The LPGA announced its revised calendar for 2020 on Wednesday with a planned return to play at the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational in Michigan on 15th July. There will also be more cash available due to increases in the purses for many of the events. Players will compete for an average of nearly $2.7 million per event.
Golf can be a serious business when it comes to having a positive effect on the economy. A new report from Sheffield Hallam University’s Sport Industry Research Centre reveals that the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles made a contribution of £106 million to the Scottish economy, which is pretty amazing for an event that’s in theory only three days long.
Gleneagles, the world-famous Scottish hotel and sporting estate, is giving all golfers the chance to celebrate its hosting of The Solheim Cup, September 9-15, with the launch of a special four-ball green fee that runs until the end of April, 2019.
Dundonald Links announced last night it will host the 2022 Trust Golf Women’s Scottish Open while unveiling its brand-new clubhouse as part of their multi-million-pound development project. The tournament was previously held at Dundonald in 2015, 2016 and 2017 with Rebecca Artis, Isabelle Boineau and Lee Mi-Hyang as respective winners.
Mrs Forman’s is the oldest golf pub in the world, but plans are afoot to demolish it and turn it into a garage. Have people no respect?!
A Scottish golf club that is based close to a train station has taken the innovative and unusual step of marketing itself on the local trains.
England’s Matthew Southgate and Victor Perez of France take a two shot lead into the final round at the Old Course, St Andrews in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Perez shot his second 64 of the week at Kingsbarns Golf Links to move to twenty under and was joined at the top of the leaderboard by Southgate who birdied his final hole at St Andrews to card a 65.
Even if the men's and women's major schedule is almost complete, with just the Women's Open to come at the famous Muirfield links course in Scotland, there is plenty for the fans in the coming months.
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.
The Tony Jacklin Partnership has been officially launched at City Golf London by Tony Jacklin CBE.
One of St. Andrews most sought-after developments has been listed for sale by , equipped with its own putting green. The contemporary development is on the market for offers over £650,000, with golf fans from around the world already enquiring. The ground floor flat, 1 West Burn Lane, has a private putting green in the front garden, letting golf fans own a piece of history at the home of golf.
One of golfs leading photographers has rounded off the season by receiving an unexpected honour.
