Annika Sorenstam said it was good to be back. And golf, in general, is glad to have her back as she teed up for the first time in almost two month, at $2.6 million Ginn Tribute in Mount Pleasant on the LPGA Tour.
Sorenstam suffered a ruptured disc and bulging disc in her back and could [...]
Parents ask me all the time, how to get their children interested in golf. And then once interested, how to make sure their child improves. And then once there’s improvement, how to make sure they reach their full potential. Seems every parent I meet wants their child to be the next Tiger Woods and are [...]
Anders Hansen was hardly mentioned during the halfway stage of the BMW PGA Championship at the Wentworth Club in England.
Two days later, he was the toast of the European Tour after his 25-foot putt on the first play-off hole gave him a birdie and a thrilling victory over local hope Justin Rose.
After an innocuous [...]
England’s David Howell has had to delay his comeback yet again, which means he will go straight into the US Open at Oakmont with no tournament preparation.
Howell was supposed to end his injury lay-off at the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio, starting on May 31, but he is yet to fully recover from a back [...]
Teenager Michelle Wie, who has been out of the spotlight with a wrist injury, created a stir this week by once again accepting a sponsor invitation to the PGA Tour’s John Deere Classic. The announcement comes on the heels of negative feedback from LPGA players, who disagreed with her inclusion into the lucrative Samsung World [...]
This week’s Crown Plaza Invitational at Colonial goes deeper than simply finding a winner at the end of four days. It is also crucial for those players on the fringe who are trying to qualify for the US Open.
The top 50 players in the Official World Golf Rankings earn the right to play in the [...]
With the Women’s British Open being played at St Andrews this year the tournament will, again, garner the sort of headlines that the mainstream media seem loathe to give women’s golf throughout the rest of the year.
Yet it is often widely forgotten that women and golf have been closely connected in Scotland for centuries.
Scotland’s [...]
It took 25 years to end the drought but it was well worth the wait. If there was a choice homegrown winner for the Irish Open, it would always be Padraig Harrington and the Irishman overcame a late stumble to deliver the victory that the home fans wanted at the Adare Manor Hotel and Golf [...]
At 44 years of age, Taiwan’s Lu Wen-teh really had no business duelling with 24-year-old Australian Richard Moir in a play-off at one of the Asian Tour’s most exotic locations.
As it turned out, Lu did the business, shooting birdie on the par-five 18th three times to trump Moir in a sudden-death play-off and win the [...]
The next generation of golf stars are ready to take over at the European Tour, according to veteran Dane Thomas Bjorn.
Golfers such as England’s Oliver Wilson and Ross Fisher, and Spaniard Alvaro Quiros, are poised to push past masters aside, said Bjorn, who is defending his Irish Open title at Adare Manor this week.
Bjorn, who [...]
Phil Mickelson may be timing his tune-up for the US Open just right. And if everything goes according to plan, he’d love to be playing the Oakmont course in four weeks time in the same form, or better, as he was during The Players Championship at Sawgrass over the weekend.
Lefty shot a final round three-under-par [...]
Aussie golf fans may want to take their Palm Pilots when they travel to the Australian Open in Sydney this December.
Organisers of Australia’s premier event is trying to ramp up the entertainment and information factor for golf fans so that they can receive as much details about the tournament on the course as they could [...]
If you want to be a great putter, you must have great speed control. Simply, it makes no sense to practice only aim, when the speed your ball rolls is the main factor determining line. So here are two great drills to help develop your speed control on the greens. And with proper speed control, [...]
England’s Justin Rose will join a star-studded field for this month’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club in Surrey, from May 24-27.
It will be one of the strongest tournaments on the European Tour this season with South Africans Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, Fijian Vijay Singh, Britons Paul Casey and Luke Donald and Henrik Stenson [...]
World class amateur golf returns to Northern Ireland in September as home grown talent Rory McIlroy leads Britain and Ireland’s Walker Cup charge.
Unfortunately restrictions at the Royal County Down course mean that only 10,000 tickets will be available: mainly through golf clubs in Ireland, the UK and America.
That’s probably a bit of a cunning ruse [...]