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The 43rd Curtis Cup gets under way at Sunningdale Golf Club this week, with the opening ceremony taking place on August 29 ahead of the three days of competitive action from Friday to Sunday. The format of the matches sees eight female amateurs from Great Britain & Ireland taking on their counterparts from the USA. Each of the first two competition days features three foursomes and three four-ball matches. On Sunday, eight singles matches are contested. One full point is awarded for each victory, while a half-point is earned for matches that are tied after 18 holes. The USA needs…
Justin Rose and Francesco Molinari have been named as respective captains for the DP World Tour’s Team Cup when Great Britain and Ireland take on Continental Europe in Abu Dhabi in January. Rose takes on the role for the first time, while Ryder Cup team-mate Molinari captained Continental Europe to victory two years ago in the Team Cup’s first edition. The two teams will face each other on the National Course at Abu Dhabi Golf Resort from January 10-12 next year. ROSE QUOTES Rose said: “It’ll be strange going up against Fran in a match play competition rather than him…
Stacy Lewis has named her three captain’s picks to round out her 12-strong team to face Europe in next month’s Solheim Cup matches. Lexi Thompson says being picked as one of three wildcards for the United States Solheim Cup team to face Europe next month “means the world” to her. The 29-year-old is retiring from playing full time at the end of the year so will be making her seventh and final appearance in the biennial competition. US captain Stacy Lewis said the decision to pick Thompson “was probably the easiest to make of these three”. “She’s somebody who is…
The Junior Vagliano Trophy and Jacques Leglise Trophy matches produced two pieces of history when the contests finished at West Lancashire. However, an unprecedented fifth straight win for the best junior men from the Continent of Europe in the Jacques Leglise had to take a back seat to Great Britain and Ireland’s breakthrough victory in the Junior Vagliano Trophy. After seven straight times watching the top girls from the Continent of Europe win the trophy, the home side finally took the silverware. Shortly after the Continent of Europe ran out 12-10 winners of the Jacques Leglise Trophy, GB&I eked out…
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.…
