Written by Golf World on Thursday 20 January 2011
Matteo Manassero, the European Tour’s reigning Rookie of the Year and an official Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) golfing ambassador, has congratulated the emirate’s leading courses and institutions on efforts to continue prioritising the game at the grass roots level. Ahead of his second Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship, Manassero played the 18th hole of the stunning National Course, while watched...
Written by Golf World on Friday 21 January 2011
The 40th edition of The European Tour Official Guide is now available for download, giving you all the stats and biographies from every player on Tour. Whether you are the dedicated statistician or simply looking for more background to the players to help you select your European Tour Fantasy Race, this is the publication for you. It contains all the results and...
Written by Golf World on Friday 21 January 2011
Padraig Harrington has been disqualified from the first event if the year in Abu Dhabi after a super slo-mo camera revealed he’d touched his ball as he marked it and it had moved. The video evidence came to light almost 24 hours after his ball moved on the 7th green when retrieving his marker. The offence was not that the ball had...
Written by Golf World on Friday 21 January 2011
Jhonattan Vegas and Boo Weekley are tied at the top in the Bob Hope Classic in California. Vegas shot a 5-under 67 in windy conditions Thursday for a share of the second-round lead with Boo Weekley. Weekley had a 66 to match Vegas at 13-under 131 in the 90-hole tournament on four Palm Springs-area courses. Charles Howell III (66) and Chris...
Written by John Wrenbury on Friday 21 January 2011
In light of Padraig Harrington’s disqualification from the HSBC Abu Dhabi Championship for moving his ball three dimples on the green, John Wrenbury, author of ‘If only I could remember the rules’ argues the laws of the game need a radical 21st century overhaul. Seen any gophers on your course lately? If not, it may be because you don’t know what they...
Written by Golf World on Friday 21 January 2011
Martin Kaymer put himself in pole position to successfully defend his Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship title as he reached the halfway stage 12 under par. A week after Charl Schwartzel retained the Joburg Open, US PGA Championship winner Kaymer added a superb second round 65 to his opening 67 despite wet and windy conditions. And the good news keeps coming for...
Written by Golf World on Sunday 23 January 2011
Martin Kaymer displaced Tiger Woods as the world No2 after winning the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship for the third time in four years by an eight shot margin over Rory McIlroy. The German needed only a top-seven finish to depose Woods, but won with ease over a field which included the other three current Major champions, and also Westwood, who ended up...
Written by Golf World on Tuesday 25 January 2011
Any questions that may have existed about how last year’s US Open, Open Championship and PGA Championship winners would fare in 2011 were pretty much extinguished within three weeks of the New Year starting. The culmination came with Martin Kaymer streaked away from a world-class field to win the US$2.7 million Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship in the United Arab Emirates...
Written by Golf World on Tuesday 25 January 2011
This year’s Barclays Scottish Open will move to Loch Lomond to the new links at Castle Stuart near Inverness. The European Tour has confirmed the switch after months of speculation, which saw Edinburgh’s Renaissance Club mooted as another potential venue. The shift north for the Barclays Scottish Open, after nine successful years at Loch Lomond Golf Club, will bring a welcome...
Written by Golf World on Tuesday 25 January 2011
The ability to merge prestigious and established sponsors with new and exciting venues is perfectly illustrated this week with the inaugural Volvo Golf Champions at the Royal Golf Club in Bahrain, the second of the thrilling month-long Desert Swing on The 2011 European Tour International Schedule. Volvo are the most prolific sponsor in the Tour’s history – the tournament being the...
Written by Golf World staff on Thursday 27 January 2011
The commissioner of the PGA Tour, Tim Finchem, has asked the USGA for a “full and thorough review” of the rules after the recent disqualification of two high-profile players. Camilo Villegas was disqualified in Hawaii, after a tv viewer rang in having noticed him tap down a divot as it was rolling back towards him. And another viewer noticed Padraig Harrington...
Thursday 27 January 2011
Johan Edfors proved that contentment off the course leads to excellence on it when the 35 year old produced a superb eight under par 64 to lead after the first round of the Volvo Golf Champions at The Royal Golf Club in Bahrain. Edfors married long-time girlfriend Cecilia in December and, after an idyllic honeymoon in Thailand, he returned refreshed to...
Written by Golf World staff on Friday 28 January 2011
Tiger said he was “happy” with his first competitive round of the season, after shooting a bogey-free 3-under-par 69, to be five shots off the lead, after the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open. “I probably hit the ball well all day,” he said, “I hit just a couple of loose shots that I know what I did wrong, which...
Written by Golf World on Saturday 29 January 2011
Miguel Angel Jimenez sanpped his putter in anger during the second round of the Volvo Golf Champions event in Bahrain – and then went on to record three birdies putting with his lob wedge! The 47-year-old Spaniard now joins the leaders at 11 under. Darren Clarke and Paul Casey, South African James Kingston and Scot Stephen Gallacher are also right in the...
Written by Golf World on Monday 31 January 2011
Tiger Woods began a new year with his worst season debut. Woods failed to birdie a par 5 for the second time this week and closed with a 3-over 75 on Sunday in the Farmers Insurance Open, ending his five-tournament winning streak at Torrey Pines with a middle-of-the-pack finish. “I have some work to do,” Woods said. “There’s no doubt about that.” The...
Written by Golf World on Monday 31 January 2011
Paul Casey ended a 20-month title drought when he captured the inaugural Volvo Golf Champions in Bahrain. The 33-year-old Englishman’s last victory on The European Tour had come in his home country in the PGA Championship at Wentworth, but he got back into the winners’ circle in style after a thrilling final day at The Royal Golf Club. Casey’s final round 68...
Written by Golf World on Monday 31 January 2011
Bubba Watson won his second PGA Tour title when he rolled in a 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole at Torrey Pines, beating Phil Mickelson in the process. The big-hitting Watson made clutch putts on the final two holes for a 5-under 67 before Mickelson had the chance to beat him if he made an eagle at the 18th. But he...
Written by Golf World on Thursday 3 February 2011
Lee Westwood will be defending his No. 1 world ranking against Martin Kaymer when they tee off in the Qatar Masters on Thursday. Westwood, who in October replaced Tiger Woods at the top, needs to finish no worse than second to keep his spot if the No. 2-ranked Kaymer wins the tournament. Kaymer, who won last month’s Abu Dhabi Golf Championship, could...
Written by Golf World on Thursday 3 February 2011
The start of the Waste Management Phoenix Open might be delayed on Thursday… because of ice. British golfers have been used to such conditions for months, but in the Arizona desert unusually cold weather has cashed havoc. Slugger White, the PGA Tour’s vice president of rules and competition, said in his 30 years with the tour he’s never seen an entire day lost...
Written by Golf World on Thursday 3 February 2011
Retief Goosen celebrated his 42nd birthday by setting the clubhouse target at the Commercialbank Qatar Masters presented by Dolphin Energy in windy Doha. A three under par 69 was sufficient to make the 2007 winner – it remains his last European Tour victory – the target for the rest of the field. Defending champion Robert Karlsson needed a closing par five...