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Huddersfield’s Lily Hirst won the English Women’s Open Stroke Play after a final round 70 saw her seal a four-shot victory at Stoneham Golf Club in Hampshire. After opening rounds of 71 and 75 on Stoneham’s par-74 course, Hirst fired a steady 74 in the morning, and then caught fire in the afternoon’s final round, with the 21-year-old landing a crucial eagle-two on the driveable 7th hole, along with three other birdies to shoot a closing four-under 70 and secure a comfortable victory ahead of nearest competitor Darcey Harry from Royal Porthcawl in Wales, who were the only two players…
Max Kennedy will carry Irish hopes into the last 32 of The 129th Amateur Championship at Ballyliffin Golf Club in Ireland. On a bright and breezy day over the Glashedy Links, Kennedy was left as the last Irishman standing after easing to a 3&2 win over France’s Oscar Couilleau in the opening match play round. A total of 28 host nation hopefuls had started the week but only Kennedy and Sean Keeling passed the stern 36-hole stroke play qualifying rounds. Keeling fell at the first hurdle with a 5&3 loss to the trailblazing Lev Grinberg, who is the first Ukrainian…
LIV Golf has announced that Grammy-nominated Icelandic rockers KALEO will performing live on the Saturday night at the LIV Golf UK event, which is being held at JCB Golf & Country Club in Staffordshire from from 26-28 July. The league’s 11th event of the season will see LIV Golf’s star-studded field make its final stop outside of the US in 2024, with the JCB course set to welcome many of the biggest names in golf alongside world-class entertainment headlined by KALEO. As the creative force behind global hits including “Way Down We Go”, “All The Pretty Girls” and the Grammy-nominated…
Scotland’s Connor Graham stood firm on a testing day to finish as the leading qualifier in the 129th Amateur Championship held at Ballyliffin in Ireland. The 17-year-old from Blairgowrie, who led the 288-strong field after an opening 65 on Ballyliffin’s Old Course, fortified his position at the top with a one-under-par 71 over the Glashedy Links. Walker Cup player Graham ended his 36-hole stroke play campaign with a seven-under-par aggregate of 136 and finished three strokes clear of Norway’s Michael Alexander Mjaaseth.South Africa’s Ben van Wyk, who was the leading qualifier in last year’s championship, rose up the leaderboard into…
USA GOLF has announced the four men that will represent the United States at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, which is being held at Le Golf National from August 1-4. As the top-four ranked Americans in the men’s Olympic Golf Ranking, Scottie Scheffler (No. 1), Xander Schauffele (No. 3), Wyndham Clark (No. 5) and Collin Morikawa (No. 7) have each qualified to represent Team USA. Each nation can field a maximum of four players providing they are ranked inside the world’s top 15, otherwise they are restricted to two. 2020 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Schauffele and Morikawa will be…
US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau relives his Pinehurst experience and explains how he battled back from hand surgery in 2022 to become one of the game’s best players and fan favourite After the disappointment of finishing second at the PGA, how does it feel to go one better at the very next major and capture your second US Open title?Oh man, I did not want to finish second again. The PGA loss really stung. Xander [Schauffele] played magnificently, but I wanted to get this one done, especially at such a special place as Pinehurst, that means so much to me,…
Rory McIlroy has said he is going to take “a few weeks away from the game to process everything” after throwing away the chance to win his first major in a decade at last week’s US Open. The 35-year-old missed two putts inside three feet over the final three holes at Pinehurst on Sunday resulting in him finishing one shot behind winner Bryson DeChambeau. The Northern Irishman left Pinehurst just minutes after DeChambeau holed the winning putt, leading many to criticise him for not staying to congratulate the new champion in person. McIlroy posted on X on Monday evening: “Yesterday…
Bryson DeChambeau won his second US Open title in four years after prevailing in a battle of the ages with Rory McIlroy on a dramatic Sunday afternoon at Pinehurst, where the outcome of the season’s third major championship lay in the balance until the very last shot. The heavyweight showdown between two of the sport’s biggest stars – and poster boys for their rival tours – more than lived up to its billing, with the pair trading hammer blows from the off until the last man was left standing some five hours later. Holding a three-shot lead after 54 holes,…
Angel Cabrera was crowned the Legends Tour’s match play king in Hertfordshire as he won the Paul Lawrie Match Play at Hanbury Manor. The field had been whittled down from 64 on Thursday to the last two men standing on Sunday afternoon, and it was a final which whet the appetite, with two-time Major winner Angel Cabrera going head-to-head with three-time Legends Tour winner and the 2022 MCB Road to Mauritius champion James Kingston facing each other. There were pleasantries on the tee, but shortly before their tee time a steely focus appeared on both men’s faces. First blood went…
Bryson DeChambeau will take a three-shot lead into the final round of the US Open as Rory McIlroy attempts to end his long major drought at Pinehurst. DeChambeau carded a superb third round of 67 to reach seven under par, with McIlroy’s 69 leaving him joint second on four under with Patrick Cantlay and Matthieu Pavon. Halfway leader Ludvig Aberg ran up a costly triple-bogey seven on the 13th as he fell back to two under par alongside former Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama. DeChambeau won the US Open at Winged Foot in 2020 and has been in superb form in…
