Written by TG Features Writer on Tuesday 14 August 2012
There’s no time for a breather after the season’s final Major as there are still 14 tournaments left in the Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game, in association with Your Golf Travel, starting with this week’s Wyndham Championship. It’s also the first week of the knockout cup. The Wyndham Championship has been played at Sedgefield CC, North Carolina, since 2008, but the...
Written by Michael Catling on Wednesday 15 August 2012
With seven of the eight automatic spots on the US team already secured ahead of last week’s US PGA Championship, the final major of the year held even greater significance for those still vying for the sole-remaining Ryder Cup spot. Phil Mickelson occupied 8th place heading into the final qualifying event at Kiawah Island and needed a strong week to secure his ninth consecutive...
Written by Michael Catling on Thursday 16 August 2012
European captain Jose Maria Olazabal has selected Darren Clarke, Paul McGinley and Thomas Bjorn as three of his four vice-captaincy picks ahead of The Ryder Cup at Medinah Country Club next month. The trio, who have played in 10 Ryder Cups between them, were picked as vice-captains by Colin Montgomerie at Celtic Manor two years ago and will reprise the role again...
Written by Michael Catling on Thursday 16 August 2012
With just over a month to go until the Ryder Cup monopolises our lives again, the European Team is finally starting to take shape. Jose Maria Olazabal has now chosen three of his four vice captains and with eight of his 12-man squad confirmed, just two automatic spots remain up-for-grabs. Matchplay specialist Ian Poulter was the most significant mover over the weekend...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Tuesday 21 August 2012
Sergio Garcia fired four birdies in five holes in a closing round of 66 to win the Wyndham Championship and seal his place in the 2012 Ryder Cup team. Garcia’s victory at Sedgefield Country Club was his first on the US PGA Tour in more than four years and means that Ian Poulter has been knocked out of the automatic qualification...
Written by TG staff writer on Tuesday 21 August 2012
The Johnnie Walker Championship gets underway at Gleneagles on Thursday and the all-star cast sees 26 nationalities represented in a field that includes a 24-man strong Scottish contingent for home fans to follow. Incredibly the field has amassed a remarkable 260 European Tour titles between them, including seven Majors. Joining defending Champion Thomas Björn and his fellow 2012 European Ryder Cup...
Written by TG Features Writer on Wednesday 22 August 2012
We’re staying on the PGA Tour for the Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game, in association with Your Golf Travel, as the FedEx Cup Play-offs get underway with The Barclays. The top 125 players on the PGA Tour will be doing battle around Bathpage’s Black Course, with the top 100 in the standings after this week advancing to next week’s Deutsche Bank Championship, also...
Written by TG Features Writer on Tuesday 4 September 2012
The 39th Ryder Cup at Medinah, Illinois, is nearly upon us and we want to know who you think is going to win the biennial team event. America have home advantage, but Europe have won four of the last five. Both teams are looking very strong, but what will the result be?...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Thursday 23 August 2012
Fresh from his second major victory Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy has been sharing his tips with young golfers at the City Parks Foundation’s Junior Golf Center in Brooklyn. The world number one teamed up with Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts and City Parks, a New York City organisation, to deliver a clinic to 50 junior golfers aged 10 to 17. McIlroy led the day with a...
Written by Ryder Cup 2012 on Tuesday 28 August 2012
Englishman Ian Poulter and Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts have been selected as the two Captain’s picks for the 2012 Ryder Cup in Medinah, Chicago. The duo finished 11th and 12th in the scoring list by right, and both have a formidable matchplay record; with Poulter winning the Volvo World Match Play Championship in 2011 and Colsaerts a year later in 2012.
Written by Ryder Cup 2012 on Sunday 26 August 2012
There has been a growing feeling in recent weeks that Padraig Harrington’s Ryder Cup dreams are slowly slipping through his fingers. The likeable Irishman finds himself up against Ian Poulter, Nicolas Colsaerts, and the Spanish duo of Rafa Cabrera-Bello and Gonzalo Fdez-Castano for the two Captain’s wildcard picks. But he may be set to pay the price for a nine year...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Tuesday 28 August 2012
Paul Lawrie captured his second European Tour title of the year with a runaway four-shot victory in the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles on Sunday. It was his eighth Tour win, and with it he became the first Scot to win three official titles on Scottish soil. His other two victories came at the 1999 Open Championship at Carnoustie, and the...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Tuesday 28 August 2012
American Nick Watney increased his chances of making Davis Love’s Ryder Cup team after coming from behind to win The Barclay’s on Sunday. The 31-year-old is battling for one of four wildcard picks for the event in September alongside Steve Stricker, Jim Furyk, Rickie Fowler, Hunter Mahan, Dustin Johnson and Brandt Snedeker. Watney’s victory was helped by Spaniard Sergio Garcia, who missed...
Written by TG Features Writer on Tuesday 28 August 2012
The Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game, in association with Your Golf Travel, is staying on the PGA Tour this week as the FedEx Cup Play-offs enter their second week at the Deutsche Bank Championship. The par-71 TPC Boston has traditionally been the easiest course of the four play-off events, although Plainfield CC (host of last year’s Barclays) had a lower scoring...
Written by Chris Hanson on Friday 31 August 2012
Away from the glamour of the European Tour there are thousands of golfers trying to make enough money to support their dreams and their families. In this new TG online feature we’ll follow the highs and lows of 2011 EuroPro Tour Order of Merit winner Chris Hanson, as he tries to adjust to life on the Challenge Tour. This week he was...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Monday 3 September 2012
The Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship, the eighth, star-studded opening gambit in the European Tour’s ‘Desert Swing,’ is set to return in 2013 at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club from January 17th until the 20th. The first major event in the global golf calendar, the tournament is organised by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi), and they are confident that the...
Written by TG Features Writer on Wednesday 5 September 2012
The BMW Championship, the third round of the FedEx Cup Play-offs, is the focus of the Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game, in association with Your Golf Travel, this week. Crooked Stick hasn’t hosted the tournament before but it was the venue for the 1991 USPGA Championship and 2009 US Senior Open. The world’s best have made the 7,316-yard Pete Dye design look pretty...
Written by TG Features Writer on Monday 10 September 2012
The Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game, in association with Your Golf Travel, is back on the European Tour this week after the excitement of the first three FedEx Cup Play-off events on the PGA Tour. The BMW Italian Open is taking place at Royal Park I Roveri, Turin, for the third successive year. The 7,282-yard layout doesn’t require massive length off the...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Monday 17 September 2012
Javier Ballesteros, son of golf legend Seve, has won the amateur Madrid Open. The 22-year-old finished six-under-par to win by four shots. His golfing success follows on from his first appearance in a professional event at the Peugeot Alps de Barcelona tournament in April where he finished tied for 12th, 12 shots behind winner Pablo Larrazabal. He dedicated the victory to his late...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Monday 17 September 2012
South Korean Shin Jiyai claimed her second Women’s British Open, and second major, courtesy of a nine shot victory at Hoylake. The 24-year-old started the day with a five-shot lead and it never looked like she wouldn’t close out her 36th professional win. Unfortunately though, Jiyai’s victory was overshadowed, quite literally at times, by the brutal British weather that led to a marathon...