Written by Today's Golfer on Monday 15 June 2015
Jordan Spieth’s quest for the 2015 calendar year Grand Slam begins on Thursday at 2:17pm PT (10:17 p.m. GMT) at Chambers Bay. The reigning Masters champion will play the first two rounds of the U.S. Open with Jason Day and Justin Rose, who won the season’s second major in 2013. The threesome tees off the first hole. (See our guide to...
Monday 15 June 2015
ARCHITECT Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr., Chambers Bay opened in 2007. The course is built on the site of a former sand and gravel quarry adjacent to Puget Sound. The course is the centerpiece of a 930-acre county park. Pierce County acquired the land in 1992. PAR AND YARDAGE Chambers Bay will play to a par of 36-34-70...
Written by TG staff writer on Sunday 14 June 2015
Chris Wood produced a flawless final round to claim his second European Tour title with a two shot victory at the Lyoness Open at Diamond Country Club near Vienna. Wood started five shots off the pace, but carded an immaculate 67 to secure his first success since winning the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters in 2013. He collected five birdies to finish ahead...
Written by Golf World on Friday 12 June 2015
Jordan Spieth’s caddie Michael Greller has caddied at Chambers Bay more than 50 times. Here are his thoughts on how it might play during US Open week. Chambers Bay is a beast. Like any good US Open venue, it’s going to test your patience and your abilities to the fullest. It requires good imagination and a good feel because there will...
Written by Golf World on Friday 12 June 2015
Built alongside the beautiful Puget Sound in Washington, Chambers Bay is visually spectacular. But at only eight years old, Tony Dear finds out if this controversial public golf course is really ready to host a major championship. John Ladenburg’s fellow council members didn’t much care for the County Executive’s (head of the county government) proposal to build a golf course on...
Written by Today's Golfer on Friday 12 June 2015
Andrey Pavlov has recorded the second-worst score for one in European Tour history, taking 17 on the pr 5 first in the second round of the Austria Open. The Russian hit six into the water on the opening hole and joins Chris Gane, who scored 17 on a hole at Gleneagles in 2003, though still trails the all-time record of 20,...
Written by Today's Golfer on Friday 12 June 2015
Ian Poulter is refusing to talk about next week’s US Open venue Chambers Bay – after labelling it a ‘complete farce’ earlier in the year. The Englishman took to Twitter to reveal he’d be making no further comment on the layout until after the event. He started by claiming his views on the course “are yet to happen” and that he won’t...
Thursday 11 June 2015
Golf courses love a good plaque. From Hogan’s US Open 1-iron at Merion to Tiger’s numerous markers around the world, they’re a fitting tribute to a great shot. Gleneagles is the latest to join the ranks with Welshman Jamie Donaldson returning to unveil the plaque immortalising the spot from which he hit his Ryder Cup-winning wedge last September. Donaldson was 146 yards...
Written by TG staff writer on Wednesday 10 June 2015
Austrian Bernd Wiesberger – the local hero – will begin his bid for a second Lyoness Open in the company of Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts and Frenchman Gary Stal when play gets underway tomorrow (Thursday) at Diamond Country Club. Wiesberger, who hails from nearby Vienna, has an imperious record at the tournament having finished in the top five on four occasions with...
Written by Joe Downes on Tuesday 9 June 2015
It was heartache for Justin Rose at the Memorial last week and no doubt plenty of you were also lamenting his play-off loss to Sweden’s David Lingmerth. Mark Stevens and ‘THE “A” TEAM’ claimed the weekly win with 128 points as his line-up included Rose and five others who all finished 13th or better. Lingmerth sunk the winning putt with storms...
Written by TG staff writer on Monday 8 June 2015
It was a great day for the Swedes. After Alex Noren emerged a comfortable winner of the Nordea Masters in Malmo, virtually unknown Swede David Lingmerth clinched his first US PGA Tour win in dramatic fashion in the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village, Ohio. Lingmerth finished level-pegging on -15 with Justin Rose, seeking his second Memorial success, and eventually took the spoils...
Written by TG staff writer on Sunday 7 June 2015
Swede Alex Noren registered his second Nordea Masters title today, carding a final round 71 to win by four shots at PGA Sweden National. After beginning his round with a birdie on the par 5 1st, Noren – winner of this event in 2011 – bogeyed the second and his two shot overnight lead was halved. But the 32 year old, who...
Written by TG staff writer on Wednesday 3 June 2015
Super Swede Henrik Stenson is looking to secure a home victory in this week’s Nordea Masters in Malmo. The World no. 4 is still searching for a maiden victory in his home event, and is keen to improve on last year’s fifth place finish when he plays his first event of 2015 on European soil this week. Stenson is relishing being back...
Written by Joe Downes on Tuesday 2 June 2015
The pros found it tough going in Ireland last week and it was a bit of a struggle for us Fantasy Golfers too. Rory McIlroy’s second straight missed cut has seen plenty of managers – myself included – hit the buffers since Quail Hollow but others have flourished. A disappointing week for the home charges left the path clear for...
Written by TG staff writer on Monday 1 June 2015
Australian Steven Bowditch loves Texas. The 31-years-old is based in Dallas and the Aussie has celebrated his two US PGA Tour victories in the Lone Star state. His latest success came at the AT&T Byron Nelson yesterday where he shot a -5 64 in the final round to comfortably win by four shots – four clear of Americans Charley Hoffman, Jimmy Walker...
Written by TG staff writer on Sunday 31 May 2015
Dane Soren Kjeldsen kept his cool to claim his fourth European Tour victory – the Irish Open – in dramatic fashion at windswept Royal County Down this afternoon. The delighted 40-years-old came up trumps at the first play-off hole after finishing -2 alongside England’s Tom Pepperell and Austrian Bernd Wiesberger. The trio played the par-5 18th to decide the winner and it was...
Wednesday 27 May 2015
Byeong-hun An shocked the vast majority of us Fantasy Golf managers with his incredible breakthrough victory at the BMW PGA Championship last week. Colin Tuff’s ‘Trampled under foot’ team took the spoils but even he overlooked the Korean. Jimenez, Fleetwood, Molinari and Lowry were his big scorers and it is to the latter’s homeland that attention shifts for week seven. The...
Tuesday 26 May 2015
When golfer Rory McIlroy tees off at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open on May 28, he’s certain to turn heads, but not for the reasons one might expect. During each round of the Irish Open, McIlroy will lace up a different pair of strikingly unique Nike Lunar Control 3 golf shoes, each designed by a child whose life has been...
Written by TG staff writer on Tuesday 26 May 2015
Frenchman Alexander Levy earned a debut appearance at next month’s the US after finishing on top of the international sectional qualifier at Walton Heath yesterday. Levy fired a 66 (-6) on the Old Course in the morning and a 67 (-5) on the New Course in the afternoon to lead 11 players who booked berths at the season’s second major. Also through...
Written by TG staff writer on Monday 25 May 2015
When he was at the peak of his powers on the main Tours Colin Montgomerie couldn’t win a major title for love nor money. Now, since moving into senior service, he’s won three in quick succession.It’s clearly a different ball game as far as Monty is concerned after he successfully defended his Senior PGA Tour Championship title yesterday. The 51-year-old Scot shot...