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  • Golf: HP Byron Nelson Championship Tips
    Fed Ex Cup: HP Byron Nelson Championship It is only 1,071 miles (17 hours in a car “at legal speeds Officer”) but The PGA Tour bus has navigated from PGA Tour HQ back to the Lone Star State to Irvine, deep in the Heart of Texas for this week’s HP Byron Nelson Championship in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. If it is true what they say and everything is...
    by David Jenkins at May 16th, 2012 at 05:05 pm
  • Golf: Volvo World Match Play Championship Tips
    Race to Dubai: Volvo World Match Play Championship Here we are again in Southern Spain as the circus comes to Andalucia but forget tournament golf as we know it and stick this in your mental microwave and see how it defrosts. (If you have any questions there will be time after). It’s a more complex format than it needs to be; a field of 24 will contest 18 holes...
    by David Jenkins at May 15th, 2012 at 01:05 pm
  • Golf: The Players Championship Tips
    Fed Ex Cup:     The Players Championship Welcome to PGA Tour HQ and the 3rd best event in golf (after the Masters and The Ryder Cup). Often referred to as the 5th Major, despite the $1,7M winners’ prize pot eclipsing any other winners’ cheque on any tour. 144 of the World’s best players are itching to clutch the famous crystal trophy but as always, there...
    by David Jenkins at May 9th, 2012 at 09:05 am
  • Golf: Madeira Island Open Tips
    Race to Dubai:     Madeira Islands Open – Portugal Welcome to Portugal’s hilly archipelago, Madeira and its own Open sponsored and kept interesting by its local tipple. This is the 20th anniversary of an event that this year returns to Santo de Serra after three years at the Portop Santo resort next door. I wish it has the makings of a Race to Dubai altering...
    by David Jenkins at May 9th, 2012 at 09:05 am
  • Golf: Wells Fargo Championship Tips
    Fed Ex Cup: Wells Fargo Championship Ahoy pickers! If you can hit the ball almost as far as you can throw your clubs, watch the Wells Fargo this week. With the financial haul of this week’s tournament at a whopping $6.5 million and a heavy handed slice for the winner totalling $1.17 million AND 500 FedEx Cup points, it’s no wonder the PGA Tour scatters its feed...
    by David Jenkins at May 1st, 2012 at 04:05 pm
  • Golf: Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open
    Ladies European Tour: Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open So, this is like the Dunhill Links Championship but without the same calibre of celebrities. To understand what will take place over the three days (yes three days!), replace Hugh Grant with Brendon Cole and Samuel L Jackson with Gavin Hastings and you pretty much have the idea. It is however a well...
    by David Jenkins at May 1st, 2012 at 12:05 pm
  • Golf: Reale Seguros Open de España Tips
    Race to Dubai: Reale Seguros Open de España Hola, bienvenido a Sevilla! And amazingly only for the third time this year, the European Tour at last returns to its own fair shores and time zone for Spain’s’ Native Open in the Southern Europe swing. This week’s event marks the 40th anniversary of the Tour, and with such a good showing from top drawer runners and...
    by David Jenkins at May 1st, 2012 at 12:05 pm
  • Golf: Zurich Classic Tips
    Fed Ex Cup: Zurich Classic of New Orleans Welcome to the Big Easy! Birthplace of modern jazz, jambalaya, mufaletta’s, Hurricane Katrina and the Mardi Gras (No! Not the bar in Dundee!). None of which are relevant this week as the finest game on grass takes up residence in New Orleans for some good old Southern hospitality… Date: 26th to 29th April 2012 Venue: TPC...
    by David Jenkins at April 25th, 2012 at 10:04 am
  • Golf: Ballantine’s Championship Tips
    Race to Dubai: Ballantine’s Championship There is nothing more Scottish than a whisky distiller and the real beautiful game, so no surprises exist when for the 5th successive year, Ballantine’s teams up with the European (and the Asian) Tour to being us their version of a pro golf event…but for the fact that its hosted in South Korea: an imperialist hermit Kingdom...
    by David Jenkins at April 24th, 2012 at 10:04 am
  • Golf: Valero Texas Open Tips
    Fed Ex Cup: Valero Texas Open Welcome to River City, the seventh largest city in the USA and the famous home of the Alamo, the Riverwalk and the San Antonio Spurs. We are here for one thing; and one thing only. It’s the greatest game on grass and it’s always bigger and better in TEXAS! It’s the 2012 Valero Texas Open – GET IN THE HOLE! Date: 19th to 22nd April...
    by David Jenkins at April 17th, 2012 at 09:04 pm

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