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.
February 06-08, 2025 Riyadh Golf Club, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Three rounds/54 holes of stroke play 54 players – 13 teams of four players each, and two wild cards $25 million USD, $20 million individual, $5 million team $4 million USD (individual) $3 million USD (team) Shotgun Start for Rds. 1-2 at 6:15 p.m. (3:15pm GMT) ; Rd. 3 at 6:05 p.m. (3:05pm GMT)
Seeing TaylorMade’ announcement (our coverage here) of its new mini driver got me thinking. What the hell is a mini driver? Surely, I need a Mahoosive big headed driver with a sweet spot the size of a tea plate which will launch the ball in to the stratosphere (Kaboom!). Did I not have a mini driver back in the 70s, it was made out of wood (persimmon if you were posh) and it had the propensity to fly all over the place.
Team Jessica Korda clinched victory at the Aramco Team Series – New York after they beat Team Popov in a two-hole playoff at Glen Oaks Club. After starting the day two strokes behind the overnight leaders, Jessica Korda, Karolin Lampert, Lina Boqvist and amateur Alexandra O’Laughlin produced another solid round to finish with a total of forty-one-under-par.
Numbers 35-31. Who's made this cut? Some absolute corkers in here...
In his 11-year professional career, Harold Varner III has won individual trophies in Australia and Saudi Arabia. He also celebrated a LIV Golf League team trophy earlier this year in Singapore. But the 32-year-old resident of North Carolina had never won on American soil until Sunday, when he captured the LIV Golf DC trophy with a final-round 4-under 68 for a one-stroke victory.
Two players at different stages in their professional golf careers won tournaments last weekend while relying on SkyCaddie GPS for yardage information. Phillip Price, conqueror of Phil Mickelson in the 1983 Ryder Cup, and 25-year-old Jack Davidson, soon to make his first attempt at Q-School on the DP World Tour this October, both used SkyCaddie’s ground-mapped GPS data to lift a trophy.
It’s been quite a while since GolfPunk has been down to Piltdown Golf Club in Mid Sussex, and a return visit was long overdue. A lot has changed at the club over the past couple of years, and we needed to find out what was occurring.
Golf is a simple game - advance the ball in the least amount of strokes. Sounds easy right? It isn’t. With the introduction of annual equipment cycles from the biggest hardware brands in golf, how do you know which club to use? Let's dig into it and unravel the mystery.
GolfPunk is off to Marbella to check out the golfing opportunites in southern Spain and here’s what we discovered.
Cotswold golfing haven Tewkesbury Park, now under independent family ownership and newly-ranked among Great Britain & Ireland’s top 100 golf resorts, has unveiled a spectacular two-year, £9m facelift.
Almost 90 years ago the creation of two iconic golf courses – Le Touquet Golf Resort’s La Mer (The Sea) and Golf d’Hardelot’s Les Pins (The Pines) – triggered a golden age of golf travel for France’s Channel-facing Côte d’Opale. Today, thanks to painstaking restoration work that has seen both courses returned to their original glory.
