Archive for May, 2010

What’s in your bag?

What’s in your bag? No, not a courteous enquiry from the local Police force, but a question regarding the changes that have been made to the contents of our golf bags these last few years. Watching the BMW sponsored championships from Wentworth last week it was interesting to note the variety of clubs that the [...]

Welsh Open Youth Championships

The Welsh Open Youths championships take place at Wrexham golf club next weekend with practice rounds on Friday 28th May and the seventy two holes event occupying the following two days with thirty six holes of play scheduled for each day. The standard of entry has been exceptional in that the complete list of starters [...]

The Clwyd Championships

The windswept links of Prestatyn golf club were the scene last Saturday of the opening two rounds of the 2010 Clwyd Open Championships to be followed on Sunday with the concluding thirty six holes around Wrexham golf club for this prestigious Golf Union of Wales Merit Award standard event. For those of you familiar with [...]

Rory McIlroy wins at Quail Hollow

When Jack Nicklaus first emerged on the golfing scene as an overweight teenager with a blond crew cut in the fifties, he was greeted as the replacement to Arnold Palmer who was ten years older but fought for years to gain any sort of popularity in a nation of golfers who adored Palmer and his [...]