Jones & Pike Get Assurance Of Place In Rescheduled 2021 Open Championship
Double Australian Open winner Matt Jones and joint third-placed Aaron Pike can breath a small sigh of relief knowing their places in the rescheduled 2021 Open Championship are assured.
The PGA sent a memo to all Tour members, including Jones, stating all players who had secured a spot in the field for the Open Championship as of April 6, 2020, will remain eligible for the rescheduled 2021 tournament at Royal St. George’s.
Strangely, the R & A had not indicated this in their recent statement ...
PGA Tour Advises To Prepare For Possible May 21st Charles Schwab Challenge Restart
The PGA Tour has advised as members it is considering a return to competition on May 21st at the Charles Schwab Challenge at Fort Worth, Texas.
In a leaked memo on Thursday to all players, the Tour said it has been looking at options ‘preserve the maximum number of events we can while giving us more time as the crisis evolves’ and that it has not ruled out a restart from the Coronavirus in Texas.
And one of those options included the possibility of playing tournaments without galleries
The ...
MacIntyre’s Place Confirmed By PGA Tour For 2021 Rescheduled Open Championship
Robert MacIntyre’s place in the rescheduled 2021 Open Championship has been confirmed in bizarren manner via a leaked PGA Tour memo.
The R & A had not indicated in their recent statement to cancel the staging of the 2020 Open if those, like MacIntyre who was exempt for Royal St. George’s, would remain also exempt for the hosting of golf’s oldest major on the Kent course in 2021.
However, the PGA Tour memo stated ‘all players who had secured a spot in the field for the Open ...
Lyle’s Unique Augusta & Royal St. George’s Distinction On Hold For A Year
Sandy Lyle holds a very unique double Major Championship victory distinction in this Coronavirus-stricken season.
Lyle is the only golfer to have won both the Masters and a Royal St. George’s Open Championship, and two of the four major venues in place at the start of 2020.
Of course, the 2020 Open Championship and due to be staged in July has been put back a year while the Masters has been rescheduled and bizarrely for the second week of November, and just two weeks before the official commencement ...
Nicklaus Backing McIlroy To Finish On Top In Fall’s Rescheduled Masters.
One of Rory McIlroy’s biggest supporters is still the greatest name in golf – Jack Nicklaus.
McIlroy first met Nicklaus in March 2009 in a Palm Beach Gardens, Florida shopping centre car park. It was two months after McIlroy had captured a maiden European our title at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic and McIlroy, and acommpanied by his father, was competing in his very first ‘regular’ PGA Tour event having accepted an invitation to tee-up that week in the Honda Classic.
“Hi, ...
What’s Happening With Augusta’s Other Green Jacket Ceremony?
What happening with Augusta’s other ‘Green Jacket’ other ceremony everyone is now demanding.
The Masters has been rescheduled for November but what about that other ‘Major’ – then one just a mile down Washington Road in Augusta, Georgia.
It’s a major that needs no formal invitation, there’s former champions dinner, no roped-off areas while you’re allowed to use your mobile phones without of fear of being pounced upon by over-zealous Pinkerton’s National Security ...
Restoring Laguna Golf Lăng Co To Its Former Golfing Pride.
In meeting Adam Calver, it’s impossible to miss his naturally sunny disposition. Talking ‘ten-to-the-dozen’, the Director of Golf at Laguna Golf Lang Co, a Faldo design ranked among the best golf courses in Vietnam, will wax lyrical on any number of subjects related to the Royal and Ancient game.
Adam’s favourite topics include his rapport with Faldo, his stints at superstar clubs such as Cabot Links & Cabot Cliffs in Nova Scotia, Nirwana Bali Golf Club and Jumeirah Golf ...
