US$5.5 million raised for COVID-19 relief at Seminole
Historic Seminole Golf Club in South Florida was a fitting host to an event that raised valuable funds for COVID-19 relief, whilst also helping to sate the appetites of a golf-starved audience. Playing in their first professional event since THE PLAYERS was cancelled in March due to the fast unfolding pandemic, Rory McIlroy and Dustin […]
U.S. Open next to succumb to the COVID-19 spread
Although the USGA have yet to officially confirm the seemingly inevitable, it’s almost guaranteed that the men’s U.S. Open Championship scheduled for Winged Foot Golf Club in June will become the third men’s major championship of 2020 to be postponed or delayed. With the PGA Championship and Masters Tournament having already announced postponements, the New […]
Australian PGA goes back to Royal Queensland in 2020
After seven years on the Gold Coast, the Australian PGA Championship will return to Brisbane in 2020 to celebrate Royal Queensland Golf Club’s centenary year. The time-honoured tournament, one of the feature events on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia, will be played in Queensland’s capital for the first time since Robert Allenby edged […]
4 weeks and counting – Time to stand up for final Presidents Cup spots
International skipper Ernie Els’ most recent Presidents Cup blog coincided with the countdown to the last four weeks available to impress both he ad U.S. captain Tiger Woods for the remaining four picks on each team for December’s matches at Royal Melbourne. Both will be clearly looking to select guys that are in form, especially […]
Peninsula Kingswood celebrate Official Opening
The last Sunday in May heralded a new beginning for the Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club in Frankston, Victoria, with hundreds of members and invited guests revelling in the official opening of their newly renovated golf courses and clubhouse. Both the North and South courses have undergone stunning upgrades at the hands of the Ogilvy […]
Harrington named Europe’s 2020 Ryder Cup Captain
Just a few months on from Europe’s emphatic reclamation of the Ryder Cup in Paris, Padraig Harrington has been named as the European Captain for The 2020 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits, Wisconsin. The three-time Major Champion has a storied Ryder Cup career, having represented Europe six times as a player – including being part […]
Ernie and Tiger named captains for 2019 Presidents Cup matches at Royal Melbourne
Presidents Cup and PGA TOUR officials today announced Ernie Els and Tiger Woods as captains of the International and U.S. Teams, respectively, for the 2019 Presidents Cup at The Royal Melbourne Golf Course in Melbourne. Assistant Captains at the 2017 Presidents Cup held in New Jersey, both Els and Woods will become first-time captains at […]
Squiers joins ALPG Board
Australian Ladies Professional Golf (ALPG) President Shani Waugh today announced that prominent Sports journalist and award-winning Channel 9 Sports Presenter Sam Squiers has accepted an invitation to join the ALPG’s Board of Directors. Squiers will join Waugh and current Board Members, Player Directors Julia Boland, Jessica Cowie and Tamara Johns, and Non-Executive Directors Terry Simpson […]
‘The bell rings on Thursday, guys.’ – Nick Price
If ever there is a time and a place where the long-suffering supporters of the bi-annual tilt by the Internationals to arrest a generation of suffering in the Presidents Cup, 2017 and New York City may just be that time and place. For an ‘away’ game, there’s no more ‘international’ metropolis than the Big Apple, […]
