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LIV Golf has announced a multi-year partnership with JCB Golf & Country Club, the Staffordshire venue that has been chosen to host the LIV Golf League’s one and only tournament in the UK this year. LIV Golf UK by JCB will take place between July 26-28 at JCB Golf & Country Club, host for LIV Golf’s third trip to the UK, and final stop outside the US for the 2024 season. Among the 56-man field for the 54-hole event will be Ryder Cup stars Tyrrell Hatton and Jon Rahm, who will both be making their first appearances with LIV Golf…
By Phil Casey Olympic champion Xander Schauffele believes the best is yet to come in his career after narrowly missing out on the Players Championship title. Schauffele took a one-shot lead into the final round at Sawgrass on Sunday and was still in front of the charging Scottie Scheffler when he recorded his fourth birdie of the day on the 12th. However, Scheffler – who had started the day five shots behind – drew level with a birdie on the 16th and Schauffele then bogeyed the 14th and 15th to leave himself with too much to do over the closing…
BY PHIL CASEY Shane Lowry is determined to build on his strong start to the season after making the long journey to Singapore for his final event before the Masters. A closing 66 gave Lowry a share of 19th in the Players Championship on Sunday and came on the back of third place in the Arnold Palmer Invitational and fourth in the Cognizant Classic. Lowry could therefore have been forgiven for taking some time off before the year’s first major at Augusta National, but the former Open champion will instead contest the Porsche Singapore Classic at Laguna National, his first…
Jon Rahm has revealed the menu for his Champions Dinner ahead of The Masters, with the 2023 winner drawing heavily on his Spanish roots and even his grandmother’s home cooking. Rahm triumphed by four shots at Augusta last year to win the green jacket and earn the honour of picking the 2024 pre-tournament dinner. There will be a distinctively Iberian theme this year, with the 29-year-old’s menu starting with mix of tapas and pintxos, including spicy Basque chorizo and even ‘Mama Rahm’s Classic Lentil Stew’. The dish will be made to Rahm’s grandmother’s recipe by chef Jose Andres. ‘He called my…
Knowing how to prepare for a golf tournament is important to any golfer, regardless of your level. After all, whether it’s a week-long stay at Augusta or a local, one-day charity fundraiser, you want to perform well no matter what—and as the old adage goes; fail to prepare, prepare to fail.Golf coach Duncan McCarthy has worked with winners on all the main tours, and an important part of his job is to make sure that his stable of players perform at their best when it really matters. A big part of knowing how to prepare for a golf tournament is…
BY PHIL CASEY Masters champion Jon Rahm hopes golf can achieve “some type of union” as he set his sights on a Sunday showdown with his PGA Tour rivals at Augusta National. The Tour’s six player-directors met with officials from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) in the Bahamas on Monday as efforts continue to make a deal to end golf’s civil war. The PIF bankrolls the breakaway LIV Golf League, which Rahm joined in a stunning move in December, meaning the majors are now the only events which see all of the world’s top players competing against each other.…
Eastbourne Borough Council has announced that golf club operator Get Golfing has been selected to take over operations at Eastbourne Downs Golf Club in East Sussex. The decision to award the operating contract to Get Golfing followed a bidding process that attracted interest from over 30 parties, with six submitting formal responses.Eastbourne Downs, which is located on the South Downs overlooking Eastbourne, was founded in 1908 and boasts an 18-hole championship golf course designed by JH Taylor. One its proudest sons was Major Cyril Tolley, who the Amateur Championship in 1920 and 1929 and who played in the Walker Cup…
Q. Can you describe the moment when you were watching Wyndham [Clark] line that putt up on 18 and when you saw that thing 360? I’m assuming you had a TV monitor there, right? SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I was out on the range. I was listening to the crowd noise. I heard a groan, and so it sounded like a missed putt. I haven’t seen his putt yet. Q. When you were sitting on 14 tee on Friday, having the massage, could you have envisioned sitting in that chair right now? SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I think so. That’s probably why I kept playing.…
England’s John Parry secured a dramatic return to the winner’s circle in the Delhi Challenge, firing a sensational seven-under-par round on the final day to triumph at Classic Golf & Country Club in India. The 37-year-old Yorkshireman, who becomes a two-time winner on the Challenge Tour, carded rounds of 66, 69, 68 and 65 on his way to a 20-under-par total to win by one stroke ahead of countrymen Jack Senior and Chris Paisley, and the UAE’s Joshua Grenville-Wood. Parry last tasted victory when he triumphed at the Vivendi Cup 2010 on the DP World Tour and was delighted to…
As a former Masters champion, Danny Willett will definitely be at Augusta National for the first major of the year. Whether he is there just to sample the delights of Jon Rahm’s menu for the champions dinner or swinging a golf club in anger is less certain as he battles to regain full fitness following shoulder surgery. Willett looked set to challenge for a second BMW PGA Championship title in September when he covered his first 12 holes in six under par, only to aggravate a shoulder tear after hitting his tee shot on the 15th. The 2019 champion played…
