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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 ...

Graeme McDowell has labeled Tiger Woods the epitome of ‘Golf’ and declaring also Woods is the ‘PGA Tour’ ahead of TW’s return to competition later this week in Orlando. Woods will tee-up, and with 12-year-old son Charlie as his partner, in the 25th edition of the PNC Championship on the Ritz Carlton course. McDowell is yet to contest the event with any member of his own family, but has joined the huge chorus of fellow Tour stars excited Woods will be back inside the ropes for ...

….. by Fatiha Betscher (AGW member)  Great news with the Association of Golf Writers (AGW)  announcing the victorious European Solheim Cup team has been voted by members as the recipient of the 2021 AGW Golf Writers Trophy. Captained by Scotland’s Catriona Matthew OBE, the team became only the second European side to win on US soil in the biennial event, defeating the USA 15-13 in a thrilling match at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. The triumph saw Matthew, who had already ...

Graeme McDowell headed into the traditional Christmas/New Year break from competition pleased with his game in ending a 20th season in the pro-ranks with he and Canadian-born partner Corey Conners sharing fifth place in the 12-team QBE Shootout near Naples in Florida. The pair posted a four-ball last day eight-under par 64 for a three-round 28-under par tally on the Gold course at the Tiburon resort. The all-American pair of Kevin Na and Jason Kokrak came from behind to take out the title thanks ...