Martin Laird Joins Stephen Gallacher As Scotland’s World Cup Team.
Martin Laird and fellow Scot Stephen Gallacher will be reunited for a first time in two years when the pair team up for the World Cup of Golf at Royal Melbourne in Australia.
Good friend and Scotsman colleague reports Laird’s participation in Melbourne has been confirmed by his manager, Blake Smith, as the three-times PGA Tour winner prepares to start his Fall schedule in this week’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.
“He will be there,”said Smith and revealing the 30-year-old ...
McGinley Undergoing Speech ‘Content’ Training Ahead Of Ryder Cup.
Those who know Paul McGinley would agree he is such a good talker and communicator he could easily talk ten feet under water with a mouth full of pebbles.
So it may come as a surprise the European Team captain has arranged to have private speech content training in what is one of he most feared aspects of the Ryder Cup – public speaking.
“The training I’m having it so much about my presentationg but more to do with the content of the speeches I will have to make at the Ryder Cup,” ...
David Lynn Ends 9-Year Winless Drought To Capture Portugal Masters.
England’s David Lynn has ended a 9-year winless drought in sensational manner with a closing round of 63 to capture the Portugal Masters.
A week after being laid low by a virus at the Seve Trophy by Golf+, where he was swiftly dispatched 6 and 4 by Miguel Angel Jiménez in the Sunday singles as Continental Europe beat Great Britain & Ireland, Lynn had completely contrasting emotions in the Algarve as his 18 under par total saw him finish a shot clear of Justin Walters.
Lynn’s second European ...
Scott Jamieson Goes Within 4 Inches Of First-Ever European Tour 59.
Scotland’s Scott Jamieson went within four inches of the European Tour’s first-ever round of 59 on day three of the Portugal Masters at Vilamoura.
The Glaswegian posted a new course record of an 11-under par 60 after his chip shot from the back of the green hit the edge of the hole and stopped four inches shy of a birdie in what would have been a 59 and the first in the 41-year history of the European Tour.
Jamieson had commenced his round at three under par and cut a swath through the ...
Scott Jamieson – Tour Again On ’59’ Watch As Scot Brings Victoria Course To Its Knees.
The European Tour is again on 59 watch and this time it’s Scotland’s Scott Jamieson.
Jamieson has already joined the ’29 Club’ with an outward third round nine holes of six under on the Oceanico Victoria course here at Vilamoura.
The reigning Nelson Madela Championship winner went into the closing nine with birdies at 10 and 11 but then failed to birdie the par five, 12th.
The Glaswegian did birdie 13 but we wait to see if he can play the closing nine in five under on the ...
2014 Race To Dubai Membership Make-Up Hinges On One Person – Tim Clark.
The make-up of the 2014 Race to Dubai European Tour membership bizarrely will hinge on one player – South African Tim Clark.
Clark is among three Affiliate Members inside the top-110 on the money list who will retain automatic membership for next season.
Two of those Affiliates will remain in the top-110 – the Sweden pair of Jonan Blixt and Carl Pettersson – despite the duo not meeting the minimum requirement of competing in 13 events.
Blixt, currently 46th on the money list, ...
European Tour To Enact New Regulation So That PGA Tour Based Players Compete More At ‘Home’.
The European Tour will enact further regulations from the start of next year’s season so that more of its PGA Tour-based players compete on the Race to Dubai Tour.
Thomas Bjorn, as Chairman of the Tounament Players Committee confirmed all European Tour members will be obliged to play more at ‘home’ and also in at least two events in countries where there nation hosts three or more Tour events.
There will be efforts made also to speak to all European-born players competing in the ...
