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Superb news with the PGA Tour annoucing Gary Woodland, winner and 2019 U.S. Open as the recipient of the PGA Tour Courage Award. After experiencing health struggles for much of the 2023 season, Woodland, 40, underwent surgery in September 2023 to remove a brain lesion and continues to manage symptoms as he competes full-time on the PGA Tour. The PGA Tour Courage Award is presented to a person who, through courage and perseverance, has overcome extraordinary adversity, such as personal tragedy or ...

114th Investec South African Open Championship – All You Need To Know ……   Tournament: Investec South African Open Championship Venue: Durban Country Club, Durban, South Africa 2023 Champion (No event in 2024): Dean Burmester (RSA) Prize Fund: $1,500,000 Race to Dubai Points: 3,000 Race to Dubai: Tournament 11 of 42 International Swing: Tournament 6 of 7 Ryder Cup Points: 1,000 Player Field                  ...

The DP World Tour has proudly played regularly in South Africa in co-hosting tournaments with the ‘home’ Sunshine Tour. Though it’s somewhat surprising that it’s been 11-years since a co-sanctioned event was last in Durban and South Africa’s third largest city and was in 2014 for the final edition of just four Volvo Champions tournaments and staged on this week’s Durban Country Club course. In addition, it has been 15-years since the South African Open was last ...

The Aussie duo of newly-engaged Lucas Herbert and young Elvis Smylie tee-up in this week’s co-Australian/Asian Tour New Zealand Open with a triple goal – win the New Zealand Open, wrap-up the Australian PGA No. 1 money-list title and hopefully secure the one place on offer into July’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush Herber and Smylie won within a week of each other late last year with the 29-year-old Herbert capturing the Ford NSW Open on the Australian PGA Tour and Smyle a ...

Scott Jamieson has returned to Durban for a first occasion in a dozen years where he enjoys a special triple treat in his career​ competing in South Africa’s third largest city. Jamieson was just two events into his first full DP World Tour season when he made his ‘Open’ career debut at the 2010 South African Open on the Durban Country Club course located a wedge shot from the Indian Ocean shoreline. Then in two events, one either side of Christmas 2012, Jamieson celebrated a maiden DP ...

This week’s Investec South African Open has returned for a first time in 15-years to the stunning Durban County Club course laid out close to the Indian Open shoreline. Though it was 11 years ago when the now-named DP World Tour was last in South Africa’s third largest city and that was for the third and final hosting of the ‘winners only’ Volvo Champions event on this week’s host venue. I had attended the opening Volvo Champions in 2011 in Bahrain before it was then ...

There is plenty of golf courses around the globe when you mention their names, straightaway has you are thinking  ‘how did the course attract that name?” Courses such as the famed Crooked Strick where John Daly won a PGA Championship while there is host of the not-so-knowns such as the Purgatory Golf Club in Indiana, Kissing Camels in Colorado and reminding me of that photo of Michelle Wie kissing a camel, Mad Russian Golf Club and also in Colorado and Devils Knob in Virginna. What about ...