MATT COOPER: ROAD TO THE OPEN STARTS HERE
25-06-2009 16:13
With exemptions earned and International Final Qualifying complete, only a few places remain unclaimed in the field for the 2009 Open Championship at Turnberry.
A few are saved for tournament golfers who find top form at the last minute, but 12 treasured spots will go to the courageous few who survive first the Regional and then the Local Final Qualifying stages.
16 sites hosted Regional Qua...
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0 Comment NEVILLE LECK: IS DUVAL ON HIS WAY BACK?
21-06-2009 06:52
Eight years ago after David Duval's impressive victory at The Open, it would have been expected that he would be a leading contender for just about any US Open.
Those who saw him win the 2001 Open Championship at Royal Lytham and St Annes will probably never forget the formidable figure he cast as, with steely focus and an iron will that was clearly evident, even behind the wrap-around sun glas...
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HARRY THE HAT: WIN A NEW CAR AT BETHPAGE!
16-06-2009 14:33
If you like racing, cricket and golf, a combination of the two or just one you are in for a real treat this week with the culmination of the Twenty20 World Cup, Royal Ascot and the U.S. Open.
Whilst mulling over the recent ramifications in the football transfer market with the waiter in my local Lebanese restaurant (or Kebab Shop as it is also known) I was asked which was my favourite sport and...
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DAVE TINDALL: DAVE TINDALL ST MELLION BLOG
10-06-2009 07:51
Sunday 7th June
19.00
Flight from Leeds down to Plymouth (via Bristol) is delayed an hour. Take the chance to watch a bit of the Twenty20 cricket in the airport lounge and read an interesting front page story about 'Twitter' in Time Magazine. Three thoughts are running through my head as I head off to St Mellion. 1) Will I make an idiot of myself in the press golf competition?...
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NEVILLE LECK: NORDQVIST NO FLASH IN THE PAN
16-06-2009 16:43
With just five Tour starts, Anna Nordqvist is a professional novice, which ever way you look at it - and to win the women's US PGA at her first attempt as she did on Sunday is truly amazing.
But she is certainly not a nobody who has crawled out of the woodwork and upstaged the stars with some spell-binding, never-to-be-repeated 18-hole magic on the final day.
The six-foot Arizona State Unive...
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DAVE TINDALL: OBAMA'S GOLF OBSESSION
01-06-2009 10:06
I have US politics and golf on the brain at the moment.
I'm currently reading "The Secret Man - The story of Watergate's Deep Throat" whilst I'm still rueing the fact that Alvaro Quiros failed to win the European Open on Sunday after I followed Matt Cooper's advice to back him at 40/1 (did someone get to the Spaniard before he teed off on 18?).
So it was somewhat appropriate that the first...
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MATT COOPER: UNQUALIFIED CHARM
28-05-2009 08:21
The European Tour has enjoyed a taste of the old and the news this week.
The new comes in the form of the London GC which hosts the European Open - a recently built course, with a modern clubhouse, wide open spaces and superb practice facilities; perfect for a European Tour event in the 21st century.
But on Monday the players also broke their journey around the M25 from Wentworth to the London c...
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HARRY THE HAT: THREE PUTT FOR CHARITY
19-05-2009 09:18
I remember the warm evening in late October 2005 at the Tour championship in Atlanta when the PGA Tour announced they had raised one billion dollars in charitable donations since the first recorded donation of $10,000 in 1938.
Although watching Payne Stewart's daughter present the Payne Stewart Award to Brad Faxon at the same ceremony is the main image in my mind.
was struck by the staggering...
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NEVILLE LECK: BETHPAGE - MONSTER REVISITED?
09-06-2009 14:14
Jim Furyk, Kenny Perry, Paul Casey and Anthony Kim are hoping the horror stories that emanated from the US Open on the last occasion it was played at Bethpage Black won't be repeated this time.
And they are just four of many.
From all accounts Bethpage Black in 2002 when Tiger Woods won the US Open with the only score that was under par, was an unremitting four-day struggle of nightmarish pr...
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DAVE TINDALL: THINKING OF AMY
22-05-2009 10:45
"I was fortunate to win the Masters. But I'm more fortunate to have a great life partner in my wife, Amy, with whom I share everything.
"To win my first major without my family around would have been unthinkable. To win it with them there, to share in that wonderful moment with me, made it absolutely priceless.
"Amy sometimes wears a small bracelet on her wrist. It's a circle with three char...
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Golf365's Dave Keywood - a 2 handicapper - visits the Ping fitting centre and comes away wondering why he didn't do so earlier!
