Oct 10th, 2022 Article
Chacarra wins the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok
After winning the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok on Sunday in just his fifth start since turning pro, 22-year-old Eugenio Chacarra had plenty of people to help him celebrate.
After winning the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok on Sunday in just his fifth start since turning pro, 22-year-old Eugenio Chacarra had plenty of people to help him celebrate.
Add Jon Rahm’s name to the records of Spanish golf history after he claimed his third national open title by winning the Acciona Open de España presented by Madrid. The world number six equals the late Seve Ballesteros’ haul of three victories in his home Open.
Never say never. Eleven years and 246 starts later, Jodi Ewart Shadoff is finally an LPGA Tour champion. Ewart Shadoff won the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship, conquering The Saticoy Club with a fifteen-under 273 score, a new tournament record. She becomes the season’s 10th Rolex First-Time Winner, which ties for the second-most first-time victors in a year.
Spanish golf fans turned up at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, hoping home hero Jon Rahm would storm to the top of the leaderboard in round three of the Acciona Open de España presented by Madrid. They got their wish.
England’s Richard Mansell produced a fighting 68 in challenging conditions at St Andrews today to take the lead on 10-under-par at the halfway mark in the 21st Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. He goes into tomorrow’s third round leading by two shots from Sweden’s Alex Noren and is a further shot ahead of Denmark’s Niklas Norgaard Moller and Frenchman Antoine Rozner.
Bushnell Golf today unveiled its latest GPS watch, the new ION ELITE. The ION ELITE is the first ever GPS watch to include Bushnell Golf’s patented Slope compensated distances. Boasting a wide array of features, the ION ELITE makes it easy for golfers to strategically plan each shot, keep score, track stats, and more.
Danny Willett, the defending champion, will be back at St Andrews next month trying to join an exclusive club of golfers who have won the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship twice. Tyrrell Hatton, in 2016 and 2017, and Padraig Harrington, in 2002 and 2006, have had their names inscribed on the trophy on two occasions. Now 2016 Masters champion Willett will be hoping to match them.
Nelly Korda overturned a seven-shot deficit and clinched victory in a thrilling renewal of the $1 million Aramco Team Series Sotogrande after an extraordinary final day at La Reserva Club.
Byron Nelson, Tommy Armour, Ben Hogan, Greg Norman, Lee Janzen, Johnny Miller, Jose Maria Olazabal, and many others on the list of all-time greats, sit alongside perhaps the greatest of all time, Jack Nicklaus, as players who have trusted MacGregor clubs on the biggest stages in golf.
Three months on from its Justin Rose Academy launch, which sparked a drive to make golf more accessible to all, American Golf is continuing to invest at the grassroots level with the launch of a Junior Gold Medal competition as part of its investment in The Leven Gold Cup.
Former US Masters champion Patrick Reed from the United States will compete in next week’s International Series Singapore, and the International Series Korea, the following week, further enhancing the strength of the field at the exciting new tournaments on the Asian Tour.
Two-time LPGA winner Celine Boutier and World number four Lydia Ko are tied at the top of the leaderboard heading into the final round of the 2022 Trust Golf Women’s Scottish Open.