Archive for the Walker Cup Category


British amateur launches PowerPlay Golf in India

India hopes to do for golf what they have done for Twenty 20 cricket. The sports-loving Indians may not have invented either game but they have provided the platform to enhance the spectacle thanks to their huge fan base. For instance, T20 cricket, courtesy of the Indian Premier League, is a multi-million dollay industry in […]

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2009 Walker Cup Sides Taking Shape

The historic Merion Golf Club will host the best amateur golfers from the United States and Great Britain and Ireland when the 41st staging of the Walker Cup kicks off from September 12-13. This past Sunday the United States Golf Association selected eight of their ten players to compete against Great Britain and Ireland in […]

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Golf: Going For Gold In 2016

Tiger Woods has just about done it all in the game of golf: 14 major championships, 69 career wins on tour, a record stay at world number one, NCAA, U.S Amateur and Junior titles, Fed-Ex, Ryder, and Presidents Cups. There’s not much else to conquer really. Over the weekend at the Buick Open Sir Nick […]

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Ahead Of The Class

Phil Mickelson did it on the PGA Tour. So did Scott Verplank. In recent years Pablo Martin and Danny Lee have done it in Europe. I’m taking, of course, about winning a professional tournament while still an amateur, something Oklahoma State’s Rickie Fowler came oh so close to doing Sunday at the Nationwide Tour’s Children’s Hospital […]

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Catching The Fuzz

I walked outside my apartment in Atlanta, Ga. a few days ago and discovered my car covered in a thin layer of yellow pollen. For those of us in the south this means one thing; spring is finally here. And while the beginning of spring may signal the beginning of runny noses and itchy eyes […]

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Bateman Bags Buick

Brian Bateman emerged from a clutch of title contenders to win the Buick Open, which was missing a couple of stars who normally keep regular dates with Warwick Hills in Michigan. While new father Tiger Woods and injured Vijay Singh stayed away, the 34-year-old Bateman birdied the final hole to win by one stroke and […]

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Should Northern Ireland Get To Drink From Claret Jug?

World class amateur golf  returns to Northern Ireland in September as home grown talent Rory McIlroy leads Britain and Ireland’s Walker Cup charge. Unfortunately restrictions at the Royal County Down course mean that only 10,000 tickets will be available: mainly through golf clubs in Ireland, the UK and America.  That’s probably a bit of a […]

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