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Legendary Coach Pete Cowen Dealing With Coronavirus Challenge
When it comes coaching those who play the ancient club-and-ball game there’s none bigger and no-one more affable than Pete Cowen.
Cowen has coached nine Major Champions including the likes of Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell, Brooks Koepka, Louis Oosthuizen, Danny Willett, Darren Clarke, Sergio Garcia, Henrik Stenson and Gary Woodland along with fine-tuning the game of so many others to have accumulated more than 250 victories on the major tour’s of the world.
Cowen is to be found on the ...
Sugrue’s Meeting With Five-Times Masters Winning Woods Remains On Hold.
It is an envelope that every golfer dreams of receiving.
Imagine then the excitement for James Sugrue when a letter arrived a week prior to Christmas last year that was post-marked ‘Augusta, GA’?
Whether you’re Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott or a young amateur from Co. Cork a formal invitation to attend The Masters remains unique in a world too consumed with the digital age.
Sugrue, as the reigning Amateur champion, wasted little time getting onto Twitter to show the ...
McIlroy ‘Frozen’ As World No. 1 As World Rankings Shut Down.
Rory McIlroy will remain World No. 1 for the foreseeable future with the men’s and women’s ranking bodies advising there’ll be no movement in both the men’s and women’s rankings till it’s safe to resume competition.
The Wentworth-based body issued a statement Friday indicating:
“The Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) and Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking (WWGR) will be paused until further notice with professional golf currently inactive due to the global threat posed by Coronavirus ...
Fowler Posts 94, Thomas Fails To Break 100 & Mickelson, Weir, Chalmers & MacIntyre Smiling.
Lefty Major champs Bob Charles, Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson and Mike Weir plus the Aussie trio of Richard Green, Greg Chalmers and Nick O’Hern along with last year’s European Tour ‘Rookie of the Year’ Robert MacIntyre will be smiling broadly.
This is after Rickie Fowler posted a score of 94 and good friend Justin Thomas failed to break 100.
On Sunday, Fowler ‘smacked’ Thomas by five shots in shooting a round of 60 at Jupiter in Florida and then on Wednesday Fowler posted ...
Planning Board Says ‘No’ To Trump’s Doonbeg Wall & Where Norman Joked In Building A Verbal Barrier.
Donald Trump won the US Presidency, in part, on promises to build a wall dividing the United States from Mexico and when the rest of the world were calling for the building of bridges.
Thankfully, we’re yet to see such a ‘pie-in-the-sky’ proposal go ahead and nor are we to see the building of a Trump wall in Co. Clare and this after the Irish Planning Board declared ‘No’ to plans by Trump International Golf Links Ireland Enterprises Limited to build a wall at Trump Doonbeg.
We’re ...
Next To Be Postponed .. Dubai Duty Free Irish Open At Mt. Juliet?
Graeme McDowell as tournament host and organisers of the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at Mt. Juliet will be now hoping the fate of the Rolex Series event does not go the same way as other events on the European Tour Race to Dubai schedule.
On the back of the R & A easing fears for the hosting of the 148th Open Championship at Royal St. George’s in mid-July and the European Tour has advised of the postponement of a further two events on the Race to Dubai schedule including the Made in Denmark ...
Lowry’s Fears Eased With 148th Open Championship Defence To Proceed As Planned
Shane Lowry’s fears will be eased with news from the R &A that plans for the hosting of the 148th Open Championship are going ahead as planned.
Martin Slumbers, and CEO of the St. Andrews based body, issued a statement today stating:
“We are closely monitoring the constantly-moving situation in the COVID-19 pandemic and carefully following the advice issued to us by the UK Government, relevant health authorities and our medical consultants.
“We have decided to cancel two of ...
