Waste Management Phoenix Open Preview

After the drama of the WGC Accenture World Match Play Championship, the focus moves to Phoenix and the Waste Management Phoenix Open – formerly the FBR Open and Phoenix Open, which has assembled a typically strong field. The event will be played over TPC Scottsdale, Arizona and the course is renowned for attracting the biggest and noisiest crowd of the season.

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New Golf Shows to hit TV screens

Golf has been the subject of a few films over the years with the odd biography interspersed with feature films based on the game. However, with the likes of Caddyshack (1 & 2), Happy Gilmore, Tin Cup and The Legend of Bagger Vance, golf might not really be such an interesting topic on which to base a full feature film.

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Crown Golf gets behind National Golf Club Challenge

Crown Golf – the UK’s largest golf club operator – has given its whole hearted support to the National Golf Club Challenge, in aid of Help for Heroes.

All 30 Crown Golf clubs will take part in the Challenge, from Eccleston Park in the north of England to the prestigious St Mellion International Resort in Cornwall. Read more

Langer wins Allianz Championship after bunker drama

Germany’s Bernhard Langer won a dramatic Allianz Championship after coming from a shot down on the last to pip John Cook to the title in a sudden-death playoff.

Leading the Champions Tour event with two holes to go, Langer missed a short putt for par on the seventeenth as Cook birdied the eighteenth to tie the German. Langer, however, also carded a birdie on the last hole after playing a sublime bunker shot from a waste bunker to take the tournament to extra holes.

The pair had finished level on 199 – 17-under par, in the 54-hole tournament

The duo replayed the 18th hole, and it was Cook who held the advantage over the par-five hole after finding the green in two. Langer, meanwhile had plugged his second shot in a bunker after cutting an 8-iron around trees.

But, as before on the hole, Langer produced another magical bunker shot which pitched into the hole for an eagle. Cook’s putt to tie the German again, slid past the hole to hand victory and a $247,500 winner’s cheque to Langer.

Langer, whose house is near to the tournament venue – the Old Course at Broken Sound, Boca Raton – leapt into the air and high-five’d his caddie after leaving the bunker. The win was Langer’s ninth success on the Champions Tour and his 79th win as a professional.

United States’ Joey Sindelar finished in third place, one shot behind.

Miyazato wins LPGA season opener

Japan’s Ai Miyazato produced a stunning final round 63 to capture the Honda PTT LPGA Thailand – the opening event on this season’s LPGA Tour.

Miyazato’s nine-under par round saw her overhaul the tournament leader, Norway’s Suzann Petterson and add to her only previous LPGA win, the Evian Masters last year.

Miyazato’s round included a chip-in birdie at the 18th hole but even her blistering round might not have been enough had Petterson been able to hang onto her large lead going into the final round. Miyazato had started the last day six shots behind the Norwegian, but Petterson couldn’t find the birdies she needed to see off the Japanese player and her two-under par round of 70 wasn’t enough to hold off her rival.

“There’s nothing I can do when Ai shoots 9-under,” said Pettersen. “I played pretty good golf and I don’t waste much energy thinking of why I didn’t win it. For me, it was a great start.”

A strong field for the season’s opener at Siam Country Club also featured women’s world number one Lorena Ochoa, as well as Karrie Webb, Christie Kerr, Laura Davies, Angela Stanford, Catriona Matthew, Brittany Lincicome, Natalie Gulbis and Michelle Wie among others.

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