Rickie Fowler Hoping First Wyndham Championship Can Lead To Third USA Ryder Cup Cap.
Greensboro, North Carolina … Rickie Fowler is hoping a first visit to the Wyndham Championship can lead to a third USA Ryder Cup cap.
Fowler is currently lying 12th on the US Team qualifying points table and four spots out of automatically qualifying for Davis Love 111s side.
The $US 5.6m Wyndham Championship is the second last qualifying event for the U.S. team ahead of the final event being next week’s Barclays Championship.
Fowler made his Ryder Cup debut in 2010 at Celtic Manor managing ...
‘Tin Cup’ – 20 Years On No One Remembers Who Won But We All Remember Roy’s 12 At The Last.
Greensboro, N, C …. Today August 16th is the 20th anniversary of the US release of the golf theme movie ‘Tin Cup’.
Roy “Tin Cup” McAvoy, played by Kevin Costner, is a former golf prodigy who has little ambition but all thanks to Hollywood goes within one hole of capturing the U.S. Open.
At the beginning of the movie we learn Roy owns a run-down West Texas driving range, where he drinks and hangs out with his pal Romeo Posar (Cheech Marin) and their friends.
But then ...
McGinley Aglow Heading To Start Of Olympic Games Women’s Medal Chase.
Irish Olympic Captain Paul McGinley is clearly on a high ahead of the Olympic Women’s Golf competition commencing tomorrow (WED) in Rio de Janeiro.
Stephanie Meadows and amateur Leona Maguire will strive to do what Padraig Harrington and Seamus Powers could not and that is to deliver Ireland a golfing gold medal.
And after the most thrilling outcome all season in the men’s competition, McGinley was aglow the ancient club-and-ball game has been such a smash hit in the modern Olympics.
“The final ...
McIlroy Not Only Gives Up Olympic Gold But Drops To A Two-Year Low On World Rankings.
Rory McIlroy not only gave up the chance of an Olympic Gold medal but he’s now No. 5 on the World Rankings after Sweden’s Henrik Stenson moved to a career high of No. 4 on the back of finishing runner-up in Rio.
McIlroy’s world ranking is the lowest since finishing T14th in the 2014 Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open that saw him drop to No. 8 in the world. However after capturing The Open a week later he went back to World No. 2 and then onto World No. 1 in winning the WGC ...
Five-Time Open Champion Peter Thomson Retires From His Golf Design Business.
Greensboro, North Carolina … After over 50 years in golf course design, five-time Open Champion Peter Thomson has announced his retirement from the firm Thomson Perrett he co-founded.
Thomson established the company in 1965 after winning his fifth Open at Royal Birkdale and since then has worked on over 250 projects in 30 countries including building over 100 new courses.
Thomson released a statement saying:-
I have encouraged Ross and Tim to continue with their golf design practices for ...
Leona Maguire Captures Mark McCormack Medal For Second Year Running.
Ireland’s Leona Maguire has won the Mark H. McCormack Medal for the second consecutive year as the leading women’s player in the 2016 World Amateur Golf Ranking™ (WAGR).
Maguire will compete for Ireland in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games this week. Speaking from Brazil, she said she was delighted to win the prestigious medal once again.
“It is a huge honor for me to win the Mark H. McCormack medal again this year,” said Maguire. “I am incredibly grateful to my family, my coach, Shane O ...
Rose Reckons Waiting For 2020 Tokyo Olympics Won’t Sit Well With McIlroy & Fellow Rio Absentees.
Greensboro, North Carolina … Olympic Gold medal winning Justin Rose reckons having to wait four years to the 2020 Olympic Games won’t sit well with the likes of Rory McIlroy and his fellow Rio Games absentees.
McIlroy was among more than 20 top players to withdraw from the Games with the four-time Major winner citing concerns over the Zika virus but later admitting that major championships remained the “pinnacle” of the sport and he would only watch “the stuff that ...
