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The eight-strong team to represent Great Britain and Ireland in the 43rd Curtis Cup, which is being held at Sunningdale Golf Club at the end of this month, has been announced. The GB&I team to face their USA rivals comprises Sara Byrne (Ireland); Beth Coulter (Ireland; Hannah Darling (Scotland); Aine Donegan (Ireland); Lorna McClymont (Scotland; Euphemie Rhodes (England); Patience Rhodes (England), and Lottie Woad (England). The top five players on the World Amateur Golf Ranking and three captain’s selections make up the GB&I side. Surrey’s Lottie Woad is currently the number one ranked women’s amateur player in the world, while…
Tommy Fleetwood will look to call on his “special” memories of Le Golf National as he goes for Olympic gold this week. Fleetwood won the Open de France at the venue just outside Paris in 2017 and another career highlight occurred the following year as he won four points in five matches to help Europe regain the Ryder Cup. MOLIWOOD PAIRING He struck up a winning combination with Francesco Molinari – the pair prevailed in all four matches together – and the Italian claimed the winning point to guarantee victory over the United States. Asked about his favourite memory of…
Ahead of hosting Farmfoods British Par 3 Championship, Tony Jacklin CBE reflects on turning 80, how he played like an “actor on a stage” & his concerns over “chaotic state” of modern golf. World Golf Hall of Famer Tony Jacklin CBE has reflected on turning 80-years-old and says he feels blessed to have enjoyed such an illustrious career. Globally renowned for his two major championship victories and Ryder cup captaincy, Jacklin is seen by many as the most talented British player of all time. TONY’S TIMING Reflecting on hitting his landmark age, “Timing is everything in life. You realise that…
Captain Gwladys Nocera has announced the 12 girls that will be representing Team Europe at the 2024 PING Junior Solheim Cup. The tournament will take place at Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, Virginia between 9-10 September. Following the conclusion of the final qualifying event, the European Ladies’ Amateur Championship, the top six ranked players eligible for selection were confirmed for the team ahead of the away trip to Virginia. Team Europe are aiming for a hat-trick of wins after defeating USA 15-9 at La Zagaleta, Spain, last time out. Spain’s Andrea Revuelta, a two-time PJSC winner, topped the standings…
Tee times for the first two rounds of the men’s Olympic golf competition have been released, with France’s Victor Perez hitting the opening tee shot at 9am on Thursday. (8am UK time) Team GB’s Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick go off at 9.44am local time and 12.0pm on Thursday respectively, while the showpiece three-ball of world no.1 Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Ludvig Åberg get their hunt for the gold medal under way at 10.11am (9.1am UK time). TEE TIMES FOR ROUNDS 1 & 2 09:00 Thursday / 10:55 Friday: Victor Perez (France), Matti Schmid (Germany), C.T. Pan (Chinese Taipei)…
Identifying the best children’s golf clubs is not as easy as you might expect.Never has more time and resources been dedicated to analysing the best golf clubs for adults, with column inches in magazines, endless videos on YouTube, and thousands of reels on Instagram. However, when it comes to advice on children’s golf clubs, the younger generation has largely been left behind.That is perhaps surprising, given that while today’s juniors might be penniless irrelevances to the equipment manufacturers, they are tomorrow’s driver-buying adults who will help shape the next generation of golf equipment.We all remember our favourite trainers or football…
After visiting the Louvre art gallery with his family, and watching some table tennis, Scottie Scheffler says the only reason he has come to the Paris Olympics is to win the gold medal What kind of value do you place on winning an Olympic gold medal? I try to place an equal amount of value on all the tournaments I play, but it would be very special to win a gold medal. It only comes around every four years, so you never know how many opportunities you going to get to win one. I loved going to watch table…
Shane Lowry believes winning Olympic gold will make up for missing out on a second Open title, as Ireland team-mate Rory McIlroy targets his biggest win for a decade. Lowry held a two-shot halfway lead at Royal Troon, where McIlroy missed the cut, but struggled to a third round of 77 and eventually finished sixth, five shots behind Olympic champion Xander Schauffele. “I felt I had a good chance to win The Open a couple of weeks ago and I was really disappointed to not give it a better go on Saturday and Sunday,” said Lowry, who described being one…
After finishing inside the top 10 in his first nine starts on the LIV Golf circuit, Jon Rahm finally managed to get his head in front when it mattered when capturing the league’s UK event held at a lively JCB Golf & Country Club. The 29-year-old Spanish star earned two trophies at LIV Golf UK by JCB, claiming his first LIV Golf individual title while also leading Legion XIII to its fourth team victory of the season. It was a victory that had been eagerly anticipated since the two-time major winner joined the league last December. But it was also…
Sunningdale Golf Club will host The Senior Open for the fourth time when Europe’s only Senior Major Championship returns from July 24-27, 2025. The Old Course at Sunningdale first hosted The Senior Open in 2009, when America’s Loren Roberts defeated compatriot Fred Funk and Ireland’s Mark McNulty in a play-off. Another American, Marco Dawson, was triumphant when the Senior Major returned in 2015, finishing one stroke ahead of Bernhard Langer. After the postponement of the 2020 edition due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Europe’s senior showpiece returned to the Berkshire venue in 2021 as Welshman Stephen Dodd won his maiden Senior…
