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Paul McGinley has been named as an ambassador for the Legends Tour. He will play in a minimum of six events in the 2024 season, set to include the Swiss Seniors Open, Staysure PGA Seniors Championship, Legends Open de France, Senior Italian Open, Legends Championship Vietnam and the MCB Tour Championship Mauritius. The Ryder Cup legend played in three editions of the team event before captaining Europe to victory at Gleneagles in 2014. Speaking about his new role and playing on the Legends Tour, McGinley said: “I do a lot of things in my life now from…
The R&A has launched One Club, an evolution of its direct-to-consumer membership initiative designed to transform how fans and golfers around the world experience the sport year-round. One Club is free to join and provides members with a comprehensive array of year-round benefits, rewards, exclusive content and unique access to The Open, AIG Women’s Open and other R&A Championships. This includes the launch of a new global streaming service, R&A TV. It will also offer fans money-can’t-buy experiences and access to premium coaching and playing opportunities, allowing avid golfers and fans to take their passion for the sport to the next…
The world’s best golfers will be reuniting for the first time in eight months for the 88TH Masters, a tournament that sees reigning champion Jon Rahm return to Augusta to defend his title, but this time as a LIV golfer. Could the stakes be any higher? While the Masters is always the most eagerly anticipated golf tournaments of the year, coming as it does, after eight Major-free months, this year’s renewal has more than a certain extra frisson to it for a number of well-publicised reasons. The arrival of LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed tour, in the spring of 2022, set…
The Masters is decorated with incredible shots, all of which are made more spectacular by their surroundings.We’ve trawled the Augusta archives and picked out 10 of the best Masters shots of all time—however, with the proviso that many of the greatest shots took place before the arrival of YouTube in 2005.Sadly, for example, there’s no actual footage of Gene Sarazen’s famous albatross in 1935, though there are plenty of other highlights to fill the void before the year’s first Major gets underway.In no particular order, check out our top 10 best Masters shots of all time below. Which one is…
Welcome back to the media center here at the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship. Pleased to be joined by the new 2024 champion in NELLY KORDA. Q. Nelly, overall, the thoughts of the last hour that you’ve had. Take me through what the last couple holes of regular play was like and then the emotions of that playoff. NELLY KORDA: Honestly didn’t really start feeling nervous until I made that eagle putt. I was kind of just — I didn’t really know what was going on, how the group behind me was doing. It was so windy was caught up…
Oxford University secured its third consecutive victory in the Varsity Match against Cambridge after running out 9.5-5.5 winners of the 135th staging of the annual contest, which this year was held at Rye Golf Club in East Sussex from March 22-23. Played over two days, the Full Blues match comprises five foursomes on the opening day and 10 singles on the second day. Oxford took a narrow early lead when winning Friday’s foursomes 3-2, with wins from Josh Fallows & Oliver Brunt, Charlie Flaxbeard & Aidan Wong and Chris Little & Harry Thomas, while Cambridge secured their two points courtesy…
Jesper Svensson won his first DP World Tour title with a play-off victory over Kiradech Aphibarnrat at the Porsche Singapore Classic. The Swede matched the course record with a closing 63 at Laguna National Golf Resort Club to get to 17 under, but extra holes were required as Aphibarnrat eagled the last in a stunning finish to a round of 64. Both men made birdie on the first trip up the last and then exchanged a pair of pars before Aphibarnrat went over the back and made a bogey, leaving Svensson two putts for par and his maiden victory. The…
Ryder Cup winner Robert MacIntyre trolled his American hosts at the Valspar Championship in Florida after labelling his caddie’s bib with the scoreline from Europe’s victory in Rome. The Scot, who was unbeaten with two-and-a-half-points in the Marco Simone Country Club in September, took advantage of a quirk of the tournament which allows players to choose their own wording for their bagman’s attire. MacIntyre opted for EUR 16.5 – 11.5 USA, a reference to America’s crushing defeat as Luke Donald’s side won back the trophy, for Mike Burrows’ bib. However, Englishman Burrows was not even on MacIntyre’s bag for the…
A brand new tour designed to increase playing opportunities for professional female golfers in the UK has been launched today (March 22). The Ladies Pro Series, which is inviting applications for membership for its 2024 tournament schedule from today, has been designed to be complimentary to the existing Ladies European Tour Access Series, with no clashes of dates in a six-event season, with more to be added that initially runs between April and August. The format of each one-day event (18 holes) will see a female professional paired with an amateur partner, with prizes for both the pro’s individual score,…
By Phil Casey Tiger Woods has been included in an 85-man field for the Masters published on the tournament’s official website. Woods has not competed since withdrawing from February’s Genesis Invitational due to illness after six holes of his second round. It was the 48-year-old’s first PGA Tour event of the season and just his second tournament since undergoing ankle surgery in April last year after withdrawing from the Masters during the third round. Woods did not compete again until the Hero World Challenge in December, where he finished 18th in the 20-man field but said he was pleased with…
