Bjorn Names EurAsia Cup Side – Five Past Ryder Cup Stars & Seven Potential Paris Rookies
Thomas Bjorn has announed January’s European Team to contest the EurAsia Cup with five former Ryder Cup stars and also seven players that he potentially could be taking to Paris later in 2018.
Heading Bjorn’s team is 2016 Open winner Henrik Stenson and the big surprise being England’s Paul Casey who only announced he was rejoining the European Tour during the week of the WGC – HSBC Champions event in China.
Also in Bjorn’s side is England’s Ross Fisher, who played ...
After 29 Events In 20 Countries On Four Continents Dunne’s Tank Remains Full.
… Terry Rowles in Hong Kong.
Paul Dunne insists after this season contesting 29 tournaments in 20 different countries and on four continents there is still enough gas left in the tank for this week’s final event of his season, the USB Hong Kong Open.
Dunne winds-up just his second full year on Tour a week after ending the 2016/17 wraparound European Tour year 13th on the Race to Dubai.
The Greystones golfer banked a whopping Euro 1.7m and in a year capped by victory in the British Masters ...
Lowry Upwards In The World Rankings & Onwards To Paris.
It has been far too long when Shane Lowry climbed to a career high of 17th in the World Rankings with an eighth place finish in the 2015 Turkish Airlines Open.
Some three months earler, Lowry broke into the top-20 with his stunning success at the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational.
But since late 2015 it has been an annoying slip down the Rankings and teeing-up in last week’s DP World Tour Championship as the World No. 85.
Then after grabbing the clubhouse lead thanks to a sizzling 63 and ...
Ogilvy Admits Disappointing & Shame Scott & Leischman Not Contesting Australian Open.
Geoff Ogilvy admitted it is disappointing and also a shame two of fellow countryman in Adam Scott and Marc Leishman have chosen not to contest this week’s Australian Open in Sydney.
The duo, however, are contesting next week’s Australian PGA Championship at Royal Pines.
Scott is a former Australian Open champion and could have captured a second in 2013 only to allow Rory McIlroy through to victory on the very last hole.
Ogilvy attended a pre-Australian Open press conference where he was ...
Open Championship Qualifying Tees-Off In Sydney Some 16,800 Klms From Carnoustie.
If a crow could fly from Sydney to Carnoustie it would travel some 16,800 klms as that is the distance from the famed Harbour City to the venue next July of the 147th Open Championship.
This week’s Australian Open will see the commencment for worldwide qualifying into the 2018 Open Championship at Carnoustie. The leading three players, who finish in the top 10 and ties and who are not already exempt, will qualify for the Open at the renowned Scottish links from 15-22 July 2018.
Reigning ...
Clarke Heads Gary Player Invitational Field Looking To End Season On Winning Note.
Former Open Champion and European Ryder Cup captain, Darren Clarke will head the field contesting this week’s Gary Player Invitational starting Saturday at Sun City’s Lost City Golf Course in South Africa.
Clarke is returning to competition after finishing mid-field in the MENA Tour’s Jordan’AYLA Golf Championship that concluded the first week in October.
It was a number of end-of-season events Clarke contested on the MENA Tour and where he acts as Patron of the ever-growing ...
Meeting Tommie Brown & The Mayor Of Alligator, Mississippi.
It was of those chance encounters but in a town boasting around just 200 citizens.
The four of us, including my brother, Steve and his wife Sally who were visiting from Sydney, were making our way north from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee.
I had observed a sign saying ‘Welcome to Alligator’ when we travelled to this part of the States earlier this year in reporting on the PGA Tour’s FedEx St. Jude Classic some 90-minutes drive north in Memphis.
Now my first thought, ...
