Paul Dunne Travels 16,700 Klms To Tee Up First Time As Full European Tour Member.
Rookie Irish professional Paul Dunne has travelled nearly 17,000 klms to Australia’s Gold Coast just to tee-up for a first time as a full European Tour members.
This week’s Australian PGA Championship, being staged on the Royal Pines Resort course, is the first time the event is being co-sanctioned by the European Tour.
The event, along with the corresponding Nedbank Challenge in South Africa, share the honours as the first events of the Tour’s 2015/16 wraparound schedule.
And being a Ryder ...
Rory McIlroy Worth A Cool $422m & Counting.
Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy is reputedly worth a cool $422 and counting.
That’s according to official documents filed recently by his management company Rory McIlroy Inc.
The figure is reportedly based on is on-course earnings, as well current endorsements with Nike, Bose, Omega and other sponsors.
It clearly places McIlroy well on the way to becoming golf’s second-ever billion-dollar player and joining Tiger Woods, who was recently valued by Forbes at over $700 million.
Tiger Woods Paints Bleak Picture Of Uncertainty Over His Back & Return To Golf.
by Fatiha Betscher, Bahamas.
Former long-time World No. 1 Tiger Woods painted a very bleak picture and not knowing when he will or when he hosted a press conference here in the Bahamas ahead of this week’s 2015 Hero World Challenge.
Woods is host of the limited field event but looked clearly to be in some pain following two back surgeries in a span of 18 months and revealing he underwent another “procedure” in the same area of his back last month.
However Woods said he is yet to start ...
Australian PGA – Australia’s Oldsest Event Becomes European Tour’s Newest Tournament.
This week’s Australian PGA Championship will mark a new era in The European Tour when the oldest and most prestigious event on the PGA Tour of Australasia is co-sanctioned for the first time at RACV Royal Pines Resort.
No fewer than 20 different nationalities will be represented in the field, with European Tour winners such as Scott Jamieson, Edoardo Molinari and Peter Uihlein lining up alongside a host of Australians who have tasted success on The European Tour including Stephen Allan, Robert ...
Jordan Spieth Hosting Texas-Theme Bar-B-Que At 2016 Augusta ‘Former Champions Dinner’.
In keeping with his Lone Star State up-bringing Masters champion Jordan Spieth intends hosting a ‘Texas Bar-b-que’ at next April’s Augusta National ‘Champions Dinner’.
The 22-year old Spieth gets to play dinner host after having stormed his way earlier this year to a maiden Major triumph by four strokes at the Georgia golfing gem.
And in a recent Masters tradition Spieth has chosen to host an outdoors bar-b-que as South African Charl Schwartzel did in 2012.
However it won’t be South African ...
Matt Jones Australian Open Celebrations Ruined If He Misses Out On Masters Invitation.
Matt Jones celebration in winning the Australian Open could be soured later next month should he miss out on an invitation into next year’s Masters at Augusta National.
Jones victory at the Australian Club in Sydney has seen him jump 30 places to the new World No. 51.
However it just one place, and just 0.0142 of a World Ranking point shy from earning an automatic exemption into the New Year’s traditional first Major by ending the year inside the top-50.
The 35-year olf Arizona-based ...
Historic Occasion At Association Of Golf Writers Australia Annual Dinner – First Time Two U.S. Open Winners Together In Australia.
It was an historic occasion on the eve of the final round of the 100th Australian Open at the annual Association of Golf Writers Australia (AGWA) Annual Dinner.
Present at the dinner held at the Bonnie Doon Golf Club was four Australian-born Major Champions – Five time Open winner Peter Thomson, double Major winning David Graham, 1991 Open winner Ian Baker-Finch and 2006 US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy.
However in a first it was the first occasion the now Texas-based Graham and Ogilvy were together ...
