Wednesday 17 July 2013
Seve Ballesteros’ dramatic final putt to win the 1984 Open Championship has been voted the most memorable moment in Open history, according to a poll conducted by retailer american golf. Almost a quarter of golf fans (23%) highlighted Seve’s triumph on the 18th hole at St Andrews as the most memorable. The mercurial Spaniard held off the challenge of Tom Watson to capture the Championship...
Written by Chris Jones on Wednesday 17 July 2013
As the curtain rises on the 142nd Open Championship, one of the world’s leading mind coaches has analysed the mental journey a golfer has to take to win the coveted Claret Jug. Dr Bob Rotella, who has coached 74 Major winners including Open Champions Darren Clarke, Padraig Harrington and Paul Lawrie, was commissioned by Open Championship patron HSBC to map out...
Written by Graeme Hamlett on Wednesday 17 July 2013
Winning The Open would validate all of the hard work I’ve put in, to realise your childhood dreams.” Justin Rose isn’t joking. “Make no mistake; it’s what I am striving for. Since I was 10 years old I’ve been holing putts to win The Open Championship on my putting green back home at my local club. So it’s what I’ve...
Written by Kevin Brown on Tuesday 16 July 2013
US Open Champion Justin Rose enjoys the comforts of his sponsor’s British Airways First Class seat at St Andrews – the Home of Golf – before moving on and practising at Muirfield ahead of this week’s Open. Rose is confident he can carry on where he left off in America last month, saying: “What I took out of Merion is that...
Written by Kit Alexander on Tuesday 16 July 2013
This week’s Open Championship at Muirfield is set to be blessed with good weather for the entire week. The UK is in the grips of a heatwave and the forecast for the coming days will delight players and fans alike. Wednesday is set to be cloudy at times with sunny intervals and a maximum temperature of a very comfortable 21 degrees.
Written by Kit Alexander on Tuesday 16 July 2013
It’s another big week in the Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game as the best players on the planet converge on Muirfield, just east of Edinburgh, for the Open triple-weighted Championship. The par-71 layout, which 7,192 yards off the tips, is said to be the fairest of all the courses on the Open rota and is a big favourite with the players.
Written by Kit Alexander on Tuesday 16 July 2013
Tiger Woods cut a focused figure as he addressed the media in his Open Championship press conference at Muirfield on Tuesday. The three-time Open Champion was adamant that his injured elbow has fully healed – and it’s a good job with hard and fast fairways and thick rough sure to test his physical fitness and and accuracy off the tee. “The elbow...
Written by Chris Jones on Tuesday 16 July 2013
Tiger Woods will play with Graeme McDowell and 2010 champion Louis Oosthuizen in the first two rounds of this week’s Open Championship at Muirfield. It’s the marquee group in a day that sees several superstar threeballs going out together after the R&A had some fun with the pairings. The big-hitting trio of Bubba Watson, Nicolas Colsaerts and Dustin Johnson are together, as...
Written by Chris Jones on Tuesday 16 July 2013
Adam Scott is back at the Open Championship, back at the event that left him desolate a year ago. While the Australian golfer celebrates his 33rd birthday today, celebration was the last thing on his mind as he left Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s after the 2012 Open, when an agonising string of four closing bogeys saw him lose to...
Written by Kit Alexander, Instruction Editor on Tuesday 9 July 2013
The 2013 Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game stays on the European Tour this week with the Scottish Open at Castle Stuart GC, near Inverness. The Gil Hanse-designed course only opened in 2009 but it has already won awards and was a popular addition to the European Tour schedule when it made its debut last year. A number of players are choosing to hone their...
Written by Kit Alexander, Instruction Editor on Tuesday 2 July 2013
The 2013 Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game continues on the European Tour this week with the French Open at Le Golf National, near Paris. As you would expect from a course that’s set to host the Ryder Cup in 2018, it’s a stern test with a number of risk-and-reward decisions to be made. It’s a modern layout – opened in 1990 – with lots...
Written by TG Staff Writer on Monday 1 July 2013
Paul Casey returned to the winner’s circle in fine style with an eagle at the final hole to secure a three-shot victory at the Irish Open. In tough conditions at Carton House, Casey fired a final round of 67 to beat countryman Robert Rock and overnight leader Joost Luiten. This is Casey’s 12th European Tour title – he last won in Bahrain...
Written by Kit Alexander, TG Instruction Editor on Monday 24 June 2013
The 2013 Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game heads back to the European Tour this week for the Irish Open at Carton House GC, County Kildare. The 7,301-yard layout is par 72 that features 130 strategically-placed bunkers, narrow fairways and fast and undulating greens. It may be long but there is a premium on good strategy and straight hitting. Scrambling will come into...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Friday 21 June 2013
Alex Belt shot a final-round 70 to win the PDC & World Snooker Open by one and claim his first PGA EuroPro Tour £10,000 winner’s cheque. The 27-year-old finished 11-under-par, with Chesterfield’s George Woolgar and Simon Lilly sharing second place on 10-under. Belt has come close to winning on the PGA EuroPro Tour several times in the past, and admitted he was relieved to finally get that...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Friday 21 June 2013
Justin Rose has joined the management company that represents Tiger Woods, parting company with British based 4Sports & Entertainment AG to join the growing golf empire run by Mark Steinberg on behalf of Excel Sports. The move is a coup for Steinberg, who adds the new US Open champion to a list that also includes Matt Kuchar and Gary Woodland. The Independant reported that Rose had been in...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Friday 21 June 2013
Marriott has signed English European Tour player Tom Lewis as a Brand Ambassador. Under the terms of the arrangement the former Walker Cup player and Tour winner will wear the Marriott logo on his sleeve and will represent the renowned hotel group on his travels around the world. The agreement further underlines Marriott’s commitment to the game of golf, and on Tour,...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Tuesday 18 June 2013
Unlike last week’s test for the US. Open, TPC River Highlands is anything but a grind. The host of the Travelers Championship is a pa- 70 like Merion Golf Club, but that’s where the similarities end. While Justin Rose won with a one-over-par total last week, that score wouldn’t have even made the weekend at TPC River Highlands in 2012. At 6,841-yards, it’s...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Tuesday 18 June 2013
To celebrate Justin Rose’s landmark triumph in the US Open, we have teamed up with american golf and TaylorMade to offer golfers the chance to win a piece of golfing history, a commemorative US Open staff bag signed by Rose himself. With only a limited number of commemorative bags produced by TaylorMade for the US Open, they are set to become...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Monday 17 June 2013
Justin Rose clinched his maiden major title to become the first Englishman for 43-years to win the US Open. The 32-year-old won by two shots from now six-time runner-up Phil Mickelson and Jason Day on a gripping final day. Below we bring you what clubs the Englishman used, how he cost Ladbrokes £2 million and his very best instruction tips, from playing...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Monday 17 June 2013
Justin Rose’s US Open win has cost Ladbrokes a cool £2 million in payouts to winning punters. The Englishman was heavily backed before the tournament started, seeing him tee off at Merion as a 25/1 shot, however in-play punters also had the opportunity to back Rose as big as 66/1. Going into the late hours of Sunday evening Rose was as short as...