McIlroy No Fan Of Norman, But Clearly Enjoys A Fondness For Norman-Designed Courses
… Fatiha Betscher
Rory McIlroy is certainly no fan of Greg Norman and The Shark’s Saudi connection, but there’s no question that McIlroy does find favour in playing Greg Norman-designed golf courses.
Two of McIlroy’s biggest wins on the now named DP World Tour have come on the Earth Course at the Jumeirah Estates in Dubai, and that should have been three if not for the shirt-ripping exercise that followed his implosion last November up the last in Dubai.
A strong feature, as most TV ...
Austin Country Club – First Described A ‘Terrible DesigAn Property’, Now A Shrine To Texas Golfing Greats
Like most things in Texas, the Austin Country Club is a big golf course.
The course that again plays host, somewhat we understand controversially, to this week’s final hosting of the WGC – Dell Technologies Match-Play championship measures 7,062-yards, was carved out of hillsides, with many holes over-looking steep gorges, and also with a handful of holes running along the floodplain of the Colorado River in the north-western outskirts of the Texas capital.
The Austin Country Club was ...
The Snake Pit Lurking To Strike Fear Into Valspar Competitors.
Updated ahead 2026 Valspar Championship ….
The Snake Pit! Three words that may quickly conjure up thoughts of horror, excruciating pain and possibly death.
Though for those enjoying the game of golf the Snake Pit is the famed final three-hole stretch on the Copperhead Course at the Innisbrook Resort that is again proudly playing host to the 2026 $9.1m Valspar Championship at Palm Harbor on the Florida west coast.
The PGA Tour’s Shot Link rate the 16th, 17th and 18th holes at Copperhead ...
The Day Arnie Introduced Us To ‘Mulligan’.
One of the delights in driving up to the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, and home each year to the Arnold Palmer Invitational in surburban Orlando is there are no security gates, no security guard box and now even a simple electronically-operated boom gate.
This is so vastly different to the scenario across America where, and even at some public courses, unless you have prior permission or a suitable pass, you just cannot get past the front gates.
Of course, in this dangerous world that’s how sometimes ...
Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship – Looking Back Over The Past 16-Years
For 16-years the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship has been the starting point for many of the best competing on the now renamed DP World Tour.
The tournament in the UAE capital has also seen some of the best in the world win on the National course at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club that boasts the stunning falcon clubhouse.
And winning the equally stunning falcon trophy has been a who’s who in golf including double-major winning Martin Kaymer, who’s won the event three times along with Ireland’s own Shane ...
Monty Fears 150th Open Championship Could Be Last At St. Andrews
Colin Montgomerie fears new technology could see this year’s 150th Open Championship be the last to be played on the Old Course at St. Andrews.
Monty, and like so fellow tour pros, believes big-hitters like Bryson DeChambeau, and given calm conditions that may prevail at the Home of Golf, could turn the Home of Golf venue into one big birdie feast.
This year’s Open Championship will be the first at St. Andrews for DeChambeau and company since 2015 when American Zach Johnson won a Monday play-off ...
Yas Links & The Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship A Big Step 15-Years On From Meeting Course Designer
It is now 15-years on a Saturday morning in January 2010, a handful of the media were offered the opportunity to meet the Yas Links course designer down by the taken out to the eighth hole of the UEAs newest golf course.
The par-3 eighth hole was selected as it was then the only grassed hole and it seemed highly appropiate location for the handful of media to meet-up with renowned Kyle Phillips, the Yas Links course designer who had arrived a few hours earlier on a flight from the U.S., and after ...
