Tiger back in action at event, venue of five previous wins

Tiger Woods is back on the tee. There is little need to overstate the story-line beyond that as the Memorial tournament tees off later on Thursday.
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Tiger Woods is back on the tee. There is little need to overstate the story-line beyond that as the Memorial tournament tees off later on Thursday.
With both the Indian Open and Women’s Indian Open called off this year, Hero MotoCorp will now sponsor a full event on the European Tour.
Golfing great Jeev Milkha Singh has had 27 years as a professional to distil his thoughts on life, the game that he loves most and how to manage the highs and lows of a career many would love to emulate.
Cricketers Kapil Dev and Murali Kartik stepped up to deliver at the Delhi Golf Club and helped raise a healthy sum for Covid-19 relief in their exhibition game on Saturday.
After the deluge of bad news, there was something to cheer about especially for Tiger Woods fans as the golfer said he would be playing next week’s Memorial tournament.
In yet another hammer-blow handed out by the corona-virus pandemic, the Ryder Cup this year and the Presidents Cup of 2021 have been put back by a year each.
Bryson DeChambeau and his Bofors-style hits off the tee are now front and centre on the PGA Tour, and in the debate on where modern golf is headed.
There was an air of inevitability as the announcement finally cancelling the forthcoming edition of the Hero Indian Open arrived on the desk this afternoon.
Arjun Atwal, India’s first winner on the PGA Tour, is at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit 15 pounds lighter, ache-free and swinging quicker than before.
The professional golf schedule in India suffered yet another body blow with Tuesday’s cancellation of October’s Hero Women’s Indian Open.
Teenager Anika Varma has been grinding away at her golf, the latest result being a 1-under 215 at the Cactus Tour’s Legacy Vegas event in Nevada that gave her a 12th place finish.
Thanks to the corona-virus pandemic and its fallout, it was a full 107 days between visits to a golf course, and what a pleasure it was to return to the fairways and greens.
Professional sport around the world is tip-toeing back to life but at every stage the threat from the Covid-19 virus is a real and active one.
TPC River Highlands, site of this week’s Travellers Championship in Connecticut isn’t the hardest course on the PGA Tour.
Just how tenacious an adversary the corona-virus can be was demonstrated on day two of the RBC Heritage tournament in South Carolina.
There’s something about golf and numbers. Most recently, it has been to do with Mina Harigae’s extraordinary victory streak, and Bryson DeChambeau’s prodigious power play.
Daniel Berger emerged winner of the Charles Schwab Challenge in a play-off over Collin Morikawa in Fort Worth on Sunday as the PGA Tour sparked back to life.
A solid final round of level-par 72 helped Indian teenager Anika Varma finish just outside the top 10 at the Orange Tree Challenge on the Cactus Tour.
Anika Varma set herself up for yet another top-10 finish, this time at the Orange Tree Challenge on the Cactus Tour in the western United States on Wednesday.
After golfers Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson helped raise funds for corona releif, it is the turn of Shubhankar Sharma and Gaganjeet Bhullar,
England’s former world top-ranked golfer Justin Rose and his wife Kate said on Sunday they would sponsor seven tournaments for the in-limbo women professionals starting next week.
In the deserts of Arizona, the final days of January 2020 revolved around the Waste Management Phoenix Open pro golf festivities.
The recent crowing of Natalie Srinivasan and Sahith Theegala as the top American collegiate golfers of the year underlined both a happy and a sad fact for Indian golf.
The Delhi Golf Club has a knack of finding itself in the news, more often than not for the wrong reasons which often overshadows the good work it does.
The PGA Tour has its Asian Swing. The European Tour on Thursday announced it would return to full-time action post-lockdown with a UK Swing. And now, we have an India Swing as well.