US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick will play with three-time Open winner Tiger Woods in the first two rounds of the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews, which gets under way on Thursday. Fitzpatrick won his first major at Brookline in June, while Woods missed the event to ensure he would be fit to play the Old Course this week. They will begin at 2.59pm in round one, with 2017 champion Jordan Spieth and Spain’s Jon Rahm in the next group. […]
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With temperatures expected to soar to 32c in parts of the UK during the current heatwave, golfers are being warned of the dangers of heatstroke, excessive sun exposure and extreme dehydration. Michelle Baker, CEO of the Melanoma Fund, and creator of the Slip! Slap! Swing! campaign, has provided some key tips on how to carry on playing golf while reducing the health risks related to high temperatures. Book an early or late tee time Temperatures are considerably cooler earlier in […]
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A brand new multi-million pound golf ‘park’ featuring a 55-bay driving range, a nine-hole golf course and two adventure putting courses has opened at the site of what used to be Hounslow Heath Golf Centre in West London. The centre closed in 2016 but the owner of the site, Maple Leaf Golf Group, recently secured £4m of funding to transform the venue, which is now called Hounslow Golf Park. The attraction, which opened today [July 11], features a two-storey, 55-bay […]
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Trey Mullinax birdied the final hole at Keene Trace Golf Club to win the Barbasol Championship by a single stroke securing exemptions on both the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR, which co-sanctioned the event, as well as the final qualifying spot for this week’s Open Championship at St Andrews. The 30-year-old American, who started the final round three strokes behind 54-hole leader Matti Schmid, battled with playing partner Kevin Streelman down the stretch as the pair exchanged blows in Kentucky. […]
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It probably wasn’t part of the script that the DP World Tour officials were hoping for that the first tournament to be co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour and the PGA Tour ended up with an American, Xander Schauffele, taking home the spoils, but that was how the playbook unfolded at the Genesis Scottish Open, where the 28-year-old reigning Olympic champion won by a single shot after shooting a level-par 70 on an action-packed final day at The Renaissance Club. […]
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