Dumbarnie Links Remains Optimistic Ahead 16th May Opening
Dumbarnie Links, and Scotland’s newest golf course, remains optimistic of opening for play in exactly a month’s time.
Dumbarnie Links was designed by Clive Clark, a member of the 1973 GB & I Ryder Cup team, and is laid out on the Firth of Forth shoreline near Upper Largo and less than 20-miles from St. Andrews in Fife.
The course is planning to officially open on 16th May and with the club’s website sporting a countdown clock in days, hours, minutes and seconds though any opening will ...
Taylor Declares ‘It Sucks’ With RBC Canadian Open Dropped From 2020 Tour Schedule.
Canadian-born Nick Taylor is understandably annoyed the staging of the 2020 RBC Canadian Open has been cancelled.
Taylor is the reigning AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am champion and with the 31-year old Winnipeg-born golfer ending a six-year winless drought earlier in the February this year with his four-shot success at Pebble Beach.
And while the PGA Tour has now known for weeks the Toronto City Council has cancelled all sponsored events to the end of June and that includes the June 11-14 RBC Canadian ...
PGA Players Advisory Committee Vote On June 11th Restart To COVID-19 Hit Schedule
The PGA Tour Players Advisory Committee it is understood today (Tuesday) backed a PGA recommendation to return to competition on June 11 for a rescheduled Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas.
It was thought the Texas event on the famed Colonial course would take place at the end of next month from May 21-24, and as presently appearing on the schedule, but given on-going fears over COVID-19, the Tour will announce shortly a move for the Texas event to the second week of June, and with the ...
European Tour CEO Predicting A ‘Radically Different’ Tour Post Coronavirus Pandemic
European Tour CEO Keith Pelley has advised Tour players to be prepared for a “radically different” Race to Dubai make-up when the Tour eventually resumes its schedule following the coronavirus pandemic.
Pelley forwarded an email memo to all memberrs including the likes of World No. 1 Rory McIlroy and Open Champion, Shane Lowry, advising of the potential impact with regards to Tour finances, various tournament sponsors and TV broadcasting rights.
Pelley went as far to also point out those ...
McIlroy Now Beginning To Believe He Can Win A November Masters.
Rory McIlroy’s had eleven attempts in striving to win the Masters in the month of April and is now backing himself to break his Augusta National ‘drought’ in noNovember.
Six-time Masters winning Jack Nicklaus reckons McIlroy could bloom in the winter-like conditions later this year and now so does the current World No. 1 who’s had five top-10s at Augusta.
McIlroy’s also won nine of his 10 of his 27 career victories in the last four months of the year and went so close ...
Doug Sanders – Golf Not Only Loses Much Colour But A True Gentleman
Doug Sanders was a regular passenger of the once-a-year flight from Houston to Augusta, Georgia.
Organisers of the Shell Houston Open, and when it was staged the week prior to the Masters, would arrange a United Airlines charter flight direct from closeby Houston Bush Airport on the Sunday night following the conclusion of the event and then head straight to Augusta, GA.
The flight was normally for players, caddies, officials, media and anyone happy enough to pay a reduced fare, and one of those ...
Jack’s Memorial Looking To Replace Open Championship On Schedule.
The decision by the R & A to cancel this year’s hosting of the 149th Open Championship could be the gain of the Jack Nicklaus hosted Memorial.
The Memorial is due to be staged from June 4th to 7th but with continuing fears over COVID-19 Memorial event organisers have already been in contact with the PGA Tour with a view to postponing the event.
And with the week of The Open, namely July 16th to 19th, now free the Memorial is seeking to fill that now vacant week given the PGA Tour website ...
