Archive | January, 2008

Tiger’s biggest threat

on January 30, 2008 in blog

Ian Poulter has always been considered a little eccentric but even by his standards his latest comments in the March Edition of ‘Golf World’ seem outlandish.  In it he claims he’s Tiger’s main threat and is the only one capable of challenging the world’s number one. The extrovert Englishman (ranked world’s number 22) says, “The [...]

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Tiger Wins Buick Invitational

on January 28, 2008 in golfing news, news

New Year, familiar story…. Tiger Woods earned his 62nd career tour victory at Torrey Pines Golf Club in La Jolla, California, when he won the Buick Invitational and in so doing  drew level with Arnold Palmer to tie fourth place on the PGA Tour’s all-time winners list.  Woods fired a one-under par 71 on Sunday to win the 5.2 [...]

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Aussie Adam Scott wins Qatar Masters

on January 27, 2008 in golfing news, news

Australian Golfer, Adam Scott blitzed to an impressive three-shot victory over Swede Henrik Stenson at the 2.5 million dollar Qatar Masters on Sunday to become the first person to win the tournament twice, since it began in 1998. The win was all the more impressive as Scott had only managed to finish on one over par 73 in the [...]

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Adams Golf DiXX Putter

on January 27, 2008 in blog

If you’ve read the books, had the lessons and still frustrated that your putting shows no sign of improvement, then you may like to consider the DiXX instructional Putter, from Adams Golf. The DiXX Putter has been designed to help you learn an effective putting method by telling you more about your current swing habits.  Its does this through [...]

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Kaymer wins Abu Dhabi Golf Championship

on January 21, 2008 in golfing news, news

Martin Kaymer was voted the European Tour’s Rookie of the Year last season and now in only his second season on Tour he completed his maiden victory by winning the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship over the weekend.  Kaymer led the tournament from start to finish and held off the final-round challenges of Lee Westwood and [...]

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Golfweek…give ‘em enough rope…..

on January 19, 2008 in blog

The Tilghman/Golf Channel situation rumbles on and has now claimed another casualty.  You may remember that Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman recently made a controversial comment about Tiger Woods and received a two week suspension. Well now Golfweek editor Dave Seanor has lost his job after the magazine ran a cover in the January 19 issue showing a noose [...]

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Get a GRIP!

on January 15, 2008 in blog

Toward the back end of last year the nice folks at Golf Research In Play (G.R.I.P) – www.gogrip.com,  were kind enough to send me a couple of clubs for review.  I requested a Putter and 5-Wood and they duly obliged by packing and shipping to the UK. For those of you not familiar, G.R.I.P is an [...]

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The secret to Daniel Chopra’s success

on January 11, 2008 in blog

A Happy New Year to all Golfers out there!  I hope Xmas brought you as many new balls and as much Pringle knitwear as you could possibly manage for the year ahead.  Me?….I got a Nintendo DS Lite, because apparently my brain needs training!  I’m bored with it already though, so expect to see it on [...]

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Chopra Wins Mercedes-Benz Championship

on January 8, 2008 in golfing news, news

Daniel Chopra won the Mercedes-Benz Championship in Hawaii after coming out on top in a play-off on Sunday.  The Swede defeated Steve Stricker with a tap-in birdie on the fourth play-off hole, the par-five ninth for only his second career USPGA win. Chopra (66) and Stricker (64) had both finished the event on 274 - 18 [...]

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January 2008, Golfing Calendar

on January 8, 2008 in golfing news, news

January 2008 10th – 13th Sunshine Tour: Joburg Open, Royal Johannesburg and Kensington GC. 10th – 13th USPGA FedEx: Sony Open in Hawaii , Waialae Country Club, Honolulu, HI, USA. 10th – 13th European Tour: Joburg Open, Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club, Johannesburg, South Africa. 17th – 20th European Tour: Abu Dhabi Golf Championship, [...]

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