The European Tour is back at it. Their social channels have become regular stops for exotic golf feats of strength, speed, and persistence, whether it’s hitting golf balls into speeding cars or day-long hole-in-one challenges.
The rapid six-year gap between Opens is nothing like the wait from 1951 to 2019 and a further endorsement of the triumph of that staging two years ago.
Hovland, who flew to Europe after the US Open and promptly won the BMW International Open in Munich, is back in Norway, where word got out that his name appeared on the timesheet for what was a planned quiet home game.
These otherwise insignificant accoutrements are perfect for the social media age, where little bits of whimsy crash ashore and then recede back out of our consciousness into the great data lakes.
Family, friends and fans of John Catlin, currently 85th in the Official World Golf Ranking and a three-time winner on the European Tour in the last eight months, may have a new foe.
The explosion in purse increases at the highest levels of the men’s professional game don’t often translate into any significant purse increases on lower level tours, specifically the Korn Ferry Tour. That’s about to change.
The hotel was unresponsive at first, but tour officials weren’t and they made it clear Voke would be disqualified if he did not make it to the course on time.
The two confronted the predicament with amusement, but that turned to agony as time passed and the threat of missing the resumption of their second round became real.
Australian Golf Digest
