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In the absence of an injured Scottie Scheffler, World No. 2 Xander Schauffele would seem is the player to beat at this week’s opening event of 2025 – The Sentry on the host Plantation course at Kapalua in Hawaii. Schauffele, 31 won both the PGA Championship and The Open last year while he enjoyed a remarkable 13 other top-10s in 2024 including runner-up in both the Players, Wells Fargo and FedEx St. Jude championships. As well, one of his top-1os was a share of 10th a year ago at The ...

The 2025 Sentry – All The Pre-Tournament Facts & Figures Nick Dunlap Winner of the 2024 Arnold Palmer Award as the 2024 PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year; second-youngest player to win the award (Jordan Spieth/2013) Season highlighted by wins at The American Express and Barracuda Championship, becoming the first player in history to win on TOUR as an amateur and a professional in the same season With his win at the Barracuda Championship, became the first player since Tom Kim to win twice ...

Today  1st January, 2025 marks the 25th aniversary of hitting a first golf shot on a golf course of the 2000 Millennium. I undertook this history-making first on the stroke of midnight at the Manamo’ui Golf Club course on the Pacific Ocean island of Tonga. Tonga boasts the most easterly golf course in the world and given the location of the golf course, and it also being midnight I had the great help of a couple of people who kindly offered to park their cars with their headlights turned on ...

With over 80 golf courses and sunshine practically all year, Portgual has always been a mecca for golfers boasting as it does five strong golf regions – the famed Algarve, Lisbon, Porto, the Azores and Maderia. It’s the Algarve that is most widely known boasting 10 seperate golfing destinations including Villamoura where you’ll find such courses as the Victoria that played host to the Portugal Masters and others including the Old Course, Pinhall and Millennium courses. And while ...

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is a shock withdrawal from next week’s opening event on the New Year – the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. The PGA Tour have just released details of the freak injury sustained by Scheffler in preparing his family’s Christmas Dinner. Scheffler’s manager Blake Smith released details to the PGA Tour who then issured the statement hereunder.   He WD from ⁦@PGATOUR⁩ event Scottie Scheffler pic.twitter.com/Qiktb0Jt9A — Golf & ...

Those who like their Scottish golf may know how partial I am to the Askernish course located along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides. If I have done my job well then you may be planning to visit this Old Tom Morris designed links gem and, if so, you may wish to make the small effort visiting a little-known nine-hole course around a 35-minute drive north named Benbecular. Benbecular is around both a 12-kilometre long and also similar width wide island located ...

In writing this article, I have been fortunate to play three golf courses boasting bunkers of a ‘different’ kind. When I say a ‘different’ kind, I am not referring here to the traditional sand-filled bunkers but concrete bunkers. “Concrete bunkers?”.  Yes, concrete bunkers and defence bunkers built during World War 11. There is the strong remnants of an anti-aircraft bunker still in position at the back of the seventh green on the Craighead Links course and my ...