Okay, so the Mole voiced his opinions about ‘the Nedbank’ earlier this week, but this morning’s player announcement did include some light at the end of the tunnel…
The Mole is glad to hear that the European Tour will be continuing the Race to Dubai next year. There were fears that the effects of the world financial crisis might have been too costly to overcome, having already left the Tour with reduced bonus prize money this year. But, it seems that there are still sponsors out there, although admittedly not as many, and as generous, as before.
Rynardt Combrinck and Dewald Gouws will be the South Africa representatives at the finals of the 2009 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship. This is the tournament where you have to hit your driver stupidly long and ridiculously straight. As always it’s taking place in Mesquite, Nevada from the 25th to the 30th October.
In the spirit of Compleat Golfer’s 20-year anniversary, the team came up with a list of 20 things that all golfers should aspire to do before they die. You’d expect the Mole to have cracked all 20, right? But he’s embarrassed to say he only made 15! How do you score?
The Mole got a press release a few days ago which started as follows: “The 99th South African Open Championship will tee off at Pearl Valley Golf Estates near Paarl in the Western Cape from 17-20 December, with the next generation of global young golf stars...” And it got him thinking, where are the big names?
It comes as no surprise, especially after the reduction in bonus money in the Race to Dubai, that European Tour headline player Rory McIlroy is likely to make the move to the more lucrative US PGA Tour. Nothing is official just yet; expect an announcement once the Dubai World Championship is out of the way.
The American team currently holds a three-point lead going into Saturday afternoon at The Presidents Cup. The morning foursomes round was dominated by the US with YE Yang and Ryo Ishikawa being the only successful pairing for the Internationals.
It’s been more than 100 years since golf was last played in the Olympics, but that will change in 2016. The standard 72-hole individual strokeplay format will be used with a field of 60 players in each section (men’s and women’s). The Mole really hopes this doesn’t turn out to be a damp squib...
This last Saturday was a momentous day for Prinavin Nelson, a past member of the Ernie Els & Fancourt Foundation, as he won his first professional event on the Sunshine Tour at the SAA Pro-Am Invitational at Paarl Golf Club.
You will have heard of the Golf Hall of Fame in Florida, United States, but it’s quite a long and expensive ‘trek’ to get there, so the Mole is pleased to report that the Southern Africa Golf Hall of Fame is due to open in December. The Mole headed off to Oubaai recently to attend its fundraising golf day and check on its progress.
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