People who like playing golf are no strangers to the fact that the sport asks quite a lot in terms of cash. Golf is an expensive sport to get into because it requires you to buy certain bits of kit. However, it is even more expensive to get really good at golf because then you [...]
The Tour Championship was won yesterday by Phil Mickelson, who shot a final round on sunday of 65 in East Lake Golf Club. He finnished nine under par.
It wasn’t enough, however to stop Tiger Woods from winning the Fed Ex cup with a cool 10 million dollars.
Woods finnished the championship with 3,750 points, well clear [...]
South Korea’s Yang Yong-Eun became the first Asian born player to win a major. Woods needed just 33 puts over 18 holes, but came into real difficulty when it came to putting the ball. No prizes for guessing what he’ll be doing this weekend then.
Tiger Woods Apparently blamed his loss of the USPGA Golf Tournament [...]
Well it looks as if the recession has also begun to hit Golf prize winnings as this week news hit that the European Gold Tour has cut it’s prize winnings from 6.1 million pounds to just over 4 and a half million pounds.. That’s a cut of just over 25%.
If a player wins both the [...]
Ace: The same as a hole-in-one.. A score of 1.
Birdie: One shot below par.
Bogey: One shot over par.
Double Eagle: Three shots under par
Double Bogey: Two shots over par
Eagle: Two shots under par.
Par: The difficulty of the hole you are on. If this course is harder, a higher par is assigned. Its basically the average number [...]
It’s apparently been discussed at great length over the past few years that Golf should be added to the Olympic games. The IOC finally agreed to add it into the extensive list of olympic games… So we should be seeing a 40 year old Tiger Woods with a Gold medal hanging around his neck real [...]
The Colonial Invitational Facts and Figures -
The Colonial Invitational is the longest running event on the USPGA Tour, which is still being played at the original golf course. The Country Club has hosted the event since 1946.
The course was built in 1936 and since it was formed has always been in America’s Top 100 golf [...]