Rahm Deals With Another Curved Ball Question This Time At East Lake

The World No. 1 Jon Rahm is getting used to fielding questions right out of left field. Take last week’s BMW Championship. Rahm had to call a penalty on himself on the fifth hole on day three of the championship when he inadvertently picked-up his ball while his marker was still in his pocket. Then in ending his round the very first question to Rahm, and a question he knew would be asked, was as follows and with Rahm not all together happy. Qn: What happened on the 5th hole? JON RAHM: Not “good ...

McIlroy’s Defence Of Three 2019 Wins Now Cancelled & Now He’s In Doubt For Atlanta.

If there’s a player more affected by the COVID-19 related cancellation of tournaments then it has to be Rory McIlroy. McIlroy won four times in 2019 – Players Championship, RBC Canadian Open, the Tour Championship and the WGC – HSBC Championship. Three of those have now been cancelled with the Federation of Golf Tours confirming overnight the cancellation of next month’s WGC – HSBC Championship in Shanghai and as had been reported earlier this week by www.golfbytourmiss.com  On ...

McGinley Reveals New Legends Tour Heading In 2021 To Rosapenna

Former Ryder Cup winning Captain, Paul McGinley has revealed the Irish Senior Open will return to the schedule for the first time in 11 years when the newly-formed Legends Tour comes to Rosapenna Hotel & Golf Resort next year. It was announced today (TUES) the formation of a European ‘Legends Tour’, and the first of its kind in world golf, that will replace Europe’s over-50’s Staysure circuit. McGinley along with fellow Ryder Cup captains Ian Woosnam, Mark James and Darren Clarke ...

Tour Championship … What You Need To Know Before Tee-Off

  2020 TOUR Championship Pre-Tournament Notes Dates: August 31-September 7, 2020 Where: Atlanta, Georgia Course: East Lake Golf Club (35-35—70/7,346 yards) Field size: 30 2019 FedExCup and TOUR Championship winner: Rory McIlroy FedExCup bonus pool: $60 million ($15 million/winner) Format: 72-hole stroke play with FedExCup Starting Strokes Things to know • For the second consecutive season, the TOUR Championship is weighted by FedExCup Starting Strokes, with the format crowning a single ...

First The CJ Cup, Now The ZoZo & Next WGC – HSBC Champions

First it was the CJ Cup moving from South Korea to Nevada and now Japan’s Zozo Championship is moving to California. Next it will be the WGC – HSBC Champions being cancelled given continuing Coronavirus fears and with the Chinese government banning all international sporting events to the end of 2020. The PGA Tour announced the ZoZo, and with Tiger Woods with the inaugural event last year, will now be played from October 22nd to 25th, and without spectators, at the Sherwood Country Club in ...

Woods Declares 2020 To Have Been ‘Awkward’, ‘Difficult’ & ‘A Year No-One Will Forget’

Tiger Woods ended his shortened 2010/20 PGA Tour season well before the leading final groups in posting a final round 71 for an 11-over par tally for a distant share of 53rd place on the final day of the BMW Championship in Chicago. Woods, needing to finish top-3 to continue his season as among the FedEx Cup leading 30 this week in Atlanta, was heading home to Florida in projected to end his year in 63rd place. In fairness, Woods contested just seven events in the 2019/20 season starting with a win ...

Sainte Maxime Golf … An Undulating Harradine Design Full Of Golfing Ups & Downs.

One year in attending the Arnold Palmer Invitational we rented premises overlooking a golf course in the Orlando area. Every morning, I looked out over this particular hole as I munched on my Coco Pops thinking how do you play the hole, what’s the best option off the tee and then the right route into the green.  It was an uphill par-4 hole with all the trouble down the lefthand side. All the time I would think to myself: ‘Here’s a hole, and if I do get to play the course, I reckon ...