Golf news, views and India happenings
British prime minister Boris Johnson’s announcement on Sunday that golf courses in England were likely to open in the next 48 hours will create a fair degree of expectation in India as well.
Indian-Americans Natalie Srinivasan and Sahith Theegala have been adjudged the top US collegiate golfers of the year, winning the Annika Award and the Fred Haskins Award.
With zero time on the course over the last two months, it was an inevitable question; What does a golfer do when she or he cannot play any golf?
In the arid golf desert created by the corona-virus pandemic worldwide, the occasional oases are beginning to crop up on the horizon.
Caddies are the force behind many a golfer, good and bad, despite their little eccentricities, and they need our help in this time of Covid crisis.
Friday’s announcement by the government extending the nationwide lockdown to combat the Covid-19 threat will put further strain on a nation and economy.
With the corona-virus pandemic pushing the Tokyo Olympic Games back by a year, there will be a new set of qualifying dates for the golf medals in Japan next year.
Young Indian-Americans Natalie Srinivasan and Sahith Theegala are on the shortlist for the upcoming Golf Channel and Golfweek awards for top division collegiate golfers in the United States.
Eighteen months after they went head to head for $9 million in charity money at the Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will face off again next month.
There are competitions that are by definition, fan-powered, capable of raising extreme emotion. The Davis Cup in tennis and the soccer World Cup are examples. And In golf, there’s the Ryder Cup.
It is only a piece of string. A very long one, admittedly, but in essence, that’s all it really is. And it’s finally given me something to do.
Anika Varma rounded off her engagements on the western US-based Cactus Tour with a fair degree of success, her results including a tied second place finish and two top-10 placings.
The PGA Tour on Thursday released its revised list of tournaments split over the 2019-2020 and 2020 Fall seasons to cover up for time lost to the Corona-virus pandemic.
The PGA Tour is expected to shortly announce an earlier than expected return to tournament play post-Covid with the first event likely to be held as early as in June.
His golf may be on hold for now, but Anirban Lahiri is making the most of his time away from his profession, and its related grind and routines.
California-based teenager Anika Varma has been in the thick of golfing action in America these past few weeks.
Golfers across India are seeking to do their bit during the Corona-virus lockdown that has stretched past a fortnight and counting.
It is difficult to spot any sort of a horizon with the corona-virus wreaking havoc across the globe, but there is a world out there holding its breath. For one, the Ryder Cup is on.
Nine months ago, a July Sunday witnessed some of the finest sporting action across different fields at almost the same time – at the Mecca of cricket, at the spiritual home of tennis and in the birthplace of golf..
The day when golfers across India can venture back out on to courses is some distance away, but there are faint glimmerings of hope from the neighbourhood, if not the rest of the world.
When things dear to you do get taken away, the pangs are hard to bear. So it has been for golfers in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
I am a golf course. Like thousands of my sisters across the world, I have been deserted, basically left alone for some time now.
The postponed Olympic Games, caused by the still-spreading Corona-virus pandemic, has given 15-time major winner Tiger Woods an unexpected window of opportunity to seek qualification for Tokyo.
The ever-spreading pall cast by the Covid-19 virus enveloped the the Olympics with news that the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games will now be held next year.
Well, it’s now official. Corona-virus has ensured large parts of the country have been sealed off with immediate effect in an effort to halt the ever-growing spread of the pandemic.