ANY of the golfers aspiring to make a name for themselves in the Scottish Challenge at the MacDonald Cardrona golf and country club near Peebles today will surely take heart from the example of last year’s winner, Robert Dinwiddie.
The former Walker Cup player has recorded no fewer than four top 11 finishes on his rookie [...]
GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Michigan — It’s been more than week since he hooked up with Tiger Woods for an epic duel at the U.S. Open, but the buzz surrounding his close call against the world’s No. 1-ranked player hasn’t died down for Rocco Mediate.
And chances are it won’t this week at the Buick Open, where [...]
The European Tour Order of Merit’s top four players are set to go head to head for the Number One spot at the €4,000,000 Open de France ALSTOM.
Miguel Angel Jiménez, Robert Karlsson, Lee Westwood and Oliver Wilson are all at the stunning Golf National in Versailles looking to take the oldest – and one of [...]
The golfers may be looking to shoot a low number but everything else adds up to 99 at the Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic Nationwide Golf Tournament.
Start with the purse of $800,099 — one of the largest on the Nationwide tour this season.
Then consider that Samsung Electronics is donating $99 to the Wayne Gretzky Foundation for [...]
Pioneering LPGA player, coach and educator Renee Powell will receive an honorary degree from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on Wednesday, June 25. Powell will be made a Doctor of Laws (LLD). One of only three African-American women to play on the LPGA Tour, Powell is the first LPGA Tour member to receive [...]
Cristie Kerr has carved out a reputation as one of the tour’s most tenacious competitors.
This spunky South Floridian endured a past weight problem and a back injury, plus 41 straight majors without a win, to take the U.S. Women’s Open trophy last summer. Kerr talks and walks with a command that belies her 5-foot-5 frame; [...]
American teenager Michelle Wie, troubled by a wrist injury for more than a year, will make only her third appearance of the season in this week’s Ladies German Open. It will be the first time the 18-year-old Hawaiian has competed in a full-field Ladies European Tour (LET) event. “They gave me a sponsor’s [...]
Thailand’s Prayad Marksaeng sank a two-feet birdie on the final hole to win the prestigious Mizuno Open Yomiuri Classic by one stroke yesterday for back-to-back wins on the Japan Tour. One of the favourites for the tournament after his maiden Japan tour title at the Mitsubishi Diamond Cup Golf last month, the 42-year-old golfer [...]
The Duramed FUTURES Tour’s inaugural event in London, Ky., has announced its new title sponsor for the $100,000 tournament. The Tour’s 14th event on the 2008 schedule will be called the Falls Auto Group Classic presented by Little Caesars.
The tournament will be staged at Crooked Creek Golf Community from August 5-10, and will be contested [...]
The return of the Canadian Professional Golf Tour to Surrey is looking increasing unlikely for 2009.
The third edition of the CanTour’s Greater Vancouver Charity Classic tees off this week at Hazelmere in South Surrey but barring a radical infusion of private money, the Tour will likely skip the Lower Mainland of Vancouver all together next [...]
