EXCLUSIVE .. Luke Donald On Ryder Cup, Hero Cup & His Relationship With Long-Time Friends Now LIV Golfers
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It has been four months to the day Luke Donald was handed the captaincy reins to the 2023 European Ryder Cup team.
Donald took over the captaincy following the sacking of Henrik Stenson, and this after the Swede joined the ranks of LIV Golf.
Stenson was always in the mix to be appointed the replacement to 2021 captain, Padraig Harrington, and it came as no surprise on March 23rd, the European Tour confirmed his appointment.
However, what then transpired was unprecedented ...
The Continued Mellowing Of Tiger Woods … Jon Rahm Adds His Chapter.
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It is an old expression, and it was an expression I recall double English-born World 500cc motor-bike champion Barry Sheene once used and that is ‘the people you pass on the way up, you pass on the way back down’.
It’s an expression one could use in all walks of life and Sheene drew on the phrase in describing a rival, who clearly was intent of caring little about those around him and focussed solely on riding his way to a championship title.
Of course, ...
Fleetwood: “No Guarantee Irish Or Scottish Will Be Paired In Hero Cup”.
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GB&I Hero Cup captain Tommy Fleetwood says there is no guarantee the Scottish duo of Ewen Ferguson and Robert MacIntyre will be paired in January’s inaugural staging of the event.
The double Tour winning pair of Scots were among eight players chosen by Fleetwood to take-on a Francesco Molinari led European team and with each captain still to name a ninth player ahead of the event from January 13th to 15th in Abu Dhabi
It will be a first pro-team event ...
Lowry: “Tiger Woods Is The Reason I Started Playing Golf.”
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“Tiger Woods was one of the reasons I started playing golf and a reason why I kept playing golf.”
The words from Shane Lowry ahead of teeing-up for a first time in this week’s Woods hosted Hero World Challenge.
It’s the 23rd hosting of the event won by Woods on five occasions while the 15-time major winner has finished-up on a similar number of times.
Irish-born golfers have done well with Padraig Harrington winning in 2002 and Graeme McDowell in 2010 and 2012.
Lowry ...
Hero Cup Selection Door Now Open For Ferguson
A decision by World No. 1 Rory McIlroy and fellow Open champ Shane Lowry along with possibly two to three other GB & I stars ruling themselves out of GB & I team selection could see Ewen Ferguson join fellow Scot Bob MacIntyre in January’s inaugural Hero Cup in Abu Dhabi.
McIlroy and Lowry have formally advised officials they will not be competing while there is doubt also both Tyrrell Hatton and possibly US Open champ Matt Fitzpatrick will skip the team event.
It will leave GB & I ...
McIlroy, Rahm & Hovland To Miss Inaugural Hero Cup In Abu Dhabi
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy along with DP World Tour championship winner Jon Rahm along with superstar Norwegian Vicktor Hovland have advised organisers they will be unavailable for the 2023 inaugural Hero Cup, and with teams for the Abu Dhabi event to be announced later this week.
The Hero Cup will feature two 10-player GB & I and European sides playing a Ryder Cup format over the National course at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club from the 13th to 15th January.
England’s Tommy Fleetwood will ...
Scotland’s Top-Five Chilling Out After Years Of Jumping Straight Into The Deep End Of A New Season.
For the first time in many a year Scotland’s current five top golfers, who competed last week in the Dubai season-ender, have not had to rush off to South Africa for the opening events of a new season.
It means the clubs being packed away and no scorecard in their back pockets till at least the second week of January.
The five, and in order of their final 2022 DP World final money-list standings – Ewen Ferguson (17th), Robert MacIntyre (19th), Richie Ramsay (19th), Connor Syme (28th) ...
