DeChambeau Insists Any ‘Negativity’ Is A Compliment

Bryson DeChambeau produced a sensible and very mature answer to a question focussing on the controversy he’s stirred-up since the PGA Tour’s official return to competiition mid last month in Texas. DeChambeau emerged from the three-month lockdown looking like Hulk Hogan’s twin brother and using all his extra muscle to drive the ball further and further than most. Indeed, the 26-year old launched no fewer than 43 golfing missiles of over 350-yards during the four rounds on route ...

2020 Memorial – EVERYthing You Need To Know

2020 Memorial – Things to Know Five-time winner Tiger Woods makes his first start since the season was suspended in March; in search of record-breaking 83rd career PGA TOUR victory Workday Charity Open winner Collin Morikawa seeks win in back-to-back weeks at Muirfield Village 2019 champion Patrick Cantlay looks to join Tiger Woods as only players to win the Memorial Tournament in consecutive years Marks third event since the season resumed to feature each of the top-five players in the Official ...

Richard Burton? .. Sorry, Never Heard Of Him Says Lowry

Shane Lowry should be stepping onto the first tee at Royal St. George’s in Kent tomorrow morning (THURS) as the defending Open Championship champion. Instead, Lowry will have to wait a further 12 months before handing back the famed Claret Jug to the R & A. And when he does, Lowry will become the third longest Open Champion to have retained golf’s most famous trophy. Legendary Harry Vardon won the 1914 Open but due to WW1 the championship was not played again until 1920, a gap of six years. In ...

The Golden Bear’s Right Arm Is Outstretched To Congratulate You …. What Do You Do?

You’ve just sunk the winning putt to capture the Memorial and one of the PGA Tour’s blue-ribbon events. Tournament host, Jack Nicklaus is walking up to you and with his right-hand outstretched. What do you do in these Covid-19 ‘social distancing’ times?  Do you ignore the hand of the world’s greatest-ever golfer?  Do you extend your elbow and hope the golfer known as the ‘Golden Bear’ will likewise respond? One thing is for certain and that is Nicklaus ...

Woods Applauds ‘Black Lives Matter’ Movement … ‘Change Is Fantastic’.

Much has changed in just the five months since Tiger Woods last teed-up in a full PGA Tour event. Not only has the world had to face dealing with a deadly pandemic but around the globe we’ve seen remarkable, and sometimes shocking and disturbing, images in the wake of the death of George Floyd on a suburban Minneapolis street. Tiger Woods found himself asked about the Black Lives Matter ahead of this week’s Jack Nicklaus hosted Memorial, and an event Woods has won on five occasions. “I think ...

Gary Player Honoured As Wentworth Club Ambassador

Nine-time Major winning Gary Player has been honoured in being appointed Wentworth Club ambassador. Player is the most successful international golfer of all time. He has achieved the kind of worldwide acclaim reserved for only a handful of sporting greats having won nine Major Championships on the Regular Tour, and nine Major Championships on the Senior Tour. The champion South African not only has captured 163 tournaments in his career but the present 84-year old holds the distinction of being ...

Woods Insisting He Will Miss The ‘Energy & New Reality’ Of No Spectators.

Fifteen-times Major winning Tiger Woods returns top competition this week for a first time since the PGA Tour’s return to golf insisting he will miss the energy of not having any spectators in attendance at the Memorial. Woods has not competed in a regular Tour event since last February when he ended near the field in hosting the Genesis Invitational at the Riveira club near Santa Monica. He did compete in a ‘made for TV’ exhibition match as his home Medallist Club in Florida while ...