Back last August the European Tour announced a four-point plan for dealing with slow play on the tour. They have now revisited the plan and beefed up the regulations and penalties. The new tougher regulations come into effect at this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship presented by EGA.
Well we have run out of majors but Tiger will still be coming out to play in August as the FedEx Cup Playoffs commence this week in Jersey City, with The Northern Trust. It’s all change with the play-offs and we had to read it a few times before we sussed it out. So here’s how it will work..
The PGA Championship carries one of the greatest prizes in professional golf. The annual tournament, played each May and open only to the sport’s most elite players, has a huge prize fund, making it a fiercely competitive affair. And that makes for a great spectacle.
The World Handicap System launches in the UK on 2nd November. There is a lot of information out there distributed by clubs and the likes of England Golf and it is not the easiest to follow.
For those of a certain age and most likely from this side of the pond will see parallels between the move by the proposed Premier Golf League and the World Series Cricket (WSC) competition of the late 1970s. Both ventures share two fundamental drivers, the chance for players to earn more money and access to broadcast rights for the organisers.
Mizuno has announced the signing of PGA Tour players Nick Watney, Lucas Glover and Jhonattan Vegas to play their equipment.
The next generation Titleist T-Series irons family establishes a new standard in iron engineering, reaffirming Titleist’s commitment to creating the world’s best irons while providing golfers with optimised performance options from their shortest to longest iron.
The RBC Heritage is the 26th event of the 2022-23 PGA TOUR Season and sixth designated event, featuring seven of the top 10 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (38 of top 50), 28 of the top 30 players in the FedExCup standings, and 19 of the 20 players that have won on TOUR this season.
The most played hybrids on the PGA TOUR since 2014, Titleist hybrids have always set the highest performance and playability standards. The all-new TSR2 and TSR3 models – available for fittings and presale on 9 February and in golf shops worldwide beginning 23 February – continue to raise the bar with advancements and refinements that will benefit all players seeking long iron alternatives.
La Zagaleta, one of the most exclusive clubs in Europe, located in the Malaga town of Benahavís, will host the 2023 PING Junior Solheim Cup – a competition for junior players that precedes the 2023 Solheim Cup.
Mizuno, the Japanese equipment manufacturer long renowned for its beautiful, industry-leading forged irons and technically advanced golf equipment, has announced the signings of two talented young players – as part of a quest to develop its next 'homegrown' Major winner.
Despite all the excellent communication from England Golf and other bodies golfers are still struggling to get their heads around the new World Handicap System. It's not the calculation of the Handicap that seems to be causing the most discussion but the differentiating factor between golf courses known as the 'Slope Rating'. A few key facts are Handicap = Handicap Index x (Slope Rating /113)
