The changing face of professional golf at the highest level is something on which Fitzpatrick holds some strong views, especially with regard to the DP World Tour’s place in any new order.
It’s not likely to last too long, but right now Thriston Lawrence owns a unique distinction in golf. Winner of the Joburg Open last November, which was the first-ever DP World Tour event, the South African is now also the latest champion on what used to be called the European Tour.
On Sunday evening the winner of the year’s final Major championship will be paid $US1,095,000, which is $225,000 more than Anna Nordqvist earned for winning at Carnoustie 12 months ago.
It took 275 years and two votes for the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers to let in female members – and set up one of the more anticipated weeks in women’s golf.
Only two weeks after Cameron Smith came from four shots behind two overnight leaders to win the Open Championship at St Andrews, Ayaka Furue did the same to claim the Trust Golf Women’s Scottish Open.
After a prolonged and increasingly loud period of speculation, Henrik Stenson, who was named captain of the Old World side in Italy for next year in March, has been relieved of his duties.
The four-time Major champion laid out how he would be handling the current conflict between the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series and the strategic alliance formed by the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour.
Nicklaus first saw the most historic course on the planet in 1964, when he finished runner-up behind the late Tony Lema in what was his third Open appearance. He loved it then and he loves it still.
The task at St Andrews Opens is to provoke the best players in the world into displaying their peerless talents to the most evocative extent – no matter the winning score.
Especially in a wind, these links all demand thinking and strategy that goes outside the relatively one-dimensional stuff that is professional golf around the globe.
The first hole Justin Thomas ever played at St Andrews, back in 2013, gave him an incredible story that could probably only be topped by winning the Open at the Home of Golf.
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