The R&A announced today that Royal Tron will host the 2016 Open Championship. Here is a list of future Open Championship venues: 2012 – Royal Lytham & St. Anne’s, Blackpool, Lancashire, ENGLAND 2013 – Muirfield Golf links, Gullane, East Lothian, SCOTLAND 2014 – Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, Merseyside, ENGLAND 2015 – The...
Hat tip to Niall Carlton for keeping his ear to the ground and doing some sleuthing worthy of Sherlock himself: We may son get the formal announcement that Royal Troon will host the 2016 Open Championship. After all the excitement of Rio and Doral, one wonders if Castle Stuart might get a nod some time:):) Future British Open Venues: 2012 – Royal Lytham &...
Yesterday, the R&A announced what we already knew – The Old Course at St. Andrews will host the 2015 Open Championship. My guess is Royal Troon for 2016…it’s been absent since 2004 when Todd Hamilton bunted his way to victory over Ernie Els. Here are your future Open Championship (British Open) venues: 2012 – Royal Lytham & St...
So this is what Darren Clarke does for an encore. The last time we saw Clarke, he was riding off into the sunset after leading the 2006 European Ryder Cup team to victory. Only a few short months after the death of his wife Heather, a breast cancer victim, there he was going 3-0, inspiring everyone around him, European and American alike. It was a virtuoso...
Thanks to Jeff for handling the heavy lifting while I take the weekend off. Back soon with my own British Open recap, my PGA Championship preview, and more. Until then – here’s Jeff on the 3rd round of the Open Championship.
Hey waiter! Make my Open-faced Sandwich a double because I’m super-hungry for a four-day helping of Royal St. George’s! No course in England has hosted more Open Championships than ancient and storied St. George’s, hard by the sea in the quaint town of Sandwich, which dates back to the mid-seventh century and has a wonderfully colorful and bloody...
Quick! Can you name every course that has hosted the Open Championship? There are 14 in all. Scotland The Old Course at St. Andrews Royal Troon Turnberry (Ailsa) Musselburgh (That’s the tough one) Prestwick Muirfield Carnoustie England Royal Liverpool (Yuck…) Royal Lytham & St. Anne’s Royal Birkdale Royal St. George’s Royal Cinque Ports...
You all remember last year when Icelandic volcano Ejyafjallajokall erupted and grounded 100,000 flights and 8 million passengers. Now a sister volcano, one far more active and infamous, is poised to erupt. According to British paper The Telegraph: “The movements around Hekla have been unusual in the last two to three days,” University of Iceland...
You might remember all the talk in late 2009 about how it looked like Tiger could run the table and win the Grand Slam of golf, (until a bunch of Ulricas and Jezebels got in the way), but 2011 looks like a great year venue wise for Woods as well. The Masters – Woods plays well at Augusta National. Even with his world in flames and his wife screaming like Nancy...
While I prepare some Jazzy Award presentations, here is the list of people who came in second to Tiger Woods at majors. This is a sure bar bet winner for you… THE MASTERS 1997 – Tom Kite 2001 – David Duval 2002 – Retief Goosen 2005 – Chris DiMarco THE U.S. OPEN 2000 – Ernie Els, Miguel Angel Jimenez 2002 – Phil Mickelson 2008...
Here’s some video that qualitatively shows exactly how far along Tiger Woods is in trying to show more respect for the game and why suckers…sponsors should throw money at him without asking any questions. Nice to see that he’s really learned something from his scandal and fall, and that he’s devoted to avoiding all the mistakes he made in the...
The wind looks like it blew a few vowels into Louis Oosthuizen’s name, but it didn’t stop him from running away and hiding with the lead in the 150th Open Championship. In the early morning Oosthuizen fired a 67 for a 12-under 132 aggregate, four clear of Rory McIlroy, whose late afternoon round was interrupted by high winds for 65 minutes. 1989 Open...
Here are your future Open Championship (British Open) venues: 2011 – Royal St. George’s, Sandwich, Kent, ENGLAND 2012 – Royal Lytham & St. Anne’s, Blackpool, Lancashire, ENGLAND 2013 – Muirfield Golf links, Gullane, East Lothian, SCOTLAND 2014 – Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, Merseyside, ENGLAND 2015 – The Old...
Christmas Day in July dawned clear, bright, and windless, and with a heavy hand from advanced golf technology, golf’s greatest players ripped the wrapping paper of the venerable Old Course at St. Andrews. Birdies were the coin of the realm and red numbers dominated the trademark giant yellow scoreboard overlooking the 18th green. Northern Ireland’s Rory...
Hat Tip to Stephanie Wei who is at St. Andrews for the week for writing about Tiger rolling out a new Nike Method Putter this week. From the article: “‘I have a new putter in the bag,” he said nonchalantly after explaining his decision on which 2-iron he’ll play. “I’ve switched to the Nike putter for this week….”It...