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Cyprus Open, Aphrodite Hills Resort The Aphrodite Hills Golf Resort, so named after the supposed emergence from the sea of the goddess Aphrodite, the goddess of love! In modern terms a short 6,289 metres (6918 yards). The golf course opened in 2002 designed by the architect, Cabell Robinson. Robinson features superb views, tough pot bunkers,  Bermuda fairways and large

Italian Open Thursday night sees the start of the Italian Open at the Chervo Golf Club in San Vigilio di Pozzolengo, Brescia, Lombardy. The Kurt Rossknecht designed course is long enough at 6797m, 7398 yards par 72 which incorporates the Benaco and Solferino nines ( a par three course completes the complex).     On Betfair the value Matthias

Scottish Championship The Scottish Championship replaces the Dunhill Links Championship due to the restrictions of Covid 19 on the number of participants and social distancing. The new event to be played on the 7230 yard (6620 m) par 72 Sam Torrance designed links. Situated 4 km from the town of St Andrews the links follows the coastline and is

LPGA Women’s PGA Championship. The biggest event this week is the Women’s PGA Championship to be held at The famous old course at Aronimink in Newton Square, Pennsylvania. The original Donald Ross course had a very good restoration project by Ronald Pritchard in 2003, but the famed Gil Hanse came to bring back the features of difficulty relevant to

Scottish Open The European tour moves on to the Scottish Opens the Renaissance club near North Berwick out of Edinburgh. A Tom Doak design adjacent to Muirfield it is neither the test or the mana of its famous neighbour. Scores are generally low and whilst it has seaside holes it’s not a patch on the nearby golden age links

European Tour Irish Open, Galgorm Spa and Golf Resort at Galgorm Castle at Ballymena north of Belfast in Northern Ireland. The parkland course was designed by Simon Gidman in 1997 at 7078 yards (6472m) par 70. The Braid and Maine rivers border the course and come into play on a number of holes. The drive into the 220 acre

US OPEN 2020 Winged Foot GC, Mamaroneck, NY. The New York Athletic Club in New York features a sculpture named Winged Foot housed at its suburban location. The clubs name and logo devolve from this sculpture. The course is the recreation centre for some Club members, but is not officially attached. This mirrors the early Scottish situation where city

Safeway Open The Safeway Open opens the new PGA Tour year? To be held at Silverado resort north course in Napa Northern California. The course stretches out to 7228 yards par 72. The course features Bermuda greens and fairways and was designed originally by Ben Harman in 1955 and remodelled by Robert Trent Jones in 1967. The last two

BMW Championship The BMW is the second event on the road to the FedEx Cup final. The field cut to 70, the course is the Olympia Fields CC, in Chicago, Illinois. The North Course - the club's tournament venue was designed in 1923 by Willie Park Jr., who won the Open Championship in 1887 and 1889 and  was a celebrated

PGA Tour The 7,241-yard par 72 golf course is the first of three events leading to the FedExCup Final. The field is limited to the leading 125 players. Gil Hanse, redesigned the layout in 2007, the original designed by Arnold Palmer . Hanse famous for the Olympic course in Rio de Janeiro won a number of awards for the

Wyndham Classic To be held at the Sedgefield Country Club, a Donald Ross classic design of 1929, was upgraded in 2009 by Kris Spence,  a par 70 at 7127 yards, but has a slope difficulty of 75.3 due to the rolling difficult greens, the two par fives are really par fours for the tour players. Sam Snead record holder

PGA Championship The PGA championship postponed from May 14-17 due to Pandemic issues has been rescheduled for this week. To be held at the famous municipal links of SAN Francisco, Harding Park, the course has a chequered history, but has always been an admired layout architecturally. Wikipedia describes the turmoil. In 2010, the

To be held starting Friday morning on the TPC Southwind course in Memphis, Tennessee. The course designed by Ronald Pritchard with assistance from major winners, Hubert Green and Fuzzy Zoeller, lengthens out for the 90 best in the world to 7244 yards par 70, an exacting test. The Zoysia fairways provide a perfect playing surface and the Bermuda greens

The Memorial Tournament sponsored by Nationwide  Held by Jack Nicklaus, arguably the greatest golfer of all times at his course he designed and annually modifies to improve and keep relevant with the ever changing clubs and ball. Muirfield Village is a very tough test of an all round game, driving accuracy and precise iron play are required and finally