After A 91-Day Absence McIlroy Leads PGA Tour Return At Fort Worth.
It has been 91 days since World No. 1 Rory McIlroy birdied his closing three holes on day one in defence of his Players Championship.
It was around 9pm local time later that day on Thursday 12th March when McIlroy received a PGA Tour ‘group’ text message to advise the flagship Tour event was cancelled due to fears over the growing Coronavirus concern.
In the intervening time McIlroy has also seen the cancellation of his defence of the RBC Canadian Open while the 149th Open Championship, and with ...
Selection Criteria Changed For 2020 Ryder Cup – Stricker To Have Six Captain’s Picks.
USA Ryder Cup captain, Steve Stricker will now have six ‘captain’ picks for this year’s Ryder Cup.
That’s an increase of two ‘picks’ and brought about as a result of the cancellation of 11 events on the PGA Tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The PGA of America and Stricker jointly announced revised selection criteria for the U.S. Team in advance of the 2020 Ryder Cup, which is scheduled to be played September 22-27 at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin.
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PGA Tour To Honour The Memory Of Slain George Floyd.
The PGA Tour will honour the memory of the late George Floyd in setting aside the 8.46am (Local US Time) both on day one of the Charles Schwab Challenge in Texas and the Korn Ferry Tour Challenge at Tour HQ in Ponte Vedre, Florida.
Floyd’s death on May 25th on a suburban street in Minneapolis has led to riots and protests not only in the USA but around the globe.
In releasing the opening two round draw for the Fort Worth event the Tour indicated the 8.46am tee time is a call to end systemic ...
Knox Returns To PGA Tour Set To Clock Over 4,000 Road Miles In Three Weeks
Russell Knox has already logged around 1,100 miles driving from his residence in Florida to Texas in the first leg of a more than 4,000-mile round journey to tee-up in a return to PGA Tour competition.
Knox and his wife, Andrea shared the driving in the couples 45-foot long RV motorhome leaving their Jacksonville, Florida home last Friday morning and arriving into Fort Worth, Texas mid-afternoon Sunday.
The PGA Tour is returning to competition after a three-month Coronavirus ‘lockdown’ with Thursday’s ...
McIlroy Heads 23 Major Winners Teeing-Up In Fort Worth.
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy will head 23 Major Champions teeing-up in Thursday’s starting Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.
McIlroy will lead out onto the Ben Hogan famed venue the current top-5 on the World Rankings and with the Ulster golfer among 101 Tour winners including fellow Irish Graeme McDowell and Shane Lowry.
More important, the golfing eyes of the world will be on Texas event given it is a first PGA Tour tournament in some four months since the ...
Saadiyat Beach Celebrates World Environment Day With Prize Audubon Sanctuary Honour
Saadiyat Beach will have good cause to celebrate World Environment Day – Friday, June 5th.
The famed United Arab Emirates (UAE) golf club, and designed by Hall of Fame legend, Gary Player has achieved designation as a “Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary” through the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses.
Corey Finn, Senior Assistant Superintendent, completed the effort to obtain sanctuary designation on Gary Player designed course in the UAE capital.
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Monty Insists It’s ‘Distressing’ European Tour Slips To Staging Six Euro 1m Events.
Eight-time former No. 1 Colin Montgomerie insists it’s ‘distressing’ to see the might of the European Tour drop to staging six tournaments of Euro 1m (£Stg 900,000) each.
The Tour announced recently will herald a return to competition on July 22nd with a ‘UK Swing’ of half-a-dozen events in England and Wales.
The tournaments will be a ‘no spectators’ affair while the Tour, and also in an unprecedented move, also will not allow media at the six venues spread out over a 300-mile radius ...
