Tuesday 15 April 2014
Have you downloaded Golf GameBook yet? It’s a free app that allows you to upload your golf scores live – forget paper scorecards and tiny pencils, record your scores at the touch of a finger. No more counting dots and circles – this app updates all your favourite game formats and side-bets on every hole, even from other groups on...
Friday 11 April 2014
The PGA EuroPro Tour has announced that HotelPlanner.com will be the title sponsor of Europe’s leading satellite tour in 2014. HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour players will compete for more than £700,000-worth of prize money in 2014, with the top five golfers at the end of the season awarded a category on the 2015 Challenge Tour. HotelPlanner.com will also be offering discounts...
Written by Kit Alexander on Thursday 10 April 2014
There’s still time to register for TG Fantasy Golf and pick your Masters team before the 1pm deadline today (Thursday 10th April). The game is free to play and there are more than £7,000 of prizes up for grabs, including golf holidays to La Manga in Spain, Donnafugata in Sicily, Son Caliu in Mallorca and Palmares in Portugal. Plus, a dozen...
Written by Kit Alexander on Monday 7 April 2014
The first event of the 2014 Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game is the first Major of the season, the Masters at Augusta National, Georgia, USA. Like all Majors in the free-to-play game, this event is worth triple points so it’s important to pick your six-man team wisely within the £15m budget and make a good start. Augusta National is a par-72 course that...
Wednesday 2 April 2014
Would you like the chance to win a VIP Experience at the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles – just for playing golf? We’ve teamed up with BMW – Official Partner of the Ryder Cup – and Golf GameBook to give you the chance to play in the BMW Road to Gleneagles 2014. Top prize is a trip to the big event in September,...
Written by Kit Alexander on Tuesday 1 April 2014
The 2014 Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game gets underway at the Masters at 1pm on Thursday 10th April. You can sign up and pick your team here right now. This year’s game features 32 tournaments from the first Major of the season to the DP World Tour Championship on November 20th – all four Majors, two World Golf Championships, 15 PGA Tour...
Monday 17 March 2014
Alejandro Cañizares completed an emphatic wire-to-wire victory at the Trophée Hassan II to end an eight-year wait for his second European Tour title. Cañizares led from the very start with an opening 62, just like defending champion Marcel Siem 12 months ago, and completed a five shot win with a closing round of 70. That gave the Spaniard a 19 under par...
Friday 7 March 2014
It’s not long now until The Masters – here are some fascinating facts and figures to whet your appetite for the tournament. Make sure you register your Fantasy Golf team in time for the tournament – sign up here! Infographic by www.function18.com...
Written by Kevin Brown on Tuesday 4 March 2014
The PGA EuroPro Tour makes its debut at The Belfry in April as The Matchroom Championship gets the 2014 season underway on the UK’s leading golf tour. Commencing 11 days after the conclusion of PGA EuroPro Tour Qualifying School, players will be eager to get the season off to a flyer by collecting the £10,000 winner’s prize at the end of...
Wednesday 26 February 2014
The PGA EuroPro Tour has added Mount Wolseley Hotel, Spa & Golf Resort in County Carlow to its schedule, the second Irish venue to be included in the Tour’s impressive 2014 line-up. The Christy O’Connor designed course boasts rich surrounds, mature trees and playing surfaces unrivalled for their consistency and quality and will host Europe’s leading satellite tour from July 30...
Written by Kit Alexander on Wednesday 26 February 2014
World number one Tiger Woods will be the most expensive player in the 2014 Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game with a value of £6m. He leads Rory McIlroy (£5.5m), Adam Scott (£5.5m), Henrik Stenson (£5m) and Justin Rose (£4.5) as the most valuable players. The price of players in the free-to-play game is vital as managers must keep within the £15m budget when...
Written by Kit Alexander on Wednesday 19 February 2014
The Today’s Golfer Fantasy Golf game returns for the fourth successive year in 2014 – and this year promises to be bigger and better than ever before. Once again, the game is completely free to play and covers all the biggest events on the PGA and European Tours from the Masters on April 10th to the DP World Tour Championship...
Written by Kevin Brown on Monday 17 February 2014
Sotogrande S.A. and The NH Hotel Group have reached an agreement with The European Tour to stage a brand new tournament in a region that is synonymous for its world-class golf offering. The exciting new NH Collection Open will see some of the best players in the game compete over the prestigious La Reserva de Sotogrande Golf Club (pictured), located in...
Written by Kevin Brown on Tuesday 14 January 2014
Northern Ireland’s Ronan Rafferty, who finished European Number One in 1989, has just reached the milestone of his 50th birthday and immediately turned his attention to a debut in the Senior Open Championship at Royal Porthcawl, South Wales, from July 24-27. Rafferty (pictured), who retired from competitive golf a decade ago, is relishing the opportunity to return to the limelight as...
Monday 13 January 2014
A bogey-free seven-under-par final round of 63 saw Jimmy Walker win the Sony Open in Hawaii by one shot from compatriot Chris Kirk. The victory was Walker’s second on the PGA Tour having won the Frys.com Open in October. He picked up seven birdies on Sunday to finish 17-under par for the tournament. “I felt very calm and controlled. That’s what you’ve...
Monday 13 January 2014
Louis Oosthuizen successfully defended his Volvo Golf Champions crown in Durban with a one-shot victory over compatriot Branden Grace. It is the fourth year in succession the South African has begun the year with a victory on home soil. The 2010 Open Champion made birdies on the final two holes to beat Grace, having bogeyed the 16th. “After my tee shot on...
Written by TG staff writer on Wednesday 8 January 2014
Tiger Woods has topped $1.3 billion in career earnings with $83 million in income last year. Woods, a 14-time major champion, topped golf’s Rich List for the 11th time in its 11-year history with $83,091,508, including an estimated $71 million off the course and more than $12 million in prize money. US magazine Golf Digest says Woods’ winnings of more than $155...
Written by Kevin Brown on Monday 6 January 2014
Miguel Angel Jiménez, the oldest winner in the history of The European Tour, celebrated his 50th birthday on Sunday by declaring his intention to compete in The Senior Open Championship which tees off at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club 200 days from now. The popular Spaniard (pictured) remains a potent force at the very highest level of the game, claiming his 20th...
Written by Kit Alexander on Monday 6 January 2014
The UK’s leading golf tour is set for its best ever season after the PGA EuroPro Tour launched its greatest line-up of courses to date. European golf’s third-tier tour will visit some of the best courses across England, Scotland and Ireland in 2014 and in a Ryder Cup year starts in style at a former Ryder Cup host venue – the...
Monday 6 January 2014
The Spanish professional, Miguel Angel Jimenez, turned 50 yesterday (Sunday, January 5). Here he is talking about that milestone and taking part in his first Senior British Open at Royal Porthcawl this summer. (Given he won the Hong Kong Open a month ago, don’t rule him out of playing in the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles either!)...