We all have our favourite moment from The Open Championship but here are ten of what we think are the best moments in Open Championship history. 1. Harrington’s Heroics He became the first Irishman to win the Open in 60 years the year before but Padraig Harrington’s...
Call me old fashioned but I took umbrage to Bryson DeChambeau being christened golf’s ‘Mad Scientist’ when he broke onto the scene last year. This generation has a habit of claiming creative “originality” as its own when in truth, more and more ideas spawn from...
Paul McGinley, who turned 50 in December had missed some of this year through injury and is now looking forward to a new challenge on the over-50s circuit. A final round 67 at the WINSTONgolf Senior Open in Germany jumped McGinley up to a tie for tenth and placed him...
Gavin Moynihan signed off in style with a pair of weekend 65s at the Italian Challenge Open by Lyoness. The 22 year old Mount Wolseley touring professional earned €4500 for his weeks work but dropped two places to 17th just outside the top 15 in the Road to Oman that...
Going into this week’s John Deere Classic on the PGA Tour Seamus Power had made 14 cuts from 20 starts, earning $386,889. The West Waterford man has shown signs of greatness on Thursdays and Fridays but has failed to put four consistent rounds together this season....
Day two at the US Women's Open was certainly a challenge for the players as the stragglers from round one completed it early in the day, the persistent rain had an affect on scoring and President Trump became the first sitting President to visit the US Women's Open....
Padraig Harrington insists it will now be a sheer weight of numbers in having won 30 times around the globe if he is to win for a fourth time in Scotland. Harrington, and now after having first missed his Monday night flight to Glasgow, finds himself heading to the...
Rory McIlroy’s odds in winning a second Claret Jug seem now in total disarray after he crashed out of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open. What began on Monday with a pleasant ferry trip across the Irish Sea turned into a gloomy passage for McIlroy with rounds...
In a weather delayed opening round at the US Open it was China's Shanshen Feng who made the headlines with a blistering first round 66 to lie one shot clear of Any Yang. Lydia Ko is lurking only one shot further back alongside Carlotta Ciganda, who has to return this...
The stroke average for the field for the opening day of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open may have been slightly over par at 72.54 but that didn’t stop Paul Dunne and Padraig Harrington post steady opening rounds at Dundonald Links. Harrington carded seven...
Paul McGinley, captain of Europe’s 2014 Ryder Cup winning team, will become the latest player to make his European Senior Tour debut as he prepares to tee it up at the WINSTONgolf Senior Open tomorrow. McGinley, who turned 50 in December, has missed some of this year...
Rory McIlroy joked he is beginning to sound like a “broken record” as he strives to regain his four-time Majors winning form ahead of this week’s Scottish Open and next Thursday’s starting Open Championship. As World No. 4 he tees up on the Dundonald Links...
The 72nd US Women’s Open heads to of all places, Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster today where there will be no shortage of Irish interest. Duke University star Leona Maguire and Jordanstown’s LPGA Tour professional Stephanie Meadow will be among a star-studded...
Jon Rahm benefitted from a new and fairer rules outlook to join the greats of Spanish golf, including the late Seve Balleseteros, in capturing the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at Portstewart. The 22-year old Rahm was in a class of his own storming his way in steady...
No matter what you do in life there will come a point in time when you’re met with an opportunity to better yourself. Be it going for a job promotion, furthering your education or facing a fear, the bolder path will often be determined by one simple question, ‘Am I...
In my long years travelling the world reporting on golf, there have been just a handful of those I first looked up to who I can say really went out of their way to make me feel so welcome. One of those sadly passed away early on Tuesday evening. The Association of...
The 2021 Flogas Irish Men's Amateur Open Championship returns this weekend after a one-year absence due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 93 players from 11 countries will compete at The European Club in Wicklow looking to win the prestigious title which was first played for...
He may be ranked 14th in the world but on his day, Rory McIlroy still believes he’s the best golfer on the planet. Unfortunately, that day has been few and far between for McIlroy, particularly over the past 18 months and although it’s now seven years since the...
Tim Rice carded a three-under par opening 68 to head the Irish hopefuls after day one of EuroPro Q School 2021 Final Stage supported by Sky Sports at Stoke by Nayland Hotel, Golf & Spa. The Limerick professional fired five birdies and a double-bogey on the...
McGee put himself under more pressure on day two of the Second Stage qualifier at Korn Ferry Tour Q-School in Brooksville, Florida after another disappointing day. The Derry man was better in his second round than in his first, shooting a level-par 72 to add to his 74...