host venue for this week’s Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship taking place on the Colin Montgomerie designed Royal Golf Club course close to the capital Manama.
In fact, the official scorecard (see below) lists the rule saying under Rule 16.1 of the Official Rules ...
Ballyliffin’s Glashedy Links – Young In Spirit, Mature In Outlook.
* First published in 2019, updated 2025
Those who can recall watching TV coverage of the 2018 Irish Open surely must have been in awe of the pictures being beamed around the globe from the host venue – the Ballyliffin Golf Club in Co. Donegal, Ireland.
It was the first time Ballyliffin was on show for all the golf world to see in all its glory.
For four days under virtual cloudless skies the Glashedy Links course shone brightly, a golf course laid-out along the shores of the mighty Atlantic ...
Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club – 31 Facts To Celebrate 31st Anniversary.
The up-coming inaugural 2024 DP World Tour’s Dubai Invitational brings back many fond memories in visting the host venue at the famed Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club.
The Tour is no stranger to the 18-hole course laid-out along Dubai Creek, featuring it’s stunning and award-winning ‘sail-like’ clubhouse, as the club hosted the 1999 and 2000 edition of the Dubai Desert Classic.
It’s 31-years ago this month the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club was opened back in 1993.
The ...
Anstruther Golf Club – Boasting One Of The Toughest Par-3s In Britain.
What is the toughest par-3 you’ve ever played?
Have you played the par-3 fifth hole at the unpretentious yet stunning Anstruther Golf Club course in the Kingdom of Fife is a decent test, playing 245-yards off the white tees.
It’s the No. 1 index hole on this nine-hole course laid-out along the Firth of Forth shoreline to the east of St. Andrews.
So, what makes this par-3, and known as ‘The Rockies’, one of the toughest par-3s in British golf.
Surely, there are other par-3s ...
Old Head – Memories From A First Visit To The Stunning Irish Golfing Gem
I’ve had to really test the ole ‘grey matter’ in posting this article of my first visit to the famed Old Head course located at the Old Head of Kinsale at the south-east corner of Ireland.
It was the Monday morning after the 2001 Murphy’s Irish Open at the Fota Island course in nearby Cork.
In a then super three Scottish newspaper coverage storyline for your golfing freelance author, Colin Montgomerie captured a third Irish Open title, storming to a five-shot success in defeating ...
