It's been a hell of a year. Here are the results of the GolfPunk Staunchie Awards where we honour the finest achivements in 2016 from equipment manufacturers to people who were just nice to us.
Korea's Soo-min Lee may remain the man to catch in the rain interrupted Shenzhen International, but it was some spectacular scoring from England's Callum Shinkwin that captured the imagination.
Keith Pelley, the new European Tour CEO has slow play on his agenda, and his plans to speed up the game seems to have got off to a positive start during the recent ‘Desert Swing’ with a reduction in round times being apparent under the new ‘Pace of Play’ policy.
Irish eyes were smiling on a thrilling final day of action at the Bridgestone International, and after several twists and turns a surprising winner came out on top. With over night leaders Jim Furyk and Justin Rose struggling to final round 72’s, it was left to Ireland's Shane Lowry to pick up the victory, with a final round of 66 at Firestone Country Club South.
To quote Verne Lundquist, and the greatest piece of golf commentary of all time, “Oh, WOW! IN YOUR LIFE, have you seen anything like that?!”. And you know what Verne, we haven’t.
Jon Rahm's first regular season since joining LIV Golf ended Sunday with his second tournament win in three starts, a perfect streak of top-10 finishes, and the coveted season-long Individual Championship.
Last month in London, Cameron Smith won the individual title, but his Ripper GC came up one stroke short of forcing a playoff. A missed par putt on the final hole left Smith and his team with mixed feelings. The all Australian quartet left nothing to chance Sunday at LIV Golf Bedminster
Talor Gooch, a former member of 4Aces GC who joined Bubba Watson’s RangeGoats GC in the offseason, completed a wire-to-wire victory Sunday at LIV Golf Adelaide.
Aditi Ashok continued her fine form in 2023 by firing a six-under-par round of 66 on day two of the Aramco Saudi Ladies International presented by Public Investment Fund. The Indian star backed up an excellent first day of 65 (-7) with the joint-best round of the day on Friday to post a total of thirteen-under-par and hold a two-shot lead at Royal Greens.
Shot Scope (www.shotscope.com), a leading international manufacturer of GPS-based distance tracking and game performance systems, today introduced a branding and customization program for laser rangefinders.
Branden Grace, the closest pursuer to Dustin Johnson in LIV Golf’s season-long Individual Champion race, realizes he has plenty of ground to make up in the final two weeks of the regular season. He took the first big step Friday at LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok.
Golfers using the most sophisticated shot tracking system in the game chose to play the highest number of 18-hole rounds in Britain at courses around London and the Southeast during the first half of this year, according to the pioneering Arccos dataset.
