The Day Rory McIlroy Sprung Me Playing Golf.
Here is a tale I had meant to write last week while in Hong Kong for the UBS Hong Kong Open.
Keith Williams, Director of Golf at the Hong Kong Golf Club has always been most kind in allowing myself and a colleague to play the Old Course at Hong Kong.
Like the championship course that stages the co-sanctioned event, the Old Course is just as tree-lined and challenging but also so stately and picturesque.
I had the opportunity to play the course last Friday and teed off around 7am. It was very quite ...
Sunset Over Singapore & The Shangri-La Sentosa Resort Hotel
Once again, we are very fortunate to be staying at one of the great hotels on the many stops for the European Tour – the stunning Shangri-La Sentosa Resort Hotel on Sentosa Island here in Singapore.
The hotel is also the official hotel for the staging of the Barclays Singapore Hotel.
Hereunder is a selection of photographs of the hotel and some great sunset shots we captured last night from the balcony of our hotel room.
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The Horse Race That Stopped A Golf Tournament
The first Tuesday in November every year for any Australian is special and that was very much the scenario for the handfull present here in Singapore for this week’s Barclays Singapore Open.
Today is Melbourne Cup day!
And after a little running around and surfing the net I managed to join three other Aussies here at the Sentosa Resort course to watch live coverage of the 152nd running of a ‘Race that stops a nation’.
In this case, it was race that stopped a practice session ahead ...
The Jack Nicklaus Designed World Cup Course – Mission Hills Golf At Its Best.
During the course of this week’s WGC – HSBC Champions we were fortunate to also sample some of the golf courses here at Mission Hills.
We played three golf courses – the World Cup course designed by legendary 18-Major winning Jack Nicklaus and then a day later a mixture of holes on the Annika Sorenstam designed Annika Course and the David Duval designed Duval course.
Mission Hills is China’s highest rated golf and leisure resort, and the world’s largest golf club according ...
Tour Miss Meets Mission Hills Caddies.
It’s hard upon arrival at the fabulous Mission Hills complex not to be amazed by the number of young female caddies working at the many golf courses.
Tour Miss met with a few of them this week and here’s a selection of photographs, and showing just how happy these Chinese girls are enjoying their work at the world’s largest golf complex.
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Zhengzhou Visit – City Scenes.
We only managed to spend a day-and-a-half in Zhengzhou but it was very enjoyable and also very eye-opening.
The city, pronouced Chengchow, is the capital of the Henan province in north-central China.
It serves as the political, economic, technological, and educational centre of the province, as well as a major transportation hub for Central China. The city lies on the southern bank of the Yellw River and is one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China.
Zhengzhou boasts a populatoin of some 9 million ...
Tiger Woods & Rory McIlroy Go Head-To-Head On A Crazy Day In China – Photos From A Mad Monday In Zhengzhou..
If you wondered what it would be like if China ever produced a World No. 1 ranked golfer than you only had to be in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou on Monday for the ‘Duel at Jinsah Lake’.
In all my years of reporting golf I’ve never seen a day or scenes like it.
McIlroy and Woods arrived at the course in a fleet of Bentleys to be greeted by the sight of a double line of Chinese military personnel standing to attention.
Inside the gates of the Jinsah Lake Golf Club complex was more ...
