Sam Torrance has played with golf’s biggest legends from Arnold Palmer to Seve Ballesteros – but he reckons no one has ever swung a club as sweetly as Rory McIlroy. Now he’d love to see the Northern Irish superstar use his perfect technique to swing his way into the history books next month
Golf
The Foshan Open will continue its growth as one of the premier events on the European Challenge Tour when the prize fund for this year’s event increases significantly, by US$150,000 to a total of US$500,000. Now in its third year, the Foshan Open has become one of the best attended events in the tour’s history, […]
Top gun Japanese, Hiroshi Iwata, leads other stars out in Arrowtown for the New Zealand Open this week. It could perhaps be better described as slow and steady progression, but when you crunch the numbers, host Sir Michael Hill, chairman John Hart and tournament director Michael Glading are doing what they said they would. When […]
Five-time Open Championship winners Tom Watson and Peter Thomson will join other former champions in a special challenge match the day before this year’s tournament starts at St Andrews on July 16. The Champion Golfers Challenge will consist of a four-hole team-based shootout, with groups of three or four playing the 1st, 2nd, 17th and 18th […]
When the Masters tee-off in less than a month, Rory McIlroy will try to become just the fourth player ever to win three consecutive majors, and just the sixth player in the Masters era (since 1934) to complete the career grand slam. McIlroy began 2015 in Dubai, where he looked like the same player who won […]
It’s often said that success comes with a price. For Tiger Woods, that price appears to be his name. A developer working with the golfer on a new $8 million restaurant says he can’t use “Tiger Woods” in any part of the name of the establishment because Nike owns its rights. Nicholas A. Mastroianni II […]
