The Val de Vie Foundation Celebrity Golf Day – being held on 21 October 2016 and sponsored by Lew Geffen Sotheby’s International Realty – will see some of South Africa’s biggest names come together in support of underprivileged children in the Paarl East area. This will be the fourth Celebrity Golf Day held on the beautiful Pearl Valley Jack Nicklaus… Read more →
Victorious Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III, along with Ian Woosnam, Lorena Ochoa, Meg Mallon, and journalist Henry Longhurst were named for the World Golf Hall of Fame class of 2017 on Tuesday. Love won 21 PGA Tour victories, including the PGA Championship, and competed on six Ryder Cup teams before guiding the Americans to victory this year at Hazeltine… Read more →
Dustin Johnson was voted by PGA Tour members as the 2016 Player of the Year after making 21 cuts in 22 starts, including 15 top-10s in the process. The big-hitting American won his first major, the US Open at Oakmont, along with two further PGA Tour titles. He also won the Byron Nelson Award for Adjusted Scoring Average (69.172) and… Read more →
1965: One of the USA team players remarked, ‘If we played this hard in the tournaments back home, we’d all be millionaires.’ 1975: British captain Tony Jacklin before the Ryder Cup, which the Americans won, 21-11: ‘If we don’t score more than nine points that’s the Ryder Cup equivalent of a butt-kicking. If we win, then we ought to be… Read more →
Golfing legend Arnold Palmer passed away on Sunday evening at the age of 87, leaving behind his wife Kit and two daughters. ‘The King’ changed the face of the game as the first golfer to dominate on television sets with his 92 career victories, which started back to 1955. He remained an inspiration throughout the years, evidenced by Tiger Woods’… Read more →
