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  • R&A Announce Plans For 2013 Open At Muirfield

    Written by Jake O'Reilly on Monday 29 April 2013

    Ahead of the 2013 Open Championship at Muirfeild, the R&A has unveiled its plans for the event that include LED scoreboards, increased Wi-Fi accessibility and lengthening the course. Other changes include the clamping down on slow play and the possibility of blood testing. One of the biggest innovations will be the drastic increase of Wi-Fi around the course. “Our championship committee is very engaged...

  • Destination Dubai For Golf Care Matchplay Finalists

    Written by Jake O'Reilly on Wednesday 1 May 2013

    Following two hotly contested Regional Finals, the lucky finalists have now been confirmed for the Sky Sports televised Grand Final of the UK’s biggest amateur golf event, the Golf Care Matchplay Championship. After battling their way through a number of qualifying rounds, forty amateur golfers – who only paid £30 to enter the event – will now be whisked away to Dubai for a...

  • Players Tour Finishes In Playoff Thriller At Surrey National

    Written by Jake O'Reilly on Friday 10 May 2013

    After two previous runners up finishes already this season, James Doswell from East Sussex secured his first win as a professional golfer at Surrey National on The Players Tour. He joins fellow Hastings’ golfer Colton Alleyne-Davis, who won his first professional tournament earlier in the season, to continue The Players Tour’s fine reputation as a breeding ground for up-and-coming talent. With Surrey National in excellent condition it was...

  • Win Tickets To See Ian Poulter And Justin Rose At Zone Golf!

    Written by Jake O'Reilly on Friday 10 May 2013

    TG has teamed up with Zone Golf to offer you and a friend the chance to watch golfing superstars Ian Poulter, Justin Rose, Paul Lawrie and Paul McGinley as they go head-to-head with world-class celebrities in the UK launch of the revolutionary new game, Zone Golf. The contest over the Dukes Meadows par-3 course takes place on the Bank Holiday Monday on the 27th of May,...

  • TG Fantasy Golf Preview: HP Byron Nelson

    Written by Jake O'Reilly on Thursday 16 May 2013

    TPC Four Seasons hosted the Byron Nelson singularly in 1986-1993 and again since 2008. The par-70 course has measured 7,166 yards since a redesign in 2008.  The par-5s serve as the antepenultimate holes on each nine and the players will want to make the most of them as the duo averaged 4.64 in 2012. Especially as the 528-yard third has ranked annually among the...

  • Simon Khan And Paul Casey Among Names To Secure US Open Spots

    Written by Jake O'Reilly on Tuesday 28 May 2013

    Simon Khan put his BMW PGA Championship playoff defeat behind him to secure a place at next month’s US Open. A day after his four-hole playoff loss to Matteo Manassero at Wentworth, the 40-year-old carded a 67 and 70 to qualify in first place. The Englishman said: “I only slept for about half an hour last night and I even thought about...

  • Take A Punt On This Week’s US Open

    Written by Jake O'Reilly on Tuesday 11 June 2013

    Tiger Woods is now out to 6/1 to win the US Open this weekend with Ladbrokes, with second favourite Phil Mickelson at a massive 20/1. As Woods approaches the fifth anniversary of his last major win, the firm are ready to take him on and are offering a stand out 6/1 to claim his 15th major title, despite him coming into the tournament with...

  • Win A TaylorMade US Open Tour Bag Signed By Justin Rose

    Written by Jake O'Reilly on Tuesday 18 June 2013

    To celebrate Justin Rose’s landmark triumph in the US Open, we have teamed up with american golf and TaylorMade to offer golfers the chance to win a piece of golfing history, a commemorative US Open staff bag signed by Rose himself.      With only a limited number of commemorative bags produced by TaylorMade for the US Open, they are set to become...