The European Tour hasn’t been a proper, ‘real’ European Tour for a decade and calling it the DP World Tour isn’t any different from being the Volvo Tour, which it used to be known as twenty-odd years ago. It’s not so much the re-branding but the re-launching and...
I was never keen on long lists of golf course rankings especially when they are done numerically, I prefer to rate them as follows: *Worth crossing a city to play; **Worth crossing a country to play and ***Worth crossing an ocean to play, which is exactly what I did...
Peter Finnan and John Craven of this Parish joined forces to interview the newly crowned Irish Amateur Open champion, Peter O’Keeffe in this week’s Irish Golfer podcast. It was hugely entertaining, thought provoking and informative. Also, the winner of the Munster...
On several levels, last weekend was one of the best in a long time for Irish professional golf. It did not seem as if anything like such an outcome would be possible halfway through it. A terse note from one of my pals midday on Saturday dropped into my mail box...
By all (published) accounts, Padraig Harrington is continuing to second guess his own captaincy role at Whistling Straits. As always, he has been honest and open with the media who will continue to ask questions for as long as he gives them answers. It’s Padraig’s...
