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Kingswood Golf and Country Club in Surrey is on a mission to elevate their 1928 James Braid designed golf course by focusing on playing surfaces to heighten player experience and have recruited the expertise of The R&A Sustainable Agronomy Service. Working with their Senior Agronomist, Simon Watson, a plan has been formulated which includes data driven decision making and long-range planning within a sustainable mainframe to evolve the parkland course which in its past has hosted the Ladies’ European Open. General Manager, Ashley Northridge, commented, “With the challenge of managing the course with changing weather patterns and a desire to…
The pair enjoyed a tense battle down the stretch separated by no more than two shots but it took a characteristic nerveless up and down from the back of the 18th green for Scheffler to close out a one-stroke victory with his opponent poised to force a play-off. Scheffler’s fist pump after holing from inside five feet, becoming the fastest player to five wins in a season since Tom Watson in 1980, showed how much pressure he had been put under. “It’s pretty amazing. I feel like I’ve had some close calls in this tournament,” the American, who remarked on…
The 130th Amateur Championship is to be played at Royal St George’s Golf Club in Kent next year, after the famed Kent links was named among the host venues for leading R&A-organised events in 2025. Harry Ellis was victorious when The Amateur Championship was last held at Royal St George’s in 2017, while nearby Royal Cinque Ports, which hosted the championship in 2013, has been chosen to host the pre-qualifying event on June 13. The Sandwich-based club, which will host the The 130th Amateur Championship from June 16-21, 2025, has also hosted the Open Championship 16 times, most recently in…
Wyndham Clark will defend his title when the 124th US Open Championship takes place at Pinehurst from June 13-16. Clark, who held off Rory McIlroy to win his first major at Los Angeles Country Club last year, was playing at Oklahoma State University the last time Pinehurst staged the US Open in 2014. Scottie Scheffler Justified being a hot favourite for the Masters by claiming his second green jacket in three years at Augusta National, but Scheffler saw his bid to win the US PGA derailed after being arrested following an incident with a police officer on his way into…
Just days after the US Ryder Cup Committee had announced that appointment of a former caddie as Team Manager for the 2025 US Ryder Cup team, European Ryder Cup captain has named Paul McGinley as a ‘strategic advisor’ for next year’s matches in New York. Having already named Thomas Bjørn and Edoardo Molinari – who were alongside him at Marco Simone last year – as vice captains once again, the addition of McGinley by Donald adds considerable additional know-how and understanding of the Ryder Cup arena to Europe’s build-up and preparation. The Irishman led Europe to victory in the 2014…
Xander Schauffele believes Jon Rahm overestimated his possible influence on the outcome of golf’s civil war when he joined LIV Golf. Rahm stunned the sport when he joined the Saudi-funded breakaway in December, after he had previously pledged his loyalty to the PGA Tour and criticised LIV’s 54-hole format, with no cut and a shotgun start, as “not a golf tournament”. Ahead of his Masters title defence in April, the Spaniard said he hoped his move would “expedite” an agreement between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) following the Framework Agreement which was announced on June 6 last…
Golf may seem like a leisurely sport, but it demands a high level of physical and mental fitness. Golfers are athletes who train rigorously, and their fitness levels can be comparable to those in other demanding sports. Affordable Golf conducted a survey that reveals 87% of non golfers think there is NO/little fitness associated with golf. The survey was conducted in May 2024 to 2500 Brits that don’t play golf. James Telford, a senior sports physician from Affordable Golf, tells us why golfers can be considered as fit as other professional athletes and how playing golf can contribute…
The US Open returns to the No.2 Course at Pinehurst for the fourth time in its history from June 13-16, but who will rise to the occasion at the Cradle of American Golf to claim this year’s penultimate major championship While it has been a decade since the US Open was last held at Pinehurst’s famous No.2 course – when Martin Kaymer laid waste to the field with an eight-shot win – golf fans should be prepared to get to know every blade of its 7,500-plus yards in the years to come following the USGA’s decision to host no fewer…
The DP World Tour, The R&A and the PGA TOUR have launched the Global Amateur Pathway to help the very best male amateur players take the next step in their careers. The landmark initiative creates a pathway for non-collegiate amateur players on to the DP World Tour and partner Tours around the world. The Global Amateur Pathway will complement PGA TOUR University – which awards membership on PGA TOUR-sanctioned Tours to the top Division 1 college golfers at the end of the NCAA Championship – to ensure opportunities are available for elite players across the amateur ranks. Under the Global…
The UNDERRATED Golf Tour held its first event in the UK last week, when Walton Heath Golf Club hosted a two-day tournament for the fast-expanding junior golf circuit founded by NBA star Stephen Curry. Earlier this year, Curry announced the expansion of the tour into Europe, following its successful launch in the USA in 2022. Junior golfers aged between 12-18 from all across Europe competed in a two-day, 36-hole tournament at Walton Heath. And it proved to be an all-Wales affair at the top end of the leaderboard, with Wales national squad members Brodi Lewis (Southerndown GC) and Isobel Kelly…
