Tiger Woods-Nike partnership ends
TIGER WOODS has gone from “Hello, world,” to saying goodbye to Nike.
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TIGER WOODS has gone from “Hello, world,” to saying goodbye to Nike.
The forests of the world are home to the highest biodiversity. They are the cradle of life on our islands. Much to our shame, little of our native forestland remains. Much has been cut down to make way for agriculture and urban sprawl. The number of species that we have driven to extinction is unparalleled at any time in history after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
By Chris Cox | PGA Tour
Pauline del Rosario takes a break from her hectic China and Taiwan Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour campaign as she and former three-time Order of Merit winner Cyna Rodriguez spearhead the local challenge against the crack Thailand side in The Women’s Championship beginning today at the Summit Point Golf and Country Club in Lipa City.
HIS irons are sublime, his driver for the most part long and straight.
From where we all sit, the life of a professional golfer is a glamourous one. Lots of travel to foreign lands, lots of golf on some of the best golf courses and free golf clubs. On the surface, it’s an easy life with perks the rest of us can only dream of.
Callaway launched the new Great Big Bertha Epic drivers in our market on April 19 of this year at the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club in Mandaluyong; fashionably late to the party, just after its rivals products have already hit the market. No matter. After all, the Callaway Great Big Bertha Epic and Epic Star drivers have a competitive advantage their opponents do not—Jailbreak Technology.
THE Philippine Ladies Golf Tour resumes today with six stars from Thailand slugging it out with the leading local players in the P1-million International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) Luisita Ladies Challenge at the Luisita Golf and Country Club here.
By David MacKenzie
By Doug Ferguson / The Associated Press
By Doug Ferguson / The Associated Press
HUMBLE, Texas—Russell Henley no longer gets to take a week off, and he couldn’t be happier.
By David MacKenzie
When the name Mizuno comes up in a conversation, most golfers don’t think about drivers. Because while Big Blue’s irons are the stuff of legend, their drivers, thus far, have merited a solid “meh”.
By Doug Ferguson / The Associated Press
AVONDALE, Louisiana—Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) Tour star Jason Day expects to arrive in Augusta, Georgia, on Friday to start practicing for the Masters, but said he could pull still out of the season’s first major, depending on his mother’s prognosis following surgery for lung cancer last week.
By Doug Ferguson / The Associated Press
CARLSBAD, California—Mirim Lee took the lead into the final round of the Kia Classic two years ago and was overhauled by Cristie Kerr, who won with a tournament record of 20-under.
Over the years, the Dye Course at Eagle Ridge Golf and Country Club has gotten the reputation as one of the most punishing golf courses in the country. Stories of greens with more undulation that the Sierra Madres, deep, deep bunkers, yawning ravines and long carries over water hazards put most golfers off and has popularized the unhappy refrain, “If you play the Dye, you will die!” But I am here to tell you that this need not be the case.
It’s been a year since we first visited with Luisita Golf and Country Club after its purchase by Martin Lorenzo and company and in that short span of time, so much has changed and for the better.
It’s unusual for me to write about a golf course that I haven’t played but I’ve been victim to the unfortunate circumstance of having visited the Negros Occidental Golf and Country Club on two occasions as a journalist covering a tournament there instead of as a competitor. I did manage to play the more intriguing back nine during the 2005 PAL Interclub and spent three days on the course as a rules official on the recently concluded ICTSI Negros Occidental Championship so I’m not totally unfamiliar with the golf course.
The term “world class” ought to be used with a bit more caution these days. Over-eager marketing and public relations people use it in a somewhat cavalier fashion these days to describe products that over promise and under deliver. This is clearly not the case when the conversation turns to Ayala Land Premier’s magnificent golf course at Anvaya Cove. This is a property that absolutely lives up to that lofty billing.
Wack-Wack Golf Club’s East Course is the country’s oldest and most storied championship golf course. William J. Shaw was the impetus behind the club’s genesis. Disgusted with the elitism and policy of exclusion displayed at the 1926 Philippine Open when then sixteen-year-old Larry Montes was refused a seat at the victory dinner because he was a caddy, Shaw determined to build a golf club with the aim of promoting peace and harmony between golfers of all races. Working with a group of golfers from the old Municipal Golf Links, he succeeded and Wack-Wack was formed in 1930. The club’s name derived from the squawks of the crows that used to inhabit the land. The following year, Shaw contracted the services of Jim Black, a golf professional from the United States, to oversee the construction of the East Course.
Today when one thinks of championship calibre golf courses, one thinks of Wack Wack’s East Course, Sta. Elena Golf and Country Club’s Makiling Course, Canlubang Golf and Country Club’s North Course, the Palmer Course at The Orchard Golf and Country Club, the Langer Course at the Riviera Golf and Country Club and The Masters at Manila Southwoods Golf and Country Club.
The game of golf is in flux. This fact first crossed my mind when I sat down with Manila Southwoods grounds chair and golf architect John Cope a little over two years ago. In our conversation, we discussed the need to lower the costs related to the care and upkeep of golf courses worldwide.
The Orchard’s Palmer Course is one of the great golf courses in the country. Opened for play in 1994, it played host to the world’s best golfers when it hosted the Johnny Walker Classic the very next year; a tribute to the quality of the golf course.
In my 20 years in the game, I have developed a special appreciation for the short par 4. There is a special art to making a short hole memorable, to enable it to resist scoring and to leave an indelible mark on all those that walk its fairways.
When I first picked up a golf club almost a decade-and-a-half ago, playing any of the championship golf courses was a daunting task. The courses were long and the course was full of more accomplished golfers. It was downright embarrassing to hold the groups behind us up as I tried to figure out how to get the little white ball to do what I wanted.
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