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Who’s Your European Tour ‘Rookie Of The Year’ Vote – Morikawa Or Hojgaard?

Who should be voted 2020 European Tour ‘Rookie of the Year’? For a first time in many years, the ‘Rookie of the Year’ will be decided by a committee comprising two members of the Tournament Committee and two members of the Tour’s Executive. In past years, it has been decided by who finished higher-up on the Race to Dubai rankings following the close of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Last year, it was Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre winning the one-time only award. The ...

75th U.S. Women’s Open – All The Facts & Figures

  75th U.S. Women’s Open Championship – Fact Sheet Dec. 10-13, 2020, Champions Golf Club (Cypress Creek & Jackrabbit Courses), Houston, Texas mediacenter.usga.org | Virtual Media Hub | uswomensopen.com @usga_pr | @uswomensopen | #USWomensOpen     COURSE SETUP For the first time in U.S. Women’s Open history, the championship will be played on two courses. To account for reduced daylight given the move to December, the Jackrabbit Course at Champions Golf ...

MacIntyre Anxious To Step Into Fowler’s Masters Shoes

Scotland’s Bob MacIntyre is primed to step into the shoes of American golfing heartthrob Rickie Fowler and take his place in next April’s Masters. MacIntyre jumped two places to a new career ranking high of World No. 59 on the back of last week’s top-20 result in the Golf in Dubai championship. In contrast, Fowler will end a remarkable run of 42 straight ‘automatic’ showings in the Majors in dropping two places to World No. 51 after missing the cut by a shot in last week’s Mayakoba ...

Royal Troon Misses Out On Their 2023 Centenary Open Championship

Royal Troon will miss celebrating the hosting of the 100th anniversary of the club’s first Open Championship in 1923 after an R & A decision not to switch the 2023 Open with Royal Birkdale. Prior to the cancellation of this year’s 149th Open at Royal St. George’s, Troon was all set to celebrate the 2023 Open a year after Royal Birkdale in 2022. But with Royal St. George’s now 2021, St. Andrews in 2022, the R & A decided to stick with Royal Birkdale for 2023 rather than swap ...

Fowler Drops Outside Top-50 First Time In A Decade – Loses Automatic Augusta Tee Time.

American golfing heartthrob Rickie Fowler will end a remarkable run of 42 automatic straight in the Majors at the release of tomorrow’s updated World Rankings. Fowler has qualified for every major since the 2010 but now has dipped to World No. 52 having missed the halfway cut in the Mayakoba Championship and the closing event of PGA Tour year. Fowler, and who turns 32 on December 13th, went into the event ranked 49th in the world and now being outside of the 50 means he will forfeit a Deceember ...

The Late Peter Alliss & My Memory Thanks To The GM At Castlerock Golf Club.

The golf world is in mourning at the passing of Peter Alliss. The eight-time Ryder Cup player, 31-time tournament winner, golf course designer, author and legendary golf commentator known universally as the ‘Voice of Golf’, passed away earlier today (Sunday, 6th December) suddenly but peacefully at home at age 89. In 1958, Alliss won three National Opens in a row, in the Italian Open, Spanish Open and Portugal Open, while in 1961, he worked his first tournament as a broadcaster for the BBC – ...

Syme ‘Very Grateful’ As MacIntyre Leads Five Scots In Season-Ender In Dubai.

Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre will head a strong field of five in-form Tartan players into this week’s mega-millions season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. MacIntyre and fellow season Tour-winning Marc Warren cemented their places some months ago into Thursday’s start to the £stg 5.9m final event of a COVID-19 2020 schedule at the Jumeirah Estates in Dubai. Now joining the pair is the trio of Drumoig’s Connor Syme, and 67th on the Race to Dubai rankings, Haddington’s Grant ...