I’m probably going to get shot down in flames for this one, but I am going to put it out there, Mr Woods is a lucky golfer. It may be golfing blasphemy akin to suggesting the Beatles, excluding their early stuff, were not that good or suggesting that David Beckham was actually not all that brilliant.
A man won £44,000 after placing a £10 bet on the winners of two golf tournaments.
Tiger Woods suffered severe injuries to his legs in a dramatic car crash in Los Angeles yesterday morning. Rods and screws have been inserted into Woods' right leg after a comminuted open fracture in his right leg. Sucha fracture means the bone was shattered in at least two places and broke through the skin.
Hands up, GolfPunk joined the outcry about the lack of a five-year exemption on the LPGA Tour for Sophia Popov after her fantastic win at the AIG Women’s Open. However, having listened to the highly impressive Mike Whan, commissioner of the LPGA, we have somewhat changed our view. In his statement, Whan opened with a firm but passioned statement. Mike Whan, we salute you!
It was great to see Graeme McDowell win again on the European Tour but had the tour applied the slow play rules more strictly come Sunday afternoon might it have been a different story? The Northern Irishman was carrying a ‘bad time’ after a transgression during his second round and playing in the final pairing come Sunday he and partner Victor Dubuisson became detached at the back of the field.
The Tour Championship is looking like it will provide a thrilling finale to the men’s season on Sunday as at the halfway point as Brooks Koepke leads Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas by one stroke, with Xander Schauffele and Paul Casey still very much in contention.
The 21–year–old South Korean, Si–woo Kim, became the youngest person ever to win the Players' Championship, and his victory was a very rewarding one for an Irish punter.
Titleist welcomed golfers of all ages and abilities onto the driving range at the BMW PGA Championship, as The Ultimate Fit returned to Wentworth Club for the second year running.
For the sixth year in succession, Club de Golf Alcanada has been voted the best golf course in Europe by visitors to igolf.eu - a popular golf review site.
Monday Morning Quick Livener: What Helped Our Gravy and Bunched Our Arse This Weekend...
There must be something in the air at the Nedbank Golf Challenge. Yesterday we reported on one of the luckiest shots ever seen on tour when Thomas Detry was saved from disaster by a pole holding a windsock. In the third round Denmark's Joachim Hansen hit an unmentionable in a greenside bunker but came up smelling of roses.
Callaway have launched a range of limited edition St. Patrick's Day Lucky Clover MD3 forged wedges. While scientifically these aren't proven to be any luckier, the superstitious and Irish among us are going to want a set of these right?
