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Royal Birkdale and Taiwanese golfers

July 31, 2010
By The Florida Masochist
Royal Birkdale and Taiwanese golfers

Yani Tseng from Taiwan leads the Women's British at Royal Birkdale by four shots with 36 holes to play. Should she win, Tseng would already have amassed three of the four major championships in Women's professional golf.I won't be conceding the tourna...
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Futures Tour Road Trip: Day 2 Plans

July 30, 2010
By The Constructivist
Futures Tour Road Trip:  Day 2 Plans

The tournament organizers reshuffled the pairings for the 2nd round of the Alliance Bank Classic, so everybody's grouped by score on Saturday. That leaves me with an interesting choice. I could go early and watch amateur and Manlius native Jillian Fr...
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Futures Tour Road Trip: Day 1 (Hannah Yun, Lori Atsedes, Virada Nirapathpongporn, Pornanong Phatlum, Jane Rah)

July 30, 2010
By The Constructivist
Futures Tour Road Trip:  Day 1 (Hannah Yun, Lori Atsedes, Virada Nirapathpongporn, Pornanong Phatlum, Jane Rah)

Joely Pique has the rundown of the 1st round of the Alliance Bank Golf Classic. As you can see, scoring was pretty low, with 12 players breaking 70, led by rookie Dolores White's fine 66, and 28 players shooting par or better. So let me tell you abou...
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Women’s British Open Friday: Tseng Shoots 2nd-Straight 68

July 30, 2010
By The Constructivist
Women’s British Open Friday:  Tseng Shoots 2nd-Straight 68

Ya Ni Tseng fired a 2nd consecutive 68 today at the Women's British Open to open up a 4-shot lead on Cristie Kerr, Brittany Lincicome, and Amy Yang. By now you've already read Hound Dog's overview and LPGA.com's notes and interviews, so you know that ...
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Glam on the Green – A Shiny New Online Golf Shop

July 29, 2010
By Patricia Hannigan

No two ways about it, the era of unattractive golf clothing is officially over. I'm not saying hideous golf fashion is extinct. Not at all... it's not even an endangered species... but nowadays there are definitely options. Myriad options... for golfer...
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Rock in a hard place

July 29, 2010
By Aussie Golfer
Rock in a hard place

A bearded Robert Rock The antiquated rules of golf reared its head yesterday when Enagland's Robert Rock found himself disqualified from the Irish Open after returning an incorrect scorecard. Rock was runner-up in this European Tour event last year a...
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A Cute Little Smiley Face Golf Girl

July 29, 2010
By Patricia Hannigan

I'm not generally a fan of smileys, but I've got to admit I find this one pretty cute.
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Will Waggle Room’s Ryan Ballangee please pick up the red courtesy phone

July 29, 2010
By The Florida Masochist
Will Waggle Room’s Ryan Ballangee please pick up the red courtesy phone

Is there a GWAA award for factual mistakes per word written? In a fan shot today, Ryan wrote-Tim Jackson set the 36 hole scoring record at last year's US Senior Open at Broadmoor, and is again in contention on day one of the Sahalee edition of the USSO...
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LPGA Tour Championship to be played in Orlando Florida Dec. 2-5

July 29, 2010
By The Florida Masochist
LPGA Tour Championship to be played in Orlando Florida Dec. 2-5

The last event of the 2010 LPGA season is set. 120 players will tee it up at the Grand Cypress Resort. Grand Cypress is no stranger to the LPGA. It has hosted tour events in the past, the last of which was the 2001 YourLife Vitamins LPGA Classic. Golfw...
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Futures Tour Road Trip: Da Plan

July 29, 2010
By The Constructivist
Futures Tour Road Trip:  Da Plan

Well, my back is feeling pretty normal a week after I injured it, so I'm headed out early tomorrow morning to get to Drumlins East and follow Hannah Yun in the 1st group off the 1st tee at the Alliance Bank Golf Classic. After Yun finishes, I'll backt...
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Norman still wants a World Tour

July 29, 2010
By Aussie Golfer
Norman still wants a World Tour

In the mid-1990's Greg Norman put forward the idea of a World Golf Tour which would have featured the world's top players in an eight tournament schedule played in the US, Canada, Scotland, Japan and Spain. The PGA Tour hated the idea but Norman still ...
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Women’s British Open Thursday: Will Anyone Break 70 in the Winds at Royal Birkdale Today?

July 29, 2010
By The Constructivist
Women’s British Open Thursday:  Will Anyone Break 70 in the Winds at Royal Birkdale Today?

On a day that started windy, Juli Inkster and Ji-Yai Shin were the 1st to post under-par scores at the Women's British Open. The LET has details on their 71s, which were recently matched by Brittany Lang. With Gwladys Nocera -2 through 8 holes of bog...
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Tiger Woods & Phil Mickelson- Two Big Contenders for the 2010 Bridgestone Invitational

July 29, 2010
By Terry Lane

The number one ranked player in the Official World Golf Ranking, Tiger Woods, has been questioned after his latest competitions. However, Woods arrives at the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational as a leading candidate for the title. The golf betting entities still have Tiger Woods standing as the favourite even after Woods’ poor performances, which is the
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Bangkok voted World’s Best City for travel, and golf in Thailand is just that good too

July 28, 2010
By Brandon

We recently published a news item on HawaiiGolf.com about the Hawaiian Island of Kauai being ranked the No. 2 island to visit in the world, according to Travel & Leisure's Reader Poll.One other result in the poll worth noting is that Bangkok wa...
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Sweetwood Golf Follow-Up: Arrival of the Putter

July 28, 2010
By Ron Mon

Special, gift-bearing holidays can come in July, I swear. One with great anticipation came a few weeks back, before my great Virginia golf junket, when a putter from Sweetwood Luxury Golf arrived on my doorstep. Sweetwood makes three series of putters ...
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The croquet putting style

July 28, 2010
By Aussie Golfer
The croquet putting style

Sam Snead using the legal croquet style putting method. Both feet face the hole and on one side of the line of the putt. Thinking of trying the croquet putting method? Be very careful not to straddle the line of the putt when you do as this is...
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