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The first round of the Spanish Ladies Open got underway at La Quinta Golf & Country Club yesterday with 120 of Europe’s leading players aiming to make the cut to be amongst the 60 vying for the title over the weekend. Favourites for the title include three of Europe’s Solheim Cup team – England’s Melissa [...]
Last week it was confirmed that Martin Kaymer, World Number Four, will be playing at the Andalucia Masters being held at Valderrama from October 27th-30th. Citing it as one of his ‘favourite courses,’ he also professed to feeling very comfortable golfing in Spain, coming over to play whenever his schedule allowed. He also counts a [...]
After winning three consecutive awards in the Faldo Series for promising young players, Oliver Wilson went on to become the youngest player to compete in the Walker Cup in 2005. Turning professional at an early age he didn’t exactly go the way of Justin Rose, who missed a series of cuts, but, rather, over the [...]
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”Darren obviously has the ability to play great golf. It all depends on how dedicated he is.” Thus opinionated Tiger Woods after being soundly thrashed by Ulsterman Darren Clarke in the WGG-Matchplay a decade ago. During an intermittent career on the European Tour spanning two decades, providing many highs and lows both on and off [...]
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By beating Luke Donald 2 & 1 in the final Ian Poulter became the first golfer to hold both the WGC- Accenture and Volvo World Matchplay titles, finding a place in the World’s Top 15 in the process. Anybody who had witnessed his performance in the last two Ryder Cups would not have been surprised [...]
It was billed as a ‘shoot-out’ between displaced World Number One, Tiger Woods, and the present holder of that crown, Lee Westwood. In the end, bragging rights went to Westwood who finished one shot ahead of Woods at five under. The latter’s winless run now stretches back to November 2009 as a spate of bogeys [...]
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laying in the recent Volvo Golf Champions in Bahrain a moment of anger, after a series of near misses, might have cost Miguel Angel Jimenez dear. However, after breaking his putter in a fit of temper (or, as playing partner and friend Darren Clarke’s take on the incident, Miguel just ‘caught the end of the [...]
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As the European Tour leaves the Old Continent to head off to the Far East and Dubai for the lucrative World Championship at the end of November it might be worth reflecting on the excellent send off at Valderrama last week? Synomous with the European Tour, having hosted 16 editions of the Volvo Masters between [...]
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Golfing fans on the Costa del Sol can rest easy in the knowledge that Valderrama will soon be returning to the European Tour circuit this coming October. For whatever the reasons – whether political or calendar clashes with ‘new kids on the block’ in Dubai – the fact remained that the loss of Valderrama to [...]
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This was a close call what with Dustin Johnson grounding his club in sand on the 18th hole during the USPGA Championship and subsequently incurring a two shot penalty ruling him out of the play off. With over 1,200 bunkers to choose from this was one time when a fairway splitting drive was required. To [...]
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