SHORT PUTTS OF GOLF NEWS
SCOTS DRAW FIRST LA MANGA MATCH
Scotland, represented by Craigielaw Golf Club, drew 3-3 with England (Worthing Golf Club) on the opening day of the sponsored Home nations international boys' team championship at La Manga.
Ireland (Belvoir Park) beat Wales (Conwy) 4-2 in the other match.
CRAWFORD QUALIFIES FOR JOBURG OPEN
Scottish amateur international team member of the early 1990s, Derek Crawford from Glasgow had a second cause for celebration in South Africa today.
At the weekend, he came through the South African Sunshine Tour Qualifying School in fourth place.
Today, he was fifth best qualifier over the same Kempton Park Golf Club course for the inaugural big-money Joburg Open.
Crawford shot a six-under-par 66, one shot behind a quartet who tied for first place. There were 36 qualifiers in all for the big event but Derek made it through in style.
WOMEN’S WORLD CUP TEAM CHANGES
News of team changes for the Women’s World Cup at Sun City, South Africa from January 19-21 – that’s the one in which Scotland, last year’s runners-up, have not got a team.
Brazil’s Angela Park has withdrawn due to personal reasons and is replaced by Maria Priscila Iida (yes, that’s how her surname is spelled) as a partner to Candy Hanneman.
Miram Nagl, injured in a holiday ski-ing accident, is out of the Germany team. Her place goes to Denise Simon who will partner Anja Monke.
+Catriona Matthew’s break to have her first baby meant that Scotland did not have a player high enough in the money lists to qualify for an invitation.
EUROPRO TOUR GOES IRISH
The PGA EuroPro Tour will go to Ireland for the first time in the new season. Faithlegg Golf Club, on the shores of the River Suir, outside Waterford in the south-east of the Emerald Isle, will be the host for a 54-hole event with a minimum prize money of the Euro equivalent of £40,000.
The EuroPro Tour Qualifying School process starts on April 11-12 at four venues (Beau Desert, Fulford, The Bedford and Stoke by Nayland). It continues with a field of 240 for the Final Q Stage at Frilford Heath, Oxfordshire on April 17-19.
IRELAND’S PLAYERS OF THE YEAR
The Irish Golf Writers Association have voted their players of the year.
They are:
Professional – Padraig Harrington, Ryder Cup player, European Tour Order of Merit winner and conqueror Tiger Woods in the Dunlop Phoenix play-off in Japan.
Amateur – Rory McIlroy, 17-year-old winner of the European title, who retained his Irish closed championship.
Female – Martina Gillen, 2006 Irish women’s amateur stroke-play champion, Curtis Cup player and a graduate to the Ladies European Tour from the Qualifying School.
Scotland, represented by Craigielaw Golf Club, drew 3-3 with England (Worthing Golf Club) on the opening day of the sponsored Home nations international boys' team championship at La Manga.
Ireland (Belvoir Park) beat Wales (Conwy) 4-2 in the other match.
CRAWFORD QUALIFIES FOR JOBURG OPEN
Scottish amateur international team member of the early 1990s, Derek Crawford from Glasgow had a second cause for celebration in South Africa today.
At the weekend, he came through the South African Sunshine Tour Qualifying School in fourth place.
Today, he was fifth best qualifier over the same Kempton Park Golf Club course for the inaugural big-money Joburg Open.
Crawford shot a six-under-par 66, one shot behind a quartet who tied for first place. There were 36 qualifiers in all for the big event but Derek made it through in style.
WOMEN’S WORLD CUP TEAM CHANGES
News of team changes for the Women’s World Cup at Sun City, South Africa from January 19-21 – that’s the one in which Scotland, last year’s runners-up, have not got a team.
Brazil’s Angela Park has withdrawn due to personal reasons and is replaced by Maria Priscila Iida (yes, that’s how her surname is spelled) as a partner to Candy Hanneman.
Miram Nagl, injured in a holiday ski-ing accident, is out of the Germany team. Her place goes to Denise Simon who will partner Anja Monke.
+Catriona Matthew’s break to have her first baby meant that Scotland did not have a player high enough in the money lists to qualify for an invitation.
EUROPRO TOUR GOES IRISH
The PGA EuroPro Tour will go to Ireland for the first time in the new season. Faithlegg Golf Club, on the shores of the River Suir, outside Waterford in the south-east of the Emerald Isle, will be the host for a 54-hole event with a minimum prize money of the Euro equivalent of £40,000.
The EuroPro Tour Qualifying School process starts on April 11-12 at four venues (Beau Desert, Fulford, The Bedford and Stoke by Nayland). It continues with a field of 240 for the Final Q Stage at Frilford Heath, Oxfordshire on April 17-19.
IRELAND’S PLAYERS OF THE YEAR
The Irish Golf Writers Association have voted their players of the year.
They are:
Professional – Padraig Harrington, Ryder Cup player, European Tour Order of Merit winner and conqueror Tiger Woods in the Dunlop Phoenix play-off in Japan.
Amateur – Rory McIlroy, 17-year-old winner of the European title, who retained his Irish closed championship.
Female – Martina Gillen, 2006 Irish women’s amateur stroke-play champion, Curtis Cup player and a graduate to the Ladies European Tour from the Qualifying School.
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