Nicklaus Wearing His Lounge-Room Slippers, Eating His Signature Triple Chocolate Ice Cream But Sadly A Last Honda Classic.
One of the fondest memories in attending the Honda Classic has been the joy to sit in the company of tournament host, Jack Nicklaus.
It’s always been customary at each Honda Classic, as it is at the Memorial in Ohio, for Nicklaus to give his time to the visiting media in hosting a media conference at some time convenient during the course of either tournament.
It is a little more formal at the Memorial but at the Honda Classic it’s much more relaxed.
The Honda Classic is also Nicklaus’ ...
Kanaya Storms His Way To Four Shot Success In Oman
…. Muscat, Oman
Japan’s Takumi Kanaya has brilliantly stormed his way to success in the inaugural International Series Oman at the Al Mouq course in Muscat.
Kanaya, 24, won a fourth pro career title and a first outside his native Japan with scores of 69, 71, 67 and a closing 71 in continuing windy conditions to win by four shots on the course laid out along the Gulf of Oman shoreline.
Kanaya burst onto the world stage as an amateur, and emerging from the smoke and haze from serious bushfire ...
McGuire: Thirty-Years Attending Dubai Desert Classic & Admiring The Changes To Dubai
….. Emirates Golf Club, Dubai
I sit here in the front row of the Media Centre overlooking the ninth and 18th greens at the 2023 Hero Dubai Desert Classic and it’s just not the same.
The stunning Majlis host course remains a picture postcard setting but it’s outside the front gates that has changed as the Dubai, and in a gross understatement, is not the same as when I first attended the European Tour event in 1993.
Thirty-years ago the Dubai Golf Club was still then well on the ...
We Miss Rickie Fowler & His Victory Champagne
.. Albany, The Bahamas
The appearance of a carton of beer in the fridge of the Hero World Challenge media centre reminded me of Richie Fowler.
Let me explain.
American Kevin Kisner celebrated just a second PGA Tour ace in his career in holing out, using a 6-iron at the par-3 12th hole on day three of the Hero World Challenge.
There was no brand new Hero motor-bike nor the keys to a luxury Albany apartment but just the honour on the next tee, on route to Kisner posting a 77 and slump to a share ...
Golfer Initiates Court Action After Being Denied New Vehicle For Ace
Most golfers will be aware that if there’s a spanking new vehicle parked on the tee at a par-3 at any golf course then it’s usually the prize for a hole-in-one.
On this theme we have witnessed professional golfers being handed the keys to a brand-new motor for acing the hole where the vehicle is the clearly promoted as the prize.
However, there was the scenario at Wentworth two years ago when David Howell aced the par-3 14th during the second round of the BMW PGA Championship and expecting to ...
Santos Sizzles Day Two Soudal Open, Exactly A Decade In Winning On Tour
It is a decade today – May 13th, 2012 – since the very affable Portuguese golfer Ricardo Santos brilliantly won on home soil in capturing the Madiera Islands Open.
Santos was in sizzling form posting a closing round 63 to win by four shots on the course located very high-up, and dramatically overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
It was the then 29-year-old’s maiden and still first DP World Tour victory. There were emotional scenes with his wife, Rita and then very young three-year-old ...
Rickie Fowler – We Miss The Generous Victory Gesture Of A Dozen Bottles Of Bubbly
It is almost unheard of that when a top-ranked golfer wins a golf tournament he goes out of his way to arrange for a dozen bottles of bubbly to be delivered to the press room.
This has been the practice each time Rickie Fowler has won either on the PGA Tour or the now DP World Tour, and with Fowler, and through his manager, organizing either champers or ice-cold beers for the attending media at each of his five PGA Tour wins or his pair of DP World Tour victories.
There was champagne all around when ...
