Paige Spiranac made her Ladies European tour Debut at the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters this morning. While we would love to say she was at the top, the sponsors invite was propping up the field, having shot a first round five over 77, 11 shots behind the lead.
Lydia Ko didn’t let the small matter of an earthquake get in the way of her winning the New Zealand Women’s Open, her third victory at the event in four years. We guess that’s why she is the world’s number one woman golfer.
The legalise marijuana campaign in Arizona is unveiling a billboard to coincide with the Waste Management Phoenix Open, which kicks off on Thursday.
The British Open Speedgolf Championships will return to Dale Hill Golf Club in East Sussex on August 14 2016. Come on in if you can shoot a 77 in 34 minutes and 4 seconds. We're sitting this one out.
John Daly will be teeing it up at the Turkish Airlines Open this week. He's also going to be hosting golf clinics and dinners at the Gloria Hotels & Resorts in Belek, giving guests the opportunity to learn from one of the greatest natural talents of our age.
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.
OK, we did get a bit carried away on Twitter posting Al Geiberger's 59 at Colonial in 1977, but Jason Day was so blazing it up today that we got more than slightly over excited. We have now calmed down a bit, but not by much.
Home favourite Victor Dubuisson, Austrian Bernd Wiesberger, and South African Jaco Van Zyl all shared the clubhouse lead after the opening day of the Alstom Open de France at Le Golf National.
K Bradley (US) A Scott (Aus), S Burns (US), L Aberg (Swe) X Schauffele (US), S Kim (Kor), T Fleetwood (Eng), C Davis (Aus) C Kirk (US), A Noren (Swe) S Im (Kor), R Mcilroy (NI) After only just making it into the top 50 as the final qualifier to play in this weeks Fed Ex cup playoffs, Keegan Bradley surprised many if not all to clinch a shock win at the BMW Championship.
Former LPGA player Ann Walker was not exactly burning it up at the recent Senior LPGA Championship but then her score got a lot worse in fact 58 shots worse! Unfortunately, our Ann did not pay attention when the new rules were announced at the beginning of the year. The result, 42 penalty shots imposed for her opening round and a further 16 for her first five holes on day two.
The players in the afternoon fourballs are on the back nine. The target time for the matches is four and half hours and they are on five hours and forty-five-minute pace. It seems that the men’s game is not the only one plagued by slow play problems.
As Matt Wallace thumped the green with his putter as another birdie putt slipped by the hole at the 18th he knew he had blown a chance to lift the British Masters crown. Step forward Marcus Kinhult, the world’s number 210th ranked player, to coolly hole his ten-foot birdie putt and complete Wallace’s nightmare.
