Wednesday 9 July 2014
When Martin Kaymer won the 2010 PGA Championship and rose to World No.1 his swing was built on a reliable fade. But he wanted to be able to shape the ball both ways, so he set about a rebuild that saw him struggle for three years. Now, he’s reverted back to what he knows best and victory at the Players...
Written by TG Staff Writer on Tuesday 8 July 2014
TG’s Fantasy Golf game stays on the European Tour this week for the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open. After being held at Castle Stuart since 2011, the tournament has switched as the start of a rota to move the event around Scotland. Founded in 1780, Royal Aberdeen is the sixth oldest club in the world and it has been the venue...
Monday 7 July 2014
Angel Cabrera gave Ping’s new G30 driver its first win on the PGA Tour just four days after it was launched. In the final round at the Greenbrier Classic, he averaged 331.6 yards and hit two drives on the par 4 16th and par 5 17th that measured 329 yards and 337 yards. He was also tied 4th in driving accuracy. The...
Monday 7 July 2014
Graeme McDowell produced a brilliant final round to overturn an eight shot deficit and successfully defend a tournament for the first time in his career. McDowell shrugged off some miserable weather conditions to retain his Alstom Open de France title, carding a closing 67 at Le Golf National, the joint-lowest round on a wet and windy day. But the former US...
Wednesday 2 July 2014
The European Tour travels to Paris this week for the Alstom Open de France at Le Golf National. Graeme McDowell will be looking to defend the title he won here last year on the course that will host the 2018 Ryder Cup. Last week’s BMW International Open saw Fabrizio Zanotti claim his first victory on the European tour after a fascinating...
Tuesday 24 June 2014
An exciting season on the European Tour continues this week at the BMW International Open in Germany. The field will be led by home favourite Martin Kaymer and he’ll be joined by other big names, including Victor Dubuisson, Paul Casey and last week’s Irish Open winner, Mikko Ilonen. TG had a fairly unspectacular week at Fota Island last week, with only Marcel...
Friday 20 June 2014
Luke Joy carded a second-round 68 to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the HotelPlanner.com Championship at Cumberwell Park in Wiltshire. Nick McCarthy and Marcus Armitage are both tied for second place on 9-under-par, while there’s a seven-way tie for fourth on eight under. Among those in this group three behind the leader is Dave...
Thursday 19 June 2014
An 11-year-old girl is about to tee it up in a major championship, as the youngest person ever to qualify for the US Women’s Open. Lucy Li has already impressed onlookers in her preparations at Pinehurst – scene of last week’s men’s US Open. They were particularly impressed by her mature responses in her press conference on Tuesday. There were a...
Wednesday 18 June 2014
As the Tour returns to Europe after what was a good US Open for Europeans, focus now turns to the Irish Open at the Fota Island Resort. The Cork venue hasn’t hosted the event since 2002, when Soren Hansen won, and so this week’s fantasy picks involve more guesswork than TG normally employs! Because the Irish Open is popular with home...
Written by Kevin Brown on Monday 16 June 2014
Legendary Northern Ireland links Royal Portrush is back on the Open Championship rota. The Open is set to return to Northern Ireland for the first time in over 60 years and only the second time in its long and illustrious history. Royal Portrush has been invited to stage The Open by The R&A and the County Antrim club’s members will now be...
Friday 13 June 2014
Nikon has teamed up with MasterCard, fellow Open Patron, to offer you the chance to win a number of prize packages to attend the 2014 Open. Anyone who buys a Nikon COOLSHOT laser rangefinder using their MasterCard will be entered into the prize draw and could win a hospitality pass for The Open, at Royal Liverpool in July. Nikon and MasterCard will...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday 12 June 2014
With some of golf’s most iconic names heading to Royal Porthcawl for the Senior Open Championship next month, a ticket to Wales’ first Senior Major could well be the ideal Fathers’ Day gift. The start of The Championship is now only six weeks away, and golf fans can treat their dad to a special day out by taking advantage of a...
Thursday 12 June 2014
This week sees Fantasy Golf head to a significantly remodelled Pinehurst No 2 (you can read about the course changes in our US Open preview here) for the second Major of the season, the US Open. UK golfers have fared well in recent years, Justin Rose took the crown last year to join Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell as winners in...
Wednesday 11 June 2014
The HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour goes to The Astbury this week, as Europe’s best young professionals compete for the £10,000 top prize in the FSC Invitational. Jack Senior and William Harrold are clear favourites, having each won two of the first four events of the season, while last year’s winner at The Astbury, James Hepworth, returns to defend his title. Senior and...
Wednesday 4 June 2014
“I’m just happy. Really, really happy,” said Memorial Tournament winner Hideki Matsuyama, channelling his inner Pharrell Williams after Bubba Watson and Adam Scott stumbled through the closing holes like drunk centipedes with their shoelaces undone. Attention turns to TPC Southwind this week for the FedEx St. Jude Classic, the warm-up tournament for the year’s second major, the US Open at Pinehurst...
Monday 2 June 2014
Jack Senior won his second HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour title of the season when he took the £10,000 winner’s prize in the Kerry London Championship at Burhill Golf Club on Saturday. The 25 year old continued a remarkable start to the season and moves to the top of the HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour Order of Merit. He looks likely to already...
Written by Kevin Brown on Thursday 29 May 2014
Advance discounted tickets for the first Volvo World Match Play Championship to be played in the UK since 2007, over the acclaimed International Course at London Golf Club in Kent, are now on public sale. The return of the event to UK soil in its 50th anniversary year looks certain to create an exciting atmosphere, as a high-quality 16-man field including...
Tuesday 27 May 2014
Four golfers will secure places for The 2014 Open Championship at the Open Qualifying Series Japan – Mizuno Open this week. The event will give players from across the region the chance to qualify to play in golf’s oldest Major Championship. 144 golfers from eight countries will compete over 72 holes at JFE Setonaikai Golf Club in Okayama from 29 May...
Tuesday 27 May 2014
What better way to start your reign as officially the world’s best golfer by winning on your very next start. That’s what Adam Scott did, defeating Jason Dufner in a playoff to win the Crowne Plaza Invitational. Scott is playing in this week’s event too, the Memorial Tournament, famously hosted every year by 18-time major champion Jack Nicklaus. The host venue has...
Sunday 25 May 2014
Rory McIlroy shot a 6-under par round of 66 to rally from seven shots back and capture the BMW PGA Championship for his sixth career European Tour victory. Few could have predicted at the start of today’s final round that Northern Ireland’s McIlroy would make up seven strokes on Thomas Björn (Denmark), the overnight leader, to storm through to a stunning...