We only saw this late today on Twitter, and it certainly got our curiosity. Who was Dicky Pride, and what was his scrawled piece of paper all about? We loved it, retweeted it, and promised that we’d keep an eye on developments.
The men’s majors are over and so attention turns to the women, or ladies as they were referred to when I was growing up. We have a double header with the Evian Championship in France this week followed straight away by the Women's British Open. And we thought the men were compressing their majors too much!
When Jack Nicklaus picked up his sixth Green Jacket and record eighteenth major win at Augusta in 1986 he had a MacGregor Tommy Armour 945W Driver in his bag. The persimmon driver was the same weapon that helped him to victory at the 1978 British Open, 1980 US Open and 1980 PGA Championship.
Bernd Wiesberger will take a one shot lead into the final round of the Made in HimmerLand presented by FREJA as the defending champion seeks a wire-to-wire victory in Denmark. The Austrian carded a three-under-par 68 to reach fourteen-under for the week in Farsø, one ahead of Sweden's Alexander Björk.
Padraig Harrington is not ready to take up the captaincy of Europe's Ryder Cup team, if offered the job for the 2018 tournament, and he wants to face the Americans in Paris as a player.
Tiger Woods has been invited to play in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at the K Club on May 19-22. This could potentially see Woods teeing it up with Rory McIlroy, who is hosting the event.
Sahith Theegala picks up his first career Pga Tour title in his 74th career start and at 267, equals the lowest score since the event moved to Silverado Resort’s North Course in 2014.
Jet2holidays has launched a selection of brand-new golf packages to Antalya in Turkey, allowing golfers to enjoy a hole-in-one golf getaway to one of the most sought-after golfing destinations in Europe.
Phillip Price and Chris Williams share the lead after the opening round of the Farmfoods European Legends Links Championship hosted by Ian Woosnam. at Trevose Golf & Country Club. Welshman Price went bogey-free to post a three-under-par round of 69 and was joined at the top of the leaderboard by South African Williams, who fired six birdies and three bogeys to kickstart his Legends Tour season.
Sam Burns earned his maiden win on the PGA Tour at his seventy-sixth attempt at the Valspar Championship in Tampa. The American closed with a final-round three-under 68 to finish on seventeen-under-par, three shots clear of countryman Keegan Bradley.
The Ladies European Tour is back this week with Nuria Iturrioz set to defend her crown against an international field in the latest event on our 2020 schedule at the OMEGA Dubai Moonlight Classic from 4-6 November. In such a unique format, it is not very often that a player has experience playing under the floodlights but Iturrioz let us into a little secret ahead of her first round.
A round of golf with Phil Mickelson is up for auction on Charitybuzz.com and it's already had a bid of $88,000.
