#Gary Player

After a six-week hiatus, the PGA TOUR returns to kick off 2023 in Hawaii on the island of Maui at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. A field of 39 players, including 17 of the OWGR Top 20, are here this week as this event at Kapalua has opened the PGA TOUR calendar year for the last 25 years. Cameron Smith kicked off our profitable season last…

Welcome to another edition of the Grind, where we are proud to say we carried a 20-day Peloton streak into the New Year. Unfortunately, we also carried a 30-day eat-like-an-absolute-pig streak as well. But that should come as no surprise to loyal readers (AKA my mom) as we begin an 11th year in this space. And while not much happened the past…

Tiger Woods and his son Charlie Woods will feature in the 2022 PNC Championship starting on December 15. This father-son duo will compete with 20 other teams featuring a famous golfer teaming up with a family member or a friend of theirs. The 20 teams taking part are: Annika Sorenstam and Will McGee Padraig Harrington and Patrick Harrington Nelly…

Winning the Masters and having a green jacket put on you by the previous Masters champion is always a crowning moment in every professional golfer's career. The 2022 Masters features a lot of golfers with a stacked resume that is lacking that one very important line on it: Masters champion. Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy,…

Approaching his seventieth birthday this year, and having suffered the ravages of various cancers over the past few years, internationally successful businessman and racehorse breeder Hassen Adams is considerably greyer and casts a slighter figure these days than the robustly charismatic owner with the mop of black hair that led Gerrit Schlechter…

Who will be victorious in South Africa? Oddschecker's Tom Jacobs has three picks to win the 2022 Alfred Dunhill Championship The DP World Tour remains in South Africa for a third straight tournament this week for the Alfred Dunhill Championship. Co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Tour, the event will once again be played at Leopard Creek, the venue…

Golf tips, best bets and player analysis for the South African Open at Blair Atholl on the DP World Tour. Live on Sky Sports Golf from 10am on Thursday Charl Schwartzel 4pts each-way 22-1 Coral, Ladbrokes Dean Burmester 4pts each-way 12-1 general Tom McKibbin 1pt each-way 90-1 bet365 Jayden Schaper 1pt each-way 60-1 Betfred Open account offer.…

First played in 1903, the South African Open's honors board has been dominated by the home stars with Gary Player winning 13 editions, Bobby Locke doing so on nine occasions and, in modern times, Ernie Els has lifted the trophy five times. Although a DP World Tour event since 1997 it has never drawn the strongest field owing to a spot in the…

12th, 15th and 18th were the best positions from our tips last week at the DP World Tour finale in Dubai. Jon Rahm was victorious by 2 strokes over Tyrell Hatton, Jon showed some unreal form a the back end of 2022 and capped it off nicely wih this big victory. That wraps up the DP World Tour 2021/2022 season for the players, from a preview and…

The DP World Tour resumes this week with the Nedbank Challenge at the Gary Player Country Club, Sun City, South Africa. The smaller than the usual 66 field with no cut this weekend will all be competing for a share of the $6M prize purse with the winner collecting the Nedbank Challenge title and a winner's cheque for $1.02M. With no event since…

Brendan James - Golf Australia Editor Nelly Korda prevailed in an all-star four-way play-off last year, but one player she beat in sudden-death is a good thing to go one better this week and claim the title. LYDIA KO has had a great year (two wins and 13 top-10s) and, not surprisingly, leads the Race to CME Globe standings. A win in Florida this…

South Africa has been a staple of the DP World Tour and the end of this year's schedule and the start of next involves no less than four co-sanctioned events in the country. The first is the lucrative Nedbank Golf Challenge and offers the final chance for players to qualify for next week's season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Just 66…

The Houston Open has been a regular stop on the PGA Tour ever since the end of the Second World War. Byron Nelson won the first edition and many big names have followed him onto the honors board since then including Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Ray Floyd, Curtis Strange, Vijay Singh, and Phil Mickelson. It's never quite been in the top grade of…

Russell Henley, at a 55-1 price, was finally able to convert a 54-hole lead (six shots) on Sunday into a victory at the World Wide Technology at Mayakoba with a 23-under-par score by four shots over Brian Harman. Scottie Scheffler, who needed to win or finish solo second to regain his OWGR No. 1 ranking, gave it a run and shot a Sunday 62 to finish…

Who will be victorious as the DP World Tour heads to South Africa? Oddschecker's Tom Jacobs has three players he expects to content at the Nedbank Golf Challenge After a three year absence due to COVID, the Nedbank Golf Challenge returns this week to stage the penultimate event of the 2022 DP World Tour season. Tommy Fleetwood will be defending his…

With just two events left in the season-long Race to Dubai, players are heading to the Gary Player Country Club in Sun City, South Africa. It's the last chance to get into the season finale, so an important week for those looking to finish their season on a high. It's a limited field, which is open to the top 60 available players on the DP World…

With Tiger Woods set to embark on his 23rd season as a professional golfer, we have decided to take a look back at five of his greatest wins. Having won 82 tournaments in total including 15 major championships, there are quite a few wins in the career of Tiger Woods to choose from. Winning his first major in 1997, returning to glory and winning his…