Jul 22nd, 2015 Article
The Golf Spiv Week 2
To be fair, he did say he was “half handy”, however, what a start for The Golfspiv…
To be fair, he did say he was “half handy”, however, what a start for The Golfspiv…
America's brilliant Billy Horschel finished the 2nd and last play off hole with an eagle 3, to beat Rory McIlroy at Wentworth to become this years BMW PGA Champion.
Whoa, Nelly! Nelly Korda delivered her fifth consecutive LPGA Tour win, and second major title, at The Chevron Championship. She is now only the third player in LPGA history to win five straight starts, the last being Annika Sorenstam in 2004-2005.
Motocaddy has signed six-time DP World Tour winner Niclas Fasth as a brand ambassador to represent the world’s biggest-selling electric trolley company on a global stage.
Lee Anne Pace claimed success in the Investec South African Women’s Open for a record fifth time at Steenberg Golf Club, after emerging victorious in an epic playoff battle with Magdalena Simmermacher in Cape Town.
Emily Kristine Pedersen defended her Saudi Arabian team title with a play-off victory in the Aramco Team Series – Jeddah, with Slovenian teenager Pia Babnik bagging the tournament’s individual title.
Swedish amateur Beatrice Wallin leads the Didriksons Skafto Open alongside Magdalena Simmermacher after both players shot an opening round of 67 in Bohuslän. The 22-year-old made the most of her familiar surroundings in Skafto, as she kept her composure amid gusty conditions to share the lead after 18 holes played.
The skies lightened up for the first day of the Trust Golf Women’s Scottish Open, with the sun shining down on the homeland’s own Michele Thomson. Thomson walked away with the 18-hole lead after recording a 7-under 65, a season-best for her on the Ladies European Tour.
It only seems like yesterday that we were cheering Lefty as he stormed to victory at the US PGA Championship and here we are on the eve of the next Major. This is only the second time Torrey Pines has hosted the U.S. Open and as ever, picking a winner is as tricky.
It was a relative surprise when Hideki Matsuyama picked up his first major title at The Masters and it is no easy task picking the winner of the PGA Championship this week. Kiawah Island throws up many challenges to the best in the world, especially if the wind starts blowing.
After being bumped to mid-November last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Masters will be resuming its usual place as the first major on the golfing calendar. The world's best players will tee it up at Augusta National from April 8-11.
Finland’s Sanna Nuutinen continued to show why she is one of the best players still in search of her maiden LET title, firing an opening five-under-par round of 67 to lead by one shot from Scotland’s Kelsey Macdonald at the rain-affected Andalucia Costa Del Sol Open De Espana.