Archive for the 'Amateur Golf' Category

Lowry and Arnold set for professional debuts

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Two golfers who have the potential to make it big will shed their amateur status this week when they take part in the European Open at the London Club in Kent, England.
Shane Lowry, the amateur winner of the recent Irish Open, and Scott Arnold, the top-ranked amateur in the world, have both entered the European [...]

Mocs’ On Track For NCAA Championship

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

When you’re a mid-size college golf program making the NCAA Championship is a big deal. When your team is less than two seasons old and comprised entirely of freshmen and sophomores, that achievement becomes a whole lot more impressive.
Two seasons ago Colette Murray was named head coach of the University of Tennessee Chattanooga women’s golf program, a [...]

Ruffled RAF teed off over chopper golf sortie

Friday, March 6th, 2009

A story out of UK tells of a Royal Air Force probe into why a search and rescue helicopter was used to drop off servicemen for a round of golf.
This instantly reminded me of the long and arduous trek I used to make every fortnight to play golf at the Kau Sai Chau Golf Course [...]

Sweden wins women’s world amateur title

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Annika Sorenstam may be retiring at the end of the year but judging by the quality of their amateurs, there are plenty of talented Swedes waiting in the wings ready to take her place.
Caroline Hedwall and Pernilla Lindberg, both students at Oklahoma State University, joined Anna Nordqvist in winning the World Amateur Team Championship at [...]

Late Mayo’s Amputee Golf Event Still Going Strong

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

A unique golfing event is taking place in the Welsh valleys.
If you take a close look at each of the more than 50 golfers taking part at the Bryn Meadows resort near Ystrad Mynach, you will see that every one is missing some part of their bodies.
That’s because it is the annual Amputee Golf event, [...]

Dope Testing Soon To Become Reality

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said at the Travelers Championship that golf tours around the world should work harder to implement anti-doping programmes.
It appears that every other governing body has made moves to establish drug testing. The LPGA Tour is to start testing in 2008 and the European Tour is aiming to have its own [...]

Should Northern Ireland Get To Drink From Claret Jug?

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

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 [...]

Pablo and Pressel Make History as Scott Triumphs in Houston

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

It was a weekend for history-makers on both sides of the Atlantic with Spain’s Pablo Martin-Benavides and Morgan Pressel notching up significant firsts on the European Tour and LPGA Tour respectively.
Before Martin-Benavides, American Scott Verplank was Oklahoma State University’s most storied golfer because he won as an amateur on the US PGA Tour.
Now, it is [...]

British-Indian Teen Matharu Hailed As the Female Tiger Woods

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

America and Thailand have Tiger Woods, now Britain and India hope they have their own mixed-race superstar.
She is Kiran Matharu, the first high-profile British-Asian golfing star who is hoping to supplant Michelle Wie as the next true teenage sensation.
The 17-year-old Curtis Cup player has a string of titles to her name, including the 2006 English [...]

Ramsay on Course for Memorable Masters

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Richie Ramsay completed the perfect warm up for his Masters debut by becoming the first ever Scot to win the Georgia Cup at the Golf Club of Georgia yesterday.
Ramsay’s US Amateur victory last year was the first by a Scot since 1898 and helped to propel him to pole position in the first world amateur [...]

Scottish Open Amateur Strokeplay Championship 2007

Monday, January 8th, 2007

It is always a real treat to watch really good golfers play some of the best links courses in Scotland. One such course that springs to mind is Royal Dornoch, orginally designed by Old Tom Morris. In 1877 the first nine holes were laid out, with another nine created three years later. Interestingly you can [...]