Bonhams is to offer the most famous golfing painting in the world: The Portrait of Henry Callender standing in a landscape, in the red coat of Captain General of the Blackheath Golf Club and holding a putter by the Leicestershire artist Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760-1803). It is estimated at £600,000 – 800,000.
Thai golfing legend Thongchai Jaidee shot a 66 to take the lead at the BMW Masters. The former Paratrooper is one shot in front of Bjerregaard, Byeong-hun An and Sergio Garcia at the Lake Malaren Golf Club.
There are certainly worse phone calls to receive on a Friday afternoon after recently coming to terms with the fact that your bank account clearly doesn’t shout ‘late summer holiday’. I was off to the Villamoura, to play in the Portugal Masters Pro-Am.
Introduction? Are you joking?
As well as four new sets of irons and two awesome hybrid clubs, Titleist have also launched these tour inspired driving irons. While not designed for everyone, for the right player these will be a godsend.
It's release weekend for the new TaylorMade PSI irons. Designed for mid to low handicaps, the PSI offer forged short irons for feel, tungsten weights for forgiveness, and speed pockets and face slot for distance.
Chinese golfer 20-year old Li Haotong is just one shot behind the leader Kevin Kisner in the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai. He shot a third round six under 66, and is two shots ahead of Jordan Speith. If he were to win this would be an amazing boost for golf in China, and will catapult him to fame in his home country.
According to a report on the BBC local news site, a 105-year-old golf course in Leicester has closed as the city council looks to save £90m by 2018. The closure of Western Park municipal golf club will apparently save the authority a paltry £123,000 a year.
We were lucky enough to try the TaylorMade M1 back in September. In short, It looks great and goes like stink. But what did the professionals think?
John Daly will be teeing it up at the Turkish Airlines Open this week. He's also going to be hosting golf clinics and dinners at the Gloria Hotels & Resorts in Belek, giving guests the opportunity to learn from one of the greatest natural talents of our age.
What clubs were in the Winners' Bags this week?
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