Adrian Meronk has cashed in on the mistakes of Casey Jarvis to win the Links Championship in Scotland, giving the 33-year-old from Poland a full card on the European tour when he desperately needed it. Meronk was the tour player of the year back in 2023 when he was left off the Ryder Cup team Read more…
It had been exactly 1,078 days since Adrian Meronk won on the DP World Tour. He ended that streak in grand fashion by shooting a final-round 68 at the Old Course in St Andrews to win the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship by two shots.
There has always been a heavy Aussie presence since the tournament’s inception but none more so than this week when 20 Aussies – and two Kiwis – will chase championship glory across three iconic Scottish links.
Adam Scott is among 14 finalists for the World Golf Hall of Fame’s Class of 2027, alongside Justin Rose, Inbee Park and Jim Nantz, with induction set for St Andrews on 20 July 2027.
Few places in golf have witnessed more historic moments than St Andrews. And on Friday morning, the “Home of Golf” marked another historic day when Claire Dowling, the first ever female captain of the R&A, began her captaincy with the club’s traditional driving in ceremony.
There is room for debate as to whether the claret jug is the most iconic item awarded to a tournament winner in golf, a chorus of folks representing a sleepy town in Georgia likely arguing that a certain emerald blazer has an awful lot of cachet, too.
Winless in two years, Cameron Smith has returned to the site of his dramatic maiden major triumph in the hopes of recapturing the form that saw him hoist the Claret Jug at the 150th Open St Andrews’ Old Course in 2022.
Sometimes you just need a break. For example, J.J. Spaun got a perfectly timed weather delay to get his major chances back on track, and then he took advantage of the opportunity. Similarly, Redditor TeezyGolf got, well … another golfer’s broken wrist. All love to the wounded “Brian,” but an inopportune injury was what allowed Read more…
For nearly all golfers, the idea of playing The Old Course in St Andrews is the holy grail. For a select few golfers this year, that dream will become a reality.
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