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The UK’s best golfers, including elite national squad members, will make their annual early-season pilgrimage to Hertfordshire in April for the 63rd Berkhamsted Trophy. Male and female golfers with handicaps of 2.1 or better can enter the 2024 event here: https://www.berkhamstedgolfclub.co.uk/2024_entry. Entries close at 12 noon on Thursday 14th March, with the field limited to 108 competitors. This year’s tournament runs from Thursday 4th – Saturday 6th April. An English golf classic, the Berkhamsted Trophy is British elite golf’s traditional curtain-raiser to the golf season: a three-day, 72-hole test of your game in often harsh early…
Callaway Golf has announced the signing of exciting young Northern Irishman Tom McKibbin as a new Staff Professional on the DP World Tour. A winner on the DP World Tour after just 26 starts, the 21-year-old claimed his breakthrough victory at last year’s Porsche European Open in Germany, and will play a full complement of Callaway and Odyssey equipment, including the new Chrome Tour ball. McKibbin made an incredible start to his golfing career at a very young age. He captured the Junior Honda Classic title in his age group when he was just 12, and among his many other…
Q. This is your 19th season on Tour if I have it correct, 19th full season. How do you feel heading into this one? LUKE DONALD: 19th, yeah, on DP World Tour. Yeah, 2002 was when I turned — well, 2001 when I turned professional. It’s been even more than that as a professional. Yeah, certainly, 46 years old I turned in December, so you feel the body doesn’t work quite as well. But still enjoy coming out and competing and trying my best against some of these great young players. It’s not easy but I love competing. Q. You had a…
The DP World Tour has been plunged into yet further crisis following the shock announcement that Keith Pelley, the European Tour group’s CEO, is to stand down at the end of March. The 60-year-old Canadian’s surprise move comes as the DP World Tour remains in negotiations with the PGA Tour to form an alliance with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which bankrolls LIV Golf. Pelley is to be replaced by his deputy, Guy Kinnings, who will step up to the chief executive’s role on April 2. Pelley, who became only the fourth Chief Executive since the European Tour’s formation in…
Q. Kicking off 2024, in Dubai where you’ve so much success in the past winning five tournaments. How excited to be here and looking forward to the task ahead? RORY McILROY: Yeah, I am. I’m looking forward to the next couple of weeks. This is a different way to start the season than previous ones. Obviously we played Abu Dhabi and then Dubai. Abu Dhabi now at the end of the year, which is exciting, because another big tournament at the end of the season could decide the season-long race. This is a nice, maybe gentler introduction back into golf with…
RAKBANK has been announced as a partner at the upcoming Ras Al Khaimah Championship set to take place at the picturesque Al Hamra Golf Club on January 25-28. The highly-anticipated tournament will mark the third consecutive year the DP World Tour has hosted the event in RAKBANK’s home emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, and it promises to be another unmissable week of sporting action. The partnership between RAKBANK and the Ras Al Khaimah Championship reflects the bank’s continued commitment to supporting sporting events and fostering community engagement within the region. Raheel Ahmed, Group CEO of RAKBANK, said: “We are pleased to…
Golf News’ partner MASHIE Golf has just launched a new membership product that will certainly be attractive to golfers across the UK who are looking to play a wider range of courses and play more competitive golf while giving them a taste of everything MASHIE GOLF offers. The Links Membership was launched in late December 2023 and Membership Director, Ed Kennedy has been delighted with the response particularly as they have only just started to promote the product. ‘ We wanted a soft launch for The Links Membership as we knew it was going to be extremely popular…
Ludvig Aberg talks PGA Tour & DP World Tour wins, Ryder Cup victory in Rome and what he’s looking forward to in 2024 Have you been surprised by how quickly you found success on the PGA TOUR? I wouldn’t say surprised. I think at the end of the day I know my qualities and I think what I’ve been impressed by myself is how quickly those have shown up, I think, because whether you like it or not, it is different playing college than playing on the TOUR. It’s same club, the same ball, all those things, but it is…
England Golf have named a 14-player squad ahead of the new season with nine new names included. Eliot Baker, Ben Brown, Will Hopkins, Charlie Crockett, Matthew Dodd-Berry, Zach Little and Mark Stockdale join the squad, with Sam Easterbrook and Tyler Weaver making the step up from the England Boys’ Squad. Six players will be UK-based while eight players will receive additional support from coaches while attending their respective colleges in the USA. WHO IS MISSING FROM THE SQUAD From last year’s squad, John Gough, Josh Berry and Frank Kennedy have all gone on to turn professional, with Berry picking up…
If we’re being honest—most of us don’t play much golf until the spring, but we can definitely use the winter months to improve our mental game.Winter is the perfect time to think about your on-course habits and train yourself to stop making the same mistakes you’ve been making time and time again.In this article, golf performance coach Duncan McCarthy talks us through his golfer’s checklist, looking at what to get right this year, and how to keep improving your mental game. The golfer’s checklist 1. Stop the moaningThere’s nothing worse than a bad lie in the rough, or worse, a bad lie…
