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… by Fatiha Betscher Home favourite Yue Liu used all his local knowledge to produce a second round 69 (-3) and lead by two shots at the halfway stage of the 27th Volvo China Open in Shenzhen. Playing on his home course, the 21-year-old posted six birdies to move to five-under-par at the Genzon Golf Club and goes into the weekend with a two-shot cushion over Enqi Liang and Shiyu Fan both tied for second on three-under. Overnight co-leader Wenyi Ding and Hong Kong’s Jason Hak Shun-yat ...

… Fatiha Betscher “Pretty Cool,” says Women’s World No. 1 Nelly Korda when asked what it is going to be like playing in front of former long-time men’s No. 1 Tiger Woods at this week’s PNC Championship. Korda is competing in the event for the first time and is partnered with her 53-year-old 1996 Australian Tennis Open winning father, Petr in the event again being staged on the Ritz Carlton course in suburban Orlando. The Korda’s have been drawn to tee-up ...

…… Fatiha Betscher 2021 PNC Championship December 16-19, 2021 • Unofficial PGA TOUR Champions event Orlando, Florida • Ritz-Carlton Golf Club • Par 72 • 7,106 yards Purse $1,085,000 • Winning team $200,000 40 players (20 two-person teams) • 36-hole scramble Defending champions Justin Thomas/Mike Thomas PRE-TOURNAMENT STORYLINES Family ties: The PNC Championship is a two-day, 36-hole tournament that uses a two-person team Scramble format. The event, which began in 1995, was ...

Shenzhen (CHINA): Yanwei Liu and teenage amateur Wenyi Ding share the lead at the Volvo China Open after shooting opening rounds of three-under-par 69 at Genzon Golf Club in Shenzhen. Just two shots separate fourteen players going into day two, and while the more experienced Liu also carded an opening 69 (-3) it was the towering figure of Ding who caught the eye playing alongside the tournament’s marquee name Haotong Li. The decision by event organizers to play China’s National Open ...

Looking back on the golfing year there’s been … Winners, Grinners, Losers, Emotion, Cat Fights, Pony Tails, Millionaires, Seve Movie, Mushroom Soup, Arabian Sea Breeze, Rulings, Double-D, Open Champs, A Signed Scottish £1 Note, Mum, Media, Bar-B-Ques, Spanish Tears, Pampered Pros, A Broken Shaft & Huey Lewis without The News. Let’s now roll with the best, the worst, & much more from season 2021. TEAM OF THE YEAR AWARD The winning European Solheim Cup team.  It’s the ...

Sponsor PNC is laughing all the way to their banks at the thought of the record-breaking TV coverage Tiger Woods will generate this weekend. Woods will team with his 12-year-old son, Charlie for a second-year running in Saturday’s start to the two-round PNC Championship in suburban Orlando. While the Woods’ generated enormous interest a year ago, the soon-to-be 46-year-old is set to send TV ratings off the scale teeing-up in a first event since last February’s near-fatal car crash in ...

The 2022 New Zealand Open is a big winner following the R & As confirmation of those tournaments around the golfing globe to offer places into July’s 150th hosting of the Open Championship. The R & A advised a total of 46 players qualifying in 16 events and in tournaments hosted in 11 countries will earn a tee-time on the Old Course at St. Andrews. Absent from staging an Open qualifier, and for the second time in as many years, will be the Australian Open and given both the 2020 and ...