Golf Club Verandah’s – The Very Special Hong Kong Golf Club Verandah.
* Updated – March, 2025
Verandahs! In particular, golf club verandahs.
Among the delights in many, many years reporting on tournament golf is the simple delight in returning year after year to the host club that has so much going for it.
Whether it be liking the golf course, enjoying spending the week in a workable & friendly media centre, general tournament access or just the overall ambience of the of the host venue.
And there is also a good clubhouse.
And when I talk clubhouses, ...
Drysdale Heads Into Hong Kong Open Singling Out Exciting New Era Of Young Scottish Golfers
It is a marvellous tribute from a golfer who has been a professional for near on 30-years.
With Scotland’s David Drysdale paying tribute to a ‘new era’ of his younger countryman golfers ahead of proudly taking his place as an Asian Tour rookie in this week’s $US 2m Hong Kong Open.
Drysdale, 48, tees-up in the last of just a handful of events remaining in his Asian Tour member first season ahead of the near-assurance of enjoying full-season playing rights for the New Year, and ...
Smith Eager To Become Newest ‘Down Under’ Golfer To Finish Top In Hong Kong Open
Cameron Smith has ended a nine-year tournament absence as he seeks to become the 15th Australian name to be added to the gleaming Hong Kong Open championship trophy.
Last year’s Open Champion, and still the highest world-ranked Aussie at World No. 20 and this despite being a member of LIV, last contested the event in 2014 in his then rookie season, and despite now 16 wins in stunning career, and also including two individual titles this year on the LIV Tour, Smith is yet to taste success in ...
McIlroy Reaches Out To Rahm: “I’m Pretty Confident Jon’s A PGA Tour Player”.
Rory McIlroy’s revealed he reached out to Jon Rahm and saying there’s no way the super golfing Spaniard will desert the PGA Tour ship for LIV Golf.
Speculation was rife when it was noticed Rahm’s name went missing from the list of 24 players listed on the TGL website who will compete in January’s start to the PGA Tour backed TGL series in Florida.
CONFIDENT HE’S @PGATOUR PLAYER …
Rory @McIlroyRory reaches out to @JonRahmpga over @TheMasters champ decision to withdraw @TGRLiveEvents
Declares: ...
Power Remains Side-Lined For This Week’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship
Seamus Power remains sidelined with injury and sadly thus ruling the champion Irish-born golfer out of his defence of this week’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
Power had been forced to withdraw from July’s DP World Tour Genesis Scottish Open, managing to play just nine holes of his opening round and while he played two rounds of the following week’s 151st Open Championship, he was still being hampered by the injury.
He returned to his Las Vegas residence taking three weeks off ...
Three Major Winners & Ireland’s Brian O’Donovan Head This Week’s Hong Kong Open.
Major winners Graeme McDowell, Patrick Reed and Aussie Cameron Smith enjoy star billing in this week’s 62nd edition of the prestigious Hong Kong Open.
Also in the field is Ireland’s Brian O’Donovan.
Of course, McDowell, Reed and Smith need no introduction and with the trio assured to draw huge interest over the four days starting this Thursday at the famed Hong Kong Golf Club course in suburban Fanling.
McDowell’s no stranger to the course, albeit it has been 14-years since ...
MacIntyre Leading Tartan Foursome Heading ‘Down Under’ For Aussie Double
Ryder Cup winning hero Robert MacIntyre will accompany fellow Scottish golfing stars Grant Forrest, Connor Syme and Callum Hill heading ‘Down Under’ later this month for the DP World Tour co-sanctioned Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland from November 23-26 and the Australian Open the following week at two courses in Sydney.
MacIntyre, 27, was a member of the recent winning European Ryder Cup team that brought down their illustrious USA golfing rivals in Rome, and with the ...
