Posts Tagged Walker Cup


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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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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