Author: Paul Petty

Three new players have punched their LIV Golf tickets for 2024. After three days of play and 72 holes of competition – including 36 on Sunday – Kalle Samooja, Kieran Vincent and Jinichiro Kozuma have advanced from the inaugural LIV Golf Promotions event at Abu Dhabi Golf Club and will have a spot on a team for the 2024 season. Samooja, 35, has been a journeyman in professional golf and earned his first DP World Tour win in 2022 at the Porsche European Open. Vincent, 26, has primarily played on the Asian Tour and PGA Tour Canada in his young career.…

Jason Day has issued a plea to golf bosses to do more after clinching victory with Kiwi Lydia Ko in a historic mixed-teams event in Florida. Day and Ko won the Grant Thornton Invitational – the first mixed-gender teams event since 1999 – by one stroke on Monday morning (AEDT). The three-round event saw the 16 teams, each consisting of a PGA and LPGA Tour player, first played in a traditional ambrose, before switching to alternate shot foursomes in the second round, before a modified fourball in the final round. Due to their own busy schedules, the top stars on the PGA and LPGA rarely get the…

asmania’s blind golf community has gathered for a come and try day today to celebrate the announcement that the state will host its first official blind golf order of merit event at Kingston Beach Golf Club in February. The Tasmanian Blind Golf Open has been endorsed by Blind Golf Australia and Golf Australia as an official event on the Blind Golf tour calendar. Minister for Sport and Recreation, Nic Street said blind golf allowed vision impaired players to take to the fairways with the assistance of a caddy and some slight rule modifications. “We recognise the significant role sport can…

The start of a pandemic might sound like a less than ideal time to get into the golf business, yet the chance to breathe new life into a facility has seen the new owners of Noosa Hills Par-3 Golf Course thrive on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Taking over from the widow of the previous owner, CEO Noel Brennan and co. took an approach of making small improvements to the 36-hole par-3 facility that now also boasts a new mini golf course built by Mini Golf Creations. “Noosa Hills was built by a guy called Keith Hill and is about 30 years…

The club says that the move is part of ‘a long-term investment strategy to enhance playing and social provisions at the club and build on its reputation as one of the best courses locally providing a year-round challenge to golfers of all standards’. Each hole will be upgraded by enhancing drainage and irrigation provisions, bunkers will be renovated and new treelines created. The course will also look to establish signature holes and regenerate pathways on the 150-acre wooded crownland site to improve accessibility. It forms part of a wider programme of investments at the 136-year-old club, with other projects including…

Sabah’s golf courses are a compelling draw for Koreans due to their convenient accessibility, says South Korean consulate-general in Kota Kinabalu, Joo Jung-cheol. Joo mentioned that with five million golfers in Korea, attracting even 10 per cent of them to Sabah is a significant opportunity. “Our golfers in Korea highly value South East Asia, including destinations like Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines,” he stated. Joo highlighted Malaysia’s rise as the third-favoured destination for Korean golfers, trailing behind Thailand and the Philippines. Source : Borneo

Sarah Siryowe, the General Manager of Liaison Uganda (right) hands over a dummy cheque to Kinyara representatives Liaison Uganda (Insurance Brokers) Ltd, the leading insurance brokerage company in Uganda, has today announced its sponsorship of the Kinyara Open Golf Tournament of 2023, which will take place on November 25, 2023, at the Kinyara Golf Club in Masindi. Liaison Uganda’s 15 million shillings dummy cheque was handed to Kinyara representatives at the presser held at Uganda Golf Club in Kampala. 10 million shillings is the professional kitty while the rest of the money will go towards other activities of the tournament.…

The PGA Tour, in a surprising decision, will let its players participate in an upcoming LIV Golf event. As first reported by Sports Illustrated’s Alex Miceli and confirmed by GOLF.com on Saturday, Tour players can play without penalty next month in the LIV Golf Promotions event, which will award its top three finishers a spot in the 48-player LIV tour next year. Previously, the PGA Tour had deemed LIV Golf events to be “unauthorized events,” and its players who played in them were subject to a one-year Tour suspension. But in a statement, the Tour said the Promotions event “is determined to be a qualifying event only…

According to reports from the renowned The Wall Street Journal, Netflix is preparing to foray into live streaming of sporting events with its first live streaming of a golf tournament featuring celebrity golfers and Formula One drivers. Although the tournament’s planning is still under discussion, it is expected to occur in Las Vegas, between poker hands and slot bonus rounds at the best casinos and rocking parties, providing an exciting sports experience for Netflix subscribers. The report mentions that the tournament participants will be selected from celebrities featured in popular Netflix series, including the docuseries ‘Drive to Survive’ and the…

An Byeong-hun of South Korea has received a three-month suspension from the PGA Tour due to a doping violation, the organization revealed. In a statement, the tour said the world number 53 tested positive for a banned substance after taking an over-the-counter cough medicine in his native Korea. His suspension has been backdated to August 31 and the 32-year-old will be eligible to play again from December 1. The statement read: “Byeong Hun An has violated the PGA Tour anti-doping policy and has been suspended for three months, with the suspension being retroactive to August 31, 2023. “An tested positive…