Bonhams is to offer the most famous golfing painting in the world: The Portrait of Henry Callender standing in a landscape, in the red coat of Captain General of the Blackheath Golf Club and holding a putter by the Leicestershire artist Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760-1803). It is estimated at £600,000 – 800,000.
This is it, the big one. A European Number One will be crowned on Sunday as the top players on the European Tour play in the season finale. Rory McIlroy may be in pole position but the chasing pack are close...really close. It's all to play for. Here are GolfPunk's tips for the big one.
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It's moving day at the WGC-HSBC Champions in China tomorrow. What do we love about moving day?...well movement of course. When it comes to placing a bet, today is the day to do it.
Frenchman Victor Dubuisson birdied the 18th hole to win his second Turkish Airlines Open, beating South African Jaco Van Zyl by a single shot.
What do you do when your European Tour membership is under threat and your Ryder Cup chances are in jeopardy?
Helping Our Gravy & Bunching Arse this weekend were...
Soren Kjeldsen set the early clubhouse target in the British Masters today with Matthew Fitzpatrick still out on the course, but Fitzpatrick hung on to share the lead with a -2 under 69.
John McLaren, Luke Donald’s caddie for the past six years, has “surprised” Donald by announcing that he is moving on.
The big question today was whether or not Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen could keep his cool and hold his lead to win a third European Tour Championship, and keep his tour card whilst he was at it? And there was also the question of would he pick up $800,000? The Dunhill Cup is one of the biggest purses on the European Tour, with a total prize fund of $5,000,000.
It was Thorbjorn Olesen's day at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. He shot a great 7 under 65 at St Andrews to get to seventeen under par, and hold a three shot lead over Germany’s Florian Fritsch.
It didn’t rain (that much) today, and the crowds came out in their droves. Who says the young guns aren’t already making a difference? They came to see Jordan, and he did not disappoint. In the end he won comfortably with a two under 69 to beat Henrik Stenson by four shots.
