It's been a hell of a year. Here are the results of the GolfPunk Staunchie Awards where we honour the finest achivements in 2016 from equipment manufacturers to people who were just nice to us.
Leicester are the Premier League Champions at odds of 5000-1. We look at the times a rank outsider has done the same on the golf course...
Leicester are on the verge of doing the unimaginable: Winning the Premier League title at odds of 5000-1. We look at the times a rank outsider has done the same on the golf course...
Six time European Tour winner and all round golfing good guy is finally fit after suffering from a costly wrist injury back in March last year. Last week he played his first professional tournament since his injury. This week he's at it again. A few days before Christmas he met up with Gorgeous George to talk fitness training with a rugby team, one armed practice, and new years resolutions...
Amid the celebrations on the 18th after Nick Taylor had written himself into Canadian folklore by becoming the first native to win the Canadian Open since 1954, Adam Hadwin stole the headlines by being floored by a security guard, who had thought the PGA tour pro was a fan.
Jodi Ewart Shadoff held onto her Thursday lead at the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship, turning it into a 36-hole lead on Friday at The Saticoy Club. Ewart Shadoff followed up a first-round 64 with a second-round 69 to sit four strokes ahead of the field at eleven-under-par overall. Her 133 is a new tournament scoring record, besting the record which was previously earned by Jessica Korda at Lake...
Jorgo Campillo moved into the halfway lead at the Horizon Irish Open after the Spaniard carded a four under second round 68 at Mount Juliet Estate, where home favourites Séamus Power and Shane Lowry put on a thrilling late show for the jubilant Irish fans.
Justin Thomas staged a record-equalling comeback before beating fellow American Will Zalatoris in a playoff to win the US PGA Championship at Southern Hills. Thomas started the final round seven shots behind the overnight leader Mito Pereira and took the clubhouse lead on five-under-par after an excellent round of 67.
Although it wasn’t the red number that 36-hole leader Hannah Green was looking for on Moving Day at the Palos Verdes Championship presented by Bank of America, she was still very proud of her grit on day three.
Thailand’s Pajaree Anannarukarn and USA’s Yealimi Noh both fired an opening round of 65 to lead on six-under-par at The Amundi Evian Championship. Anannarukarn posted a bogey-free opening round with three birdies on the front nine followed by three on the back.
It has been a while since GolfPunk last chatted to Mel Reid and so we were delighted to have a call with her a few weeks back. As well as finding out how she coped with the COVID pandemic we also got to her ask her, amongst other things, about the Solheim Cup, the big-hitting Bryson and her favourite tipple.
John Catlin claimed his third victory in just 13 events at the Austrian Golf Open after the American triumphed in a dramatic five-hole play-off with Maximilian Kieffer, following a similarly thrilling final-day battle with the German in regulation play.
