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Lyle’s Unique Augusta & Royal St. George’s Distinction On Hold For A Year
Sandy Lyle holds a very unique double Major Championship victory distinction in this Coronavirus-stricken season.
Lyle is the only golfer to have won both the Masters and a Royal St. George’s Open Championship, and two of the four major venues in place at the start of 2020.
Of course, the 2020 Open Championship and due to be staged in July has been put back a year while the Masters has been rescheduled and bizarrely for the second week of November, and just two weeks before the official commencement ...
Nicklaus Backing McIlroy To Finish On Top In Fall’s Rescheduled Masters.
One of Rory McIlroy’s biggest supporters is still the greatest name in golf – Jack Nicklaus.
McIlroy first met Nicklaus in March 2009 in a Palm Beach Gardens, Florida shopping centre car park. It was two months after McIlroy had captured a maiden European our title at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic and McIlroy, and acommpanied by his father, was competing in his very first ‘regular’ PGA Tour event having accepted an invitation to tee-up that week in the Honda Classic.
“Hi, ...
What’s Happening With Augusta’s Other Green Jacket Ceremony?
What happening with Augusta’s other ‘Green Jacket’ other ceremony everyone is now demanding.
The Masters has been rescheduled for November but what about that other ‘Major’ – then one just a mile down Washington Road in Augusta, Georgia.
It’s a major that needs no formal invitation, there’s former champions dinner, no roped-off areas while you’re allowed to use your mobile phones without of fear of being pounced upon by over-zealous Pinkerton’s National Security ...
Restoring Laguna Golf Lăng Co To Its Former Golfing Pride.
In meeting Adam Calver, it’s impossible to miss his naturally sunny disposition. Talking ‘ten-to-the-dozen’, the Director of Golf at Laguna Golf Lang Co, a Faldo design ranked among the best golf courses in Vietnam, will wax lyrical on any number of subjects related to the Royal and Ancient game.
Adam’s favourite topics include his rapport with Faldo, his stints at superstar clubs such as Cabot Links & Cabot Cliffs in Nova Scotia, Nirwana Bali Golf Club and Jumeirah Golf ...
Woods Admits He’s Alive, Wired and Also Irritable In Missing Masters Defence
Tiger Woods admits he’s alive, he’s wired and he’s irritable not in missing this week’s defence of the Masters in the uncertanity currently facing all of us.
The five-time Augusta winning hero revealed he’s recovering “night and day” from on-going back issues that were expected by many observers to hinder Woods possibly teeing-up in the year’s planned first Major.
“Night and day. I feel a lot better than I did then. I’ve been able to turn ...
Scottish Golf Cancel Entire 2020 Competition Schedule
The news not surprisingly only gets worst with Scottish Golf now cancelling its entire 2020 schedule.
Scottish Golf has been in lock-down mode now for some weeks with some of the amateur game’s leading men’s and women’s events already postponed.
The administrators of the game in the Home of Golf nation have led the way in keeping all those playing and administering golf abreast of an ever-changing COVID-19 affected climate but now feel the best move forward is to cancel the 2020 season and ...
Sandy Lyle Fearing Augusta’s Billy Payne Waving His Finger At The Scot
Sandy Lyle this week was to have marked a 40-year anniversary since then then 22-year old made his maiden Masters appearance.
Just eight years later in 1988 the Scot bravely countered everything to proudly to become just the second European behind the late, great Seve Ballesteros to win at Augusta National.
In his 38 appearances and 112 rounds Lyle has had little cause to fear anything.
Well everything except the beckoning index finger of Augusta National Chairman, Billy Payne.
If was at the 2017 ...
