Barra Island Golf Club – A Second Visit Was Truly Double The Pleasure
It was 2012 when I first visited the remote Isle of Barra golf course in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
Since then I’ve been fortunate enough to return to the islands in 2015, 2016, 2019 and last year in August 2022, and when making a third visit to Barra.
Five visits .. Now is that not a strong recommendation?
The Isle of Barra course lays claim to the most westerly golf course in the UK. You can’t go any further west or you would arrive on the shores of Canada.
The golf course is ...
Doha Golf Club’s Academy Course – Best Fun 8 1/2 Holes On The DP World Tour
If you’re read my articles on the ‘Course Features’ section on this website you may gather many of the stories have been researched and posted following visits to golf courses made during the course of reporting on events while on the various Tours.
Whether it be on the PGA Tour, the Asian Tour, the Australasian Tour or the DP World Tour there’s always been a welcome door open for the visiting media to play a local golf course.
And there can better course to tackle than visiting ...
Crail’s Gil Hanse Designed Craighead Links Celebrates 25th Anniversary – His First 18-Hole Course
A day after the crowning of a new men’s U.S. Open champion one of the world’s oldest clubs is celebrating the 25 th anniversary of the Gil Hanse designed Craighead Links course at Crail Golfing Scotland in Scotland.
Hanse’s redesign work in Beverly Hills was on show last week for golf fans around the world to admire, while also testing the ancient club-and-ball game’s best ahead of American Wyndham Clark grabbing the golfing oscar in being crowned the 123 rd U.S. Open champion.
The ‘Silver ...
Law Excited Sharing Drivers Seat With Five Others Heading To Porsche European Open Final Round.
Two closing birdies, including a penultimate hole monster 40-footer, handed Scot David Law a six-way share of the lead heading to the final round of the Porsche European Open in Hamburg.
Law, 30, was struggling at one-over for his round through 13 holes before draining the lengthy putt at the par-3 17th and then two-putting the last from 46-feet also for birdie, in a round of a one-under 72 and a six-under tally on the tough Green Eagle course.
Six players – Law, England’s Jordan Smith (72), ...
Rome Rival Ryder Cup Captains Donald & Johnson United In Looking To Qualify For US Open
Rome rival Ryder Cup captains Luke Donald and Zack Johnson are among a host of PGA Tour stars teeing-up Monday at 10 sites (Nine in the US & one in Canada) seeking to qualify for the June 15-18 US Open at the Los Angeles (Calif.) Country Club’s North Course.
The 10 qualifying sites where players will compete over 36-holes include:
►Lambton Golf & Country Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
►Hillcrest Country Club, Los Angeles Calif.
►Pine Tree Golf Club, Boynton Beach, Fla.
►Hawks Ridge ...
Koepka Joins Elite Club Of 20 Players With Five Or More Majors
Brooks Koepka has now joined an elite club capturing a third PGA Championship title and a fifth major championship.
In doing so, Koepka becomes the 20th player to win five or more majors following his two-shot success at the Oak Hill Country Club.
Koepka brilliantlhy set-up victlory with three birdies in the first four holes to open up a four shot lead over Norway’s Viktor Hovland and Canada’s Corey Conners and then held on to win by two shots thanks to closing three-under 67 for ...
Min Woo Sounding Very Tiger Like, Chasing The ‘W’.
’Chasing the W’. It was an expression I had not heard in reporting on golf until the emergence of TW.
TW we all know is Tiger Woods and he’s spent his golfing career successfully chasing the ‘W’.
Though this week, and on the 25th anniversary of his TWs Masters debut, there is another golfer chasing the ‘W’ in just his second Augusta showing.
Ultra-talented Aussie Min Woo Lee has been knocking on the door for the ‘W’ ...
