Labels: EUROPEAN TOUR
Monday, January 04, 2016
Shane Lowry's European Tour Shot of the Year
2015 won him the Bridgestone Invitational
EUROPEAN TOUR COMMUNICATIONS
Shane
Lowry’s miraculous wedge shot, which clinched for the Irishman the
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational title last August, has been voted The
European Tour’s 2015 Shot of the Year.
Fans
on My European Tour voted throughout December and nearly a quarter of
the votes went in favour of the Irishman’s approach from 127 yards on
the 18th hole at Firestone Golf Club, beating the likes of Miguel Angel Jiménez, Rory McIlroy and Patrick Reed to the award.
“It's
a huge honour to win European Tour Shot of the Year. It's a shot I will
never forget,” said the 28 year old Lowry.
“Thanks to everyone who voted. I'm
looking forward to another great season in 2016. I can't wait to get
back to competitive golf next week in Malaysia when I represent Europe
in the EurAsia Cup.”
Read the full story here.
PGA Super 60s Championship makes Scottish
debut at Gleneagles Queens in August
PGA
Professionals will get the chance to showcase their playing skills in
another varied and exciting national tournament schedule unveiled for
2016 climaxing in the PGA Play-Offs in Turkey.
Among the summer highlights will be a return to The Oxfordshire for the Titleist and FootJoy PGA Professional Championship with the £90,000 event taking place from July 26-29.
Nine regional qualifying competitions will determine the 144 strong field for the flagship event for PGA club pros with some of the UK’s leading courses welcoming upwards of 600 pros eager to qualify, with the added incentive of earning some PGA Cup points with qualification for the 2017 team beginning here.
With a range of categories catered for in the national schedule, the over 50s will take centre stage in the first event of the season from May 11-13 when the Senior PGA Professional Championship tees off at Foxhills.
Foxhills has proved a happy hunting ground for the Scots with Fraser Mann and Kenny Hutton winning there in the last two years.
Leading finishers in the £37,000 tournament will also qualify for the PGA Seniors Championship.
Following the PGA Professional Championship at The Oxfordshire, a busy August sees three events beginning with the £32,500 Galvin Green PGA Assistants’ Championship.
Closing out August is the ever popular PGA Super 60s which this year makes its first visit to Scotland and the magnificent Gleneagles resort and the Queen’s from August 24-25.
October sees rising hopefuls of the LET Access Series compete in the WPGA International Challenge at Stoke by Nayland with the 54-hole tournament staged from 6-8 of that month.
December marks the end of the season when leading players from across the seven PGA regions plus the top two from the PGA Professional Championship and the PGA Assistants’ Championship winner battle it out for supremacy in the PGA Play-Offs at Turkey’s Antalya Golf Club from December 2-5.
At stake for the top 10 eligible players is a place at the BMW PGA Championship in 2017 while the top three eligible will qualify for the 2017 Great Britain and Ireland PGA Cup team.
Details of the PGA National Pro-Am and PGA Pro-Captain Challenge will be released shortly.
PGA SCHEDULE FOR 2016
Among the summer highlights will be a return to The Oxfordshire for the Titleist and FootJoy PGA Professional Championship with the £90,000 event taking place from July 26-29.
Nine regional qualifying competitions will determine the 144 strong field for the flagship event for PGA club pros with some of the UK’s leading courses welcoming upwards of 600 pros eager to qualify, with the added incentive of earning some PGA Cup points with qualification for the 2017 team beginning here.
With a range of categories catered for in the national schedule, the over 50s will take centre stage in the first event of the season from May 11-13 when the Senior PGA Professional Championship tees off at Foxhills.
Foxhills has proved a happy hunting ground for the Scots with Fraser Mann and Kenny Hutton winning there in the last two years.
Leading finishers in the £37,000 tournament will also qualify for the PGA Seniors Championship.
Following the PGA Professional Championship at The Oxfordshire, a busy August sees three events beginning with the £32,500 Galvin Green PGA Assistants’ Championship.
Closing out August is the ever popular PGA Super 60s which this year makes its first visit to Scotland and the magnificent Gleneagles resort and the Queen’s from August 24-25.
October sees rising hopefuls of the LET Access Series compete in the WPGA International Challenge at Stoke by Nayland with the 54-hole tournament staged from 6-8 of that month.
December marks the end of the season when leading players from across the seven PGA regions plus the top two from the PGA Professional Championship and the PGA Assistants’ Championship winner battle it out for supremacy in the PGA Play-Offs at Turkey’s Antalya Golf Club from December 2-5.
At stake for the top 10 eligible players is a place at the BMW PGA Championship in 2017 while the top three eligible will qualify for the 2017 Great Britain and Ireland PGA Cup team.
Details of the PGA National Pro-Am and PGA Pro-Captain Challenge will be released shortly.
PGA SCHEDULE FOR 2016
MAY
11 – 13 Senior PGA Professional Championship @ Foxhills (Longcross and Bernard Hunt)
JULY
5 – 6 Welsh National PGA Championship @ Tenby
26 – 29 Titleist and FootJoy PGA Professional Championship @ The Oxfordshire
AUGUST
3 – 5 Galvin Green PGA Assistants Championship @ Little Aston
17 – 19 Golfbreaks.com PGA Fourball Championship @ Carden Park (Nicklaus)
24 – 25 PGA Super 60s Championship @ Gleneagles (Queens)
OCTOBER
6 – 8 WPGA International Challenge (LETAS) @ Stoke by Nayland (Gainsborough)
18 – 19 PGA England and Wales inter-county championship @ The Belfry (PGA National)
DECEMBER
2 – 5 PGA Play-Offs @ Antalya, Turkey (PGA Sultan)
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Ross McConnachie returns to Peterculter
Golf Club for his first head pro post
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Banff-born Ross McConnachie, a former assistant pro under Dean Vannet at Peterculter Golf Club, is returning to the club as head professional, the first such appointment in his career.
McConnachie spent his formative golf years playing on the links courses of Moray Golf Club at Lossiemouth.
He gained a sports management degree at Aberdeen University and after three years working abroad, he started his PGA career as an asssitant pro at Peterculter Golf Club in July 2011 and completed his PGA training in 2015. "After four successful years I moved on to Drumoig Golf Centre in May 2015," said McConnachie.
"It was a very busy but enjoyable eight months at Drumoig working for PGA in Scotland captain Suart Syme and re-establishing Drumoig Golf Centre.
"I have learnt a lot in my time there and I am sad to leave but the opportunity at Peterculter Golf Club is a huge career step for me and I look forward to a long and and successful reign at the club.
"It
will be hard to follow in the footsteps of my old boss, Dean Vannet who
has done a tremendous job of getting the club to where it is at today
during his impressive 23 years at the club but I am very much looking
forward to the challenge."
McConnachie fills the post vacated by Dean Vannet's recent move to Banchory Golf Club as head pro.
Labels: PGA
Send us a picture (or tell us about it) of flooding at YOUR golf course ... Deeside can't be the only North-east course under a lot of water!
More rain, more water coming down the River Dee .. and more flooding of the Deeside Golf Club course on the banks of a river at its highest level in living memory, writes Colin Farquharson (Colin@scottishgolfview.com)
Above, a tweeted picture from the Bieldside club, showing the devastation at the fourth hole.
The Monday afternoon report is that the flooding is reaching last week's level with the 18th green about to go under water.
Deeside's 18th green under water late this afternoon.
Assistant pro Graeme Nethercott reported:
More rain, more water coming down the River Dee .. and more flooding of the Deeside Golf Club course on the banks of a river at its highest level in living memory, writes Colin Farquharson (Colin@scottishgolfview.com)
Above, a tweeted picture from the Bieldside club, showing the devastation at the fourth hole.
The Monday afternoon report is that the flooding is reaching last week's level with the 18th green about to go under water.
Deeside's 18th green under water late this afternoon.
Assistant pro Graeme Nethercott reported:
"Flooding has covered the first and 14th green (believe it or not). All
the bunkers around the 18th green are full of water but when I left at
3.15pm the water hadn't quite covered the 18th green but not far off."
Labels: GOLF NEWS
NORTH GOLF NEWS ROUND-UP
Dornoch 400 year drive-in by club capt Seatter
By ROBIN WILSON
Watched by a large number of members, Royal Dornoch Golf
Club captain, James Seatfer, began the
season’s celebration to mark 400 years of first recorded golf in the ancient royal burgh by driving a gutty golf ball from the first tee at 9.30am on
Saturday. January 2, using a
specially crafted hickory replica club.
The burgh's records show that in 1616 a young boy, who rose
to become Earl of Sutherland, had spent £10 on bows and arrows, and golf
clubs, with which to play and practis on the links of Dornoch which, 400 years later,
are now ranked the sixth best golf course in the world, attracting thousands of
visitors each year.
Club professional Andrew Skinner accompanied James Seatter
Winning the dash to retrieve the golf ball
was a 12 year old junior member, Cameron Welsh from London, spending the
holiday break in Dornoch with his parents . He was rewarded with a commemorative
silver medal (presentation from club captain Seatter pictured right). After the drive -in the captain raised a special 400 Centenary
Flag while a piper played.
During the coming year's celebrations special competitions
will be held for the members and the course will be visited by the Scottish PGA
who will stage the Northern Open from June 21 to 24.
Royal Dornoch Golf Club has been the most successful in the Northern Counties Cup men's foursomes
competition with 21 wins since 1900. Ten
of these were in succession from 1903 to 1912. Dornoch's last triumph was at
Nairn in 1988 but with that competition returning to Dornoch this year
(September 22-24 )and with the senior verson of the cup also being played in
Dornoch for the first time (May18 to 20) there are added attractions in 2016
for both members and visitors.
Brora Golf Club's 125th birthday this year
Next year, 2016, Brora Golf Club and its members will enjoy twelve months of special events to mark its 125th birthday with two of the North's golfing associations visiting to host their
championships, writes Robin Wilson
The Northern Counties Women’s Golf Association will open the season in May with their championship and the men's North District Association will close the season in September with the
launch of a new Champion of Champions competition.
These two and all other club arranged special events come just a year late for one visitor to Brora in 2015, a great grandson of the club's first president in 1891 who, after playing
last September, wrote the following letter to the now retired club professional, Brian Anderson.
Darwin Formwork Pty Ltd.
Winnellie, NT 0820
Darwin, Australia.
Sept 15 2015
Dear Mr. Anderson,
Whilst I was in Scotland recently I had the pleasure of playing a couple of rounds on your wonderful course. Unfortunately I was unable to produce the form which may have been expected
of a Great Grandson of George Sutherland, your founding Chairman.
I found this obituary amongst my late Mother's possessions (Alix Gordon Sutherland), and thought if you had not already seen it, it may be of some interest to you and the club.
Cheers
Angus Fleming.
The obituary was that of his Grandfather which had appeared in the Northern Times following his
death in October 1912 and after reading it, with the help of Ellen Lindsay, I set out to trace Angus Fleming's roots back to the Sutherland family who once owned the Sutherland Arms Hotel in Brora.
Angus Fleming's great Grandfather was George Sutherland who chaired a group of local gentlemen golfers in the Upper Room of the Brora Library Institute premises on the corner of Gower Street
and Rosslyn Street. opposite what is now The Sutherland Inn. They had gathered with the aim of forming a golf club in the village and Mr Sutherland was appointed the Brora Golf Club's first president.
He and the other appointed office bearers were charged with extending the area of ground where golf was already been played, i.e. East Brora Farm, which just so happened tpo be tenanted by the president.
The remainder of the club and course history is fully covered in Mr. Baillie's book but, returning to Angus Fleming's connection to Brora, I set about following his family tree.
President George Sutherland had a family of six, three sons, and three daughters. The oldest son was William George, who followed his father into the family hotel business and the running of the
golf club. William George served terms as president of Brora Golf Club in years, 1922, 1923 and 1928.
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