Hong Kong Open – The Day I Sprayed My Final Drive Missing Monty On The Adjoining Fairway
The hosting each year of the Link Hong Kong Open rekindles so many fond memoies for this golf writer.
I made my debut at the Hong Kong tournament in 2003 and the then third year hosting of a joint Asian Tour and European Tour tournament that was first staged in 1959.
The timing each year of the Hong Kong Open was ideal for me as it was late in the European Tour season and in those earlier career visits, it would break the long journey from my UK base and onwards to Australia to join family and friends ...
Payne Stewart – Twenty-Five Years On And Never Forgetting Golf’s True Gentleman.
It is remarkable that 25 years have now passed – October 25th, 1999 – when Payne Stewart and five others tragically lost their lives.
There is sadness in everyone’s life in losing a loved-one or a close friend but when it comes to the loss of someone with whom you have met in the course of your work, and a person with whom you also had estabished a warm rapport and friendship, then it kind of makes it all a little different. .
That’s what I have always said about working ...
Garcia’s Signature Helps Save Scottish Golf Course From Closure
It’s amazing how the power of the pen and in this ‘feel good’ story a signature on a petition has helped in save a Scottish golf club from closure.
Masters champ and LIV Golf star Sergio Garcia penned his signature that eventually helped save Dalmuir Municipal Golf Course, an 18 hole municipal golf course, near Clydebank to the west of Glasgow
It is the only course currently open to the public in the area, and was at risk of being reduced from 18 holes to 12 or being closing down ...
Golf’s 59 Club – Now Just One Major Men’s Tour Still Looking To Join.
American John Catlin’s stunning score of 59 on day two of the Asian Tour’s International Series Macua leaves just one of the world’s leading men’s tours still to register a sub-60 round.
Catlin, 33, had posted nine birdies coming to the last, the par-5 18th and knowing that he needed an eagle ‘3’ if he was to create a first in the 59-year history of the Asian Tour.
The former triple European Tour winner and also a four-time Asian Tour champion, and also now LIV ...
Players Championship – Friday March 13th, 2020 – The Darkest Day In PGA Tour History As McIlroy Emerges A Shining Light
This week we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Players Championship, the PGA Tour’s flagship event.
Four years ago, this same week you could argue the Tour’s flags were virtually at half mast and with Friday the March 13th, 2020 unfolding as the darkest day in the history of the PGA Tour.
Four years on, it still lives as the day the global Covid virus brought an abrupt halt to men’s golf at its highest level and also was the harbinger for all major US sports to soon follow.
And in ...
Greens Staff ‘Hopping’ Mad After Kangaroos Run Riot On Melbourne Course
Greens staff were ‘hopping’ mad after the sight of a large number of kangaroos stole the tee and run riot down the fairways at the Heritage Golf & Country Club outside Melbourne in Australia.
Melbourne is well-known for its famed ‘Sandbelt’ courses and while the sight of kangaroos on ‘down under’ golf courses is not uncommon, as this Aussie-born golf journalist can testify, including the sight of two kanagoos standing toe-to-toe punching each other while ...
Magnifique Matthieu Pavon Becomes First Frenchman To Win On PGA Tour
Magnifique Matthieu Pavon brilliantly captured the Farmers Insurance Open to become the first French-born golfer to win on the PGA Tour proper with his one shot success over the Torrey Pines course.
Pavon, 31, incredibly birdied the last in a round of 69 to win with a 13-under and in the process earn the Touluese-born golfer a whopping $1.5m first prize cheque, a full Tour exemption to the end of 2016 while a more immediate reward for Pavon is a maiden Masters invitation.
Pavon headed into the final ...
