Fota Island To Host 2014 Irish Open.
Cork’s Fota Island course will host the 2014 Irish Open.
The news, which is not unexpected, is set to be officially confirmed on Monday by the European Tour.
The 19th to 22nd June tournament will see the European Tour event returning to the Cork club for the first time since Soren Hansen’s victory in 2002 and a first major international event since the Cobh club staged the 2007 Irish Seniors Open won by former Irish Open winner Sam Torrance.
Carton House, the 2013 venue, had been tipped ...
European Tour Firsts For 2014 – Dawie Van Walt Picks Up Three ‘First’ But Also Unwanted Fourth.
South African Dawie Van Der Walt can lay credit to three and an unwanted fourth list of European Tour ‘First’ following the first round of the Volvo Champions event here in Durban.
First player to tee off in 2014 – Dawie Van Der Walt
First player to record an eagle in 2014 – Germany’s Marcel Siem (3rd hole)
First player to record a birdie in 2014 – Dawie Van Der Walt (3rd hole)
First player to post a bogey in 2014 – South African Darren Fichardt (1st hole)
First ...
Rory McIlroy’s Presence Pivotal In 2014 Ryder Cup Says Olazabal.
Victorious 2012 European Ryder Cup captain Jose Maria Olazabal has singled out Rory McIlroy as pivotal in Europe’s bid to retain the Ryder Cup in September at Gleneagles.
Olazabal spear-headed the ‘Miracle at Medinah’ when his European side came from behind to deny the Davis Love 111 led Americans.
And while McIlroy had somewhat of a disappointing 2013, and eased in part from his stunning Australian Open win over Masters champion Adam Sctott, the 24-year old has leaped into 2014 ...
Miguel Angel Jimenez Reveals The Day He Lacks Motivation Is The Day He’ll ‘Pack Up & Go Home’.
Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez declared on the eve of the Volvo Champions event in Durban that the day he loses motivation to win will be the day packs up his golf clubs and belongings and goes home.
Jimenez, who turned 50 last Sunday, is returning to competition for a first time since capturing a third Hong Kong Open title, and when the Malaga-born golfer extended his ‘oldest-ever European Tour winner’ record with victory on the suburban Fanling Course.
And on the eve of the $4m event here ...
Nagging Back Concern Won’t Allow Oosthuizen To Plan Beyond Augusta.
Reigning Volvo Champions titleholder Louis Oosthuizen admitted a continuing back concern has forced him only to plan a new season schedule up to an including April’s Masters at Augusta.
The South African endured a wretched 2013 when injury forced him out of a number of events including withdrawing after three – rounds of PGA Tour’s Byron Nelson Championship and after a first round 75 in the US Open at Merion.
However Oosthuizen’s biggest disappointment came when he was forced out ...
Volvo Champions – 36 Players With 20 Chances At 5 Hole-In-One Prizes Worth $417,000.
The 36 competitors in this week’s Volvo Champions event will have 20 chances over the four rounds at any of five hole-in-one prizes worth a combined total of $417,000.
It a first-ever in golf, there will be the prize of either a Volvo sedan and a Volvo backhoe at the four par threes while there is the prize of a Volvo truck for an ace a short 250-meter (273-yard) final hole.
The prizes are:-
Par three, 2nd hole – Volvo S-60 sedan ($US47,000)
Par three, 4th hole – Volvo V-40 Cross ...
Darren Clarke Sheds 3 Stone & Over 100 Items Of Clothing.
Darren Clarke confessed he’s rid his wardrobe of more than a hundred items of clothing as part of a new fitness regime.
The former burly 2011 Open Champion was nearly unrecognizable as he belted balls in sauna-like conditions on a makeshift practice ground in Durban ahead of this week’s $4m Volvo Champions event.
In fact, Clarke’s has already shed more than three stone since a chance meeting last September with Jamie Myerscough who runs the Educogym in Dublin.
“It all started when ...
