Nov 2nd, 2018 Article
The Big Occasion Has Been Brandon’s Stepping Stone to Success
For the majority of most professional golfers on tour, the big occasion has the potential to send the weaker characters into meltdown.
For the majority of most professional golfers on tour, the big occasion has the potential to send the weaker characters into meltdown.
It was a maiden victory for South African Brandon Stone on his 27th European Tour event start, and it has propelled him from a lowly 249th in the official World Golf Ranking to 120. Not a bad way to start your season.
One day. 500 balls. And the aim? A hole-in-one. Sounds simple, right?
These days, the polo shirts on offer from golf brands are put through the kind of technological rigmarole previously reserved for NASA.
Strap yourselves in and get ready for pyrotechnics on the tee, nearest the pin competitions and some old fashioned ding-dong match play drama. The Golf Sixes is a very welcome innovation in the much beleaguered world of professional tournament golf.
Friday tee times for the USPGA + day 1 wrap.
Irish Open host and defending champion Rory McIlroy has been paired up with world number two Hideki Matsuyama and world number 11 Jon Rahm for the opening round of this week's Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at Portstewart Golf Club.
It’s Manic Monday, so here is a very quick round up of all the results and stories from the weekend on the, PGA Tour, European Tour, LPGA and Women’s European Tour.
As part of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour’s Strategic Alliance first announced in November 2020, the Genesis Scottish Open is co-sanctioned by the PGA TOUR and DP World Tour for the second year. Scotland’s national open dates back to 1972 and has been a permanent fixture on the DP World Tour schedule since 1986.
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.
Ryan Fox and Thorbjørn Olesen carded six under par rounds of 66 at The Belfry to share the first round lead at the Betfred British Masters hosted by Danny Willett.
Garrick Higgo continued to write his own chapter in the European Tour history books as he powered to a second win in three weeks at the 2021 Canary Islands Championship.