Five Years Exactly From The Darkest Dark In PGA Tour History
Friday 13th March, 2020 – the darkest day in the history of the PGA Tour.
The day the PGA Tour, and at their very home in Ponte Vedra, Florida and the hosting of the 2020 Players Championship, led the major US-based sporting authorities with news the Tour was going a CovEid pandemic lockdown.
Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama had posted an opening Thursday first round with a course record equallying 63 on the host Stadium course at TPC Sawgrass but no sooner had play ended for the day and rumours ...
Sadness Within Golf, Reminding Us We’ve Lost Another Family Member.
The emotional golf-related news in recent weeks continues to remind us all there is so much more to golf than trying to hit a golf ball around a golf course in the least number of shots you can.
There’s been a few stories that have pulled hard at the heart strings.
Sad news of Tiger’s beloved mother, Kultida passing away over-showered everything in golf. No, everything in sport!
Tiger was still very much in mourning when he unexpectedly attended the final day of the Genesis Invitational ...
Obed Mbatha – Durban’s Renowned Badgeman, Proudly Wearing An Open Championship Badge.
There seems to be always someone you meet in the course of travelling to report on golf touraments who leaves a lasting impression, an impression in the nicest manner.
Someone other than those working on the Tour and travelling back and forward to tournaments.
Those volunteering to drive the courtesy cars or the buses back and forward from the hotel to the golf course or a security person working the tournament media centre simply checking each day your entry badge while it could be someone ...
Some 60,000 Packed Into Kings Stadium Where Outside Monty Was Hitting Shots Between The Goal Posts.
This week’s Investec South African Open has returned for a first time in 15-years to the stunning Durban County Club course laid out close to the Indian Open shoreline.
Though it was 11 years ago when the now-named DP World Tour was last in South Africa’s third largest city and that was for the third and final hosting of the ‘winners only’ Volvo Champions event on this week’s host venue.
I had attended the opening Volvo Champions in 2011 in Bahrain before it was then ...
Cape Fear National – If You Love Your Golf, There’s Nothing To Fear.
There is plenty of golf courses around the globe when you mention their names, straightaway has you are thinking ‘how did the course attract that name?”
Courses such as the famed Crooked Strick where John Daly won a PGA Championship while there is host of the not-so-knowns such as the Purgatory Golf Club in Indiana, Kissing Camels in Colorado and reminding me of that photo of Michelle Wie kissing a camel, Mad Russian Golf Club and also in Colorado and Devils Knob in Virginna.
What about ...
McGinley Juggling Growing Business While Bravely Dealing With The Pain Of Family Sadness.
He will forever be revered as one of Ireland’s favourite sons – Paul McGinley captain of the victorious 2014 European Ryder Cup team.
McGinley’s men out-played Tom Watson’s visiting Americans to the tune of 16 1/2 to 11 1/5 so much so you can probably still hear faint sounds of cheering among the hills and valleys in the mountains surrounding stately Gleneagles.
However one can never wrest on their laurels and McGinley moved on from those three wonderful days in the Home of ...
Segregansett Golf Club – 130-Years Young, Home Club To US Open Winning Francis Ouimet
….. by Bernie McGuire
In visiting Segregansett Country Club for a first time, and seeing the sign indicating the club was founded in 1893 had me immediatately thinking this must be one of the oldest golf clubs in the United States.
Though what took me to Segregansett was its connection with Francis Ouimet, the then 20-year-old amateur who remarkably captured the 1913 US Open by defeating two of the greats of the game.
The Segregansett club is located some 45 miles south of Boston and close ...
