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England’s Dominic Clemons and Jacob Skov Olesen of Denmark will meet in the Final of The 129th Amateur Championship at Ballyliffin. On a challenging, sodden day on the northwest tip of Ireland, Clemons and Olesen battled their opponents, the weather and the rigorous test posed by the Glashedy Links to set-up a 36-hole showdown for one of the amateur game’s most cherished prizes. Clemons, who came close to defeat on the final green of his quarter-final match in the morning, booked his place in the last-two with a spirited one-hole victory over fellow Englishman, Jack Bigham. Olesen, who is making his…
Sarah Schmelzel and Amy Yang grabbed the halfway lead in the Women’s PGA Championship as world number one Nelly Korda collapsed to a second round 81. Korda, who opened with an 80 in the US Open two weeks ago after six wins in her previous seven starts, missed the cut after starting the tournament tied for second. She opened her second round with four straight bogeys and had to wait until the 18th for her only birdie of the day to miss the cut by a stroke at the Sahalee Country Club in Washington state. “No words for how I’m…
Tiger Woods has been granted a lifetime exemption to compete in the PGA Tour’s eight ‘signature’ events. The Tour has announced the honour in recognition of Woods’ joint-record 82 victories on the American-based circuit. His triumphs include 15 major titles. A statement confirmed the “adjustment” to the signature events series to “introduce a sponsor exemption for lifetime achievement – 80 or more career victories – to recognise Tiger Woods in his own category”. Woods, 48, remains the biggest draw in golf despite limited appearances in recent years due to health issues. He has played in just four Tour events this…
Hertfordshire’s Jack Bigham’s bid to add another R&A title to his collection gathered pace as the Walker Cup player surged into the quarter-finals of The 129th Amateur Championship at Ballyliffin. The 20-year-old from Harpenden, who won the R&A Boys’ Amateur Championship in 2021, stayed on course for a notable double with two contrasting match play victories over the Glashedy Links. Bigham had been three-down at the turn in his second-round encounter with South Africa’s Jordan Burnand but reeled off four birdies on the back-nine to turn the match around and seal a hard-earned 3&1 victory. The Florida State University student…
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,…
