Archive for the European Tour Category


Monty Looking for Shot That Got Away in Shanghai

Colin Montgomerie is returning to the BMW Asian Open this week looking for the single stroke that denied him victory at last year’s event. Monty will be joining a number of big names – among them South Africans Ernie Els and Masters joint runner-up Reteif Goosen, American John Daly and England’s Paul Casey – as […]

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Austrian Brier Strolls to Victory in Shanghai

Austrian sport came down from the white ski slopes of Europe to triumph on the green manicured fairways of Shanghai as Markus Brier coasted to victory at the Volvo China Open on Sunday. Brier fired a final round of four-under-par 67 for a 10-under total of 274 and a five-stroke victory at the Shanghai Silport […]

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Els Refuses to Give Up in His Pursuit of Tiger

Ernie Els said before the US Masters that he wanted to make a grand comeback and take a shot at Tiger Woods’ number one spot in the Official World Rankings. To help him in his three-year plan, he signed a new equipment deal with Callaway six weeks before the Masters, ending his stint with Titleist. […]

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Europe’s Major Hopes Need to Buck Up Ideas

Another major. Another misfire. The high hopes of Henrik Stenson et al squashed. The European drought continued in Augusta. A drought that increasingly looks like a famine. We’ve been here before. There were 18 long years between Max Faulkner clinching the British Open and Tony Jacklin replicating the feat. Another nine years passed from Jacklin’s […]

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Viva Seve – Spanish Legend Turns 50

The European Tour this week pays tribute to Spanish legend Seve Ballesteros, who turned 50 years old on April 9. It has been a long time since Ballesteros triumphed in a Major tournament, but the memories of his swashbuckling style of play, at an era when Tiger Woods was unheard of, will live long in […]

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Masters Imitating U.S. Open?

It has always been the USGA’s mission to protect par in all its championships. To that end, they set up golf courses to play extremely difficult – so difficult in fact, that only once (Tiger Woods in 2000) in its long history, has a player finished a Men’s U.S. Open at -10 or lower. In […]

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Jeev Singh Has High Hopes for Asia

On the eve of the US Masters, Indian Jeev Milkha Singh said it was only a matter of time before an Asian player wins a Major tournament. Small wonder then, that it is Jeev himself who is leading the Asian charge after the first round at Augusta. The Indian star shot a first round of […]

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Pablo and Pressel Make History as Scott Triumphs in Houston

It was a weekend for history-makers on both sides of the Atlantic with Spain’s Pablo Martin-Benavides and Morgan Pressel notching up significant firsts on the European Tour and LPGA Tour respectively. Before Martin-Benavides, American Scott Verplank was Oklahoma State University’s most storied golfer because he won as an amateur on the US PGA Tour. Now, […]

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History says Watch out for Tiger Woods and Charles Howell at the Masters

More than any other course and annual tournament – Augusta National and the Masters identifies the best player(s) in the world. Since the inception of the Sony World Rankings in 1985, it is uncanny how often the #1 ranked player has either won or almost won the Masters. Bernhard Langer was the 1st golfer given […]

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Greg Norman and The Masters

My time to develop golfing heroes was the 1980’s – and two of my all-time favorites were Seve Ballesteros and Greg Norman. I loved how fearlessly they both played and especially how well they played Augusta National. The first goal I had on my maiden trip to the Masters was finding Seve – to watch […]

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Asian Hopefuls Eye Ticket To Carnoustie

The year’s first major tournament, the US Masters, may be just around the corner. But for a group of 73 Asian Tour golfers, July’s Open Championship at Carnoustie is uppermost in their minds this week. The players will battle it out at Singapore’s Sentosa Golf Club in The Open International Final Qualifying tournament for Asia, […]

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Tiger On Top Of The World In Miami

Having a strong mental approach to golf is one thing. Using that psychological brawn to disarm your opponents, though, is a special gift few athletes possess. Which is why Tiger Woods is who he is. Woods fired a closing one-over-par 73 to win the World Golf Championships–CA Championship with a two-shot triumph over Brett Wetterich […]

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Sky Sports “Golf Night” Review

Following my blog on the fact Sky Sports have lost the USPGA Tour to the new Setanta Golf Channel I thought it would be useful to comment on Sky’s new offering. In place of their two previous golf programmes, one exclusively for the European Tour and the other for the USPGA, comes a new one […]

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European 2008 Ryder Cup Process Remains Unaltered

The European Tour Have confirmed that the selection process for the The 2008 Ryder Cup at Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, from September 19-21, 2008 remains unchanged. The same process was used for the 2004 win at Oakland Hills, Michigan, USA and the 2006 win at The K Club, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Both matches […]

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Oliver Fisher Climbs To 72nd position on the European Tour

Oliver Fisher has now made the cut in each of his four starts on the European Tour as a professional. The last of which was this afternoon at The Commercialbank Qatar Masters at Doha G.C. in Qatar. He finished in tied 11th with a bogey free final round of 68 on 9 under for his […]

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