Written by Jonathan Greathead, TG Senior Equipment Editor on Monday 16 April 2012
PING staffer Louis Oosthuizen brushed off his Masters disappointment by winning the Malaysian Open by three shots. The South African lost in a playoff at Augusta the week before to American Bubba Watson, but his final score of 17-under-par was enough to seal the win ahead of Scot Stephen Gallacher. Heavy storms meant that the 2010 Open Champion had to play 26 holes...
Monday 23 April 2012
PING made it four Tour victories in as many weeks after staff player Lee Westwood successfully defended his Indonesian Masters crown on Sunday. Westwood joins fellow PING stars Hunter Mahan (Shell Houston Open), Bubba Watson (The Masters) and Louis Oosthuizen (Mayalsian Open) after carding a four-round total of 16-under-par. The world number three had to tackle 32 holes on Sunday due to poor...
Written by TG Features Writer on Tuesday 24 April 2012
We’re staying on the European Tour for this week’s Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf tournament, in association with Your Golf Travel, the Ballantine’s Championship in Korea. The event is being held at Blackstone Golf Club for the second successive year, which is a tree-lined and undulating layout with plenty of water in play. That being said, the fairways are quite wide so there...
Written by TG Staff Writer on Monday 30 April 2012
Bernd Wiesberger cruised to an emphatic victory at the Ballantine’s Championship, winning his first European Tour title by a five shots. The Austrian closed with a round of 68 after shooting consecutive course-record rounds of 65 on Friday and Saturday and finished in style with birdies at three of the final four holes to end on 18-under par. The 26-year-old, twice a...
Written by TG Staff Writer on Monday 30 April 2012
Luke Donald regained top spot in the world rankings from Rory McIlroy after finishing third in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. The Englishman needed a top-seven finish to move back to the head of the standings and a final-round 67 saw him finish third, two shots adrift. American Jason Dufner beat Ernie Els in a play-off for his first PGA Tour...
Written by TG Features Writer on Monday 30 April 2012
The Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game, in association with Your Golf Travel, heads back across the pond this week for the Wells Fargo Championship on the PGA Tour. Many big names are making their first appearances since The Masters and they will be faced with a very tough test at Quail Hollow, which has long been one of the toughest par-72s on Tour. Birdies will...
Written by TG Courses editor on Tuesday 8 May 2012
The 2006 Champion and 2011 Volvo Golf Champions winner, Paul Casey, has received the sponsors invite completing the field for the 2012 Volvo World Match Play Championship at Finca Cortesín, Spain, from May 17-20. For the first time in the Championship’s history half of the field will be US PGA Tour members and the draw will contain three Spanish players. Paul...
Written by TG Features Writer on Tuesday 8 May 2012
The Players Championship offers double points this week in the Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game, in association with Your Golf Travel. The PGA Tour’s flagship event is known as ‘the fifth Major’ and it’s attracted a suitably world class field again this. TPC Sawgrass has played a little easier than usual in the last two years, but it’s still a very difficult...
Written by TG Staff Writer on Monday 14 May 2012
American Matt Kuchar held his nerve to win the Players Championship at Sawgrass by two shots. The 33-year-old started the final day one shot behind countryman Kevin Na and despite bogeying his opening hole, fired four birdies to finish on 13-under par. Scotland’s Martin Laird finished in a tie for second on 11-under par with last week’s winner Rickie Fowler, Zach Johnson...
Written by TG Features Writer on Tuesday 15 May 2012
The Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game, in association with Your Golf Travel, stays on the PGA Tour this week for the HP Byron Nelson Championship in Texas. TPC Four Seasons is hosting the tournament for the 27th year. From 1994-2007 it shared the pre-cut duties with Cottonwood Valley GC, but it’s stood alone since 2008. It’s a 7,166-yard, par 70 layout that...
Written by TG Instruction Editor on Tuesday 22 May 2012
The Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game, in association with Your Golf Travel, switches to the European Tour this week for the circuit’s flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship. The West course at Wentworth Golf Club was redesigned in 2010 by Ernie Els and received mixed reviews from the players. Consequently, there has been some additional changes made for this year’s tournament. The...
Written by Today's Golfer on Thursday 24 May 2012
Perfect conditions saw some impressive scores on the opening day of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. Ernie Els set an impressive early score, negotiating a course he has helped re-shape in recent years in 68 to finish at four under. But it was Irishman Peter Lawrie and Scotsman David Drysdale who top the leaderboard with a stunning six under. Lawrie opened with a...
Written by TG Features Writer on Monday 28 May 2012
Luke Donald delivered a masterclass in how to finish off a tournament as he shot a closing 68 to win the BMW PGA Championship by four shots from Justin Rose and Paul Lawrie. Rose had got level with with the eventual winner on -10 after four holes, but Donald made birdies at 6, 7, 10, 12 and 16 to pull away and retain the...
Written by TG Features Writer on Tuesday 29 May 2012
The Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game, in association with Your Golf Travel, hops back across the Atlantic this week for the PGA Tour’s Memorial Tournament. Muirfield Village GC, Ohio, hosts the 37th edition of the tournament. The 7,352-yard par 72 layout is the perfect example of a Jack Nicklaus design; relatively straightforward off the tee but getting more difficult towards the green. In fact, of the...
Written by TG Staff Writer on Wednesday 6 June 2012
Tiger Woods was back to his crowd-dazzling best to win the Memorial Tournament and secure his second title of the year. Woods holed a stunning flop shot from behind the 16th green en route to securing his second PGA Tour title of the year, his fifth Memorial win to equal Jack Nicklaus’s total of 73 PGA Tour titles. The former world number...
Written by TG Staff Writer on Wednesday 6 June 2012
Thailand’s Thongchai Jaidee battled on the back nine to seal victory at the ISPS Handa Wales Open, as England’s Ross Fisher was penalised a shot for slow play. Fisher was one shot off the lead when he was adjudged to have taken too long over shots on the 11th and 14th holes. He was given a one-stroke penalty and eventually finished...
Written by TG Instruction Editor on Wednesday 6 June 2012
The Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game, in association with Your Golf Travel, stays in America this week for the PGA Tour’s FedEx St. Jude Classic. The host course is TPC Southwind, a par 70 measuring over 7,200 yards making it one of the toughest tests tee-to-green on the PGA Tour outside the majors. Statistics from recent years suggest both the fairways and...
Written by TG Features Writer on Monday 11 June 2012
Paul Wesselingh won the ISPS Handa PGA Seniors Championship after posting a superb final round of 67 in testing conditions at De Vere Slaley Hall. The Englishman’s low round of the day included four consecutive back-nine birdies for a six under-par tournament total, with just the seven players finishing the rain-shortened event under par. Wessinlingh, who is enjoying a banner rookie season on the Seniors...
Written by US Open 2012 on Monday 11 June 2012
The second Major Championship of the year means there are triple points up for grabs this week in the Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game, in association with Your Golf Travel. The world’s top players will be battling it out for the US Open at the Olympic Club, California, and battle may be an appropriate description as the course set-up is expected to be...
Written by US Open 2012 on Friday 15 June 2012
Justin Rose and Graeme McDowell spearheaded the British challenge in the opening round of the US Open as the big three of Luke Donald, Rory MCIlroy and Lee Westwood struggled on a very difficult Olympic club course in San Francisco. Rose and McDowell both carded one-under-par 69s and were two of only six players under par. Tiger Woods was also on...