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Frenchman David Ravetto claimed his maiden DP World Tour title in fine style when firing a final round 64 at the D+D REAL Czech Masters. The 27-year-old entered the final day one stroke behind Sweden’s Jesper Svensson but left him in his wake as he posted an impressive eight-under-par closing round to set a winning total of 24 under at PGA National OAKS Prague, with the Swede in second on 19 under. Ravetto made his intentions clear from the off, birdieing the opening hole before adding further gains at the third and fourth. The 27-year-old added another trio before the…
Sweden enjoyed a clean sweep in The R&A Boys’ and Girls’ Amateur championships after Viggo Olsson Mörk and Havanna Torstensson and claimed memorable victories in their respective finals at two of Yorkshire’s leading clubs. Olsson Mörk came back from five down after 12 holes to defeat Scott Woltering from the Netherlands 4&3 in their showdown at Moortown, while 16-year-old Torstensson surged to a 8&7 triumph over Matylda Krawczynska of Poland to win the 95th staging of the Girls’ Amateur at Alwoodley. Viggo Olsson Mörk battled back from five down to win the Boys’ Amateur 4&3 Boys’ Amateur In a topsy-turvy…
The final event of England Golf Week saw history being made as Surrey’s Sylvia Kempsell became the first woman to win the England Captains’ Grand Final. The 78 qualifiers from 11 England Captains events staged in the early part of the summer gathered for the 18-hole final on the renowned Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, as Kempsell took the title. Kempsell, who is a member at Leatherhead Golf Club, accumulated a total of 42 Stableford points to win by a single point from Ian Smith (playing off 12) representing Peterborough Milton. The 71-year-old had booked her place in the final…
Stephen Jensen from Cornwall was crowned English Senior Men’s Amateur champion for a second time in three years after a riveting final against Leicestershire’s Steve Sansome at Brancepeth Castle on Friday. In a sensational match, Jensen looked set to go 5-down while heading towards the 10th green, but the 58-year-old produced a miraculous turnaround to win the title on the 18th hole in dramatic fashion. Brancepeth Castle was in great condition as the sun shone and the first two holes of the day saw both make comfortable pars before the first bit of drama arrived on the 3rd. Jensen went…
The PGA TOUR has announced its full line up of tournaments for 2025, a 36-event regular season schedule that features The Players Championship in March, the four major championships, eight Signature Events, 18 Full-Field Events and five Additional Events. Next year’s regular season schedule begins with The Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii on December 30, and concludes with the Wyndham Championship on August 3. The three-event FedExCup Playoffs follow during August, with the FedExCup champion crowned once again at the end of the TOUR Championship on August 24. The season includes events contested across 18 US states, as well…
The Club at Mill Green in Hertfordshire is hosting the Get Golfing Festival of Golf later this month, which promises to offer a week-long celebration of unity and inclusivity within golf. Supported by a number of partners across the golf industry, including England Golf, the LET Access Series, the Golf Foundation, the EDGA Tour, and the Annika Women’s All Pro Tour, the festival is taking place at the popular Hatfield based-club between August 26-September 1. SUPERSTARS IN THE MAKING The showpiece event of the week is Mill Green’s hosting of the Get Golfing Women’s Golf Championship, a Ladies European Tour…
Rory McIlroy hopes to use the next three weeks to “change the narrative” of his season as he bids to win the FedEx Cup title for a record-extending fourth time. McIlroy has won twice worldwide this season but is all too aware of letting other chances slip through his fingers, most painfully in the US Open at Pinehurst and the Olympic Games in Paris. As a result, the 35-year-old heads into the first play-off event – the FedEx St Jude Championship at TPC Southwind – almost 3,500 points behind Scottie Scheffler, the world number one having won six times on…
Two-time major winner Bryson Dechambeau gives an interview before trying to emulate his 58 at last years Greenbrier LIV Golf Bryson, how far we’ve come, how quickly did you expect us to be as far along as we are after only 100 rounds on LIV Golf? I didn’t know where we would exactly be after 100 rounds, but I can tell you that the ideas behind it, especially when I was having conversations back in 2022 and whatnot with where this was going to go, I expected there to be a lot of progress, but the progress has been amazingly…
Surrey amateur star Lottie Woad has won the Mark H McCormack Medal as the leading woman in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for 2024. Farnham-based Woad, who is the first ever English winner of the women’s McCormack Medal, will receive exemptions into next year’s US Women’s Open and the AIG Women’s Open on the back of the award. Woad, 20, said: “I’m really happy to have won the McCormack Medal. It rounds off a successful year for me and I’m honoured to be named alongside the previous recipients of the medal. “It was always a goal of mine to reach…
Hello Gold Medallist and newest member of the LPGA Hall of Fame, Lydia Ko. Lydia, congratulations again. Just has it all kind of sunk in, everything from last week? I actually don’t know if it has sunk in yet. I didn’t sleep Saturday night just because of travel logistics and all that. So I went to sleep for the first time on Sunday night. It was pretty surreal. I woke up, like, was that a dream? Did that just really happen? Super exciting. I’ve gotten an overwhelming amount of support from the players and the people that I know, and…
