[ad_1] There is one indisputably great golf course on the Welsh coast (Royal Porthcawl), many very fine ones (Royal St David’s, Pennard, Ashburnham, Southerndown, Pyle & Kenfig, Tenby), one dramatic one (Nefyn), and one that makes anyone who has played it smile unconditionally – Aberdovey. Situated in mid-Wales, north of the Dovey Estuary, it is…
[ad_1] The 18th fairway at St Andrews is one of the widest in golf. It’s huge. With the adjoining 100-yard wide 1st fairway coming down the other way, there’s acres of space to hit into. But Bill Murray suffered the dreaded low slice mishit when he fired his drive off the 18th in round four…
[ad_1] Robert MacIntyre is the best Scottish golfer in the world, but he’s not a fan of one of the game’s most famous holes in his home country. MacIntyre tied for 25th at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on Sunday at St. Andrews, but he could’ve placed higher if not for stumbling in both weekend…
[ad_1] Tarps off, boys. During the Solheim Cup, Alison Lee and Megan Khang’s caddies Jack Fulghum and Taylor “Shota” Takada made a bet that if one of their players holed out, they would take their shirts off. Two holes later, it happened. Well, Max Homa was watching from home, and he posted on social media…
[ad_1] The Postage Stamp at Royal Troon is one of the most famed par 3s in the world — for good reason. Playing around 120 yards, the eighth hole at this week’s 2024 British Open has posed quite the challenge through 1 ½ days. Just ask LIV Golf member Joaquin Niemann, who was 1 under…
[ad_1] Arnold Palmer would call it the toughest hole in Open golf; Jack Nicklaus went as far as to refer to it as the hardest hole in Britain. Years later the 2016 Open would bear out their comments when it played as the hardest hole on the PGA Tour that year, averaging 4.6 strokes. The…
[ad_1] It’s the shortest hole of them all in the British Open rota. It got its name from Willie Park Jr., who won the Open twice and later wrote about the eighth hole at Royal Troon’s Old Course for Golf Illustrated, calling the shortie “a pitching surface skimmed down to the size of a postage…
[ad_1] Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre achieved a long-awaited victory on Sunday, sinking a 22-foot birdie putt on the final hole to secure the Genesis Scottish Open title by one stroke over Australian Adam Scott. Reflecting on his winning putt in the tournament co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour and DP World Tour, MacIntyre remarked, “In my head…
[ad_1] Japan’s Ayaka Furue won her first major title by a single shot when she holed an eagle putt from 15 feet on the final green in the Evian Championship at Evian Resort in France. Furue powered past Australian Stephanie Kyriacou to finish on 19-under-par and scoop the $1.2 million first prize. Locked in a…
[ad_1] Leona Maguire became the first Irishwoman to win on the Ladies European Tour after making a stunning eagle on the final hole of the Aramco Team Series held at Centurion Club. The Solheim Cup star led from the first day in the individual competition at the Hertfordshire venue after rounds of 66 and 72…
