Archive for the Amateur Golf Category


Great Gift Ideas For The Golfers

Happy holidays my fellow golf aficionados! Seeing as how Christmas is poking it’s head around the corner I thought I might do something a little different and provide you last-minute shoppers out there with a a few ideas for the golfer on their list. The main rule I would recommend if you are buying for […]

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Retired 64-year-old widow aces twice in the same round

There are certain holes in a golf course where you don’t even need a putter. At least that was the case in two holes for 64-year-old retiree Ruth Day. Day had plenty of reasons to celebrate earlier this month at the Whitley Bay Golf Club in England, shooting two holes-in-one in a single round. In […]

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British amateur launches PowerPlay Golf in India

India hopes to do for golf what they have done for Twenty 20 cricket. The sports-loving Indians may not have invented either game but they have provided the platform to enhance the spectacle thanks to their huge fan base. For instance, T20 cricket, courtesy of the Indian Premier League, is a multi-million dollay industry in […]

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2009 Walker Cup Sides Taking Shape

The historic Merion Golf Club will host the best amateur golfers from the United States and Great Britain and Ireland when the 41st staging of the Walker Cup kicks off from September 12-13. This past Sunday the United States Golf Association selected eight of their ten players to compete against Great Britain and Ireland in […]

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Golf: Going For Gold In 2016

Tiger Woods has just about done it all in the game of golf: 14 major championships, 69 career wins on tour, a record stay at world number one, NCAA, U.S Amateur and Junior titles, Fed-Ex, Ryder, and Presidents Cups. There’s not much else to conquer really. Over the weekend at the Buick Open Sir Nick […]

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Ahead Of The Class

Phil Mickelson did it on the PGA Tour. So did Scott Verplank. In recent years Pablo Martin and Danny Lee have done it in Europe. I’m taking, of course, about winning a professional tournament while still an amateur, something Oklahoma State’s Rickie Fowler came oh so close to doing Sunday at the Nationwide Tour’s Children’s Hospital […]

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Lowry and Arnold set for professional debuts

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 […]

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Mocs’ On Track For NCAA Championship

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, […]

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Ruffled RAF teed off over chopper golf sortie

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 […]

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Sweden wins women’s world amateur title

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 […]

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Late Mayo’s Amputee Golf Event Still Going Strong

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 […]

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Dope Testing Soon To Become Reality

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 […]

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Should Northern Ireland Get To Drink From Claret Jug?

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 […]

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Pablo and Pressel Make History as Scott Triumphs in Houston

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, […]

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British-Indian Teen Matharu Hailed As the Female Tiger Woods

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 […]

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