Aug 21st, 2016 Article
Paul Peterson wins Czech Masters
Damn and blast it! GP favourite and Ryder Cup hopeful Thomas Pieters has been piped to the post at the Czech Masters by American Paul Peterson.
Damn and blast it! GP favourite and Ryder Cup hopeful Thomas Pieters has been piped to the post at the Czech Masters by American Paul Peterson.
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.
Thomas Pieters needs to win this week's Czech Masters and the Made In Denmark event next week to have any hope of making Europe's Ryder Cup team. But he’s in the running.
Here are the tee times and pairings for Day's One and Two of the British Masters at Close House, Newcastle, plus some of the supergroups to look out for.
Here are the tee times (add 5 hours for UK time). GolfPunk notables in bold. NB: Tiger tees off at 4.15am UK GMT (11.15pm USA EST) – playing with defending champion Danny Willett & Matt Fitzpatrick
The PIF Saudi International powered by Softbank Investment Advisers, will return on 2-5 February with one of its strongest fields to date. Eleven major champions will take on Royal Greens Golf & Country Club, including the American quintet of Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Bubba Watson, and Phil Mickelson, with a combined 15 major titles between them.
Thai amateur Ratchanon “TK” Chantananuwat fired a final round of 65 (-7) to secure a two-shot victory at the Trust Golf Asian Mixed Cup and become the youngest male player to win of the game’s major Tours. The 15-year-old was impressive throughout his week at the Waterside Course at Siam Country Club recording rounds of 63, 70, 70 and 65 to finish at a total of 20-under-par.
Sanna Nuutinen and Ratchanon “TK” Chantananuwat continued to match one another as they both recorded second rounds of 70 (-2) to share the lead on eleven-under-par at the Trust Golf Asian Mixed Cup. The duo held the lead overnight at the Waterside Course at Siam Country Club after firing rounds of 63 (-9) in the co-sanctioned event with the Asian Tour, which has a purse of USD $750,000.
Johannes Veerman carded a final round 68 to claim his maiden European Tour title on a hard-fought final day at the D+D REAL Czech Masters. The American started the final round at Albatross Golf Resort two strokes behind 54-hole leader Tapio Pulkkanen, who was also seeking a first European Tour victory.
Tapio Pulkkanen will take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the D+D REAL Czech Masters as he aims to secure a maiden European Tour title.
Maverick Antcliff and Henrik Stenson share the first-round lead at the D+D REAL Czech Masters after carding five-under-par rounds of 67 at Albatross Golf Resort.
Here are the full Alfred Dunhill Links Championship round one tee times for all three participting courses.