Oct 20th, 2015 Article
Quinta Do Lago North
Welcome to Quinta do Lago, Portugal’s golfing home to the rich and famous, a resort of golfing bliss just 30 minutes from Faro airport.
Welcome to Quinta do Lago, Portugal’s golfing home to the rich and famous, a resort of golfing bliss just 30 minutes from Faro airport.
One of our favourite links courses, Royal Portrush is set to return to the Open Rota later today. The R&A are set to name it as the course for the 2019 Open Championship, for the first time since Max Faulkner won there in 1951.
Star Wars has taken over the internet today, so we thought it only right we added our tuppence worth. With The Force Awakens trailer going live this morning, we had a look around for some of the best Star Wars golfing gubbins.
It was Thorbjorn Olesen's day at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. He shot a great 7 under 65 at St Andrews to get to seventeen under par, and hold a three shot lead over Germany’s Florian Fritsch.
Day 2 at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship was another fun and enthralling watch as the young guns continued firing despite the pressure increasing on them with mounting publicity from the media.
The powers that be at the BBC have revealed that their coverage of the Open will end one year earlier than previously planned – and that’s next year, thank you very much.
It didn’t rain (that much) today, and the crowds came out in their droves. Who says the young guns aren’t already making a difference? They came to see Jordan, and he did not disappoint. In the end he won comfortably with a two under 69 to beat Henrik Stenson by four shots.
Half the guys and girls at GolfPunk think Jordan Spieth is really boring – he never says anything interesting. The other half can't believe this, they think he's the dog's whatchamecallits, the second coming, a bit of Alright! Who's right? Gorgeous George goes deep to find out how a goofy kid became the World's Number 1 golfer, and finds out a load of stuff we didn't know...
England's Lee Slattery held his nerve to win his second European Tour title with a one-shot victory over Argentinian Estanislao Goya at the Russian Open. Slattery is now top of the new Ryder Cup points table.
It was a big weekend for Davis Love and his eclectic bag of equipment. Until this season sponsored by Bridgestone, the next Ryder Cup captain won his 21st PGA Tour victory using a mixed bag of what works.
Well, the short answer is “a definitive no”. Sorry, the short answer is “no”. It was not to be. Simples as.
John Richardson was a typical weekend golfer who enjoyed the game but couldn't break one hundred. But he differed from the average 24-handicapper in one crucial way. He was determined to break par within a year at the local golf course.