68 entries: Players 1st

Gleneagles golf course

Can Gleneagles host effectively a European Championship?

By: 2017. 02. 22.

Gleneagles has today been unveiled as an Official Supporter of the Glasgow 2018 European Championships (between 2nd and 12th August 2018), a multi-sport event. To be staged every four years, the European Championships will combine the existing European Championships…

West Cliffs Golf Links

How will West Cliffs challenge the competitors?

By: 2017. 02. 21.

Do you remember when I wrote in last October about the new golf course to be built right next to Praia D'el Rey? The new golf course, West Cliffs Golf Links is almost ready. Only 99 days left…

A surprising event at the Saadiyat Beach Golf Club

By: 2016. 10. 28.

Next week, we will see in Abu Dhabi a historical moment. The Saadiyat Beach Golf Club (Gary Player designed seafront golf course: par-72 course, which will be set up at 6,337 yards / 5,795 meters for the championship) will…

How long will Lee Westwood be able to help PING?

By: 2016. 01. 24.

PING was happy to announce early this week, the extended multi-year  sponsorship agreements with Lee Westwood (official world golf ranking: 51st), Andy Sullivan (became pro in 2011; Official world golf ranking: 37th) and Brandon Stone (became pro in 2013; Official world golf…

Golf’s largely-unheralded heroes get unexpected support

By: 2016. 01. 13.

Last year, there was an interesting lawsuit against the PGA Tour. More than 80 PGA Tour caddies were demanding share of profits from the sponsored bibs, together with “damages and disgorgement” for wearing the bibs in the past. Since…

PGA Championship victory of a retro driver

By: 2015. 10. 27.

Smylie Kaufman won the 2015 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open held at the TPC Summerlin Golf Club, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He proved that even a retro golf club (in this case a Cleveland Classic 290 driver from 2012) can bring…

Stacy Lewis re-signs multi year contract with Mizuno Golf

By: 2015. 02. 28.

Yesterday Mizuno Golf was happy to announce that they were able sign a multi-year, global contract extension with Stacy Lewis, current No. 3 in the Rolex Rankings.  An interesting insight about Stacy Lewis is that she is the 1st…

Quinta do Lago won the 2015 Today’s Golfer Travel Awards

By: 2015. 01. 26.

It seems to me that Quinta do Lago's €29m investment programme brought it's first awards. Part of this program was the modernization an facelifting (worth of €9.6m) of Quinta do Lago's North Course by Paul McGinley with Beau Welling. Quinta do Lago, the leading…