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By the looks on these lads’ faces the recent Ballyliffing Golf Trip was an unqualified success helping to promote Irish-Hispano relations, both on and off the course. More to follow on the latter. Under the inspired captaincy of Antonio Rodriguez ten members and representatives of El Chaparral GC recently travelled to Ireland to take on [...]
Tags: El Chaparral, Ryder Cup
…Went the crowd chant during the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor. Even Jim Furyk, normally a picture of doom and gloom, played up to the good-natured banter from the crowd as his practice swings became a source of amusement on the first tee. This wasn’t the only Spanish flavour to the event as Miguel Angel [...]
Tags: Miguel Angel Jimenez, Ryder Cup
It is the case with many professional golfers that join the Seniors Tour. Take Carl Mason for example who, with the greatest respect, can be said to have had a modest professional career before reaching the age of 50. However, since reaching that milestone he has recently equalled Tommy Horton’s record of 23 professional victories. [...]
Tags: La Quinta Golf, Ryder Cup
Similar to its male counterpart The Solheim Cup is a bi-annual team event between the USA and Europe played on both sides of the Atlantic. Dates already confirmed for future editions include next year at Killeen Castle, Ireland, followed by Colorado GC, USA, in 2013. What is up for grabs is the European venue for [...]
Tags: Ryder Cup
Paul Casey, Padraig Harrington, Justin Rose and Luke Donald. These were Europe’s ‘Big Guns’ of whom, according to most enlightened golfing opinion, Colin Montgomerie had the none too enviable task of selecting only three as wild cards for the forthcoming Ryder Cup. What nobody had anticipated was Edoardo Molinari entering the equation by birdieing the [...]
The Europeans did themselves no favours in the Bridgestone Invitational over the weekend, as none of those competing for automatic selection could do better than 22nd.place, the only exception being Padraig Harrington, who played well to finish in joint place 9th, alongside Rory McIlroy. In fact, the Americans were so dominant, that they may well [...]
Tags: Ryder Cup, Tournament, USPGA
With barely 6 weeks to go until Montgomerie’s team will be known, you would think that the nine qualifiers for automatic places would most likely be the present encumbents. Prior to the 3 Irish Open, they are Westwood, McIlroy, McDowell, Donald, Poulter, Kaymer, Molinari (Francesco), Jimenez and McGowan. But with five big money tournaments to [...]
Tags: European Team, Irish Open, Ryder Cup
The golfing world received confirmation that the Celtic Manor course will be a perfect venue for this year’s Ryder Cup as the European Tour players competing in the Wales Open were full of praise for the quality of the course. Mind you, it’s unlikely that the two teams will be enjoying the same benign weather [...]
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The Race to Dubai may be a departure from tradition, but it is responsible for elevating the European Tour to a genuine World Tour, relegating the American PGA Tour to second best. The absence of Woods, Mickleson and co. in no way detracted from the performance of Westwood, who has suddenly developed an aura of invincibility once [...]
Tags: Dubai, European Tour, PGA Tour, Ryder Cup
Last week’s Omega European Masters just happened to be the first European Tour tournament providing qualifying points (euros) for next year’s Ryder Cup clash at Celtic Manor in Wales. You may think that it’s a little premature to be thinking about an event which is more than a year away, but Sunday’s result at Crans-sur-Sierre [...]
Tags: European Tour, Ryder Cup
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