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The Social Golfer’s Par 3 Championship has been won by Essex-based amputee golfer Paul Houghton after a thrilling play-off at Pelham Place Golf Centre. Members of The Social Golfer travelled from all over England to meet and compete at the Kent venue on August 23. The open tournament— now in its 9th year— was played over 27 holes with the top six players advancing to an 18th hole shootout, and later, the Grand Final. Each finalist had two balls to secure their place in the Grand Final, with the two players nearest to the pin on the 18th green qualifying.…
Keegan Bradley, captain of the 2025 US Ryder Cup team, showed that he has more than enough talent to represent his country as a player in New York next year when winning the BMW Championship, the second leg of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup play-offs. The 38-year-old came into Sunday’s final round at Castle Pines, near Denver, with a one-shot lead over Adam Scott, who drew level after the opening hole. But a run of three straight bogeys by the Australian from the 10th hole gave Bradley a lead he would not relinquish. He could afford to bogey the last…
New Zealand’s Lydia Ko fired a final round of 69 to win the Women’s Open by two shots after a wet and windy week at the Old Course at St Andrews. It is a third major championship for Ko, who won the 2015 Evian Championship and 2016 Chevron Championship, and the first time a New Zealander has ever won the Women’s Open. The 27-year-old rounds off an excellent month at St Andrews having already won the gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games which saw her earn enough points to be inducted into the LPGA Hall of Fame. “It’s been…
Jiyai Shin fired a five under 67 to move to the top of the leaderboard on day three of the AIG Women’s Open at St Andrews. The Korean opened with rounds of 71 on the first two days in Scotland but made a big move on Saturday to lead with a total of seven-under-par. Shin, who won the 2008 and 2012 editions of this tournament, got off to a hot start with back-to-back birdies on the first two holes before dropping a shot on the third. Three birdies on the trot on holes seven, eight and nine moved the 36-year-old…
Nelly Korda fired a second consecutive 68 to take a three-shot lead at the half-way stage of the AIG Women’s Open in St Andrews. The world No.1 went bogey-free on day two at the Old Course with back-to-back birdies on 17 and 18 before making two more on the fifth and ninth holes to sit at the top of the leaderboard on eight-under-par. Defending champion Lilia Vu and Charley Hull sit in a share of second place on five-under-par after 36 holes. Vu only dropped one shot on day two rolling in three birdies for a round of 70, while…
The PGA has announced the five-player team which will represent Great Britian & Ireland at the 2024 Women’s PGA Cup, which is taking place at Sunriver Resort in Oregon, USA from October 3-5. Led by captain Cathy Panton-Lewis, the GB&I team includes four players who earned their places through the 2023/24 Women’s PGA Professional Championship and WPGA Series, with the fifth spot being a captain’s pick. Holly Morgan and Heather MacRae secured the first two spots after the Women’s PGA Professional Championship, while Ali Gray and Marie Martindale claimed the next two after the final qualifying event earlier this week.…
LIV golfer Tyrrell Hatton is set to tee it up at the British Masters at the Belfry on the DP World Tour next week as he begins his bid to qualify for next year’s Ryder Cup team. Hatton left the DP World Tour to join LIV golf in January and has been playing exclusively on the Saudi-backed circuit since then, except for the four major championships. Over the last eight months his world ranking has fallen from 16 to 34, with a tied ninth at the Masters and tied 26th at the US Open helping him from slipping out of…
Charley Hull fired a five-under par 67 to obtain the outright lead after the first round of the Women’s Open at St Andrews. The English star went out to tackle the Old Course in the afternoon wave alongside world number one Nelly Korda and defending champion Lilia Vu. Hull rolled in her first birdie of the day on the fifth, which was cancelled out with a bogey on the par-3 eighth, however she was soon under par again with a birdie on the ninth. The three-time LET winner then had a great back nine as she made birdies on 10,…
Former champion Catriona Matthew has announced that she will be playing in her final Women’s Open on the Old Course at St Andrews this week. Marking her 31st appearance in the major championship, the 2009 champion will wave goodbye to her home fans in the home of golf with her husband, Graeme, as her caddie. Her stated goal is to make the cut, largely so that her teenage daughters, who return to school on Thursday, can watch her play over the weekend. At 54, Matthew is eligible to play in the Women’s Open until she’s 59, but has decided that…
Surrey’s Annabell Fuller was one of 12 players to earn their place in the final women’s major of the season, the AIG Women’s Open at St Andrews, after coming through Final Qualifying on Monday. The 22-year-old Roehampton Club member finished tied second in the 97-player field after shooting a four-under par 68 over at Crail Golfing Society’s Craighead Links. It will be Fuller’s second appearance in the Women’s Open, having finished tied 61st in 2021 when playing as an amateur. Fuller said: “I played solidly, putted well, and didn’t really make any mistakes. I only hit one ball into the rough and…
